Unite Demand ‘Immediate Criminal Investigation’ Into Carillion
THE OUTRAGE of a West Midlands NHS Trust now facing a massive bill of some £400 million has led to Unite, one of the...
Bahamas Nurses Union Is To Take Industrial Action!
BAHAMAS Nurses Union President (BNU) Amancha Williams said on Monday that the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) and the government have pushed frustrated nurses to...
‘UNIVERSITIES UNDER PRESSURE OF MARKET FORCES’ – warns NUS
The National Union of Students (NUS) yesterday published a ‘groundbreaking’ report which highlights the faults of the university funding system in unprecedented detail. In ‘Broke...
MASSIVE SHORTAGE OF MIDWIVES! –service in crisis – 5,000 more needed...
THE latest State of Maternity Services report from the Royal College of Midwives shows the baby boom in UK continuing and maternity services at...
Bloodbath Of Jobs At Marikana’s Mines!
WE KNEW there would be a bloodbath of jobs if Sibanye-Stillwater’s acquisition of Lonmin’s Marikana operations was approved by the Competition Commission.’ Association of Mineworkers...
4 years of SAFTU is transforming SA class struggle
STATEMENT BY SAFTU ‘BETWEEN the 21st and 23rd of April 2017, 1,500 delegates representing 24 unions with diverse organisational and historic backgrounds, assembled in Ekurhuleni...
South Africa must follow the example of the Russian Revolution
IT IS time for the South African working class to follow the example of the Russian workers who overthrew not only the Tsar and...
NUMSA to challenge NEASA lock-out!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it has ‘every intention’ of mounting a court challenge to the lock-out by the...
Abolish proposed water charges immediately – demands Irish electrical union
DELEGATES to the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) biennial conference in Kilkenny on Sunday called on the Irish government to abolish the proposed...
Ban facial recognition Demand campaigners after ruling
LIBERTY, Privacy International and 30 organisations have called for Parliament to ban the use of facial recognition technology, one year after judges found the...
Eight Years Since The Marikana Massacre Of 34 Miners
YESTERDAY, South Africa marked the anniversary of one of the darkest moments in its history – when police officials opened fire on striking Lonmin...
‘Deal of the Century’ does not meet the minimum level of...
‘THE PALESTINIAN leadership is committed to achieving a political solution of the Middle East conflict, based on the creation of an independent Palestinian state...
Arab writers appeal to world
ARAB writers convening at the First Palestine Forum for the Arab Novel appealed on Wednesday to world governments to intervene to end the suffering...
‘100 ROUNDS FIRED ON SLEEPING FAMILY’ – ACLU releases files on...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...
‘YOU WANT TO BRING IN AMERICA, AND WE WANT TO...
LEBANESE Christian politician General Michel Awn addressed a mass anti-government rally of over 200,000 people in Beirut on Sunday 10 December. He warned the government...
Iran destroys $700m US AWACS aircraft on runway
A senior Iranian military commander has warned that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) will deal ‘more crushing’ blows to the United States and...
MICHAEL GOVE MUST GO! – say 600 teachers, pupils and parents
‘MICHAEL Gove has got to go!’ chanted over 600 teachers, parents and pupils as they marched along Victoria Street to the Department for Education...
Brutal repression in Bolivia
BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE
Bartolina Sisa Resistance ON November 4th, violent repression in Bolivia continued with more arrests in the town of Mairana, Santa Cruz. Repressive...
‘Too early to talk about negotiations with USA’–Taliban
THE Afghan Taliban militant group says it is ‘way too early’ to speak of restarting direct negotiations with the United States, a day after...
Abu Tair and twenty-two others arrested in Israeli police raids...
ISRAELI forces detained Palestinian lawmaker Muhammad Abu Tair and at least 22 others from across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during...
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,...
‘SHAMING DESTITUTION’ – CAB slams treatment of asylum seekers
In a report titled ‘Shaming Destitution’, the Citizens Advice Bureaux condemn the Blair government’s treatment of refugees to whom it refuses asylum and ...
Police fire rubber bullets and teargas at Savar workers
At least 50 people were injured as garment workers clashed with police in Savar on the main road between Dhaka and Aricha in Bangladesh...
CANADIAN POST UNION OPPOSES ‘US-BACKED COUP’ IN VENEZUELA
CANADA’S postal workers union, the CUPW, has condemned the government of Canada’s decision to recognise Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president...
Four Syrian army troops killed as Israel shells outskirts of Damascus
AT LEAST four Syrian army troops have been killed and three others injured after ‘hostile’ Israeli missiles hit the outskirts of the capital, Damascus,...
‘THIS IS MORE THAN ENOUGH!’ – Palestinian population being caged in...
‘ENOUGH is enough!’ The Palestinians must be treated with equity, with Israel ending its occupation of the Palestinian territories. That was the message from the...
Greek Workers Defy Riot Police And Condemn Merkel
OVER 60,000 workers and youth, in angry and militant mood, defied the riot police and demonstrated at a rally in front of the Vouli...
Iran warns that if attacked its action will be ‘rapid, decisive...
Iran says West Asia and Gulf states are making collective efforts to prevent war as they are well aware that any act of adventurism against...
Doctors Were Instructed To Inflict Severe Harm On G Bay Detainees
Medical, military, and ethics experts say US health professionals designed and participated in cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment and torture of detainees, the Institute...
‘The Balfour Declaration is primarily responsible for war crimes and the...
SYRIA’S top legislative body says the 1917 Balfour Declaration, through which Britain executed its plan of establishing a Jewish national home in Palestine, is primarily responsible for war...
Bombardier Workers Fight Jobs Massacre
BOMBARDIER has upped its jobs massacre programme in Belfast, with an even greater number of sackings to take place this year. The aerospace company said...
‘DETAINEES WERE HELD IN FLOODED CELLS WHILE FIRES BURNED’ – Liberty...
As evidence is revealed of vulnerable detainees being imprisoned in overcrowded and flooded cells while fires burned, Liberty last Monday called on the Home...
Iran calls for meeting of OIC member states on ending Gaza...
IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called for an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Committee on Palestine at the Parliamentary Union of the...
Overthrow bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution! – demands WRP May Day...
‘IT IS our international duty to organise the overthrow of the capitalist system here in Britain,’ WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney told the 100-strong...
Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amid deepening food insecurity and...
FORCED MIGRATION USED TO DEFLECT SOCIAL REVOLT – says Philippines health...
‘Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is like a poster girl promoting migration of Filipinos in the name of dollar remittances, at the expense of the poor’, the...
de Menezes Inquest Opens Today
ON 22nd July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent member of the public, was killed by Metropolitan Police officers in a grotesque and...
US public schools Day of Action
MONDAY’s Day of Action – a day when parents, students, educators and community leaders held events in more than 30 cities throughout America to...
Cuba denounces US pressuring countries to expel Cuban Medical Brigades
Bruno Rodríguez, Cuba’s Foreign Minister, on Thursday denounced the US administration of President Donald Trump for trying to pressurise countries into refusing the help...
Turkish Workers And Youth Take To The Streets
LAST Thursday and Friday, angry workers and youth once again took to the streets of Istanbul to condemn Erdogan’s government, resulting in violent clashes...
Workers rise up across New Zealand in historic ‘mega strike’
MORE than 100,000 nurses, teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers walked off the job across Aotearoa, New Zealand, on Thursday in one of...
72 YEARS SINCE THE NAKBA CATASTROPHE! – Palestinian worldwide population now...
JERUSALEM – On the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the Palestinian dispersal and expulsion from their homes and land in Palestine on May...
10,000 march against police bill
MORE than 10,000 workers, students and youth marched against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill from Lincoln Inn Fields to Parliament on Saturday...
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...
Angry South African workers march on municipal offices!
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) held a demonstration on Thursday marching to the Midvaal Municipal offices, south of Johannesburg, in protest against...