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...
‘ACT QUICKLY TO BUILD MORE COUNCIL HOMES’ – MPs urge Beckett
A delegation of members of the Council Housing group of MPs at Westminster met with Housing Minister Margaret Beckett last Wednesday, February 4th, to...
Irish state commemorates Roger Casement
ON April 21, Ireland held a State ceremony commemorating 100 years since Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand in Kerry as...
‘OLMERT WILL EITHER RESIGN OR BE TOPPLED’ says Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah said in an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV broadcast on 19 January: ‘We will accept a transitional government that...
Israel committed war crimes during 2014 war on Gaza
A United Nations commission of inquiry has confirmed Israel committed ‘war crimes’ during the 2014 aggression against the Gaza Strip last summer. The United...
Avoid duplicitous behaviour and stop resorting to violence against protesters! –...
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has condemned the violence by the French police against anti-government demonstrators in the European country as demonstrating France’s non-adherence to...
When US withdraws, Syrian crisis will end – Admits US Senator...
THE US Senator Richard Black has said that the ‘crisis’ in Syria ‘will be over quickly once (the) US withdraws its troops from Syrian...
Israeli troops stole $28m in cash from homes in Gaza!
THE Israeli military’s ‘Loot Unit’ has seized massive amounts of cash, gold and weaponry, among other items, since the start of the war on...
Sri Lankan government bringing in a ‘slave labour bill’
TRADE unions worldwide have condemned the latest attack on workers in Sri Lanka. Different Global Union Federations (GUF), including the Building and Wood Workers’ International...
STRIKE DOWN ANTI-WORKER LAWS – Demand American trade unions
THE battles against anti-worker laws across the United States have turned to the ballot boxes and courtrooms, says the AFL-CIO union federation. As voters go...
General Practice in danger of disintegrating!
‘GENERAL PRACTICE – and the NHS as we know it – is in danger of disintegrating unless the Chancellor urgently increases investment in the...
‘We’re ready to take on the government and the employers’ –...
Prof Philip Banfield, Chairman of BMA Council had opened the rally. He said: ‘Every day I am 100% committed to restoring your pay and...
US Civil Liberties Groups Seeking To Prosecute Rumsfeld For War...
Donald Rumsfeld, who was forced to resign as US defence secretary last Wednesday, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo...
Athens Students March Attacked By Police
Over 30,000 university students from all the main Greek cities, along with delegations of school students and some 3,000 secondary school teachers and university...
ISRAEL IS STIFLING PALESTINIAN GROWTH –warns World Bank
THE Palestinian Authority in the West Bank faces a $400 million budget shortfall, even if current donor pledges are met, the World Bank warned...
Facebook Drivers Vote To Join Teamsters
DRIVERS who shuttle Facebook employees to and from the company headquarters in Menlo Park., Calif., have voted in favour of representation by Teamsters Local...
Free Palestine! Israel Is A Terror State! – Thousands Picket Israeli...
‘FREE, free Palestine! Israel is a terror state!’, over 2,000 protesters chanted at a picket of the Israeli embassy in west London on Thursday...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part one: ‘A people...
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million...
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...
Remain strong in opposition to the US and Israel – says...
IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called on Islamic and regional countries, especially Iran and Turkey, to unite and remain strong in opposition...
Unite’s Response To Health Select Committee Inquiry! – Part Two
‘Experience to date of the transition from NHS Direct to the NHS 111 service 24. The Unite experience of the 111 service is that it...
‘Few believe in two-state solution’ – says Palestinian leader Saeb Erekat
SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, said in a statement on the occasion of Palestine’s Independence Day on Sunday, that only...
Israel cuts electricity supplies to Gaza while the UN is to...
AFTER Israel decided to drastically cut electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory, Robert Piper,...
Vale Inco strikers into the seventh month of action
Vale Inco could have some explaining to do to shareholders about the quality and quantity of nickel it is producing while its 3,000 production...
DEATHS IN POLICE CUSTODY MUST STOP! – says Smiley Culture march
‘Today is a momentous day. It is time to let the people know we are not going to accept this,’ Merlin Emmanuel told a...
‘Wendy’s Allowing Slavery To Flourish!’
‘IT is time for Wendy’s to commit to justice and human rights – to choose meaningful and verifiable rights protections for the workers who...
South African joblessness rises to 27.6%
SOUTH Africa’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since the third quarter of 2017 to 27.6% at the end of the first...
US CARRIER MUST NOT RETURN TO GULF! ‘We do not warn...
IRAN threatened on Tuesday to take action if the US Navy moves an aircraft carrier back into the Gulf. This is Tehran’s most aggressive...
SAMA concerned over bed shortages and a dire shortage of medical...
SAMA the South African Medical Association has expressed concerns over KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) hospital bed shortages, and medical staff fatigue. The South African Medical Association believes...
Greece goes to the polls as workers mobilise against austerity
Workers and youth in Greece were looking to deliver a huge blow to the current right-wing government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in yesterday’s parliamentary elections. The...
‘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...
‘WE ARE GOING TO OCCUPY ON NOVEMBER 14th COME AND JOIN...
A THOUSAND local residents, health and other workers, trade unionists and youth participated in a very powerful North East London Council of Action march...
PCS strikes across the UK against ‘pathetic’ pay increases
PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union members on Tuesday began a series of strikes across England, Scotland and Wales which the Tory government intends...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART FIVE: Support for WRP...
NOVEMBER 1984 opened with a miners’ special delegate conference endorsing a plan to widen the dispute throughout the labour and trade union movement. That demand...
Belgium acts to offset American UNRWA cut
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and discussed with him the latest Palestinian and regional developments. Abbas, on an...
Syrians demonstrate against the ‘Caesar Act’ sanctions
POPULAR protests against the US and Turkish occupation forces and in rejection of the so-called ‘Caesar Act’ have continued in Syria’s Hasaka province. The Caesar Syria...
The PLO condemns the ‘Gaza Civil Administration’ sought by Israel
The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has condemned ongoing attempts to form parallel or alternative frameworks to the PLO and its...
‘The Martyrdom of Palestinian Women and Children Will End the Zionist...
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Israeli regime’s killing of innocent Palestinian women and children will spell its end. Raeisi made the remarks at the...
Explosion Injures 61 Shanghai Workers!
A WEEKEND explosion at a Shanghai factory run by Apple supplier Pegatron injured 61 workers, 23 of whom were hospitalised according to the Taiwan-based...
‘THEY WERE ALL INNOCENT!’ – families welcome Saville Report
Families of the victims of Bloody Sunday on Tuesday addressed a crowd of thousands outside the Guildhall, Derry, and gave their reaction to the...
Striking nurses support general strike call!
Nurses were in a determined mood on the picket lines outside King’s College Hospital (KCH), roundly condemning Prime Minister Sunak’s refusal to even speak...
Coalition Privateers To ‘Liberate NHS’ Final Part
THE White Paper produced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government says that all NHS Trusts must become Foundation Trusts (FTs) within three years. There are...
THOSE WHO KILLED MUGHNIYEH WILL BE PUNISHED’ – declares Hezbollah leader...
Thousands of Hezbollah supporters made their way to southern Beirut on Monday in order to take part in a rally in the honour of...
ISRAEL THREATENS ‘WIDESPREAD OPERATIONS’ AGAINST GAZA – while leading diplomats talk...
ISRAEL over the weekend continued to threaten a wide-scale military operation against the Gaza Strip after a series of air strikes which injured three...
Israel Guilty Of Crimes Against Humanity In Gaza
The latest health report from the Lancet considers Israel guilty of ‘crimes against humanity’ for the deaths of pregnant women and their babies at...