Israeli occupation – a crime against humanity – 231 INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS...
APARTHEID is a crime against humanity, giving rise to individual responsibility and state responsibility to bring the illegal situation to an end. In May 2020,...
US actions have throttled the Palestinian Authority politically and financially!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ and the forthcoming economic summit in Bahrain have reaped a multitude of analyses, not least from...
Great Ormond Street security staff rally
SECURITY workers from Great Ormond St Children’s Hospital (GOSH) held a rally on Thursday at lunchtime to mark the end of their six week...
Russian ‘Caliber’ missiles destroy US & European weapons in Ukraine
THE RUSSIAN army struck at warehouses in the Zhytomyr region in the west of Ukraine on Saturday. High-precision long-range sea-based ‘Caliber’ missiles reached the...
More Than 100 Covid Cases At Napier Camp
ACTIVISTS threw fake blood at the gates of Napier Barracks last Thursday – in protest against the conditions in which hundreds of asylum seekers...
Russian troops take control of Kherson in the Ukraine
RUSSIA’S Defence Ministry said its troops have taken control of Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson as the Russian military campaign entered its 20th day. ‘The...
10,000 RMT Tube members on strike today!
‘Every single Tube line is suspended today. We’ve shut down London and we’ll do it again on Thursday,’ RMT Health and Safety Rep Carlos...
Iran’s military manoeuvres display its ‘power and readiness’ says Chief of...
Iran’s senior military commander says the country’s recent back-to-back military drills have made the United States give up its threats of military action against...
Herd immunity strategy against Covid-19 is ‘not an option’ says WHO
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the...
SAFTU remembers the struggle for freedom and democracy
The South African Federations of Trade Unions (SAFTU) remembers the struggle for freedom and democracy by the militant youth of the 1970s. These martyrs, had...
Israel using ‘organised terrorism’ to silence Palestinian media says the Journalists...
AN NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) promoting media freedom says at least 17 Palestinian journalists are currently being held in harsh conditions in Israeli jails in...
‘Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal’ says...
‘EMOTIONALLY, we are not coping. Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal,’ was the view of hospital nurse Mosima Doreen Mabeba...
‘NATO Expansionism Left Putin No Option But To Launch Military Action...
A Moscow-based American political analyst says NATO’s expansionist policy and its disregard for Russia’s security concerns left President Vladimir Putin with no option but...
‘Nursing staff need to have full confidence they are protected!’
THE TORIES ‘indecision’ means nursing staff are facing a postcode lottery in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), leaving some more protected than others, the Royal...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW GP CONTRACT – it introduces American...
THE TITLE of the new GP contract is ‘Investment and evolution: A five-year framework for GP contract reform to implement the NHS Long Term...
Poverty Stricken Haiti Workers Attacked By Riot Police
POVERTY-stricken garment workers in Haiti have been violently attacked by riot police. Last Thursday, for the second day in a row, police fired tear gas...
Civilians evacuated–water and power restored in Mariupol
ON SUNDAY, the Russian Defence Ministry announced the completion of the operation to evacuate civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. On May 5th, 6th...
DVLA health & safety scandal! PCS strike ballot
THOUSANDS of staff working at the DVLA will be balloted for strike action over continuing Covid health and safety concerns, the Public and Commercial...
Lecturers Unprecedented 14 Days Of Strike Action
LECTURERS in over 60 universities have in the past fortnight taken nine days of strike action throughout Britain over cuts to their pensions. With...
US ‘deal of century’ opposed!
SOME are being misled to believe that the soon-to-be-announced ‘deal of the century’ is a US-sponsored peace initiative aimed at resolving the so-called Palestinian-Israeli...
Tories Exacerbate NHS Crisis In ‘Urgent Care’ To Rush In Their...
‘THIS Easter will be worse than any winter for the NHS,’ warned Alastair McLellan, the editor of Health Service Journal (HSJ), in a leading...
EIGHT YEARS SINCE RANA PLAZA COLLAPSE –‘the deadliest disaster in the...
ON THE eighth anniversary of Rana Plaza on Saturday 24 April, UNI Global Union and IndustriALL demanded fashion brands commit to a new legally-binding...
Ithaka – the fight to free Julian Assange
ITHAKA – The film title is from a Greek poem – a long journey and the overcoming of obstacles through the knowledge gained on...
Spanish Socialists increase their lead
Spain’s Socialists increased their lead in a poll published recently in newspaper ABC with 30.9 per cent of votes, equivalent to between 131 and...
‘DEMOCRACY’ AND POVERTY ARE INCOMPATIBLE – Venezuela Foreign Minister tells OAS
Latin America has 240 million people living in poverty, 100 million of them in extreme poverty, said Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque in...
Workers hit by global gas hike – Unison warns of big...
An unprecedented rise in the price of gas has sent shock waves through the UK energy market, forcing energy suppliers out of business, threatening...
4 years of SAFTU is transforming SA class struggle
STATEMENT BY SAFTU ‘BETWEEN the 21st and 23rd of April 2017, 1,500 delegates representing 24 unions with diverse organisational and historic backgrounds, assembled in Ekurhuleni...
Putin warns – Russia will take action if NATO expands its...
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will act if the US-led NATO military alliance crosses its red lines in Ukraine. Speaking at an investment...
‘IRAN SANCTIONS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION AGAINST ALL WORLD NATIONS’ says...
The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivered a defiant speech in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Monday, 22nd April...
Young Moroccan teachers strike defies intimidation and water cannons!
YOUNG teachers in Morocco who have been striking and protesting outside the parliament in Rabat for three weeks against being employed on inferior conditions...
Youth from poor backgrounds hit hardest by coronavirus pandemic
YOUNG people, particularly those from deprived backgrounds, have had their earnings and job prospects hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, adding to fears...
POLICE EVICT CALAIS REFUGEES ‘They come at 5am, circle around your...
A HUMANITARIAN organisation has made further allegations against French police, accusing them of abusing migrants within the port city of Calais. The Human Rights Observers...
FBU condemns plan for firefighters to be sent into fires with...
THE Fire Brigades Union has formally reported two fire and rescue services to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and identified several others, in...
France Hit By Massive Strike Actions
WORKERS at Sanofi, which is France’s largest pharmaceutical company, went on strike on Tuesday following the announcement of 1,000 sackings as part of a...
UK singled out for care home deaths and assault on ...
‘CORONAVIRUS has exposed global inequality, and leaders have ramped up attacks on human rights,’ so concludes the Amnesty International Report 2020/21 released today, which...
Myanmar protesters shot dead by police and army!
POLICE in Myanmar opened fired on protesters on Tuesday in several cities with live rounds, witnesses and local media reported, killing at least nine...
‘Frontline workers need to be respected, protected and paid’ says Mary...
SERVICE Employees International Union (SEIU) International President Mary Kay Henry says the Covid-19 relief package ‘is just a down payment’. She released the following statement...
NATO declares Russia to be the ‘most significant and direct threat!’
NATO has officially declared Russia the ‘most significant and direct threat’ to the security of its members. This marks a radical strategic shift spurred...
Governments from 2002 knew Grenfell cladding was violently combustible
GOVERNMENT officials knew of the dangers of flammable cladding 15 years before the horrific Grenfell Tower fire which on June 14, 2017 claimed the...
Aussie Food Workers Third Week On Strike
United Workers Union (UWU) members at the McCormick Foods manufacturing site in Clayton, south-east Melbourne, Australia, have just started their third week out on...
Power cuts and 43% unemployment dominate SA State of the Nation...
THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...
Syria is determined to recover the Golan ‘through all available means’
SYRIA has strongly condemned the controversial Israeli plan to double the settler population in the Golan Heights, warning against the ‘unprecedented and dangerous’ uptick...
Clover Workers Escalate Strike Action!
THE STRIKE at South African dairy giant Clover, that started on 22 November last year, has brought together unions, political parties, civic organisations and...
BAN ASBESTOS IN WORKPLACES! – demand South African unions
UNIONS in South Africa are urging the government to join and back a global call against asbestos use – and for a total ban,...
US screenwriters 98% vote to strike from May Day
Film and television writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the United States are to strike on and from May Day in...