‘NO EDUCATION CUTS’ – demand Tower Hamlets strikers
TOWER Hamlets College staff and students will demonstrate tomorrow, Tuesday July 7, outside the Board of Governors meeting, demanding: ‘No education cuts!’ The east London...
Junior Doctors Are Plunged Into Crisis
AT the heart of the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) programmes for junior doctors is the...
90 YEARS OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION – Forward to the World...
IN OCTOBER 1917 workers took power in Russia. This is the 90th anniversary of the victorious October Revolution, the first time in history that the...
11,000 Residents & Supporters Join Grenfell Silent Walk
MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...
‘Unceasing Fatalities’ In Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry
‘UNCEASING fatalities’ continue in the Bangladesh shipbreaking industry, as two more workers were killed and thirteen injured in yet another incident at the Ziri...
Stability in the Middle East depends on Egypt, says Putin
MOSCOW – Russia is carefully following events in Egypt, Russian Defence Minister Army Gen Sergey Shoygu said, opening a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart,...
Cuts In Child Poverty Reversed By Coalition!
Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...
100 Years Of The Balfour Declaration!
ON THE hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration more than 60 leading British personalities signed the Balfour Centenary Declaration launched in London on Tuesday...
US, Turkish And Japanese Workers Unite To Fight Capitalism!
THE AFL-CIO trade union federation in the USA has given its support to the Turkish trade unions and workers and youth who have been...
‘WE DON’T WANT OUR DETAILS ON ANY DATABASE’ – public tell...
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s claim that people ‘just can’t wait’ to get ID cards has been rubbished by campaign group NO2ID. NO2ID national coordinator Phil...
Bin anti-union Commission report say Aussie unions
THE Royal Commission report into Trade Unions should be relegated to the dustbin of 2015, along with Abbott and Co,’ said Australian Construction, Forestry,...
500 Turkish organisations representing tens of millions pledge support for Gaza-bound...
More than 500 Turkish organisations have pledged support for a new international maritime initiative aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade on Gaza, according to...
Chicago Teamsters lead USA-wide fight against Nestlé union-busting
THE Teamsters trade union on Friday accused the management of the world’s largest food and beverage company Nestlé of stopping its US workforce from...
Syria Hails Iran’s Support For The Struggle Against The UK...
CHIEF of the General Staff of the Syrian Army and Armed Forces, Lt. Gen. Ali Abdullah Ayoub on Tuesday held a session of talks...
Remain strong in opposition to the US and Israel – says...
IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called on Islamic and regional countries, especially Iran and Turkey, to unite and remain strong in opposition...
TUC calls for Israeli boycott but sets no date for action
TUC Congress delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday voted for composite motion C22: ‘Right to boycott’ from the National Education Union. Moving the motion, Louise Regan,...
Israeli Troops On The Rampage All Over The West Bank!
AN autopsy conducted on Sunday morning has shown that 30-year-old Muhammad Ismail Atallah Tarifi, who was found dead on the roof of a commercial...
Women and Tamil youth demand an international investigation into the thousands...
WOMEN activists and Tamil youth activists of the missing persons’ relatives campaign concluded a three-day fast and a four-day walk from Mu’l’livaaykkaal in Vanni...
Syria Condemns ‘Decades Of Violating The Rights Of Palestinians And Golan...
SYRIA’S Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Hussam Eddin Ala, affirmed on Monday that the Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and...
Heygate tenants refuse to be driven from their homes
TENANTS on the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle are furious at the way they are being treated ‘like cattle’ to be driven off...
Wal-Mart Forming ‘Standing Army Of Supporters’
A TOP secret Wal-Mart memo obtained by WakeUpWalMart.com shows how Wal-Mart is exerting corporate pressure to force suppliers to join a...
Peretz Boasts Of Killings On Eve Of Nakba Day
On the eve of the 58th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe day), Israeli ‘Defence’ Minister Amir Peretz bragged on Sunday of the success...
Israel Violating Gaza Border Agreement
Using the individual bombing attack in Netanya on Monday as a pretext, Israel is violating the Gaza borders agreement with the Palestinian National Authority...
‘Cliques Brought In By The Occupiers Are Assassinating Iraq’s Scientists’
‘stray cliques brought in by the occupation’ are assassinating Iraq’s scientists and intellectuals, Dr KhUdayir al-Murshidi, professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Baghdad...
Tens of thousands of Bangladesh garment workers walk out
THE PAST two weeks have seen mass walkouts and wildcat strikes by thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh. After five years the industry’s minimum...
‘My brother was treated in an appalling and inhumane way’ –...
THE inquest into the death of 25-year-old Godfrey Moyo, whilst on remand at HMP Belmarsh, concluded yesterday with the jury deciding that the...
‘Tamil Speaking People Should Vote For Someone Who Publicly Recognises Their...
‘Tamil speaking people should vote for a person who publicly recognises their rights and aspirations,’ said Mr Manicaksothy, a prominent person in Jaffna peninsula,...
FBU condemns AssetCo’s ‘provocative manoeuvre’
‘AssetCo have taken 27 fire engines off station,’ London FBU official Ian Leahair told News Line. The private company AssetCo was awarded a 5-year...
SUCCESSFUL NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY Rally marks 44 years of the paper...
‘WE ARE celebrating 44 years of the daily Trotskyist paper that fights for a revolutionary leadership that does not bend, capitulate or collapse at...
Anti-Olympics Campaign Launched
THE Counter Olympics Network (CON) has announced a march and rally in London’s East End on Saturday 28 July, assembling in Mile End Park...
No to Fire and Rehire at Open University – insists UCU
THE UCU (University and College Union) has called on the Open University (OU) to scrap its plans to fire and rehire staff. The OU first...
Netanyahu delays judicial overhaul in the face of mass opposition
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the delay of his plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, Israeli protest leader Shikma Bressler vowed that demonstrations would...
CHARRED CORPSES ‘PART OF THE PATTERN’ – of deaths and abuses...
AMNESTY International said yesterday that recent revelations about deaths in custody and abuses by US troops in Afghanistan are further evidence of a culture...
‘NEW IMMIGRATION DEAL’ AN ATTACK ON ALL WORKERS says AFL-CIO
US trade unions have warned that the immigration bill going through Congress falls way short of expectations. The strength of opposition has seen the US...
‘This is very much a fight for the NHS’ – Homerton...
On the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital by Westminster Bridge in Central London, Ada Zembrzycka, a junior doctor and anaesthetic trainee, told News...
South African education unions will ballot for strike action to fight...
South African education unions, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation (Naptosa) and the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), responded on Monday to the Western...
BMA recommends dangerous GP contract changes – Paramedics to be substituted...
THE British Medical Association’s (BMA) GP England (GPCE) committee has voted to accept a dangerous package of changes to the GP contract for 2020-21. On...
Weapons supplied by the UK and USA have killed 839 civilians...
WEAPONS supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States to the Saudi-led coalition in war-torn Yemen killed at least 839 civilians and wounded 1,775...
Junior Doctors Reject Contract Diktat
‘IN THE face of proposals from the UK government which amount to imposition in all but name, the UK junior doctors committee has decided...
Palestinian children arrested, tortured and thrown in solitary confinement!
AN international human rights group on Monday released details of the interrogation and assault of a Palestinian teenager during his arrest in June by...
TORY AUSTERITY POLICIES ARE DESTROYING THE NHS says the BMA
‘AUSTERITY-LED changes of the past decade have stirred up a “perfect storm”. The Government in England shifts responsibility for providing services from the centre...
East End Suffragettes – revealed for first time in 100...
East End Suffragettes: the photographs of Norah Smyth 2 November-9 February 2019 Tues-Sat: 11.00-18.00 daily Admission free EAST End Suffragette photos from 100 years ago, are revealed, for...
Arab writers appeal to world
ARAB writers convening at the First Palestine Forum for the Arab Novel appealed on Wednesday to world governments to intervene to end the suffering...
Young Moroccan teachers strike defies intimidation and water cannons!
YOUNG teachers in Morocco who have been striking and protesting outside the parliament in Rabat for three weeks against being employed on inferior conditions...
AFL-CIO praises Canadian NAFTA negotiating team!
THE AFL-CIO, America’s trade union body, released a statement on September 20th giving its position on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and...