Israeli genocide continues unabated despite ceasefire – says Amnesty
ISRAEL’S genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite the ceasefire, says rights group Amnesty International. More than a month after a ceasefire was...
‘Where Ships And Workers Go To Die’’
The International Metalworkers’ Federation has joined a global campaign calling on G20 heads of state to protect workers in one of the world’s most...
From 1917 Centenary–Forward To World October!
‘THE WORLD’S first socialist revolution when the working class took power is showing us the way forward today,’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary Frank...
11,000 Bangladesh garment workers sacked after pay strikes
AS MANY as 11,000 Bangladesh garment workers were sacked in the wake of the pay strikes they waged in December and January, while many...
‘WE CAME TO POWER THROUGH THE PEOPLE’S WILL’ – Prime Minister...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ismail Haniya spoke at a rally organised by the Hamas Movement at Al-Yarmuk playground in Gaza on 6 October ‘in support...
‘No To Slavery – We Are Workers’
OVER 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters rallied at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords, from 11am to 1pm on Sunday. The...
‘The 3rd Intifada will defeat Israel’ – Haniya
DEPUTY head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniya has urged Arab and Muslim leaders in the region, in letters sent to them, to support...
IRAQ ‘DAY OF REGRET’ – Mass demonstration this Friday
Iraqi puppet prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki warned his cabinet on Sunday to shape up within 100 days or face ‘changes’, as protest organisers called...
Armed conflicts displace millions in Sudan and the DRC
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has raised alarms over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Dominique Hyde, UNHCR’s Director of External Relations,...
Demonstrators call for trade unions to take action over Palestine!
A-QUARTER-of-a-million workers and youth, including whole families, marched and rallied in central London on Saturday demanding ‘stop the killing’ of Palestinians in Gaza. Demonsterators shouted...
ILWU Longshore workers fight lock-out – and remember Bloody Thursday
LONGSHORE workers in Oregon and Washington are continuing their round-the-clock fight for a fair contract at grain terminals owned by some of the world’s...
10,000 march against police bill
MORE than 10,000 workers, students and youth marched against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill from Lincoln Inn Fields to Parliament on Saturday...
San Francisco teachers hold their first strike in 47 years!
‘Thousands of public school teachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public (state) school teachers strike in the city in...
‘HOME SECRETARY ACTED ILLEGALLY’ – when she deprived Al Jedda of...
ON WEDNESDAY, Public Interest Lawyers won an important decision when the Supreme Court brought to an end a six-year legal battle by Mr Al...
Nurses, Starbucks & Sodexo workers in US strike wave
THE STRIKE wave sweeping the USA continues to grow, with tens of thousands of nurses and hundreds of Starbucks and Sodexo workers being the...
No Academy At Hove Park School!
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to stop Hove Park School in Brighton & Hove being turned into an academy have called a march for July 5th. Hands Off...
Tar Sands Regions and Gulf Coast communities lobby BP AGM
REPRESENTATIVES of devastated communities from Gulf Coast and Tar Sands regions confronted the BP Board yesterday morning at their AGM over their failure to...
Thousands demonstrate in Santiago for Palestine!
Thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday in the Chilean capital Santiago for the protection of children in Palestine and in support of the inhabitants...
Israeli torturers and war criminals driven out of Netzarim Corridor!
A Palestinian abductee who was among prisoners released on Saturday by Israel as part of the ceasefire deal has recounted the tragic ordeal and...
Indian bank workers strike while Sri Lankan workers organise in Free...
NORMAL banking operations were disrupted across the whole of India on Friday as bank employee unions went on strike last Friday to protest against...
‘To strike is not a crime: we will will not be...
THOUSANDS of Spanish workers took part in a rally in Madrid on 5 July, to protest at the arrest and possible imprisonment of several...
‘Neo-Nazi Kiev knowingly pursuing the deliberate, intentional destruction of civilians’ –...
RUSSIA is not waiting for the agreements reached in Anchorage to be implemented, but rather for victory, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov stated on Sunday. ‘We...
25 years since Hillingdon Hospital strike 1st OCTOBER 1995 – 30th...
ON October 1st, 1995 56 domestic and catering workers at Hillingdon Hospital were sacked by Pall Mall for refusing to accept a £40 per...
‘not A Single Sacking – Permanent Jobs For All Workers!’
‘IT WILL NOT PASS!’ Over 5,000 young Greek workers on so-called ‘training’ schemes in the public sector, demonstrated on Thursday in Athens and in other...
‘PATIENT DEATHS DO NOT INCREASE DURING DOCTOR STRIKES!’ says Harvard Medical...
‘PATIENT deaths do not increase during doctor strikes,’ research has shown, as junior doctors prepare for their three days of action. The junior doctors are...
The removal of all illegal settlements is ‘prerequisite for a...
THE de facto annexation by Israel of East Jerusalem violates Palestinian rights and endangers the prospect of a two-state solution, the Executive Director of...
Fierce Clashes Between Mahdi Army And US Forces
Fierce clashes between Mahdi Army fighters and US forces in the Iraqi capital’s Sadr City district killed at least 20 people on Sunday, amid...
END SCANDAL OF MALNOURISHED PATIENTS – says Age Concern
Four out of ten older people admitted to hospital have malnutrition on arrival, says a new report by Age Concern. The Royal College of...
New sanctions on Russia are a signal for Ukraine not to...
NEW sanctions against Russia are a US signal to Ukraine not to negotiate an end to the war, Russia says. By introducing new sanctions against...
15,000-strong Grenfell anniversary march
15,000 workers and youth took part in an emotional silent march through west London on Thursday evening to mark the first anniversary of the...
Mass marches in Argentina against Milei government – on 50th anniversary...
HUMAN Rights organisations, marking 50 years since the 1976 coup, condemned President Milei’s government for justifying Argentina’s civil-military dictatorship and echoing its economic policies,...
Greek Student Occupations Take To The Streets
MORE than 15,000 students marched through Athens last Thursday demanding the withdrawal of the proposed revision of Article 16 of the Constitution, which would...
TSSA General Secretary calls for meaningful action by the trade unions...
AT the rally in Whitehall, next to Downing Street, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said: ‘It has been one year of genocide...
Sunak statement: ‘Ordinary people bear the broadest burden’ – Unite
TRADE unions have highlighted the acute crisis facing millions of families facing steep rises in the cost-of-living, declaring that measures outlined in Tory Chancellor...
ISRAEL HAS ‘SHOT DOWN THE PEACE PROCESS’ says Abbas over Gaza...
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said on Sunday that the latest Israeli military escalation has ‘shot down the efforts to advance the peace process’ after...
Record settlement building under Netanyahu
THE government of Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has advanced a ‘record’ number of settlements during its nearly four years in office, a...
NEU is to carry out national strike ballots of 300,000 teachers...
‘TODAY the National Education Union is writing to employers with notification of our intention to carry out national ballots of around 300,000 teacher and...
Hit Squad Takes Over Se London Healthcare
PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were revealed at a south London press conference on Monday. The government-appointed Trust...
Row Growing Over Future Of 17,000-Plus Detainees
A proposed US-Iraq security pact states that anyone detained by the Americans must be handed over to the Iraqis within 24 hours, says UN...
Doctors Hit By £200,000 Pension Changes
Changes to public sector pensions could mean doctors paying over £200,000 more over the course of their careers for a worse deal on retirement,...
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...
Bolivia against the State of Emergency
BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE ‘AFTER fifty days of permanent mobilisations and blockades, the Indigenous and popular movement, which is demanding the resignation of US-backed President...
Nurses union demands the immediate abolition of ICE
THE UNITED STATES has erupted in fury after a second person in the span of a month was fatally shot by federal immigration authorities...
PROTECT OUR TRAINING, PROTECT OUR NHS! – Doctors march against MTAS
Over 12,000 junior doctors and supporters, including medical students, registrars and a number of consultants, marched through central London last Saturday against government ‘reforms’...
ISRAELI MEDICAL NEGLECT KILLED HAMDIYEH! – Palestinian prisoners begin three-day hunger...
THE death of a cancer-stricken detainee on Tuesday has raised tensions in Israeli jails as Palestinian prisoners announced a three-day hunger strike. Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh,...