RATP bus drivers strike against wage cutting!
BUS drivers in London have launched a fresh wave of strikes as their union Unite announced further strike action involving bus drivers employed by...
Gaza Has Been Made Unfit For Human Life!
THE UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine issued a report late last Monday accusing Israel of a systematic campaign of forced displacement, destruction and acts...
Iran considering participation in nuclear talks in spite of US ‘unreasonable...
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran is considering whether to participate in the next round of indirect nuclear negotiations with the US. Araghchi said on...
COSATU calls a National Day of Action for July 6th –...
COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) is ‘appalled to learn that many municipalities across the North West are still failing to pay...
‘LEBANESE PRISONERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE’ – says Hezbollah
SHEIKH Na’im Qasim, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, told a Beirut rally marking the ‘29th anniversary of the arrest of Samir al-Qintar’ in Israel and...
US Brown University To Divest From Companies That Are ‘Complicit In...
IN A HISTORIC move, Brown University in Rhode Island has become the first US Ivy League institution to pass a student referendum supporting divestment...
Medical Students Are Deep In Debt!
Medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating over £13,000 more in debt than their better off peers, says a new report from the BMA. The...
Big Bike Ride to save Ealing Hospital greeted with cheers and...
THE WEST London Council of Action Big Bike Ride to Save Ealing Hospital on Sunday was a great success. More than two dozen riders with...
IRAQI OIL WORKERS THREATEN TO STOP WORK – as demonstrations spread...
At Iraq’s state-owned North Oil Company (NOC) on Saturday a demonstration of 300 day workers warned they would go on strike if their work...
THEY DEMAND THAT WE JOIN RUSSIA – Lukashenka condemned Putin leadership
BELARUSIAN president Alyaksandr Lukashenka has blamed the Russian government for the oil transit crisis earlier this month. Speaking to reporters while casting his vote in...
Palestinians Confront Settlers At Beit Orot
Jerusalem residents and Fatah official Hatem Abdul Qader confronted a group of Israeli settlers as they attempted to claim lands on the Mount of...
Israel’s ‘nightmare of collapse’ coming to life – says Iranian ...
CHIEF of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, says the ‘glorious’ Palestinian military operation in the occupied territories has made...
Irish government ‘must prioritise services to children and families’
IMPACT trade union’s civil service conference has passed an emergency motion on the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse –...
PPPs are looting the planet – says Public Services International
A NEW report released by the UK-based Jubilee Debt Campaign provides a scathing critique of the failure of PPPs across a range of sectors...
Irish Pensioners Protest Outside The Dail Against Dublin Government Cuts
SIPTU members and officials took part in a protest rally outside the Dáil on Tuesday organised by the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament and other...
Israeli Blockade On Medical Supplies Killing Gazans
‘The four-year Israeli siege on Gaza has resulted in the deaths of dozens of Palestinians suffering from health problems due to the lack of...
UCU pay and pensions strike set to escalate
UNIVERSITY staff completed their first two days of strike action yesterday at 74 universities across the country and their strike was solid, winning 100%...
US unions fight against the voter identification laws
THE US’ largest labour federation plans to mount an aggressive campaign against voter identification laws in a half-dozen battleground states that will be key...
ST Helier’s ‘Picnic with a Purpose!’ – DETERMINED THAT THE HOSPITAL...
SOME 2,000 local residents, trade unionists, youth and their families turned out on Saturday for a ‘Picnic with a Purpose’ outside St Helier Hospital...
Israel is conducting violent raids in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm
THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...
RAIL PASSENGERS RUNNING SAME RISK say Ladbroke Grove survivors – six...
On 5 October 1999, 31 people died and 259 were injured in a terrible train crash that took place at Ladbroke Grove, just outside...
BIG BUSINESS FRAUD BOOMING! – as workers fight for their rights
WHERE crime ends and business starts and vice versa has always been seen as a blurred grey area which always remains, whatever the scandals...
Israeli Military Admits To Killing Girl
ISRAEL’S military just after midnight on Friday admitted their responsibility for the death of a teenage girl in Gaza. The announcement came following its insistence...
SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO BAY – Mass habeas corpus hearing
ON WEDNESDAY, July 11, lawyers representing eight long-term detainees at Guantánamo Bay argued in federal court that the US government cannot continue to detain...
Bravery in Gaza extends beyond soldiers in battle!
Courage is not confined to a specific segment of society; it extends beyond soldiers in battle. In the midst of the ongoing Israeli aggression on...
South African Farmworkers Facing Hunger Two Weeks Into Lockdown!
ON April 9th South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the lockdown to disrupt the transmission of Covid-19 in the country would be ‘extended...
Israel’s War On Gaza’s Children
THIS week the organisation Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI-P) published an in-depth report detailing the devastating effects on the lives of Palestinian children...
11,000 Residents & Supporters Join Grenfell Silent Walk
MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...
‘Those who support Israeli aggression are partners in their crimes’ –...
Iranian armed forces have launched the tenth phase of Operation True Promise III by firing a barrage of missiles and drones toward the occupied...
Israeli interrogators force ‘confessions’ – says Palestinian prisoners’ committee
ISRAELI interrogators are using ‘oppressive and brutal’ methods to frighten Palestinian detainees and force them into confessing to attacks against Israel, the Palestinian prisoners’...
Sanctions on Russia adversely affect global economy
RUSSIA’S President, Vladimir Putin, has opined that the latest raft of unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and its allies over the...
LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE’ TODAY – 1. European capitalism gripped by...
A REVOLUTIONARY situation exists in Europe today as a result of the world capitalist crisis. Social Democratic/Labour and Stalinist reformists, and revisionists, may scoff at...
Continue the fight against US and Israel – says Iranian military...
THE Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) described confrontation with the US and Israel as the achievements of the Islamic...
Gm Boss Refuses To Say Which European Plants Will Be Closed
GENERAL Motor’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Fritz Henderson, took questions at a Detroit press conference on Thursday, November 5th concerning the Magna...
Coalition ‘slashing Health and Safety budgets!’ – Lord Young’s Review condemned
Trade unions have reacted angrily to Tory peer Lord Young’s review of health and safety. The RMT transport union said that his report ‘is...
Coalition spy chaperoned UK schoolgirls to ISIS in Syria
THE Turkish authorities have captured a person working for the intelligence agency of a coalition country in connection with the journey of three teenaged...
Four Seasons ‘The Son Of Southern Cross’ Warns Gmb
SEVENTY-ONE former Southern Cross Care Homes in the UK were being transferred to new operator Four Seasons on Monday (31 October 2011). These are the...
South African unions reject ANC budget and IMF; ‘Divorced from...
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Wednesday rejected the budget of the ANC led coalition for a second time. SAFTU stated: ‘SAFTU...
‘US is stealing Syria’s oil and selling it to Turkey’ says...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given a comprehensive interview to Phoenix Television in which he stressed that America is stealing Syria’s oil and selling...
Syria Puts Fighting Terrorism Onto The Geneva Agenda!
SYRIA’S official delegation has managed to put counter-terrorism on the agenda as stated by the Geneva Communiqué during a joint session concluded on Wednesday...
‘It will be hard for GPs to keep one eye on...
Nurses and Midwives have strongly criticised the Health and Social Care Bill published last week, calling it a toxic prescription for patients and a...
Freeze settlements – Abbas appeals to Bush
PALESTINIAN president Mahmud Abbas is set to meet US president George Bush in Washington this Thursday for an urgent summit. The Palestinians said this is...
Philanthropy Is Promoting The Privatisation Of Education
‘Philanthropy and the privatisation of the democratic state: who needs a Ministry of Education?’ ironically ask the authors of a new report which sheds...
‘Labour brokers are bloodsuckers’ – Irvin Jim at SRWP election rally
THE SOCIALIST Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) of South Africa was founded in March this year as a communist, Marxist-Leninist party, after a pre-launch convention...
Gate Gourmet Workers’ 6-Months Picket Success
THE locked-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to fight until they win reinstatement on their old terms and conditions, six months after the 700-strong...