Tag: migration

GERMAN ‘escape helpers’ are driving to Hungary with cars and vans to collect refugees and ferry them across European borders, and back into...

SECRETARY-General of the PLO’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat Monday expressed his disappointment in US President Barack Obama for ignoring the Palestinian question during his...

ON Tuesday morning in New York President Putin said that determining the fate of Syria should be in the hands of the Syrians,...

THE European Union was yesterday reeling, split and divided over the issue of taking quotas of refugees from the masses flooding into Europe. These masses...

TORY PM Cameron yesterday called on European leaders to deport more refugees, describing them as ‘economic migrants’ who, he claimed, don’t have a genuine...

SAUDI Arabia will work together with Russia to find a solution for the crisis in Syria and settle the issue of Syrian refugees, a...

ISRAELI warplanes early Saturday carried out several air strikes targeting different locations in the Gaza Strip, injuring Palestinians and causing destruction to Palestinian properties. A...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is ‘shocked’ after Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon to force refugees – men,...

TUC delegates at their annual Congress in Brighton on Tuesday voted unanimously to defend public services and pay. Composite Motion 06 Campaigning for public services...

MORE than 100,000 people marched through central London from Hyde Park to Parliament Square on the REFUGEES WELCOME HERE! march on Saturday. The march was...

PM Cameron made it perfectly clear in the House of Commons on Wednesday that he is determined to go to war in Syria to...

OVER 83,000 people have signed up to support the march through London to Downing Street on Saturday called by Solidarity with Refugees. The march will...

NEWS LINE congratulates the German workers who have given a big welcome to the Syrian and other refugees who have shown such an indomitable...

THE annual conference of the TUC, due to start a week tomorrow, is the first conference of the leadership of the trade union movement...

SURGING conflict and political upheaval across the Middle East and North Africa are preventing more than 13 million children from going to school, according...

REFUGEES stood their ground yesterday in Hungary, defied the police and refused to go to a ‘refugee camp’. They said that they had purchased rail...

A VERY young toddler was washed up on a Turkish beach on Wednesday, while his mother was also among those drowned at sea trying...

A DESPERATE migrant threw himself, his wife and his child on to the train track in Hungary yesterday screaming that he would rather die...

THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...

NET migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March 2015, that is 94,000 more than in...

PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...

IT is definitely no fun being young under the Tories! As is well known, the Tories are absolutely desperate to be the party that hammers...

TUNISIAN Prime Minister Habib Essid has stated that Libya’s current turmoil has largely come about as a result of the foreign military intervention in...

ISRAELI settlers last Tuesday night attacked Palestinian homes with stones as they provocatively approached the outskirts of Silat ad-Daher, some 20 kilometres to the...

IN A further Tory attack on the working class, landlords will be expected to evict entire families, if they believe them to be ‘illegal...

BRITAIN will not become a ‘safe haven’ for migrants, David Cameron warned yesterday, referring to the groups of migrants in Calais as ‘swarms’. Correctly the...

‘THERE is strong evidence that Israeli forces committed war crimes in their relentless and massive bombardment of residential areas of Rafah in order to...

ISRAELI forces early on Friday detained three Palestinians, including a minor, from multiple West Bank districts, said security sources. Israeli forces raided Rummana, a...

ON average 1,000 refugees are now arriving on the Greek islands every day creating an unprecedented emergency for Greece and other countries, the UN...

THE Israeli navy on Tuesday arrested six Palestinian fishermen while sailing off the coast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to...

AN international human rights group on Monday released details of the interrogation and assault of a Palestinian teenager during his arrest in June by...

A RECORD 137,000 people made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, most of them fleeing war,...

AMERICAN jurist Mary Davis, who headed the independent United Nations probe into the events of 2014 aggression on the Gaza Strip, said that Israel...

IN THE British Medical Journal this week, two doctors criticise Australia for passing legislation that may be used to silence doctors working with asylum...

David Cameron, was at his most nauseating, hypocritical best yesterday when he delivered a speech marking the 800-year anniversary of the signing of the...

‘IN 2013, for the first time since World War II, the number of those forcibly displaced from their homes exceeded 50 million,’ warns an...

ISRAELI interrogators are using ‘oppressive and brutal’ methods to frighten Palestinian detainees and force them into confessing to attacks against Israel, the Palestinian prisoners’...

AN Israeli court on Thursday ordered the release imprisoned Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners’ Affairs Committee said. Issa Qaraqe...

PALESTINIANS marked the 67th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ or ‘the great disaster’ on May 12 with a festival through the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Thousands...

THIS week the organisation Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI-P) published an in-depth report detailing the devastating effects on the lives of Palestinian children...

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...

THE UN refugee agency has said once again that not enough is being done to save the lives of the tens of thousands of...

SIX months after donors pledged billions of dollars for devastated Gaza, most of the money remains blocked, and reconstruction efforts are painfully slow, a...

HUNDREDS of ISIS terrorists, aided by Al Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra, have entered Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said,...

THE Arab summit has been deciding that it will form its own armed force based on Egypt and Saudi Arabia to fight subversion, extremism...