FREE THE FILTON 24 NOW! – demands the 500-strong Pentonville prison...
There was a powerful 500-strong picket of Pentonville Prison on Caledonian Road in north London on New Year’s Eve in support of the Filton...
10,000 SA workers indefinite strike
NEARLY 10,000 workers employed by the South African Revenue Services (SARS) began indefinite strike action last Thursday to fight for an 11.4% salary increase. Members...
Secret Police State Helped Bosses Draw Up Blacklist And Used Women...
CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has exposed how the union was infiltrated by the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The revelation creates fresh questions about the...
Israel sends Gaza 50,000 expired Covid-19 vaccines
The Gaza Health Ministry has held Israel responsible for the expiry of 50,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine recently delivered to the besieged coastal enclave. In...
Israel imposes travel ban on journalists!
Israel ‘indefensibly prevents dozens of Palestinian journalists from travelling as a punishment for their journalistic work or expression of their opinions,’ Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights...
Israel Bars Gaza Christians From Holy Sites This Xmas In...
CHRISTIANS from the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy sites in Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, the so-called...
‘My daughter has been been branded a terrorist – she is...
At the rally at Downing Street the first speaker was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, who said: ‘Friends of justice, friends...
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...
Australian mass marches against low pay!
MORE THAN 170,000 workers marched through Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, while tens of thousands of others marched through Sydney, Wollongong, Gladstone, Cairns, Mackay, Darwin,...
SRI LANKA IS ‘SCREENING’ IDPs, JAILLING DISSIDENTS AND MONITORING WEBSITES
TamilNet reports that 1191 members of 385 Internally Displaced families among the hundreds of thousands detained in Vavuniyaa internment camps after the fall of...
90 YEARS OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION – Forward to the World...
IN OCTOBER 1917 workers took power in Russia. This is the 90th anniversary of the victorious October Revolution, the first time in history that the...
‘WE’RE HERE TO GET FREE EDUCATION BACK’ say students
Students on a 1,000-strong march through London on Wednesday called on the trade unions to act to restore free education. Students marched from University of...
Lift The Siege! Break The Blockade!
HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal held a news conference in Cairo last Friday. He began by saying: ‘We are now in Cairo on the first leg...
35,000 Greek public & private sector workers take part in mass...
SOME 35,000 public and private sector workers and students took part in mass rallies and marches on Wednesday in central Athens as part of...
NAHT head teachers union set to join NEU in national action...
On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...
Doctor at centre of Baha Mousa’s death faces a six-week ‘fitness...
DR DEREK Keilloh is to face a six-weeks General Medical Council fitness to practice panel, commencing 11 June 2012, over his role in the...
Tens Of Thousands March For Mousavi
TENS of thousands of supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi staged a ‘silent’ protest rally in Tehran on Wednesday against the...
‘Gadaffi Is In Good Health And In Libya!’
DAMASCUS – Musa Ibrahim, the Libyan government spokesman, gave a telephone interview last Monday with Iraqi businessman and owner of Damascus-based and pro-Al-Gadaffi Al-Ra’y...
Mass Delhi rally called against power privatisation!
WORKERS in the power industry across India will hold a massive rally in Delhi on November 23 against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022, which...
Palestinian prisoner kept in solitary confinement for eight years!
A PALESTINIAN prisoner who has been in solitary confinement for eight years in Israeli jails has recently been suffering a psychological and neurological disorder,...
Ringleaders of foreign-backed riots arrested in Iran!
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) forces have identified and arrested ringleaders and terrorist elements involved in the recent foreign-linked riots in Iran’s southwestern...
MPs rattled by phone hacking crisis! – PART 2: Privileges Committee...
TOM Watson, (West Bromwich East Labour MP, told the House of Commons: ‘Anyone can have their phone tapped by the newspapers, and they do. He...
Egypt’s Transport Workers Sit-In At Cabinet Office!
EGYPT'S Public Transport Authority workers on Saturday announced the beginning of an open-ended sit-in outside cabinet headquarters on Cairo’s Qasr al-Ainy Street, following a...
Tuc Supports Strikes By Writers Guild Of America
British trade unionists on Wednesday demonstrated their support for America’s striking screenwriters as part of an international day of solidarity called by the Writers...
South Bank Uni strike vote expected this week! – no confidence...
Staff at London South Bank University have no confidence in the vice-chancellor and senior leadership team, the University and College Union (UCU) has announced,...
10,000 RMT Tube members on strike today!
‘Every single Tube line is suspended today. We’ve shut down London and we’ll do it again on Thursday,’ RMT Health and Safety Rep Carlos...
‘DON’T LET YOUR FIRST JOB BE YOUR LAST’ – TUC warns...
DON’T let your first job be your last, TUC warned young summer workers yesterday. As four million under 25 year olds go to work this...
TURKISH ARMY SHELLS AFRIN AS TERRORISTS SHELL DAMASCUS – US bombing...
ON WEDNESDAY more civilians were killed or injured and material damage caused to the citizens’ houses and public facilities in Afrin city and its...
PALESTINE WILL BE FREE! – Message from PALEXPO July 6th &...
THOUSANDS turned out over the weekend and packed the main auditorium sections at the Olympia Stadium, London for the PALEXPO exhibition to boost the...
Palestinian children beaten and tortured by Israel
TESTIMONIES by a number of Palestinian children to the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission show they were subjected to systematic beating and torture during and after...
Brighton hotel blaze: ‘Firefighters stretched to near breaking point’
As the demolition last week of the fire-ravaged Albion hotel in Brighton was underway, following an initial earlier blaze, a second fire broke out...
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...
Irish Trade Unions Split Over Croke Park
THE Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Civil, Public and Services Union have decided they will urge members to reject the Croke Park...
In Portugal and France workers & youth take to the streets
RAILWAY workers have started a week-long strike in Portugal, with the first two days of strike action having been held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Workers...
ZIONIST SETTLERS’ POGROM AGAINST PALESTINIANS ‘MUST BE STOPPED NOW’ –...
The Jewish settler pogrom against Palestinians must be stopped now, says Khalid Amayreh. He writes: ‘Nazi-like Jewish settlers have of late stepped up their...
‘Fight for a general strike to bring down the government and...
The May Day Rally organised by the Young Socialists and the Workers Revolutionary Party, took place in Holborn on Monday 4th May at the end...
‘Take remote sign-on off the table or we ballot for strike’...
Unite announced on Tuesday that ‘if remote sign-on is not taken entirely off the table for all bus operators then Unite, which represents over...
‘We want justice for myself and my family’ – Mohammed Abdul...
THE anger of the local community against the police raid in Forest Gate on June 2 burst onto the streets of Newham, east London,...
Healthworkers pay tribute to Gaza medics
THE COMMUNITY Camp4Palestine opposite the US embassy in Battersea on Tuesday night hosted an event to honour paramedics in Gaza. Opening the proceedings, Elina, a...
‘Systematic abuse in Qatar’ – says Amnesty
MIGRANT workers building Khalifa International Stadium in Doha for the 2022 World Cup have suffered systematic abuses, in some cases forced labour, Amnesty International...
San Francisco teachers hold their first strike in 47 years!
‘Thousands of public school teachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public (state) school teachers strike in the city in...
Israel Planning Attack On Hezbollah
FEARS are growing that Israel will risk a surprise strike to cripple Hezbollah. For more than a decade, the assessment that another war between Israel...
GAZA DEATH TOLL REACHES 117 – 13,000 injured, 300 still critical
Naji Maysara Ghneim, 23, died on Wednesday of wounds sustained a few days ago when hit by Israeli army gunfire east of Rafah in...
South Africa–Massive State Fraud Exposed!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has released a full statement saying it is ‘outraged’ by accusations that Public Protector Thuli...
Sixty-nine million more teachers needed by 2030 to educate every...
THIS year’s World Teachers’ Day, which takes place every October 5th, marked the 50th anniversary of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the status of teachers,...