Gaza Death Toll Rises As Israeli Blitz Continues
ISRAELI airstrikes continued on Gaza throughout Saturday night and into Sunday morning, with the death toll rising to 271, with 900 injured – 120...
SA police clear 87 officers of Marikana miners massacre
SOUTH African Police have investigated and cleared 87 of their own officers in relation to the August 2012 police killings of 34 Marikana miners. South...
Tahrir Square won’t accept El-Ganzouri
The sit-in at Cairo’s Tahrir Square was continuing on Sunday with hundreds of protesters still occupying tents in the square while others continued chants...
August 21 – Felixstowe Port is to come to a standstill...
THE most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout. This is after after pay talks broke...
Unions Must Take Action To Remove The Coalition To Defend The...
The Health and Social Care Bill aims to end the NHS as a public service. It legislates for private companies to do NHS clinical...
Tampa General Hospital Must End Partnership With Israel
IN WASHINGTON on Friday, August 13th, numerous US organisations signed an online petition demanding Tampa General Hospital end their partnership with an Israeli business. Seventeen...
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...
Special needs children are not getting the support they need!
CHILDREN and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need, according to eight-in-ten (83%) education staff. In...
LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE’ TODAY – 1. European capitalism gripped by...
A REVOLUTIONARY situation exists in Europe today as a result of the world capitalist crisis. Social Democratic/Labour and Stalinist reformists, and revisionists, may scoff at...
‘Systemic Failings’ Led To 15-Year-Old’s Cell Death
A jury at an inquest into the death of 15-year-old Liam McManus last Friday returned a damning verdict finding that ‘systemic failings’ in both...
TEAMSTERS ANNOUNCE AGENDA FOR 110th CONGRESS
WASHINGTON – The Teamsters announced yesterday the union’s legislative agenda for their 110th Congress, targeting key issues for working families, including the Employee Free...
PARENTS AND TEACHERS OPPOSE ACADEMIES AND FREE SCHOOLS – NASUWT and...
A YOUGOV survey of 2,008 parents commissioned by the NUT shows that the vast majority are opposed to the government and its privatisation of...
BARNET COUNCIL TO SCRAP ITS HOUSING REGISTER –Housing the homeless will...
TORY-controlled Barnet Council in north London has announced plans to scrap its housing register. At the Council’s Cabinet on June 21, the Cabinet Member for...
‘Israel has already carried out new airstrikes against Gaza’
FROM ELECTRONIC INTIFADA By M El Haj-Ahmed A translator and teacher from Gaza A MONTH has passed since Israel’s 11-day attack on Gaza came to an...
Poor conditions in UN-funded camps in Sri Lanka
TamilNet has commented on the British Television Channel 4 programme on Monday which revealed a new film that showed Tamil ‘victims of Sri Lanka’s...
France Considers Further Sanctions Against Iran
France is considering further sanctions against ‘the members and support structures’ of the Iranian government over Iran’s nuclear programme, the French foreign ministry said...
Argentine trade unions lead a historic general strike!
THE GENERAL Strike called by the CGT and the CTA, in rejection of the DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) and the Omnibus Law,...
14 Hours In Iraq
Al-Sharqiyah TV reported on its 2 pm news broadcast last Sunday the security and political developments of that day. The report stated: ‘The US Army...
Tens Of Thousands Of Palestinian Youth Rally For Unity
The biggest gathering was in Gaza City, where officials from the Hamas-run interior ministry said vast crowds had packed into the city’s Square of...
Mass picket of Ealing Hospital
‘EALING Hospital is the beating heart of the whole community, leave our hospital alone!’ local resident Prempal Dhaliwal said on the mass picket of...
IG Metall demands 6% rise & 28-hour week for parental leave!
HUNDREDS of thousands members of IG Metall union, Germany’s largest trade union, are engaged in short-term ‘warning strikes’ against 80 companies, for the right...
‘WAKING UP TO A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY’ – Information Commissioner slams ‘Big...
Last Thursday, the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, launched a public debate on ‘the implications of living in a surveillance society’. The Information Commissioner’s Office...
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...
Mass Surveillance In UK!
UK intelligence has been forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use, says Amnesty International. Amnesty is one of...
Global strike condemned Israel’s genocidal warfare on the Gaza Strip
A GLOBAL strike prevailed in several Arab and Muslim cities around the world on Monday in condemnation of the Israeli genocidal war on the...
Doctor at centre of Baha Mousa’s death faces a six-week ‘fitness...
DR DEREK Keilloh is to face a six-weeks General Medical Council fitness to practice panel, commencing 11 June 2012, over his role in the...
Moscow & Tehran enhancing their ‘strategic economic cooperation’
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi has said that, having successfully developed their diplomatic relations, Tehran and Moscow now need to enhance their ‘strategic economic cooperation’. Raeisi...
82% of Palestinian children under the age of one affected by...
Dr Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has revealed an unprecedented spread of anaemia among children in the Gaza...
Putin Visits Palestine And Meets Abbas
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Palestine and meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas dominated the front page headlines in Friday’s issue of...
Israel Planning Attack On Hezbollah
FEARS are growing that Israel will risk a surprise strike to cripple Hezbollah. For more than a decade, the assessment that another war between Israel...
Irish Teachers Ready To Strike Over Pay
17,000 secondary school teachers are set to go on strike over the Irish government’s plans to cut their pay and allowances. The Association of Secondary...
THE WAY OUT! – Negotiate with the Resistance, Punish the criminals!
The Brussels Tribunal and the International Anti-Occupation Network have issued the following statement on Iraq entitled ‘The Way Out’: ‘If the US military declare...
Secret Netanyahu-US diplomacy to extend ‘settlement freeze’
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Monday that Israel and the United States were holding behind-the-scenes talks geared at resolving the recent deadlock...
‘You cannot have an improving school system whilst you are implementing...
‘YOU cannot have an improving school system whilst you are implementing austerity,’ said Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union on Monday. Commenting...
‘A scar on the conscience of Britain’
THE fact that 40 per cent of disabled children are living in poverty is ‘a scar on the conscience of Britain’, says Unite, the...
Airport workers strike in Argentina – while Milei pursued for arrest...
Airport workers carried out an 11-hour strike at 27 airports in Argentina on Thursday. The action took place in two slots, between 6am and 12...
Young Socialists Launch Their March For Jobs And Free State...
The Young Socialists on Saturday launched its March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London. Bus workers came to welcome the young...
US-UK’s man in Uzbekistan ‘slaughtering protesters like rabbits’
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary Straw condemned the repressions by the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan. It has already killed 500 Uzbeks and is getting...
Young Moroccan teachers strike defies intimidation and water cannons!
YOUNG teachers in Morocco who have been striking and protesting outside the parliament in Rabat for three weeks against being employed on inferior conditions...
Withdraw suspension of 400 UNRWA workers in Gaza
UNRWA Staff Union and UNRWA Head Union in Gaza warned the agency’s administration against taking unprecedented extreme measures and withdrawing from sent notices suspending...
GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING DOWN THE COALITION – build the revolutionary...
Resolution from yesterday’s News Line-All Trades Union Alliance Conference THIS News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference gives its complete support to the June 30th pensions...
40-day UAW strike at GM ends in victory!
THE SIX-WEEK national strike by more than 48,000 United Auto Workers members against General Motors Co. has ended in victory. Thousands of UAW-GM employees nationally were returning...
OBAMA RECOGNISES SYRIAN PUPPETS AS ‘LEGITIMATE’ – while US forces mass...
PRESIDENT Barack Obama proclaimed Syria’s newly reorganised opposition as the ‘legitimate’ representative of the nation’s people on Tuesday, in the most significant...
‘STOP THE COALTION DESTROYING OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM’ says NASUWT leader
TEACHING unions on Thursday slammed the government’s Education Bill. The NASUWT said it was a Bill that ‘has all the hallmarks of being conceived by...
‘All students in the UK should walk out’ – London Met...
ANGRY London Metropolitan University students are rallying outside the Home Office in Marsham Street in central London at 1.00pm today, determined to defeat the...