Students launch nationwide week of action against the privatisation of student...
THE Student Assembly Against Austerity’s National Week of Action to stop the sale of student loans to private companies is well under way. At least...
‘THE SYRIAN PEOPLE ALONE DECIDE WHO RULES THEM’ – message from...
‘WHAT Are the Real Reasons of the Western Positions Vis-A-Vis President Al-Assad? Or Why Has President Al-Assad Become an Obsession for the United States?’...
Banking Panic In The Ukraine
THE Abkhazian and South Ossetian parliaments have been unanimously granted permanent observer status at the 34th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia...
Mustafa Barghouti Slams US-Israeli Campaign Against Palestinian State
Dr Mustafa Barghouti, speaking at the 200-strong Solidarity for Palestine trade union conference on Saturday, warned of the massive campaign by US president Trump...
Irish Teachers Ready To Strike Over Pay
17,000 secondary school teachers are set to go on strike over the Irish government’s plans to cut their pay and allowances. The Association of Secondary...
Contract and agency workers’ rights routinely violated
An ICEM global union federation report has found that the rights of workers in the cement industries of the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and...
US billionaire brothers are financing anti-union drive
BILLIONAIRE brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are dumping hundreds of millions of...
IRELAND’S BANKS ARE REFUSING TO LEND –as Greece is urged to...
EUROGROUP President Jean-Claude Juncker is in Athens for talks with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on whether the debt-laden country has the will to...
Nationwide university strike looms
THE ONLY way to stop the nationwide shutdown of almost every university in the country, beginning on Thursday 22nd February, is for university management...
‘A savage and ruthless bully!’ – South Africa’s NUMSA union denounces...
‘DONALD Trump is a creature of the US. NUMSA calls upon its brothers, sisters and comrades in the United States to deal with Donald...
50 YEARS OF OCCUPIED PALESTINE SHAMES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY – says PLO
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on Monday condemned the 50 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine as ‘a shame on the international system’. Israel attacked...
ScotRail nationalised! RMT, TSSA & ASLEF’S CAMPAIGN VICTORY!
‘EVERY member of the RMT welcomes the Scottish government’s announcement that the publicly-owned Operator of Last Resort will run the ScotRail franchise from March...
Amcu Demands A ‘Social Democracy’
SOUTH Africa should transition from a constitutional democracy to a ‘social democracy’ and implement more socialist policies to retain jobs in the mining sector,...
‘THE POPULAR STRUGGLE WILL CONTINUE IN ITS FULL STRENGTH’ – 200...
ISRAELI police evicted dozens of Palestinian activists early Sunday from a first-of-its-kind protest camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for...
NUMSA commemorates the mass murder of Marikana striking miners
LAST Friday, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) commemorated the mass murder of striking miners in Marikana, who were gunned down for...
Bin Laden condemns ‘crusader war’ on Islam
THE Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has said in a new audio tape attributed to him that the siege imposed on the...
LONDON FIREFIGHTERS READY TO STRIKE AGAINST DISMISSAL THREAT – ‘This is...
LONDON’S firefighters are ready to strike, unless a threat by the capital’s fire service bosses to sack them all is withdrawn. More than 2,500 firefighters...
Chinese Foreign Ministry Calls For Direct Moscow-Kiev Talks
The international community should create conditions for the resumption of direct talks between Moscow and Kiev, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lin Jian said on...
BA Gatwick strike threat – GMB Stansted workers strike over pay
MORE than 300 senior British Airways cabin crew at Gatwick Airport have been threatened with the sack if they refuse to accept a pay...
Chicago Nurses Demonstrate Against Unsafe Working Conditions!
NURSES at the University of Chicago Medical Centre (UCMC) demonstrated against unsafe working conditions and inadequate staffing levels at a rally organised by the...
NUMSA’s international tour to investigate forming a workers’ party
THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) has kicked off its year with study tours overseas to investigate the feasibility of forming a...
‘If Pelosi cares so much for human rights she should apologise...
CHINA has called on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to express remorse and apologise for the atrocities committed by the Americans in Afghanistan, Iraq,...
Boycott Israel Lift Gaza Siege
ISRAEL has turned Gaza into a ‘concentration camp’, demonstrators warned on Thursday night, at an emergency picket opposite Downing Street attended by over 50...
RMT And Tssa Rail Unions Are Demanding Renationalisation!
RAILWAY unions TSSA and RMT have demanded renationalisation of railways – and slammed the privateer rail companies – in the wake of valuable...
Guaido One was defeated and Guaido Two will be crushed! –...
VENEZUELAN Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has rejected a European Union statement which calls for ‘further independent verification of the electoral records, if possible by...
Bush Anti-Iran Campaign Hitting Difficulties
US President George W Bush was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his campaign to isolate arch foe Iran and for...
‘My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment’
Adults in the Room MY BATTLE WITH EUROPE’S DEEP ESTABLISHMENT Yanis Varoufakis Publisher: The Bodley head Price £20 Varoufakis was the professor of economics and expert at ‘game theory’ who...
Gadaffi Refuses To Attend The Riyadh Arab Summit
COLONEL GADAFFI has given some of his reasons for refusing to attend the summit of Arab leaders at Riyadh. He said that he decided not...
Student Leader Is Attacked In Jaffna
A STUDENT leader was attacked and seriously wounded in Jaffna on Sunday, reports TamilNet. Suspected Sri Lanka Army intelligence personnel armed with sharp iron rods...
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...
‘US and Canadian shale oil producers punished by rout in oil...
IRAN’S Minister of Petroleum, Bijan Zangeneh, says shale oil producers in the US and Canada are being punished by a historic rout in oil...
Israel ‘getting a taste of its own medicine’
BY AVIGAIL ARBANEL THE damage on the ground in Israel is far more extensive than people realise. The Israeli population is less interested in the...
‘AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL NEARLY A CEMETERY’ says World Health Organisation ahead of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Tuesday that al-Shifa Hospital is ‘nearly a cemetery’ and unable to bury dead bodies as the facility is...
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...
SAFTU condemns interest rates hike as postal workers strike for 15%...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Friday condemned the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiking of the...
25 Palestinians detained in West Bank raids
AT least 25 Palestinians were detained in raids from Monday evening to the early morning hours on Tuesday, as Israeli state forces stormed several...
‘SET THE DATE FOR SPEEDY DEPARTURE FROM IRAQ!’ – ‘Community’ union...
The TUC has published the Preliminary Agenda for the 137th annual Trades Union Congress, taking place from 12-15 September in Brighton. Very little action is...
Numsa Battle To Halt Its Expulsion!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is going to court on Thursday to stop Cosatu (Confederation of South African Trade Unions)...
‘Today’s strike is going to be the spark for something a...
‘The capitalist system is in its death agony. It’s coming to an end, although some people don’t believe it will ever end, but I...
‘THE GOVERNMENT HAS ‘SET THE STAGEFOR MASS HOSPITAL CLOSURES’ says surgeon
IN MARCH, the Healthcare Commission reported that emergency care at Mid Staffordshire Hospital was ‘appalling’. It’s in-depth investigation discovered excess patient deaths of 400...
US ready to negotiate with Assad says Kerry
AS the devastating war in Syria entered its fifth year on Sunday, the US said it would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar...
Over 11,000 children killed in Yemen since 2015
At least 18 people were injured in Yemen’s north-western province of Sa’ada when Saudi border troops fired artillery at residential neighbourhoods near the border...
Reinstatement of Amazon union leader is a win says union
‘JENNIFER Bates, BAmazon workers leader’s reinstatement by Amazon, is a win for workers,’ says the UNI Global Union. Last week, Jennifer Bates, the lead worker...
‘Today we say enough! We will return! All of Palestine will...
The first speaker at the rally in Pall Mall was Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq from We Are Not Numbers, who said: ‘78 years ago...
Unite will support strikes, work-ins and occupations to defend NHS –...
OVER 5,000 trade unionists, youth and families from across north London marched on Saturday from Highbury and Islington Station to the Whittington Hospital, Archway,...