Monthly Archives: October 2026

TUNISIAN police fired tear gas at protesters in a suburb of the capital and in towns across Sfax governorate on Thursday, as anger over...

AUTHORITIES in France have banned or restricted demonstrations in a number of cities ahead of Saturday, 24th October, following violent disturbances during the previous...

SENEGAL'S three-day general strike entered its second day on Thursday 22nd October with unions reporting widespread participation and increasing pressure on President Bassirou Diomaye...

THE NAVAL forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said yesterday they had struck four vessels transferring oil in the northern Persian Gulf,...

WITH just a week to go to the Budget official figures have confirmed that the National Debt has risen to more than £3 trillion...

RAILWAY workers have started a week-long strike in Portugal, with the first two days of strike action having been held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Workers...

ON MONDAY, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called the Florida Court’s arrest warrant for Army General Raul Castro a ‘reprehensible action’ and a ‘pathetic Miami...

BRITAIN’S national debt increased to over £3 trillion last month, rising to £3.005 trillion, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This historic high...

OVER A HUNDRED striking porters, cleaners and catering staff at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing...

Dr Rima Fakhry, a member of the Political Council of the Hezbollah resistance movement, has sharply criticised the Lebanese government for its passivity and...

IRAN has called for the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting over the threats by the US and Israeli regime against the...

MORE than 43,000 deaths involving Covid were recorded in UK care homes between March 2020 and July 2022, after government left the sector without...

FRENCH Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said yesterday that if declaring a state of emergency is deemed necessary ‘we could do so’, adding ‘at this...

FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron took to the  airwaves on Sunday night in a desperate attempt to divert the anger of the tens of millions...

Iran is ready to restore normal maritime passage through the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, if the necessary conditions are met, but the...

The revolutionary confrontation between workers and youth erupted across Europe on Saturday engulfing France, Belgium, Portugal, Italy and Albania. In France, the large CGT union...

PROTESTERS clashed with police in Paris and other French cities on Saturday as over 800,000 people took to the streets, including students and trade...

HUGE demonstrations of workers, students and youth in towns and cities across France came under violent attack on Saturday by armed French gendarmerie, who...

DELHI police yesterday detained Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), on his way to a flag-waving protest in Connaught Place,...

FRIDAY’S Daily Telegraph was full of praise for Labour Chancellor John Healey’s remarks on the British banks, describing the current banking bankrupts as part...

PALESTINIANS in Gaza are having teeth pulled that could be saved, because Israel’s siege has driven the cost of treatment far beyond what displaced...

REEMA Asaad Awad, a 33-year-old mother, burned to death when an Israeli air strike set her family’s flat in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood ablaze...

THE 21st October marks the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster in the valley of the Taff south Wales. On 21st October 1966, with...

US human rights organisations have called on members of Congress to intervene urgently and exert pressure to halt US support for Israel, following footage...

CENTRAL bankers and leading finance leaders from across the world gathered in Bangkok this week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund...

POLICE on Tuesday detained leaders of India’s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party after they climbed over barricades into Jantar Mantar, the capital’s historic protest ground,...

MORE than 300,000 public sector workers across Ireland struck yesterday in a one-day stoppage over pay, shutting most schools, colleges and universities. Nurses, teachers, laboratory...

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) made it clear yesterday that the Labour government must stop all this idle talk about ‘regeneration’ and ‘growth’ and...

THE Israeli Ganot prison administration is still denying medical treatment to detainees from Gaza, especially those injured during a crackdown on October 7th, leaving...

SCHOOL and university students marched in cities across France yesterday in the fifth national day of action of their movement against understaffed, crumbling schools. Six...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday issued a blunt warning that Labour Chancellor John Healey’s budget, due on October 28, will be a...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students, and teachers demonstrated in Belgium last Friday against the Belgian government’s austerity measures, in a day of action...

AN IRAQI anti-terror resistance group has urged the Saudi leadership to acknowledge the failure of its military option and completely lift the blockade on...

ARRIVING for a rally in Whitehall outside Downing Street, the marchers were told that this was the 37th National Demonstration for Palestine since the...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had agreed a deal with Russian president Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply hundreds of...

MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London for Palestine on Saturday, marking the third anniversary of the 7th October 2023 launch...

TENS of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayer at Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem yesterday, pressing through Israeli checkpoints and metal barriers thrown up...

BRITAIN risks running out of gas stockpiles by the end of winter, raising fears of an energy crisis crippling the country, and leaving millions...

UP TO 1,000 school support staff from Merton to Greenwich and Woolwich rallied outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday chanting ‘London Weighting Needs Inflating’. They...

ISRAELI forces escorted settlers into Al-Aqsa Mosque, detained nearly 100 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and killed a woman in Gaza on 7th...

Fighters of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) refused to help rescue dozens of men trapped when a gold mine collapsed in Sudan’s West Kordofan...

After a one-day pause on Wednesday, the mass mobilisation of students and workers across France resumed yesterday with nearly 400 schools and universities closed...

FRANCE’S central bank governor ruled out intervention by the European Central Bank (ECB) late on Wednesday, as borrowing costs soared on a mounting debt...

HAMAS and Hezbollah marked the third anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood yesterday, calling the 7 October 2023 operation a historic turning point in the...

FRENCH Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ordered regular classes suspended yesterday and today so that headteachers could hold sessions with school students, after trade unions...