Israel Planning 73,300 Illegal Housing Units On The West Bank
Peace Now an Israeli left-wing Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) reported on Monday that the Israeli government is planning to build more than 73,300 new...
‘SYRIA IS A CIVIL STATE THAT SOME SITTING IN THIS ROOM...
Syrian Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, opened the Geneva 2 conference in Montreux on Wednesday by insisting on delivering the whole...
Millions around the world march on May Day!
Millions of workers gathered in cities around the world to mark International Workers Day, on Friday with some demonstrations, such as those in Istanbul,...
Ayatollah Khamenei praises Raeisi legacy and wishes success to new president...
LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised the outgoing administration of the late President Ebrahim Raeisi as ‘the government of...
Demonstrations across France against law banning the filming of police
FRENCH riot police have been condemned over violently dispersing protesters in Paris demonstrating against a new security bill (the PPL Securite Globale) which bans...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – PART 8: Lenin studies the...
WHEN Lenin saw, on his return to Russia in April 1917, that the ‘democracy’ in Russia proved even less capable of assuming the power...
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GREEK WORKERS AND YOUTH MARCH on second...
Tens of thousands of school and university students and workers participated in profoundly anti-government mobilisations in all Greek cities last Monday. The demonstrations marked...
Stafford Hospital Camp Is Fighting Downgrading And Closure!
SUPPORT Stafford Hospital campaigners fighting the closure of the West Midlands hospital’s A&E, maternity, and paediatrics departments have set up camp in the...
7-Day Working Proposed For Hospital Consultants!
BY A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT PROPOSALS are being made by clinical leaders to bring in 7-day working for hospital consultants. These proposals are laid out in a...
NUMSA to march on President Ramaphosa’s office
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will march on Wednesday, April 19th to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office to protest against security...
‘Counteroffensive’ Failing – Kiev Is Suffering Staggering Losses!
RUSSIAN forces have wiped out 16 German-made Leopard tanks, amounting to 100% of the armoury supplied to the Kiev regime by Poland and Portugal,...
‘More Of A Victorian Workhouse Than A Warehouse!’
THE denigration of workers, wage payment systems of dubious legality and a disregard for health and safety law are among the catalogue of abuses...
‘FORWARD TO WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION’ –News Line Anniversary Rally told
‘TODAY the greatest crisis ever of the capitalist system is driving forward revolution in every country, as the workers of the world decide that...
‘Summer Of Dissent’ Against Police Bill
A mass petition with over 600,000 signatures was delivered to the Government on Monday, demonstrating the strength of public opposition to the Police, Crime,...
UK MUST SUPPORT INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTO KILLING OF PROTESTERS IN...
A DEMONSTRATION on Saturday of over 2,000 people shouted their support for Palestine in solidarity with the ‘Great March of Return’ in Gaza and...
‘You cannot have an improving school system whilst you are implementing...
‘YOU cannot have an improving school system whilst you are implementing austerity,’ said Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union on Monday. Commenting...
GAZA HUNGER CRISIS! – Bakeries running out of bread as Al...
THE newspaper Filastin has posted a feature on its website titled ‘Through Their Worst Phase of the Israeli Siege on Gaza’ exposing the...
Irish Unions Pledge To Fight Polish Workers Exploitation
Polish workers, some of them members of the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU), are being paid 5.20 euros an hour by a contractor...
South African Social Development workers strike
ON WEDNESDAY March 22, 2017 South Africa’s National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) had an extensive negotiating meeting with the Department...
Picturehouse strikers continue defying sack threat
OVER the weekend, Picturehouse cinema chain BECTU members continued to defy a threat to sack them if they continued their strike action in a...
TORTURE CONTINUES AFTER GEORGIA’S ‘ROSE REVOLUTION’ says Amnesty
‘Torture by the authorities, including with electric shocks and cigarette burns, continues in Georgia’, said Amnesty International today in a new report released on...
Solidarity with Kamal Adwan Hospital rally at US Embassy in London
A CROWD of over 200 rallied outside the US Embassy in south London on Monday night demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Dr...
Egyptian Army Demolitions Creating A Gaza Buffer Zone
AL-AQSA TV on Sunday morning carried the following ‘urgent’ screen caption: ‘Residents on the Egyptian side of Rafah are angry because the Egyptian army...
Escalating looting of South Africa’s resources – SAFTU statement
‘THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) founding congress in April 2017 warned our members, and the entire country, that both of the...
TULKAREM ASSASSINATIONS – undercover Israeli troops kill Islamic Jihad leader
An undercover unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) backed by 15 military vehicles stormed into and imposed curfew on the northern West Bank...
Sri Lanka Artillery Barrage Halts Mannaar City
TAMILNET reports that ‘Normalcy has been disturbed in Mannaar city Tuesday from 8:10 am as the Sri Lanka Army mounted an artillery barrage simultaneously...
Serious action needed to remove PM Blair
MORE than 400 people took part in a mass vigil at Parliament Square on Wednesday night, on hearing the news that the 100th British...
People Still Missing After Attack On Freedom Flotilla
THE Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said on Thursday 3 June that there were still missing people from the convoy that was detained by Israel...
Dockers Win Compensation
TWENTY-SEVEN Unite members have won their tribunal claim over calculation of a redundancy payment at Rosyth Royal Dockyard in an Employment Tribunal decision. The members...
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...
WEST ‘HAS RUN OUT OF AMMO’ says Ahmadinejad
PRESIDENT Ahmadinejad has said that the West has ‘run out of ammo’ against Iran. He added that Iran will never accept commitments from Western countries...
Fourteen delivery drivers in South Korea dead from overwork this year
Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due...
Conductors on ScotRail: Strike goes ahead Sun!
RAIL UNION the RMT has confirmed that planned industrial action by ScotRail conductors will go ahead from this Sunday – in a fight for...
ITUC accuses French state of ‘police brutality and indiscriminate mass arrests!’
IN ITS annual report on the state of trade union rights in the world, the ITUC accuses the French State of ‘police brutality’ and...
TWO MILLION BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS SACKED – 53.64 million face extreme...
MORE than two million garment workers have been sacked in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of fewer orders from the United...
Dire Staff Shortages At Cancer Centres Across The UK – Investment...
Annual workforce figures released on Tuesday by The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) reveal the ‘dire’ staff shortages at cancer centres across the UK. Clinical...
Deaths and injuries continue in Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards
WORKERS’ lives continue to be in danger due to the unsafe working conditions at Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards. Two accidents occurred on 12 January in two...
In 3 years NHS learning disability nurse numbers increase by only...
In 3 years NHS learning disability nurse numbers increase by only 22! ‘Lives are being put at risk’ – RCN warns The lives of learning...
Mass Demonstrations Continue In Haiti
MASS demonstrations continued in Haiti on Xmas eve demanding the resignation of President Michel Martelly and that elections be held. The Haitian parliament’s mandate runs...
NO TGWU HARDSHIP PAY! – for Gate Gourmet locked-out workers taking...
TWO Gate Gourmet locked-out workers went to the TGWU London South East and East Anglia Regional Office in north London on Tuesday, to ask...
Failure of USA highlighted on anniversary of JCPOA signing
ON the sixth anniversary of the landmark Iran nuclear deal, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has highlighted the failure of the United States’ so-called...
Greek public workers national strike
ABOUT 5,000 public sector workers took part in two strike marches in Athens last Wednesday against mass sackings and wage cuts. The one-day national...
ASSAD MEETS RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER SHOYGU –both sides agreed on next...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Monday received Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu and an accompanying delegation. The two sides discussed the Russian-Turkish agreements reached on...
National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign launched
OVER 2000 workers rallied in San Francisco for the kickoff of the ‘National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign’ on February 15. Chanting ‘Si...
‘A SMOKESCREEN FOR MORE PRIVATISATION’ – ‘Unite warns over NHS constitution
TWO major health unions have reacted cooly to the Labour government’s new NHS Constitution, launched last Wednesday, which contains ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’ for both...