Russia Behind the Camera: Archives, Art and Revolution
Film making in Russia – a masterclass by Margy Kinmonth at Pushkin House DOCUMENTARY film maker Margy Kinmonth gave a masterclass on the theme of...
Middlesex University strikers defending their jobs and pensions!
STRIKE action took place on Tuesday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of...
Garment workers denounce wage structure in Dhaka and clash with police
GARMENT workers have flooded the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, this week, clashing with police and denouncing the new wages structure introduced on...
Youth bear brunt of economic collapse – says Canadian Labour Congress...
THE CLC (Canadian Labour Congress) in Canada have produced a report exposing the fact that youth are bearing the brunt of the mass sackings,...
RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO GEORGIA ‘SHOULD GIVE A LESSON TO PRO-WESTERNERS’ –...
THE Iranian daily Keyhan has been examining the Russian intervention into Georgia and seeking to draw lessons from it. It states: ‘In the early hours...
IMF presides over historic crisis of Capitalism!
NEXT week Washington will host the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. At this gathering, the world’s economic policymakers will...
Thousands Pay Last Respects To Prabhakaran’s Father
THOUSANDS of people, including men, women and children paid their last respects on Saturday to the remains of the late Thiruvengadam Vellupillai, father...
‘Set up an independent Judge-led inquiry!’ – ‘Keep your word’ Rights...
NINE human rights NGOs (non-governmental organisations), including Reprieve, are urging prime minister Cameron to honour his 2010 promise of an independent, judge-led inquiry into...
THE UK IS A FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY WITH THIRD-WORLD EDUCATION – UCU...
The UK has dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables, the University and College Union stressed today. In the past twelve years it...
‘If America Should Go Communist’ by Leon Trotsky (Part one)
LEON TROTSKY wrote ‘If America Should Go Communist’ on August 17, 1934, over a year after President Roosevelt brought in his ‘New Deal’, ...
Clashes on Palestinian Naksa
PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip commemorated on Sunday the anniversary of the 1967 Israeli invasion and occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai, and...
‘systematic Exploitation Of Migrant Workers In Israel
Migrant workers in Israel’s agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to an October 28th report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning...
Almost the entire population of Gaza live below the poverty line...
IN the Gaza Strip, unemployment is no longer a chronic economic issue; it has become an all-encompassing reality that haunts an entire generation of...
13,000 ‘Disappeared’ From Sri Lankan Prison Camps
TAMILNET reports that according to reports of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, last week over 13,000 internally displaced people have...
Freed hunger striker Miqdad Qawasmi speaks out!
Eman Badr’s smile never leaves her face ever since her 25-year-old son Miqdad was released from Israeli prison following a 113-day, life-threatening hunger strike...
Midwives rally across UK to highlight maternity crisis
THOUSANDS of midwives and their supporters protested in towns and cities across the UK at 2.00pm on Sunday to highlight the crisis in maternity...
Palestinians condemn Israeli air attack on Hezbollah
DIFFERENT Palestinian factions have denounced the Israeli raid on a Hezbollah convoy which killed six of the Lebanese resistance movement’s fighters. The...
5,000 striking public sector workers, pensioners and students rally in...
SOME 5,000 local government workers, teachers, hospital workers, university staff, civil servants, along with pensioners and university students participated last Tuesday in a militant...
Riot Police Launch Savage Savage Attacks On Athens Demonstration
Over 30,000 Greek students and lecturers demonstrating against the government’s Education Bill were viciously attacked by the armed riot police outside the Vouli (Greek...
Torture Continues Under Mursi
CASES of torture in police stations continue in Egypt despite an uprising that ostensibly began against police brutality, Amnesty International says. The recent case of...
‘WE WON’T LET THE NHS BE BUTCHERED’ – doctors tell BMA...
‘I WANT to see you all out on April 10,’ London doctors’ leader Kevin O’Kane said on Thursday night, calling for a massive march...
‘Medicare for All’ the defining issue for Democrats
‘MEDICARE for All’ is shaping up to be one of the defining issues of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign, with Bernie Sanders and...
How the Israeli army murdered 29 members of the Samouni family
IN one corner of Salah Samouni’s modest living room hangs a ‘martyr poster’ – a customary honor printed for those killed in all Israeli...
French police storm refugee camps in northern Paris
FRENCH police stormed the make-shift refugees camps in northern Paris, tearing down tents and ‘escorting’ families and individuals on to coaches. French police forcibly evicted...
TUC – call a general strike now to smash the Strikes...
THERE was a powerful Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Conference in Liverpool on Monday morning, where delegate after delegate...
Israeli Foreign Minister threatens Hamas leaders with assassination
ISRAELI foreign minister Eli Cohen’s threat of killing leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas exposes the regime’s frustration over its defeat against the...
‘THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING – WE HAVE TO CARRY ON...
OVER 300, mainly youth, shouting No Justice! No Peace!, marched through Tottenham on Monday evening to Ferry Lane, the place where Mark Duggan...
Thousands attend Hezbollah leaders’ funeral – ‘We will continue Sayyed Nasrallah’s...
Hezbollah will continue supporting the Palestinian people and will not let US President Donald Trump implement his project for the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah Secretary-General...
ANC dismisses call for its leadership to resign
SOUTH Africa’s ruling ANC has dismissed a call by its chief whip, Jackson Mthembu, for the party’s NEC to resign in the wake of...
Western Powers Warn Assad Not To Stand!
ELEVEN Western and Middle Eastern powers on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against holding elections, saying that the vote would have no credibility...
Bush Anti-Iran Campaign Hitting Difficulties
US President George W Bush was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his campaign to isolate arch foe Iran and for...
HEZBOLLAH UPHOLDS ARAB NATIONAL SECURITY says Sayyed Safieddine!
HEAD of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has lashed out at Saudi claims that the Lebanese Resistance movement ‘risks Arab national security’. Speaking at...
ONE BIG TEACHERS UNION! – demands Professional Unity Conference!
OVER 100 teachers from around the UK attended a Professional Unity conference last Saturday, organised by their trade unions. Speakers were Mary Bousted, Association of...
PCS strikes across the UK against ‘pathetic’ pay increases
PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union members on Tuesday began a series of strikes across England, Scotland and Wales which the Tory government intends...
President Abbas congratulates Bashar al-Assad on the anniversary of Evacuation Day,...
PALESTINIAN president Mahmoud Abbas has offered his congratulations to his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad on the annual anniversary of Evacuation Day, the day when...
‘Consign capitalism to the Natural History Museum!’ –Jonty Leff tells Anniversary...
More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...
11,000 Residents & Supporters Join Grenfell Silent Walk
MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...
Lebanese condemn Israeli aggression
Lebanon’s president, prime minister and Parliamentary Speaker slammed Israel’s ‘aggression’ against the country on Tuesday, as Lebanese and Israeli occupation troops exchanged fire...
Zionist witch-hunt costs Octavia Nasr her CNN job
CNN’s decision to fire a veteran Mideast editor over a Twitter message mourning the death of the Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is...
JOINT NATIONAL TEACHERS STRIKE BY FEB 13th–IF GOVE WON’T NEGOTIATE
IN A ‘Protect Teachers and Defend Education’ campaign update, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) said strike action is set to go ahead in...
The 200 Palestinians freed on Saturday represent the unity of Palestinian...
By Nahid Poureisa, an Iranian analyst and academic researcher focused on West Asia and China ‘A total of 200 Palestinian abductees, including 121 serving life sentences, were...
US desperate to defuse tensions between Israel and Hezbollah!
Amos Hochstein, a senior United States diplomat, has met Israeli leaders and has also visited Lebanon as part of a push by Washington to...
Keep ICE out of World Cup tournament or we strike! –...
The Unite Here trade union which represents over 2,000 food service workers at the Los Angeles Stadium on Tuesday asked football’s governing body FIFA...
Afl-Cio Forms Partnership With National Day Labourers!
A NEW national partnership agreement signed yesterday by the AFL-CIO and the largest network of worker centres serving low-wage, often immigrant workers will help...
1,000 Unite ground staff vote unanimously for BA strike action against...
OVER 1,000 British Airways (BA) baggage handlers, loaders and other ‘below-wing’ ground staff workers voted unanimously in favour of strike action at a mass...