SAMA concerned over bed shortages and a dire shortage of medical...
SAMA the South African Medical Association has expressed concerns over KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) hospital bed shortages, and medical staff fatigue. The South African Medical Association believes...
EUROPEAN CORPORATIONS ARE ‘TWO FACED’ ON WORKERS RIGHTS says AFL-CIO...
EUROPEAN corporations are two-faced when it comes to respecting working people’s freedom of association and workers’ rights, argues a new report by the AFL-CIO...
Equity Phoenix victory after Leeds demonstration
FOLLOWING performers’ union Equity’s demonstration outside the Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds on Monday morning to demand that the contemporary dance company reverse their decision to lay...
SIRTE IS LIBERATED FROM ISIS – says Libya’s unity government
TRIPOLI – Libya’s unity government leader Fayez al-Sarraj on Saturday officially announced the end of military operations in Sirte, after the liberation from Islamic...
‘THERE MUST BE ACTION TO SMASH THE BILL! –doctors, medical students...
OVER 2,000 consultants, GPs, medical students and their supporters marched from the British Medical Association head office, Tavistock Square to Wednesday evening’s TUC rally...
South African auto and security workers plan massive campaign of strikes
he National Union for Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has rejected a wage proposal from employers in the motor sector and is set to...
‘Threats to health workers of the world’ – WHO
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is urging healthcare leaders and governments to address all persistent threats to both the health and safety of all...
GHOST STATIONS AND A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE! – RMT staff survey reveals...
A MASSIVE staff survey carried out by the RMT railway workers union reveals the dystopian future awaiting passengers if the industry privateers and the...
The Lfb Is Failing To Meet Response Targets After 10 Fire...
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is failing to meet response time targets to more than half of all emergencies in the areas where ten...
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...
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...
‘I MADE MY CHOICE’ AND STAND BY IT – Straw tells...
In a 25-page memorandum submitted to the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, said: ‘My decision to support military action in...
‘Black, Asian & minority ethnic people have been over-exposed and under-protected...
Covid-19 has ‘thrived’ among black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) communities because of structural race discrimination, a new Labour Party report from Baroness Doreen...
Four Seasons ‘The Son Of Southern Cross’ Warns Gmb
SEVENTY-ONE former Southern Cross Care Homes in the UK were being transferred to new operator Four Seasons on Monday (31 October 2011). These are the...
Defeat Israeli plan to ‘manage starvation’ & drive Palestinians out of...
Two days after the limited entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian voices are rising to emphasise the ineffectiveness of the aid provided. They...
MASSACRE IN BEIT HANOUN – Hamas vows revenge
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Friday evening condemned the Israeli Army for firing into a crowd and killing two Palestinian women during a...
Handsworth GPs praised for helping bus crash victims
GPs at Handsworth Medical Practice have been praised for their efforts helping victims of a bus crash at Highams Park in North East London...
STAND UP AGAINST THE UNION BUSTERS! Honda convenor brings greetings to...
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew received great support from workers and other trade unionists over the weekend. Last Saturday, News Line interviewed cabin crew on...
NUMSA battles for COSATU leadership and breaks with ANC
NUMSA National Executive Committee has issued a full statement on COSATU in response to calls for its expulsion from the federation. The National Union of...
Terrorists intensify their crimes in Aleppo
ARMED terrorist groups, positioned on the western outskirts of Syria’s Aleppo province, have intensified their crimes and attacks on safe and densely populated neighbourhoods...
SAS sent to Iraq to help evacuate stranded Britons
EARLY on Sunday 5th January, about 50 members of the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) were sent to Iraq ‘to help’ with the potential...
Gm Boss Refuses To Say Which European Plants Will Be Closed
GENERAL Motor’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Fritz Henderson, took questions at a Detroit press conference on Thursday, November 5th concerning the Magna...
More Than 100 Covid Cases At Napier Camp
ACTIVISTS threw fake blood at the gates of Napier Barracks last Thursday – in protest against the conditions in which hundreds of asylum seekers...
Under the ANC ‘Wealth is shifting further into the pockets of...
THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...
Burning of the US embassy in Honduras ‘a provocation’ says former...
A TEACHER has been arrested for allegedly setting the US embassy in Honduras on fire last Friday, following police repression of educators and doctors who are protesting against privatisations. A group...
US and EU prepare for direct armed conflict with Russia
US REPRESENTATIVES have launched a campaign in the Philippines to recruit local citizens to fight on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces, Russian...
‘What is needed now is to grow the economy–pickpocketing the public...
‘WHAT is needed now is to grow the economy. That is the only sober and sustainable path to pay down our worrying debt trajectory....
British Columbian longshore workers overwhelming strike vote
Longshore workers in British Columbia have overwhelmingly voted to authorise industrial action, raising the prospect of a strike at the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s...
Obama government keeping Haitians out of US
THE US government allows foreign citizens into the US in significant numbers ‘for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit’. In the past, the beneficiaries...
Thousands Pay Last Respects To Prabhakaran’s Father
THOUSANDS of people, including men, women and children paid their last respects on Saturday to the remains of the late Thiruvengadam Vellupillai, father...
TUC silent over the massive crisis of the EU
THE TUC’s head of European Union and International Relations Department, Owen Tudor, has recently given a lengthy interview to the internet EurActiv which specialises...
13 million children prevented from going to school!
SURGING conflict and political upheaval across the Middle East and North Africa are preventing more than 13 million children from going to school, according...
IRELAND’S BANKS ARE REFUSING TO LEND –as Greece is urged to...
EUROGROUP President Jean-Claude Juncker is in Athens for talks with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on whether the debt-laden country has the will to...
Israeli torturers and war criminals driven out of Netzarim Corridor!
A Palestinian abductee who was among prisoners released on Saturday by Israel as part of the ceasefire deal has recounted the tragic ordeal and...
COWEN INVITES ICTU TO TALKS – as massive strike action approaches
With the March 30 general strike fast approaching Irish Prime Minister Cowen has invited the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to attend talks....
Foreign Ministers from 10 countries condemn Israel’s attack on flotilla to...
TEN countries’ foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a peaceful civilian humanitarian mission attempting to break the Israeli...
BMA condemns Coalition’s local pay drive
THE BMA ARM has condemned the Tory-led drive to impose local pay deals on the public sector – which would mean the end of...
Amnesty report reveals the brutal crackdown on the Palestinians
IN a detailed report released by Amnesty International, the organisation has shed light on a dramatic increase in the deployment of unlawful lethal force...
LIBERATION MOVEMENT MUST ACT DECISIVELY –urges COSATU leader Vavi Zwelinzima
THE general secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi addressed the SACTWU National Congress last Friday. His central warning was ‘If the broad liberation movement does not...
50 Members Of UK Parliament Back A Motion Calling For Sanctions...
AROUND 50 Members of Parliament from seven political parties backed a motion calling for sanctions against the Israeli regime for committing ‘crimes against humanity’,...
UNRWA warns that the health sector in Gaza is in critical...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the health sector in the Gaza Strip is in a...
Myanmar junta jails photojournalists
ONE media worker has been sentenced and jailed and another detained amid rising attacks against the press by the military junta in Myanmar. A freelance...
Factory Blast Probe Condemns ‘Dangerous And Dysfunctional’ Safety Culture
An independent report into the ICL Glasgow plastics factory fire disaster in which nine workers died in May 2004 has exposed a health and...
NATO war criminals used depleted uranium weaponry in Libya!
JAMAHIRIYA NEWS has reported on NATO war crimes in Libya including deformities in new born babies due to the use by NATO of...
Grammar schools segregate children by class warn teachers
‘THERESA May’s plans for new grammar schools are a regressive move and a distraction from the real problems facing schools and education,’ Kevin Courtney,...