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President Diaz-Canel condemns Trump’s ‘suffocate’ Cuba plan

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Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel has denounced an attempt by United States President Donald Trump to ‘suffocate’ the sanctions-hit country’s economy. Trump signed an executive order...

Palestine is a top priority for the unions! – Andrea Egan,...

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Tariq Othman from the Palestinian Forum in Britain told the rally: ‘Colonial occupation has many ugly faces. We have to focus on the mass...

Workers across Colorado are standing up and organising, says Starbucks Workers...

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Workers from a number of trade unions and their allies rallied on Wednesday in the Civic Centre Park neighbourhood of Denver Colorado in support...

Iran rebuffs Israel’s use of Hitler’s ‘Big Lie’ technique

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IRANIAN Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei says the Israeli media is running a campaign of fabricated stories regarding casualties in recent terrorist riots in...

31,000-strong strike at US health privateer Kaiser Permanente!

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Up to 31,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California and Hawaii went on indefinite strike on Monday in the latest work stoppage at the...

Teachers join mass public sector strike in Abuja – in Kenya...

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The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Monday directed all primary and secondary school teachers in Abuja to join the ongoing strike initiated by...

Nurses union demands the immediate abolition of ICE

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THE UNITED STATES has erupted in fury after a second person in the span of a month was fatally shot by federal immigration authorities...

Nigeria electricity workers commence indefinite strike

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The Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies and the National Union of Electricity Employees (SSAEAC) at the Kano Electricity Distribution Company in...

Unions in US major cities back Minneapolis strike against ICE

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There is a growing strike movement across the United States against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s clampdown on Minneapolis as millions of workers...

Trump tried to break us, he couldn’t, and he came back

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BY CLARA SANCHEZ GUEVARA TRUMP stopped buying oil from Venezuela to break it. He couldn’t and he came back; and it cannot be said with...

Russia Condemns Western Schemes To Topple The Iranian Government

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has condemned Western countries for seeking regime change in Iran, saying their attempts to destabilise the country are a...

Over 135,000 workers take strike action across Germany – in France...

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Germany’s Ernährung, Gastronomie, Genuss (NGG) union has announced it will step up strike action after negotiations with the Bundesverband der Systemgastronomie (BdS) over a...

Ringleaders of foreign-backed riots arrested in Iran!

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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) forces have identified and arrested ringleaders and terrorist elements involved in the recent foreign-linked riots in Iran’s southwestern...

Thousands join Cuba’s ‘March of the Fighting People’

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On Friday, thousands of Cubans joined the ‘March of the Fighting People’ to honour 32 Cuban soldiers who were killed during a US military...

Minneapolis unions call general strike – force ICE agents out of...

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A coalition of Minneapolis trade unions and community organisations is calling for a general strike to take place this coming Friday with the goal...

Israeli Prisons Are Graves For The Living!

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NEWLY released Palestinian abductees have stated that Israeli prisons subject prisoners to horrific conditions, describing the detention centres as ‘graves for the living’. Their testimonies...

Iranian masses mobilise against US-Israeli aggression

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FRESH from his failure to grab Greenland US President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the Iranian Revolution and issued his warning to...

Writers, doctors and former political prisoners demand immediate release of pro-Palestine...

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Authors Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney and China Mieville, philosopher Judith Butler, and activist Angela Davis, have joined global scholars in a declaration of solidarity...

Thousands on Morocco march for Palestine!

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Thousands staged a mass rally in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, last Friday night in solidarity with the Palestinian nation amid relentless Israeli aggression...

‘We will defend our country and bring back President Maduro’

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LATIN Americans who could not get on to the speakers’ platform at the Venezuela Solidarity rally outside Downing Street on Saturday, addressed the crowd...

Hands off Venezuela! – Free Maduro!

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A THOUSAND workers and youth demonstrated outside Downing Street on Saturday, 10th of January, in support of Venezuela and for the release of their...

US nurses union ‘outraged’ at Trump’s invasion of Venezuela

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THE American National Nurses United union (NNU) has strongly condemned US President Trump and his administration’s illegal invasion of and regime change operation in...

Venezuelan people demand the release of Maduro – a letter from...

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FRIDAY 2 January was a typical day in Venezuelan capital Caracas. The roads were unusually quiet and few people were out on the streets,...

Iran’s Defence Council warns USA of ‘decisive response to any attack!’

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Iran’s Defence Council has condemned escalating threats, rhetoric and meddlesome remarks – particularly on the part of the United States – against the Islamic...

Gas crisis deepening in Gaza despite the ceasefire

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DESPITE the ceasefire agreement of October 10, 2025, the gas crisis deepens in Gaza, the Strip’s General Petroleum Authority warns. Despite nearly three months having...

HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! – Demands 2,000-strong Downing Street demo

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There was a powerful 2,000-strong demonstration in support of Venezuela in Whitehall opposite Downing Street on Monday night. The protest was organised by the Venezuela...

‘A savage and ruthless bully!’ – South Africa’s NUMSA union denounces...

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‘DONALD Trump is a creature of the US. NUMSA calls upon its brothers, sisters and comrades in the United States to deal with Donald...

‘HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!’ – demand 7,000 Athens workers marching on the...

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OVER 7,000 workers, students and youth marched to the US Embassy in Athens on Saturday evening with banners stating: ‘Solidarity with Venezuela’ and ‘Hands...

Israel focussing attacks on most influential journalists

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The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate confirmed on Thursday that in 2025, the Israeli occupation authorities continued their systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists through arbitrary detention,...

FREE THE FILTON 24 NOW! – demands the 500-strong Pentonville prison...

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There was a powerful 500-strong picket of Pentonville Prison on Caledonian Road in north London on New Year’s Eve in support of the Filton...

Lebanon is facing a historic turning point! – it must preserve...

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Sheikh Naim Qassem, the Hezbollah Secretary-General, says Lebanon is facing a ‘historic turning point,’ where it must choose between yielding to ‘US-Israeli domination’ or...

706 family members of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel

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ISRAEL has killed at least 706 family members of Palestinian journalists since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, according...

LETTER – ‘Venezuelan social property cannot be converted to property for...

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From Venezuelan journalist Carolina Graterol ‘WHEN I first arrived to London, in the early 90s, I noticed something unusual: mangos and beef from Venezuela being...

Israel imposing illegal collective punishments in West Bank

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) escalated their policy of collective punishment last Friday, issuing demolition orders in al-Khalil and forcing a Palestinian resident in occupied...

‘We’ve got a constitutional coup in the EU!’ – says Hungarian...

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THE European Union’s leadership is attempting a ‘constitutional coup’ by appropriating the sovereign rights of individual countries in violation of community laws and regulations,...

Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amid deepening food insecurity and...

Israeli plans to execute prisoners condemned

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has published an updated version of the so-called ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill’ that would allow the...

Community Camp 4 Palestine support for hunger strikers

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THE Community Camp 4 Palestine, opposite the US Embassy in south London, hosted a meeting to support the hunger strikers from Filton 24 on...

Oregon Legacy nurses strike enters its 3rd week – Starbucks ‘Red...

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A strike at Legacy hospitals and clinics in the US state of Oregon that began on Tuesday 2nd December goes into its third week...

‘Compel Israel to comply with ceasefire agreement’ – Hamas call

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PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has called on international mediators to take effective and concrete steps to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under...

5,000 striking public sector workers, pensioners and students rally in...

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SOME 5,000 local government workers, teachers, hospital workers, university staff, civil servants, along with pensioners and university students participated last Tuesday in a militant...

Gaza’s babies dying of cold!

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TWO-WEEK-OLD Mohamed Abul-Khair died from hypothermia in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as a result of prolonged exposure to low temperatures. Earlier, the director general...

Big protests in Latin America against the US military

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There were large protests in the Dominican Republic on Sunday after the Caribbean Island’s government agreed to the United States setting up ‘temporary military...

Gaza humanitarian catastrophe intensified by storm Byron

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The polar low-pressure system ‘Byron’ has intensified the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip after striking the area last Wednesday evening, bringing torrential...

Italy Holds A Nationwide General Strike

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ITALY held a nationwide general strike on Friday. The powerful action was called by the country’s largest trade union, the CGIL. Members of IUF affiliates Flai-CGIL...