Turning a blind eye is ‘collaborating with abuses’ – Amnesty warning...
HUMAN rights group Amnesty International has welcomed the call for European governments to cooperate fully with an investigation into ‘extraordinary rendition’ and secret...
‘STOP CODDLING ECONOMIC CRIMINALS’ – SAFTU tells South African Treasury
SAFTU (The South African Federation of Trades Unions) has called on the South African Treasury and the Reserve Bank to ‘stop coddling economic criminals...
Kenya’s Nurses Strike Over Their Right To Collective Bargaining
KENYA’S Nurses have vowed to continue with their strike until the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) they signed with the Council of Governors is honoured. The...
Walmart strike wave in USA
This week has seen the biggest strike wave of low-paid retail workers at Walmart in the US – the first-ever strike in the 50-year...
Israel Blockade Of Gaza Into Its Third Year
The ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, now in its third year, has triggered a ‘protracted human dignity crisis’ with devastating humanitarian consequences,...
UN warns mass evictions of Palestinians a ‘war crime’
The United Nations (UN) has warned that the Israeli regime’s forcible mass eviction of over 1,200 Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta...
‘TAMIL PEOPLE DEMAND VISIBLE PRESSURE ON COLOMBO’ – urge Norwegian Tamils
‘The defining moment for the International Community (IC) is right now, if it really wishes to establish its commitment to a principled approach towards...
‘Our people haven’t struggled to change the size of our chains!...
PALESTINE’S Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, Riyad al-Maliki, described on Friday the US deal of the century as a ‘consecration’ of the century-long...
Israel kills 14 Palestinians, injures 1,434 on Gaza border, including four...
LATEST figures show that 14 Palestinians, including four children, were killed and 1,434 injured by the Israeli forces during the demonstrations between September...
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,...
Eight Million Iraqis Need Emergency Aid
Armed violence is the greatest threat facing Iraqis, but the population is also experiencing another kind of crisis of an alarming scale and severity,...
19 KILLED AS ISRAELI COMMANDOS STORM FREEDOM FLOTILLA –thousands protest outside...
THE death toll has risen to 19 after an an attack on the Freedom Flotilla sailing from Cyprus to Gaza, by Israeli commandos. They...
Abysmal conditions for thousands of refugees in ‘Moria 2.0’ camp
THOUSANDS of people are living in abysmal conditions in a new camp, which was built to replace Moria camp on the Greek island of...
Hanan Ashrawi warns against separating Gaza from rest of the occupied...
HANAN Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), warned on Wednesday against attempts to impose an economic or humanitarian...
Workload Is The Cause Of Teacher Shortage Crisis!
WORKLOAD is the key driver of the teacher shortage crisis, putting people off becoming teachers and compelling enthusiastic teachers to leave, according to a...
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...
‘THE PROJECT OF POLITICAL ISLAM HAS FAILED’ SAYS ASSAD! – ‘Religion...
THE ‘project of political Islam has failed,’ Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday, calling for the separation of religion from politics, state television...
‘A wrecking ball Australian Budget smashing jobs and services’ – CPSU
‘The Abbott Government’s assault on welfare, Medicare, education and the public sector represents the end of the fair go and the biggest attack on...
Modi’s government freezes main opposition party’s funds before elections
The Congress party, India’s principal opposition force, has levelled serious accusations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration, alleging that the government has deliberately undermined...
Santiago clashes on 49th anniversary of Pinochet coup
SPORADIC clashes between demonstrators and police took place in the Chilean capital Santiago on Sunday as the country marked the 49th anniversary of the...
Threat by the Egyptian Defence Minister to call out the army!
EGYPT’S defence minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned last Sunday that the army will intervene if violence breaks out in the country where rallies are...
‘Drone Attacks Are International Law Crimes’
An Islamabad-based human rights charity called on Wednesday on Pakistan’s Government to demand the adoption of a UN resolution requiring that the USA stops...
Palestinian children arrested, tortured and thrown in solitary confinement!
AN international human rights group on Monday released details of the interrogation and assault of a Palestinian teenager during his arrest in June by...
END THE INHUMAN GAZA SIEGE – demand Lebanese masses
Action to end the inhumane Gaza siege has started from Lebanon, says the Hezbollah resistance movement. On Friday, Lebanon, the country of resistance and patriotism,...
MED UNION ‘ATTEMPT TO LET ISRAEL IN THROUGH THE WINDOW’ –...
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has praised the position of the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, who refused to attend the Paris summit to...
Sri Lanka Assassinations Continue
A 28-year-old Tamil man, recently deported from the UK was found killed in Trincomalee on 18 April, news sources in the district told TamilNet...
GMB welcomes debate on private equity
THE GMB welcomes the House of Commons debate on private equity as the ‘barbarians’ target Boots. Michael Meacher MP has secured a...
Debt bondage, sub-poverty wages and appalling health and safety in Brazil’s...
A NEW INVESTIGATION into the Brazilian coffee industry has uncovered debt bondage, sub-poverty wages, sub-standard housing, water and sanitation facilities and appalling health and...
COSATU leader Vavi attacks CP, Stalinism and ANC betrayal
COSATU leader Zwelinzima Vavi has written an open letter to the South African Communist Party (SACP) expressing his concerns over the party’s right wing...
Stop ignoring Israel’s targeting of journalists – UN told
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been urged to address Israel’s attacks on press freedom and escalating military actions in Lebanon and Gaza, as...
May Day Marchers Demand ‘Kick The Tories Out!’
THE LONDON May Day Rally of over 5,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London...
US-led Black Sea drills a ‘provocation’ – Russia’s Embassy in Washington
RUSSIA is warning Western allies that nothing good will come out of provocations in the Black Sea as any attempts to test Moscow’s willingness...
‘WE’RE HERE TO GET FREE EDUCATION BACK’ say students
Students on a 1,000-strong march through London on Wednesday called on the trade unions to act to restore free education. Students marched from University of...
‘Lessons of the successful All-India General Strike!’
‘WORKERS Resistance and the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) congratulates the working class of the country for making the all-India strike...
Occupations and strikes are sweeping through Canada!
OCCUPATIONS, strike votes and rallies by health and care workers are sweeping Canada as trade unionists fight against low pay, unequal pay and privatisation...
TUC CONCERNED ABOUT MASSIVE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT – but has no...
SAVAGE ‘austerity’ cuts to prop up bankrupt capitalism and its banks are being met with a revolutionary response from workers and youth throughout Europe. In...
‘SERIOUS ATTACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS’ – Ammesty condemns Blair’s measures
Amnesty International has expressed considerable alarm over the onslaught on basic rights announced by Prime Minister Blair on Friday 5th August to deal with...
Minimum Wage Violations Cost Workers In California Nearly $2 Billion Annually
EACH year, minimum-wage violations by California employers sap the state’s workforce of nearly $2 billion in earnings, according to a report released this month...
Academies are ‘managing out’ pupils!
THE ‘MANAGING out’ of pupils in order to ‘game’ government league tables is rife among academies, Education DataLab revealed on Wednesday. ‘The NUT has long...
Seven Years Since The Marikana Mine Massacre!
‘THEY say in this country we’re free, but only some are free, others are not. A policeman has the power to kill and it’s...
Greek Seafarers Call 24-Hour Strike
The Federation of Greek Seafarers Trades Union PNO have called a 24-hour strike for 16 April on all ferries, passenger and cargo ships, against...
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...
Unions getting ready for November 30 strike
Strike day leaflets and posters will be landing in Unison branch offices during this week, Unison has announced. The materials being posted directly to branches...
Qatar Student Sues Rumsfeld Over Inhuman Detention
A lawsuit filed last Tuesday against US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges...
‘THIS IS THE PERIOD OF WORLD REVOLUTION’ – message to News...
THIS is the period of world revolution. That was the message delivered to the News Line Anniversary Rally attended by 200 youth and workers in...