500 Turkish organisations representing tens of millions pledge support for Gaza-bound...
More than 500 Turkish organisations have pledged support for a new international maritime initiative aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade on Gaza, according to...
25 YEARS SINCE THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE – Part 1: Eddie Shah,...
‘THAT courage is required for a turnout, often indeed much loftier courage, much bolder, firmer determination than for an insurrection, is self-evident.’ ‘It is,...
Literacy rate in Palestine one of highest in the world
On the occasion of International Literacy Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published a report last week on the illiteracy rate in...
NO DEAL ON IRAN –France accused of blocking agreement on behalf...
IRAN and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, failed to clinch a long-sought deal on Sunday...
Labour movement rises up in Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe
Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, on Thursday, called on the leadership of the...
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,...
‘COMPANY DIRECTORS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE’ – Corporate Manslaughter Bill ‘a...
DRAFT CORPORATE-killing legislation to be debated in parliament today would have made no practical difference to the four major railway disasters since 1997 had...
SPANISH BANK BAILOUT WILL NOT HELP IRELAND says Finance Minister Noonan
THE Eurozone has agreed to lend the Spanish banks up to 100bn euros without demanding any austerity measures after Spanish Economy Minister...
Nurses Are Undervalued Both In Status And In Pay
Nursing is undervalued both in status and pay and until both are enhanced the UK will continue to experience severe nursing shortages, according to...
‘THE FUTURE STEP IS IRAQ’S INDEPENDENCE, UNITY AND SOVEREIGNTY’ – says...
‘We will work with one hand and save Iraq from darkness’, said militant Iraqi Shi’ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr last weekend. He said in an...
Over 40,000 nurses have quit the NHS in the past year...
A RECORD over 40,000 nurses have quit the NHS in the past year – one in nine of the workforce, an analysis by the...
Stop the routine strip searching of children in English and Welsh...
CHILDREN are routinely strip-searched in child prisons and secure children’s homes in England and Wales despite the government’s pledge to stop, says Carolyne...
United Nations Slashes Food Aid For Syrian Refugees
THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that funding shortages have forced it to cut its food assistance for thousands of Syrian...
Greek Riot Police Let Loose On Protesting Workers
HUNDREDS of armed riot police were employed last Friday morning in Athens in a series of tear-gas and truncheon attacks against protesting state teachers,...
‘MUBARAK, MUBARAK THE PLANE AWAITS’ – Egyptian masses tell president to...
Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptians occupying Cairo’s Tahriri (Liberation) Square chanted ‘Mubarak, Mubarak, the plane awaits’ on the sixth day of their people’s...
‘Reject minimum wage exploitation’ 4 SAFTU unions meet to discuss ANC
THE FOUR oldest trade unions affiliated to SAFTU gathered at Ngwelezana Community Hall last week to reflect on what South Africa’s workers have gained...
GADAFFI SPEAKS TO LIBYAN PEOPLE – and to the world
TRIPOLI – Colonel Gadaffi on Wednesday made a major address to the Libyan people. He began: ‘Dear great Libyan, resisting, steadfast and brave people. I...
US Honeywell aerospace workers vote NO to cuts – locked out...
WORKERS have twice voted no on Honeywell’s proposals to eliminate cost-of-living increases and retiree health care, freeze pensions, curtail overtime pay, subcontract work, and...
NHS workers furious over 7th year of pay cuts!
NHS WORKERS are furious that they are to receive a measly 1% pay increase in 2017-18 – in reality another massive pay cut –...
‘The West is always seeking to subjugate countries which do not...
ON Saturday, President Bashar al-Assad received a Russian governmental delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Head of the Russian side to the...
Police fire rubber bullets and teargas at Savar workers
At least 50 people were injured as garment workers clashed with police in Savar on the main road between Dhaka and Aricha in Bangladesh...
Hundreds of thousands mobilise against Macron’s dictatorial health law
FRENCH President Macron’s dictatorial new health law and its passage through parliament has angered a vast swathe of workers, youth and the middle class. On...
Student Occupations Are Spreading!
STUDENT occupations are spreading! Students have occupied the London School of Economics on March since Tuesday March 17 demanding free university education for all. By Thursday...
Iran Will Continue To Support Syria Against Terrorist Groups
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has insisted that the Islamic Republic will continue to support Syria in its fight against terrorist groups. Zarif made...
‘SUSPEND EU-ISRAEL TRADE AGREEMENT!’ – demands Labour MP at Downing Street...
OVER 800 people attended the latest fortnightly picket outside Downing Street on Saturday to demand: ‘End the siege on Gaza!’ Thousands have taken part in...
Unions Must Act To Defend Hospitals
THERE is a huge crisis in A&E departments in English and Welsh hospitals. Emergency patients brought to A&E departments by ambulance frequently have to...
Worldwide demand to break the siege of Gaza!
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared three days mourning, while in Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya declared a general strike in response...
Birri Proposes Solution To Lebanese Political Crisis
ON Friday August 31, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Birri, delivered a speech outlining his proposals for the current political crisis...
NHS Direct Action fighting NHS privatisation
ON WEDNESDAY morning, at 9.00am, 15 NHS Direct Action and UK Uncut activists visited 2020health to protest against the think-tank’s role in lobbying...
£9,000 pinched from public sector pay packets since 2010 says Unison
‘FACING 10 years of pay cuts in real terms, our vital public sector workers – nurses, midwives and refuse collectors – have had an average of...
At least 78 starved to death in Buffelsfontein massacre – locals...
No more ‘illegal miners’ are believed to be trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams...
‘WE ARE IN A STATE OF WAR – repelling a fierce...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday gave a defiant address to the nation, broadcast on national TV. Delivering a speech on the latest developments in...
Arms Embargo On Israel Now!
DEMONSTRATORS picketing the High Court on Wednesday, at the start of a court case against the government, demanded an immediate end to British arms...
WE NEED ‘REFUGEE AND MIGRANT JUSTICE’ – 600 picket the Ministry...
OVER 600 people took part in a demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice last Friday afternoon over the government’s refusal to provide a relatively...
Seiu Launches Campaign For Healthcare And Trade Union Rights
THE two-million-strong Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will today launch an ‘intensive’ campaign for healthcare and trade union rights for all workers in the...
US Trade Unions Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down...
CURFEWS are now in place in cities right across the USA after President Trump sent in the National Guard to try and drive back...
Female doctors take on extra work to fight Covid – RCN...
Female doctors say they have ‘felt compelled to step up’ during the pandemic, even though they knew they were at risk, as BMA research shows that they...
Sri Lankan Military Targets Farmers
Unidentified armed men arriving on a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade on Friday around 5:30am on the house of a Muslim teacher in Ea’raavoor...
Open pipes turned Grenfell into a gas oven Shut-off valves hidden...
CRUCIAL valves to stop gas from fuelling the Grenfell Tower fire may have been built over during refurbishment, the ongoing inquiry into the fire...
Russia will expose Western sabotage of Nord Stream 2 – warns...
RUSSIA will determine the future prospects of interaction with Western countries on its own terms, when and if their leadership sobers up, Foreign Minister...
Tories Declare Class War – By Permission Of The Liberal Democrats
The draft coalition agreement reached by the Tories and the Liberal Democrats published on Wednesday makes clear their number one priority is to make...
Trump’s Special Envoy Meets Netanyahu To Discuss Settlements!
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy on Monday discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT). Israeli newspaper...
Australian Unions Support Korean Rail Workers
THE AUSTRALIAN Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) has rallied with other Australian unions to increase worldwide pressure on the South Korean government to cease its...
Syrian civilians bar the way to US military convoys
LOCAL residents of several villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah have in coordination with government forces prevented a number of US military convoys...
50 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN MODERN SLAVERY says the Arthur Svensson...
FIFTY million people live in modern slavery, says the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight and...