Two Years Since Myanmar Military Coup
On the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the Global Unions – which represents 200 million workers worldwide – has called for...
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...
HEZBOLLAH ‘JIHAD FOR CONSTRUCTION’ – dispenses £10,000 for each destroyed...
The Lebanese Hezbollah movement on Monday began paying compensation to the residents of buildings that were totally destroyed in the city of Baalbek by...
‘End The Bullying & Witch-Hunting Of Staff At Worcester Royal Hospital!’
A DEMONSTRATION held last Thursday March 12 outside the A&E at the Worcester Royal Hospital, demanded an end to the bullying and...
Halt ‘serious violations of Palestinian Human Rights’ – says UN
THE United Nations has called on Israel to halt a series of serious violations of the Palestinian people’s human rights cited by a 2009...
EXPAND SCO TO CONFRONT US POLICIES – urges Iran
‘The SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organisation) countries face common threats in the form of America and NATO’, says the Iranian newspaper Resalat. Full members of...
Honduras threatens to expel US troops in retaliation for Trump’s mass...
Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum...
‘THE HUMAN COST OF DETENTION’ –Refugee Council welcomes Amnesty report
The Refugee Council has welcomed today’s publication of a new Amnesty International UK report on detention of asylum seekers ‘The Human Cost of Detention’....
SUCCESSFUL NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY Rally marks 44 years of the paper...
‘WE ARE celebrating 44 years of the daily Trotskyist paper that fights for a revolutionary leadership that does not bend, capitulate or collapse at...
Greek schoolchildren and students rally against education cuts
SCHOOLCHILDREN and students across Greece protested on Monday against cutbacks to the education sector, and the ‘intensification of performance evaluation’ which is part of...
‘Tearing up the Human Rights Act would be a giant leap...
‘TEARING up the Human Rights Act would be a giant leap backwards. It would be the single biggest reduction in rights in the history...
Ban Pay ‘Gagging Clauses’ Says TUC
NEARLY a fifth (18%) of workers have been told they’re not allowed to discuss their pay with co-workers, according to new TUC/GQR polling published...
‘South African mine companies exposing workers to risk of virus’ says...
THE KIMBERLEY Region of the NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has expressed its disappointment and concern following the decision by Gwede Mantashe, South Africa’s...
Sri Lankan health workers begin indefinite pay strike – defying five-year...
Sri Lankan health workers launched an indefinite pay strike on Monday, 7th February, protesting against the government’s failure to address salary and other issues. The...
Family Of Kelso Cochrane Demand Access To Police File On His...
THE FAMILY of a black man murdered in 1959 is demanding access to the police file on his unsolved killing, said the radio documentary,...
NUMSA BATTLES FOR PLASTIC WORKERS – while Marikana victims demand compensation
STRIKING members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) held a mass demonstration on Tuesday to hand...
Uber Drivers Are Entitled To Workers Rights
TRADE unions the GMB and the IWGB last Wednesday won crucial Court of Appeal decisions, agreed by both the Employment Tribunal and the Employment...
‘If America Should Go Communist’ by Leon Trotsky (Part two)
LEON TROTSKY wrote ‘If America Should Go Communist’ on August 17, 1934, over a year after President Roosevelt brought in his ‘New Deal’, ...
Literacy rate in Palestine one of highest in the world
On the occasion of International Literacy Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published a report last week on the illiteracy rate in...
Syria demands the withdrawal of US occupation forces! – who have...
SYRIA has renewed its call for the withdrawal of US forces from the energy-rich northeastern part of the country, saying the occupation troops and...
‘Now is the time to get tough on NHS reform’
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION WE are writing as a group of concerned doctors and we are also members of UK BMA Council. Next...
‘KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITAL’ – mass picket issues warning...
‘KEEP your hands off our hospital! This hospital belongs to the public, not the government!’ Kaushalya Gussar declared at the mass picket of Ealing...
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...
‘STOP COWBOY CLEANING CONTRACTS’ – –RMT and Unite members lobby Metronet...
MEMBERS of the RMT rail union and the Unite union’s Justice for Cleaners campaign staged a protest in central London on Wednesday, demanding: ‘Stop...
Palestinians demand the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!
ONGOING protests in the occupied Palestinian territory and around the world are demanding the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese militant for Palestinian...
Free the Filton 24! demands 100,000-strong London march
The first speaker in Whitehall was Faris Amer of the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘This government thinks when they clamp down on...
Iraqi leader of Popular Mobilisation Units killed by US air strike
THE LEADER of the 12th brigade of the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), also known as the Nujaba Movement, Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi, was killed during...
Three Gaza Strip Civilians Die From Starvation!
MEDICAL sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday that three civilians had died from starvation and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, according...
Warehouse workers join California Amazon drivers strike
STRIKING Amazon delivery drivers and despatchers from Palmdale in California, who are members of the Teamsters trade union extended their strike and were joined...
Stability in the Middle East depends on Egypt, says Putin
MOSCOW – Russia is carefully following events in Egypt, Russian Defence Minister Army Gen Sergey Shoygu said, opening a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart,...
‘In-house is best’ – striking Suffolk and Essex health workers determined...
CLEANERS, caterers, porters, housekeepers and other East Suffolk and North Essex support staff began a new 48-hour strike yesterday, demanding to stay in the...
‘ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF OCCUPATION IS RESISTANCE’ – say...
Palestinians on Sunday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the First Intifada, the popular uprising that rocked the Israeli regime to its foundations. The Intifada uprising...
‘Obama couldn’t convince his people with lies’–says Assad
SYRIAN President Al-Asad said that through Western support, now there are thousands of Al-Qaeda fighters from 80 countries in Syria and that terrorism must...
IRELAND’S BANKS ARE REFUSING TO LEND –as Greece is urged to...
EUROGROUP President Jean-Claude Juncker is in Athens for talks with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on whether the debt-laden country has the will to...
The Palestinian Struggle For Freedom From Occupation!
BY WESAM BAHRANI IT IS unrealistic to observe the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza without understanding its strategic dimension, in particular the current phase of...
Students And Sparks March Against Tuition Fees And Wage Cuts
Over 10,000 students and a number of trade unionists took part in a protest through central London yesterday against £9,000 fees, education cuts and...
Iran will spare no efforts to maintain Syria’s territorial integrity
IRAN’S Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami has warned of extra-regional countries’ plots to sow discord in Syria, vowing the Islamic Republic’s full support...
‘May Must Go!’–‘Justice For Grenfell’ – Demand 2,000 Marchers
AN ANGRY demonstration of 2,000 demanding ‘Justice for Grenfell’ marched through central London on Friday night. The protest began at the Department for Communities and...
Bessemer, Alabama workers fighting to unionise Amazon
STUART Appelbaum president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has spoken about the campaign to unionise Amazon workers. ‘In Bessemer, Alabama, a...
Reinstate Ricky Matthews Demand 2,000 Striking Firefighters In Aylesbury March
OVER 2,000 striking firefighters marched through Aylesbury on Tuesday chanting ‘Reinstate Ricky Matthews!’ The national demonstration took place during the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) national...
HALF A MILLION TAKE TO THE STREETS!– to demand jobs for...
HALF a million people will take to the streets today, Wednesday 19 March, in demand for youth jobs, the National Union of MetalWorkers of...
Great Ormond Street security staff rally
SECURITY workers from Great Ormond St Children’s Hospital (GOSH) held a rally on Thursday at lunchtime to mark the end of their six week...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘History is a tremendous...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 4. Preface to our round trip AT the Stockholm Convention of the Social-Democratic Party, some...
Israel Planning 73,300 Illegal Housing Units On The West Bank
Peace Now an Israeli left-wing Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) reported on Monday that the Israeli government is planning to build more than 73,300 new...
Angry South African workers march on municipal offices!
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) held a demonstration on Thursday marching to the Midvaal Municipal offices, south of Johannesburg, in protest against...