Israeli drones fire on kite fliers
ISRAELI drones carried out an airstrike targeting a group of Palestinian kite-flyers in eastern Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon....
US unions take action on Martin Luther King Day
Teamsters union sanitation worker members in the US capital are launching a campaign against Waste Management on Martin Luther King Day, today. Nearly 100 Washington,...
Medical Students Are Deep In Debt!
Medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating over £13,000 more in debt than their better off peers, says a new report from the BMA. The...
KEEP OUR POST OFFICE OPEN! – demand angry Borough residents
MEMBERS of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have been joined by over 50 angry pensioners and other local residents in a demonstration against the...
Military Reinstates Executions In Myanmar
TWO MEN will be executed in Myanmar after the military junta rejected their death sentence appeals last Saturday, in what will be the first...
DONALDSON SUBSTITUTES ‘BIG BROTHER’ FOR THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL – Part...
THE General Medical Council (GMC) was set up in 1858 to register genuine medical practitioners and make a distinction between them and pretenders. This...
Settler violence has ‘surged dramatically’ as 22 new illegal settlements approved!
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has surged dramatically this year, with over...
O’connor Calls For Sanctions On Israel To Stop The Genocide
THE IRISH Trade Union Congress Executive Council member and INTO Deputy General Secretary Deirdre O’Connor delivered a speech on behalf of the workers of...
Miliband Does Nothing To Stop Genocide Against The Tamils
TamilNet reports that Professor Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, has said Britain is obliged to...
Sunak statement: ‘Ordinary people bear the broadest burden’ – Unite
TRADE unions have highlighted the acute crisis facing millions of families facing steep rises in the cost-of-living, declaring that measures outlined in Tory Chancellor...
South African Telkom to sack 20% of workforce – executives getting...
SOUTH AFRICA’S Communication Workers Union (CWU) secretary-general Aubrey Tshabalala has accused the top executives of the state-owned telecommunications company Telkom of getting rich by...
GOVE MUST GO! – call a general strike! say angry teachers
‘GOVE must go!’ shouted angry striking teachers on a 15,000-strong march through central London to rally in Westminster on Thursday. They were taking part in...
GADAFFI TELLS SIRTE: ‘NATO will be defeated’
LIBYAN leader Mu’ammar al-Gadaffi rejected any dialogue with his enemies in a speech broadcast by Libyan TV, captioned as a ‘live’ audio address, at...
Capitalism and democracy may well be parting company says SIPTU president...
THIS IS the text of a speech by SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, at the centenary commemoration of the founding of the Irish Neutrality League...
Abbas meets Greenblatt to ‘relaunch peace process’
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Jason Greenblatt and their remarks hit the front page headlines in local Palestinian...
20 Years Since The Gibraltar Killings
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER THE three unarmed Provisional IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar two decades ago were allegedly sacrificed...
South African unions reject ANC budget and IMF; ‘Divorced from...
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Wednesday rejected the budget of the ANC led coalition for a second time. SAFTU stated: ‘SAFTU...
NEU conference calls to end occupation of West Bank & Gaza...
‘URGENT Motion 2 Palestine’ was carried at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union (NEU) in Harrogate on Tuesday. It read: ‘Conference continues to stand...
Children in Gaza dying from hunger and relentless bombing say says...
DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of at least 100 civilians, as well as 513 people suffering...
Assad Meets Families On Martyrs Day!
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad received sons and daughters of martyrs on the occasion of Martyrs’ Day on Tuesday. President al-Assad...
Hundreds of Gaza babies and infants at risk due to lack...
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has issued an urgent appeal to save the lives of hundreds of infants and premature babies who...
Genocidal Rajapaksa Regime ‘Snatching Away’ Tamil Children
The occupying Sri Lanka military governor in Jaffna, Major General Chandrasri now schemes to bring more than 1000 nursery schools functioning in Jaffna under...
Shocking homelessness & mass evictions this Xmas
SHOCKING new figures show housing charity Shelter received a call for help every 22 seconds in the run up to Christmas last year, and...
In 3 years NHS learning disability nurse numbers increase by only...
In 3 years NHS learning disability nurse numbers increase by only 22! ‘Lives are being put at risk’ – RCN warns The lives of learning...
‘The more Israeli forces destroy, the more nails they drive into...
THE chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said the more destruction the Israeli regime wreaks in Palestine, the more nails...
‘ANC is now terminally sick, divided and incapable’ – SAFTU analyses...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) notes with outrage the Cabinet reshuffle announced by President Ramaphosa. It proves beyond doubt that the...
Israel violates ceasefire for 60 consecutive days! – and claims ‘yellow...
The Israeli occupation army continued, for the 60th consecutive day yesterday, to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, targeting residential buildings and...
‘Joint Enterprise’ Law Putting Youth In Jail For Decades
THE ‘JOINT enterprise law’ is putting young people in prison for decades for simply being present when a crime is taking place despite them...
US desperate to defuse tensions between Israel and Hezbollah!
Amos Hochstein, a senior United States diplomat, has met Israeli leaders and has also visited Lebanon as part of a push by Washington to...
A ‘PERMANENT WINTER NHS CRISIS LOOMS’ – warns BMA over Tory...
‘THE GOVERNMENT must resolve the long-term funding, capacity and recruitment issues’ if it is going to avoid a ‘winter crisis’ all year round, doctors...
Ramaphosa signs into law bill for land seizure with no compensation!
Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African President has signed into law a bill allowing land seizures by the state without compensation – a move that...
NICARAGUANS VOTING IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ‘US rulers and their terrorist...
PRESIDENT Daniel Ortega, as he went to vote in the municipal elections on Sunday, emphasised that people were voting for Nicaragua and by doing...
KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN – as an acute District General Hospital
THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) has endorsed proposals to close Chase Farm Hospital as an acute District General Hospital (DGH). This is in order that...
Pakistan condemns US attack on Iran as a ‘war crime’
Condemnations poured in against Saturday night’s US aggression on Iran’s nuclear sites, with many countries describing it as an illegal act that threatens regional...
On International Day of the Midwife the RCN calls for a...
THE ROYAL College of Nurses (RCN) has taken the occasion of the International Day of the Midwife to demand a pay increase for all...
‘Ultimate victory belongs to the resistance’ declares Tehran rally
The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has confirmed the assassination of its secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in massive Israeli airstrikes targeting residential buildings in southern...
‘Mobilisations and strikes are the weapon of the workers’ says Force...
MILLIONS of French workers, youth and their families on Thursday took part in the latest strikes and mass demonstrations across the country against the...
Over 5,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza by World Children’s...
IT WAS World Children’s Day on Monday, when it emerged that at least 5,500 children have been killed in Gaza since October 7th. According to...
We are going to the Security Council to seek full UN...
THE PLO will in September approach the UN Security Council to seek full membership in the global body, President Mahmud Abbas said on Wednesday. ‘We...
The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...
A STATEMENT by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office Bearers on Sunday outlined the union’s views ‘on the state of...
Letter to News Line – ‘DEMOCRACIES USING HITLER DECREE TO FIGHT...
Dear Sir, I have been trying to expose without success, in the so-called Democratic Western media, the use by the German & British governments...
‘After Blair, Not Brown But A Workers’ Government And Socialism’
TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, last Sunday. Opening the conference, chairman...
Syria is determined to recover the Golan ‘through all available means’
SYRIA has strongly condemned the controversial Israeli plan to double the settler population in the Golan Heights, warning against the ‘unprecedented and dangerous’ uptick...
SEVEN-YEAR DISPUTE AT PEARL CONTINENTAL HOTEL KARACHI – union to step...
Undeterred by sackings, harassment, violence and hardship, members of the Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel Workers Union are more determined than ever to fight until...
EALING MATERNITY ENTRANCE OCCUPIED! – Stop work on July 1 and...
THE occupation of Ealing Hospital is in full swing, with shifts ensuring that the entrance to the closure-threatened maternity department is occupied 24...