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In a 25-page memorandum submitted to the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, said: ‘My decision to support military action in...

JUST before Jack Straw appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday, he released a 25-page memorandum which explained that his decision to support the Iraq...

THE United Nations on Wednesday said it was ‘deeply concerned’ about the deterioration of the health care system in the Gaza Strip due to...

PAKISTAN’S army has just announced that it will launch no new offensives on its territory in 2010. At the same time the US Defence...

SCOTT Brown’s victory for the Republican Party, in the Massachusetts election for the US Senate, does not mean that US workers can’t wait to...

THE Chilcot Inquiry yesterday published a previously classified letter from the Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, in which he refused to...

THE death toll in Haiti is mounting, with about 20,000 bodies driven out of the capital Port-au-Prince to be burned, according to the Haitian...

ESTIMATES of the death toll in Haiti rose to more than 200,000 yesterday, with warnings of more people dying of hunger and disease following...

OVER 100 workers and youth voted unanimously on Saturday for occupying hospitals against closure and to stop the smashing up and privatisation of the...

Aircraft carrier USS Vincent arrived off the coast of earthquake-hit Haiti yesterday as Admiral Mike Mullen announced a huge US task force. Speaking at a...

IRAQ’S election commission has barred almost 500 candidates and many parties from running in the ‘national’ elections on 7 March. A parliamentary committee says that...

A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...

SURVIVORS of Haiti’s biggest earthquake for 200 years yesterday appealed to the world for urgent food, water and medicines as the death toll continued...

President Barack Obama tried to convince top union leaders to drop labour’s opposition to taxing workers’ health care benefits at a meeting at the...

THE London Guantanamo Campaign staged a protest yesterday outside the American embassy on the 8th anniversary of the establishment of the infamous Guantanamo Bay...

THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...

AMERICAN spy agencies need to make ‘sweeping’ changes to their work in Afghanistan, a report by Major-General Michael T Flynn and two other senior...

RECENT attacks on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile strikes, were led by the United States according to a CBS television report Saturday. The...

IT seems that the United States is preparing the ground to make the Palestinians an offer that they will not be able to refuse...

THE US emphasised that it had gone to war on the territory of the Yemen yesterday, by closing its embassy in the Yemeni...

NEWS LINE sends its revolutionary greetings for 2010 to the working class and the poor of the planet. We especially greet the insurgent masses...

A POLL by the BMA and Doctors.net.uk shows that doctors are concerned about the role of private companies in the NHS. Eight out of...

‘Tony Blair and Gordon Brown should be tried as war criminals,’ Peter Brierley, whose son Shaun was killed in Iraq in 2003, told a...

CARS hooted and people waved to Santa Claus on the Chase Farm Christmas picket, organised by the North-East London Council of Action yesterday. There was...

The CIA had at least two ‘black sites’ in Lithuania where they tortured illegally held victims of ‘extraordinary rendition’, a Lithuanian parliamentary inquiry has...

LAST Friday the new AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued a statement on the Senate Healthcare Bill being sponsored by President Obama. He said: ‘The labour...

‘THIS puts another nail in the coffin of the British government’s attempts to cover up its role’ in Binyam Mohamed’s treatment, Clive Stafford Smith,...

IN one corner of Salah Samouni’s modest living room hangs a ‘martyr poster’ – a customary honor printed for those killed in all Israeli...

‘The Iranian nation and government will always stand by the resistance and the oppressed Palestinian people,’ Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has reiterated. Ahmadinejad met with...

YESTERDAY the United States Secretary of Defence and Secretary of State, Gates and Clinton, threatened Iran with extreme sanctions if it insisted on its...

Israeli police used force to break up a demonstration in East Jerusalem on Friday against the eviction of a Palestinian family from their home. Twenty-one...

British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday, December 6th with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the...

‘NO matter how many times you said to senior American officers, and indeed Mr Rumsfeld, that we were not committing our forces until we...

General Motors Board of Directors Chairman, Ed Whitacre, known for his asset stripping and merger programme at telecoms empire AT&T, has taken the helm...

PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...

The UK government should immediately order an independent judicial inquiry into the role and complicity of British security services in the torture of terrorism...

DUBAI’S ‘debt repayment’ postponement for six months has brought renewed havoc to European, Asian and North American stock markets. They have all been reminded that...

During two months when trade unionists from Colombia were visiting America to take part in trade union training – four of their colleagues were...

SUCH WAS the fawning support, given by Tony Blair to President George Bush, that Christopher Meyer, the ex-UK ambassador to the United States, was...

The Gaza Freedom March that will take place in Gaza on December 31st is an historic initiative to break the siege that has imprisoned...

THE Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, made it very clear last Wednesday what Iran’s position is on its right to develop...

MEMBERS of the RMT rail union and the Unite union’s Justice for Cleaners campaign staged a protest in central London on Wednesday, demanding: ‘Stop...

Over 20,000 students, youth and workers took part in a militant anti-imperialist demonstration in Athens on Tuesday to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the...

‘The Iraqis today do not have control over their political, security or social situation – control is in the hands of the occupation, those...

FOR centuries British capitalism has sought to export its surplus populations and its trouble makers to the rest of the world. Rebellious trade unionists such...