Canadian workers defeat the Alberta Tories!
THE ruling right-wing Tory government of Canada got a massive shock last Tuesday when the Progressive Conservative party (PC) were decisively thrashed in elections...
Sack Lansley! –say Junior Doctors
Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors conference on Saturday, against the advice of their leaders, voted overwhelmingly to demand health secretary...
High Court Gives Go Ahead For Legal Challenge Over Iraq Civilians...
The High Court has given the go-ahead for a legal challenge over the torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of UK troops. Last Friday,...
Army Is Sole Authority For Lebanon’s Security – Hezbollah!
HUSAYN al-Khalil, the political aide to Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on 12 May held a Beirut press conference where he insisted that the...
‘Stop the starvation, stop arming Israel, end the genocide’
continued from lead article British/Australian doctor who had worked in Gaza, Mohammed Mustafa spoke wearing the scrubs that he wore in Gaza, saying: ‘These...
UK leads the way in austerity, welfare cuts and hungerK leads...
‘Nothing Left in the Cupboards: Austerity, Welfare Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK,’ is the title of a devastating 115-page Human...
‘NO WAR ON VENEZUELA – Bank of England must end its...
A DEMONSTRATION of over 100 people gathered outside the Bank of England on Saturday as part of a global day of action to demand:...
‘WE ARE THE BEDROCK OF THE NHS’ – declares doctors’ conference
Over 400 family doctor delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) GPs conference on Thursday expressed their anger and voted no confidence in the...
US Aiding Terrorists In Iraq And Syria
SECURITY experts believe the United States is targeting Iraq’s anti-terror Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) in order to resuscitate the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group that...
US and EU prepare for direct armed conflict with Russia
US REPRESENTATIVES have launched a campaign in the Philippines to recruit local citizens to fight on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces, Russian...
Hamas leader urges Palestinians to ‘stand together in a single front’
THE POLITBURO chief of Palestine’s Hamas resistance movement says the Israeli regime will not be able to change the reality on the ground across...
Russian roulette – the rouble rises as European economies...
FROM FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST HAS Biden bitten off more than he and NATO can swallow?
Is it really one year already?
Did anyone say it...
‘I Call On Youth – Take To The Streets Of The...
JAILED Palestinian Leader Marwan al-Barghouthi believes much must be carried out in 2013, starting with national reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, the liberation of...
First Plane Uses Aleppo International Airport In Four Years!
A SYRIAN government airplane successfully took off from the Aleppo International Airport on Friday, marking the first time in four years that any aircraft...
Defend pensions against Labour renegade Hutton
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow has called for joint action to defend pensions against the proposals of Labour renegade Lord Hutton. Crow said: ‘It is...
Vetoing The Palestinian State ‘Would Be A Deadly Mistake’ – Barghouthi...
FATAH leader Marwan Barghouthi, jailed in Israel during the Second Intifada, has warned Washington that vetoing a Palestinian state at the United Nations would...
‘JUSTICE FOR PAUL COKER’ – vigil held at Plumpstead police station
‘WHAT do we want? Justice! – When do we want it? Now!’ and ‘Police – murderers!’, shouted more than 70 people at a demonstration...
Israeli forces have killed over 3,000 Palestinian children – since the...
ISRAELI forces have killed over three thousand Palestinian children since the beginning of the Second Intifada also known as the Aqsa Intifada in September...
Prosecute Gorbachev For Ussr Break-Up!
WITH a view to possible action against former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of MPs representing both majority and opposition parties have asked...
Fast Food Workers Demand $15 An Hour!
FAST food workers backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York, St Louis and Kansas City, Missouri have launched strikes demanding...
Settler Kills Palestinian Youth In Hebron
A YOUNG Palestinian man was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Wednesday afternoon. The...
Director of Al-Shifa Hospital – held by Israel for seven months...
THE director of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, who had been detained by Israeli forces for more than seven months, says he was put through ‘severe...
‘SERIOUS ATTACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS’ – Ammesty condemns Blair’s measures
Amnesty International has expressed considerable alarm over the onslaught on basic rights announced by Prime Minister Blair on Friday 5th August to deal with...
NUMSA battles for COSATU leadership and breaks with ANC
NUMSA National Executive Committee has issued a full statement on COSATU in response to calls for its expulsion from the federation. The National Union of...
US airstrikes on north east Syria a ‘cover up for the...
Syria has condemned in the strongest terms the United States military for carrying out multiple air strikes in the eastern parts of the Arab...
‘More Of A Victorian Workhouse Than A Warehouse!’
THE denigration of workers, wage payment systems of dubious legality and a disregard for health and safety law are among the catalogue of abuses...
Congress gives billions of dollars in tax breaks but tells the...
Not only did Congress give zillionaires billions of dollars in tax breaks, they also told the people at the bottom of the economic ladder,...
Iran And Syria Sign Defence Pact
‘The Iranian nation and government will always stand by the resistance and the oppressed Palestinian people,’ Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has reiterated. Ahmadinejad met with...
QATAR – ‘a crucible of exploitation and misery’
TWO COFFINS carrying bodies of migrant workers arrive every day in Kathmandu’s airport on average, and their deaths mean disaster for their families. Purna Bahadur...
Hezbollah Thanks Iran For Its Aid To Lebanon!
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has thanked Iran for helping Lebanon weather its economic crisis, saying the Islamic Republic has proven to be...
Italian All-Out Strike!
A 24-HOUR general strike paralysed Italian towns and cities on Monday, while 127 Alitalia flights were cancelled and public transport ground to a halt. The...
NASRALLAH CALL TO LAUNCH FREEDOM FLOTILLA 2 –to lift the siege...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Nasrallah last Friday stressed that the unity of Arabs and Muslims was needed to stand by Egypt and Turkey...
Bus Workers March Through Johannesburg
DESPITE the urging of the Cosatu trade union federation to end their bus strike, thousands of striking bus drivers marched...
Restore free accommodation for junior doctors
Around 300 medical students from across the country held a rally on Friday before holding an overnight protest against the removal of hospital accommodation...
Greek Civil Servants Fight 15,000 Sackings
GREEK civil servants staged a one-day strike in the Athens area last Friday against the coalition government’s plan to sack some 15,000 ministries workers...
SIPTU ready to ballot for Aer Lingus strike
SIPTU, the Irish trade union, is to call general meetings of its members in Aer Lingus for next week following an emergency meeting of...
GP Staffing Crisis
TURNOVER in General Practice doctors has seen a steady increase over the last decade, according to researchers, who have warned policymakers that support measures...
‘Iran Does Not Want Peace’ Says Pompeo
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that Iran is behind the latest bout of violence triggered by Israel’s assassination of a top...
Abbas denounces US Jerusalem plan – addressing al-Azhar International Conference
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas says the holy city of Jerusalem al-Quds can be the gate to either peace or war, and that it...
‘END COMPLICITY WITH ISRAELI APARTHEID’ –Palestinians urge South Africa
Palestinian civil society has called on democratic South Africa to end complicity with Israeli apartheid. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) has released...
‘The West is trying to bring down the Russian financial system’...
THE WEST tried to hit Russian citizens themselves with sanctions, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Thursday in his annual government report to...
Bush Moves To Evict Working Class From New Orleans
‘It is beyond callous, and can only be seen as malicious discrimination. It is an unabashed attempt to eliminate the black population of New...
CUPE campaigns for ‘outside’ municipal workers
THE City of Moncton management hides a dirty secret. It has been exploiting employment contract language loopholes to penny- pinch workers. Over 20% of all...
Manchester Met University To Strike Over Closure Of Crewe Campus!
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Manchester Metropolitan University will be on strike later this month after they overwhelmingly backed industrial...
Reopen Ealing Maternity – demands 500 strong march
‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital! Don’t let it close!’ rang out through the streets of Southall on Wednesday afternoon, as up to 500 workers and youth...