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THE FIFTH Congress of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), is taking place in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Delegates filled the largest theatre...

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...

In its Annual Report 2007, covering events of 2006, Amnesty International (AI) is scathing about the UK. It says: ‘The government continued to erode fundamental...

‘THE IMPACT poverty has on children and young people’s education is immense,’ Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union, said yesterday. He was...

‘I’ve killed many Arabs in my life, and there’s no problem with that.’ In the United States, such a statement grants you the privilege of...

GLOBAL union federation IndustriALL has repeated its call for full democracy in Turkey as a crackdown on fundamental rights escalates. It said: ‘In the wake...

GREEK seafarers along with dockers and all other ports workers staged a solid 24-hour national strike last Wednesday against two separate government Bills to...

GAZA Premier Ismail Haniya said Sunday that the Palestinian Authority’s decision to resume direct negotiations reflects a failed policy, and will not succeed. Speaking at...

LEBANESE resistance movement Hezbollah issued a statement on Tuesday to condemn the unjust decision by Australia to impose sanctions on Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, His Eminence...

THE Abkhazian and South Ossetian parliaments have been unanimously granted permanent observer status at the 34th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia...

THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has carried out a comprehensive investigation into migrant workers’ experiences of forced labour and exploitation in the UK food industry...

‘THIS IS bad news for staff and for  patients,’ Unison’s head of health Sara Gorton has warned. ‘The changes are built on savings from employing...

AN Israeli court on Thursday ordered the release imprisoned Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners’ Affairs Committee said. Issa Qaraqe...

THE Hamas movement issued a statement last Monday slamming the US for its ‘pro-Israeli bias’. It stated: ‘The new Middle East plan is...

US President George W Bush was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his campaign to isolate arch foe Iran and for...

Secret US embassy cables published by WikiLeaks last Friday allege that the Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka is complicit in abduction, murders and...

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Turkey last Thursday to seek support for more military action against Islamic State (IS) fighters in...

IN recent editions of the News Line we have reproduced in full a speech delivered by Zwelinzima Vavi, former general secretary of the Confederation...

AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...

ACCORDING to witnesses Israeli police, on Thursday afternoon of last week, stormed the Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem’s al-Tur neighbourhood. They said that Israeli police...

SEVENTEEN home care workers, Unison members employed across the London Borough of Haringey, are taking care company Sevacare and the council to court in...

FIVE arrested striking MyCiTi bus drivers were charged with public violence and released on R1,000 bail each on Wednesday at the Cape Town Magistrate’s...

STUDENT occupations are spreading! Students have occupied the London School of Economics on March since Tuesday March 17 demanding free university education for all. By Thursday...

THE pay packets of regional workers will take a hit and communities will suffer if new workplace changes recommended by the Productivity Commission and...

TRADE unionists from across the public sector spoke out on Tuesday, demanding action from the TUC to stop the privatisation of the NHS and...

ISRAELI forces on Saturday night notified the families of three alleged Palestinian attackers of their intention to demolish their houses across the occupied West...

GERMANY’S Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said she plans to reiterate the value of dialogue with Russia to avoid a conflict over Ukraine when...

Israeli forces raided the al-Quds University, on Wednesday, in Abu Dis village, south east of the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. Local...

THE ‘MANAGING out’ of pupils in order to ‘game’ government league tables is rife among academies, Education DataLab revealed on Wednesday. ‘The NUT has long...

‘EVERYTHING related to the destiny and future of Syria is a 100% Syrian issue. The unity of Syrian territory is self-evident and not up...

Workers at Barnes & Noble, the United States largest chain of bookstores, are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six shops voted...

ITALIAN workers and youth clashed with police during a ‘Let’s Block Everything’ General Strike and massive mobilisation for Gaza on Monday, which was called...

COMPLEX and fragmented arrangements for running the privatised ‘London Rail’ franchise will make it ‘more difficult to manage operationally and safely’, with potentially disastrous...

THE denigration of workers, wage payment systems of dubious legality and a disregard for health and safety law are among the catalogue of abuses...

‘OPEN the doors, let them in!’ shouted trade unionists and youth and their families taking part in Saturday’s 8,000-strong Refugees Welcome, Anti-Racism national demonstration...

TEACHERS in Haverhill, Massachusetts, have won their strike held last week, defying a state law banning teachers and other public sector workers from striking,...

THE GENERAL Strike called by the CGT and the CTA, in rejection of the DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) and the Omnibus Law,...

EUROPEAN Union governments agreed on Monday to put the military wing of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on the EU terror list in a major...

A DOSSIER relating to a complaint delivered last Friday to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding the responsibility of...

ISRAELI Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday ordered Israeli forces to shut down the Gaza Strip’s borders again, turning away a truck convoy bearing...

‘THE CONFEDERATION has brought together all of its federations in order to continue the mobilisation against the pension reform and to prepare for “France...

‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!’ chanted thousands of protesters marching in London from the Home Office to a rally...

SENIOR Hamas official Mahmoud Zahhar on Sunday denied media reports that the Islamist resistance group is considering declaring the Gaza Strip a separate entity...

THE UNITED States’ Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is to file charges against Amazon on the grounds that they illegally interfered in...

STRIKE action took place on Tuesday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of...