‘WE WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE’ says Jean Charles de...
THE Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign has vowed to continue fighting until they get justice over the police killing of the Brazilian man...
Fatah’s Abu Ammar Brigades refuses to disarm
THE official spokesperson of the Fatah-affiliated Martyr Abu Ammar Brigades, Abu Muhammad, has affirmed the brigades’ loyalty to political leaders and Fatah decisions, but...
Abbas Predicts ‘Hamas Digging Its Own Grave’
THE Palestinian Information Centre, the website of Hamas, last Friday posted a statement by Hamas denouncing PNA President Mahmud Abbas’s speech...
‘THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ’S OIL’ Part two – ‘We are fighting...
HANDS Off Iraqi Oil – the campaign launched to stop the theft of Iraq’s oil reserves – says that mainstream media coverage ‘has uncritically...
‘THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ’S OIL’ – ‘our aim is for the...
A PACKED public meeting of more than 300 British trade unionists and anti-war campaigners has heard an Iraqi trade union leader speak out against...
‘TAKE RESPONIBILITY FOR RECOVERY PHASE’ – 6th Buncefield report urges government
The Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board (MIIB) on Tuesday published its 6th report, covering emergency preparedness for, response to and recovery from a major...
REVIEW SECRETIVE ACADEMY SCHOOLS – TUC report
The TUC on Monday called on the government to ‘step back’ and initiate an ‘independent review’ of privately-sponsored academy schools. Before leaving office, Blair...
Kaddoumi And Hawatimah To Attend Ramallah Plo Meeting
THE Israeli government is permitting Nayif Hawatimah and Faruq al-Kaddoumi to attend the PLO Central Committee’s meeting in Ramallah. The approval constitutes an acceptance...
‘WE HAVE TO DO MORE. THIS IS NO JOKE, ITS OUR...
ON THE second day of CWU strike action against the Post Office’s wage-cutting and job-cutting attacks, Tony O’Donovan, unit rep in the largest Crawley...
BOYCOTT LONDON MET – urges UCU lecturers’ union following derecognition threat
ANGRY lecturers at London Metropolitan University (London Met) are expected to vote to strike in a ballot starting next week, to demand that the...
‘WE’LL DO EVERYTHING THAT’S NECESSARY TO STOP CHASE FARM CLOSING’ –...
HUNDREDS of people took part in Tuesday’s picket by North East London Council of Action against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E and...
Overseas Trained Teachers Face Unemployment
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) will be lobbying the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DfCSF) on Wednesday, 11 July 2007 to publicise...
6,000 Palestinians Trapped At Borders
Palestinian citizens stranded at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border terminal declared on Sunday that they had entered the second stage of their...
‘A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR HARD WORKING AUSTRALIANS’ – ACTU...
Last Thursday’s pay rise for minimum award wage workers, the lowest in ten years, is below the rate of inflation and means the living...
STOP REMPLOY CLOSURE PROGRAMME – says All Party Group of MPs
THE trade union campaign to reverse the closure of 43 Remploy factories received a significant boost when the All Party Group of MPs published...
Anger Over Threat To Special School
ANGRY teachers, parents and pupils from closure-threatened Highshore special school in Peckham attended a meeting of the Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council on...
‘One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Places For Trade Unionists’
A SHAM paramilitary demobilisation process, combined with thousands of cases of threats and killings and a chronic lack of investigations and prosecutions, makes Colombia...
WOODLEY INSULTS SACKED GATE GOURMET WORKERS – says they are ‘vulnerable’...
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were accused by TGWU General Secretary Tony Woodley in his speech to delegates on the opening day of their union’s...
THE BATTLE AT THE BMA’s ANNUAL REPRESENTATIVE MEETING
THE British Medical Association (BMA) leadership had a plan for the 2007 Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Torquay last week. They wanted to push through...
‘NON-COMPLIANCE’ RESTRAINT POWERS SLAMMED – after strangled 15-year-old’s inquest
The five week inquest into the restraint-related death of 15-year-old Gareth Myatt, who died in the privately run Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (STC) in...