Monthly Archives: April 2017

FIERCE clashes erupted across the West Bank in Palestine during Friday’s ‘Day of Rage’ protests which were attacked by Israeli forces. Protesters marched in solidarity...

LEGISLATION has been raced through Parliament before it breaks up for the general election which allows universities to raise tuition fees every year until...

LAST Wednesday US president Donald Trump unveiled what he called the ‘biggest tax cuts in history’ – tax cuts only for the giant corporations...

THE DEFENCE chiefs of Iran, Russia and Syria have called for closer trilateral co-operation in the battle against terrorism, emphasising the need to keep...

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke up yesterday to attack Jeremy Corbyn and to announce that it will be very difficult for the UK...

A GENERAL strike across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem was solid yesterday, with all Palestinian workers on strike and shops and businesses...

AS the Federation of Palestinian Communities in Europe and the Fatah movement in London prepare to screen the film ‘Marwan,’ a biopic telling the...

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that the United States and Zionists are especially targeting Iran because it is...

THE NHS is the greatest of the gains that the working class made in the period immediately after the Second World War. It was brought...

‘DOO Has to Go!’ chanted over 150 RMT members and their supporters from around the country outside parliament yesterday. On the national demonstration to mark...

SHADOW Health Secretary Jon Ashworth pledged yesterday that a future Labour government would ditch the Tory 1% pay cap for NHS staff and restore...

IMPRISONED Palestinian parliamentarian and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, who has been leading a large-scale hunger strike in Israeli prisons, has suffered a serious deterioration...

PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...

THE wiping out of the Socialist Party and the Republican Party in France, the ruination of the Fifth Republic and the elevation of the...

‘CHRONIC understaffing across the NHS is putting patient lives at risk,’ a UK-wide annual survey of nurses published yesterday at the start of Unison’s...

THE RESULT of the first round of the French Presidential election has justly been described as a ‘seismic’ shift in the country. For the first...

‘DOCTORS will not be forced to act as border guards,’ medical charity Doctors of the World declared. The charity reacted angrily to the Home...

AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...

A 24-HOUR strike by BMW workers making car engines and the Mini took place on Sunday in Oxford and Swindon. The other strike dates...

IN an interview given to Russia’s RIA Novosti and Sputnik news agencies, Syria’s President al-Assad said that we always announce that we are ready...

‘I AM ANGRY and fed up, and want a different sort of country,’ Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn declared yesterday morning. Interviewed by the...

GMB holds fruit-picking giant Fyffes ultimately responsible for a brutal machete attack which left a young man with life-changing injuries. Misael Sanchez was slashed across...

NEW Guantanamo Bay-style jails-within-jails are being opened for the first time in the UK to incarcerate ‘extremists of all kinds’, while police are being...

JEREMY Corbyn speaking in Swindon yesterday confirmed that Labour will abolish zero-hours contracts. He said that, ‘Some one million people are on zero-hours contracts’ and...

IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...

ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...

MANY HUNDREDS of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners entered the third day of the ‘Freedom and Dignity’ hunger strike on Wednesday, with imprisoned Palestinian women launching...

THE RMT will hold a national protest outside Parliament at noon next Wednesday, 26th April, to mark the one year anniversary of RMT industrial...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn said in the House of Commons yesterday that workers ‘cannot trust’ PM May. He spoke before the vote...

ISRAEL has detained one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank,...

AT THE Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) annual congress in Belfast on Tuesday, primary teachers condemned the lack of adequate funding to primary schools...

MORE THAN 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike on Monday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned...

‘I HAVE just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on...

ON JUNE 23 2016 the adventurers Cameron and Osborne, the then PM and Chancellor, came unstuck when they lost their EU referendum and were...

‘WHAT do we want – the living wage!’ ‘When do we want it – now!’ shouted over a hundred striking BECTU members and supporters...

IN SYRIA a massive car bomb deliberately targeting people awaiting evacuation from Syrian towns being besieged by the so-called ‘rebel’ forces, in reality a...

MORE than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike yesterday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned Fatah...

NUT/CPAG research confirms that schools with the poorest children will be hit hardest by the May government’s school funding proposals The research using DfE data,...

THE TORY government have turned their fire against one of the most vulnerable sections of society: disabled people. The government has launched a three-pronged attack:...

IN A REPEAT of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history, that took place in February, five Picturehouse cinemas will be on...

THIS WEEK has seen a dramatic upsurge of support amongst workers and youth in France for the outsider left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the...

PALESTINIAN prisoners being held inside Israel’s Nafha prison have announced that they will be joining an upcoming mass hunger strike on Monday April 17,...

‘NO one has investigated what happened that day in Khan Sheikoun,’ said President Assad yesterday. ‘As you know Khan Sheikoun is under the control...

THE RMT has announced strike action against two of the country’s rail privateers – a 48-hour strike on Virgin Trains East Coast and a...

SYRIAN army units have established control over large areas to the south of Palmyra City in their continued operations against ISIS terrorists in the...