Canadian Rail Workers Strike Ban!
CANADA'S federal government was expected to introduce back-to-work legislation on Monday aimed at forcing striking Canadian Pacific (CP) railway employees to return to their...
Terrorist attacks in northern Syria
THREE civilians were injured with shells in a terrorist attack on Qana al-Assi in Syria’s northern countryside of Homs on Thursday. SANA’s reporter in...
Palestinian hunger strikers are fighting for their freedom!
PALESTINIAN prisoners have been hitting the headlines around the world with the escalating wave of hunger strikes for the release of high-profile prisoners in...
‘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...
‘US and Canadian shale oil producers punished by rout in oil...
IRAN’S Minister of Petroleum, Bijan Zangeneh, says shale oil producers in the US and Canada are being punished by a historic rout in oil...
US bookstore workers form Barnes & Noble Union!
Workers at Barnes & Noble, the United States largest chain of bookstores, are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six shops voted...
‘END GUANTANAMO TORMENT’ – Amnesty repeats call to close prison camp
AMNESTY International has renewed its call for the United States to close its Guantanamo Bay concentration camp and try or release the prisoners held...
Half a million people forced out of their homes by Turkish...
TENS of thousands of residents of the UNESCO world heritage site of Sur are among an estimated half a million people forced out of...
‘WE MUST DEFEAT THEIR PLANS FOR BRUTAL BUTCHERY’ –Trade union lobbyists...
THERE was an angry and determined mood among the 10,000 trade unionists and youth who travelled from all over the country on Tuesday to...
Zimbabwe workers ‘robbed of their wages’!
A NEW report on the non-payment of workers’ wages in Zimbabwe was released earlier this month in Harare, entitled ‘Working Without Pay – Wage...
Israel targeting of journalists is a war crime – says Human...
An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians...
St Paul’s occupiers determined to fight on – despite eviction attempts
ANTI-CAPITALIST St Paul’s occupiers were defiant and determined to stay despite attempts to evict them through the courts. Ev Emanon from Anonymous UK camped at...
Protests Erupt In Bethlehem
Israel detained eleven Palestinians in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, amid protests over restrictions preventing Christians from performing religious rites in...
National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign launched
OVER 2000 workers rallied in San Francisco for the kickoff of the ‘National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign’ on February 15. Chanting ‘Si...
‘GET READY TO OCCUPY CHASE FARM’ – Enfield residents declare
‘We’ve had a lively picket today,’ North East London Council of Action secretary Bill Rogers told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield,...
‘We want those at the very top in central government held...
THE FIREFIGHTERS’ union’s submission to the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry demands that cuts to the fire service must be examined to establish the impact...
Sri Lankan Army Offensive Halted
OFFICIALS of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Vanni told TamilNet on Saturday that their defensive formations at Mallaavi had thwarted...
‘SPEND MORE ON FRONT LINE FIRE SERVICES,’ NOT COSTLY REGIONALISATION –...
Plans to close down all forty six of the fire service’s 999 command and control centres in England and move to nine regional centres are...
‘WE WILL PROTECT YOUR PENSION BY ALL MEANS’ – pledges PCS
in a notice to members, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) explains why the government’s pensions offer is bad news for all members. The...
Assad says Syria supports joint Arab action in the face of...
President Bashar al-Assad says Syria supports joint Arab action in the face of regional challenges, stressing that the Arab country attaches paramount significance to...
Release Shrewsbury 24 papers demand MPs
MPs in the House of Commons on Thursday voted by 120 votes to three to demand that the government releases papers related to Shrewsbury...
SEVEN-YEAR DISPUTE AT PEARL CONTINENTAL HOTEL KARACHI – union to step...
Undeterred by sackings, harassment, violence and hardship, members of the Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel Workers Union are more determined than ever to fight until...
Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister al-Malki visits The Hague to open discussions...
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riad al-Malki, has discussed in The Hague with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda,...
South African joblessness rises to 27.6%
SOUTH Africa’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since the third quarter of 2017 to 27.6% at the end of the first...
NATO war criminals used depleted uranium weaponry in Libya!
JAMAHIRIYA NEWS has reported on NATO war crimes in Libya including deformities in new born babies due to the use by NATO of...
Portland fast food workers battle for $15.25 an hour!
YOUNG fast food workers in Portland, Oregon, USA, who are fighting for a $5 an hour rise above the US state’s minimum wage and...
Yarl’s Wood indefinite hunger strike
The women from Avocet and Dove units, along with a few men on the family wing, are refusing food and are planning further protests....
Palestinian Hunger Strikers Hospitalised
ISRAELI authorities have hospitalised three Palestinians on hunger strike, an Israeli prison services spokeswoman said last Friday. Ayman Sharawna, Jaafar Azzidine and Tareq Qaadan were...
Verizon strike enters second month
‘ONE DAY longer, one day stronger,’ striking Verizon workers chant on their picket lines as their fight proceeds into its second month. More than 40,000...
JUNE 16th–FRENCH UNIONS NATIONAL HEALTH STRIKE
TOMORROW, June 16th, everyone is being mobilised (striking) for health, the CGT French union federation has declared. Health, medico-social, social, nursing homes and national education...
Huwara Set Ablaze By Rampaging Zionist Settlers
HUWARA, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, was almost entirely set ablaze on Sunday night as extensive fires engulfed...
UN DEMANDS TOTAL ACCESS TO INTERNMENT CAMPS – as Sinhala youths...
TAMILNET reports that gangs of Sinhala youths brandishing Lion flags in the name of victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have...
‘SECRET FLIGHTS TO TORTURE AND DISAPPEARANCE’ – Amnesty
¸??ternational has released a new report which exposes a covert operation whereby people have been arrested or abducted, transferred and held in secret or...
Trade unionists join Portland protesters
Trade unionists joined the Portland, Oregon demonstrations outside the Justice Centre on Saturday night, with many protesters wearing similar coloured shirts as part of...
‘Don’t dismantle US healthcare system’ – warns Sanders
‘IT didn’t take long. During the first week of 2017, the new Republican Congress has begun efforts to dismantle America’s health-care system,’ says Bernie...
US teachers will fight Trump’s education attacks!
In a statement released on Wednesday the National Education Association (NEA) Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) the two largest teaching unions...
Coalition Prepares Summer War Over Pensions
THE PCS is discussing co-ordinated strike action with other unions to fight the Tory-LibDem onslaught on the pensions of millions of health, local council,...
BACCALAUREATE THREATENS ‘CULTURAL APARTHEID’ –says theatre director Richard Eyre
High profile figures from the arts have joined with the National Union of Teachers in condemning the Coalition’s planned secondary school Key Stage 4...
WEMBLEY OCCUPATION GROWING – students and teachers show support at Saturday’s...
THERE was a great turnout of over 300 trade unionists, local residents and youth at the Wembley Park anti-academy occupation Jamboree in north-west London...
Trump overrides California governor to send 700 Marines and thousands of...
An appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed the Trump administration to return control of California’s National Guard troops...
‘STOP EVICTIONS FROM THE HEYGATE ESTATE!’ – tenants anger grows
‘STOP evictions from Heygate estate!’ demanded a picket by Heygate tenants and the South-East London Council of Action, outside Southwark Town Hall last Wednesday...
Children ‘rediscovering how to smile’ in bomb battered Mosul!
ON a classroom whiteboard in the battered city of Mosul the words ‘rediscovering how to smile’ outline the heartbreaking task of Iraqi teachers striving...
UK and France ready for Syria war!
FRANCE and Britain are preparing to arm anti-Syria rebels even without unanimous EU support, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday. Paris and London...
‘Shoot to kill first and ask questions later’–if the target is...
IN THE span of less than 25 hours, two shooting incidents took place in two areas in the occupied West Bank. In both incidents,...
Syria is determined to recover the Golan ‘through all available means’
SYRIA has strongly condemned the controversial Israeli plan to double the settler population in the Golan Heights, warning against the ‘unprecedented and dangerous’ uptick...