Stop the routine strip searching of children in English and Welsh...
CHILDREN are routinely strip-searched in child prisons and secure children’s homes in England and Wales despite the government’s pledge to stop, says Carolyne...
‘We need the TUC to organise a general strike’
CIVIL servants called for more action during their national Budget Day strike on Wednesday. PCS members at a lively picket outside the National Portrait...
GAZA DEATH TOLL REACHES 117 – 13,000 injured, 300 still critical
Naji Maysara Ghneim, 23, died on Wednesday of wounds sustained a few days ago when hit by Israeli army gunfire east of Rafah in...
NEU Harrogate conference welcomes 98% strike vote – condemns 9% cut...
THE NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) consultative ballot on the government’s pay offer has been rejected by an overwhelming 98% of members in England on...
Two Years Since Israel’s Invasion Of Gaza!
SOME 900 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to require medical attention as a result of permanent disabilities they sustained during Israel’s devastating 51-day...
US cuts tax for rich at expense of students & workers
‘SENATE votes to hand huge tax giveaways to the rich paid for by students and working families,’ said the National Education Union (NEA) on...
Abbas Defends Deferring Vote On Goldstone Report
Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas tried on Sunday to defend his controversial decision to support deferring a vote on the damning Gaza war report...
Iran begins Zolfaqar-1400 military exercises
THE IRANIAN Army has started large-scale military exercises in an area stretching from the eastern sector of the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the...
‘JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE!’ –President Abbas addresses 54th anniversary of...
‘JERUSALEM is not for sale. Palestine will never let the US sell occupied al-Quds to Israel,’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said adding that the...
EIGHT YEARS SINCE RANA PLAZA COLLAPSE –‘the deadliest disaster in the...
ON THE eighth anniversary of Rana Plaza on Saturday 24 April, UNI Global Union and IndustriALL demanded fashion brands commit to a new legally-binding...
US hostile to Ireland’s ‘Occupied territories Bill’ becoming law!
IRELAND’S elected representatives are coming under pressure from corporate lobbyists to drop a proposed ban on goods from Israel’s settlements in the occupied West...
Assange ‘deprived of human dignity as a defendant’ says Craig Murray,...
NEWS LINE is pleased to publish the following eyewitness account from Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, of part of the extradition hearing...
‘PAUSE’ A COVER FOR DESTRUCTION OF HOSPITAL CARE! – Part 4:...
THE South East London Cluster combines the PCTs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation trust is a large...
‘No Retreat, Forward Forward!’ – Gadaffi Urges Libyan People!
WE print excerpts of Colonel Gadaffi’s speech to the Libyan people made last Tuesday evening to rally them against the internal counter-revolutionary forces...
AFL-CIO opposes US-Colombia trade deal – Colombian workers are being denied...
The AFL-CIO, along with labour and human rights advocates from around the world have opposed the United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement, arguing that Colombia...
Palestinian teenagers seized in overnight raids
ISRAELI occupation forces arrested 13 Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids on Wednesday night – one of the arrests was south of Nablus,...
‘We had expected presidential statements to be supportive of the government’...
PALESTINIAN government spokesman Ghazi Hamad has insisted that his government is not just a Hamas government but is the government of the entire Palestinian...
President Assad wins the struggle for Syria
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad headed to the Saudi city of Jeddah on Thursday to participate in the activities of the 32nd session of the meeting...
Narrow New Democracy Win – A Minor Breathing Space For Bosses!
IN CONDITIONS of polarisation, the conservative New Democracy party won Sunday’s crucial and vastly internationally significant Greek general election gaining 29.6 per cent of...
Manchester Met University To Strike Over Closure Of Crewe Campus!
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Manchester Metropolitan University will be on strike later this month after they overwhelmingly backed industrial...
‘There must be a strategic dialogue at the highest level between...
MARWAN al Barghouthi, the Fatah leader is currently serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail. In an interview with the Lebanese...
US war games plan to intimidate North Korea
AN US aircraft carrier and warships from its strike group arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in nearly five years...
60,000 March Against Trident
‘WELFARE not warfare’ chanted protesters from all over the UK on a 60,000-strong Stop Trident march from Marble Arch to a rally in Trafalgar...
Israeli troops killed aid workers ‘execution style’
ISRAELI soldiers fired more than 900 bullets at a convoy of clearly marked Palestinian emergency vehicles in Gaza before advancing to kill the surviving...
FRANCE HAS RISEN – Part one
FRANCE has risen. After the brutal attack by the forces of the French capitalist state, led by the CRS, on demonstrators at the Place de...
Assad Refuses To Break With Iran And Hezbollah!
A LEBANESE lawmaker affiliated to Hezbollah says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has recently offered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad huge sums of money...
Washington DC parents keep children home as ICE raids intensify
Immigrant families across the United States capital are facing the new school year under the shadow of aggressive federal immigration enforcement, with raids and...
‘Iran will eliminate the enemy’s abuse of the Persian Gulf and...
THE Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has reported an increased rate of cargo transit via the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf,...
Millions of US workers to be barred from trade unions
THE Republican-dominated National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) voting along party lines to slash long-time federal labour laws protecting workers’ freedom to form unions has opened...
Israel continues to hold bodies of slain Palestinians
ISRAELI authorities last Friday returned the body of Bahaa Imad al-Hirbawi, a Palestinian who was killed by Israeli forces near Qalandiya checkpoint last Tuesday...
IRAN WAR PLANS SPLIT US RULERS – Gates plays down differences
Admiral William Fallon, commander of the US Mideast forces has resigned due to differences with the US president on dealing with Tehran. Fallon, said on...
‘My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment’
Adults in the Room MY BATTLE WITH EUROPE’S DEEP ESTABLISHMENT Yanis Varoufakis Publisher: The Bodley head Price £20 Varoufakis was the professor of economics and expert at ‘game theory’ who...
Russia and China condemn US-Israel aggression against Iran – and seeks...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping jointly condemned the recent US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran on Wednesday, calling for...
Israel kills 3,500 Lebanese, targeting health facilities & cultural sites
ISRAEL has killed at least 3,452 people and injured more than 14,664 in Lebanon since hostilities began last October between the genocidal Zionist regime...
Gleneagles Protesters Condemn Police Assaults
ANGRY protesters have condemned police tactics at the G8 Alternatives demonstration in Auchterarder, outside Gleneagles on Wednesday, when riot police, mounted police and police...
EU 3 call emergency meeting of the IAEA– while Putin warns...
BRITAIN, France and Germany are to call an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, (the IAEA) early next month to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme, the...
Israel’s ‘drip-feed’ policy in Gaza a deliberate campaign to destroy civil...
Israel has continued its relentless military assault on the Gaza Strip carrying out bombings, drone strikes, shootings and artillery barrages against Palestinian civilians while...
Government officials knew cladding would go ‘whoosh’ when exposed to fire,...
A SENIOR civil servant ‘ignored’ a ‘red alert’ warning about the ‘widespread, historic and ongoing’ use of a highly combustible cladding product on UK...
COSATU organising general strike action against labour broking
‘We are concluding the year with greater levels of unity and cohesion in our ranks, which will help us confront the daunting challenges of...
Norfolk FBU won’t accept any reduction in public safety
FIREFIGHTERS accept a certain amount of risk as part of their job. When that risk is increased, they become concerned. When the increase in...
NASRALLAH CALL TO LAUNCH FREEDOM FLOTILLA 2 –to lift the siege...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Nasrallah last Friday stressed that the unity of Arabs and Muslims was needed to stand by Egypt and Turkey...
MI6 assumed power to break the law on UK soil
MI6 unilaterally assumed power to break the law on UK soil, a tribunal has found. At the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Wednesday, it was revealed...
UK government ‘balancing the books on the backs of the starving...
THE BRITISH government has decided to ‘balance the books on the backs of the starving people of Yemen,’ in an act that will see...
Unions Warn – Increase Pay To Fill The 132,000 NHS Vacancies!
UNIONS representing more than a million staff working across the NHS met with Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Tuesday to discuss the growing workforce crisis...
‘TAKE OUT A WRIT AGAINST FORD’ –demand 500 ex-Visteon workers
500 sacked Visteon workers demonstrated outside the Unite London headquarters on Wednesday to demand the union immediately takes out a writ against Ford motor...