Congress gives green light to abuses – warn Amnesty
‘BY passing the Military Commissions Act, the United States Congress has, in effect, given its stamp of approval to human rights violations committed by...
4.2 million Bangladesh garment workers issue demands to new government
UNI Global Union and IndustriALL are calling on international fashion brands to continue their long-term commitment to Bangladesh to help secure the country’s democratic...
Dire Staff Shortages At Cancer Centres Across The UK – Investment...
Annual workforce figures released on Tuesday by The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) reveal the ‘dire’ staff shortages at cancer centres across the UK. Clinical...
EU – ‘a rich man’s club’ – Aslef
TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF’s general secretary, Mick Whelan, has written an article reasserting the union’s commitment to withdrawing from the European Union. It was written...
HEALTH IN GAZA THREATENED – by unexploded bombs and war debris
UNEXPLODED bombs and the uncontrolled dumping of rubbish pose the greatest environmental and public health risks to residents of the Gaza Strip, according to...
END GAZA SIEGE! – demands 400-strong Downing Street vigil
‘Free, Free Palestine! Palestine will be free from the river to the sea!’ shouted demonstrators at a 400-strong picket and vigil opposite Downing Street...
‘EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE’ – or millions of Americans will have no...
Some 200 unemployed workers converged on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, on Thursday to demand that Congress act immediately to extend unemployment insurance to those...
Israeli PM brazenly breaks the truce and declares end of ceasefire...
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement, abruptly declared the end of the ceasefire agreement beyond the first phase with the...
North American Workers Battle Attacks On Rights And Jobs
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) joined thousands of Canadians opposing the Conservative budget in a mass online protest on Monday. NUPGE...
‘We are staring the death of justice in the face’ –Barristers...
OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...
Marwan Barghouthi Elected To Fatah Central Committee
Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, has been elected to the governing body of Fatah which dominates the Palestinian Authority,...
ATI threatens US workers health insurance coverage
ATI management recently mailed a letter to the homes of all of locked-out Steelworkers who are currently covered under the company’s programme of insurance...
Maher Al-Akhras Hunger Strike Now Exceeds 90 Days!
‘CALLING for the freedom of one Palestinian political prisoner is what Israel expects from the international community. ‘The latest detainee to go on hunger strike...
Torture, flogging and killings! AT ISLAMIC SECRET PRISONS SAYS AMNESTY
TORTURE, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that...
EQUITY MUST FIGHT ARTS CUTS! – call a national march urges...
AXED children’s theatre workers expressed outrage at Culture Secretary Andrew Burnham’s proclamation last Wednesday that ‘every schoolchild will get five hours of culture a...
IRAQI OIL WORKERS THREATEN TO STOP WORK – as demonstrations spread...
At Iraq’s state-owned North Oil Company (NOC) on Saturday a demonstration of 300 day workers warned they would go on strike if their work...
‘The Ugly Faces Of Occupation’
Dear friends, THE ugly faces of occupation from two houses demolished in Silwan, Jerusalem last week. Two other houses were destroyed the same day in Jerusalem....
President Ahmadinezhad Speaks To The Arabs Of Khuzestan
IRANIAN President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad spoke to a gathering of the people of Ramshir in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, which has a large Arab population...
The torture of Palestinian prisoners has become commonplace
the torture of Palestinian prisoners has become commonplace since October 7, 2023, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, warned...
M&s ‘Guarantee’ Just Seven Hours Of Work At Their Swindon Depot
WORSE then a zero-hour contact, supermarket giant Marks & Spencers will only guarantee their staff at the Swindon distribution depot seven hours of work...
Fuel shortage threatens remains of Gaza’s health sector!
THE health and humanitarian sectors in the Gaza Strip are heading for collapse, with international and humanitarian institutions reducing some of their services at...
Jerusalem Tensions Boiling Over
A PALESTINIAN man on Sunday succumbed to wounds he sustained in a car attack on a light rail station in East Jerusalem, his wife...
‘Land swaps must be on equal basis’ – insists Fatah, as...
LAND swaps should be a result of negotiations with Israel rather than an ‘advance payment’ given by Arab states on behalf of the Palestinians,...
Trump steps up war on people of South America
MILES of barbed wire has been installed by US troops on the US/Mexico Border, while over the weekend camps opened to hold thousands of...
Assad Denounces Imperialist Wars For ‘Redrawing The Map Of The World!’
President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday received Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Yong-ho and the accompanying delegation. Talks during...
US capitalist economy heading for disaster!
FOR years now the capitalist class internationally through their mouthpieces in government and the bourgeois press have been peddling, often contradictory, statistics to show...
Keep St Helier A&E, Maternity and Children’s Hospital open!
HEALTH bosses have now confirmed that they are pushing forward with their plans to close three children’s wards in SW London including all of...
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,...
Syrians demonstrate against the ‘Caesar Act’ sanctions
POPULAR protests against the US and Turkish occupation forces and in rejection of the so-called ‘Caesar Act’ have continued in Syria’s Hasaka province. The Caesar Syria...
Karzai Officials And Advisors ‘Implicated In Major War Crimes’
Numerous high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan’s US-backed puppet government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses that took place in...
End Cuba blockade now! – demands international Day of Action
A Day of action against the US blockade on Cuba has been held in several countries, with supporters of the Latin American nation determined...
The enemy ‘will take the dream of enslaving Iran to the...
MILLIONS of Iranians took to the streets on Sunday to condemn the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in terrorist...
United Nations Slashes Food Aid For Syrian Refugees
THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that funding shortages have forced it to cut its food assistance for thousands of Syrian...
No privatisation of US Postal Service! APWU and NALC oppose Trump...
UNI Global Union said on Thursday that its US affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire...
Pakistan condemns US attack on Iran as a ‘war crime’
Condemnations poured in against Saturday night’s US aggression on Iran’s nuclear sites, with many countries describing it as an illegal act that threatens regional...
Settler violence escalates on West Bank
ISRAELI occupation forces seized four Palestinian homes in the town of Till, southwest of Nablus, on Thursday and converted them into military outposts, as...
‘Inhospitable’ – Trump’s immigration policies creating a crisis in the US...
AMERICAN trade union UNITE HERE has released Inhospitable, a report revealing how White House immigration policies are creating a crisis in America’s hospitality industry. The report was...
Junior Doctors Slam ‘Shambolic And Deeply Destructive’ Changes
Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...
‘US-UK Hands Off Assange’ – say human chain protesters
‘US-UK Hands off Assange!’ said demonstators in Parliament Square before several thousand made a human chain around the Houses of Parliament on Saturday. ‘There’s only...
‘Trump’s only interest in Iraq is to loot the country’ –...
WASHINGTON’S already tense relationship with the 82,000-strong Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces militia coalition suffered a major blow in January after PMF deputy commander Abu...
MAY RETURNING TO CHILDREN BEING FAILURES AT ELEVEN! – as NUS...
DOES the PM really want to return to labelling children failures at the age of 11, the ATL asked yesterday. Answering the question the...
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...
The G20 Summit in Delhi ‘A Tale of Two Indias’
IN Delhi, India’s capital, the G20 summit has captured significant global attention. This event brought together world leaders to discuss international economic strategies, presenting...
SA trade unions want trade deal with USA before 30% tariffs...
SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...
More than half a million Ukrainian troops killed last year
Ukrainian forces lost 593,410 troops over the course of 2024, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry’s weekly briefings over the year indicate...