NUMSA condemns xenophobic attacks – calls for the unity of the...
SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma visited a refugee camp in the port city of Durban on Saturday after a fresh outbreak of anti-foreigner violence. Several...
‘GAZA IS OPEN FOR ALL’ – Hamas’ Haniya welcomes Fatah’s Sha’ath
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya welcomed Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Sha’ath into his home in the Ash-Shati Refugee Camp on Thursday, along with...
Zimbabwe workers ‘robbed of their wages’!
A NEW report on the non-payment of workers’ wages in Zimbabwe was released earlier this month in Harare, entitled ‘Working Without Pay – Wage...
‘We need tougher regulation for oil giants!’ – says USW leader...
‘The governors of the Gulf Coast states, all Republicans, asked the federal government for help dealing with the BP oil spill – yeah, the...
ISRAEL READY TO DISCUSS MARMARA APOLOGY WITH TURKEY –in the light...
ISRAELI Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said Israel is ready to discuss the issue of an ‘apology’ for the Mavi Marmara incident, ...
Fonseka To Be Court-Martialled
Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...
Greek workers determined to bring down the crisis-ridden government
THE Greek coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is in a crisis following disagreements over more barbaric economic measures demanded by the EC-IMF-ECB...
Israel Prevents Lawyers Visiting 15 Hunger Striking Prisoners
WEDNESDAY was another day of heroic Palestinian resistance against the occupying Israeli forces’ daily repressions and violence. (IPS) in Israel’s Megiddo prison banned 15 hunger...
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GAZANS ARE STILL HOMELESS – and without...
TENS of thousands of Gazans are still homeless and without basic services such as piped drinking water three months after the 18 January ceasefire,...
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...
US and EU leaders’ call for Libyan ceasefire is ignored
US and European leaders on Monday called for a ceasefire in Libya and for the United Nations to take a leading role in helping...
Iran will spare no efforts to maintain Syria’s territorial integrity
IRAN’S Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami has warned of extra-regional countries’ plots to sow discord in Syria, vowing the Islamic Republic’s full support...
Education cuts put kids’ education at risk
MANCHESTER City Council, local trade unions and community groups are coming together in Manchester today, Saturday 25 February, to highlight the devastating effects of...
‘Payment By Results’ Devastating NHS
A letter from the Chairman of the Professional Executive Committee, High Peak and Dales Primary Care Trust (PCT) to clinicians reveals the devastating...
Cyprus And Israel ‘The Start Of New Bilateral Relations’
PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday described his three-day working visit to Israel as the ‘start of a new era in bilateral relations’ saying he...
‘Designed to place security services above law!’ – Reprieve condemns Justice...
The Justice and Security Bill published on Tuesday ‘is designed to place our Security Services above the law and keep torture and rendition out...
Half a million people forced out of their homes by Turkish...
TENS of thousands of residents of the UNESCO world heritage site of Sur are among an estimated half a million people forced out of...
Strike Wave Gripping South Africa
A STRIKE wave is gripping South Africa with fishermen, media workers and fuel industry and electricity workers taking action. In an eleventh hour decision ...
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...
US Tripoli Embassy Seized By Militias
The United States embassy compound in the Libyan capital of Tripoli has been raided by militiamen, but no Americans were present as the embassy...
Israel Fears Palestinians Will March On Border
Israel strengthened its forces along the border with the Gaza Strip last Sunday, fearful that thousands of Palestinians may march on the border against...
‘Whose NHS? Our NHS! 150 junior doctors rally in Hackney
‘WHOSE NHS? Our NHS!’ chanted over 150 junior doctors from east London hospitals at a lunchtime strike rally outside Hackney Town Hall on Thursday. One...
ISRAEL ‘COMMITTING CRIMES AND TERROR’ – against Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli jets fired missiles at a car in Gaza City on Saturday night, killing three people, said the Israeli army. It claimed at least...
UN Envoy de Mistura Says ‘President Assad Is Part Of The...
‘ANY peaceful solution to the fighting in Syria must involve President Bashar al-Assad,’ the United Nations envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said Friday. ‘President...
Take Action To Defend The NHS! Statement By The All...
THE government is cutting more than £1bn from NHS hospitals. All over the country, trusts are cutting staff, beds, operating theatres and services. The result...
US BUDGET WILL PRIVATISE MEDICARE – warns AFSCME
THE federal budget bill, authored by US House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and approved this month in the House of Representatives, privatises Medicare...
Uber Drivers Are Entitled To Workers Rights
TRADE unions the GMB and the IWGB last Wednesday won crucial Court of Appeal decisions, agreed by both the Employment Tribunal and the Employment...
Clashes erupt after Israeli forces land grab
ISRAELI occupation forces on Sunday detained five Palestinians from the West Bank districts of Ramallah and Hebron, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). The...
‘Police are the murderers! No Justice No Peace!’ – chants 2,000-strong...
‘POLICE are the murderers! No justice, no peace!’ chanted the crowd of workers and youth at a 2,000-strong mass vigil for Mark Duggan outside...
1.2 million French workers take to the streets
‘DESPITE the measures taken by the government to try to support the idea that ‘the page on retirement’ is turned, over 1.2 million workers...
Government appeal against Bedroom Tax ruling is condemned
LAST week, after the Court of Appeal ruled that the Bedroom Tax is discriminatory and unlawful, Paul Rutherford, one of the appellants, described himself...
2,000 Sri Lankan Troops Killed In 2007
OVER two thousand Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers were killed and four thousand wounded in the battles of 2007, TamilNet reported yesterday. The information was...
Tory Cuts Produce ‘Chronic Shortage Of Teachers’
AS schools prepare to break up for the Christmas holidays, new analysis by the Labour Party reveals the impact of the chronic shortage of...
170,000 Teachers Take One-Day Strike Action
By Sanath Rathnaweera COLOMBO – 170,000 out of Sri Lanka’s 200,000 teachers took part in a one day strike action on September 13th,...
‘Syria Will Always Be Independent And Free’ – Says Assad
NEWS LINE is pleased to publish extracts from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. Interviewer: ‘Mr President, you have...
Stop east London GP surgery closures!
EAST London GPs, patients and supporters on Thursday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen...
TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMME OUR GUIDE FOR TODAY – Part two: Defence of...
workers and middle class people are on the march throughout Britain to defend the National Health Service. The Blair/Brown government’s ‘reconfiguring’ of over one hundred...
Huge increase in homelessness in England – Joseph Rowntree Foundation
NEW independent research published by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Wednesday revealed the huge and increasing scale of homelessness in England. The Homelessness...
REMOVE FLAMMABLE CLADDING IMMEDIATELY – demand Fuel Poverty Action campaigners
At a demonstration outside the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government on Wednesday, Fuel Poverty Action handed in a letter to the Secretary...
PNC convened to ‘counter the serious conspiracy to undermine the Palestinian...
THE PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) convened of the Palestinian National Council yesterday in the face of the ‘attacks and conspiracies’ launched by US President...
Massive Toxic Contamination In The Area Surrounding Grenfell Tower!
EXTENSIVE research by the University of Central Lancashire into toxic contamination surrounding the Grenfell Tower after the tragic fire there has now been published...
BINYAM MOHAMED APPEAL: government attempts ‘to introduce … unconstitutional and manifestly...
THE Court of Appeal on Tuesday ‘firmly and unambiguously’ rejected the government’s argument that it is open to a Court, in the absence of...
Haniya Meets Euro-Med Human Rights Commission
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya met a delegation from the Euro-Med Human Rights Committee at his office in Gaza last Saturday....
Unemployment in Gaza rises to 52%!
THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate in the Gaza Strip sharply increased in 2018 to reach 52% compared with 44% in 2017, while in the West Bank...
US calls for investigation into Sri Lankan war crimes
US Congressman Steve Driehaus (Democrat-Ohio), a senior member of the United States National Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, in a letter to US Secretary...