24-hour London-wide bus strike solid!
BUS workers called for the entire bus service to be taken back into public hands and renationalised, during Tuesday’s 24-hour London wide strike over...
Israeli Troops On The Rampage All Over The West Bank!
AN autopsy conducted on Sunday morning has shown that 30-year-old Muhammad Ismail Atallah Tarifi, who was found dead on the roof of a commercial...
‘Virtual wards will jeopardise patient safety even further’ – says BMA
THE NHS won’t survive without immediate steps to bolster our workforce, doctors union the British Medical Association (BMA) warned on Monday. Responding to the Tory...
TENS OF THOUSANDS CELEBRATE – after Palestinian membership bid is submitted...
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas waved to the crowd of tens of thousands during a celebration in Ramallah, upon his return from the UN General Assembly...
Angry South African workers march on municipal offices!
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) held a demonstration on Thursday marching to the Midvaal Municipal offices, south of Johannesburg, in protest against...
Ontario Nurses Under Attack!
THE firing of the head nurse at London Health Sciences Centre illustrates a larger systemic problem of hospital bosses trying to muzzle their staff,...
‘We won’t fold to US pressure!’ – Iran’s President Pezeshkian insists
IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged not to give in to pressure from the United States after Donald Trump said he was considering limited...
Dockers Win Compensation
TWENTY-SEVEN Unite members have won their tribunal claim over calculation of a redundancy payment at Rosyth Royal Dockyard in an Employment Tribunal decision. The members...
US indebtedness unnerves the Bourgeoisie!
THE American viewing public got a stark warning from the billionaire Donald Trump during a recent TV interview when he announced that Americans should...
Assad celebrates Easter at Maalula Monastery – as presidential elections announced...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Easter Sunday visited the ancient Christian town of Maalula, which his troops recently recaptured from rebels, state television said. ‘On...
San Francisco Nurses Fight For Patient Care
A strike by 4,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) at ten San Francisco Bay Area, California, Sutter facilities has concluded with nurses walking together back into...
UK leads the way in austerity, welfare cuts and hungerK leads...
‘Nothing Left in the Cupboards: Austerity, Welfare Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK,’ is the title of a devastating 115-page Human...
IMPERIALISM PLANS MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST LIBYA – warns Algerian President
THE El-Khabar newspaper in Algeria has reported on the preparations of imperialist countries to launch a military campaign against Islamist militias in Libya. It states:...
‘REOPEN CHASE FARM A&E–NO MORE TRAGEDIES!’ –demand Enfield marchers
A POWERFUL march of more than 150 local residents, trade unionists, workers, students and youth drew enormous support from the busy Enfield shopping centre...
US and Canada cut off aid to new Hamas government
TRYING to divide the Palestinian leadership, the United States and Canada on Wednesday suspended contacts with and aid to the new Palestinian 24-member Hamas-formed...
A Decisive Week For Lebanon
Lebanon has entered a decisive week during which its parliament is due to elect a new president. With tanks and troops deployed on the streets,...
DISMANTLE THE WALL – say UN experts
Eight UN experts on Monday called for the Israeli separation Wall being constructed on Palestinian land to be dismantled. The UN experts were marking the...
‘Unscrupulous exploitation!’ Care workers forced to sleep rough or share beds...
CARE staff who come to the UK from overseas are having to share beds with other workers, sleep rough, and pay huge fees to...
Myanmar Garment Workers Strike
AROUND 2,000 workers from a garment factory in Yangon’s Zaykabar Industrial Park in Mingaladon Township went on strike last Thursday morning, declaring that violations of...
Gold And Coal Sectors To Join Platinum Strike!
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) wants to expand the platinum sector strike. ‘We have filed an application with Nedlac (National Economic...
Gaza Hospitals Stormed And Put Under Siege!
WORLD Health Organisation Director-General has said he is ‘deeply concerned’ after Israeli forces stormed one hospital and put another under siege as they advanced...
‘ALL-OUT AND UNCONTROLLABLE WAR’ – if West attacks Syria, warns...
A SENIOR Iranian lawmaker has warned the West against a military attack on Syria, saying such aggression will threaten the security of the entire...
250-strong Calais convoy halted by UK police and the French government!
‘WITH our aid, let us through! Refugees are human too!’ hundreds of angry protesters demanded after their 250-vehicle strong Convoy to Calais was blocked...
French Riot Police Tear Gas Climate Demonstrators
French police have fired tear gas to disperse climate demonstrators gathered in Paris to raise their voices against an annual general meeting of oil...
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)...
Nurses Urge All Out With The Junior Doctors! Adding ‘It’s...
‘NURSES should come on a half day strike with the junior doctors,’ Jenny a student occupational therapist told a mass rally opposite Downing Street...
‘ISRAEL MAY START WAR IN THE REGION’ – Nasrallah
HEZBOLLAH leader, Sayyed Nasrallah, has said that Israel may start a war in the region and that Hezbollah is fully prepared for it. In an...
‘The Wind That Shakes The Barley’
The Wind That Shakes The Barley Directed by Ken Loach Written by Paul Laverty Starring Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald On General Release from June...
MEDICARE, MEDICAID, SOCIAL SECURITY MUST BE DEFENDED! – says SEIU...
Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement after both Republicans and Democrats last Thursday announced their...
40,000 Greek workers & youth march to commemorate Athens Polytechnic Uprising
OVER 40,000 students, youth and workers took part in the Athens Polytechnic Uprising commemoration march in Athens last Monday evening from the city centre...
Israel Planning Attack On Hezbollah
FEARS are growing that Israel will risk a surprise strike to cripple Hezbollah. For more than a decade, the assessment that another war between Israel...
Haiti textile workers fight sackings of six union leaders
Six union leaders employed by the One World Apparel garment factory in Haiti have been fired. The leaders of the Textile and Garment...
Japanese Foreign Minister Visits Al-Quds University!
JAPANESE Foreign Minister Taro Kono pledged during a visit to Al-Quds University on Wednesday to work to strengthen the working relationship between the Palestinian...
Young Socialists Launch Their March For Jobs And Free State...
The Young Socialists on Saturday launched its March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London. Bus workers came to welcome the young...
Restore free accommodation for junior doctors
Around 300 medical students from across the country held a rally on Friday before holding an overnight protest against the removal of hospital accommodation...
3,000 Starbucks baristas on indefinite strike
More than 3,000 unionised Starbucks workers started an indefinite strike at over 100 stores in the United States on Thursday to protest at a...
SUCCESSFUL NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY Rally marks 44 years of the paper...
‘WE ARE celebrating 44 years of the daily Trotskyist paper that fights for a revolutionary leadership that does not bend, capitulate or collapse at...
‘COUNCILS WILL HAVE TO MAKE FURTHER SAVINGS’ – warn Town Hall...
Councils will have to make further savings as the economic slowdown bites, local government bosses warned on Friday. The economic slowdown has left town halls...
Six white Mississippi cops admit torturing two black men
SIX white Mississippi police officers have pleaded guilty to state charges for torturing two black men in a racist assault in the United States. All...
43 million forcibly displaced worldwide says UNHCR report
‘At the end of 2009, some 43.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution, the highest number since the mid-1990s,’...
‘PAUSE’ A COVER FOR DESTRUCTION OF HOSPITAL CARE! PART 2: London...
BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER In London the 31 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) have been amalgamated into seven clusters; Outer North East London,...
Investment firms and asset managers of UK arms industry making massive...
THE British state is subsidising the UK arms industry to the tune of billions of pounds to the benefit of its wealthy private owners...
‘Terrorists…are the army of the Turkish, US & Saudi regimes’
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad said that France, Britain, and the US, along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are responsible for the war in...
‘Our people haven’t struggled to change the size of our chains!...
PALESTINE’S Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, Riyad al-Maliki, described on Friday the US deal of the century as a ‘consecration’ of the century-long...
UK Manufacturing Employment Less Than In 1841!
Confirmation that manufacturing employment levels are at their lowest since 1841 drew an angry and frustrated response from the Transport and General Workers Union. Tony...