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Boeing strikers ‘standing firm’ in fight to save 17,000 jobs

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BOEING strikers are standing firm despite the announcement last Friday that Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs, 10% of its global workforce, delay first deliveries...

Under the spotlight: Israel’s indiscriminate use of internationally banned weapons!

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‘AS the Israeli regime’s bombing campaign against Lebanon continues to claim innocent lives, the indiscriminate use of internationally banned weapons has come under the...

Russian battlegroups are continuing to destroy Ukrainian formations!

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The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 300 servicemen in the Kursk area between last Thursday and Friday, and 21,900 since the start of...

US arms manufacturers make record profits – while US labour disputes...

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American arms dealers have gathered ‘record profits’ from Israel’s wars on the besieged Gaza Strip and Lebanon, according to a new report. In a report...

North Korea has no intention of attacking South Korea or of...

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North Korea has no intention of attacking South Korea, nor does it have any interest in a forceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula, the...

‘Tel Aviv is fully aware of the wide range of Israeli...

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the Zionist regime against testing Tehran’s resolve, saying Tel Aviv is fully aware of the wide-range of...

Gaza genocide escalating into the West Bank

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THE use of fighter jets by the Israeli occupation army for the first time since 2000 to bombard a popular café in Tulkarem city...

Israeli warplanes target Lebanese health facilities!

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AT DAWN on Sunday, Israeli warplanes launched over 30 raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the ‘most violent attack’ on Lebanon since...

TSSA General Secretary calls for meaningful action by the trade unions...

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AT the rally in Whitehall, next to Downing Street, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said: ‘It has been one year of genocide...

US dockers tell bosses strikes will resume if their demands are...

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THE International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) dockers union in the United States has agreed to suspend its strike of over 30 ports on the East...

Gaza’s annual report on Israel’s devastating war since October 7th 2023

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THE Gaza Strip Government Media Office (GMO) has published its annual report about Israel’s devastating war on Gaza since October 7th, 2023. According to the...

‘Julian Assange was a political prisoner’ – says Council of Europe...

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THE Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday 2 October voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held a political prisoner in the UK. On...

‘Hezbollah strong enough and ready for all scenarios!’

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HEZBOLLAH Deputy Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has stated that the Lebanese resistance group is strong enough and ready for all scenarios, despite losing Secretary...

Group 77 ministers & China demand Israel ends its occupation and...

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MINISTERS of Group 77 (coalition of developing countries at the United Nations) and China last Saturday reiterated their demand for the Israeli occupation to...

‘Ultimate victory belongs to the resistance’ declares Tehran rally

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The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has confirmed the assassination of its secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in massive Israeli airstrikes targeting residential buildings in southern...

Stop ignoring Israel’s targeting of journalists – UN told

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THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been urged to address Israel’s attacks on press freedom and escalating military actions in Lebanon and Gaza, as...

Israel defeated and can’t restore its ‘myth of invincibility through acts...

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President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran has declared that Israel has been defeated in its ‘genocidal war’ on the Gaza Strip and cannot restore its...

Global condemnation of Israel’s onslaught on Lebanon

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Israeli strikes killed 558 people in Lebanon on Monday, including 50 children and 94 women, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad told a press conference...

No to Fire and Rehire at Open University – insists UCU

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THE UCU (University and College Union) has called on the Open University (OU) to scrap its plans to fire and rehire staff. The OU first...

42 years since the Sabra and Shatila Massacre

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The following is co-founder of the charity Medical Aid for Palestine, Dr Swee Ang’s speech in Beirut’s Ghobeiry Municipal Hall last Friday, on the...

60,000-strong Melbourne march to defend unions!

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CONSTRUCTION, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) supporters have warned that the massiveprotests bringing city traffic in Melbourne and Sydney to a halt last...

Hotel workers unionising and striking across the USA – 2,000 on...

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Hundreds more UNITE HERE hotel workers have walked off the job, as another wave of strikes hits the US hotel industry last Thursday. Nearly 2,000...

Airport workers strike in Argentina – while Milei pursued for arrest...

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Airport workers carried out an 11-hour strike at 27 airports in Argentina on Thursday. The action took place in two slots, between 6am and 12...

710 Palestinian babies under the age of one killed by Israeli...

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THE ISRAELI military killed at least 710 Palestinian babies before they made it to their first birthday, the equivalent of two infants under one-year-old...

South Africa education workers fight ‘appalling’ casualisation and ‘declaration of war’...

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SOUTH Africa’s National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) on Tuesday called on the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane...

‘Hamas will stand firm against Israeli Occupation’ – statement on 42nd...

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On the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Hamas Movement in Lebanon said that the Palestinian people would continue to stand...

The stark reality of growing up in poverty!

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In June 2024, the charity Buttle UK concluded an extensive project to explore the lived experiences of children, young people, and families grappling with...

#BlockTheBoat – Global mobilisation to stop explosives for Israel

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In a display of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, activists around the world have joined forces to block the MV Kathrin, a cargo vessel...

31 human rights organisations demand UN takes action to defend Palestinians!

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Human rights organisations have urgently called on UN member states to take immediate action to ‘protect people deprived of their liberty’ across the occupied...

New school year begins in Gaza and West Bank

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THE new school year began in Palestine on Monday amid ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, and the escalating aggression...

Hezbollah Is Determined To Fight In Support Of Palestinians In The...

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A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of...

Israel is conducting violent raids in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm

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THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...

‘Save Palestinian schools from the Israeli occupation’s genocide’

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SEVERAL Palestinian associations and institutions have issued a statement calling on the international community to save Palestinian schools from the occupation’s education genocide, as...

‘We demand a complete arms embargo now & recognition!’ –Palestinian ambassador...

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THE first speaker at the rally in Kensington High Street at the end of the march was Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse,...

Argentina’s President Milei reduces the workforce at state-owned airline by 13%

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RIGHT-WING Argentina president President Javier Milei’s spokesman said on Thursday that his government has reduced the workforce at state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas by 13...

The Israeli regime ramps up its aggression in occupied West Bank!

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THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...

South African education unions will ballot for strike action to fight...

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South African education unions, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation (Naptosa) and the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), responded on Monday to the Western...

Gaza polio vaccination programme targets 640,000 children under 10 in 3...

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THE UNITED Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has stressed that ‘peace’ is the best solution to save Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, as...

179 UK MEDICS HOLD LONDON PROTEST FOR GAZA – to highlight...

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HEALTHWORKERS 4 Palestine and Amnesty International UK staged a mass solidarity protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Friday night. The protest was to...

Abu Shujaa the commander of the Tulkarm Brigade was assassinated last...

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ABU Shujaa, the intrepid commander of the Tulkarm Brigade, was assassinated last Thursday during a deadly Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee...

Gaza genocide – 325 days of mass murder!

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THE ISRAELI-American genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip has completed 325 days and there are still no signs of this murderous aggression ending...

Palestinians have the ‘Right to Resist’ The occupying Israeli regime says...

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THE head of Hamas resistance movement in the occupied West Bank says Palestinians have the right to resist the occupying Israeli regime, and are...

Gaza Hospitals Near Closure Due To Israeli Restrictions

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THE Health Ministry in Gaza has warned that healthcare facilities in the war-wracked territory are nearing closure due to an acute fuel shortage for...

‘It’s time to defend our social demands’ – CGT will propose...

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‘SALARIES, pensions, public services, industry: our demands are those of the majority and must be implemented,’ says the CGT French trade union federation. It has...

‘Despite the heroic efforts of staff, waits for hospital care are...

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A NEW report published last Thursday, 22 August, by the Health Foundation found that the UK’s performance on hospital-based care is consistently languishing near...