‘Mr Madni was minding his own business when he was picked...
‘MR MADNI was not originally in Afghanistan, he was minding his own business in Indonesia when he was picked up and taken to Afghanistan,'...
‘Why hasn’t British Airways held an inquiry into the death of...
BY CLARE SAMBROOK THREE years after the unlawful killing of a passenger in its care, why hasn’t British Airways held an inquiry into what went...
French refinery workers extend strike for 10% increase
FRENCH refinery workers have continued their strikes as a petrol crisis drags on across the country, with authorities threatening to resort to force to...
LIBERATION MOVEMENT MUST ACT DECISIVELY –urges COSATU leader Vavi Zwelinzima
THE general secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi addressed the SACTWU National Congress last Friday. His central warning was ‘If the broad liberation movement does not...
ARAB LEAGUE ORGANISING LAND FOR PEACE SELL-OUT! – in return for...
ISRAEL’S lead ‘peace negotiator,’ Tzipi Livni, has praised as ‘important’ a concession by the Arab League that Israel and the Palestinians could trade land...
‘145 Trade Unionists Killed Last Year’ – Icftu
Being a trade unionist is becoming more dangerous with a total of 145 people worldwide killed due to their trade union activities in 2004,...
Israel will be hit by 2,000 missiles if war is declared...
ISRAEL will be hit by 2,000 missiles a day in a future war with Hezbollah an Israeli general has said. A high-ranking Israeli military commander...
Uni treating workers like slaves! – NUMSA mass picket
AT THE end of last week, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) staged a mass picket at the University...
28,000 Canadian actors locked out for a year! – nurses rally...
THE UNION representing 28,000 Canadian actors and radio artists reports that 28,000 commercial workers have been locked out from commercial acting work for over...
60,000-strong Melbourne march to defend unions!
CONSTRUCTION, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) supporters have warned that the massiveprotests bringing city traffic in Melbourne and Sydney to a halt last...
RMT leader Steve Hedley attacked by fascists
RMT Union leader Steve Hedley was attacked after taking part in a counter-protest to the Trump and Robinson rally on Saturday. The union leader...
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...
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...
IMF undermining world health and education – ActionAid’s dire warning
NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...
38 people on Gambia’s death row face immediate execution
AT least 38 people still on death row in The Gambia are at imminent risk of execution following official confirmation that nine other death...
Civil Service Unions ‘Outrage’ Over Redundancy Pay Cuts
The announcement of changes to civil service redundancy payments made today by the Cabinet Office is an outrageous breach of faith with the unions,...
THE PEOPLE OF GAZA MUST NOT BE LEFT TO THEIR FATE...
THE Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah issued a strong warning to Israel in his Ashura Day address in Beirut, last Saturday. Speaking on this...
STRIKE WAVE ERUPTING ACROSS AUSTRALIA – as gas companies increase prices...
A STRIKE wave is erupting in Australia, with airport firefighters and guards walking out in the lead-up to Christmas. An industrial dispute between a major...
New school year begins in Gaza and West Bank
THE new school year began in Palestine on Monday amid ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, and the escalating aggression...
Israeli troops shoot dead two Palestinian Civil Defence workers in Nablus
THE Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have slammed the fatal Israeli shooting of two Palestinian men at a military checkpoint south of...
Syria warns terrorists prepared to launch chemical weapons in Idlib
AN OFFICIAL at Syria’s Foreign and Expatriates Ministry affirmed at the weekend that all shouting and untrue, fabricated news about the use of chemical...
IRUSA gives aid boost to orphaned and disabled Palestinian children
AS COVID-19 continues to fuel increased hardship among the two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, thousands of vulnerable and orphaned refugee children living...
Israel Renews Apartheid ‘Citizenship And Entry Law’
ISRAEL’S parliament, the Knesset, renewed the controversial ‘Citizenship and Entry into Israel’ law, which sets severe limitations on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian...
International Domestic Workers Day
STATEMENT FROM THE VOICE OF DOMESTIC WORKERS TUESDAY 16th June marks International Domestic Workers Day: Fifteen Years of C189 and the Ongoing Fight for Rights.
Domestic...
Portland Dockers Fight Lockout
A bitter labour dispute on Northwest docks escalated on Saturday as Columbia Grain Inc. locked out Portland longshore workers, accusing them of obstructing exports...
Nasrallah reveals that the USA attempted to buy off Hezbollah
N A RARE interview recorded some 20 years ago and aired this week, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the resistance movement rejected...
400 Houston Janitors Continuing Their Strike Action!
400 Houston janitors are continuing their strike against contractors for whom they clean the offices of some the wealthiest corporations in the...
‘GAZA IS OPEN FOR ALL’ – Hamas’ Haniya welcomes Fatah’s Sha’ath
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya welcomed Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Sha’ath into his home in the Ash-Shati Refugee Camp on Thursday, along with...
Systematic destruction of Khan Younis continues despite ceasefire!
The Israeli military launched a ‘fire belt’ attack on the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, killing two Palestinians, including a child, in its latest...
One Day Under The US/UK Occupation
BETWEEN 1300 and 2000 gmt on Sunday 14 May, Baghdad Al-Sharqiyah Television in Arabic reported on ‘a new setback’ in the security situation...
The Israeli military is murdering Palestinian children – Human Rights Watch...
HUMAN Rights Watch has called for an end to impunity for Israeli killings of Palestinian children, and the use of unlawful lethal force. The Israeli...
Reverse UK decision on Hamas – says Palestinian Ambassador Dr Husam...
THE PALESTINIAN Mission to the United Kingdom condemned the British government’s decision to designate the political wing of the Hamas movement a ‘terrorist organisation’,...
‘It is not ok to drop a one ton bomb on...
AMERICAN jurist Mary Davis, who headed the independent United Nations probe into the events of 2014 aggression on the Gaza Strip, said that Israel...
Lancaster Students Fight Gag And Victimisation
Six members of Lancaster University are to be granted a rehearing of their trespass conviction on the 13th March 2006. A Support the George Fox...
Syrians demonstrate against the ‘Caesar Act’ sanctions
POPULAR protests against the US and Turkish occupation forces and in rejection of the so-called ‘Caesar Act’ have continued in Syria’s Hasaka province. The Caesar Syria...
‘THIS RESOLUTION OPENS THE DOOR OF WAR FOREVER’ –says Nabih Birri,...
LEBANESE Al-Manar Television on 6 August carried a live news conference given by Nabih Birri, Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies...
Hanan Ashrawi meets Swedish Consul – both stress the need for...
MEMBER of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Hanan Ashrawi has met the Swedish Consul-General to Palestine, Jessica Olausson, in Ramallah. The two...
ENGAGE WITH HAMAS – MPs urge Brown government
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee of MPs has said the UK government’s ‘decision not to speak to Hamas in 2007 following the Mecca...
‘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...
‘Give deaf young people a fair chance!’
THE National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) is urging the government to halt the rollout of Personal Independence Payment (PIP – which replaces Disability Living...
Ussr: A New Stage Of Confrontation
THE DEEPENING world economic imperialist crisis is leading to a much worsening of working class conditions in all parts of the...
‘Repressive legislation from a repressive government’ – Mental Health Bill condemned!
‘This is further repressive legislation from a very repressive government – attacking the most vulnerable,’ mental health service worker and user Jo Squires said...
Israeli military deliberately targeting Gaza’s IT experts and computer engineers
The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says the Israeli military has systematically targeted dozens of information technology experts in the Gaza Strip, as part of...
Lesson from US election is don’t ‘buy security from psychopaths’ says...
RAN says the United States’ presidential election that toppled Donald Trump bears a message for all those Middle East countries which take the risk of...
Over 100 Iraqis Killed As The Masses Revolt Against Corrupt Government!
At least four protesters were killed and scores injured in clashes with security forces in Baghdad on Saturday as demonstrations seriously escalated. Three of the...