Death Toll Rising Fast In Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic
The United Nations and its partners have finalised the Cholera Inter-Sector Response Strategy for Haiti, a plan to support the Government of Haiti’s response...
‘I WANT NO ONE TO SLEEP AT NIGHT’ – Olmert tells...
USING the release of the Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit as pretext, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed his occupation forces to reoccupy the...
‘FAR FROM BEING THE PROTECTORS OF HUMAN RIGHTS’ – the role...
EVEN puppet politicians are complaining about the conduct of British troops in southern Iraq. The Basra newspaper Al-Manarah has interviewed National Assembly Deputy ...
‘End Occupation: Israel Is A Terror State!’
‘OCCUPATION no more!’ ‘Israel is a terror state!’ ‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 200 workers and youth at a picket of the Israeli embassy...
Abbas rejects Israeli proposal for Confederation with Jordan instead of a...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has rejected Israeli proposals that Palestine be absorbed into Jordan as a confederacy as ‘out of the question’, while Fatah...
CHASE FARM OCCUPATION ‘IMMINENT’ – says North East London Council of...
Workers, patients and visitors at Chase Farm Hospital on Thursday made it clear they are determined to fight any attempt to close their hospital. There...
‘CLOSE TO ONE BILLION PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HAD ACCESS TO...
The Global Campaign for Education on Tuesday launched its Global School Report. The report, looking at 178 countries – from Haiti to Norway found the...
NUMSA CONSIDERS BREAKING WITH COSATU – as South African miners strike...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it’s considering forming a new independent labour federation. But only as a last resort....
‘WE NEED THE REST OF THE WORKING CLASS BY OUR SIDE’...
YET more mass demonstrations were held on Wednesday in Athens and Salonica by state primary and secondary school teachers and their supporters in the...
Civil servant visits Calais refugee camp
‘NO ONE should have to experience the conditions that the refugees are living in,’ civil servants union PCS member Wayne Harrison said yesterday after...
Police Chief Knew Marikana Operation ‘Would Involve Bloodshed’
THE Inquiry into the police massacre of 34 Marikana miners at the Lonmin pit and the wounding of hundreds more is continuing. On Monday, the...
PRIVATEERS THREATEN NHS SURVIVAL – warns UNISON
‘PRIVATE companies are raking in millions of pounds, leaving a black hole in NHS finances,’ UNISON – Britain’s largest health workers’ union – has...
‘IT WAS COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF CHILDREN’ – Gaza father told Goldstone...
Testimony given to South African jurist Richard Goldstone’s UN Fact Finding Mission on the winter 2008/2009 war on Gaza, illustrates vividly one of the...
DOCTORS AND NURSES SEIZED BY THE PHILIPPINES ARMY –health organisations demand...
The Philippines Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) on Sunday called for the immediate release of two doctors, a nurse, a midwife and other health...
House Of Commons Committee Confounded By Afghan-Pakistan Crisis!
THE Conclusions and recommendations of the Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on ‘Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan’ make grim reading for supporters of the imperialist...
‘THIS IS A WORTHLESS AND FALSE PARLIAMENT’ – Iraqi puppets administer...
the Accountability and Justice Law is a ‘worthless’ piece of paper, approved by a ‘worthless and false parliament’, a ‘Ba’ath party spokesman’ in Iraq...
Stop the closure of Ealing maternity!
‘ONCE we know we are ready it will take just six weeks to close the maternity at Ealing,’ Pippa Nightingale, Head of Midwifery, Imperial...
‘THE US IS REORGANISING THE REGION TO FAVOUR ISRAEL’ – says...
THE Hamas movement issued a statement last Monday slamming the US for its ‘pro-Israeli bias’. It stated: ‘The new Middle East plan is...
‘ANSWER “GLOBALISATION” WITH WORLD REVOLUTION’ – News Line editor tells Trotsky...
MORE than 300 youth and workers filled the News Line Anniversary rally at the Park Crescent Conference Centre in central London on Sunday, celebrating...
100 years since the Easter Rising
This Easter is the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin of 1916.. In Britain’s first, and indeed its last, imperialist dominion the flag of...
Hyatt Housekeepers & Unions Launch Their World Boycott!
THE AFL-CIO, NFL Players Association, the NOW, Netroots Nation, the LGBT organisations and many more joined Hyatt housekeepers for the launch of a worldwide...
RENATIONALISE RAILWAYS! – demands ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan
TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan on Monday called for the railways to be taken back into public ownership. Whelan welcomed news that...
‘the Tuc Must Call More Action’
THOUSANDS of workers and students marched to Downing Street on Wednesday evening, in angry protest against the savage assault on jobs, public services and...
Greek Riot Police Let Loose On Protesting Workers
HUNDREDS of armed riot police were employed last Friday morning in Athens in a series of tear-gas and truncheon attacks against protesting state teachers,...
Nasrallah celebrates Israel’s defeat in 2006!
AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...
‘There was no lawful justification for my son’s killing by the...
THE report of the inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney was published on Friday. Azelle Rodney was 24 when he died on 30 April...
‘ALLOW US TO SPEAK!’ – demand French Tamils
TAMILNET reports that the French Tamil diaspora has been demonstrating, demanding ‘Allow us to speak’. ‘Allow us to speak! We are not terrorists. What is...
Israeli Occupiers Seal The West Bank And Gaza Strip!
ISRAELI authorities implemented a large-scale closure on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, adding to a long line of punitive measures...
Bush Will Return In May To Celebrate The Founding Of Israel
ARAB states are demanding that the United States clarify the purpose of a planned return trip by US President George W Bush to Israel...
‘Stop Urban Post Office Closures’
A new report, The last post, released on Monday, provides new evidence of the vital social and economic role of urban sub post offices. The report,...
French Workers Taking Strike Action
THE Avignon theatre festival and France’s other summer arts festivals may not take place due to a strike threat by stage-hands and other arts-support...
Israel committed war crimes during 2014 war on Gaza
A United Nations commission of inquiry has confirmed Israel committed ‘war crimes’ during the 2014 aggression against the Gaza Strip last summer. The United...
‘Dale Farm Residents Will Not Be Battered Into Submission’
DALE FARM residents are defiant, maintaining their community and bravely refusing to be battered into submission by the brutal actions of the Tory...
RECONCILIATION WITH FATAH ‘A STRATEGIC AND IMPORTANT CHOICE’ – says Hamas...
HAMAS is ready to meet with Fatah central committee member Nabil Sha’th in Gaza to discuss Palestinian reconciliation, Hamas leader Atallah Abu As-Sabeh said...
‘Give deaf young people a fair chance!’
THE National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) is urging the government to halt the rollout of Personal Independence Payment (PIP – which replaces Disability Living...
‘JUSTICE NOT BOMBS’ demand thousands of Tamils at Downing Street
Over 15,000 Tamils and their supporters held an angry vigil opposite Downing Street on Saturday evening demanding ‘Stop the war. Don’t kill Tamil people...
Sri Lanka–State Of Emergency Extended
TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a motion to extend the State of Emergency for another month by a majority of...
US unions fight against the voter identification laws
THE US’ largest labour federation plans to mount an aggressive campaign against voter identification laws in a half-dozen battleground states that will be key...
‘Stand up and be counted before it’s too late’ – Dr...
‘GPs have been forced into commissioning as the Trojan horse of these reforms. They have been hoodwinked – hook, line, and sinker’, Dr Clare...
NEW ORLEANS POVERTY LEVELS TWICE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE – five years...
NEW Orleans workers and their families are struggling to survive a desperate poverty crisis, five years after the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, the AFL-CIO union...
Ten thousand nurses begin strike action in the USA
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...
US Admits To Holding Talks With Insurgents
The outgoing US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has admitted for first time to holding talks with insurgent leaders. Meanwhile bomb attacks killed five...
‘WE ARE APPROACHING VICTORY’ – says Hamas leader Haniya
The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip vowed on Monday that the Palestinian resistance, backed by the population, would emerge victorious over Israel’s...
Several Palestinians Continue Hunger Strike
SEVERAL prisoners in Israeli jails are still on hunger strike, officials said on Thursday, days after a deal was struck to end a mass...
French Rail Strike Enters Second Week!
FRANCE''S longest rail strike in years entered its second week on Monday, causing major disruptions in a crucial test for President Francois Hollande’s embattled reformist government. The...