Barak Closes Gaza Border Crossings
ISRAELI Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday ordered Israeli forces to shut down the Gaza Strip’s borders again, turning away a truck convoy bearing...
Fire-Fighters Battle Life-Threatening Cuts
Firefighters are gearing up for a major fight against life threatening cuts to the service across the country. The FBU (Fire Brigades Union), in...
SA trade unions are ‘deeply concerned’ by petrol and diesel price...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) says the petrol increase would disproportionately impact families of poor workers who have been forced to...
‘WE HAVE TO DO MORE. THIS IS NO JOKE, ITS OUR...
ON THE second day of CWU strike action against the Post Office’s wage-cutting and job-cutting attacks, Tony O’Donovan, unit rep in the largest Crawley...
German ‘Escape Helpers’ Risking Jail To Help Refugees!
GERMAN ‘escape helpers’ are driving to Hungary with cars and vans to collect refugees and ferry them across European borders, and back into...
Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Supports The Third Intifada
SAYYED Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, says a new Intifada (uprising) is the right choice for Palestinians to fight the...
Kaddoumi And Hawatimah To Attend Ramallah Plo Meeting
THE Israeli government is permitting Nayif Hawatimah and Faruq al-Kaddoumi to attend the PLO Central Committee’s meeting in Ramallah. The approval constitutes an acceptance...
NTC leaders begin killing each other
THE Libyan counter-revolutionaries, Hague’s would-be government of Libya, have begun to kill each other off. Gen Abdel Fattah Younes who was an ally of Col...
SIXTY YEARS SINCE THE DEIR YASSIN MASSACRE – Palestinians demand right...
Last Wednesday marked sixty years since the Deir Yassin massacre. On April 9, 1948 the Zionist paramilitary troops and terrorist gangs committed a massacre at...
Bush Moves To Evict Working Class From New Orleans
‘It is beyond callous, and can only be seen as malicious discrimination. It is an unabashed attempt to eliminate the black population of New...
BUCHNER, BRENTON AND REVOLUTION! – The revolutionary role of Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn By Howard Brenton Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside Until 21 August, Tickets: £5 - £35 IT’S the little emphases throughout Howard Brenton’s new play at the Globe that...
United Autoworkers Union strike authorisation vote this week!
The UAW (United Autoworkers Union) which represents over 48,000 graduate student workers in the University of California system, will hold a strike authorisation vote...
Huge increase in homelessness in England – Joseph Rowntree Foundation
NEW independent research published by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Wednesday revealed the huge and increasing scale of homelessness in England. The Homelessness...
PFI – PROFIT FOR PRIVATEERS AND RISK FOR NHS – MPs...
MPs on the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts in their report of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) refinancing have called for tougher regulation...
Presidents back US trade unionists
Three presidents – Lula da Silva of Brazil, Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain and Nestor Kirchner of Argentina – cancelled an appearance scheduled for...
Labour movement rises up in Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe
Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, on Thursday, called on the leadership of the...
Palestinian Prisoners Day protests in the West Bank and Gaza
THE Israeli army announced Saturday that the West Bank will be sealed off from midnight until Tuesday, ahead of Israeli Independence Day. A statement from...
Unions angry over pay and progression cuts!
In his budget speech Chancellor Osborne announced that there would be a one per cent annual pay rise of the public sector up to...
A Thousand Workers Rally To Support Billboard Strikers
OVER a thousand workers in the Massachusetts labour movement rallied for 27 striking Clear Channel Billboard Workers on April 19th. Present at the rally...
60,000-strong Melbourne march to defend unions!
CONSTRUCTION, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) supporters have warned that the massiveprotests bringing city traffic in Melbourne and Sydney to a halt last...
REVIEW SECRETIVE ACADEMY SCHOOLS – TUC report
The TUC on Monday called on the government to ‘step back’ and initiate an ‘independent review’ of privately-sponsored academy schools. Before leaving office, Blair...
Stark Portrait Of Revolutionary Resistance To British Imperialism In Ireland
Hunger Directed by Steve McQueen Starring Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham and Liam Cunningham Specially reviewed at the London Film Festival and on general release later this month ‘HUNGER’...
Nine out of ten back Olympic payment for bus workers
A survey of almost 3,000 London transport passengers conducted by independent researchers for Unite, has revealed that almost nine out of ten back bus...
South African workers march to defend healthcare benefits
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members marched to the offices of Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) in Bloemfontein on Monday,...
Iran-Russia Joint Naval Manoeuvres
IRANIAN and Russian naval forces have practised anti-piracy operations, during which they rescued two hijacked merchant vessels, on the second day of their joint...
Corbyn addresses the TUC–no call for a general election!
TUC DELEGATES in Brighton gave a standing ovation to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday afternoon despite the fact that he failed...
Special needs children are not getting the support they need!
CHILDREN and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need, according to eight-in-ten (83%) education staff. In...
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...
Actors to join screenwriters in Hollywood strike!
WITH 160,000 performers – from A-listers to extras – voting to take strike action if a deal is not struck in time, the first...
Israeli Navy fires on Palestinian fishermen!
THE Israeli navy on Tuesday arrested six Palestinian fishermen while sailing off the coast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to...
IMPERIALISTS GUNNING FOR OIL-RICH REGIONS! – Lebanon and Venezuela prepared to...
The masses of the oil rich areas of the world are under attack by US imperialism. In the middle east the US and Israel are...
Zimbabwe rulers brand ZCTU unions ‘terrorist organisations’
THE UNI Global Union has condemned ‘in the strongest terms’ the labelling of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) as a terrorist organisation...
Palestinian children arrive in Dublin for medical treatment!
A group of Palestinian children arrived in Dublin on Friday to receive medical treatment in Ireland. The eight children were evacuated from Gaza, accompanied by...
Sanders secures US postal union endorsement –boycot Wendy’s demands Fair Food...
VERMONT Senator Bernie Sanders secured the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union endorsement to be the Democratic Party presidential candidate on Thursday. The union’s decision gives...
1,000 refugees arrive on Greek islands every day
ON average 1,000 refugees are now arriving on the Greek islands every day creating an unprecedented emergency for Greece and other countries, the UN...
Solano County workers win a two year contract after two strikes
ON WEDNESDAY evening, Solano County, California workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021 overwhelmingly ratified a two-year contract with the...
SA High Court orders government to halt ‘load shedding’
SOUTH Africa’s Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union is relieved that deadly electricity blackouts have stopped in all health-care facilities. The Health and Allied...
Argentinian students and teachers pepper-sprayed during protests!
ARGENTINIAN universities began a 24-hour strike on Thursday. The National Interuniversity Council (CIN), professors’ and workers’ unions, and student organisations held the 24-hour strike in...
4 MILLION DISPLACED IRAQIS – international help ‘seriously inadequate’
The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, Amnesty International said in its report ‘Millions in Flight’, published yesterday. Help from the international...
Collective punishment after truck attack
A PALESTINIAN was shot dead after driving a truck into a group of uniformed Israeli soldiers, killing four soldiers and injuring at least 13...
‘ALL WORK AND LOW PAY’ – TUC and NUS accept that...
UNIVERSITY students are working more and more – during holidays and during term-time – just to survive, says a joint report just published by...
‘Shocked And Appalled’ By The Treatment Of Children At Rainsbrook Training...
Members of the House of Commons Justice Committee are ‘shocked and appalled’ by the treatment of children at a privately run detention centre in Northamptonshire, they say in a report published on Monday. They have called on...
REDUCE MATERNAL MORTALITY WORLDWIDE – Lancet papers lay out the best...
MAKING sure women throughout the world can give birth in a health facility, in the presence of a midwife, is the best strategy...
Bring Binyam Back! Close Down Guantanamo Bay!
Guantanamo is a really horrible place that destroys people,’ former prisoner Bisher El-Rawi told a 60-strong meeting in west London on Saturday. The meeting, organised...
Numsa metalworkers are on indefinite strike action! – as Nehawu demands...
Hundreds of Numsa metalworkers’ union members at the Impala Platinum Mine in Freedom Park near Rustenburg are on indefinite strike against exploitation by three...