Tory Budget: war on NHS, education & pay
IN REFUSING to lift the 1% public sector pay cap, chancellor Philip Hammond is condemning ‘just managing’ civil servants to wage cuts of up...
FIREFIGHTERS FACE GREATER CANCER RISK – because of alarmingly high levels...
FIREFIGHTERS face a greater risk of developing cancer because of an ‘alarmingly high’ level of dangerous chemicals carried on their clothing, researchers have found....
Greek Riot Police Let Loose On Protesting Workers
HUNDREDS of armed riot police were employed last Friday morning in Athens in a series of tear-gas and truncheon attacks against protesting state teachers,...
PNA illusions in Sharon move
THE Palestinian National Authority (PNA) immediately reacted to the latest Israeli political upheaval on Monday, describing it sceptically but hopefully as a ‘volcano’ that...
50 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN MODERN SLAVERY says the Arthur Svensson...
FIFTY million people live in modern slavery, says the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight and...
Escalating looting of South Africa’s resources – SAFTU statement
‘THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) founding congress in April 2017 warned our members, and the entire country, that both of the...
600 March To Stop New Era Evictions!
A 600 strong demonstration marched to Downing street to stop the eviction of 92 families from the New Era housing estate in Hoxton, Hackney. The...
710 Palestinian babies under the age of one killed by Israeli...
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...
‘STOP ACCEPTING SRI LANKA’S PROMISES ON HUMAN RIGHTS’ – urges Amnesty
‘SRI LANKA’s promises on human rights should no longer be accepted by the international community’, Amnesty International said in a press statement after the...
Fire crews ‘sickened’ by politicians’ silence over fire cuts
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) says fire crews are ‘sickened’ by the silence of politicians over fire service cuts. Politicians have been queuing up to...
US trade unions condemn racist rally in Charlottesville
AMERICA’S nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), has condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday which resulted in the death of a...
Gmb & Unite Defend National Agreements
FULL-scale nhs privatisation under Section 75 of the Health & Social Care Act and cuts to terms and conditions of NHS Staff pose real...
END THE MASSACRE OF TAMIL CIVILIANS – urges TNA
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), in an urgent press statement, has called upon the international community to use all its influence with the Sri...
Sri Lanka Air Force Bombs Refugee Settlement
TAMILNET reports that two civilians were killed on the spot last Sunday morning when the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed a civilian settlement...
‘WORK TOGETHER TO FIGHT GLOBAL CAPITAL’ – Teamsters President tells ICTU
THE Teamsters General President James Hoffa gave the fraternal address from the AFL-CIO US trade union federation to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions...
‘RETURN IS A RIGHT, NO CONSENT, NO CONCESSION’ – 10,000 Palestinians...
Titled ‘The Milan Declaration’, the final communiqué of the Seventh Palestinians in Europe Conference, convened under the theme ‘Return is a right, no Consent...
US activity in Ukraine ‘dangerously close to direct NATO-Russian confrontation’
A WASHINGTON-based think tank has warned that the NATO military alliance and the United States are ‘creeping closer to the catastrophic scenario’ in Ukraine,...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – PART 3: The Class Dictatorship...
‘FEBRUARY 25, 1848, had granted the republic to France, June 25 thrust the revolution upon her. And revolution, after June, meant: overthrow of bourgeois...
Dozens die in latest Gaza strikes!
ISRAELI warplanes carried out renewed attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 26 Palestinians in a series of airstrikes, including an entire...
The number of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel is...
THE NUMBER of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Government figures show the...
Trade union leaders divided over Tory Budget!
THE TRADE union leaders are divided over the Tory Budget. ‘Today’s Budget u-turn on spending is long overdue’ says the TUC, forging a partnership with...
RCN leader demands a new deal for student nurses: ‘forgive loans,...
THE number of domestic applicants to nursing courses has fallen to a new low, says the RCN (Royal College of Nursing), which is calling...
90% Of The Bedouins Were Expelled By Israel
THE killing of two Bedouin youths in southern Israel by police over the last fortnight has shocked the nation’s Palestinian community and has brought...
Thousands Demand Right To Return On Gaza Border
AT LEAST thirteen Palestinian protesters were shot and injured with Israeli live ammunition, on Wednesday, during mass protests commemorating the 71st anniversary of Nakba...
‘SOS RAMADI’ – an appeal to end America’s ‘dirty war ‘...
AN URGENT appeal to the world from occupied Iraq has been issued through the anti-war ‘Brussels Tribunal’. The special appeal – entitled ‘SOS Ramadi’...
Tampa General Hospital Must End Partnership With Israel
IN WASHINGTON on Friday, August 13th, numerous US organisations signed an online petition demanding Tampa General Hospital end their partnership with an Israeli business. Seventeen...
Greek civil servants take strike action while Turkey erupts against Erdogan!
A 48 HOUR strike by civil servants in Greece was launched yesterday as the government negotiates further austerity measures with the troika. This followed...
NORTHERN GAZA FACING FAMINE – 2.3m ARE GOING HUNGRY!
Northern Gaza is likely to be hit by famine any time between mid-March and May, and more than 70 per cent of Gaza’s 2.3...
Cost of living rising five times faster than wages!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF’s) Minimum Income Standard 2014 study has found that the amount a family need to enjoy even a ‘basic standard...
US unions demand action
THE AFL-CIO labour federation has released the following statement on the 16-day shutdown and threatened default by the US government: ‘Adults took over Washington, DC,...
‘What we are seeing is a naked, brutal form of capitalism’...
‘WHAT WE’RE seeing is really a naked brutal form of capitalism where people’s lives are expendable,’ says University of Western Cape Professor Ruth Hall...
Ban Ki-moon calls for ‘full investigation’ into Israeli war crimes
United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon called on Tuesday for those responsible for the bombing of UN-run buildings and schools in Gaza to be...
Austerity driving up infant mortality
THE GAP in infant mortality rates between English local authorities narrowed between 1999-2010, but that trend has been reversed since 2011 as a result of...
Family Of Kelso Cochrane Demand Access To Police File On His...
THE FAMILY of a black man murdered in 1959 is demanding access to the police file on his unsolved killing, said the radio documentary,...
No forced academies – demand teachers unions
THE National Union of teachers (NUT) is utterly opposed to the government’s plan to convert all schools to academies, ending democratic accountability in England’s...
Cork youth rally for locked-out workers
THE Cork Young Workers’ Network is holding a protest in solidarity with the locked-out Greyhound workers outside The Peace Park, Grand Parade, Cork, at...
Muslim Brotherhood has failed forever – says Syria’s Information Minister Omran...
SPEAKING in Damascus on Monday, Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, reiterated that the political leadership in Syria is still committed to the political solution which...
Settlers attack West Bank farmers on eve of peace talks
As Palestinian leaders were preparing for direct talks with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu in Washington today, the village mayor in the West Bank town...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART FOUR ‘Trying to reconcile...
THE TUC National Congress held in Brighton during the first week of September 1984 was dominated by the miners’ strike. Miners from the Cortenwood pit...
Hamas Rejects Direct Negotiations
GAZA Premier Ismail Haniya said Sunday that the Palestinian Authority’s decision to resume direct negotiations reflects a failed policy, and will not succeed. Speaking at...
‘We want no more weasel words – we want immediate recognition...
On the fifteenth National march for Palestine over one hundred thousand workers and youth took to the streets in central London in support of...
‘International actors must stop Israel’s Gaza genocide’ – demands Amnesty International...
AMNESTY International Secretary General Agnes Callamard has called on all international actors, foremost among them the European Union, to take serious steps to stop...
‘No return under unsafe conditions’ say South African teachers
‘OUR INPUT on reopening schools during lockdown is being ignored’ say South African unions. Two of the country’s biggest unions have indicated that they will...
Guantanamo detainees suffering is ongoing says UN Special Rapporteur
THE first UN investigator allowed inside the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay said the 30 remaining detainees in the facility are facing ongoing,...
Delphi workers rally against cuts in jobs, pay and healthcare!
UAW members in Flint, Michigan, announced last Tuesday they will be marching through the town against Delphi autoparts maker’s attack on their pay, healthcare...