Bloody Sunday Commemorative March, Derry, forced off the road!
By Fra Hughes in West Belfast FOR the first time in 49 years, the Bloody Sunday Commemorative March has been forced off the road, as...
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...
Trump denounced as ‘traitor’ by far-right extremists in US
FAR-RIGHT extremists are reportedly furious with Donald Trump, calling him a ‘traitor’ and a ‘coward’, after the outgoing president pleaded for calm following his...
Israeli forces have killed over 3,000 Palestinian children – since the...
ISRAELI forces have killed over three thousand Palestinian children since the beginning of the Second Intifada also known as the Aqsa Intifada in September...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘To reverse years of underinvestment sustained levels of investment are needed’...
RESPONDING to PM Johnson’s comments in the weekend’s Sunday Times newspaper, in which he pledged a £1.8bn cash injection into the NHS BMA council...
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,...
‘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...
Sub-Continent In Turmoil As Imran Khan Is Sentenced To A...
FORMER Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to a decade in prison by a special court in what is being termed as...
1,000 Head Teachers March Against Savage Tory Cuts To Schools
OVER 1,000 head teachers from England and Wales gathered in Parliament Square at 11am on Friday before marching to Downing Street to protest at...
Benefit for International Youth Conference is a huge success
A great night was had by all at the Young Socialists Benefit Concert in North Kensington, west London on Saturday night. It was held at...
Kellogg factory will be ‘delivered to workers’ says Venezuelan President Maduro
AHEAD of this Sunday’s presidential election, the Venezuelan government has called on workers to occupy the Kellogg factory in Maracay after the firm announced...
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...
Trade Unions Condemn Zanu-Pf – ‘Behaving Like The Racist Rhodesian Government!
THE ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has vowed to continue mobilising workers to protest until the government addresses their legitimate grievances. In a statement...
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....
Numsa Threatening National Strike Action Against Eskom Abuse Of Power
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s (NUMSA) is threatening a national strike against electricity power company Eskom. A NUMSA statement said: ‘The National...
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...
Hundreds demonstrate support for asylum seekers outside Britain’s first ‘refugee camp’!
LAST Saturday over 250 pro-asylum seekers protested outside a former military barracks housing asylum seekers near Folkestone, the first refugee camp in Britian, which...
‘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...
Schools & colleges are facing ‘national emergency!’
THE SCHOOL Cuts Coalition, including many education unions, on the eve of the Tory Spring Budget demanded the government address the ‘national emergency’ faced...
‘Return bodies of our martyrs’
‘SINCE 1967, Israel has applied an inconsistent policy of refusing to deliver the mortal remains of hundreds of Palestinian combatants to their families,’ an...
South African NUM to march against privatisation of electricity
THE South African NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has said it will march on the imminent meeting of the ANC National Executive Council, as...
Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister al-Malki visits The Hague to open discussions...
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riad al-Malki, has discussed in The Hague with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda,...
Post Office franchising ‘a deeply damaging strategy’ warns CWU
TERRIBLE recent news of retail closures and job cuts across Britain’s high streets prove the truth of the dire warnings that the CWU (Communications...
Russia and China hold joint military drills
RUSSIA and China have wrapped up their five-day joint strategic military drills in Northwest China which involved over 10,000 troops and advanced weaponry. Top officials...
‘Reject minimum wage exploitation’ 4 SAFTU unions meet to discuss ANC
THE FOUR oldest trade unions affiliated to SAFTU gathered at Ngwelezana Community Hall last week to reflect on what South Africa’s workers have gained...
Sa Plastics Workers Win Right To Strike
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) said it will escalate the strike by plastics sector workers after the Labour Court in Johannesburg...
Amcu Demands A ‘Social Democracy’
SOUTH Africa should transition from a constitutional democracy to a ‘social democracy’ and implement more socialist policies to retain jobs in the mining sector,...
‘Don’t use Marikana victims for political gain’ says AMCU
The victims of the Marikana massacre should not be used to mend relations between the ANC and the Economic freedom Fighters (EFF), Association...
Staffing crisis! Patients waiting for operations! STOP TORY NHS CUTS!
IN RESPONSE to the most recent NHS performance statistics and the political situation in which they are occurring, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) director...
Gold & Ashes: A photo series by Feruza Afewerki
Gold & Ashes: A photo series by Feruza Afewerki Outdoor Exhibition From the 12th June – 31st August 2021
Freston Road and Bramley Studio, London W10...
Iran & Turkey Bilateral Ties Zarif Visits Ankara
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has travelled to Ankara to hold talks with Turkish officials on bilateral ties, the restoration of peace in...
US approves $125m sale of missiles to Lithuania – Putin slams...
THE US State Department has approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Lithuania in a $125 million deal amid escalating tensions between Russia...
CGT national strike over wages and retirement at 60
STRIKES and demonstrations took place across France on Thursday, with the CGT union federation declaring: ‘November 10 for wages and retirement at age 60.’ ‘For...
Judge denies US attempt to extradite Assange
Jubilant scenes greeted Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges at London’s Old...
CHILDREN’S HEALTH GIVEN LOW PRIORITY – as paediatric training recruitment worst...
THE low priority given to children and young people’s health threatens prosperity, argues an expert writing in The BMJ Today. Professor Russell Viner at University...
Father of Yellow Vest whose hand blown off to sue
THE FATHER of the Yellow Vest protester who had his hand blown off by a gas grenade in Paris on Saturday says he plans...
‘Indifferent and harmful practices’ at private hospital say relatives after the...
NORFOLK’s Safeguarding Adults Board (NSAB) on Thursday published an important Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) into the deaths of three young adults: Joanna, ‘Jon’ and...
‘Any attempt to use force against Manus Island refugees could lead...
RESPONDING to a notice issued by Papua New Guinea (PNG) authorities on Thursday morning at the Lombrum refugee detention centre on Manus Island stating...
‘Deal of the Century’ LEAKED! – DEAL HAS BEEN STRONGLY REJECTED...
THE main points of the United States’ anticipated Middle East peace plan, the so-called ‘Deal of the Century’, were revealed by a Hebrew-language news...
Bahrain ruler condemned for conference supporting Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century!’
THE main Shia opposition group in Bahrain has warned that the ruling Al Khalifah regime there is ‘contributing to the liquidation of the Palestinian...
Ikea In France Used Police And Private Detectives To Spy On...
N 2012, French union confederation Force Ouvrière decided to take legal action to shed light on the discovery of a ‘surveillance and espionage service’...