LEBANON AGREES NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT – ‘issue of Hezbollah weapons’ postponed
Qatar formally announced on Wednesday a deal between Lebanon’s opposition and ruling bloc to end an 18-month political crisis that will see Army commander...
Nasrallah Hails Chavez For Expelling The Israeli Ambassador
AFTER taking part in the Ashura procession in Beirut’s southern suburb to mark the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, hundreds of thousands gathered to listen...
70th anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre ‘There are no innocent people...
ISRAELI Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday there were ‘no innocent people’ in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after ten days of protests and clashes...
FIRE DEATHS DOUBLE IN MERSEYSIDE! – as further savage fire service...
‘FIRE deaths in Merseyside have doubled in the past five years,’ Merseyside firefighters warned yesterday as further savage cuts are planned to their service. Merseyside...
‘Don’t privatise the National Gallery – Reinstate Candy Udwin’ – demands...
‘WE are going to do everything to stop privatisation and defend out National Gallery strikers’ declared Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union president Janice...
‘Liberating The NHS’ – Bma Responds To Coalition Privatisation Plan
‘THIS response details the BMA’s position on the specific areas for reform contained in the consultation Liberating the NHS: Greater choice and control, building...
‘NON-COMPLIANCE’ RESTRAINT POWERS SLAMMED – after strangled 15-year-old’s inquest
The five week inquest into the restraint-related death of 15-year-old Gareth Myatt, who died in the privately run Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (STC) in...
Masses of vital council services to close!
LOCAL services including leisure facilities, children’s centres and pothole repairs will be slashed due to funding cuts over the next two years, a survey...
Irish Pensioners Protest Outside The Dail Against Dublin Government Cuts
SIPTU members and officials took part in a protest rally outside the Dáil on Tuesday organised by the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament and other...
Benefit sanctions are a ‘truly shocking nightmare’
CIVIL servants union PCS has slammed the increase in benefit sanctions on the unemployed, that average at 64,307 per month, as ‘truly shocking’. PCS added...
I‘LL GO TO JAIL’ – Rather than pay Household Tax
THE Dublin Trades Council has declared that it is not the job of local authority workers to knock on doors in pursuit of the...
Walmart Workers Win Raise As Oil Workers Strike & West Coast...
AMERICA’S largest private employer, retail giant Walmart has announced plans to raise wages for more than 500,000 hourly employees at its US stores. Walmart said...
Israel Dawn Raids On The West Bank
Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Monday rounded up twelve Palestinians from the West bank districts of Al-Khalil, Bethlehem and Qalqilia, the Israeli military...
Amnesty Condemns Egyptian Military
THE Egyptian military authorities expansion of the emergency law is the greatest erosion of human rights since the revolution forced the resignation of...
‘I’m Calling For A General Strike To Smash This Bill!’
‘I’M CALLING for a general strike to smash this bill,’ Bakers Union leader Ian Hodson told News Line on Monday afternoon in Westminster, where...
Israeli Forces Raid On Nablus!
ISRAELI forces raided Nablus overnight on Wednesday without coordinating with Palestinian Authority security services, say Palestinian officials. According to security coordination protocol which is part...
BA Gatwick strike threat – GMB Stansted workers strike over pay
MORE than 300 senior British Airways cabin crew at Gatwick Airport have been threatened with the sack if they refuse to accept a pay...
Letter to News Line – ‘NOW IS THE TIME TO SELECT...
CWU members have shown time and time again, their determination to defend their jobs, pay and conditions of service. The recent strikes that have taken...
Directors amassing pension pots worth an average £3.8 million says TUC...
DIRECTORS of the UK’s top companies have amassed pensions pots worth an average of £3.8 million, according to the new TUC PensionsWatch survey published...
New Zealand Junior Doctors On 48-Hour Strike
JUST over 3,200 of New Zealand’s 3,500 junior doctors began 48-hour strike action at 7.00am yesterday morning. The New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) members...
Palestinians concerned over detainees and settler attacks
A CONCERNED Palestinian family has called on the Red Cross to obtain news of Hudhayfah Jarrar, 21, from Jenin, as Israeli occupation authorities have...
SRI LANKA HAS A CASE TO ANSWER – says international war...
THE United Nations is able to investigate the war crimes which occurred recently in Sri Lanka, British human rights lawyer and international war crimes...
Gettelfinger Has No Answer To ‘The Race To The Bottom’
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger spoke at the Michigan State University School of Labour and Industrial Relations in East Lansing, Michigan on April 10th...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
Palestinians Determined To Declare Their State
Palestinian leaders, determined to proclaim their state during the coming year, are readying an arsenal of diplomatic alternatives to negotiations with Israel, which are...
US separates 2,000 children from their families as they cross the...
ALMOST 2,000 children were separated from their families at the US border over six weeks, officials say. Following a Trump administration crackdown on ‘illegal’...
Nasrallah Calls For National Unity Government In Lebanon
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has criticised the visit of British Premier Tony Blair to Lebanon in a recorded interview broadcast by Al Jazeera TV...
‘IRAN WILL CONTINUE ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAMME’ – says Khamenei
Supreme spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran will press on with its nuclear work. State television quoted Khamenei as saying:...
31 die in Dhaka factory fire!
‘PROMISES and apologies always follow these disasters, but there is no real commitment to fix the problem. It’s about greed, plain and simple,’ Larry...
‘MAY MUST GO!’ say 15,000 students and lecturers
OVER 15,000 students, lecturers and supporters marched through central London on Saturday to demand free education for all. The largest education demonstration in years was...
The Gap Between The Richest Americans And The Rest Is Growing...
THE gap between the richest Americans and the rest of the nation has widened after the recession, highlighting the worsening income inequality in the...
Breast implants: private sector wrecks women’s bodies – NHS to pay...
FORTY thousand women are affected by the industrial-grade silicone breast implant scandal in Britain alone, and now recriminations are flying between the government, the...
Syria Celebrates Anniversary Of Yom Kippur War And Contrasts It With...
‘I DO NOT think that the West has relinquished its colonial mentality,’ Syrian president Assad said in a recent interview, while the US and...
IMF presides over historic crisis of Capitalism!
NEXT week Washington will host the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. At this gathering, the world’s economic policymakers will...
‘A DANGEROUS SPREAD OF THE KENYAN VIRUS’ – COSATU questions Zimbabwe...
SOUTH Africa’s trade union federation COSATU has said the deal signed on Monday by Zimbabwe’s political rivals ‘marks a dangerous spread of the Kenyan...
AFL-CIO ‘hope to work with President-elect Trump’
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released the following statement on the results of the 2016 presidential election in which he declared his willingness to work...
Abbas Under Fire Over Goldstone Surrender
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) decision not to press a vote on a UN report on the Gaza war has angered many Palestinians and...
SCOTLAND’S HEALTH BOARDS NOT READY FOR 48-HOUR WEEK – warns BMA
With less than 250 days to go until all junior doctors in Scotland will be restricted to working a maximum of 48 hours a...
Black Lives Matter: 60,000 Rally And March In London
SIXTY THOUSAND youth and older workers joined the Black Lives Matter march in London on Saturday, from Parliament Square to the Home Office, then...
Wembley Campaigners Fighting For Sports Access
The fight to save local children’s access to a sports ground in the shadow of Wembley Stadium continued this week as protesters reoccupied the...
May Day meeting ‘Forward to the World October!’
‘WE WERE marching with our banner “100 years of the Russian Revolution, for the World October”,’ WRP candidate for Hackney South Jonty Leff told...
AMCU secures reinstatement of 579 sacked members!
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said on Thursday it had successfully secured the reinstatement of 579 of its members dismissed in...
MILITARY MIGHT CANNOT END TAMIL INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE – says Tamil National...
HISTORY has shown that there is not a military solution to the struggle taking place in Sri Lanka, says a Tamil politician, in an...
Irish TUC calls for new taxes on the wealthy
Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) General Secretary David Begg said on Wednesday that the Dublin government must now ‘choose between continued deference to...
May Day Message From The Iraqi Trade Unions
ON this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and...