Unions fighting for jobs, pay and services – time for a...
Birmingham bin strikers fighting race to the bottom Striking Birmingham bin workers have rejected a one off non-consolidated cash offer from Birmingham council but only if they accept a brutal...
IRAN WILL DECIDE SOON OVER 2015 NUCLEAR DEAL – Europeans must...
TOP nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi has said Iran will decide soon whether to stay in the 2015 nuclear deal as he urged the Europeans...
Over 60 million refugees worldwide
‘INDICATIONS from the first half of the year suggest 2015 is on track to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first...
The entire population of Gaza at risk of dying in Israel’s...
THE entire population of the Gaza Strip is at risk of dying in Israel’s genocide, says special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. The United Nations expert on...
RUSSIA-INDIA ‘A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP’ says President Putin
FOLLOWING Russian-Indian talks on 11 December 2014 in New Delhi, President Putin made the following statement. ‘Mr Prime Minister has mentioned that in 2000...
Civil servants are dreading energy bill hike of 54%
CIVIL servants in the PCS union have shared how they are dreading the steep rise in energy prices as energy regulator Ofgem yesterday confirmed...
No Action Proposed By Tuc To Defend Steel Industry
THE TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday made a show of defending the steel industry and steel jobs. Steel workers were guests of honour in...
END THE OCCUPATION! VICTORY TO PALESTINE! – demand 25,000 marchers
A MASS demonstration of around 25,000 people from all over Britain and other countries marched in support of Palestine from Downing Street through central...
President Diaz-Canel condemns Trump’s ‘suffocate’ Cuba plan
Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel has denounced an attempt by United States President Donald Trump to ‘suffocate’ the sanctions-hit country’s economy. Trump signed an executive order...
PRABAKHARAN CONDEMNS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY – for supporting war against the...
TAMILNET has reported the LTTE leader Prabakharan’s address to Tamil Tiger cadres and supporters on ‘Heroes Day’. We reproduce part of it. News Line...
‘BRING POLICE KILLERS TO JUSTICE’ – de Menezes family demands of...
Over three hundred friends and supporters of the family of Jean Charles de Menezes – the young Brazilian electrician murdered by Metropolitan Police firearms...
South African teachers endorse Israeli Apartheid Week
THE South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) endorses the Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) taking place from 6th-12th March, 2017. The week focuses on Palestinian political...
SRI LANKA ARMY SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES –at the hands of Tamil...
TAMILNET reports that officials of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said that 130 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed in the...
‘We will defeat TPP’ says Trumka
‘THE hardworking families of the AFL-CIO will join with our allies to defeat the TPP,’ says Trumka. After the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Higher nurse-to-patient ratio decreases risk of death
A HIGHER nurse-to-patient ratio is linked to a reduced risk of inpatient death, finds a study of staffing levels in NHS hospitals, published in...
Israel violates ceasefire for 60 consecutive days! – and claims ‘yellow...
The Israeli occupation army continued, for the 60th consecutive day yesterday, to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, targeting residential buildings and...
US-Israeli scheme for Syria ‘in its last throes’
INFORMATION Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, stressed on Monday that the regional US-Israeli scheme in Syria ‘is in the last throes and it has clinically...
SA education unions demand suspension of schooling – as 10,000 schools...
LESS than two weeks after schools re-opened in South Africa, there have been growing calls to suspend schooling as many schools have recorded positive...
ISRAELI FORCES BOARD THE ‘DIGNITE AL KARMA’ – passengers arrested, then...
FIFTEEN activists held after Israeli forces intercepted their boat as they attempted to sail to Gaza will be deported today, an Israeli official...
Cease the scrapping of BTec demands the Sixth Form Colleges Association
A KEY education union campaign to stop BTec vocational qualifications being scrapped within two years has won backing from both MPs and even lords...
‘Forming Unity government with Assad is delusional!’ – says Syrian opposition...
THE Syrian opposition’s chief negotiator in peace talks in Geneva said on Wednesday he was ‘not optimistic’ about strained efforts to end the nearly...
‘The Martyrdom of Palestinian Women and Children Will End the Zionist...
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Israeli regime’s killing of innocent Palestinian women and children will spell its end. Raeisi made the remarks at the...
GATE GOURMET DüSSELDORF ON STRIKE – after 3 years of harassment...
THE Gate Gourmet workers on strike at Düsseldorf airport continued their picket throughout the year-end holiday season supported by their union, the NGG, their...
Defeat The Health And Social Care Bill!
BY ANNA ATHOW, BMA COUNCIL, IN A PERSONAL CAPACITY THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government is determined to push through the Health and Social Care Bill...
Israeli military demolishes Palestinian primary school
THE ISRAELI military has demolished a European Union-funded Palestinian primary school in the central part of the occupied West Bank as the Tel Aviv...
London protest and vigil in solidarity with Sudan on one year...
OVER a hundred Sudanese and their supporters held a vigil in Trafalgar Square on Monday night. Organised by London for Sudan and the Madiniya organisation...
Teamsters Question Self-Driving Technology As Sanders Wants ‘Medicare For All’
TEAMSTERS General Secretary Treasurer, Ken Hall, has testified at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on self-driving technology, urging for the exemption of commercial...
ENGAGE WITH HAMAS – MPs urge Brown government
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee of MPs has said the UK government’s ‘decision not to speak to Hamas in 2007 following the Mecca...
Five Years Since Yasser Arafat’s Murder
PALESTINIANS around the world marked the fifth anniversary of the death of President Yasser Arafat yesterday. In the West Bank, where Arafat’s Fatah movement...
Greek Riot Police Continue Vicious Attacks On Cleaners!
GREEK armed riot police squads once again viciously attacked the women cleaners outside the Finance Ministry in central Athens last Thursday afternoon. Four women cleaners...
‘Tens of thousands of Palestinian families at risk of home...
‘Israel is implementing a strategy of Judaisation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,’ Professor Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing,...
‘ISRAEL OUT OF LEBANON’ – demands Downing Street picket
‘Victory to Hezbollah! Israel out of Lebanon! Freedom for Palestine! Cease-fire now!’ chanted over 800 demonstrators opposite Downing Street last Friday night. The two-hour evening...
PROBE ISRAELI ASSAULT ON LEBANON CIVILIANS –urges Amnesty
Amnesty International on Tuesday renewed its call for a comprehensive and independent UN-led inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law committed during this year’s...
Cook County health workers strike to defend pay and conditions
THOUSANDS of health workers in Cook County, Illinois, are continuing strike action against attacks on their pay and conditions. Meanwhile 100 Illinois librarians have formed...
‘KILLING KELLY’ A documentary by George Galloway
REVIEW BY FRA HUGHES THE strange death of Dr. David Kelly was exposed on celluloid at the premiere of the Killing Kelly documentary screened at...
BA pensioners fury at Ascot meeting
TWO THOUSAND furious Airways Pension Scheme (APS) members attended meetings at Ascot Racecourse on Monday, where they tore into the BA-appointed trustees who have...
Struggle over General Strike at 20,000-strong Dublin rally
20,000 people took part in last Saturday’s march in Dublin organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. The aim of the protest was to...
Sodexo Oppressing Workers In The US And Colombia
Sodexo laundry workers in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday delivered a petition to management calling for greater safety standards. The petition included hundreds of signatures from...
US SANCTIONS ON IRAN HAVE FAILED says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says, despite all the pressure exerted on the Iranian nation by the United States – especially through the imposition of...
GAZA AIR STRIKES CONTINUE AS HUNGER STRIKERS ENTER 30th DAY!
ISRAELI warplanes early Saturday carried out several air strikes targeting different locations in the Gaza Strip, injuring Palestinians and causing destruction to Palestinian properties. A...
Egypt’s New Trade Union Law Within Days
THE Egyptian Cabinet has approved new legislation on trade union freedoms, consenting to pass the law within days. The new legislation would eliminate many of...
Abductions, illegal detentions, extra-judicial executions and torture ‘routine in Sri lanka’
‘HUNDREDS of people languish in arbitrary, illegal and often incommunicado detention in Sri Lanka, vulnerable to torture and extrajudicial execution, despite the end of...
‘The 3rd Intifada will defeat Israel’ – Haniya
DEPUTY head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniya has urged Arab and Muslim leaders in the region, in letters sent to them, to support...
South African trade unions battle inflation as food prices rise by...
SAFTU – the South African Federation of Trade Unions – notes the stubborn inflation which remains high above 7%, and averaged 7,2% in December...
London Busworkers Rally To Demand Action Over Driver Fatigue!
VER a hundred Unite bus drivers and their supporters held a lively rally on Thursday morning outside London’s City Hall demanding action from Transport...