‘Break with EU now’ demands May Day meeting
Following the May Day march last Wednesday, 1st May, the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists, held a lively meeting in Covent Garden. Chairman Jonty...
NHS CANCER SERVICES ‘Worst winter crisis ever’
NHS CANCER services plunged into the worst winter on record as patients were left waiting weeks for treatment, warns a new BMA report Doctors’ leaders...
DON’T INVEST IN ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS! – Palestinians issue a warning
THE PALESTINIAN Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has warned Israeli and international companies against investing in the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied...
Renault halt operations in South Korea
RENAULT Samsung halted operations at its only plant in South Korea on Monday and Tuesday amid a drawn-out dispute with the plant’s labour union...
HS2 workers Euston protest
CONSTRUCTION workers held a demonstration at the troubled HS2, Costain/Skanska Joint Venture (CSJV) at Euston Station in central London last Friday, as concerns grow...
New Zealand junior doctors strike!
Thousands of New Zealand junior doctors walked off the job for a record five days from Monday in the fifth and longest strike for...
Demonstrations in NE Syria against US-backed militants
US-sponsored and Kurdish-led militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have opened fire for the second straight day at people protesting against their...
Malnutrition doubles in UK – BMJ
THE PROPORTION of UK adults on low incomes who face hunger has almost doubled since 2004, with the unemployed and disabled particularly vulnerable, says...
Palestinian Flag Raised On Mount Everest
RAISING the flag for Palestine 5,400 metres above sea level, following six days and 100 kilometres of walking and climbing mountains, 27 Palestinian men...
‘THE COST OF REMOVING CLADDING MUST NOT BE IMPOSED ON RESIDENTS’...
‘THE cost of removing dangerous flammable cladding must not fall onto a building’s residents,’ the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said. ‘The government must fund...
‘LEGAL AID DESERTS’ half of councils have no legal aid for...
OVER 50% of local authorities in England and Wales cannot provide publicly funded legal advice on housing issues, the Law Society warned yesterday as...
Heathrow workers ‘flying picket’ protest for London Living Wage
WITH WAVES of strike action currently under way across UK airports, hundreds of workers are set to join a mass protest at Heathrow tomorrow,...
‘IRAN SANCTIONS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION AGAINST ALL WORLD NATIONS’ says...
The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivered a defiant speech in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Monday, 22nd April...
30,000 US Stop & Shop supermarket workers win 10-day strike
The largest private sector strike in the USA in years ended in victory last week, with more than 30,000 Stop & Shop supermarket workers...
NASUWT Conference votes for strike action over pay
TEACHERS have instructed their trade union’s executive to consider calling action, ‘up to and including strike action’ against the Tory government’s attacks on their...
80% of doctors at very high – BMA report
BOTH junior doctors and seniors are facing serious burn out because of lack of staff, overwork and stress, and this has created a serious...
Armed intruders infiltrate mines in South Africa AMCU demands
THE SOUTH African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) says it is ‘wary of armed intruders accessing mines where its members work.’ AMCU has...
‘Pain deliberately inflicted on child inmates’ – says UK Parliament’s Human...
THE Standing Committee for Youth Justice and the UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee yesterday indicted the British government for inflicting pain on young people...
Iran & Turkey Bilateral Ties Zarif Visits Ankara
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has travelled to Ankara to hold talks with Turkish officials on bilateral ties, the restoration of peace in...
Iranian-Built Fighter Jets On Display At National Army Parade
DOMESTICALLY-BUILT fighter jets will be on display for the first time during Iran’s National Army Day parade taking place today. The deputy commander of the...
Trade union members beaten by thugs in Bangladesh confectionary factory
THUGS, allegedly supplied by a labour contractor at Netherlands-based global confectioner Perfetti Van Melle’s factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, launched an organised attack on union...
British soldier who shot Daniel Hegarty charged with murder
A SOLDIER who shot dead a 15-year-old boy in Derry, in the north of Ireland in July 1972 is to be charged with murder. Daniel...
‘CHILD POVERTY SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING’ – NEU survey
Education professionals are reporting a significant increase in the visibility of child poverty in their school/college and have provided many distressing examples from daily...
Aussie MEAA opposes Assange extradition
AUSTRALIA’S MEAA (Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance) union has written to the British and Australian governments to oppose the extradition to the United States...
‘President Sanders’ would ban anti-union ‘right-to-work laws’
US SENATOR Bernie Sanders, who has said he intends to run the first unionised Presidential campaign in history, announced last Monday a policy proposal...
Numsa Forging Ahead With Month Long Arcelormittal Strike Action
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said last Wednesday that it is forging ahead with a month-long strike at the local...
Kurdish indefinite hunger strike!
ON Wednesday News Line visited the hunger strikers at the Kurdish Assembly in Haringey. It was the 27th day of their indefinite strike having joined...
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...
5,833 shops shut in 2018!
STORES, banks and other businesses are disappearing at the fastest rate since 2010 a PwC survey has revealed with 2,461 shop closures in 2018. 3,372...
War On Iraq Planned Long Before 2003!
SIXTEEN years on from the start of the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq, further evidence has emerged that the war was planned long before...
Scotland In The Red! 30,000 In Debt Crisis
In its report Scotland in the Red released on Tuesday, StepChange Debt Charity Scotland reveals that thousands of households in Scotland are being driven...
ISS cleaners protest today in Manchester
cleaners working for ISS on the Arriva Rail North contract will be holding a protest today, Wednesday 10th April, outside Manchester Victoria station between...
‘West Bank is Palestinian territory occupied by Israel’ says Turkish Foreign...
TURKEY has strongly censured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for promising to annex settlements in the West Bank if re-elected, saying that his ‘irresponsible’...
Welsh landlords refusing housing benefit tenants!
a fifth of lettings advertised in Wales explicitly exclude people in receipt of housing benefit, a practice the homelessness charity Shelter Cymru has labelled...
US Brown University To Divest From Companies That Are ‘Complicit In...
IN A HISTORIC move, Brown University in Rhode Island has become the first US Ivy League institution to pass a student referendum supporting divestment...
‘Privatisation At Chesterfield Has Driven Out Staff!’
‘THIS IS bad news for staff and for patients,’ Unison’s head of health Sara Gorton has warned. ‘The changes are built on savings from employing...
‘Labour brokers are bloodsuckers’ – Irvin Jim at SRWP election rally
THE SOCIALIST Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) of South Africa was founded in March this year as a communist, Marxist-Leninist party, after a pre-launch convention...
RICHARD SORGE: Hero of the Soviet Union
An Impeccable Spy
Richard Sorge
Stalin’s Master Agent
By: Owen Matthews
Published by: Bloomsbury; £25 (hbk) THE SUBJECT of this book, Richard Sorge, is the daring, unequalled spy whose...
Syrians take to the streets: Golan belongs to Syria
PEOPLE have once again taken to the streets across Syria to protest against US President Donald Trump’s recent recognition of Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over the...
Bahamas Nurses Union Is To Take Industrial Action!
BAHAMAS Nurses Union President (BNU) Amancha Williams said on Monday that the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) and the government have pushed frustrated nurses to...
US Waging Economic Terrorism Against Iran!
IRAN’S foreign minister says the US is waging ‘economic terrorism’ against the Islamic Republic by employing restrictive measures that are troubling the relief efforts...
5,000 Deaths A Year Linked To Asbestos Exposure!
FIVE thousand deaths every year in Britain are linked to past asbestos exposure, but people are still being exposed to it today, warns the...
Spanish Socialists increase their lead
Spain’s Socialists increased their lead in a poll published recently in newspaper ABC with 30.9 per cent of votes, equivalent to between 131 and...
Israel-Gaza Border Crossings Reopened
ISRAEL has reopened two vital border crossings between the occupied territories and the blockaded Gaza Strip, about a week after it closed them amid...
10,000 SA workers indefinite strike
NEARLY 10,000 workers employed by the South African Revenue Services (SARS) began indefinite strike action last Thursday to fight for an 11.4% salary increase. Members...