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THE war in Syria poses the greatest threat to US security because of the risk of the government falling and the country becoming a...

THE American trade unions, who invested heavily in Barack Obama’s election campaign, have called on the newly-elected US president to give a voice to...

OVER 250,000 people took part in a huge anti-austerity demonstration in London on Saturday, organised by the People’s Assembly. They took part in a rally...

‘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’...

BANGLADESH garment workers’ organisations will picket the wage board office in Dhaka on August 5th to demand Tk 16,000 as the minimum monthly wage...

‘FOR many years the extreme right in Bolivia, based in the oil and gas rich east of the country and very much controlled by...

LOCAL services including leisure facilities, children’s centres and pothole repairs will be slashed due to funding cuts over the next two years, a survey...

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

THE British medical journal The Lancet says more than half of police killings in the United States are unreported and Black Americans are most...

THE DEPUTY speaker of Bahrain’s National Assembly Abdulnabi Salman said on Tuesday that members of the parliament are pressing to reverse the normalisation of...

OVER half of universities and colleges use lecturers on zero-hour contracts and, furthermore, universities and colleges are twice as likely to use zero-hour contracts...

By Clare Sambrook WHAT to do with a 100 kg guard who fatally restrains a 40 kg boy? Promote him to health & safety manager,...

HUNDREDS of thousands of NHS workers in England and the north of Ireland went on a four-hour strike on Monday morning. Nurses, cleaners, porters, midwives,...

The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped its charges against Palestine Action activists after levelling charges of ‘blackmail’ earlier in the year. In a recent report...

PRO-PALESTINE protests and occupations are sweeping universities across America, with students and lecturers demanding an end to US arms to Israel. The demonstrations, which started...

‘WHO are the killers? Police are the killers! IPCC, not fit for purpose! Scrap the IPCC!’ shouted workers and youth at a rally opposite...

A Day of action against the US blockade on Cuba has been held in several countries, with supporters of the Latin American nation determined...

THE American National Nurses United union (NNU) has strongly condemned US President Trump and his administration’s illegal invasion of and regime change operation in...

There was a demonstration of over 500 people outside the Foreign Office in Westminster on Friday evening organised by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)...

THE Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has greeted children, who were released from Daesh’s captivity in Suwayda Province, during a meeting in Damascus on November...

THE Sri Lankan military on Sunday dismantled the Cheddiku’lam Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp and forcefully removed the inmates, without making any permanent...

Members of the Teamsters union in the United States were joined by other members of the Labour Alliance for Public Transit last Thursday at...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its New Year’s greetings for the year 2014 to all our readers and to the workers and youth...

OVER five hundred lecturers, students, local residents and supporters marched through the streets of Hackney last Saturday to defend Hackney Community college from a...

DOZENS of Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli forces early Friday began farming on lands confiscated from Palestinian farmers in a village south of Hebron,...

Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced quality of patient care and increased rates of deaths from treatable causes, according...

SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ismail Haniya spoke at a rally organised by the Hamas Movement at Al-Yarmuk playground in Gaza on 6 October ‘in support...

The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired at least 2,600 Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL) rockets, more than 1,000 artillery shells and at least 2,000 heavy...

THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...

THE Russian embassy in the United States has warned that Washington’s behaviour on the world stage risks direct conflict between the nuclear states. This comes...

Six union leaders employed by the One World Apparel garment factory in Haiti have been fired. The leaders of the Textile and Garment...

CHILDHOOD is being eroded as children spend less time with families and friends, according to a survey of members of the Association of Teachers...

Public transport workers in the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV) are planning a national strike that will affect all trains, buses, trams, and metro...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on Tuesday submitted its evidence, highlighting the impact on patient services of Trust actions to manage their budgets,...

EXTENSIVE research by the University of Central Lancashire into toxic contamination surrounding the Grenfell Tower after the tragic fire there has now been published...

THE Greek state secondary teachers’ national strike, which began on Monday, is spreading and deepening attracting other sections of workers. Primary state school teachers declared...

ISRAELI soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager at Mazmoria checkpoint, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday afternoon – only a few hours after...

IRAN has sent a third shipment of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said as...

PALESTINIANS rallied across the West Bank and in Gaza on Saturday to commemorate Land Day. March 30 is commemorated every year because of a deadly...

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...

Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction by MOISSAYE J OLGIN THE essay, ‘The Proletariat and the Revolution’, was published at the close of...

NEARLY 700,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Lebanon as Israeli occupation forces continue intensive air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs,...

‘EALING Hospital is the beating heart of the whole community, leave our hospital alone!’ local resident Prempal Dhaliwal said on the mass picket of...

TWO PALESTINIAN university students were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets and dozens of others suffocated during clashes that broke out with...