Indefinite Mexican teachers strike – Clashes leave 100 injured and nine...
THOUSANDS of teachers are on strike throughout Mexico against the education ‘reforms’ of the Nieto government, which has met their demonstrattions and barricades with...
MINIMUM WAGE–CONDEMNS MILLIONS OF WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO POVERTY says...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has not welcomed the Poverty National Minimum Wage Act, which was signed into law last Friday...
Netanyahu to visit Putin – after Russia delivers S-300 missiles...
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he will soon meet President Vladimir Putin amid tensions over the downing of a Russian aircraft during Israel’s...
HUNGARY OPENS TRADE OFFICE IN JERUSALEM – Israeli troops teargas school...
HUNGARY’S Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto last Tuesday opened a trade office in Jerusalem City, in the central occupied West Bank, that will have an...
Bennett tour of US universities an aggressive defence of genocide!
‘I’ve killed many Arabs in my life, and there’s no problem with that.’ In the United States, such a statement grants you the privilege of...
No to Fire and Rehire at Open University – insists UCU
THE UCU (University and College Union) has called on the Open University (OU) to scrap its plans to fire and rehire staff. The OU first...
Israeli warplanes target Lebanese health facilities!
AT DAWN on Sunday, Israeli warplanes launched over 30 raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the ‘most violent attack’ on Lebanon since...
Iran will give a decisive response to Trump’s ‘delirious attacks’
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran will give a decisive response to the ‘delirious threats’ made against it on the battlefield. Pezeshkian made the remark...
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...
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people
PALESTINE President Mahmoud Abbas received a telegram from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday to mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian...
Occupy Wall Street calls for hundreds of thousands to march on...
AN open letter from the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (OWS) movement that began in New York and spread world wide, calls for all workers...
Massive Toxic Contamination In The Area Surrounding Grenfell Tower!
EXTENSIVE research by the University of Central Lancashire into toxic contamination surrounding the Grenfell Tower after the tragic fire there has now been published...
Savage cuts causing ‘chaos’ at london met university – warn UCU
‘THE chaotic scenes during enrolment say it all: we lost over 350 jobs last year and you can already see the difference,’ said the...
LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE?’ TODAY Part 3: A Programme of Action...
THE election results from May 6th in Greece and France show that the working class will use every opportunity to fight against paying for...
Prisoners hold ‘Day of Disobediance’ in support of hunger striker Al-Qiq
PALESTINIAN prisoners and journalists held separate rallies on Thursday in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq. In Israel’s Eshel prison, Palestinian prisoners held a...
170,000 workers & youth march in London for ‘Victory for Palestine’
OVER 150,000 workers, students and youth joined the National March for Palestine from the BBC in Portland Place, central London to Downing Street on...
Defy US Threats Over Palestinian State!
MEMBERS of Palestine’s original communist party are urging the Palestinian National Authority to withstand intimidation from the US over a plan to seek...
Unite Warns Over ‘Shameful’ Agency Practices!
UNITE has warned that ‘shameful’ agency practices towards workers at Sports Direct have contributed to its falling profits and reputation. The high street retailer, which...
Hunger Striker Hattab Demands To Be Recognised As A Prisoner Of...
PALESTINIAN prisoner Kifah Hattab, 53, entered the eighth day of a hunger strike on Wednesday in the latest of a series of hunger strikes...
Argentinian education workers 24-hour National Strike
On Monday, the Confederation of Education Workers of Argentina (CTERA) held a 24-hour national strike against the far-right President Javier Milei’s policies. The education workers...
30,000 in Trafalgar Square demand ‘Palestine Ceasefire Now!’
THE ‘National Day of Action Ceasefire NOW’ organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) on Saturday saw powerful rallies in towns and cities across...
PNA illusions in Sharon move
THE Palestinian National Authority (PNA) immediately reacted to the latest Israeli political upheaval on Monday, describing it sceptically but hopefully as a ‘volcano’ that...
Scientific progress should serve a nation’s welfare – says Iran’s President...
President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad in Tehran on Wednesday voiced Iran’s readiness to share its nuclear achievements with other nations within the framework and under the...
South Korea – All Out Indefinite Strike Action By Twu!
THE Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union began all-out indefinite strike action yesterday, alongside workers on the metros in Seoul and Busan, paralysing...
Tshwane bus workers strike gridlocks city centre
SOUTH Africa’s administrative capital Tshwane (Pretoria) was gridlocked for a second day on Tuesday as bus drivers disabled their vehicles and the City insisted...
Hezbollah leadership not involved in HARIRI murder says UN-backed court
THE SPECIAL Tribunal for Lebanon has not found evidence that the leadership of Hezbollah was involved in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime...
‘IT’S TIME TO MAKE THE TUC CARRY OUT THE WILL ...
TWO-HUNDRED workers, trade unionists, students and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) Conference at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, in Holborn,...
EIGHT YEARS SINCE RANA PLAZA COLLAPSE –‘the deadliest disaster in the...
ON THE eighth anniversary of Rana Plaza on Saturday 24 April, UNI Global Union and IndustriALL demanded fashion brands commit to a new legally-binding...
Gate Gourmet Move To Attack Dublin Workers
GATE GOURMET, owned by venture capitalists Texas Pacific, is at it again in its class war against workers and trade unions. In August 2005 it...
UN ISSUES HAITI RED ALERT –over cholera epidemic and tropical storm...
The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) said on Monday that Haitian authorities (the Direction de la Protection Civile – DPC) issued a...
Mass Surveillance In UK!
UK intelligence has been forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use, says Amnesty International. Amnesty is one of...
Disney Set To Face The Biggest Strike In The USA This...
Disney are set to face the largest strike in the US this year after it was announced that thousands of theme park and hotel...
Commute Iraq death sentences – urges Amnesty
THE IRAQI authorities executed 12 people last Sunday according to information received by Amnesty International, which has called for all death sentences to be...
UN ‘peacekeepers’ in Haiti ‘fathered hundreds of children and abandoned their...
UNITED Nations peacekeepers fathered hundreds of children while deployed in Haiti then abandoned their young mothers to lives of poverty, a damning new report...
Los Angeles farm workers in epic pay battle
HUNDREDS of labour activists, farmworkers and their allies marched on Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday demanding that a Fresno fruit grower recognise...
Universal Child Day – Israel Steps Up Attacks On Palestinian Children!
THE Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), on the eve of the UN’s Universal Child Day, maintained that Palestinian children remain victims of...
Cases Against Rajapaksa Continuing
CIVIL cases against Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shavendra Silva, an ex-army commander and currently Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN)...
‘THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD UNDERSTAND GAZA IS NOT ALONE’ – Lebanese...
WITH huge Lebanese popular support the Dignity (Karama) boat sailed into the port of Tyre in South Lebanon on Tuesday accompanied by...
Foxconn and Apple practise discrimination against married women in their Indian...
FOXCONN, a key manufacturer of Apple devices, has been systematically excluding married female candidates from assembly jobs at its flagship Indian smartphone plant. Despite both...
25 years since Hillingdon Hospital strike 1st OCTOBER 1995 – 30th...
ON October 1st, 1995 56 domestic and catering workers at Hillingdon Hospital were sacked by Pall Mall for refusing to accept a £40 per...
‘Armed gangs are the tools of imperialism and Israel’ says Syrian...
THE Syrian defence minister, General Fahd Jasim al-Furayj, gave an interview in Damascus on February 4th explaining the Israeli air raid, the ‘armed gangs’...
Qatar And Uae Join Imperialist War On Libya
QATARI Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, on Sunday, trying to defend his country’s participation in military operations against Libya, said the aim...
5,000 Deaths A Year Linked To Asbestos Exposure!
FIVE thousand deaths every year in Britain are linked to past asbestos exposure, but people are still being exposed to it today, warns the...
PAKISTAN AND US COLLABORATE IN CROSS BORDER ATTACKS says Amnesty
EIGHTEEN people were killed on 13 January, when missiles were fired by an American CIA drone aircraft into three houses in Damadola, in the...
JUSTICE FOR GAZA! –demand Jewish Holocaust survivors
Jewish Holocaust survivors from around the world call for justice in Gaza. Forty Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and 287 descendants of survivors and...