‘ . . . I Heard Baha Mousa Screaming ‘oh My...
Statement by RABINDER SINGH QC to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry RABINDER Singh QC has delivered his opening statement to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry,...
‘Every square inch of Palestine must be liberated!’
‘EVERY square inch of Palestine must be liberated,’ Palestinian born in Lebanon Sandra Wafta told News Line on Sunday as hundreds of people lined...
Palestinian fishermen attacked by Israeli naval troops off Gaza coast!
A PALESTINIAN fisherman was injured and detained along with four others by Israeli naval troops who attacked them on Tuesday off the coast of...
‘Outrage’ At Remploy Closures
Hundreds of disabled workers demonstrated yesterday against the closure of Remploy factories outside the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) offices in London and...
OPPOSITION LEADERS ARRESTED IN BAHRAIN CRACKDOWN – as Tunisians protest against...
THE Bahraini ruling class has arrested opposition leaders on charges including contact with foreign states and calling for the fall of the regime, said...
New South African Trade Union Federation formed!
THE LEADERS of a new trade union federation as an alternative to the Congress for South African Trade Unions (COSATU) have targeted the last...
Palestinians rise up against ‘Israeli collective punishment’
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has responded to being forced to close its offices in Gaza City last week as protesters blockaded its...
Maliki Shuts Down Iraq’s Electrical Trade Unions
THE International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions has expressed outrage at the banning last week of the Iraqi electrical trade...
Russian support welcomed in Africa – as colonialists overthrown in Niger
RUSSIA has the capability to assist with the economic development of Africa and could be a superior replacement to Western countries that are currently...
Bush Moves To Evict Working Class From New Orleans
‘It is beyond callous, and can only be seen as malicious discrimination. It is an unabashed attempt to eliminate the black population of New...
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...
Israel Prepares New Attacks On Gaza
Israel’s security cabinet warned on Wednesday that it will hold Hamas responsible for any attacks from Gaza, and it will also keep the crippling...
Australia Fining Nurses For Going On Strike!
AUSTRALIA is now threatening to fine health workers and their unions for coming out on strike, in a move which is set to be...
‘UNIVERSITIES UNDER PRESSURE OF MARKET FORCES’ – warns NUS
The National Union of Students (NUS) yesterday published a ‘groundbreaking’ report which highlights the faults of the university funding system in unprecedented detail. In ‘Broke...
Moscow & Tehran enhancing their ‘strategic economic cooperation’
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi has said that, having successfully developed their diplomatic relations, Tehran and Moscow now need to enhance their ‘strategic economic cooperation’. Raeisi...
‘We’ll keep on striking till we win!’
‘WE are not quitting until we are winning! We will keep on striking until we win,’ Unite member and Serco worker Yomi Sogbesan told...
The PLO condemns the ‘Gaza Civil Administration’ sought by Israel
The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has condemned ongoing attempts to form parallel or alternative frameworks to the PLO and its...
Fast food revolt in New Zealand!
RESTAURANT Brands which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr and Starbucks chains has committed to end zero-hour contracts by July this year in...
NATFHE NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION ON JUNE 1st – after Northumbria suspends the...
Northumbria University has stepped back from its decision to make immediate deductions of 100 per cent of pay from hundreds of lecturers belonging to...
Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally told that Iraq had no...
THE US Think-Progress website has published the text of the ‘60 Minutes’ TV interview with former CIA official Tyler Drumheller who revealed that in...
AUSTRALIAN ‘WORK CHOICES’ LAWS ‘BAD FOR WORKING FAMILIES’ – says ACTU
Reports that another large employer has labelled the Howard government’s Industrial Relations laws as ‘farcical’ and ‘pointless’ is further evidence that the government’s IR...
OVER 500 CAPE TOWN FIREFIGHTERS FACE THE SACK! – treated like...
‘THE CITY of Cape Town cannot be allowed to have its cake and eat it. We should not allow it to heap all praise...
The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...
A STATEMENT by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office Bearers on Sunday outlined the union’s views ‘on the state of...
Marikana miners did not trust NUM –admits NUM President Zokwana
IT WAS impossible for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to negotiate for striking miners at Marikana because of their aggressive attitude and their...
Palestinian forced to demolish his own home by the Israeli occupation!
A PALESTINIAN on Wednesday morning was forced to demolish his own house in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, reported WAFA’s correspondent. Following an Israeli court...
‘WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESISTANCE AND THE RIGHT TO RETURN’...
‘We have been occupied for 40 years, we have the right to resist’, Farouq Khaddoumi, told a public meeting in London on Monday evening. The...
6,800 UAW members at the SHAP Michigan join Stand Up Strike!
ON MONDAY morning, October 23, 6,800 UAW members at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP), Michigan, joined the Stand Up Strike, shutting down production at...
‘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...
4,000 Colombian miners enter third month of strike!
OVER 4,000 miners, members of the Sintracarbón union, have entered the third month of a bitter strike at the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The...
SAVE LEWISHAM BRIDGE SCHOOL! demand parents, teachers and pupils
MORE than 300 parents, teachers, students and schoolchildren marched through the centre of Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday to save Lewisham Bridge Primary School. The...
Abu Tair and twenty-two others arrested in Israeli police raids...
ISRAELI forces detained Palestinian lawmaker Muhammad Abu Tair and at least 22 others from across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during...
Jamaica, Barbados & Trinidad and Tobago recognise Palestinian statehood
JAMAICA, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, three island countries in the Caribbean, have in recent days officially recognised Palestinian statehood, signalling a shift towards...
The Secret Courts Bill places government ‘above the law’
MINISTERS are attempting to overturn concessions won by members of the House of Lords to the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government’s repressive Secret Courts Bill, warns...
Gaza Freedom Flotilla to set sail!
A FLOTILLA of ships, carrying some 5,000 tons of food, drinking water, and medical aid, is expected to depart from Turkey in the coming...
Hezbollah condemns USA for seeking to trigger Lebanese ‘social explosion’
A TOP official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has slammed the United States for its seditious schemes in Lebanon, warning that Washington is...
Release All Political Prisoners In Turkey
TWENTY-FOUR rights groups have called on Turkey to release all those arbitrarily detained and imprisoned there simply for demanding basic human rights – and...
TUC silent over the massive crisis of the EU
THE TUC’s head of European Union and International Relations Department, Owen Tudor, has recently given a lengthy interview to the internet EurActiv which specialises...
Vote Wrp! Vote For Socialism!
The WRP is standing seven candidates in the May 6 parliamentary elections and below is the party’s election manifesto. VOTE WRP ON MAY 6th! VOTE FOR...
‘Hamas will stand firm against Israeli Occupation’ – statement on 42nd...
On the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Hamas Movement in Lebanon said that the Palestinian people would continue to stand...
‘Industrial Mercenaries’ Used Against Striking Queensland Miners!
‘BRINGING in industrial mercenaries shows just how little Anglo cares about their existing workforce,’ CFMEU (Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union) Queensland District President,...
NO TO TROIKA-DICTATED AUSTERITY MEASURES! – says the International Trade Union...
THE ITUC global union federation has urged the IMF not to let the EC-ECB-IMF troika dictate destructive austerity policies. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the...
6,000 LECTURERS FACE THE AXE – UCU fears more to come
The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday it was furious at the response from the university employers’ organisation over the figures for job...
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...
No to Fire and Rehire at Open University – insists UCU
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...
Students join lecturers’ picket lines across the UK
LECTURERS at 64 universities across the UK began 14 days of strike action on Thursday against imposed changes to their pensions. They were out...