UNISON CONDEMNS PAYING FOR NHS TREATMENT –but has no plans for...
UNISON has responded to the Institute for Fiscal Studies review into NHS funding, and warnings that in future, patients may have to pay for...
‘LONG LIVE PALESTINE’ – says Saddam Hussein in a letter from...
Imprisoned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has vowed in a letter to sacrifice himself for the cause of Palestine and Iraq. He urged Arabs to...
New Art For A New World
‘LENIN started out from a position that Art is the most powerful means of political propaganda for the triumph of the Socialist cause,’ Margy...
6,000 Palestinians Trapped At Borders
Palestinian citizens stranded at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border terminal declared on Sunday that they had entered the second stage of their...
‘THESE CUTS WILL HIT THE POOREST IN CAMDEN’ – says Camden...
Over three hundred angry Camden trade unionists and residents lobbied the Town Hall last Wednesday night over suddenly announced plans to cut services. The Tory-Liberal...
‘ANOTHER DANGEROUS STEP IN THE ANNEXATION OF THE WEST BANK’ says...
Knesset’s vote to extend Israeli law to academic institutions in the illegal settlements and place them under the authority of the Council for Higher...
Ontario Nurses Under Attack!
THE firing of the head nurse at London Health Sciences Centre illustrates a larger systemic problem of hospital bosses trying to muzzle their staff,...
Scottish GP practices forced to close their lists!
GP PRACTICES across three towns in Scotland have been forced to close their lists to new patients amid ongoing GP shortages. Three towns in North...
Port Truck Drivers Take Their Fight For Justice To Capitol...
PORT truck drivers from Los Angeles, Long Beach and New Jersey took their fight for justice on the job to Capitol Hill last Thursday. The...
German and British Gate Gourmet workers march through Hounslow
Last weekend saw united action by German and British Gate Gourmet workers against the company’s savage attacks on their jobs, wages and conditions. The weekend...
Corrie family urge independent inquiry into Freedom Flotilla raid
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Friday on his claims concerning the Gaza flotilla raid alleging that the Israeli occupation soldiers were forced...
Over 120,000 Children Will Spend Christmas Homeless
OVER 120,000 children in Britain face spending this Christmas homeless and in temporary accommodation, the highest level since 2007, Shelter’s new analysis of government...
‘Punish terrorists for arson attacks’ demands Ashrawi – as Israel acts...
PLO Executive Committee member, Hanan Ashrawi, last Thursday condemned Israel’s unwillingness to punish the ‘terrorists’ responsible for the arson attack in Duma village, south...
‘Now is the time to get tough on NHS reform’
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION WE are writing as a group of concerned doctors and we are also members of UK BMA Council. Next...
‘UN ‘deeply Concerned’ About Gaza Healthcare
THE United Nations on Wednesday said it was ‘deeply concerned’ about the deterioration of the health care system in the Gaza Strip due to...
COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA
MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...
Confidential documents handed to Chilcot showed that Bush and Blair planned...
IN LAST Thursday’s House of Commons Iraq Inquiry debate, originally scheduled to follow the publication of the Chilcot inquiry, all the contentious issues surrounding...
4 years of SAFTU is transforming SA class struggle
STATEMENT BY SAFTU ‘BETWEEN the 21st and 23rd of April 2017, 1,500 delegates representing 24 unions with diverse organisational and historic backgrounds, assembled in Ekurhuleni...
YOU MUST ACCEPT SEPARATION WALL AS THE BORDER OF YOUR STATE...
Israel has told the Palestinians to forget the 1967 boarders and accept the Separation Wall that cuts through West Bank as the border ...
GM Latin American workers meet in Sao Paulo!
WORKERS from General Motors plants across Latin America met in São Paulo, Brazil, last week to discuss and take action against workforce casualisation within...
Ramallah Raid – Israelis Kill Two Palestinians
ISRAELI forces shot dead two Palestinians during an arrest raid near Ramallah in the central West Bank early Monday, onlookers and medical officials said. ...
‘A revolution that will bring Platinum industry to its knees!’
A REVOLUTION that will bring the platinum mining industry to its knees and cripple SA’s economy is imminent, says Joseph Mathunjwa, president of...
US bookstore workers form Barnes & Noble Union!
Workers at Barnes & Noble, the United States largest chain of bookstores, are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six shops voted...
Iran Will Continue To Support Syria Against Terrorist Groups
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has insisted that the Islamic Republic will continue to support Syria in its fight against terrorist groups. Zarif made...
‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian victim that the Israeli...
EXECUTIVE Director of Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, Hagai El-Ad, has slammed the Israeli government’s record saying: ‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian...
48-Hour Strike By Health Workers In Germany
HEALTH workers in in the Ver.di trade union in Germany have been out on a 48-hour strike which started on Tuesday which and continued...
The West using ‘dirtiest tricks’ against Moscow and Beijing says Russian...
THE COLLECTIVE West is using the dirtiest of tricks against Moscow and Beijing in a bid to maintain its hegemony, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey...
China accuses NATO of provoking ‘new Cold War’
CHINA’S embassy in Brussels has warned NATO against dragging the planet towards a new Cold War through its ‘outdated security’ strategies. A spokesperson for the...
Israeli Fighter Planes Attack Gaza
Fresh Israeli strikes bombed several sites in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, leaving at least 16 people injured – two in a critical condition,...
Myanmar junta jails photojournalists
ONE media worker has been sentenced and jailed and another detained amid rising attacks against the press by the military junta in Myanmar. A freelance...
US police committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter...
Police forces across the USA have committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter protesters, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, as it launched...
Turkish work-related fatalities highest in Europe–four a day!
A TOTAL of 21,800 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the country since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to...
Lebanese Camps Exact Toll On Over 400,000 Palestinians
NEW research published in The Lancet has uncovered the hidden health toll that refugee life in Lebanon has taken on more than 400,000 Palestinians. The...
STAND UP AGAINST THE UNION BUSTERS! Honda convenor brings greetings to...
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew received great support from workers and other trade unionists over the weekend. Last Saturday, News Line interviewed cabin crew on...
Angry South African workers march on municipal offices!
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) held a demonstration on Thursday marching to the Midvaal Municipal offices, south of Johannesburg, in protest against...
Youth workers being sacked–centres being closed
GOVERMENT cuts plunge youth work into crisis, warns a Unison report. More than 2000 youth workers have been axed and 350 youth centres closed since...
EUROPEAN WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE – a tool for increased exploitation and...
‘THIS major change to junior doctors’ hours is probably the biggest challenge hospitals will face in 2009.’ This is the view of Dr Jonathan Fielden,...
Ban facial recognition Demand campaigners after ruling
LIBERTY, Privacy International and 30 organisations have called for Parliament to ban the use of facial recognition technology, one year after judges found the...
CHARGE GERMANY WITH FACILITATING GENOCIDE BY ARMING ISRAEL – ICJ at...
THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...
New South African Trade Union Federation formed!
THE LEADERS of a new trade union federation as an alternative to the Congress for South African Trade Unions (COSATU) have targeted the last...
END SCANDAL OF MALNOURISHED PATIENTS – says Age Concern
Four out of ten older people admitted to hospital have malnutrition on arrival, says a new report by Age Concern. The Royal College of...
Heads Of Midwifery Have Serious Safety Concerns
ALMOST 50 per cent (49%) of Heads of Midwifery (HOMs) from across the UK have had to close their maternity units at some point...
Tamil Nadu March Condemns Assassination Of S P Tamilchelvan
TAMIL NADU state police on the Indian mainland have swooped on Tamil nationalist leaders reports TamilNet. Tamil Nadu police arrested Pazha Nedumaaran,...
‘ISRAEL IS TERRORIST – FREE PALESTINE!’ says Israeli Embassy picket
Over a thousand demonstrators, gathered outside the Israeli Embassy for the second day running on Monday, determined to show solidarity with the besieged people...
MEDICAL STUDENTS WILL GRADUATE WITH DEBTS OF £70,000 – BMA ARM...
The British Medical Association Annual representative meeting in Bournmouth on Monday gave its support to medical students who have been hit hard by trippling...