Health Bill must be stopped! – say thousands of demonstrators on...
THE Tory-led coalition’s hated Health Bill to privatise the NHS is due to go to the House of Lords today, following a mass demonstration...
Islamic Jihad slams hostile US statements
THE statements by American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her visits to Tel Aviv and Ramallah are ‘aggressive and anti-Palestinian’, the Palestinian resistance...
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...
Extreme Crackdown In Issawiyeh In East Jerusalem
THE occupied East Jerusalem suburb of Issawiyeh has long been a flashpoint for confrontations between Israeli soldiers and its Palestinian residents. But even by Israel’s...
Tory threat to national NHS pay structure is ‘of huge concern’...
UNISON has reaffirmed its commitment to the One Team campaign for the health service, in the face of the government’s ‘divisive’ actions during the...
US unions report exposes the Amazon ‘injury machine’ – an injury...
THE Strategic Organising Centre (SOC) has recently released a report called: The Injury Machine: How Amazon’s Production System Hurts Workers. The SOC is a coalition...
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...
‘WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAY HERE FOR OUR PEOPLE’ –Thousands of...
‘Gordon Brown is supporting Rajapakse and his genocide and murder of the Tamil people’, Loganathan said outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday, where...
COUNCIL OF ACTION LAUNCHED – to stop hospital closures!
TRADE unionists, youth and local NHS campaigners voted unanimously at a meeting on Thursday night ‘to establish the North East London Council of Action’. The...
‘The US administration is subsuming Palestine under Israel’ warns Ashrawi
ON THE eve of the US moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi said:...
Stop arming Israel! Recognise Palestinian state now! – demands 100,000-strong London...
The march set off at 1pm and was led by the banners of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestine...
They bombed Libyan TV ‘to try to silence the Libyan masses’...
LIBYAN state Al-Jamahiriyah TV opened its first regular news broadcast (0830 gmt) on Saturday 30 July with a report showing damage caused to the...
Firefighters are angry about Grenfell too! – writes Matt Wrack FBU...
WRITING in the Independent Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union posed the question: ‘Firefighters are angry about Grenfell Tower too –...
UCU Members At Bath And Bristol Are Set To Walk Out
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Bath and the University of Bristol are joining the latest wave of...
‘IT IS WRONG TO PROFIT FROM THE SICK AND THE UNEMPLOYED’...
Civil servants union PCS has organised a lobby of Parliament today, 3rd March, where it will be joined by other trade unions and campaigning...
Myanmar junta jails photojournalists
ONE media worker has been sentenced and jailed and another detained amid rising attacks against the press by the military junta in Myanmar. A freelance...
NATO Patriot missiles–‘harbingers of a war on Syria’
THE Turkish privately-owned, mass-circulation daily Hurriyet, on 23 November, discussed the issue ‘Are the Patriots Harbingers of a War in Syria?’ It stated: ‘Turkey first...
Prisoners4Palestine hunger strikes begin!
At breakfast time on Sunday, in Bronzefield prison, the first two of the Prisoners4Palestine hunger-strikers Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib refused food. This marks the...
Erekat ‘Disappointed’ That Obama Ignored Palestine At UN Assembly
SECRETARY-General of the PLO’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat Monday expressed his disappointment in US President Barack Obama for ignoring the Palestinian question during his...
‘THIS ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT DOWN BEFORE IT BRINGS ALL...
THE Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection, Avi Gabay, has officially resigned in protest at the appointment of extremist politician Avigdor Lieberman as the regime’s...
LIBYAN PREMIER ZEIDAN FLEES TO GERMANY as militias fight over ‘ownership’...
THE ousted Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has fled to Germany despite a travel ban slapped on him by Libya’s top prosecutor for his suspected...
End occupation of Golan!
IRAN’S permanent ambassador to the United Nations (UN) says the UN Security Council must fulfill its responsibilities and compel the Israeli regime to put...
17-year-old Palestinian Eiman–free at last!
AN Israeli court in Jerusalem made a decision on Sunday to release the teenage daughter of Misbah Abu Sbeih, who was killed by Israeli...
51st birthday rally for Assange
OVER seventy campaigners demanding the release of Julian Assange attended a party outside Belmarsh prison on Sunday to celebrate his 51st birthday. Assange has been...
Dhaka workers plunge to their death!
A Lack of safety measures once again led to a tragic accident in the capital’s Siddheshwari area, where three construction workers died after they...
‘Whose side is Labour on? Not the workers!’ says Unite leader...
Unite the union on Friday overwhelming voted to re-examine its relationship with Labour and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner who has had her Unite...
Poverty Stricken Haiti Workers Attacked By Riot Police
POVERTY-stricken garment workers in Haiti have been violently attacked by riot police. Last Thursday, for the second day in a row, police fired tear gas...
Seeking healthcare in Yemen’s ‘city of snipers’ – A feature from...
SEEKING healthcare in Taiz, a city split by a frontline, is a Medecins Sans Frontieres feature on Yemen which has been under deadly assault...
French Workers Taking Strike Action
THE Avignon theatre festival and France’s other summer arts festivals may not take place due to a strike threat by stage-hands and other arts-support...
‘We are a national union and this is a national campaign’...
FIREFIGHTERS in Wales will march on the Welsh Assembly today in protest against attacks on their pensions. From noon until 4,00pm, firefighters across England and...
Over 60 million refugees worldwide
‘INDICATIONS from the first half of the year suggest 2015 is on track to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first...
Israeli Forces Demolish Homes Across The West Bank
ISRAELI forces on Saturday night notified the families of three alleged Palestinian attackers of their intention to demolish their houses across the occupied West...
Nigerian TUC: lift petrol levy or we strike!
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) said on Wednesday that its has demanded that the federal government stop the plan to introduce a...
State department remains silent over mass executions of Tamils!
The US administration has failed dismally in the case of Sri Lanka, with catastrophic consequences, commented Tamil legal activists in the United States on...
Gmb & Unite Defend National Agreements
FULL-scale nhs privatisation under Section 75 of the Health & Social Care Act and cuts to terms and conditions of NHS Staff pose real...
Marches for Gaza across the world
Many world capitals witnessed on Saturday demonstrations denouncing Israel’s ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, calling for an end to the war...
Halt The Torture Case Against Naheem And Rehan
Legal charity Reprieve has called on the British government to make up for failing Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman by intervening immediately to prevent...
UN Says Only 13 Out Of 36 Hospitals Are Partially Functioning...
The United Nations (UN) says only 13 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are partially functional as Israeli occupation forces are targeting medical centres...
UCU warns on University privatisation
The University and College Union (UCU) has warned universities and colleges to think very carefully before entering into partnerships with private firms. This is after...
Powerful march demands ‘Stop closure of children’s services in Ealing’
‘SAVE the Charlie Chaplin Ward, stop the closure of Children’s Services!’ demanded yesterday morning’s 7am-9am Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital. The picket was called by...
‘A HISTORIC VICTORY FOR ALL JOURNALISTS’ – NUJ welcomes court judgement...
THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed last Friday’s High Court in Belfast’s full written judgement on the quashing of arrest warrants for...
THE AMERICANS HAVE HELD TALKS WITH THE BA’ATHISTS says former...
IYAD Allawi, the former Iraqi puppet prime minister at the time of the US assault on Fallujah, and the leader of the Iraqi List,...
Thousands picket Netanyahu’s office against attack on Bedouin rights
severaL thousand people demonstrated on Sunday outside Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem, protesting over a plan they say will displace tens...
‘WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA’ – Chagos Islanders picket the...
over 150 Chagos Islanders, British trade unionists and youth held a mass picket outside the House of Lords on Monday. The picket was called to...
‘WE ARE ONE PEOPLE OUR CAUSE IS ONE!’ – Hamas...
Hamas Political Bureau chief Khaled Mishaal in an extensive interview last Tuesday reflected on the Mecca agreement between the Hamas and Fatah movements. Mishaal said:...