Amnesty warns over Gulf States human rights record – PM May...
AMNESTY International has warned that the human rights records of Persian Gulf Arab states must not be ‘swept under the carpet’ during the upcoming...
Furious Workers Force Bell Town Officials To Resign
Furious workers in the town of Bell in California have forced their city manager and police chief to resign over a scandal in which...
Palestinians Condemn Israeli ‘State Terrorism’ And War Crimes
President Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday condemned the ongoing Israeli air strikes in Palestinian civilian areas as ‘state terrorism’. The attacks claimed the lives of three...
Settlers Attack Kifl Hares Village
Extremist Israeli settlers set up a big tent at a roundabout leading to the village of Kifl Hares, north of the occupied West Bank...
Strikes & Suicides Continue At The Foxconn Factory
FOXCONN'S promise of facilitating a democratic trade union is only for their marketing image, says a research team based in several universities in the...
Nurses, Starbucks & Sodexo workers in US strike wave
THE STRIKE wave sweeping the USA continues to grow, with tens of thousands of nurses and hundreds of Starbucks and Sodexo workers being the...
Stop gagging asylum seekers’ doctors – warns BMJ
IN THE British Medical Journal this week, two doctors criticise Australia for passing legislation that may be used to silence doctors working with asylum...
Abysmal conditions for thousands of refugees in ‘Moria 2.0’ camp
THOUSANDS of people are living in abysmal conditions in a new camp, which was built to replace Moria camp on the Greek island of...
Nursing Shortage Putting Patient Safety In Danger
The shortage of nursing staff in England is putting patient safety in danger, the Royal College of Nursing warned yesterday as it launched a...
Mustafa Barghouti Slams US-Israeli Campaign Against Palestinian State
Dr Mustafa Barghouti, speaking at the 200-strong Solidarity for Palestine trade union conference on Saturday, warned of the massive campaign by US president Trump...
Amazon workers campaign for their rights in the US
WASHINGTON – Could Amazon’s Jeff Bezos survive one of his company’s own warehouses for a week? That’s the question Nancy Becker, an American employed...
500,000 workers and youth march for Palestine
While the so-called Israeli Defence Force intensified its genocidal bombing campaign against Gaza and its ground forces invaded in their tanks, more than half...
Israel’s ‘nightmare of collapse’ coming to life – says Iranian ...
CHIEF of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, says the ‘glorious’ Palestinian military operation in the occupied territories has made...
BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION TO STOP HOSPITAL CLOSURES WITH OCCUPATIONS...
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...
Junior Doctors Slam ‘Shambolic And Deeply Destructive’ Changes
Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...
Venezuelan President Maduro denounces US for not lifting economic sanctions!
Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan President, on Monday night denounced the United States which he stated has not complied with an agreement to lift economic sanctions...
Palestinians want full membership of UN – AS ISRAELIS MARCH AGAINST...
PALESTINIANS are considering engaging in a fight to change Palestine’s status to that of a ‘non-member state’ as a step forward towards the realisation...
Iran parades military hardware – longest range drone in the world
Iran has paraded its military hardware including ‘the longest-range drone in the world’ along with ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Last Friday, to mark the anniversary...
Carillion Collapse Hits Royal Liverpool Hospital!
WHEN CARILLION collapsed last month it left the future of the new Royal Liverpool Hospital in limbo. The half-built £335 million hospital which has already...
Black Libyan Tortured To Death!
The imperialist-backed Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) ‘must act immediately to investigate and prosecute abuses against the Tawargha community of black Libyans’, said Amnesty...
‘Few believe in two-state solution’ – says Palestinian leader Saeb Erekat
SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, said in a statement on the occasion of Palestine’s Independence Day on Sunday, that only...
‘Over 1 in 5 A-level students missed 20 days of school...
THE Sutton Trust has warned: ‘Over 1 in 5 A-Level students missed more than 20 days of school due to Covid-19, in the run...
53rd Anniversary of News Line – 82nd Anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination
FIRST speaker at the News Line Anniversary Rally on Saturday was Bill Rogers, ASLEF Chingford Branch Chairman, who said: ‘This rally is being held...
Brown refuses to meet Chagossians
The News Line is pleased to publish two important letters. These concern the decision of the Court of Appeal to uphold the decision of...
FIGHT ‘RE-CONFIGURATION’ – Labour’s plans for hospital closures • PART TWO
Commenting on the government’s NHS ‘reforms’, Professor Ham, a former Director of Strategy at the Department of Health said: ‘The foundations have been laid...
Tamils Braced For A Major Onslaught On Vanni
TamilNet said that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) during the weekend has reportedly been engaged in heavy deployment of its troops poised for a...
Israeli Navy fires on Palestinian fishermen!
THE Israeli navy on Tuesday arrested six Palestinian fishermen while sailing off the coast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to...
‘Mobilisations and strikes are the weapon of the workers’ says Force...
MILLIONS of French workers, youth and their families on Thursday took part in the latest strikes and mass demonstrations across the country against the...
Israel using ‘organised terrorism’ to silence Palestinian media says the Journalists...
AN NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) promoting media freedom says at least 17 Palestinian journalists are currently being held in harsh conditions in Israeli jails in...
US Homeless Are Being Criminalised
‘To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty.’ This is the viewpoint...
UK singled out for care home deaths and assault on ...
‘CORONAVIRUS has exposed global inequality, and leaders have ramped up attacks on human rights,’ so concludes the Amnesty International Report 2020/21 released today, which...
‘May Must Go!’–‘Justice For Grenfell’ – Demand 2,000 Marchers
AN ANGRY demonstration of 2,000 demanding ‘Justice for Grenfell’ marched through central London on Friday night. The protest began at the Department for Communities and...
‘Israel seeking to use Ukraine to drag Europe into war’
‘Israel seeking to use Ukraine to drag Europe into war’ Head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Ebrahim Azizi, has warned...
The fight to occupy Chase Farm Hospital is intensifying
THE fight to occupy Chase Farm hospital intensified on day 38 of the daily picket on the gates of Chase Farm as medical students,...
NEW ZEALAND WORKERS END ZERO-HOUR CONTRACTS AT McDONALD’S
NEW ZEALAND’S Unite Union reached an agreement with McDonald’s last week over ending zero hour contracts and other issues in dispute with the company. ‘This...
Cosatu plans October 7 ‘national shutdown’
THE CONFEDERATION of South African trade unions (Cosatu) is planning a nationwide shutdown next week, and has announced that its affiliated workers will not...
Russia pledges ‘unconditional support’ to Venezuelan government – as US...
On Friday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, reiterated Russia’s ‘unconditional support for the Venezuelan government’ amid the US military build-up in the Caribbean...
Visual effects (VFX) workers exploited
BARE necessities are missing for visual effects (VFX) workers at MPC, says BECTU. ‘The Moving Picture Company appears to encapsulate everything that is wrong with...
Russian forces build bridge under fire across the Euphrates River!
THE Russian Defence Ministry have released footage showing military forces building a bridge across the Euphrates River close to Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province. ‘A...
Hamas supports call for general elections!
THE ISLAMIC resistance movement Hamas has praised recent calls by the Palestinian Democratic Union (PDU) – a political party active in the Palestine Liberation...
Canadian Hospital Workers Threatened By Carillion Collapse
‘THE Ontario government must step in to protect hospital staff and the public in the Carillion bankruptcy,’ Canada’s largest private sector union, Unifor, demanded...
‘EVERYTHING RELATED TO THE FUTURE OF SYRIA IS A 100% ISSUE...
‘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...
‘THERE’S GOT TO BE DIRECT ACTION TO SAVE OUR HOSPITALS’ –...
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...
Stop The Centene Takeover Of Our Gp Surgeries!
In early 2021, AT Medics was taken over by Operose Health Ltd, a subsidiary of the large US health insurance corporation Centene. AT Medics was...
Palestinian workers and youth are on the march
DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...