Russian forces have taken control of half of the eastern Ukrainian...
RUSSIAN forces have taken control of half a key industrial city in eastern Ukraine, as they continue an unrelenting push deeper into the Donbass region. A...
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...
Iran’s response will shock Israel – warns Shamkhani – after Israel...
IRAN’S security chief has brushed aside reports about Israel’s budget for a potential attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, warning the Zionist regime that it...
CWU pickets demand the TUC calls a general strike – as...
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) took strike action on Friday and Saturday and explained the reasons for doing so. In a letter to all its...
Taliban Making Advances In Northern Afghanistan
AS THE TALIBAN fighters continue to make rapid advances across Afghanistan, the militants have captured another provincial capital in the northern part of the...
Nearly 500 students still living in ‘fire-trap’!
NEARLY 500 students still remain living in a housing complex in west London while waiting for alternative accommodation despite it having been deemed a...
‘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...
Israeli Bulldozers Raze Gaza Farmland
Israeli forces have levelled large areas of farmland in the Gaza Strip after infiltrating the border fence between the besieged enclave and the occupied...
‘Shocked And Appalled’ By The Treatment Of Children At Rainsbrook Training...
Members of the House of Commons Justice Committee are ‘shocked and appalled’ by the treatment of children at a privately run detention centre in Northamptonshire, they say in a report published on Monday. They have called on...
Tories to blame for education chaos
THE TORY government is to blame for the suffering faced by university staff and students, the University College Union (UCU) has underlined. Responding to the...
Greek workers say ‘No’ to 13-hour day
The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the Greek TUC, responded on Thursday with an angry statement to the government Labour Ministry’s intention to...
Strikes, fires and fuel hikes in South Africa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape notes recent developments affecting the Taxi Industry in Cape Town and the...
South African steel & engineering strike into 2nd week
EMPLOYERS in the steel and engineering industry have upped their salary increase offer to striking workers affiliated to the National Union of Metalworkers of...
Hundreds of thousands mobilise against Macron’s dictatorial health law
FRENCH President Macron’s dictatorial new health law and its passage through parliament has angered a vast swathe of workers, youth and the middle class. On...
Over 100 executions in Saudi Arabia this year!
Two human rights organisations have filed a complaint at the United Nations against arbitrary executions in Saudi Arabia, especially after last month’s execution of dozens of...
Palestine Action’s ‘Elbit Eight’ acquitted!
IN a significant development, a group of Palestine Action activists, known as the ‘Elbit Eight’, have been acquitted for their role in shutting down...
‘OUR TIME HAS COME’ – Israel to double Golan settlements
‘OUR TIME has come’ said Israeli Premier Naftali Bennett on Sunday adding that the Tel Aviv regime intends to double the number of illegal...
Social housing projects cancelled after costs to make buildings fire safe...
MORE than one in ten ‘affordable’ new homes planned by housing associations can no longer be built due to the costs of making buildings...
BUILDING SAFETY FUND SCANDAL – not one social housing block remediation...
NOT ONE of the social housing blocks granted building safety funding have had their remediation work completed yet, the latest figures from the Ministry...
Israeli jurisdiction over Syria’s Golan Heights is ‘null and void’ declares...
THE United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution declaring that the Israeli regime’s decision to impose its jurisdiction in Syria’s Golan Heights with...
Nursing on a ‘knife-edge’ RCN warn of intensifying staffing crisis
NURSES’ unions have declared that World Patient Safety Day 2021 must be a ‘wake-up call’ to ministers to tackle – ‘urgently’ – the nursing...
US, Turkish & Zionist Alliance Faces Defeat
OVER the past two decades, the United States, Turkey, and the Zionist regime of Israel have faced ultimate defeat in any sedition that they’ve...
NUJ Condemns Home Office Call For ‘Increased Maximum Sentences’ For ‘Unauthorised...
THE UK HOME OFFICE has called for comment on proposed new laws with greater reach and harsher penalties to ‘counter state threats’. These are intended...
Washington Fears ‘Ukraine Fatigue’ While Nato Chief Calls It A ‘War...
THE US administration of Joe Biden is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal...
Israel proceeds with demolitions, evictions and arrests of Palestinians
THE UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli forces have either demolished or seized 24 Palestinian-owned buildings in the occupied...
‘The deliberate inaction of countries … aims at legitimising Tel...
THE IRANIAN Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights says ambiguous positions adopted by international bodies, including the United Nations, over the ongoing massacre of...
Government officials knew cladding would go ‘whoosh’ when exposed to fire,...
A SENIOR civil servant ‘ignored’ a ‘red alert’ warning about the ‘widespread, historic and ongoing’ use of a highly combustible cladding product on UK...
IRUSA gives aid boost to orphaned and disabled Palestinian children
AS COVID-19 continues to fuel increased hardship among the two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, thousands of vulnerable and orphaned refugee children living...
Half of US cop killings unreported
THE British medical journal The Lancet says more than half of police killings in the United States are unreported and Black Americans are most...
Iranian oil minister Owji says oil & petro-chemical exports are continuing...
IRANIAN Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji says Iran’s crude oil and petrochemical exports continue without disruption after the Biden administration announced a new round...
Huwara Set Ablaze By Rampaging Zionist Settlers
HUWARA, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, was almost entirely set ablaze on Sunday night as extensive fires engulfed...
Teachers and heads in Isle of Man reject ‘insulting’ 2% pay...
TEACHERS on the Isle of Man have voted overwelmingly for strike action in a row over pay, following an insulting 2% pay offer. The National...
COSATU cost-of-living protest in Gauteng
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members in Gauteng last Friday marched to the department of trade and industry to hand in a...
‘No such thing as a free lunch’ BofE warns furlough scheme...
DEPUTY governor of the Bank of England Ben Broadbent said this week that ‘resilient’ household spending has been ‘funded by tomorrow’s taxpayers’ – in...
Bolivia Coup Leaders Jailed For 10 Years
BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE – Bartolina Sisa Resistance ON JUNE 15, 2022, in the Coup d’etat II case, the 1st Court of Anti-corruption read the...
‘Child poverty is on the rise–the effects can last a lifetime’...
‘The State of Education: Poverty, the Pandemic and Recovery’ is the title of a devastating new NEU (National Education Union) survey of 10,000+ school...
‘Palestinian political prisoners, a crucial part of our national struggle’ –...
AS Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip prepare to vote in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections on May 22,...
On International Day of the Midwife the RCN calls for a...
THE ROYAL College of Nurses (RCN) has taken the occasion of the International Day of the Midwife to demand a pay increase for all...
Palestinians are resisting Trump’s ‘deal of the century!’
A SENIOR Hamas official has told Press TV that Palestinians will resist the so-called deal of the century proposed by the administration of US...
Fresh Attempt To Extradite Assange!
THE US has launched a fresh attempt to have WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited from Britain to face charges that could jail him for...
Palestinian Freedom Fighter Walid Daqqa 37 years behind bars – Israeli...
THE ISRAELI District Court’s decision not to grant the seriously ill freedom fighter Walid Daqqa – who has already served 37 years behind bars...
Amazon dominates on-line market – while workers suffer an epidemic of...
AS AMAZON dominates online marketplaces and positions itself to become the largest retailer in the US, more and more people are finding out the...
Return to public sector all services outsourced under PFI! says Public...
VITAL public services such as schools and hospitals face serious disruptions should government fail to prepare for the expiry of its 700 PFI contracts,...
Over 1,000 march for ‘Right to Food’ in Haringey
Haringey Right to Food, organised a Hunger March through Tottenham on Saturday, 23 September. A large crowd gathered outside the Spurs Football Stadium from 12...
Colombia has a new president – in an historic poll victory...
BY YONATAN MOSQUERA ‘We won, we did it, yes we can,’ are perhaps the most repeated phrases these days by the masses of the Colombian...