CHARRED CORPSES ‘PART OF THE PATTERN’ – of deaths and abuses...
AMNESTY International said yesterday that recent revelations about deaths in custody and abuses by US troops in Afghanistan are further evidence of a culture...
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...
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...
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...
Midwives rally across UK to highlight maternity crisis
THOUSANDS of midwives and their supporters protested in towns and cities across the UK at 2.00pm on Sunday to highlight the crisis in maternity...
SAMA concerned over bed shortages and a dire shortage of medical...
SAMA the South African Medical Association has expressed concerns over KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) hospital bed shortages, and medical staff fatigue. The South African Medical Association believes...
SAFTU demonstration for a 1,500 Rand Basic Income Grant
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is opposing plans by the South African ANC government to replace the Social Relief of Distress...
‘It won’t take a year’ to win Syrian war says Assad
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad says Damascus has nearly won the seven-year war, despite continued US ‘interference’. In an interview given to RT, President al-Assad...
Grenfell campaigners step up fight! – cladding protests at Ipswich and...
ON TUESDAY 14th December exactly four years and six months since the Grenfell Tower inferno campaigners stepped up their demand for justice. Grenfell Community Campaigners...
‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian victim that the Israeli...
EXECUTIVE Director of Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, Hagai El-Ad, has slammed the Israeli government’s record saying: ‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian...
Oppose all cuts to ticket office hours at LNER – demand...
A coalition of organisations joined together on Monday to oppose train operator LNER’s proposed cuts to ticket office opening hours at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Darlington; Doncaster;...
Doctors are suffering ‘emotional and psychological distress–since they cannot give...
BMA research finds doctors are suffering ‘emotional’ and ‘psychological’ distress because they cannot give patients the treatment and care that they need. New research by...
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...
Teachers angry – nine out of ten facing workload stress
‘Ministers, employers and inspectorates are failing in their duty of care to teachers, with a lack of action to address workload and the impact...
Camden threats to rough sleepers ‘may breach human rights laws’ ...
Liberty, the human rights organisation, has written to Transport for London (TfL) and Camden Council warning that recent threats issued to rough sleepers may...
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...
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,...
‘IT’S TIME FOR SOCIALISM’ says Venezuelan President Maduro
Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) passed a new law last week aimed at empowering the organised working class. The Constitutional Law of Workers’ Productive Councils...
Russia rejects Ukraine ‘invasion’ allegations
RUSSIA has ruled out any further talks with the United States and NATO over the situation around Ukraine unless the West responds properly to...
Scotland’s A&Es ‘on the brink’ warns Royal College of Emergency Medicine...
THE NHS in Scotland is ‘on the brink’ as A&E hospital waiting times are the worst since records of them began, the Royal College...
Palestinian Prime Minister looking forward to elections
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh announced on Monday that his government is preparing for new national and presidential elections in Palestine. ‘The Cabinet looks forward...
Lifting all US sanctions will create ‘a new atmosphere’ – Rouhani...
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says the lifting of all US sanctions will create ‘a new atmosphere’ for the Islamic Republic’s economic cooperation with the...
‘Israel trying to take advantage of gas forum’ says Palestinian leadership
NOT PARTICIPATING in the signing ceremony of the agreement to launch the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) on Tuesday does not mean withdrawing from...
RMT–27 Days Of Strike Action On Swr In Defence Of Guards...
THE RMT announced on Tuesday that its members on South Western Railway (SWR) will be holding a further 27 days of strike action in...
UK War Crimes In Iraq But Icc Declines To Prosecute
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court has said it will not take action against the UK, despite its finding of evidence British troops committed war crimes...
Fight against repression of trade unions will bring democracy to life...
FIGHTING against the repression of trade unions is bringing democracy to life, says the CGT French trade union federation. Ikéa lawsuits, dismissals, legal attacks against...
Iran Hails Iraq Parliament Call For All Foreign Troops To Leave...
IRAN’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the assassination in January of top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq,...
NUMSA BATTLES FOR PLASTIC WORKERS – while Marikana victims demand compensation
STRIKING members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) held a mass demonstration on Tuesday to hand...
‘US and Canadian shale oil producers punished by rout in oil...
IRAN’S Minister of Petroleum, Bijan Zangeneh, says shale oil producers in the US and Canada are being punished by a historic rout in oil...
Russia Uses Hypersonic Missile For The First Time
THE conflict in Ukraine has seen Russia use its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles close to the border with NATO member Romania, while Kiev says...
Thousands of civil servants jobs under threat
THOUSANDS of civil service jobs are under threat in the wake of plans to cut numbers swollen by both Brexit and the Covid crisis...
UN condemns US’ mass expulsions of Haitian migrants
THE United Nations has condemned the US’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants who have been camped in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del...
Kenyan doctors & nurses continue strike and defy threats
STRIKING Kenyan doctors and nurses have made it clear that no threat will force them back to hospitals. Nurses and clinical officers stood their ground...
COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA
MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...
INVESTIGATION INTO RAIL DEATHS ‘failure to protect staff over many years’
AN INVESTIGATION released last week into the deaths in July 2019 of two railworkers at Magram, a suburb of Port Talbot in Wales, has...
Occupations and strikes are sweeping through Canada!
OCCUPATIONS, strike votes and rallies by health and care workers are sweeping Canada as trade unionists fight against low pay, unequal pay and privatisation...
209 US economists sign a ‘Medicare for All’ statement
TWO HUNDRED and nine economists have signed a public statement supporting Medicare for All, said the National Nurses United union on Tuesday. The letter called...
‘JobKeeper’ payments removed from 1.1m Australians!
1.1 million workers in Australia will have their ‘JobKeeper’ payments removed from this week, with the Head of Treasury estimating that between 100,000 and...
ANC leaders influenced by ‘liars and rogues’
THE ANC leadership is influenced by ‘liars and rogues,’ anti-apartheid activist and retired Constitutional Court judge Zak Yacoob said. Reflecting on his judicial work which...
Trade unions condemn Colombian state murder
THE TRADE Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) adopted a resolution on the dire situation in Colombia, condemning the violence against trade unionists and calling on...
US Attempt to Extend Arms Embargo on Iran is ‘Illegal’ and...
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif defiantly addressed reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the Iranian cabinet in Tehran on August 12,...
Myanmar Miners – 5 Months On Strike!
Since MYANMAR’S military coup in February this year, 4,800 miners have been on strike in Monywa township in a solid five-month action which has...
Armed intruders infiltrate mines in South Africa AMCU demands
THE SOUTH African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) says it is ‘wary of armed intruders accessing mines where its members work.’ AMCU has...
General Soleimani’s Killers ‘Will Not Escape Punishment!’ Says Iran
IRAN will not let those behind the assassination of the country’s legendary anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani evade punishment. ‘We will not allow the martyr’s...
TURKISH INCURSION INTO SYRIA WILL LEAD TO THE REVIVAL OF DAESH...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has warned that the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria could lead to the revival of the Daesh terrorist group...