Picturehouse strikers continue defying sack threat
OVER the weekend, Picturehouse cinema chain BECTU members continued to defy a threat to sack them if they continued their strike action in a...
Striking Clover Workers Demand Halt Wage Cuts And Sackings
STRIKING Clover workers marched in Johannesburg last Thursday demanding that the company halt retrenchments and wage cuts. The workers also picketed outside the Israel Trade...
US universities took millions from Israel’s weapons manufacturers
ISRAEL’S Ministry of Defence and its weapons manufacturers have channelled millions of dollars into weapons research at dozens of American universities over the past...
Keep Musk’s hands off workers’ data! – AFL-CIO launches legal action...
The AFL-CIO and several of its affiliated government employee unions, last Wednesday, launched a legal action over fears that Elon Musk’s Department of Government...
Turkish Bombardment Kills Dozens In Northern Syria
DOZENS of people have been killed in Turkish bombardments in Syria since Sunday, as Ankara ramps up its unprecedented offensive against Kurdish fighters and...
US student debt $1.3 trillion and going up by thousands...
APRIL marks three years since US student debt hit $1 trillion. Now $1.3 trillion and climbing – by thousands of dollars per second (link...
‘LET’S GO FORWARD TO THE GENERAL STRIKE!’ – ATUA National Secretary...
‘This is the period of the world revolution,’ All Trades Union Alliance National Secretary Dave Wiltshire told 150 delegates at the News Line-ATUA...
Kerry & Biden battle it out over Syria
VICE President Joe Biden said on Saturday that if upcoming negotiations fail and no political solution to the civil war in Syria is possible,...
US unions demand no cuts to Medicaid and education
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members across the country have been holding demonstrations throughout the last week against the plans of US President Trump...
RUSSIA, GERMANY & FRANCE SUPPORT 2015 IRAN DEAL – while the...
THE leaders of Russia, France and Germany have underscored the need to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, stressing their commitment to boosting...
‘We demand a complete arms embargo now & recognition!’ –Palestinian ambassador...
THE first speaker at the rally in Kensington High Street at the end of the march was Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse,...
Russia plans to take full control of Donbass and southern Ukraine
A TOP Russian general says the country plans to take full control of Donbass and Southern Ukraine as part of the second phase of...
Trump’s ceasefire plan will allow Israel to resume its war after...
A PROPOSED ceasefire framework pushed by US President Donald Trump, touted as the ‘final proposal’ for ending Israel’s war on Gaza, would still allow...
Hundreds of thousands mobilise against Macron’s dictatorial health law
FRENCH President Macron’s dictatorial new health law and its passage through parliament has angered a vast swathe of workers, youth and the middle class. On...
GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER – War on Want indicts private security...
Getting Away With Murder, is a powerful indictment of the private security companies ‘operating with impunity’ in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their British government...
Anc Government Is Seeking To Make Public Sector Workers Pay For...
AGAINST a background of economic collapse with unemployment rising to nearly 30 per cent, the ANC government of South Africa, driven by the Treasury,...
Greek workers determined to bring down the Papandreou government
ACCORDING to the trades unions, the Greek one-day general strike was solid, with hundreds of thousands of workers taking part in demonstrations throughout the...
Over 100 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2022
A Palestinian human rights group says Israeli military forces have killed more than one hundred Palestinians, and wounded hundreds more during raids and various...
Sanders wins union endorsement for presidential campaign
THE UNIVERSITY of California’s largest employee union, AFSCME Local 3299, has voted to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for President ahead of California’s March...
EGYPTIAN STUDENTS CLASH WITH THE SECURITY FORCES – in anti-tyranny protests
STUDENTS across Egypt took to the streets on Sunday in protest at the aggressive handling of student movements by security forces and university staff,...
Greek Telecom Pensions Crisis
Greek Telecom’s OME-OTE trade union leadership succeeded last weekend in pushing through the union’s congress a most reactionary agreement which had been worked out...
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...
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...
Germany gives 80% fuel subsidy to businesses – extensive ‘preventive arrests’...
The German economy ministry plans to subsidise 80 per cent of the electricity cost for energy-intensive companies, in a proposal likely to fuel divisions...
School Support Staff Are Struggling To Cope With Workload
MORE than half (52%) of school support staff across the UK have experienced stress, anxiety or depression as they struggle to cope with their...
UN condemns Saudi air strikes on the Yemen
THE United Nations has strongly condemned the latest Saudi airstrikes against Yemen in which at least 12 civilians, including children, were killed, stressing that...
GMB demands Amazon conduct health risk assessments
A GMB member employed by Amazon in one of its depots fell ill after handling packaging on goods imported into the UK. The member is...
US-led coalition troops quit Afghanistan a beaten and defeated force!
TWENTY years after invading Afghanistan, US-led coalition troops have vacated the largest military base in the war-torn country, located in the ancient city of...
IRAQ INVASION ‘SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASED TERRORIST THREAT – says ex-MI5 head
As reported in the News Line on Wednesday, Blair’s invasion of Iraq ‘substantially’ increased the terrorist threat to the UK, the former MI5 Director...
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...
Greece goes to the polls as workers mobilise against austerity
Workers and youth in Greece were looking to deliver a huge blow to the current right-wing government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in yesterday’s parliamentary elections. The...
ISRAEL READY TO DISCUSS MARMARA APOLOGY WITH TURKEY –in the light...
ISRAELI Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said Israel is ready to discuss the issue of an ‘apology’ for the Mavi Marmara incident, ...
‘CONFRONT ANY COUNTRY THAT RECOGNISES JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL’...
PALESTINIAN Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Malki urged Arab countries on Wednesday to take ‘all practical measures’ to confront any country that...
Sinn Fein – Waiting For UK To Hand Back The North!
By Jim Graham FOR Marxists, Irish liberation and Irish Freedom have always been a burning issue, since the period of the industrial revolution when the...
Katrina Crisis Workers Were Abused And Exploited After Bush Suspended Labour...
WORKERS who headed to New Orleans in 2005 to help rebuild the Hurricane Katrina-devastated city were abused and exploited, according to a report by Interfaith Worker...
Stormont ‘On The Brink Of Collapse’
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER STORMONT stands on the brink of collapse – a political dilemma the North has not faced since 2002 when...
Murderous US airstrike on Shayrat air base crossed red lines –...
THE MURDEROUS US strike on the Shayrat Syrian air base last Friday crossed ‘red lines’ and any new aggression will be met by a...
‘Teamster Women Are Going To Take Back America’
TEAMSTERS General President Jim Hoffa addressed the hundreds of Teamster women gathered in New York City on Saturday for the second day of the...
‘LEBANESE PRISONERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE’ – says Hezbollah
SHEIKH Na’im Qasim, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, told a Beirut rally marking the ‘29th anniversary of the arrest of Samir al-Qintar’ in Israel and...
‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!’ –...
‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!’ chanted thousands of protesters marching in London from the Home Office to a rally...
Occupation a ‘major barrier’ to healthcare for Palestinians says World Health...
PALESTINIANS in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continue to face major barriers to the realisation of the right to health, said Gerald Rockenschaub,...
Teamsters demand Sotherby’s end its five-month lock-out
The Teamsters Union, which represents art handlers at Sotheby’s Auction House, has created an online petition that asks Sotheby’s to end its five-month-long lock-out. Sotheby’s...
THEIR MORALS AND OURS – ‘Civilisation can be saved only by...
AFTER 2008, the masses of the world showed they were not about to give up all their hard-won gains so that the banks,...
‘THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE HOME CARE CRISIS IS PRIVATISATION’ ...
THE GMB, the union for home care workers, commented on the ‘Close to Home Report – An inquiry into older people and human rights...
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR ARMED INTERVENTION IN PALESTINE! – urges the...
COLOMBIAN President Gustavo Petro has called for armed intervention in Palestine, emphasising the need to build an international army to ‘liberate Palestine’ and stand...