Trump’s immigration detention centres ‘rife with serious abuses’
Detainees at three United States immigration detention centres have reported degrading conditions, including a delay in medical treatment that may be tied to two...
‘HUNDREDS KILLED BY ISRAELI-BACKED DEATH SQUADS’ – A review of Sabra...
‘We commemorate the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in honour of the hundreds of men, women and children killed by death squads...
Stop US Drone Strikes On Yemen
A YEMENI family whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike have appealed to a German court to ensure that a US base...
‘WALL STREET BANKERS LOOTED BILLIONS – I DID NOT HEAR ANY...
THE United Nations Special Rapporteur, Maina Kiai, on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association made a visit to the United...
Anc To Talk To Amcu As Declining Real Wages Drive Forward...
THE African National Congress (ANC) has denied that its fear of losing large numbers of votes in next year’s election has made it reconsider...
Radiographers demand pay restoration!
THE NHS will haemorrhage staff unless pay is restored to match national averages, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) warned on Tuesday. The SoR has submitted...
12.7% electricity tariff increase will entrench poverty for millions says South...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Friday that it strongly rejects the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA’s) decision...
STOP THE CLOSURE! – get ready to occupy Chase Farm Hospital
MORE than 400 people joined Saturday’s march through Enfield by the North-East London Council of Action to keep Chase Farm Hospital open. The march was...
Macron Government Is Mobilising Against Railworkers!
THE MACRON government is mobilising against the Gradual Cessation of Activity Agreement signed at the SNCF because it will allow French railway workers to...
Britain’s secret work on Bahrain’s death row
BRITAIN’S secretive work at a death-row jail in Bahrain is being challenged by international human rights group Reprieve. The UK Foreign Office paid almost a...
South African court bans Johannesburg bus strike
SOUTH Africa bus service Rea Vaya operator, PioTrans, last Thursday secured an interdict banning 179 employees from embarking on an unprotected strike and continuing...
Close The Concentration Camps – Free The Tamils! – Say 30,000...
Despite the October chill, over 30,000 British Tamils and supporters took to the streets on Saturday, to highlight the desperate situation faced by Tamils...
Over 500 on 26th annual United Families and Friends march
THERE were 500 demonstrators on Saturday’s annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street, where a petition was...
Striking teachers rally in London and Sheffield
HUNDREDS of thousands of National Education Union (NEU) members are taking part in a second national teachers’ strike today, having also struck on Wednesday...
Wells Fargo employees ballot for union recognition
In a remarkable series of events, Wells Fargo employees from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Bethel, Alaska, are spearheading the bank’s first-ever union elections. This historic...
Anc Government Is Seeking To Make Public Sector Workers Pay For...
AGAINST a background of economic collapse with unemployment rising to nearly 30 per cent, the ANC government of South Africa, driven by the Treasury,...
‘THE FUTURE OF THE NHS IS AT STAKE!’ – say ‘Mums...
OVER 400 doctors, furious at government ‘reforms’ which threaten their profession – making a staggering 14,000 hospital doctors redundant from August – descended on...
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...
Greek workers determined to bring down the Papandreou government
ACCORDING to the trades unions, the Greek one-day general strike was solid, with hundreds of thousands of workers taking part in demonstrations throughout the...
An inflation-busting pay rise is needed to keep key NHS staff...
FOUR out of five NHS staff say pay is the main reason they would quit their jobs. An exclusive poll of NHS staff yesterday revealed...
US calls for investigation into Sri Lankan war crimes
US Congressman Steve Driehaus (Democrat-Ohio), a senior member of the United States National Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, in a letter to US Secretary...
Purpose Of Washington Summit Is To ‘Liquidate The Palestinian Cause’
Hamas warned on Thursday that the summit held in Washington and the resumption of direct peace talks with the ‘Zionist enemy’ only serve the...
Leadership And Industrial Action Needed To Stop NHS Privatisation
THE British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM), which opens in Torquay today, gathers at a time of unprecedented challenges for the medical...
‘THE HUMAN COST OF DETENTION’ –Refugee Council welcomes Amnesty report
The Refugee Council has welcomed today’s publication of a new Amnesty International UK report on detention of asylum seekers ‘The Human Cost of Detention’....
End Cuba blockade now! – demands international Day of Action
A Day of action against the US blockade on Cuba has been held in several countries, with supporters of the Latin American nation determined...
Irish Teachers Strikes Loom
Research carried out by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) indicates that second-level schools will lose an average of 2.6 temporary and part-time...
Hamas warns that Israel’s house demolitions will trigger ‘explosion’ of Palestinian...
PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad and Hamas resistance movement have warned that Israel’s house demolitions and its expansion of illegal settlements in al-Quds (Jerusalem) will trigger...
Fe Lecturers Across Scotland To Begin A Series Of Strike Actions!
LECTURERS at further education colleges across Scotland are to begin an indefinite series of strikes, taking three days of strike action every single week...
The US will repeat the mistakes of Afghanistan!
AN inspector general appointed by the US Congress to examine the war in Afghanistan has listed Washington’s failures in the 20 years of war...
‘THE DAY OF ISRAELI MILITARY TOURISM ON THE LEBANESE BORDER AND...
HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking via a giant screen on Saturday, vowed to respond to attacks on Hezbollah. HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking...
Washington DC parents keep children home as ICE raids intensify
Immigrant families across the United States capital are facing the new school year under the shadow of aggressive federal immigration enforcement, with raids and...
Palestinian hunger strikers home raided!
ISRAELI authorities raided the house of Samer Issawi, a Palestinian prisoner who engaged in one of the longest hunger strikes in history, on Sunday. Authorities...
‘The Christians of Palestine are partners in the one homeland’ says...
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, launched its campaign for the Palestinian elections on Tuesday, in defiance of Israeli attempts to bar the movement from...
Egyptian Army Demolitions Creating A Gaza Buffer Zone
AL-AQSA TV on Sunday morning carried the following ‘urgent’ screen caption: ‘Residents on the Egyptian side of Rafah are angry because the Egyptian army...
NUMSA fights attempt to ban South Africa bus strike
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has opposed an application to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) Essential Services...
CWU considering ‘national industrial ballot’ – if no progress made on...
A COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) report to its Postal Policy Forum on ‘National Talks – The Future of the Royal Mail Group’, has told...
Reverse UK decision on Hamas – says Palestinian Ambassador Dr Husam...
THE PALESTINIAN Mission to the United Kingdom condemned the British government’s decision to designate the political wing of the Hamas movement a ‘terrorist organisation’,...
KICK OUT THE PRIVATEERS! say NHS Together marchers
FIFTEEN thousand health workers and trade unionists from schools, local councils and other public services – as well as local residents fighting hospital closures...
PRISONERS ‘TREATED LIKE ANIMALS’ alleges Human Rights Watch and NAACP
THE US Department of Justice should immediately investigate allegations that pre-trial detainees evacuated after Hurricane Katrina to Louisiana’s Jena Correctional Facility were ‘treated like...
Ikea In France Used Police And Private Detectives To Spy On...
N 2012, French union confederation Force Ouvrière decided to take legal action to shed light on the discovery of a ‘surveillance and espionage service’...
‘A new Nakba for us’ say Hebron families
PALESTINIAN families began returning to their homes in Hebron this week after Israeli forces withdrew at dawn from the neighbourhoods they had taken over...
‘US-UK Hands Off Assange’ – say human chain protesters
‘US-UK Hands off Assange!’ said demonstators in Parliament Square before several thousand made a human chain around the Houses of Parliament on Saturday. ‘There’s only...
MPs rattled by phone hacking crisis – and lack of police...
‘Something very dark lurks in the evidence files of the Mulcaire case, and dark and mysterious forces are keeping it that way,’ Labour MP...
‘DEMOCRACY IN PERIL’ – Sri Lankan journalists protest against election abuses
Exiled journalists have condemned state media abuse in the Sri Lanka presidential election campaign, reports TamilNet.| Journalists for Democracy (JDS), a Germany-based media advocacy group...
KERRY STEPS UP WAR ON SYRIA – as conflict spreads into...
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry expressed confidence on Tuesday that weapons being supplied by Gulf countries to the Syrian rebels were reaching...