‘WE WILL LIBERATE JERUSALEM AGAIN’ – says Hamas leader Mishaal
HAMAS Political Bureau Head Khaled Mishaal last weekend pledged that Jerusalem will be liberated again during a speech rally in Damascus to mark the...
Only 3,300 people released from Sri Lanka’s internment camps not 10,000!
Andrew Stroehlein, International Crisis Group’s Communications Director, has slammed the Sri Lankan regime’s ‘duplicity’ over the 240,000 Tamils being held in desperate conditions in...
Southwark Council Prepared To Evict Heygate Estate Tenants
SOUTHWARK Council says it is prepared to take action to evict remaining tenants from the Heygate Estate, if they refuse ‘reasonable’ offers to leave...
US-NATO PLANNING MASSIVE AFGHAN WAR REINFORCEMENT! – 60,000 more troops demanded
The US and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase of troops for the war in Afghanistan, even in addition to the 17,000...
‘STOP THE BULLYING, THE HARASSMENT AND THE CUTS’ – Postal workers...
‘royal Mail – not for sale! Mandy, Mandy, Mandy – Out Out Out!’ chanted over 200 postal workers as they lobbied the heavily-fortified...
London And Cambridge Strike Action!
ROYAL Mail staff walked out on strike in London and other parts of the country again yesterday, as a national ballot by the Communication...
THE McKINSEY REPORT DOES OUTLINE GOVERNMENT POLICY
THE McKinsey and Co report proposes cutting £20bn off the NHS budget and reducing the staff by 10% or 137,000 jobs. The government commissioned...
California Walk-Out!
THOUSANDS of students poured out of classes from University of California (UC) campuses across the state on Thursday to show their anger and opposition...
‘ . . . I Heard Baha Mousa Screaming ‘oh My...
Statement by RABINDER SINGH QC to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry RABINDER Singh QC has delivered his opening statement to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry,...
Class Struggles Sharpen In France
Postal workers in the Paris region are on an open-ended strike starting Monday, September 21, against the closure of 185 Paris post offices and...
‘RECOVERY’ HAS LITTLE MEANING WHEN MILLIONS ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS –...
THREE global trade union federations – representing 55 million industrial workers – have issued a call to the G20 summit, taking place in Pittsburgh,...
‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP TILL WE WIN’ – sacked Gate...
The sacked Gate Gourmet workers marked the fourth anniversary of their struggle with a 200-plus strong rally and an evening of thrilling entertainment at...
‘HUNDREDS KILLED BY ISRAELI-BACKED DEATH SQUADS’ – A review of Sabra...
‘We commemorate the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in honour of the hundreds of men, women and children killed by death squads...
Opening The Archives On The Miners’ Strike
Part of the British Film Institute season: ‘On the Face of It: A Century of Coalmining on Screen’ (Also plays this month at the Showroom in Sheffield) ‘OPENING the Archives on...
Tuc Congress Demands Equal Treatment For Agency Workers
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool on Wednesday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 2: Temporary Agency Workers, to demand that agency workers have...
‘IF WE DON’T WIN THIS BATTLE THERE WILL BE NO MORE...
AT A PACKED ‘Saving Vauxhall Jobs’ TUC Congress fringe meeting on Tuesday evening, Unite leaders Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson attacked the German government...
WE WILL FIGHT TO DEFEND PENSIONS – union leaders tell TUC...
THE TUC delegates in Liverpool at the 2009 Congress on Monday voted unanimously to defend public services. Composite Motion C21 Public Services and the Economy...
Tuc Leaders Fear That Massive Cuts Will Bring Strikes And Disorder!
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to the TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released...
EXECUTION VIDEO AUTHENTIC say Tamils
TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka’s technological refutation of the authenticity of a video of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers executing unarmed Tamil men broadcast...
Halt The Torture Case Against Naheem And Rehan
Legal charity Reprieve has called on the British government to make up for failing Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman by intervening immediately to prevent...
Poor conditions in UN-funded camps in Sri Lanka
TamilNet has commented on the British Television Channel 4 programme on Monday which revealed a new film that showed Tamil ‘victims of Sri Lanka’s...
‘All over the country our members sick and tired of...
CWU members are standing fast at Royal Mail delivery offices across London, in their fight to defend jobs and basic trade union rights. Strike action...
FRANCE CONSIDERED PROTECTING TARIQ AZIZ – intelligence chief’s notes reveal
Three months before the US invasion of Iraq, France was considering protecting senior figures from President Saddam Hussein’s government, according to a senior intelligence...
THE COST OF ‘DARING TO DISSENT’ – death threats and detention...
TamilNet reports that Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has condemned an anonymous death threat and his detension in the airport by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID)...
NEW WEST BANK SETTLEMENT EXPANSION ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ – says Abbas
Netanyahu’s planned approval of the construction of new homes for settlers in the West Bank is ‘unacceptable’, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday in...
STOP ROYAL MAIL MANAGERS STRIKEBREAKING –200 post workers lobby Unite headquarters
Over two hundred postal workers from London, Edinburgh and Crewe lobbied the Unite head office in Holborn yesterday to demand Unite leaders Derek Simpson...
Royal Mail Desperate To Break The Union!
ROYAL Mail staff across the whole of the London postal area walked out on strike again yesterday. It was the latest action in the capital...
OVER 1,000 IRAQIS FACE EXECUTION – Amnesty reports
More than 1,000 people face execution in Iraq, said Amnesty International on Tuesday, as it published a new report on the extensive imposition of...
Israeli Warships Shell Gaza Fishermen
Israeli warships bombarded Palestinian boats off the Sudaniyya shore north of Gaza City Monday morning, Nizar Ayyash, head of the Fishermen’s Union...
‘Lebanon cannot be a soft spot for harming Syria’ – nor...
‘Lebanon cannot be a soft spot for harming Syria and the latter cannot be a conduit for harming Lebanon,’ said Hezbollah’s Sheikh Na’im...
‘WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NATIONAL STRIKE’ – say CWU pickets
Postmen and women were out in force on picket lines at 5.30am on Saturday all over London discussing the progress of their dispute against...
California Workers Fight Kaiser Job Cuts
California health workers have given the giant Kaiser health corporation notice of strike action over 1,300 job cuts. Trade unionists from Service Employees International Union...
‘RAGING RESISTANCE IS GROWING’ –says Iraqi Ba’athist official
Dr Khudayr al-Murshidi, official representative of the Iraqi Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, has warned that the United States is seeking to divide the resistance...
‘saving Chase Farm Is Life And Death’
‘It is a beautiful day on the picket line and we have a really energetic group of Young Socialists members who have come to...
Israel Accused Of ‘Harvesting’ Palestinians’ Organs
Israel knew about ‘80,000 missiles’ in the possession of Hezbollah,’ President Shimon Peres said in comments published Saturday. In an interview with the Kuwaiti al-Rai...
‘No National Elections Without A Unity Agreement And The Release Of...
No national elections will be held without a unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah and the release of political prisoners from West Bank jails,...
FBI attacks Scottish government over Megrahi release
THE Scottish Nationalist government has defended its decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi amid a mounting and frenzied counter-attack directed...
CWU members challenge Hayes – at London meeting
‘This is an important fight, it will define the future of our members, whether we stay full or part time, or even employed at...
Israel Blockade Of Gaza Into Its Third Year
The ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, now in its third year, has triggered a ‘protracted human dignity crisis’ with devastating humanitarian consequences,...
Labour being sued over Bagram rendition
Legal charity Reprieve on Monday warned the Brown government that it is suing it to obtain the necessary information in order to identify two...
‘DEVELOP YOUR TANKS THE WAY YOU WANT … THESE WILL BE...
HASSAN Nasrallah, secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, has spoken at a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the July 2006 war with Israel. Speaking in...
WHITE FLAG DEATHS – Human Rights Watch calls for probe into...
During Israel’s recent Gaza offensive, Israeli soldiers unlawfully shot and killed eleven Palestinian civilians, including five women and four children, who were in groups...
Canada Nickel Miners Strike Solid
‘Vale Inco should get back to the bargaining table if it wants to start delivering nickel to its customers again’, according to Wayne Fraser,...
Marwan Barghouthi Elected To Fatah Central Committee
Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, has been elected to the governing body of Fatah which dominates the Palestinian Authority,...
Netanyahu Pledges Never To Remove West Bank Settlements!
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...