SRI LANKA: WORKERS FIGHT BRUTAL EXPLOITATION – Part 2; Appalling housing,...
THE living conditions of workers, the Tamils on the tea plantations and the Sinhalese on the rubber plantations, and their families, has...
Occupation a ‘major barrier’ to healthcare for Palestinians says World Health...
PALESTINIANS in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continue to face major barriers to the realisation of the right to health, said Gerald Rockenschaub,...
Israel’s ‘nightmare of collapse’ coming to life – says Iranian ...
CHIEF of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, says the ‘glorious’ Palestinian military operation in the occupied territories has made...
Single shots to head or chest reveal deliberate targeting of children,...
Foreign doctors in Gaza describe a pattern of children killed by a single gunshot to the head or chest as showing that Israel is...
Open letter to chairs of BMA and BMAGPC
Dear Dr Meldrum, Dr Buckman and all members of the BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC) Following the publication of the health White Paper earlier this...
Israel Launches A Wave Of Strikes On Gaza
The death toll in an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip on Thursday rose to nine after Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at a...
25,000 held in US customs on Mexican border
DESPITE the end of the United States Title 42 border restrictions, obstacles and the lack of legal options to reach the US will continue to have a serious...
‘End The Bullying & Witch-Hunting Of Staff At Worcester Royal Hospital!’
A DEMONSTRATION held last Thursday March 12 outside the A&E at the Worcester Royal Hospital, demanded an end to the bullying and...
UK Trade Unions Condemn Bahrain’s ‘Systematic Abuse’ Of Human Rights!
BAHRAIN’s ‘widespread and systematic’ abuse of human rights has been condemned by the entire trade union movement in the UK in launching a new...
‘HUNDREDS KILLED BY ISRAELI-BACKED DEATH SQUADS’ – A review of Sabra...
‘We commemorate the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in honour of the hundreds of men, women and children killed by death squads...
90% of nurses say understaffing is affecting quality of care
Nine out of ten nurses say understaffing is affecting quality of care for patients, a Nursing Standard poll reveals. The RCN (Royal College of Nursing)...
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...
‘Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal’ says...
‘EMOTIONALLY, we are not coping. Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal,’ was the view of hospital nurse Mosima Doreen Mabeba...
Iran calls for emergency meeting over Israel’s planned attack on Rafah
IRAN has called for an emergency meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) amid the dire humanitarian...
Palestinian PM Denounces Pompeo’s Declaration!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has denounced US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration that the US no longer considers the Israeli settlements in...
Global unemployment is expected to rise in 2024
GLOBAL unemployment will rise in 2024 and growing inequalities and stagnant productivity are causes for concern, according to the ILO’s World Employment and Social...
INCLUDE HEALTHCARE IN ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE urges SEIU
‘Today, Congress took a first and important step to rebuilding the American Dream,’ said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Thursday as Senators from...
‘BRING POLICE KILLERS TO JUSTICE’ – de Menezes family demands of...
Over three hundred friends and supporters of the family of Jean Charles de Menezes – the young Brazilian electrician murdered by Metropolitan Police firearms...
2,000 NHS DOCTORS WRITE WARNING LETTER TO PM MAY – ‘unacceptable...
MORE than 2,000 senior NHS doctors have signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to increase spending on health and social care...
US workers take May Day action
While reflecting on a long year of labour struggles at UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz), students looking to the future continued to call...
End ‘business as usual’ with Israel – Human Rights Watch and...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), along with 125 other civil society organisations, has urged the European Union (EU) to review Israel’s compliance with its human...
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...
‘SYRIA IS OWNED BY THE SYRIANS’ –INSISTS PRESIDENT ASSAD –...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed in Damascus that Syria is owned by the Syrians and that the peace is two things. First, fighting terrorists...
Washington lawsuit against Trump attack on unions
A coalition of American unions has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation...
‘It’s a nightmare – patients and dead bodies arriving in overwhelming...
Two Australian doctors, Dr Nada Abu Alrub and Dr Saya Aziz, recounted the harrowing details of their work under constant Israeli bombardment and severe...
11,000 US airline catering workers vote for strike
THOUSANDS of airline food workers have voted to authorise a strike across the US. The strike will be enormous as more than 11,000 workers who...
‘We Will Keep Chase Farm Open’
A SUCCESSFUL picket to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital took place outside the hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, attended by over 50...
‘We will lift the siege on Gaza and commence reconstruction’ says...
THE PALESTINIAN resistance will finally succeed in lifting Israel’s years-long siege on the impoverished Gaza Strip and commence its reconstruction, the resistance movement Hamas...
Argentina – year-on-year inflation reaches 102.5% in February
ARGENTINA’S National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) said on Tuesday that inflation in February was 6.6 per cent, while the cumulative year-on-year figure...
New Nigerian loan scheme ‘will perpetually enslave the workers’
One of Nigeria’s university based unions, National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), has opposed the federal government’s offer to float a loan scheme, known...
Wells Fargo employees ballot for union recognition
In a remarkable series of events, Wells Fargo employees from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Bethel, Alaska, are spearheading the bank’s first-ever union elections. This historic...
Wal-Mart To Sack Hq Workers In Arkansas
WAL-MART Stores Inc is planning to sack hundreds of workers at its headquarters in Arkansas as part of the retail giant’s efforts to pare...
Massive Toxic Contamination In The Area Surrounding Grenfell Tower!
EXTENSIVE research by the University of Central Lancashire into toxic contamination surrounding the Grenfell Tower after the tragic fire there has now been published...
‘Stop The Ethnic Cleansing Of Tamils’
A 3,500-strong demonstration organised by the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) marked the 60th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka...
Education cuts put kids’ education at risk
MANCHESTER City Council, local trade unions and community groups are coming together in Manchester today, Saturday 25 February, to highlight the devastating effects of...
Google has unionised!
‘DON’T let this get around, but professionals are forming unions like crazy these days. And, just yesterday, a union unveiled itself at Google …...
‘We will not stop until there is a permanent ceasefire!’
First speaker at the rally at the end of the march in Whitehall was Malik Mohammed from the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said:...
Dhaka workers plunge to their death!
A Lack of safety measures once again led to a tragic accident in the capital’s Siddheshwari area, where three construction workers died after they...
Syria And Its Allies Angrily Condemn Biden Air Strike
SYRIA and its allies have angrily condemned the first airstrike ordered by new US President Joe Biden, which the Pentagon claimed had targeted Iran-backed...
‘IF WE DON’T WIN THIS BATTLE THERE WILL BE NO MORE...
AT A PACKED ‘Saving Vauxhall Jobs’ TUC Congress fringe meeting on Tuesday evening, Unite leaders Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson attacked the German government...
‘Abbas’ Government Constitutes A Crime Against The Palestinian Political Order’
YAHYA Musa, a deputy from the Hamas movement, has said that the decree issued by President Abbas that stipulates the suspension of articles...
Lebanon’s foreign minister quits while financial crisis rages!
LEBANON’S Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Monday in protest at what he described as the government’s...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘We are witnessing the...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 6. On the eve of Revolution This essay appeared in the New York Daily paper...
Russia calls truce on 80th anniversary of Victory Day
Russia is ready to continue its dialogue with Western lawmakers both in North America and Europe, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday when speaking...
COUNCIL OF ACTION LAUNCHED – to stop hospital closures!
TRADE unionists, youth and local NHS campaigners voted unanimously at a meeting on Thursday night ‘to establish the North East London Council of Action’. The...