Monthly Archives: February 2026

POLITICIANS across Westminster responded on Friday to the Green Party’s capture of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat. Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the...

All three of South Africa’s trade union federations the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), and...

LABOUR’S spectacular defeat in Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester, although expected, has driven deep splits and recriminations within the party. Hannah Spencer, the...

AT LEAST six Palestinians were killed overnight into Friday in Israeli drone strikes on police posts in central and southern Gaza, as Israel continued...

ISRAELI forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip this week killing Palestinians in air strikes and shelling while reports emerged of Palestinian women detainees...

THE Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has said that, in light of Israel’s continued aggressive policies, the Palestinian leadership will take...

TRUMP’S rosy picture is disconnected from workers’ reality, the AFL-CIO trade union federation says. Tuesday’s statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on President Trump’s State...

THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...

INTERNATIONAL Business Machines (IBM), the giant US manufacturer of corporate computers suffered a massive drop in its share price on Monday as panic surrounding...

ISRAELI soldiers fired more than 900 bullets at a convoy of clearly marked Palestinian emergency vehicles in Gaza before advancing to kill the surviving...

The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended at the weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labour action overwhelmingly voted...

LORD Peter Mandelson was arrested on Monday and released on bail pending further investigations early yesterday morning. The former Labour minister, US ambassador and the...

THE Hamas Movement yesterday accused the Israeli occupation government of disregarding the ceasefire agreement and ignoring diplomatic efforts aimed at maintaining calm, warning that...

LAST Friday’s ruling by the US Supreme Court that president Donald Trump did not have the authority or right to impose his ‘Liberation Day’...

IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged not to give in to pressure from the United States after Donald Trump said he was considering limited...

The OrganiSation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will convene an emergency session of its foreign ministers this week over Israel’s latest push to expand illegal...

DEFENCE Secretary John Healey said yesterday that his hope was that he would be the first Defence Secretary to deploy British troops to the...

Israel’s genocide in Gaza, has dismantled long-standing civilian waste systems, forced displaced Palestinians into burning plastic to survive amid siege conditions, and created a...

The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s claim that Israel has biblical rights over the Arab region and his...

AROUND 100 protesters gathered outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey as bail hearings concluded for members of the Filton 24, activists...

A WHITE HOUSE official warned yesterday that the US military is 99 per cent certain to launch a massive military attack on Iran ‘to...

JOURNALISTS’ protection must be a national priority in Syria, demands the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The IFJ, in coordination with one of its affiliates...

THE Donald Trump administration is planning a large military installation in Gaza capable of housing up to 5,000 personnel as part of a multinational...

AN article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph delivered a sharp wake up call to the TUC and the trade union leaders who cling to the...

A court in Chile is reviewing a criminal complaint by the Brussels-based Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) against Rom Kovtun an Israeli sniper who served...

THE US military boarded another tanker in the Indian Ocean carrying Venezuelan oil, the Pentagon has said, in the latest escalation of Washington’s sanctions enforcement...

YOUTH are bearing the brunt of unemployment according to new Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released this week. According to the ONS figures, unemployment...

YESTERDAY, Wednesday 18th February, the Filton 24 defendants who have not yet gone to trial, were formally acquitted of aggravated burglary. The CPS confirmed they...

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer performed yet another abrupt U-turn yesterday when he was forced to abandon plans to cancel 30 local government elections in...

AMERICAN trade union UNITE HERE has released Inhospitable, a report revealing how White House immigration policies are creating a crisis in America’s hospitality industry. The report was...

UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK rose to its highest rate in nearly five years at the end of 2025, official figures show. The unemployment rate climbed...

IN A marathon session that lasted until after 4.00am on Thursday, the Argentine Senate approved the interim motion for labour reform proposed by the...

BRITAIN and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have just made an unprecedented joint appeal to the workers of Europe to accept the ‘moral case’...

THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...

A GROUP of 26 MPs and peers have written to the government condemning its plan to appeal against last Friday’s High Court ruling that...

FOR 200 days, Abu Ismail Hammad has been digging beneath his destroyed home in Gaza City, sifting through the sand to collect the remains...

THE rapid rise in joblessness amongst the UK’s youth has pushed Britain to an unwanted milestone. For the first time in a quarter of...

NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...

Workers across India stopped work on Thursday as part of the Bharat Bandh (general strike). They were protesting against labour reforms and economic cuts being...

THE HIGH Court has ruled that the government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was unlawful. In a...

THE LEADING humanitarian law institute, the Geneva Academy of International Law and Human Rights, has released a report that concludes that the death toll...

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has warned that Israel is entering a ‘highly dangerous phase’ of punitive escalation against Palestinian detainees, as it prepares...

THOUSANDS protested outside universities and colleges around the UK yesterday as part of a workers and students Day of Action for Palestine. There were 150...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday that following a meeting on proposed cuts to services in Oxfordshire it is to hold a strike...

President Masoud Pezeshkian called on the Iranian nation to participate extensively in the demonstrations marking yesterday’s anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, describing the...