‘Two-thirds of firefighters will face the sack in their late 50s!’
WEDNESDAY’S four-hour strike by firefighters in England and Wales was an enormous success, with pickets and demonstrations outside fire stations and in town and...
890 arrested on Palestine Action demonstration!
MORE than 890 people were arrested on Saturday at a demonstration against the government’s ban of campaign group Palestine Action. An estimated 1,500 gathered in...
Irish Doctors’ Strike – Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) Has Had No...
The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has had no contact from the Department of Health in relation to a planned public health doctors’ strike in...
PFLP Palestinian prisoners targeted in Israeli jails
THE Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said on Sunday morning that Israel Prison Service (IPS) forces raided section 5 of Israel’s Ramon prison, where they searched...
ARREST AND PROSECUTE SAUDI CROWN PRINCE – Human Rights Watch urge...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has formally requested Argentine judicial authorities to use a domestic constitutional clause to arrest and prosecute Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed...
Labour plans to transform the NHS into ‘Neighbourhood Health Service’ –...
THE NHS trade union leaders have given a muted response to Monday’s Declaration of War on the NHS by the Labour government. PM Starmer and...
Scrap Coronavirus Act – Liberty
Liberty is calling for the Coronavirus Act 2020 to be scrapped, highlighting that it contains sweeping powers that continue to threaten basic civil rights...
Week-long meter workers strike
‘PIG-headed’ EDF Energy bosses have sparked a week-long meter workers’ strike. A week-long strike by EDF Energy workers carrying out Smart meter installations will take...
RMT leader Steve Hedley attacked by fascists
RMT Union leader Steve Hedley was attacked after taking part in a counter-protest to the Trump and Robinson rally on Saturday. The union leader...
‘Stand up against the South West Pay Cartel’ –and stop pay...
UNISON is calling on MPs from the South West of England to give their backing to local health workers including nurses, therapists, porters, and...
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...
Venezuelan parliamentary elections are on December 6th!
ON TUESDAY, November 3, the electoral campaign for the parliamentary elections of December 6, 2020 begins based on the schedule set by the National...
‘RENEWABLE STRIKE WON CONSIDERABLE GAINS’ – but dispute remains says SUD-Rail...
We publish below the SUD-Rail strike bulletin for the first day of the French rail strike, N°8 – 24 November 2005, with thanks to...
‘Summer Of Dissent’ Against Police Bill
A mass petition with over 600,000 signatures was delivered to the Government on Monday, demonstrating the strength of public opposition to the Police, Crime,...
Kitson And Counter-Revolution!
THIS week it emerged that retired British general Sir Frank Kitson is to be sued by the widow of a Catholic worker murdered by...
US workers join unions at Amazon-Starbucks & museums – as 63%...
Workers at a combined Starbucks and Amazon store in Times Square filed a petition for union recognition last Friday, saying they’re being required to...
Government Cuts Forcing Closure Of Children’s Hospices!
NHS and local council cuts are hitting lifeline care for seriously ill children, a survey of 27 children’s hospices in England carried out by...
AFL-CIO warns the Democrats not to cut Social Security, Medicare or...
The AFL-CIO unions have issued a warning to the Democrats about proposed Medicare cuts, telling them, ‘Don’t try it ... we will never forget.’ As...
Google’s $32bn deal fuels Israeli war machine
GOOGLE has announced a $32 billion deal to acquire Wiz, an Israeli cloud security company founded by former operatives of Unit 8200, the Israeli...
WHO’s fast-track medical plan ‘is not realistic’ for South Africa
A new curriculum promising to ‘fast-track medical students into the workforce’, which has been launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for...
Lieberman resignation ‘a political victory for Gaza’ – says Hamas
ADDRESSING reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Lieberman said he deemed Tuesday’s Egyptian-mediated ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza ‘a capitulation to terror’. He added: ‘Despite the...
PALESTINIAN YOUTH SHOT DEAD IN JENIN – during wide-scale Israeli forces...
THE Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on Sunday the news about the Palestinian youth who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in Jenin...
‘Whose side is Labour on? Not the workers!’ says Unite leader...
Unite the union on Friday overwhelming voted to re-examine its relationship with Labour and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner who has had her Unite...
France Telecom ‘Modernisation’ Led To 19 Suicides
‘A LONG-AWAITED trial began on Monday in Paris, accusing telecom giant Orange and seven former or current managers of moral harassment and related charges,’...
Special needs children face exclusion from school!
Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need and are at risk of being permanently excluded from...
Clinton Accuses Bashir Of Undermining South Sudan!
AFTER having pushed to separate oil rich South Sudan from the North, the US is now preparing for military action against the north, accusing...
‘AN ABROGATION OF RESPONSIBILITY’ – POA condemns plans to close 7...
THURSDAY’S announcement that seven prisons are to be closed in March 2013 will endanger the government commitment to a rehabilitation revolution, insisted the Prison...
ANC dismisses call for its leadership to resign
SOUTH Africa’s ruling ANC has dismissed a call by its chief whip, Jackson Mthembu, for the party’s NEC to resign in the wake of...
IOPC reviewing destruction of Malkinson evidence
THE IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct) has begun an investigation as a result of its review into the way Greater Manchester Police handled...
US is constructing Egypt’s ‘Wall of Death’
A SENIOR Egyptian engineer working on the ‘steel wall’ which the Egyptian authorities are building along the borders with the Gaza Strip, has confirmed...
New sanctions on Russia are a signal for Ukraine not to...
NEW sanctions against Russia are a US signal to Ukraine not to negotiate an end to the war, Russia says. By introducing new sanctions against...
Battle for ‘living wage’ is escalating
THE BATTLE for a living wage is escalating, with Southampton Solent University and Norwich City Football Club, being the latest employers who have now...
Egypt Condemns Racist Violence In Calabria
EGYPT strongly condemned on Tuesday attacks on African farm workers in southern Italy and voiced concerns about the Muslim minority there, just days before...
Kick the Tories out and stop the disaster of the second...
BECAUSE the government waited so long before imposing a national lockdown on 31 October, large numbers of people will continue to die of coronavirus...
Russia accuses the West of using sanctions to steal its gold...
RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...
Netanyahu does not care about the fate of the Israeli captives!
The armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades says most of the Israeli captives held in northern Gaza have gone missing, holding...
Shelling of Donetsk school ‘a blatant violation of international law’
MOSCOW authorities have said that they view Kiev’s shelling of a school in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk as a blatant violation of...
Israel Fears Palestinians Will March On Border
Israel strengthened its forces along the border with the Gaza Strip last Sunday, fearful that thousands of Palestinians may march on the border against...
10,000 march in London demanding ‘Kill the Bill’ – as protests...
OVER 10,000 youth and workers demanding ‘Kill the Bill’ marched from Speakers Corner Hyde Park and rallied in Parliament Square, central London, on Saturday. Protests...
ISRAEL SEIZES HAMAS LEADERS – as Palestinians discuss a Unity Government
ISRAELI forces seized Hamas leaders across the West Bank early on Thursday in an apparent attempt to pressure the group in the negotiations over...
‘Two Thirds Of Palestinians Agree That A Two-State Solution Is Not...
BY RAMZY BAROUD – Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a...
‘UNIVERSITIES UNDER PRESSURE OF MARKET FORCES’ – warns NUS
The National Union of Students (NUS) yesterday published a ‘groundbreaking’ report which highlights the faults of the university funding system in unprecedented detail. In ‘Broke...
NATO’s collusion with Japan causes concern in SE Asia
MORE than 90 per cent of respondents in a global survey strongly oppose NATO’s involvement in the Asia-Pacific region, describing the US-led Western military...
Bahrain Parliament pressing to reverse normalisation with Israel
THE DEPUTY speaker of Bahrain’s National Assembly Abdulnabi Salman said on Tuesday that members of the parliament are pressing to reverse the normalisation 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...