NUMSA to challenge NEASA lock-out!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it has ‘every intention’ of mounting a court challenge to the lock-out by the...
Dozens Of Palestinians Wounded In Clashes With Israeli Troops
DOZENS of Palestinian worshipers were wounded and dozens were detained after clashes broke in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning with Israeli forces...
CHILDREN TAGGED, GIVEN CURFEWS AND SENT BACK TO PRISON – Howard...
CHILDREN who have been in trouble with the law are being put on electronic tags, given curfews and then sent back to prison because...
‘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...
‘MARCH IN YOUR MILLIONS’ – Defiant Gadaffi urges masses
IN a live speech to the Libyan people over Libyan state Al-Jamahiriyah TV last Tuesday the, Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gadaffi said that...
‘Make it right for Palestine Campaign Year 2017’ – UK must...
MAKE it Right for Palestine Campaign Year 2017 was launched on Saturday at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) HQ near Euston, north west...
Hunt’s appointment – a declaration of war on the NHS!
THE appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State (SoS) for Health, is a declaration of war on the NHS. Hunt is a right winger...
Ramaphosa ‘enemy of working class’ – NUMSA
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has rejected and expressed disgust at the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions’ (COSATU) endorsement...
US Employee Free Choice Act Becomes Law
US trade union leaders have hailed the adoption of the Employee Free Choice Act by the US House of Representatives yesterday as a...
‘WE DON’T SUCCUMB TO THREATS AND MILITARY INTIMIDATION’ says Hezbollah MP
HEZBOLLAH MP Hassan Fadlallah on Friday condemned the sending of a US warship, the USS Cole to the eastern Mediterranean. He said Hezbollah would not...
MAY MUST GO! say Grenfell marchers
OVER 300 people marched from Shepherd’s Bush to Parliament Wednesday lunchtime following last week’s Grenfell Tower fire disaster. ‘We know the government is guilty,’ declared...
COSATU organising general strike action against labour broking
‘We are concluding the year with greater levels of unity and cohesion in our ranks, which will help us confront the daunting challenges of...
‘THE GOVERNMENT IS ENGINEERING THIS FIGHT NOW’ says Unite leader McCluskey
UNIONS have reacted angrily following the Tory-LibDem Coalition government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable’s threat to ban strikes. Cable accepted an invitation from GMB General Secretary...
‘STAND BY US BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’ –Lebanese premier Siniora urges...
THE Lebanese premier Fu’ad Al Siniora has urged Arab leaders at a special Beirut conference, held on Monday, to strive for an immediate cease-fire...
UN condemns Saudi air strikes on the Yemen
THE United Nations has strongly condemned the latest Saudi airstrikes against Yemen in which at least 12 civilians, including children, were killed, stressing that...
The BMA must unite with health unions to defend the NHS...
THE Tory coalition is accelerating its onslaught on the NHS. Every structure that was good in our publicly provided NHS is being destabilised and...
‘South African mine companies exposing workers to risk of virus’ says...
THE KIMBERLEY Region of the NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has expressed its disappointment and concern following the decision by Gwede Mantashe, South Africa’s...
‘Trump’s victory leads to outsourcing jobs’ – warns Sanders
PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump may be touting his deal with heating and ventilation systems manufacurer Carrier as a triumph for working-class Americans, but Vermont Sen....
‘IRAN HAS PROVEN THAT IT IS HIGHLY CAPABLE OF RESISTING AGGRESSION’...
THE ex-Iranian president and current chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has spoken up about the crisis that the US is seeking...
Cuts Will Leave Poor Families ‘Close To Destitution’
PARENTS working on the minimum wage are on the brink of a new crisis in family finances that will leave many close to destitution,...
Defend NHS with General Strike!
THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...
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...
Workers Battle Syriza Austerity Measures
AT 4.30 am on Thursday the Greek Vouli (parliament) approved by 230 to 63 votes, with seven deputies abstaining or absent, a government austerity...
UK refugee plan an ‘ugly and illegal arrangement’ says Medecins Sans...
MEDECINS Sans Frontieres (MSF – Doctors Without Borders) has ‘strongly condemned’ the UK plan to use gunboats to force would-be refugees back to Libya. Last...
BARBAROSSA How Hitler lost the war – By Jonathan Dimbleby Published...
OPERATION BARBAROSSA was the codename given by Adolph Hitler to the invasion of the Soviet Union launched on Sunday 22 June 1941. In the preface...
Electricity worker in Syria blown up by terrorist land mine
A SYRIAN Electricity Ministry official said on Thursday that a worker was killed and four others were injured in an explosion of a landmine...
Junior doctors mass march through east London
THOUSANDS of junior doctors marched through the City of London from Whitechapel to St Paul’s on Thursday evening in a show of force and...
STUDENTS DEMAND BRING DOWN THE COALITION – over fees and privatisation
MORE THAN 25,000 students from universities and colleges all over the country marched through London against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government’s attacks on education on...
Huber Ballesteros, Freed Colombian Trade Union Leader Addresses Tuc!
COLOMBIAN trade union leader, Huber Ballesteros, was finally able to address the TUC Congress in Brighton on Wednesday. Weeks before he was due to fly...
No Trump, No War, Chant South Koreans
OPPONENTS of US President Donald Trump’s visit to South Korea this week gathered behind the Kyobo Building in Gwanghwamun, near the US embassy in...
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...
Iraq sets timetable for withdrawal of US troops
THE SPOKESMAN for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces says the Baghdad government is serious about implementing the parliament’s resolution concerning the withdrawal...
Hezbollah Gives Strong Support To The Palestinian People
Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah gave an impassioned speech via a giant screen, during a celebration at the Sayyid al-Shuhada Complex in Beirut’s Southern...
Met Gangs Matrix database is ‘racially discriminatory’ – says Amnesty
THE METROPOLITAN Police is using a ‘racially discriminatory’ Gangs Matrix database, says Amnesty International in its new report. Amnesty International UK’s Director, Kate Allen,...
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 ...
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...
BACCALAUREATE THREATENS ‘CULTURAL APARTHEID’ –says theatre director Richard Eyre
High profile figures from the arts have joined with the National Union of Teachers in condemning the Coalition’s planned secondary school Key Stage 4...
Gaza City Power Plant Closes Again!
The only power plant in Gaza city in Palestine has been forced to shut down for the second time in two weeks due to...
WikiLeaks exposes Saudi conspiracy against Hezbollah
WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabia proposed setting up an Arab force to fight Hezbollah militants in Lebanon with the help of the United States, UN...
US Fight Against Low Pay Goes Global!
WORKERS in more than 230 cities in the US walked out to join mass protests against poverty level pay last Wednesday in what is...
Sheffield lecturers vote for strike action!
SHEFFIELD College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in defence of jobs and quality of education. 86% of University College Union (UCU)...
Palestinians set conditions in ‘stormy’ session with Israel
PALESTINIANS set seven conditions for talks in a ‘stormy’ session with Israel last week. The session of ‘saving the negotiations,’ held in Jerusalem for around...
The Secret Courts Bill places government ‘above the law’
MINISTERS are attempting to overturn concessions won by members of the House of Lords to the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government’s repressive Secret Courts Bill, warns...
Sack Lansley! –say Junior Doctors
Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors conference on Saturday, against the advice of their leaders, voted overwhelmingly to demand health secretary...
Brazilian meat and poultry workers defeat government attempt to cut safety...
AN IUF global union statement last Friday reminded that a determined campaign by IUF affiliates and allies has beaten back a government attempt to...