‘TO GET JUSTICE WE NEED TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM’ says Family...
‘WHO are the killers? Police are the killers! IPCC, not fit for purpose! Scrap the IPCC!’ shouted workers and youth at a rally opposite...
Los Angeles farm workers in epic pay battle
HUNDREDS of labour activists, farmworkers and their allies marched on Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday demanding that a Fresno fruit grower recognise...
Capitalism and democracy may well be parting company says SIPTU president...
THIS IS the text of a speech by SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, at the centenary commemoration of the founding of the Irish Neutrality League...
Fury Over Cancellation Of Philadelphia Teachers’ Contracts
FURIOUS over the Philadelphia School Reform Commission’s (SRC) move to unilaterally cancel its teachers’ contract, 3,000 people shut down North Broad Street last Thursday,...
Children were killed in their homes as they slept! – demand...
THE Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip during July and August 2014 claimed the lives of 501 Palestinian children. Defence for Children International –...
Give youth the opportunity to lead the Palestinian struggle!
PRESIDENT Abbas has said that the holding the seventh congress of Fatah will be at the end of this year. He added ‘Get...
Eu Workers Demanding No Ttip And Ceta Trade Deals
THOUSANDS of European citizens took to the streets in dozens of European cities on October 11 to show their rejection of the proposed trade...
Electricity worker in Syria blown up by terrorist land mine
A SYRIAN Electricity Ministry official said on Thursday that a worker was killed and four others were injured in an explosion of a landmine...
Civil servants strike solid!
TENS of thousands of civil servants and allied workers expressed their anger at poverty pay, attacks on their pensions and privatisation during Wednesday’s solid...
WORLD MUST END ISRAELI OCCUPATION – Hamdallah tells Gaza Conference
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah has expressed the hope that the world’s countries will feel responsibility towards the Gaza Strip, and asked them to...
Health workers take unprecedented strike action!
HEALTH workers throughout the country came out solidly on strike on Monday against the government’s refusal to increase their pay by 1% for those...
Reconstruction of Gaza will cost $4bn
THE Palestinian National Authority has announced the details of its ‘national recovery plan’ for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which it has...
Syria Celebrates Anniversary Of Yom Kippur War And Contrasts It With...
‘I DO NOT think that the West has relinquished its colonial mentality,’ Syrian president Assad said in a recent interview, while the US and...
Fight against anti-union ‘right-to-work’ legislation is critical for US workers –...
AS working people in the US are gearing up to get out and vote in mid-term Congressional and state elections on November 4, AFL-CIO...
Nationalise Reserve Bank to protect workers – NUMSA
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has demanded the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank under workers’ control in a strongly worded...
Baghdad would have fallen without Iran’s Help – says Iranian ...
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that if it wasn’t for ‘Iran’s support (for Iraq) and presence’ in fighting the group calling...
Lecturers strike to defend jobs, pay and pensions
UNIVERSITY and college lecturers are taking action in defence of their jobs, pay and pensions. They will be taking part in strike action next Tuesday...
Turkey, do not violate our sovereignty–warns Syria
DEPUTY Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr Faysal Miqdad said on Friday that the Syrian people, who are confronting terrorism with epic steadfastness, have the...
‘Don’t Bomb Iraq–Don’t Attack Syria’
‘DON’T bomb Iraq! Don’t attack Syria! – How can we fund a war when we can’t feed the poor!’ Shouted marchers in the pouring...
Wandsworth traffic wardens – 2nd day of strike in pay battle
TRAFFIC wardens are into their second day of strike action today in an escalating struggle over pay and union rights. GMB the union which represents...
Shelling of Donetsk school ‘a blatant violation of international law’
MOSCOW authorities have said that they view Kiev’s shelling of a school in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk as a blatant violation of...
PLO slams Netanyahu’s slander against Hamas
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) said Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu blatantly manipulated the facts when he compared Hamas with the Islamic State group...
Excessive Workloads Driving Teachers Out!
TEACHERS are facing low morale, exhaustion, frustration and distress because of the impact of unsustainable workloads, which is driving teachers out of the profession,...