COSATU president celebrates Workers Day on May 1st
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi delivered a Workers Day Speech on May 1st. ‘My fellow South Africans, President Cyril...
President elect Raeisi congratulated by world leaders
WORLD leaders have extended their congratulations to Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on his victory in Iran’s 2021 presidential election. Raeisi garnered almost 62 per cent of...
Sheltered Housing In Danger
THE future of Sheltered Housing Schemes is in danger, unless the government acts to stop their funding being cut, the UK Pensioners Strategy Committee...
Tens of thousands of VW workers strike across Germany
66,000 VW employees went on a ‘warning strike’ on Monday, said their union IG Metall on Tuesday. A union statement continued: ‘The employees are making...
UN Concerned Over Force-Feeding Of Palestinian Hunger Strikers!
THE United Nations has voiced concern over a recently adopted Israeli law allowing the force-feeding of detainees and prisoners on hunger strikes in Israeli...
New school year begins in Gaza and West Bank
THE new school year began in Palestine on Monday amid ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, and the escalating aggression...
100,000 March In Dublin Against Water Charges
HUGE numbers of anti-water-charges demonstrators marched through Dublin city last Saturday, ending with a 100,000-strong rally at the Spire on O’Connell Street, with...
Escalation of violence against Palestinians in Israel
PALESTINIANS in Israel on Monday launched a convoy of vehicles to protest against violence and crime in their towns and Israeli police inaction. The vehicles...
Iran has responded to Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ policy with ‘maximum resistance’...
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told Press TV in an exclusive interview that the Islamic Republic is open to negotiations on reviving...
US Teachers Defy Strike Ban
US school teachers are on strike in Washington state, defying a strike ban. Pasco Association of Educators have been on strike for two weeks. The...
SCRAP SATS AND LEAGUE TABLES – demand teachers unions
The National Union of Teachers (NUT), Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) have produced a joint...
Prime Minister Hamdallah And Egyptian Delegation Arrive In Gaza!
THE arrival of Prime Minister Ram Hamdallah and an Egyptian delegation as part of a fresh attempt to restore Palestinian national unity dominated the...
Fatah Is Working To Develop Popular Resistance
FATAH Central Committee Member Muhammad al-Alul has said that the Palestinian leadership is currently working on developing the popular resistance against the Israeli occupation...
‘Israel has already carried out new airstrikes against Gaza’
FROM ELECTRONIC INTIFADA By M El Haj-Ahmed A translator and teacher from Gaza A MONTH has passed since Israel’s 11-day attack on Gaza came to an...
Harvard Students Battle For Union
SUPPORTERS of Harvard’s student unionisation effort held a rally in the Yard and delivered a petition to Massachusetts Hall on Wednesday, urging the University...
Three Numsa Shop Stewards Killed In Targeted Shooting
THREE NUMSA shop steward leaders were gunned down late on Wednesday 6 August 2014 in the KwaZulu-Natal province. A National Union of Metalworkers of South...
‘Any Israeli act of aggression will ignite new version of 2006...
THE HEZBOLLAH resistance movement has warned that any Israeli act of aggression against Lebanon will ignite an advanced version of the 33-day war fought...
Netanyahu ends peace talks – Demands an end to Fatah-Hamas unity
ISRAEL has called on Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to rip up the unity deal struck between the PLO and Hamas. Israel earlier suspended peace talks...
Strikes, fires and fuel hikes in South Africa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape notes recent developments affecting the Taxi Industry in Cape Town and the...
WE ARE FIGHTING ON! – Teachers set up ‘tree houses’ in...
TEACHERS who have been occupying the site of a planned City Academy at Wembley Park Sports Ground, next to Wembley Stadium in north-west London,...
Hundreds of thousands march against austerity! – WHILE LEADERS LIMIT DEMANDS...
OVER 250,000 people took part in a huge anti-austerity demonstration in London on Saturday, organised by the People’s Assembly. They took part in a rally...
OCCUPY CHASE FARM! – it’s the only way to save the...
EVERY Doctor, nurse, patient and staff member that joined the Xmas mass picket outside Chase Farm Hospital last Wednesday agreed that the only way...
Defend District General Hospitals! Kick Out The Multinationals! Stop NHS Privatisations!
DISTRICT General Hospitals are being destroyed. Bruised and battered from every direction with reforms, £900m direct cuts are the knock out blow with which to...
Israeli Airstrikes On Gaza Kill 13
ISRAELI WARPLANES struck multiple sites across Gaza early Tuesday, killing three Islamic Jihad military leaders along with several others, with an initial total of 12 fatalities. Unnamed...
Greek Workers Need Revolutionary Party!
TWO weeks before the Greek general election, due on June 17, Alexis Tsipras the leader of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) last Friday...
Defend NHS with General Strike!
THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...
‘Serious questions being raised about the rights of Australians!’
LEADERS from more than 50 countries, representing more than one-quarter of the world’s nations and two billion people, are meeting in Perth, Western Australia...
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...
Renault halt operations in South Korea
RENAULT Samsung halted operations at its only plant in South Korea on Monday and Tuesday amid a drawn-out dispute with the plant’s labour union...
Thousands join Cuba’s ‘March of the Fighting People’
On Friday, thousands of Cubans joined the ‘March of the Fighting People’ to honour 32 Cuban soldiers who were killed during a US military...
Tories Planning Police-Fire Service Merger
THE Fire Brigades Union in Northamptonshire is extremely concerned at reports suggesting a possible merger of the fire and rescue service and the police,...
HUGE WAGE AND PENSION CUTS – hundreds of thousands to lose...
IN a press conference on Sunday afternoon, May 2nd the Greek Finance Minister Yiorghos Papakonstantinou announced yet another set of austerity measures verified later...
‘END COMPLICITY WITH ISRAELI APARTHEID’ –Palestinians urge South Africa
Palestinian civil society has called on democratic South Africa to end complicity with Israeli apartheid. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) has released...
Israel Planning 73,300 Illegal Housing Units On The West Bank
Peace Now an Israeli left-wing Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) reported on Monday that the Israeli government is planning to build more than 73,300 new...
‘THE GOVERNMENT IS ENGINEERING THIS FIGHT NOW’ says Unite leader McCluskey
UNIONS have reacted angrily following the Tory-LibDem Coalition government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable’s threat to ban strikes. Cable accepted an invitation from GMB General Secretary...
US military to be a more ‘lethal, adaptive and resilient force’...
US SECRETARY of Defence Lloyd Austin says his country is committed to protecting its Southeast Asian allies against what he called China’s aggression. ‘Beijing’s claim...
‘There must be prosecutions, there’s got to be accountability’ says Manchester...
WEDNESDAY was the 6th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 tenants and residents of Kensington and Chelsea perished in their homes on...
UNHCR condemns UK for plan to deport all asylum seekers
THE UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has condemned the practice by countries like the UK of deporting asylum seekers for processing in...
‘We as Syrians will never accept that Syria become a western...
‘SYRIA won’t be a puppet state for the West,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview with ‘Paris Match’ Magazine. The interviewer began by...
‘Disabled rights and entitlements snatched away’
DISABLED People Against Cuts (DPAC) organised a lively demonstration near Parliament on Monday, to mark the 25th birthday of the Independent Living Fund, which...
EALING HOSPITAL MUST NOT CLOSE! Form a Council of Action NOW
HEALTH workers, trade unionists and local residents spoke out in support of the policy of occupying Ealing Hospital to stop the closure on the...
Any French military unit sent to Ukraine will be a top...
RUSSIA’S foreign intelligence (SVR) top brass said any French military unit sent to Ukraine to help it fight Russia would be a ‘priority’ target...
Carter Warns Against War With Iran
EX-US President Carter has decried his nation’s involvement in unjust conflicts and wishes the US could be seen as a champion of peace. Former US...
AMERICA IS NO LONGER THE POWER IT WAS! says defiant Hezbollah...
EUROPEAN Union governments agreed on Monday to put the military wing of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on the EU terror list in a major...
GMB celebrates Eleanor Marx Day!
THE GMB trade union held its first annual GMB Eleanor Marx Day last Thursday, 14th January 2016, at the union’s national office in Euston...