Seven African states condemn AU granting Israel observer status
SEVEN African Arab states have rejected a recent decision by the African Union (AU) Commission to grant the Israeli regime an observer status at...
RCN launch ‘Nursing Workplace Standards’ – as nursing vacancies rise to...
The RCN’s Nursing Workforce Standards have been created to explicitly set out what must happen within workplaces to ensure the delivery of safe and...
GP Surgeries Under Threat
GP SURGERIES are under threat of closure or will be forced to reduce services this winter as pressure mounts, Local Medical Committees (LMCs) have...
Hamas supports call for general elections!
THE ISLAMIC resistance movement Hamas has praised recent calls by the Palestinian Democratic Union (PDU) – a political party active in the Palestine Liberation...
‘Privatisation At Chesterfield Has Driven Out Staff!’
‘THIS IS bad news for staff and for patients,’ Unison’s head of health Sara Gorton has warned. ‘The changes are built on savings from employing...
NHS BACKLOG ‘Dangerously close to crippling services’ – BMA
THE NHS BACKLOG is ‘dangerously close’ to crippling our health service as waiting times hit a record high, doctors’ union the BMA has warned. Responding...
Yemeni Forces Launch Missile Attack On Saudi Airbase
YEMENI forces successfully launched a missile attack on the airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia. The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces confirmed that army troops and allied...
‘Take remote sign-on off the table or we ballot for strike’...
Unite announced on Tuesday that ‘if remote sign-on is not taken entirely off the table for all bus operators then Unite, which represents over...
Alabama Amazon staff unionisation fight!
THE STRONGEST and most viable effort yet to create a union at technology giant Amazon in many years is underway at its warehouse in...
Demonstrations in NE Syria against US-backed militants
US-sponsored and Kurdish-led militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have opened fire for the second straight day at people protesting against their...
DON’T INVEST IN ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS! – Palestinians issue a warning
THE PALESTINIAN Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has warned Israeli and international companies against investing in the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied...
Shortages, food scandals and rising prices put French workers on front...
SHORTAGES, food scandals and rising prices put low-income families on the front line, says the CGT French trade union federation. While food scandals accumulate (Kinder...
Case Against Palestine Action Collapses Again!
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped its charges against Palestine Action activists after levelling charges of ‘blackmail’ earlier in the year. In a recent report...
Privatisation of social care is a ‘ticking time-bomb’ – GMB
THE GMB Annual Conference, which opened in Brighton on Sunday and finishes today, warned that there is a ‘social care ticking timebomb’ ... with...
Trump admin committed ‘terror acts’ against Iran – Biden’s admin is...
IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the former ‘criminal’ US administration did great injustice to the people of Iran with its terrorist...
Ban facial recognition Demand campaigners after ruling
LIBERTY, Privacy International and 30 organisations have called for Parliament to ban the use of facial recognition technology, one year after judges found the...
IRAN IS READY FOR TALKS ON REVIVING 2015 NUCLEAR DEAL! –...
FOREIGN Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Iran is ready to resume talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal but the administration of US President Joe...
Mass Delhi rally called against power privatisation!
WORKERS in the power industry across India will hold a massive rally in Delhi on November 23 against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022, which...
39% teachers still working in unsafe schools
IT IS now estimated that 39% of teachers and school leaders – as well as 51% of teaching assistants and other staff – are...
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE – FBU responds to the latest...
Responding to the latest State of Fire report announced by the chief inspector of fire and rescue services Sir Tom Winsor, the Fire Brigades...
Syria’s rightful sovereignty over Golan recognised by UN
THE UN General Assembly has again voted by majority to recognise Syria’s rightful sovereignty over the occupied Golan, and on considering all the measures...
COSATU president celebrates Workers Day on May 1st
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi delivered a Workers Day Speech on May 1st. ‘My fellow South Africans, President Cyril...
‘Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians is a cruel system of domination and...
‘ISRAELI authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians,’ Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a damning new report. The...
Health workers march in France! ‘Our public hospitals are dying...
HEALTH workers demonstrated in cities across France on Tuesday to demand higher pay and more staff for services stretched to breaking point, just days...
Cease the scrapping of BTec demands the Sixth Form Colleges Association
A KEY education union campaign to stop BTec vocational qualifications being scrapped within two years has won backing from both MPs and even lords...
US warns India of ‘consequences’ of evading sanctions on Russia!
A TOP US national security official has called on India to scale back its economic and military ties with Russia, warning of ‘consequences’ for...
NHS CANCER SERVICES ‘Worst winter crisis ever’
NHS CANCER services plunged into the worst winter on record as patients were left waiting weeks for treatment, warns a new BMA report Doctors’ leaders...
Ex-President Trump launches attack on Netanyahu
FORMER US president Donald Trump has launched another verbal attack on his one-time close ally Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the ex-Israeli prime minister did not...
Lebanon Imports More Fuel From Iran
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Tehran is ready to sell more fuel to the Lebanese government and businessmen if need be, as an...
Striking Clover Workers Demand Halt Wage Cuts And Sackings
STRIKING Clover workers marched in Johannesburg last Thursday demanding that the company halt retrenchments and wage cuts. The workers also picketed outside the Israel Trade...
Female doctors take on extra work to fight Covid – RCN...
Female doctors say they have ‘felt compelled to step up’ during the pandemic, even though they knew they were at risk, as BMA research shows that they...
68 universities face a further five days of strike action
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) announced over the weekend that 68 universities across the UK will face a further five days of strike action beginning...
Israeli police storm hospital in East Jerusalem
ACCORDING to witnesses Israeli police, on Thursday afternoon of last week, stormed the Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem’s al-Tur neighbourhood. They said that Israeli police...
AFL-CIO leadership attempting to block resolution on boycotting Israel
The national leadership of the largest labour federation in the USA is trying to stop one of its affiliates from debating and voting on...
Massive French demonstrations against Macron’s dictatorial health bill
MASS demonstrations have been taking place over the past weeks in Paris and other major French cities against the Macron government’s dictatorial health bill. And...
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance slams Saudi refusal to renew ceasefire
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has slammed the Saudi-led coalition for failing to renew the UN-brokered truce deal and deteriorating the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn...
1,383 US medics demand deportations stop!
1,383 MEDICAL professionals last Friday demanded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) end the Title 42 border expulsions order that has...
RESISTANCE, REBIRTH AND REVOLUTION – the fifth Congress of the United...
THE FIFTH Congress of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), is taking place in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Delegates filled the largest theatre...
British destroyer on an ‘epic fiasco of provocation’ says Russia’s Major...
LAST Wednesday, a Russian patrol ship and fighter jet fired warning shots and dropped bombs along the path of a British destroyer that had...
US-led Black Sea drills a ‘provocation’ – Russia’s Embassy in Washington
RUSSIA is warning Western allies that nothing good will come out of provocations in the Black Sea as any attempts to test Moscow’s willingness...
IMF undermining world health and education – ActionAid’s dire warning
NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...
Powerful 5th Anniversary Grenfell Silent Walk’
THERE were more than 5,000 people on the Grenfell Tower Fire 5th Anniversary Silent Walk, organised by Grenfell United on Tuesday 14th June. The walk,...
‘We saved the A&E – Now reopen the Maternity’ says Ealing...
THE FIFTY-strong mass picket of Ealing Hospital in west London last Friday shouted: ‘Victory for the A&E! We saved the A&E now re-open maternity!’ The...
‘US-UK Hands Off Assange’ – say human chain protesters
‘US-UK Hands off Assange!’ said demonstators in Parliament Square before several thousand made a human chain around the Houses of Parliament on Saturday. ‘There’s only...
Iranian government acts over the steep rise in the price of...
THE IRANIAN government will offer direct cash handouts to the people in the country to offset a decision to raise the price of flour...