Female former LTTE cadres being continually abused
THE genocidal Sri Lanka military occupying the country of Eezham Tamils is routinely engaged in repeated sexual abuse of the former female members of...
Zimbabwe authorities must immediately release detained human rights defenders
THE Zimbabwean authorities must immediately release human rights defenders who have been arbitrarily detained for over two weeks and drop charges against them, independent...
US screenwriters 98% vote to strike from May Day
Film and television writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the United States are to strike on and from May Day in...
Re-award the GSCEs say Welsh Government – now Gove must follow...
NUT Wales has welcomed the Welsh Government’s recommendation that the WJEC seeks to re-award its GCSE English Language examination following the row over the...
END CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DISCRIMINATION – says GMB lobby
Calling for victory over ruthless employers, Construction and Engineering workers from many parts of Britain, rallied 100 strong outside the Houses of Parliament on...
Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally told that Iraq had no...
THE US Think-Progress website has published the text of the ‘60 Minutes’ TV interview with former CIA official Tyler Drumheller who revealed that in...
LONDON COLLEGES MARCH TO DEFEND EDUCATION – London Met cuts the...
Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their supporters marched through north London on Saturday in defence of education.Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their...
PUTIN DISCUSSES BETTER RELATIONS WITH PRESIDENT ABBAS – while Hamas says...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, discussed in a telephone conversation last Thursday the latest developments related to the...
Doctors raise the alarm over UK’s poor health care after ‘years...
DOCTORS have raised the alarm on the misery of the nation’s poor health caused by years of Tory government neglect and funding cuts! In a...
NEHAWU prepares for September 3 national strike
MEMBERS of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in Kimberley picketed outside the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital on Monday, in preparation...
Iran, Russia & Syria defence chiefs meet
THE DEFENCE chiefs of Iran, Russia and Syria have called for closer trilateral co-operation in the battle against terrorism, emphasising the need to keep...
Haiti textile workers fight sackings of six union leaders
Six union leaders employed by the One World Apparel garment factory in Haiti have been fired. The leaders of the Textile and Garment...
‘SYRIA WILL NEVER BECOME A WESTERN PUPPET STATE’ – says...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad on Sunday stressed that Syria is a sovereign country that will fight terrorism and will freely build relationships with countries in...
BAN ASBESTOS IN WORKPLACES! – demand South African unions
UNIONS in South Africa are urging the government to join and back a global call against asbestos use – and for a total ban,...
Some big issues for the London-wide LMCs Annual Conference
A NEW CONTRACT for GPs was signed by Dr Vautrey, the chair of the BMA’s GP committee (GPC), on 31st January 2019. Its full title...
KEEP TO NATIONAL PAY BARGAINING OR FACE UNREST – –UCU warns...
The University and College Union (UCU) warned on Friday that universities risked unnecessarily provoking serious industrial unrest in 2009 if they took up the...
Palestinians want vote on statehood by end of year
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry left early Sunday for a series of meetings in Europe seeking to head off an end-of-year UN...
Job Stability Is The Key Issue In Toronto
JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...
French trade union federations are deciding on their next major mobilisation!
THE FRENCH trade union federations were meeting on Thursday to decide their next mobilisations after MPs in the National Assemby on June 8 failed...
Canadian School Workers To Strike Against 5-Year Pay Freeze
CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...
Iran’s Defence Council warns USA of ‘decisive response to any attack!’
Iran’s Defence Council has condemned escalating threats, rhetoric and meddlesome remarks – particularly on the part of the United States – against the Islamic...
‘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...
END THE SIEGE OF GAZA! –situation ‘worsening’ warns UNWRA
The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) has called for ending the Israeli siege on Gaza Strip to end the suffering of its inhabitants,...
ISRAEL OKs NEW HEBRON SETTLEMENT UNITS – while Israeli unions plan...
PALESTINIAN Arabic dailies on Friday highlighted the Israeli government’s approval of the construction of new settlement units in the heart of Hebron’s old city....
Hamas denounces Arab countries’ normalisation deals with Israel
HAMAS has denounced the ‘normalisation deals’ with Israel, because they are aimed at legitimatising the regime in the Middle East and forging an alliance...
Cuts Will Leave Poor Families ‘Close To Destitution’
PARENTS working on the minimum wage are on the brink of a new crisis in family finances that will leave many close to destitution,...
CPSU suspends its election campaign
AUSTRALIA'S Community and Public Sector Union leaders voted on Monday to extend the suspension of all CPSU election campaigning. The union called for an urgent...
‘STOP KILLING OUR CHILDREN’ – United Families and Friends demand end...
‘Stop killing our children!’ demanded over 400 families and friends and supporters of mainly young men and women who have died in custody or...
If Necessary ‘I And All Hezbollah Members Will Go To Syria’...
‘AFTER the first bombing, the situation was brought under control. After yesterday’s massacre, the situation was brought under control. ‘However, we cannot make predictions....
PNA will be the sole Gaza administrator– after Israeli pull-out, says...
THE Palestine National Authority will be the sole administrator of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal in August, the Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive...
South African Unions Claim Big Eskom Pay Victory!
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers, the National Union of Mineworkers and the Solidarity union have won a ‘a strategic victory for workers’ after South...
Police shoot two SA nurses during Covid-19 transport confusion!
TWO SOUTH African Free State nurses were shot with rubber bullets by police last Tuesday in Welkom, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers...
Workers must overthrow the Syriza government and capitalism!
STATEMENT BY THE REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST LEAGUE GREEK SECTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WITH fast-track procedures that ridicule all democratic and constitutional statutes,...
BIGGEST HOSPITAL CLOSURE PROGRAMME IN HISTORY REVEALED! Occupy to stop the...
LAST Thursday night Imperial Healthcare Trust, which runs Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals, published details of their plans for the three sites. It...
‘NOTHING BUT EVIL COMES FROM RICE’ says Islamic Jihad
A HAMAS leader Khalil Abu-Layla said on Saturday that the Palestinians are not pinning any hopes on a visit by US Secretary of State...
UK Manufacturing Employment Less Than In 1841!
Confirmation that manufacturing employment levels are at their lowest since 1841 drew an angry and frustrated response from the Transport and General Workers Union. Tony...
Agreement Between Hamas And Fatah To ‘Contain Tensions’
THE Egyptian security delegation’s efforts succeeded last Friday night in reaching a mutual agreement between Fatah and Hamas to contain the tensions and differences...
US Brown University To Divest From Companies That Are ‘Complicit In...
IN A HISTORIC move, Brown University in Rhode Island has become the first US Ivy League institution to pass a student referendum supporting divestment...
‘ . . . I Heard Baha Mousa Screaming ‘oh My...
Statement by RABINDER SINGH QC to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry RABINDER Singh QC has delivered his opening statement to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry,...
Syria Condemns ‘Decades Of Violating The Rights Of Palestinians And Golan...
SYRIA’S Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Hussam Eddin Ala, affirmed on Monday that the Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and...
‘WE WILL NOT LET CHASE FARM HOSPITAL CLOSE’ – message from...
The North East London Council of Action held another successful picket of the Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, with passing cars tooting...
‘The Wind That Shakes The Barley’
The Wind That Shakes The Barley Directed by Ken Loach Written by Paul Laverty Starring Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald On General Release from June...
RUSSIA-INDIA ‘A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP’ says President Putin
FOLLOWING Russian-Indian talks on 11 December 2014 in New Delhi, President Putin made the following statement. ‘Mr Prime Minister has mentioned that in 2000...
‘A Revolution In Britain Will Be A Decisive Step In The...
‘THIS ISN’T a general election, it’s a general strike building up,’ News Line editor Jonty Leff told Sunday’s powerful over 100-strong News Line Anniversary...
‘WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESISTANCE AND THE RIGHT TO RETURN’...
‘We have been occupied for 40 years, we have the right to resist’, Farouq Khaddoumi, told a public meeting in London on Monday evening. The...