Tag: palestine

THE PLO will in September approach the UN Security Council to seek full membership in the global body, President Mahmud Abbas said on Wednesday. ‘We...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has responded to being forced to close its offices in Gaza City last week as protesters blockaded its...

AFTER months of bombing and killing civilians, the Libyan imperialist adventure is nearing its end after both the UK and French governments have...

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi has called for large-scale peaceful protests in support of a Palestinian bid for United Nations membership in September. In a...

FIFTEEN activists held after Israeli forces intercepted their boat as they attempted to sail to Gaza will be deported today, an Israeli official...

PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...

MEMBERS of Palestine’s original communist party are urging the Palestinian National Authority to withstand intimidation from the US over a plan to seek...

Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday ‘it beggars belief’ that News International chief executive ‘Rebekah Brooks is still in her post’ and, ‘The least...

The latest health report from the Lancet considers Israel guilty of ‘crimes against humanity’ for the deaths of pregnant women and their babies at...

THE Greek Pasok capitalist government, that is using its state forces to bludgeon and gas tens of thousands of workers protesting against its sell-off...

ORGANISERS of the second Freedom Flotilla say that an administrative complaint has been filed against the US Boat to Gaza, claiming that the vessel...

GREEK workers are staging an unprecedented two-day general strike today and tomorrow, called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against Yiorghos Papandreou’s government’s Mid-Term Economic...

THE Unison National Delegate Conference has rejected ‘critical engagement’ with the Histadrut, the Zionist trade union, which plays a central role in the Zionist...

A PALESTINIAN family of four was killed in a NATO airstrike on Monday in the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to the Palestinian...

Resolution from yesterday’s News Line-All Trades Union Alliance Conference THIS News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference gives its complete support to the June 30th pensions...

‘If the aim of the blockade policy was to weaken the Hamas administration, the public employment numbers suggest this has failed’ a UN Relief...

GAZA’S unemployment rate is among the world’s highest, at 45.2%, the UN has found. The territory continues to be blockaded by Israel, while the...

THE Palestinian High Court ruled on Wednesday that an ongoing strike by Palestinian medics in the West Bank is illegal, as doctors staged a...

Israeli gunfire killed 11 people and wounded about 220 others on Sunday as demonstrators on the Syrian side tried to cross the ceasefire line...

IN 1967, Israel, in the infamous ‘Six-Day War’, used its air power, and its backing from the Western powers, to defeat Arab armies and...

ELEVEN Palestinians were killed and over 200 wounded when Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinians stormed the occupied Golan Heights and demonstrators...

THE news that the United States and Britain are going to the United Nations security council to push for UN sanctions against 18 top...

UNISON yesterday called on the government to end the public sector pay freeze, set to stretch for another two years for local government workers...

THE head of the Hamas government in Gaza on Tuesday urged Palestinians to respect Egypt’s security so that Cairo would keep open the Rafah...

The composition of the new Palestinian Authority’s technocrat government will be announced on June 6th by delegates from Fatah and Hamas as a major...

EGYPTIANS were out Friday for nationwide rallies to protest against the ruling military council’s attempt to halt the revolution, in a call that has...

The campaign to win UN endorsement for a Palestinian state will continue despite US opposition, senior Fatah official Nabil Sha’th said late Saturday. ‘Now that...

IN his speech on Thursday, President Obama made it clear that the United States is currently attempting to ride the tiger of revolution. He said:...

Nine people were killed and hundreds injured by Israeli forces during protests demanding the right of return for Palestinian refugees, as tens of thousands...

An aid flotilla will set sail for the Gaza Strip in June, organisers announced on Monday after a meeting in France. The Freedom Flotilla II...

THE Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that the Palestinians are determined to seek recognition of a Palestinian state from the United Nations...

PALESTINIAN president, Mahmud Abbas, and Hamas leader, Khaled Mishaal, yesterday signed the Palestinian Unity Agreement in Cairo, putting an end to the split in...

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,...

It is young people who are leading the struggle. Young people demand a future and the only way is socialism. The Young Socialists stand...

WRP general secretary Frank Sweeney yesterday condemned the ‘attempt of the NATO gangsters to murder the Libyan leadership headed by Colonel Gadaffi.’ He called them...

STATEMENT BY THE ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE POSTAL WORKERS COMMITTEE POSTAL workers and their union are facing the biggest ever attacks upon their jobs, wages...

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 force of the Arab revolution, sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East, yesterday won a new victory when the campaign of the...

THE world capitalist crisis is driving forward the working class and poor of the world to carry through the world socialist revolution, and replace...

The Swaziland government has banned a peaceful protest planned by the trade union movement for 12-14 April. South African trade unions are supporting Swaziland workers. The...

JULIANO Mer-Khamis, an Israeli film director and founder of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp, was shot dead on Monday April 4th after...

The following report was delivered by Nasim Ahmed to a Palestine Return Centre Workshop on Palestinian prisoners in London earlier this week. ‘I would...

PALESTINIANS are commemorating Land Day, the 35th anniversary of the uprising against Israel’s land theft, in which six young protesters were killed by...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at around 500 colleges and universities across the UK took strike action yesterday against changes to...

‘AS we send this press release, Palestinian civilians across the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, are encountering extremely violent waves of state-sponsored oppression along...