US student debt $1.3 trillion and going up by thousands...
APRIL marks three years since US student debt hit $1 trillion. Now $1.3 trillion and climbing – by thousands of dollars per second (link...
President Abbas will meet with Netanyahu ‘If President Putin calls for...
THE SPOKESMAN for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said last Wednesday that the President ‘is ready for a three-way meeting with Israel...
Academy Protestors Occupy Ark
A group from ‘Tent City’ occupation in Wembley occupied the London headquarters of ARK (Actual Return for Kids) the proposed sponsors of the Wembley...
South Africa introducing private energy producers! Cost-cutting will increase the price...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) spokesperson Trevor Shaku came out guns blazing and has charged that the Eskom energy production crisis...
Mass displacement in Lebanon – as Israel intensifies airstrikes
Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon this week after the Israeli military issued mass displacement orders and intensified airstrikes, forcing families onto...
Furious Workers Force Bell Town Officials To Resign
Furious workers in the town of Bell in California have forced their city manager and police chief to resign over a scandal in which...
Sacked Greek Cleaning Ladies Stand Firm For Nearly A Year
595 women cleaners of the Greek Ministry of Finance in Athens were sacked on 17 September 2013 and their jobs given to private contractors....
Gas crisis deepening in Gaza despite the ceasefire
DESPITE the ceasefire agreement of October 10, 2025, the gas crisis deepens in Gaza, the Strip’s General Petroleum Authority warns. Despite nearly three months having...
‘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...
Unions demand self-determination on International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has made a fervent call for the...
US aircraft carrier group to enter South China Sea!
THE US has dispatched an aircraft carrier group to the South China Sea, in a move that is set to escalate tensions after China...
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE – FBU responds to the latest...
Responding to the latest State of Fire report announced by the chief inspector of fire and rescue services Sir Tom Winsor, the Fire Brigades...
The Israeli Cabinet approves the legalisation of settlements
THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...
Doctors & campaigners hand in 2,000-strong petition for Dr Abu-Safiya
A CROWDof more than 100 doctors, campaigners and supporters handed a petition of 2,000 signatories, to the British Royal College of Paediatricians and Child...
‘BRING TUBE MAINTENANCE BACK IN HOUSE’ – Tube workers tell Brown
ONE hundred angry RMT rail workers on London Underground lobbied Downing Street yesterday, demanding that tube maintenance work done by the collapsed Metronet private...
Most Ukrainian troops ‘killed or captured’ says Russia
TALKS between Russia and Ukraine should be held on conditions advanced publicly by the Russian side and take into account the actual situation, speaker...
‘SCOTLAND YARD WILL FIND NOTHING’ – say demonstrators demanding UN inquiry...
OVER 200 demonstrators gathered opposite the Pakistan Embassy in London on Sunday to demand a United Nations-led inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan People’s...
Close The Concentration Camps – Free The Tamils! – Say 30,000...
Despite the October chill, over 30,000 British Tamils and supporters took to the streets on Saturday, to highlight the desperate situation faced by Tamils...
Inquest into the death of Leon Briggs – died after being...
‘Over our long fight for the truth there has been no remorse shown by the police – in fact they have tried to disrupt...
How Hezbollah Beat The Israeli Army
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has revealed how his Hezbollah movement prevailed in last year’s Israeli war on Lebanon. He said: ‘We had believed...
Bring to trial the killers of Aminul Islam –demand the Bangladesh...
Four years after the tortured, lifeless body of Bangladesh garment worker – organiser Aminul Islam – was discovered in a ditch, his killers have...
‘Frontline workers need to be respected, protected and paid’ says Mary...
SERVICE Employees International Union (SEIU) International President Mary Kay Henry says the Covid-19 relief package ‘is just a down payment’. She released the following statement...
Nasrallah Calls For National Unity Government In Lebanon
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has criticised the visit of British Premier Tony Blair to Lebanon in a recorded interview broadcast by Al Jazeera TV...
Israel cuts electricity supplies to Gaza while the UN is to...
AFTER Israel decided to drastically cut electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory, Robert Piper,...
Tuc Forms A Common Front With The Bosses
The TUC has joined forces with the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), EEF the manufacturers’ organisation, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and The...
Iuf Demands Trade Union Rights For Pearl Continental Workers
Not fit for print? On May 1st 2008, the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) sought to publish an open letter to the...
Palestine will march towards an independent state – Erekat
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee member and chief negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat issued a defiant statement on Monday in response to the halting...
Carnage And Despair: Iraq Five Years On
Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is in disarray, the human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity prevails,...
Nissan Agree On Ballot To Join Uaw At Mississippi Plant!
THE UNITED Auto Workers union and automaker Nissan said on Monday that they reached an agreement to let workers at a Nissan plant 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...
Police surround the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia to try & seize...
Last Sunday night in Bolivia around 10pm, 220 police, armed and accompanied by trained dogs, surrounded Mexico’s Embassy in La Paz. According to a statement...
Glencore Locks Out Australian Workers
ON THE same day the global Paradise Papers scandal exposed the offshore tax havens and tax avoidance strategies of companies including multinational mining giant,...
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...
1.4 million on zero-hours slave labour!
NEW figures released on Wednesday show that at least 1.4 million workers in Britain are enduring the modern day form of slave labour exploitation...
Pro-Palestinian students at KCL blocked from access to Campus!
It is ‘outrageous’ that King’s College London (KCL) singled out pro-Palestinian student activists and blocked their access cards as a ‘security measure’ ahead of...
‘We call for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction’...
THE Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinezhad has said that Iran wishes to have talks with the West on a whole range of issues. He was speaking...
‘A HUMAN RIGHTS CATASTROPHE CONFRONTS TAMILS IN SRI LANKA’ – warn...
TamilNet reported on Wednesday a press conference of Canadian Academics for Tamil Rights in Toronto. The academics stressed recognition of the self-determination of Tamils as...
‘After Blair, Not Brown But A Workers’ Government And Socialism’
TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, last Sunday. Opening the conference, chairman...
Chicago Nurses Demonstrate Against Unsafe Working Conditions!
NURSES at the University of Chicago Medical Centre (UCMC) demonstrated against unsafe working conditions and inadequate staffing levels at a rally organised by the...
‘THE GOVERNMENT IS ENGINEERING THIS FIGHT NOW’ says Unite leader McCluskey
UNIONS have reacted angrily following the Tory-LibDem Coalition government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable’s threat to ban strikes. Cable accepted an invitation from GMB General Secretary...
‘The UK is deliberately preventing child refugees from being with their...
The UK government is deliberately and destructively preventing child refugees from being with their families, Amnesty International UK, the Refugee Council and Save the...
‘We will not stop until there is a permanent ceasefire!’
First speaker at the rally at the end of the march in Whitehall was Malik Mohammed from the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said:...
Royal London Workers Battle Serco Low Pay!
UNITE union members marched and rallied at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, east London Tuesday lunchtime on the first day of a 48-hour strike...
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...
Israel Pushing Settlement Expansion
ISRAEL is pushing forward with its plans to construct over 100 new settler units in southern West Bank! This is in grave contravention of...