US steel workers vote overwhelmingly for strike
THOUSANDS of members of the United Steelworkers (USW) union from across the United States voted overwhelmingly last week to authorise their bargaining committee to...
US cuts tax for rich at expense of students & workers
‘SENATE votes to hand huge tax giveaways to the rich paid for by students and working families,’ said the National Education Union (NEA) on...
Overthrow bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution! – demands WRP May Day...
‘IT IS our international duty to organise the overthrow of the capitalist system here in Britain,’ WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney told the 100-strong...
UNHCR condemns UK for plan to deport all asylum seekers
THE UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has condemned the practice by countries like the UK of deporting asylum seekers for processing in...
‘A HISTORIC VICTORY FOR ALL JOURNALISTS’ – NUJ welcomes court judgement...
THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed last Friday’s High Court in Belfast’s full written judgement on the quashing of arrest warrants for...
I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem! We will not...
‘I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, and from besieged and heroic Gaza, and from...
Saftu Marches For Better Wages And Working Conditions!
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – has applied pressure to companies employing their members, with...
RATP bus drivers strike against wage cutting!
BUS drivers in London have launched a fresh wave of strikes as their union Unite announced further strike action involving bus drivers employed by...
Aussie student nurses: funding frozen
AUSTRALIA’S Federal Government has quietly decided to freeze university funding for regional nursing and other students, warns Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union (QNMU). In a...
Give Fed workers right to strike–get rid of ‘right-to-work’ anti-union laws...
THE VERMONT US Senator Bernie Sanders wants to give federal workers the right to strike, to eliminate so-called ‘right-to-work’ laws, and at the same...
Canadian schools – not safe to reopen – say union leaders
‘The current back-to-school plan does not provide the adequate level of safety required to protect students and their families from Covid-19,’ say union leaders...
12,000 Striking Ontario College Employees Reject Latest Contract Offer!
THE UNION representing 12,000 striking Ontario college faculty called on Tuesday for its members to reject their employers’ latest contract offer in a ballot...
Child defendant at risk of death penalty in Saudi Arabia
A SAUDI court has proceeded with a case against a child defendant at risk of the death penalty, contradicting the Saudi government’s claim it...
Strike threat at Manchester Met
A STRIKE threat has been issued at Manchester’s Metropolitan University – as students learned that in-person teaching was to resume in spite of the...
Morales Says Bolivian Nation Will Continue To Fight Against A US...
FORMER Bolivian President Evo Morales has said that the Bolivian nation will continue its fight against an American and Israeli-backed ‘coup’ in the country...
Gaza Children Main Victims Of Israeli Atrocities Says Unicef
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) says children in the besieged Gaza Strip are the main victims of Israeli atrocities in the Palestinian territory, amid...
Wits University Students Strike Against Debt
STUDENTS at Wits University in South Africa are embarking on a strike, warning that returning students may be unable to continue with their studies...
Israel is shutting down the Palestinian institutions
‘ISRAEL is attempting to erase Palestinian presence in Jerusalem by shutting more Palestinian institutions,’ Hanan Ashrawi, an Executive Committee member of the Palestine Liberation...
Striking Catering Workers Arrested Across USA!
STRIKING catering workers employed by LSG Sky Chefs and Gate Gourmet were arrested at airports across the United States on November 26 as they...
Hebron settler’s powers to be expanded – ‘MOST DANGEROUS SINCE 1967’...
HEBRON governor Kamel Hameed on Saturday said the Israeli army’s decision to expand municipal powers of illegal settlers in the city of Hebron as...
‘Marikana massacre demonstrated the class character of the ANC’ says South...
‘WILL VICTIMS of Marikana ever get justice under the ANC (African National Congress) government?’ asked the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on...
‘PM Johnson’s promises are nothing more than hot air’ says GMB
‘THE PRIME Minister’s promises are nothing more than hot air,’ the GMB trade union said in response to Boris Johnson’s speech to the virtual...
‘The fragile peace is hanging by its fingertips!’ – says Fra...
TROUBLE erupted on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday the 7th of April 2021. We can only ask if we are witnessing a return...
200 Children Held In Israeli Prisons
IN A REPORT on Palestinian resistance fighters held in Israeli prisons through to the end of August, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on...
‘Heathrow Is Facing Complete Shutdown’ Says Unite
‘ONE of the world’s largest airports is facing complete shutdown,’ the Unite union has warned, ‘as members of Unite prepare to ballot for strike...
Portuguese fuel strike into 2nd week! Army deployed as strike breakers....
FUEL DRIVERS in Portugal are continuing their strike, now entering its second week, as the Portuguese government called a state of emergency, deploying the...
‘State terrorism is inscribed on the forehead of the US’
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says that outgoing US president, Donald Trump, registered state terrorism on America’s official record by openly accepting responsibility for the assassination...
‘BRUTAL’ WORKING CONDITIONS AT AMAZON RUGELEY!
THE GMB is presenting a giant Valentine’s card to the Amazon warehouse in Rugeley in the Midlands today to highlight the ‘brutal’ working conditions. Workers...
Israeli drones fire on kite fliers
ISRAELI drones carried out an airstrike targeting a group of Palestinian kite-flyers in eastern Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon....
VIRGIN CARE HAS WON £1bn OF NHS CONTRACTS IN ONE YEAR!
MULTI-BILLIONAIRE Richard Branson’s private health company Virgin Care has won £1bn worth of NHS contracts in a single year. Private providers are winning an increasing...
Palestinian prisoner kept in solitary confinement for eight years!
A PALESTINIAN prisoner who has been in solitary confinement for eight years in Israeli jails has recently been suffering a psychological and neurological disorder,...
‘What we are seeing is a naked, brutal form of capitalism’...
‘WHAT WE’RE seeing is really a naked brutal form of capitalism where people’s lives are expendable,’ says University of Western Cape Professor Ruth Hall...
Malnutrition doubles in UK – BMJ
THE PROPORTION of UK adults on low incomes who face hunger has almost doubled since 2004, with the unemployed and disabled particularly vulnerable, says...
US must immediately lift sanctions off Iran say Russia and China
CHINA and Russia say the United States should immediately lift the sanctions it has re-imposed on Iran and fulfil its obligations in order to...
Syria rebuilds 52 Hospitals & health centres in Aleppo
N A VICTORY against the foreign backed terrorists, the Syrian government under President Assad have announced that they have managed to get 52 health...
Abbas hopes US Deal of the Century ‘will all go to...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated his hopes that the US-proposed peace plan, dubbed Deal of the Century, will go to hell. ‘I hope that the...
Bahamas Nurses Union Is To Take Industrial Action!
BAHAMAS Nurses Union President (BNU) Amancha Williams said on Monday that the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) and the government have pushed frustrated nurses to...
Doctors warn of worst-ever winter crisis!
THE President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Katherine Henderson, has urged hospital boards to ‘take immediate action’ to reduce crowding in...
Over 100 Iraqis Killed As The Masses Revolt Against Corrupt Government!
At least four protesters were killed and scores injured in clashes with security forces in Baghdad on Saturday as demonstrations seriously escalated. Three of the...
Occupation a ‘major barrier’ to healthcare for Palestinians says World Health...
PALESTINIANS in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continue to face major barriers to the realisation of the right to health, said Gerald Rockenschaub,...
Ireland A&E overcrowding causing ambulance chaos – SIPTU organises industrial action...
SIPTU has warned that the overcrowding crisis in hospital emergency departments is causing chaos for ambulance professionals across the Republic of Ireland. The union has...
PALESTINIAN YOUTH SHOT DEAD IN JENIN – during wide-scale Israeli forces...
THE Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on Sunday the news about the Palestinian youth who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in Jenin...
Sanders wins support from teachers and nurses to stand for presidency!
USA SENATOR Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 presidential election, is gaining the support of nurses, teachers and...
Over A Decade Of Tory NHS Cuts Have Put Patients And...
OVER A decade of Tory NHS cuts have put patients and staff at risk, as hospitals have been left in such a state of...
British soldier who shot Daniel Hegarty charged with murder
A SOLDIER who shot dead a 15-year-old boy in Derry, in the north of Ireland in July 1972 is to be charged with murder. Daniel...