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‘We must campaign for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel, and to also boycott goods and services to break the Israeli siege of...

UG Solutions, a major United States military subcontractor that helped provide security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is intensifying recruitment amid indications that several...

IN one corner of Salah Samouni’s modest living room hangs a ‘martyr poster’ – a customary honor printed for those killed in all Israeli...

IN A speech on Saturday evening, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas called Jerusalem ‘the eternal capital of the state of Palestine and nothing...

CONSTRUCTION, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) supporters have warned that the massiveprotests bringing city traffic in Melbourne and Sydney to a halt last...

IN TENNESSEE, an inspiring victory against the outsourcing of all state facilities service jobs has been won under the leadership of the small campus...

OVER 60 health workers, service users and local residents demonstrated against the closure of the Maudsley Hospital Emergency Clinic outside the renowned mental health...

THE ROYAL College of Nurses (RCN) has taken the occasion of the International Day of the Midwife to demand a pay increase for all...

A United States-based human rights organisation has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former US president Joe Biden for ‘aiding and...

THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and 14 other rights organisations are alarmed by the recent escalation in the Turkish government’s crackdown on freedom...

EGYPTIAN naval forces detained nine Palestinian fishermen off the coast of southern Gaza on Friday, a local union official said. Nizar Ayash, head of Gaza’s...

ISRAEL’S military intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has been using Microsoft’s European cloud infrastructure to store and analyse a vast archive of intercepted Palestinian phone...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has slammed the direct flight of an Israeli plane to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Speaking at the weekly Palestinian...

OVER 7,000 workers, students and youth marched to the US Embassy in Athens on Saturday evening with banners stating: ‘Solidarity with Venezuela’ and ‘Hands...

MOSCOW will continue supporting efforts to strengthen the global role of Latin America and individual countries in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

SAYYED Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, says a new Intifada (uprising) is the right choice for Palestinians to fight the...

Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators have been killed by the police and the army after days of protests over Tanzania’s disputed election, which incumbent President Samia...

ON Workers Day May 1 the ‘Marikana’ Evictions took place. These residents of Philippi East, a growing township sandwiched between Nyanga, Mitchell’s...

PRISONER and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has emphasised the need to accelerate the reform and development of the PLO; to hold the National Council...

RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...

A damning report, the second in seven days on the British government’s practice of incarcerating children in UK removal centres was published yesterday. Excerpts follow...

BACKED by both the US and Israel, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was introduced by the Trump administration as a ‘humanitarian’ mechanism for food...

UP TO 5,000 workers and local residents marched in west London against the closures of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals on Saturday. The angry demonstration...

‘BUILD the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists and the Fourth International.’ That was the message from the News Line/Trotsky Anniversary rally attended by...

ON 31st July 2008 the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) produced their report on the future of health services in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. In it...

HEALTH workers at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano State, Nigeria, last Wednesday began an indefinite strike over non-payment of three months’ salary. The workers...

MEMBERS of the RMT rail union and the Unite union’s Justice for Cleaners campaign staged a protest in central London on Wednesday, demanding: ‘Stop...

THE AGENDA for UNISON’s 14th National Delegate Conference in Brighton from 19-22 June only palely reflects the exploding anger and determination of public sector...

PALESTINIAN prisoners in Israel struck on 10th September over the death of prisoner Ra’id al-Ja’bari which Fatah describes as an Israeli, ‘ugly crime’. ‘Isa Qaraqi,...

TEN THOUSAND nurses began strikes this week, in the states of Minnesota, California and Massachusetts. The strikes were called by National Nurses United (NNU) over...

THE ‘Framework for Action’ plan for London’s healthcare, fronted by Professor Sir Ara Darzi, proposes the destruction of a publicly-provided National Health Service (NHS)...

MEXICO’S main teachers’ union has defended Venezuela against US President Trump’s threats of military action. In a formal statement, the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican...

MORE than 60 Montreal municipal employees will be tried together on charges related to a 2014 protest that saw hundreds of union members storm...

‘FREE Palestine! Hands off Jerusalem!’ shouted over 3,000 protesters outside the US Embassy on Friday night. The massive rally called for mass demonstrations ...

‘Victory to Hezbollah! Israel out of Lebanon! Freedom for Palestine! Cease-fire now!’ chanted over 800 demonstrators opposite Downing Street last Friday night. The two-hour evening...

AUSTERITY is being exploited to drive through budget cuts and reforms which are denying children their basic human rights, according to a major new...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Friday that it strongly rejects the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA’s) decision...

THE Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) has released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth that shows youth pay a heavy...

EGYPTIAN presidential spokesman Sulayman Awwad said yesterday that President Husni Mubarak’s talks last Tuesday 31 July with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and...

The Disengagement Administration bases its assessment on the fact that according to the disengagement law anybody not leaving by that date could lose tens...

OVER 400 doctors, furious at government ‘reforms’ which threaten their profession – making a staggering 14,000 hospital doctors redundant from August – descended on...

AFTER having pushed to separate oil rich South Sudan from the North, the US is now preparing for military action against the north, accusing...

FOLLOWING his re-election this week as general secretary of specialist rail and transport union RMT for a further five-year term, Mick Cash is insisting...

News Line is pleased to reproduce a heartbreaking and moving account of a single family’s call for justice and their support for the families...

OVER two hundred workers, trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-North East London Council of Action Special Conference to defend our hospitals and...