170,000 Teachers Take One-Day Strike Action
By Sanath Rathnaweera COLOMBO – 170,000 out of Sri Lanka’s 200,000 teachers took part in a one day strike action on September 13th,...
‘OUR CALL IS FOR THE PEOPLE TO UNITE IN THE YEAR...
NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has released the declaration from the Preparatory Assembly convened to discuss the forming of a mass...
‘We Cannot Tolerate And Forgive Those That Shed The Blood Of...
MARKING one week since local Hezbollah leader Samir Al-Kuntar’s assassination near Damascus at the hands of an Israeli missile, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan...
CONFUSE AND CONCEAL! – the NHS and the independent sector treatment...
THIS book shows that Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) have been introduced to give contracts to private companies to provide care for NHS patients,...
Uprising In Tunisian Capital Against Kais Saied Coup
Protesters clashed with police in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Saturday, October 15, for the second night running. Riot police fired tear gas to...
Tamils Braced For A Major Onslaught On Vanni
TamilNet said that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) during the weekend has reportedly been engaged in heavy deployment of its troops poised for a...
ISRAELI FORCES SHOT PALESTINIANS OFF GAZA COAST!
ISRAELI forces shot and injured at least three Palestinian protesters with live ammunition, while others suffered tear-gas suffocation as they suppressed naval protests off...
93 Gazans Vist Relatives Jailed In Israel
A GROUP of 93 Palestinians from Gaza visited relatives jailed in Israel on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Spokesperson Suhair Zaqqut...
Junior Doctors Reject Contract Diktat
‘IN THE face of proposals from the UK government which amount to imposition in all but name, the UK junior doctors committee has decided...
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...
End The Ppp On The London Underground
TUBE passengers and taxpayers remain exposed to an unacceptable level of financial risk and could face another ten-figure bill if the Tubelines consortium were...
‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEND THE NHS!’ – says...
A HUGE CROWD rallied in Whitehall, opposite 10 Downing Street on Monday afternoon, the first day of the British Medical Association’s three-day strike of...
US union leaders released after mass rallies across the US
DAVID Huerta, the 58-year-old president of Service Employees International Union California, was released from federal custody on Monday on a $50,000 bond after a...
SAFTU calls general strike to highlight that ANC policies are responsible...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers across South Africa downed tools on Wednesday, February 24, as a part of a general strike called by the...
Occupy Movements At High Court
Anti-capitalist occupiers camped outside St Paul’s cathedral went down to the High Court on Monday in support of the Parliament Square occupiers who are...
Seven Mineworkers Die At Driefontein Mine
AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa has criticised the Mineral Resources Department after the deaths of seven mineworkers at Sibanye-Stillwater’s mine in Driefontein. He said on Saturday...
Thousands of West Virginia teachers on indefinite strike
THOUSANDS of public school teachers across West Virginia have been on strike for more than a week in protest over their pay and benefits....
Iran-Iraq historic talks
IN A HISTORIC meeting, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has held talks with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the Iraqi holy...
Visa-free travel between US and Israel – ADC movement files lawsuit...
THE BIDEN administration has formally included Israel in the US Visa Waiver Programme. This decision has ignited a heated debate surrounding issues of discrimination, American...
US no longer recognises the Syrian National Council as leader of...
US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington wanted to help the Syrian opposition unite against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime but...
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...
‘REOPEN CHASE FARM A&E–NO MORE TRAGEDIES!’ –demand Enfield marchers
A POWERFUL march of more than 150 local residents, trade unionists, workers, students and youth drew enormous support from the busy Enfield shopping centre...
London Busworkers Rally To Demand Action Over Driver Fatigue!
VER a hundred Unite bus drivers and their supporters held a lively rally on Thursday morning outside London’s City Hall demanding action from Transport...
ASLEF members call for joint action with RMT and Unite to...
TWO Hundred Bombardier workers and their supporters descended on parliament on Wednesday to urge the Tory coalition ‘to save British train manufacturing’. The government has...
Lesbos: epicentre of refugee crisis!
WARS in Syria and Afghanistan are driving refugees through Turkey as they make their way to Greece. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos,...
SADDAM WAS ASSAULTED AT THE COURT HEARING – insists his defence...
ABD-AL HAQ-AL ANI, counsellor for the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s defence panel, has revealed that an assault took place on the Iraqi leader at...
Scotland’s A&Es ‘on the brink’ warns Royal College of Emergency Medicine...
THE NHS in Scotland is ‘on the brink’ as A&E hospital waiting times are the worst since records of them began, the Royal College...
Russia congratulates Venezuelan President Maduro on election win
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nicolas Maduro on being re-elected President of Venezuela, noting the strategic partnership between Moscow and Caracas. ‘Russian-Venezuelan relations have...
Crowds Take To The Streets In Their Support Of Assad And...
CROWDS in Aleppo took to the streets following the announcement of the Army General Command restoration of security and stability to the city after...
Iran and Russia–strategic defence co-operation
‘IRAN and Russia are on the path of strategic defence cooperation’ said the Iranian Daily Javan website on 21 January. It stated: ‘Iranian...
‘Privatisation gravy train must end’ says GMB
‘The gravy train needs to end – public services should be just that; public,’ said the GMB union on Tuesday, in response to a...
REPORT ON ISRAEL’S BLOCKADE OF GAZA . . . ‘Slow death...
THE EGYPTIAN Army, mimicking the brutal methods of the Zionist occupiers, have been bulldozing Palestinian homes on the Rafah border with Gaza, destroying smuggling...
OCCUPY CHASE FARM TO STOP IT CLOSING! – urges 1,000-strong...
A THOUSAND people – hospital staff, local residents, trade unionists and other groups from as far away as Crawley and Cambridge – joined the...
GREEK GOVERNMENT GIVES 50bn EUROS TO THE BANKS
The present unelected Greek coalition government, of social-democrats and conservatives headed by banker Lucas Papademos has decided to fund with some 50bn euros the...
US dockers tell bosses strikes will resume if their demands are...
THE International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) dockers union in the United States has agreed to suspend its strike of over 30 ports on the East...
US launched cruise missile strikes in Yemen
RECENT attacks on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile strikes, were led by the United States according to a CBS television report Saturday. The...
GAZA FREEDOM MARCH DECEMBER 31st – thousands gather to break the...
The Gaza Freedom March that will take place in Gaza on December 31st is an historic initiative to break the siege that has imprisoned...
RUSSIA COULD NOT ALLOW CIVILIANS IN SOUTH OSSETIA TO BE ATTACKED...
THE UN Security Council held a third emergency meeting on August 10th on the situation in South Ossetia, where the conflict is expanding in...
UNHCR condemns UK for plan to deport all asylum seekers
THE UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has condemned the practice by countries like the UK of deporting asylum seekers for processing in...
20,000 Tamil Civilians Massacred
TAMILNET reports that evidence gathered by The Times newspaper has revealed that at least 20,000 Tamil people were killed on the Mullaitivu beach by...
‘WE WILL NOT BE EVICTED!’ – insist St Paul’s occupiers
‘We will not be evicted!’ was the clear message from the occupiers outside St Paul’s as they defy new attempts by the Corporation of...
‘Down with Bolsonaro!’ – thousands of Brazilians take to the streets
THOUSANDS of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October’s...
Seven African states condemn AU granting Israel observer status
SEVEN African Arab states have rejected a recent decision by the African Union (AU) Commission to grant the Israeli regime an observer status at...
Gaza’s Schools Have Turned Into Piles Of Rubble!
WHILE schools around the world prepare to welcome a new academic year, Gaza’s schools have turned into piles of rubble, drowned in heavy silence...
Sinn Fein – Modernisers V Traditionalists
BY JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist The battle of the sexes will engulf the republican movement as women will seek to break male-run Sinn Fein...