Fire Bosses Spending £12 Million On Strikebreakers
LONDON Fire Brigade bosses are spending £12million of tax-payers’ money training a blackleg workforce to provide fire cover in the capital in the event...
Sudan marchers demand an end to ‘counter-revolutionary war’
ON SATURDAY, over 500 people marched for Sudan from the BBC in Portland Place to Downing Street to demand an end to the war...
‘BRING POLICE KILLERS TO JUSTICE’ – de Menezes family demands of...
Over three hundred friends and supporters of the family of Jean Charles de Menezes – the young Brazilian electrician murdered by Metropolitan Police firearms...
Swazi Nurses & Teachers Taking Action!
IT seems an official nurses’ strike is looming in Swaziland after the union called a special urgent meeting scheduled for today. The meeting is...
A Wave Of Occupations Hits The London College Of Communication
ANGRY students have occupied the London College of Communication (LCC) this week, against a wave of redundancies and course closures. The occupation, which began at...
SCRAP SATS AND LEAGUE TABLES – demand teachers unions
The National Union of Teachers (NUT), Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) have produced a joint...
US Homeless Are Being Criminalised
‘To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty.’ This is the viewpoint...
MALIKI RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FALL OF MOSUL – says Iraqi Parliamentary...
TOP Iraqi officials ignored ample warnings of an impending attack on second city Mosul and grossly mismanaged the ensuing crisis that saw it seized...
Support staff are ‘overworked and underpaid and taken for granted!’
OVER 1,750 support staff working in UK state-funded schools responded to a questionnaire stating that they are ‘overworked, underpaid and taken for granted’, the...
NUMSA condemns UPD for shooting at unarmed pickets
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) condemns in the strongest terms the management of United Pharmaceutical Distribution (UPD) for shooting at...
French unions demand repeal of education & pension reforms
TENS of thousands of teachers and their supporters rallied in Paris and towns across France on Wednesday to show their opposition to the Macron...
US drug firms inflating costs!
More than 40 US states have filed a lawsuit accusing pharmaceutical firms of operating a cartel and conspiring to artificially inflate the cost of...
UK leads the way in austerity, welfare cuts and hungerK leads...
‘Nothing Left in the Cupboards: Austerity, Welfare Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK,’ is the title of a devastating 115-page Human...
British Army Mounts Belfast Provocation
BY JOHN COULTER, Irish political journalist ANY serious trouble at this Sunday’s proposed ‘Home Coming’ British army parade and republican counter demonstrations in Belfast city...
MEDICAL STUDENTS WILL BE FACING £100,000 DEBTS says BMA
Doctors’ leaders on Tuesday warned the government that increasing tuition fees could result in medical students facing a debt bill of potentially £100,000 –...
Numsa Takes To Streets Fighting Anti-Union Laws
ANGRY members of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), took to the streets of Johannesburg protesting...
Banning Boycotts Of Israel Is A British Reward For The Occupier
MEMBERS of the PLO Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi and Saeb Erekat on Wednesday slammed the United Kingdom’s decision to ban the boycott of Israeli...
NHS CANCER SERVICES ‘Worst winter crisis ever’
NHS CANCER services plunged into the worst winter on record as patients were left waiting weeks for treatment, warns a new BMA report Doctors’ leaders...
JAPANESE CALL FOR A ‘COMPLETE, UNVARNISHED INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION’ – into war...
THE civilian casualty list in Sri Lanka’s offensive against the Tamil Tigers ‘is long and growing’ TamilNet, reported on Monday. And the Japan Times,...
Powerful 5,000-strong Al Quds Day demonstration backs Iran and Palestine
AROUND 5,000 people attended Sunday’s Al Quds rally for Palestine on Albert Embankment on the south side of the River Thames London. Metropolitan Police ranks...
Hezbollah Gives Strong Support To The Palestinian People
Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah gave an impassioned speech via a giant screen, during a celebration at the Sayyid al-Shuhada Complex in Beirut’s Southern...
Carnage And Despair: Iraq Five Years On
Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is in disarray, the human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity prevails,...
US Employee Free Choice Act Becomes Law
US trade union leaders have hailed the adoption of the Employee Free Choice Act by the US House of Representatives yesterday as a...
IRAQ ‘DAY OF REGRET’ – Mass demonstration this Friday
Iraqi puppet prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki warned his cabinet on Sunday to shape up within 100 days or face ‘changes’, as protest organisers called...
Nigeria electricity workers commence indefinite strike
The Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies and the National Union of Electricity Employees (SSAEAC) at the Kano Electricity Distribution Company in...
Greek hospital workers blockade against austerity! – as thousands of refugees...
GREEK hospital workers on Monday morning blocked the entrance to the Finance Ministry on Nikis Street near Syntagma Square in an angry protest against...
Teachers’ leader Courtney calls for General Strike for Palestine!
LABOUR MP for Hayes and Harlington John McDonnell said: ‘Netanyahu must be imprisoned for war crimes. The campaign for disinvestment in Israel must be...
Israeli forces ambushed at Ayta al-Sha’b
Fierce confrontations continued between resistance fighters and Israel’s elite forces in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, particularly in the town of Ayta al-Sha’b where the...
Defiant pickets & rallies by striking Junior Doctors & Consultants!
THERE were defiant pickets and rallies of striking Junior Doctors and Consultants on Monday, the first day of the current three-day joint British Medical...
Egypt & Israel strengthen ties
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...
69 Universities Warned Rule Out Benefit Cuts Or Face ‘Wave Of...
UNIVERSITIES will find themselves prompting ‘a wave of industrial action across UK campuses’ later this year – unless they rule out benefit cuts or...
Unions demanding the reinstatement of 78 sacked workers in the Philippines
THE ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) are demanding the reinstatement of 78 unfairly...
‘WE WON’T LET YOU SELL OUR JOBS’ – civil servants tell...
OVER 200 civil servants gave a standing ovation to colleague Sheila Coote at a lunchtime rally in Westminster last Friday, as she vowed to...
BP under siege over oil spills and cover-ups
IT is reprehensible that neither the contractors nor BP seem to give a toss about these 430 workers who have been locked out but...
‘Police violence is not situational it is endemic’ – ACLU
OVER the past few days new police shootings of black men confirmed a warning from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that ‘significant racial...
‘The government is not afraid of US threats’ says Iranian President...
PRESIDENT Hassan Rouhani has assured the Iranian nation of the government’s resolve to stand up to US threats, emphasising that his team will do...
The collapse of living conditions in the Gaza Strip is accelerating
TWO major humanitarian alerts issued on Tuesday and Wednesday underscored the accelerating collapse of living conditions in the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands...
‘In-house is best’ – striking Suffolk and Essex health workers determined...
CLEANERS, caterers, porters, housekeepers and other East Suffolk and North Essex support staff began a new 48-hour strike yesterday, demanding to stay in the...
LONDON NEEDS TEN TIMES MORE INTENSIVE CARE BEDS says Mayor LONDON
Mayor Sadiq Khan told the BBC evening news on March 30th that despite the new ‘NHS Nightingale hospital’ potentially providing space for 4,000 beds,...
‘Significant Concerns’ For Vulnerable Detainees
Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers’ ‘Report on an unannounced inspection of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre’ is another damning indictment of the brutal system...
SOUTH AFRICAN UNION NEHAWU CALLS TO ‘STAY AWAY’ ON AUGUST 28th...
THE NATIONAL Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has called on health staff to stay away from work on 28th August to protest...
Get rid of capitalism in 2014! New Year’s Statement by the...
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its New Year’s greetings for the year 2014 to all our readers and to the workers and youth...
London Bus Privateers Must Stop ‘Race To The Bottom’ Or Face...
UNLESS London bus privateers stop the ‘race to the bottom’ and cease their onslaught on working conditions all-out strike action will swiftly ensue, Unite...
High levels of homelessness and destitution among refugees!
A NEW SURVEY, Refugees without refuge, published by the Refugee Council on Friday, has found high levels of homelessness and destitution among refugees shortly...
‘Painful to see an Israeli plane land in UAE’ says Palestinian...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has slammed the direct flight of an Israeli plane to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Speaking at the weekly Palestinian...