Israel’s Separation Wall is destroying livelihoods & dividing towns & people
THE Israeli Separation Wall will destroy the livelihoods and divide the population of two more Palestinian villages south of Jerusalem, locals say, after a...
‘STOP SUPPLYING SRI LANKAN MILITARY’ – demand marchers to Indian parliament
TAMILNET reports that ‘several hundred activists of the Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam (PDK) marched towards the Indian Parliament on Wednesday morning demanding the Indian government...
Morrison government looks to bring back its union-busting legislation!
AUSTRALIA’S Industrial Relations Minister has accused the construction union CFMMEU of an ‘extraordinarily high standard of unlawful activity’ as the Morrison government moves to...
Fonseka arrest deepens crisis of Sri Lankan ruling class
THE split in the Sri Lankan ruling class has deepened with the arrest of General Fonseka who led the military campaign which killed tens...
ISRAEL DEHUMANISING! Ben Deri sentenced for murdering unarmed Palestinian Nadeem Nuwara
IN RESPONSE to the sentencing of Israeli border policeman Ben Deri who murdered unarmed Palestinian teenager Nadeem Nuwara in cold blood on May 15th,...
‘Western countries preparing for direct conflict with Russia’ – warns Serbian...
WESTERN countries are actively preparing for a direct conflict with Russia, says Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Vucic told the Pink TV channel: ‘The West would...
President-elect Trump launches attack on US trade unions
AN Indianapolis trade union leader has been receiving threats after US president-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack him on Wednesday night. Trump twice...
Iran warns of the risk of a ‘wider conflict in the...
THE Iranian foreign minister has warned that the risk of a ‘wider’ conflict in the region has sharply increased due to the United States’...
Colombian trade unionists take campaign to US – meanwhile 4 more...
During two months when trade unionists from Colombia were visiting America to take part in trade union training – four of their colleagues were...
DON’T RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE say unions
GMB trade union yesterday said it rejects the Turner report proposal to extend the pension age. Turner recommends extending the retirement age to ‘between 67...
ISRAEL ISSUES STOP WORK ORDERS –to Palestinian wind and solar power
There is an underground bunker in the South Hebron Hills, camouflaged by bracken and heavy sacks, where a tiny Palestinian village is sheltering a...
Police killings of unarmed black Americans impact on community!
Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on the mental health of black American adults in the general population, according to a...
‘A general strike to defeat this Bill is our policy!’ says...
‘We support a general strike to defeat this bill, we supported it in the TUC and it’s our policy,’ RMT leader Mick Lynch told...
Armed intruders infiltrate mines in South Africa AMCU demands
THE SOUTH African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) says it is ‘wary of armed intruders accessing mines where its members work.’ AMCU has...
Haniya Welcomes Rafah Crossing Opening
THE head of the Hamas government in Gaza on Tuesday urged Palestinians to respect Egypt’s security so that Cairo would keep open the Rafah...
US ready to negotiate with Assad says Kerry
AS the devastating war in Syria entered its fifth year on Sunday, the US said it would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar...
US nurses union ‘outraged’ at Trump’s invasion of Venezuela
THE American National Nurses United union (NNU) has strongly condemned US President Trump and his administration’s illegal invasion of and regime change operation in...
‘THIS IS JUST THE START OF THE BIG FUEL REVOLT’ –...
Lorry Drivers and small hauliers rallied hundreds strong at Marble Arch in London yesterday to demand a government fuel subsidy or fuel tax relief...
FRANCE CONSIDERED PROTECTING TARIQ AZIZ – intelligence chief’s notes reveal
Three months before the US invasion of Iraq, France was considering protecting senior figures from President Saddam Hussein’s government, according to a senior intelligence...
SA gold-mine strikers win union recognition agreement!
GOLD ONE, the Modder East Operations company’s mine in Gauteng in South Africa, has concluded a trade union recognition agreement with the Association of...
STRIKES, SIT-INS AND OCCUPATIONS IN EGYPT –as workers fight to scrap...
Between 1st January 2011 and 31 December 2011 there were 335 labour protests in Egypt, said a report issued by the Egyptian Ministry of...
Israeli Military Attacking Gaza With Air Strikes And Artillery
THE Israeli military has carried out airstrikes and artillery attacks on various sites across the besieged Gaza Strip over what it cited as a...
60 Canadian workers face trial for storming City Hall
MORE than 60 Montreal municipal employees will be tried together on charges related to a 2014 protest that saw hundreds of union members storm...
Ramaphosa & ANC are our ‘class opponents’
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has responded to the State of the Nation Address delivered by newly elected South African President,...
CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE DETAINED IN TINSLEY – says Owers
A damning report, the second in seven days on the British government’s practice of incarcerating children in UK removal centres was published yesterday. Excerpts follow...
MILLIONS JOIN NEW EGYPTIAN UNIONS – ‘We bid farewell to the...
A state of permanent revolution has gripped Egypt as two million workers have joined Egypt’s Federation of Independent Trade Unions in the last year. Egyptian...
Chagos Islanders Will Fight Until Victory!
TWO hundred Chagos Islanders and their supporters demonstrated in London on Monday, demanding their right to return home after 40 years of exile imposed...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE –‘the lessons of Wapping are...
‘The historic printers’ strike set the scene for a struggle, not just against Murdoch but the whole capitalist state,’ All Trades Unions Alliance national...
DOOR CLOSING ON 2 MILLION IRAQI REFUGEES – Human Rights Watch...
‘Now that the international community is finally beginning to pay attention to the existence of an estimated two million Iraqi refugees in the Middle...
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...
Khader Adnan hunger striking for over 70 days – – Islamic...
ISLAMIC Jihad, the Palestinian resistance movement has held the Israeli regime fully responsible for any harm to its high-profile official Sheikh Khader Adnan, who...
Israel Moves To Ban Nakba Commemorations
The Israeli cabinet is to ban Palestinians from marking the Nakba, (the Catastrophe) of the 1948 creation of Israel. A draft law is up for...
Gulf Feudalists Rally To Oppose Revolution And Syria
THE annual summit of Arab monarchs in the Gulf opened in Manama last Monday with a call for closer economic integration and unity in...
THERE MUST BE ‘A FULL RECRUITMENT INTO EMERGENCY MEDICINE’ – essential...
THE College of Emergency Medicine on Monday announced guidelines titled Creating satisfaction and maintaining wellbeing in Emergency Medicine. The College of Emergency Medicine said in...
‘WE NEED TO DEVELOP AN ENTIRELY NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH UNIONISM’ –...
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER IRISH republicans must re-negotiate their political relationship with unionists, the president of the North’s largest nationalist party, Sinn Fein,...
‘I’m Calling For A General Strike To Smash This Bill!’
‘I’M CALLING for a general strike to smash this bill,’ Bakers Union leader Ian Hodson told News Line on Monday afternoon in Westminster, where...
Trump’s third war against Iran is defeated
MOHSEN Rezaei, advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has said the United States was defeated midway in what he called US President...
TUC calls for end to poverty-level pensions
THE TUC Congress in Brighton ended on Wednesday with a call on the TUC General Council to campaign for a state pension above the...
Sri Lankan university teachers demand the resignation of Rajapaksa and the...
The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) has demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D. Wickremaratne,...
President Assad blames US for stopping return of Syrian refugees!
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has blamed the United States for hampering the return of refugees to Syria. Assad was delivering a speech delivered via video...
Defend District General Hospitals! Kick Out The Multinationals! Stop NHS Privatisations!
DISTRICT General Hospitals are being destroyed. Bruised and battered from every direction with reforms, £900m direct cuts are the knock out blow with which to...
US student debt $1.3 trillion and going up by thousands...
APRIL marks three years since US student debt hit $1 trillion. Now $1.3 trillion and climbing – by thousands of dollars per second (link...
‘15 MILLION AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING’ – Machinists call for jobs...
THE president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) cited the unemployment numbers for the month of July as hard evidence...
‘We will accept no less than the independence of the state...
President Mahmud Abbas speech to the UN General Assembly Mr. President of the General Assembly, Your Excellency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, PALESTINE...
‘the Tuc Must Call More Action’
THOUSANDS of workers and students marched to Downing Street on Wednesday evening, in angry protest against the savage assault on jobs, public services and...