‘The first time that workers from all over Egypt have come...
WORKERS from electricity companies from around the country went on strike in Egypt on Sunday. Workers Media Coordinator at the Egyptian Centre for Economic and...
Tehran monitoring US compliance ‘minute-by-minute!’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has declared that Tehran will monitor the United States’ compliance with the war-termination Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ‘moment-by-moment’ and warned...
Sanders marches with McDonald’s workers in ‘Fight for $15’
VERMONT Senator Bernie Sanders marched alongside McDonald’s workers at a rally last Sunday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He joined McDonald’s workers in the same way...
STRIKE IS SOLID! – ‘We need the rest of the public...
YESTERDAY’s 24 hour strike of CWU postal workers was 100 per cent, and massively powerful. Everywhere pickets told News Line that what they wanted...
Harvard Students Battle For Union
SUPPORTERS of Harvard’s student unionisation effort held a rally in the Yard and delivered a petition to Massachusetts Hall on Wednesday, urging the University...
Medical Aid Reaches Gaza Following Mass Protests Against The Egyptian Government
MEDICAL aid and 518 international activists finally entered Gaza on Wednesday night, following protests against the Egyptian government’s refusal to let them in led...
Iran, Russia and China congratulate Assad on election victory! while Germany...
IN SEPARATE messages, Iran, Russia and China congratulate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for achieving a landslide victory in the 2021 presidential race. Iran, Russia and...
Fresh Attempt To Extradite Assange!
THE US has launched a fresh attempt to have WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited from Britain to face charges that could jail him for...
Over 1 Million Iraqis Have Died Since The US Invasion
MORE than one million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to...
Croatian Serbs fight court battle to get homes back
The European Court of Human Rights is considering an important case for returning Croatian Serb refugees, says Amnesty International. The Grand Chamber of the...
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...
‘We want no more weasel words – we want immediate recognition...
On the fifteenth National march for Palestine over one hundred thousand workers and youth took to the streets in central London in support of...
6,800 UAW members at the SHAP Michigan join Stand Up Strike!
ON MONDAY morning, October 23, 6,800 UAW members at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP), Michigan, joined the Stand Up Strike, shutting down production at...
UK Higher Education Is In Unprecedented Crisis!
UK higher Education faces an unprecedented crisis, the University and College Union (UCU) has declared, with new data compiled by the union showing over...
Hezbollah Is Determined To Fight In Support Of Palestinians In The...
A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of...
Health workers throughout Europe are defending jobs and services!
HEALTH workers across Europe are fighting to defend their jobs, conditions of employment and the services they provide to millions of workers and their...
HOME CARE CRISIS! Vulnerable and elderly are being left to...
A NEW report has exposed the growing homecare crisis where shorter and shorter visits mean that homecare workers cannot provide proper care, leaving the...
PALESTINIAN YOUTH CONDEMN EU HYPOCRISY – Doctors and human rights organisations...
PALESTINIANS for Dignity’ reject the EU’s hypocrisy in upgrading its relations with the Israeli Occupation. ‘It has come to light over the...
‘RESISTANCE IS OUR PEOPLE’S LEGITIMATE RIGHT’ – decides Palestinian National Dialogue...
THE Palestinian National Dialogue Conference (NDC) held on the 25th and 26th of May to try to end the armed conflicts between Hamas...
Central Middlesex & Hammersmith A&E closures scheduled for 10th September! –...
The devastating closures of the accident and emergency departments at Hammersmith Hospital and Central Middlesex Hospital are set to take place on 10th September,...
Hezbollah Rejects Israeli War Threats
Hezbollah TV on Sunday commented on contradictory statements coming out of Israel on a possible new war against Lebanon. The TV said: ‘Israel is heading...
NUJ Condemns Home Office Call For ‘Increased Maximum Sentences’ For ‘Unauthorised...
THE UK HOME OFFICE has called for comment on proposed new laws with greater reach and harsher penalties to ‘counter state threats’. These are intended...
BARBER AND WOODLEY BETRAYED GATE GOURMET WORKERS – 2006 TUC Congress...
THE following emergency resolution was carried unanimously at last year’s TUC Congress. The resolution was the TUC’s response to the Gate Gourmet management’s...
‘PALESTINIAN HEALTH SITUATION FACES COLLAPSE’ – PNA health minister slams siege
PALESTINIAN medical supplies are running out because of the economic siege in the occupied territories – with supplies of some basic materials already at...
Syrian solidarity with 2 Turkish hunger strikers – RELEASE GULMAN &...
A SIT-IN was held in al-Umawyeen Square in Damascus on Thursday to express solidarity with the two detainees who are on hunger strike in...
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...
Journalists Cannot Reveal Sources
IN a hard-hitting personal reflection, Irish Political Journalist and National Union of Journalists member JOHN COULTER vehemently defends the right of reporters to withhold...
‘RETURN US BACK TO OUR ISLAND’ – say Chagossians evicted by...
TODAY, a number of Chagos Islanders will appear at Horsham County Court to fight a Claim Form for Possession of Property from West...
BRINGING DOWN TORIES IS THE KEY says striking Uber driver
‘BRINGING down the Tory government is the key thing,’ striking Uber driver Liban Yussuf told News Line at the lunchtime rally outside Uber HQ...
Israel’s Systematic Crime Against Education In Gaza
The Israeli occupation continues to commit a systematic crime against the education sector in the Gaza Strip, as part of a comprehensive war against...
STOP RACIST ATTACKS IN GREECE says Amnesty
THE Greek authorities must act immediately to curb the growing spate of xenophobic and racist attacks, Amnesty International says. It follows a brutal knife attack...
‘ISRAEL MUST END VIOLATIONS’ – Hesbollah tells Annan
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has stressed that the Lebanon cease-fire UN Security Council Resolution 1701 has to be implemented in full. He has made it...
2,000 Sri Lankan Troops Killed In 2007
OVER two thousand Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers were killed and four thousand wounded in the battles of 2007, TamilNet reported yesterday. The information was...
BRING DOWN THE BROWN GOVERNMENT! FORWARD TO A WORKERS GOVERNMENT! –message...
OVER 100 trade unionists, workers and youth attended the News Line – All Trades Unions Alliance meeting in Red Lion Square in Central London...
Anti-war protest at US embassy – Syrians not allowed a speaker
A rally of over 300 people was organised outside the US embassy in London on Saturday, against Western intervention in Iran and Syria. The protest...
‘In Colombia Being A Trade Unionist Means Risking One’s Life’
MYRIAM Luz Triana is the National Finance Secretary and head of women’s affairs at the Colombian General Workers’ Confederation, the CGT. She tells the...
Numsa Fighting For A Fair Deal For Workers Hit By...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is demanding a fair deal for the 1,500 strong workforce after General Motors announced its...
6 Years Since Israel’s ‘Cast Lead’ Slaughter!
PALESTINIANS around the world on Saturday commemorated the sixth anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s 22-day offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2008-9 that...
South Africa honours the 65th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre!
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) said on Friday that it joins millions of South Africans in honouring the 65th anniversary and...
Harsh winter nights – eight children die of cold in the...
The nights of the winter season are extremely harsh on the displacement camps in Gaza as the nights, which may be the coldest in...
End The Occupation Of Iraq! End The US/UK War Alliance!
OVER 100,000 people marched in London and many thousands more marched in Glasgow on Saturday, to demand the immediate withdrawal of all British troops...
US Waging Economic Terrorism Against Iran!
IRAN’S foreign minister says the US is waging ‘economic terrorism’ against the Islamic Republic by employing restrictive measures that are troubling the relief efforts...
German government considering delivery of tank ammunition for use in Gaza!
GERMANY’S government is considering the delivery of tank ammunition to Israel amid its genocidal war against Gaza, the German magazine Der Spiegel has reported,...
‘STATE-SPONSORED VICTIMISATION OF TRADE UNIONISTS’ – warns UCATT
‘THE most vicious attack on the rights of British workers for a generation, to create state-sponsored victimisation of trade unionists.’ This is how construction workers’...
Bush Seeking To Legalise Unlawful Military Commissions
THE Bush administration is pushing legislation through Congress to legalise its unlawful military commissions and indefinite detention without charge or trial, says Amnesty...