PROBE ISRAELI ASSAULT ON LEBANON CIVILIANS –urges Amnesty
Amnesty International on Tuesday renewed its call for a comprehensive and independent UN-led inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law committed during this year’s...
US public schools Day of Action
MONDAY’s Day of Action – a day when parents, students, educators and community leaders held events in more than 30 cities throughout America to...
‘The Land Belongs To The Palestinian People! The Occupation Will Vanish...
ISRAELI forces on Friday shot and killed 18 Palestinians as they assaulted rallies that set out to commemorate Land Day on many...
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...
‘BRING DOWN THIS GOVERNMENT WITH A GENERAL STRIKE’ – YS editor...
It is young people who are leading the struggle. Young people demand a future and the only way is socialism. The Young Socialists stand...
Cook County health workers strike to defend pay and conditions
THOUSANDS of health workers in Cook County, Illinois, are continuing strike action against attacks on their pay and conditions. Meanwhile 100 Illinois librarians have formed...
‘I am 22, I lost 22 people’ – Zainab al-Qolaq tells...
At exactly 1:00 am, on 16 May 2021, Israeli jets bombarded a densely populated residential area in the centre of Gaza City, Al-Wehda Street,...
Over 300 United Families and Friends march on Downing Street
‘Who ARE the murderers? Police are the murderers!’ shouted a demonstration of over 300 on the annual United Families and Friends march from Trafalgar...
‘Stop breaking law or we will stop work’ PCS general secretary...
At the start of the rally in Whitehall 14-year-old Abdul Rahman spoke in front of dozens of children waving Palestinian flags and holding big...
‘We want justice for myself and my family’ – Mohammed Abdul...
THE anger of the local community against the police raid in Forest Gate on June 2 burst onto the streets of Newham, east London,...
Workers Demand A General Strike To Defend Their Pensions
750,000 public sector workers struck to defend their pensions on Thursday. 70,000 of them marched through London with banners flying, determined to see the...
Primary care has been run down under successive Tory governments
THE GPs’ magazine Pulse has published the results of a major survey of GP surgeries, showing the extent to which primary care has been...
Free Amr Gharbeia Says Amnesty!
AMNESTY International has urged the Egyptian authorities to ensure that an activist thought to have been arrested on 23 July is immediately freed and...
Iran will give a decisive response to Trump’s ‘delirious attacks’
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran will give a decisive response to the ‘delirious threats’ made against it on the battlefield. Pezeshkian made the remark...
UCU action to begin against Goldsmiths plan to bulldoze through brutal...
GOLDSMITHS University UCU (University and College Union) members, who have overwhelmingly voted to strike against the sacking of more than one-in-six academic staff at...
Massive Hospital Cuts And More Privatisation Planned
NHS London has ordered PCTs and NHS trusts to draw up plans for cuts worth billions. NHS London (London’s Strategic Health Authority) produced a...
‘End The Midwife Shortage’ And Cancel Plans To Remove Bursaries!
CATHY WARWICK, the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives has issued a ‘wish list’ of her hopes for maternity services in 2016. She...
RUSSIA AND IRAN ARE OUR STEADFAST ALLIES – says Assad
IN AN an interview given to al-Manar TV, President Bashar Assad said the essence of the crisis in Syria is foreign interference by the...
More than 50 Bangladesh garment workers are injured by anti-union goons!
MORE than 50 garment workers at Haesong Corporation Ltd in Bangladesh have been injured after being attacked by hired goons. The workers were taking part...
Eu ‘Harbours Serious Concerns’ Over Sri Lanka’s Rights Abuses
The European Union (EU) has expressed serious concern over Sri Lanka’s rights abuses, TamilNet reported yesterday. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the EU...
Royal Mail Moves To Slash Pensions And Mail Centres
Communication Workers Union members are angry that Royal Mail Group has taken Executive Action to replace postal workers’ final salary scheme with an inferior...
14 Hours In Iraq
Al-Sharqiyah TV reported on its 2 pm news broadcast last Sunday the security and political developments of that day. The report stated: ‘The US Army...
Roger Waters performs for Assange – Defend freedom of speech! No...
OVER a thousand supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rallied outside the Home Office on Monday evening to hear Roger Waters perform ‘Wish...
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...
Quash convictions of 25 Cambodian factory workers! – demands Human Rights...
THE Cambodian government should quash the convictions of 25 human rights activists, factory workers, and others for lack of evidence, Human Rights Watch has...
UCU slams Manchester Met Uni – after security staff forcibly evict...
MANCHESTER Metropolitan University (MMU) is under fire after its security forcibly evicted staff members from picket lines across the university’s buildings on Thursday...
Investigatory Powers Bill threat to whistleblowers
HUMAN rights groups warned the United Nations this week that a new British law allowing police to see journalists’ communications threatens sensitive sources and...
Irish bus drivers vote for strike action!
SIPTU Bus Drivers in Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann have voted by over 90%, in both companies, in favour of industrial action and strike...
‘No National Elections Without A Unity Agreement And The Release Of...
No national elections will be held without a unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah and the release of political prisoners from West Bank jails,...
COSATU calls public sector general strike in SA
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is to make Thursday a public sector general strike against the ANC government to press demands...
Firefighter Numbers Cut By 25% In 10 Years
THE NUMBER of firefighters has been cut by nearly a quarter over the past decade, a newly released Home Office report has shockingly revealed...
Egyptian Army Demolitions Creating A Gaza Buffer Zone
AL-AQSA TV on Sunday morning carried the following ‘urgent’ screen caption: ‘Residents on the Egyptian side of Rafah are angry because the Egyptian army...
Gaza transformed into ‘a Nazi concentration camp’ says Hamas official Osama...
SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has stated that the Israeli occupation has transformed Gaza into ‘a Nazi concentration camp,’ and the regime is practicing...
Some of the biggest US banks have underwritten billions of dollars...
Some of the United States’ biggest banks have underwritten billions of dollars in Israel bonds, including a substantial amount of $8 billion (£6.4 billion) in March...
Microsoft backs down from Israeli investment
AFTER eight months of campaigning to demand that Microsoft drop their investment in the Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision, the hi-tech giant finally announced...
Gold & Ashes: A photo series by Feruza Afewerki
Gold & Ashes: A photo series by Feruza Afewerki Outdoor Exhibition From the 12th June – 31st August 2021
Freston Road and Bramley Studio, London W10...
Palestinian women prisoners launch action in support of hunger strikers
MANY HUNDREDS of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners entered the third day of the ‘Freedom and Dignity’ hunger strike on Wednesday, with imprisoned Palestinian women launching...
Rajapaksa Tries To Explain Away Escalating Murders
THE Sri Lankan government is attempting to portray the continually escalating incidents of civilian murders, disappearances and robberies as the result of individual enmities...
Workers across Colorado are standing up and organising, says Starbucks Workers...
Workers from a number of trade unions and their allies rallied on Wednesday in the Civic Centre Park neighbourhood of Denver Colorado in support...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza! – International Association of Genocide Scholars...
The Hamas resistance movement has hailed a resolution issued by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), confirming that Israel has committed genocide in...
Hanan Ashrawi meets Swedish Consul – both stress the need for...
MEMBER of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Hanan Ashrawi has met the Swedish Consul-General to Palestine, Jessica Olausson, in Ramallah. The two...
‘NHS emergency care is itself, in a state of emergency’
‘EMERGENCY care is itself in a state of emergency,’ Dr Taj Hassan, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said on Thursday. He was...
They bombed Libyan TV ‘to try to silence the Libyan masses’...
LIBYAN state Al-Jamahiriyah TV opened its first regular news broadcast (0830 gmt) on Saturday 30 July with a report showing damage caused to the...
Hundreds of burns victims in Gaza–and only one operating theatre!
LYING on his bed in a Gaza hospital, three-year-old Yamin now sees the world from behind burns which have disfigured him for life. The tiny...
Israeli occupation – a crime against humanity – 231 INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS...
APARTHEID is a crime against humanity, giving rise to individual responsibility and state responsibility to bring the illegal situation to an end. In May 2020,...