Tag: india
Mining Gold For $1.50 Hourly Wages!
LEADERS of Indonesian FSP-KEP (SPSI), the trade union of Chemical, Energy, and Mine Workers (CEMWU), have officially extended a 30-day strike at the world’s...
Forward To Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...
Palestinians battle for Security Council votes!
PALESTINIAN envoys are battling for UN Security Council votes to back their effort to win full UN membership, while the United States is...
TENS OF THOUSANDS CELEBRATE – after Palestinian membership bid is submitted...
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas waved to the crowd of tens of thousands during a celebration in Ramallah, upon his return from the UN General Assembly...
Youth bear brunt of economic collapse – says Canadian Labour Congress...
THE CLC (Canadian Labour Congress) in Canada have produced a report exposing the fact that youth are bearing the brunt of the mass sackings,...
‘No To Slavery – We Are Workers’
OVER 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters rallied at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords, from 11am to 1pm on Sunday. The...
$40 billion to be invested in Iran’s oil and gas fields
IRAN’S Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi has announced that 40bn dollars will be invested in the country’s joint oil and gas fields. Explaining his...
GADAFFI TELLS SIRTE: ‘NATO will be defeated’
LIBYAN leader Mu’ammar al-Gadaffi rejected any dialogue with his enemies in a speech broadcast by Libyan TV, captioned as a ‘live’ audio address, at...
‘THE CHIEF SUSPECT HAS BECOME THE CHIEF INVESTIGATOR’ – MP Tom...
LABOUR MP TOM WATSON made an intervention of some interest in the emergency debate on the News International phone hacking scandal in the House...
Tamil Youth Picket Lord’s Test Match
TAMIL youth activists in Britain took their ‘Boycott Sri Lanka Cricket’ campaign to the Lords cricket grounds on Saturday, the third day of the...
Sri Lankan Workers Rising Up Against The Rajapakse Regime
THE Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) yesterday said that a decision has been made to continue their current trade union action in whatever...
Workers action shakes Rajapakse
A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Feed The Planet
OXFAM warned yesterday that average prices of staple crops will more than double in 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change...
Food Prices To Double!
Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...
Essential relationship = master and servant
US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...
Champoor Tamils Call For Resettlement In Their Homes
TamilNet reports that uprooted Tamils in Champoor, whose lands were taken away by the Sri Lankan government for India’s thermal power project, depopulating the...
Over 146,000 Tamils Are Still Unaccounted For!
SUPPORT is growing for an international, independent inquiry into the 2009 genocide against the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Over 10,000 people rallied in Trafalgar Square...
GADAFFI SPEAKS TO LIBYAN PEOPLE – and to the world
TRIPOLI – Colonel Gadaffi on Wednesday made a major address to the Libyan people. He began: ‘Dear great Libyan, resisting, steadfast and brave people. I...
UK 23rd as far as child ‘well being’ is concerned
UK children’s wellbeing lags behind many other European countries, including France, Germany, Slovenia and Estonia, Save the Children has found. The charity’s World’s Mothers Index,...
A Revolutionary May Day
THE News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers and the oppressed peoples of the world on this historic May Day. The world...
The US kettle calls the Pakistani pot black
THE US military’s top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, has accused Pakistan’s spy agency of having links with Taleban fighters who are targeting US forces....
Qatar Arming Libyan ‘rebels’
Officials in Doha have confirmed that Qatar is secretly supplying French-made ‘Milan’ anti-tank missiles to Libyan counter-revolutionaries in Benghazi, as part of the western...
‘We are all very angry with BP!’
OVER 150 people attended a public meeting organised by the Tar-Sands Network in east London on Tuesday night, in preparation for today’s lobby of...
HALT ATTACK ON LIBYA – demands unite
Unite, the biggest union in the UK and Ireland, yesterday called upon the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the...
US blocked LTTE funding – leaked documents reveal ‘contact groups’ set...
Two international ‘contact groups’, one each to check Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fund-raising and arms purchases, were initiated by the US in...
Sri Lankan Military Intelligence Threaten Protesting Tamil Fishermen
While hundreds of fishermen from Maathakal were staging a silent protest on Monday morning in front of the Indian consulate in Jaffna, Sri Lankan...
Sri Lanka Is ‘Waging Genocidal War’ On Weakened Tamils
Sri Lanka is now waging a new genocidal war on unarmed and demographically weakened Tamils after converting their country imperceptibly into an open concentration...
Obama seeks bloc with Republicans against unions
THE State of the Union speech by President Obama was all about the theme that the only thing that can save the crisis-ridden US...
GET READY FOR REVOLUTION IN 2011 – New Year’s Statement by...
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2011 to all of our readers and...
Wikileaks Cables Indict Rajapaksa Regime!
Secret US embassy cables published by WikiLeaks last Friday allege that the Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka is complicit in abduction, murders and...
UK continuing to stab the Chagossians in the back
THE WikiLeaks revelations prove once again that British imperialism, although greatly weakened, remains just as poisonous and rotten as ever. This comes out clearly in...
‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
LIBERATION MOVEMENT MUST ACT DECISIVELY –urges COSATU leader Vavi Zwelinzima
THE general secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi addressed the SACTWU National Congress last Friday. His central warning was ‘If the broad liberation movement does not...
25,000 War Widows In Batticaloa
‘Estimates reveal that there are more than 89,000 war widows in the North and Eastern provinces and more than 25,000 of these widows are...
INDIA-SRI LANKA TALKS – while Fonseka is stripped of military rank
An official visit of a three-member top level delegation of the Government of Sri Lanka to India is scheduled to leave Colombo on August...
Families of the disappeared to file Habeas Corpus applications
TamilNet has reported that families of key members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – missing after arrest by the Sri Lanka...
‘Deafening Silence’ Over Sri Lankan Massacres Condemned
THE ‘Elders’, an independent group of eminent global leaders, cautioned on Friday that ‘the international response to Sri Lanka’s worrying approach to human rights,...
Cameron takes a begging bowl to India
PRIME Minister David Cameron and the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government have decamped from London to New Delhi this week to drum up business, such...
Venezuela Must Not Support The Rajapakse Dictatorship!
Reprinted from Tamil Net ‘INSTEAD of making connections with the illegitimate opposition of Sri Lanka, Venezuela should be strengthening the hand of an ally that...
Venezuela must not support the Rajapakse regime!
THE Sri Lankan working class, both Tamil and Sinhalese, is suffering under the ‘iron heel’ of the Rajapakse dictatorship. This has killed tens of thousands...
CHINESE STALINISTS PROP UP RAJAPAKSE – as India and US compete...
TAMILNET reports that the Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang last Saturday morning called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse at the Presidential residence House....
Senior Sri Lankan commander has war crimes evidence
Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a US-based activist group, claimed in a press release issued last Saturday, that it has obtained a 100-page long sworn...
The US with 5,113 deployed nuclear bombs, and Israel with 200,...
THE US told the world on Monday that it has 5,113 nuclear war heads operationally deployed. This arsenal is supplemented by the warheads...
Smash the capitalist state – the only way to get justice...
THE Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) today released the report of Commander Cass into the events surrounding the death of Blair Peach in Southall, west...
Keep Tories Out – Forward To Socialism!
THE UK capitalist economy is staggering along the bottom with a three month ‘growth’ to show, from January to March, of 0.2 per cent. The...