‘£5BILLION WASTED’ ON PRIVATE TREATMENT CENTRES – NHS left to pick...
There is no good evidence that independent sector treatment centres have provided additional capacity, value for money, or high quality care, argue researchers in...
ACADEMIES HAVE FAILED! – take them back under local authority control...
THE Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) says the failure of academy chains requires the government to consider taking schools back into local authority...
NAHT head teachers union set to join NEU in national action...
On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...
Belarus holding Victory Day march today!
‘WE invite other heads of state to come to Minsk for the Victory Parade,’ Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked to the...
‘WE WANT A SECULAR STATE’ – demand Egyptian workers and youth
An unprecedented number of Egyptians took to the streets and squares of Egypt on Wednesday 25th January in commemoration of last year’s momentous Day...
Police Spies Infiltrated 1,000 Groups
The public inquiry into the actions of police spies over several decades got underway on Monday and is expected to last for three years. Members...
21 miners killed in Balochistan in the 1st half of January
The Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (PCMLF) and the All-Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (APLF) jointly held a manifestation on January 13 at the...
Fonseka arrest deepens crisis of Sri Lankan ruling class
THE split in the Sri Lankan ruling class has deepened with the arrest of General Fonseka who led the military campaign which killed tens...
US teachers will fight Trump’s education attacks!
In a statement released on Wednesday the National Education Association (NEA) Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) the two largest teaching unions...
Canadian postal workers rally in 13 cities!
Canada Post workers held rallies in 13 cities across the country on Saturday as the ongoing labour dispute with their employer reaches boiling point. The...
Israel escalates its demolition of Bethlehem Palestinian structures
The latest demolitions of Palestinian structures in Beit Jala city in Bethlehem district and the string of Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip...
Aussie Journalist Oakes Will Not Be Prosecuted!
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP have confirmed that ABC journalist Dan Oakes will not be prosecuted over his reporting on alleged war crimes carried out...
‘We are fighting for the NHS! Everyone must come out and...
‘SUPPORT junior doctors! Save the NHS! Let’s stop this unfair, untested and unsafe contract from being imposed. This contract is bad for patient...
Thousands turn out for Palestinians massacred in Nablus
THOUSANDS of people have turned out for the funeral procession of eleven Palestinian men killed by Israeli military forces during a raid in the...
RESEARCH FUNDING CHANGES AN ATTACK ON SCIENCE – says UCU
THE government’s changes to research funding threaten the future of science in Britain, leading experts are warning. According to Professor Donald Braben, Honorary Professor, Department...
Israel sends Gaza 50,000 expired Covid-19 vaccines
The Gaza Health Ministry has held Israel responsible for the expiry of 50,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine recently delivered to the besieged coastal enclave. In...
South African Metal And Municipal Unions Demand Cosatu Leaders Convene...
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has joined the Natioal Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) in demanding COSATU convene a...
Bedouins rally against Negev expulsions
PALESTINIAN Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev announced Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal to be put before the...
Israeli persecution of Palestinian human rights groups condemned in Australia!
The Australian government is being urged to condemn Israel’s ‘dangerous attack’ on six prominent Palestinian human rights groups after Israeli authorities declared them terrorist...
Abbas Accepts Italy’s Offer To Host Peace Talks
President Mahmud Abbas on Friday accepted Italy’s offer to host Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, urged international commitment to the UN-adopted ‘roadmap’ peace plan, the Palestine...
Argentine trade unions lead a historic general strike!
THE GENERAL Strike called by the CGT and the CTA, in rejection of the DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) and the Omnibus Law,...
‘A wrecking ball Australian Budget smashing jobs and services’ – CPSU
‘The Abbott Government’s assault on welfare, Medicare, education and the public sector represents the end of the fair go and the biggest attack on...
Glasgow Unemployment Crisis
Targets set by ministers for agencies trying to get Scotland’s long-term unemployed off benefits are making the problem worse, not better. That is the finding...
‘FAWU CAN’T GO BACK TO COSATU BECAUSE THERE IS NO COSATU...
THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...
Brighton hotel blaze: ‘Firefighters stretched to near breaking point’
As the demolition last week of the fire-ravaged Albion hotel in Brighton was underway, following an initial earlier blaze, a second fire broke out...
Threat by the Egyptian Defence Minister to call out the army!
EGYPT’S defence minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned last Sunday that the army will intervene if violence breaks out in the country where rallies are...
Striking NUT 6th form college teachers defy the Tories!
STRIKING 6th Form College National Union of Teachers (NUT) members from around England took part in a national demonstration on Tuesday to defend their...
US McDonald’s workers strike for $15 an hour
McDonald’s cooks and cashiers in 16 cities went on strike last Wednesday, the day before the company’s annual shareholders meeting, to demand the burger...
A wave of protests sweeps through Egypt
A WAVE of protests against poor living and working conditions swept through the nation’s governorates last Monday. Residents of the villages around Kafr al-Sheikh blocked...
‘WE WERE THE FIRST TO CALL FOR A UNITED, UNIFIED, SOVEREIGN...
‘WE were the first to call for a united, unified, fully sovereign, independent, free, and lofty Lebanon where the state and the government represent...
60 per cent of gig economy workers injured at work get...
THE MAJORITY of gig economy workers are injured at work and suffer from sprains, cuts that require stitches, and even fractures and broken bones. According...
UP TO 80% OF US-BASED MEDICAL DOCTORS HAVE FINANCIAL TIES TO...
A BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL STUDY reveals that almost three quarters of leaders of influential medical groups have financial ties to industry. Payments to them totalled...
Prisons Inspector Condemns Global Solutions ‘Failures’ At Oakington Removal Centre
Privateer Global Solutions Ltd (GSL) has been criticised again for its management of Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers published today...
Sri Lanka Garment Workers Rise Up Over Pensions
THE Sri Lankan proposed private sector pension scheme has angered workers in the garment sector, with trade unionists warning of mass street...
‘We are going to strike on Feb 6th alongside Unite &...
UNIVERSITY lecturers up and down the country came out on strike on Tuesday in the second of a series of two-hour strikes in an...
Russian car workers win union recognition
Benteler car workers in Kaluga, Russia, to the south west of Moscow, have won their strike over recognition of their union. On April 2...
Junior Doctors Must Reject Hunt’s New Contract!
ON 18th May the doctors union, the BMA, announced that it had agreed a new contract for junior doctors. The BMA had completed eight days...
Trump’s Budget The Most Significant Betrayal Yet Of Working People
US PRESIDENT Trump’s Budget betrays working people, says a statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Trump’s Financial Year 2018 budget proposal. The US union...
Hezbollah leadership not involved in HARIRI murder says UN-backed court
THE SPECIAL Tribunal for Lebanon has not found evidence that the leadership of Hezbollah was involved in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime...
Wadi al-Hummus demolitions are ‘a heinous crime we will not accept’...
THE PALESTINIAN Presidency on Monday ‘reiterated the firm position of the State of Palestine that supports the right of the People’s Republic of China...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO – Vote ‘Leave’ to bring down Tories!
THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings on May Day 2016 to the workers and the oppressed people of the...
‘SUPPORT OUR CAMPAIGN!’ – call by NEU ahead of next week’s...
‘AFTER the regional days of strike action across the union, the next action will be 15 and 16 March, by teachers in all state...
‘Hezbollah strong enough and ready for all scenarios!’
HEZBOLLAH Deputy Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has stated that the Lebanese resistance group is strong enough and ready for all scenarios, despite losing Secretary...
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY’S MANSION BUILDING IS OCCUPIED – to stop the closure...
OPEN letter to Middlesex staff, faculty, and students, 7th may 2010. ‘Dear Middlesex University staff, faculty, and students, We are writing to clarify our intentions...
Palestinian Food Aid cut while Israeli onslaught continues!
AT LEAST 27 Palestinians were injured, including 14 with Israeli forces’ live fire, while others sustained rubber-coated steel bullets and suffered tear-gas suffocation as...