Amnesty sues Israel’s MoD over spyware
AMNESTY International is supporting a legal action to take the Israeli Ministry of Defence (MoD) to court to demand that it revokes the export...
Pilots criticise BA’s strikebreaking scheme
PILOT representatives from the European Cockpit Association (ECA) and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have voiced concerns about British Airways’ (BA) use of...
Barghouthi Calls For Partnership With Hamas
Campaigning in the Palestinian legislative elections ended at mid-night on Monday. 24 hours before about 80 per cent of eligible voters in the West...
‘HISTORY WILL JUDGE BRITAIN FOR ITS FAILURE TO SUPPORT THE...
‘BRITAIN will be judged by history for its failure to support the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday. ‘For how...
Military Academies ‘Promoting National Service For The Poor’
Teachers union NASUWT on Wednesday slammed a report on military academies for ‘promoting National Service for the poor’. NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates condemned the...
‘Iran will eliminate the enemy’s abuse of the Persian Gulf and...
THE Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has reported an increased rate of cargo transit via the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf,...
GPs stopped from working due to Capita delays
NEWLY qualified GPs have been stopped from working for six months due to delays by the privateer Capita’s management of the National Performers List...
‘End US-sponsored Saudi aggression and blockade’ say Houthis
THE HOUTHI Ansarullah movement says any political solution to the Yemen conflict should begin with an end to the US-sponsored Saudi military aggression and...
Chagossians Demand Right To Return!
OVER 400 people attended the Chagos Islands Community Association rally in central London on Saturday evening, to demand the Chagossians’ right to return to...
Wage theft in Aussie universities
‘WAGE theft is flourishing in Australian universities, with at least three elite institutions in the midst of underpayment scandals!’ says the National Education Union...
BRITISH COMPLICITY IN TORTURE – indicted by Human Rights Watch
The UK government should immediately order an independent judicial inquiry into the role and complicity of British security services in the torture of terrorism...
Gaza witnessing the ‘worst of the worst levels of child malnutrition!’
‘Gaza is witnessing the worst of the worst levels of malnutrition, especially child malnutrition, and it’s entirely man-made,’ Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh said...
‘Ofsted driving unnecessary workload at unacceptable levels for teachers!’
TEACHERS have expressed their rising anger at their excessive workload by sending a letter to Tory Coalition Secretary of State and the Deputy Prime...
‘The more Israeli forces destroy, the more nails they drive into...
THE chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said the more destruction the Israeli regime wreaks in Palestine, the more nails...
Hands off Medicare and Social Security! – Demand US workers at...
SENATOR Warren, and the Koch Sisters led the rally to protect Social Security, and Medicare organised by AFSCME members at the ‘Hands Off’ rally...
COSATU & CWU march in support of striking SABC & SAPO...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliate, the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) marched to the Treasury’s Head Office in Tshwane...
Retaking Syria’s Idlib ‘is a red line for Iran’
THE POTENTIAL massacre of civilians while trying to retake the last major stronghold of anti-government militants in Syria – namely Idlib Province – is...
JORDAN PROTESTS AGAINST RISING PRICES – cooking gas up...
JORDAN announced on Tuesday it would raise fuel prices, including a 53 per cent hike on cooking gas, sparking nationwide protests in which two...
Gaza Withdrawal Begins
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) officially began a historic evacuation of the Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip at midnight Sunday, reported the Palestine...
The BMA must unite with health unions to defend the NHS...
THE Tory coalition is accelerating its onslaught on the NHS. Every structure that was good in our publicly provided NHS is being destabilised and...
FEEDING THE HUNGRY IN THE USA! – letter carriers collect 743...
THE National Association of Letter Carriers’ (NALC) annual food drive collected 74.3 million pounds of food and was the second most successful in the...
Yemen Facing Worst Ever Cholera Epidemic!
YEMEN is facing ‘the worst epidemic of cholera since records began’, a report from inside Yemen has warned. The Armed Conflict Location and Event...
PAC report into emergency care ‘should concentrate government minds’ – BMA
THE HOUSE of Commons PAC (Public Accounts Committee) report into emergency care should ‘concentrate minds’ in government, says the BMA. Responding to Wednesday’s PAC report...
Netanyahu seeking to undermine ceasefire
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim has emphasised that no new ceasefire agreement exists, accusing Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to undermine the current...
‘TOGETHER WE WILL ACHIEVE IRISH UNITY,INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY’ – declares...
BY JOHN COULTER, Irish political journalist Irish republicans need to build a mass movement capable of attracting a wide range of people, one of Sinn...
Passenger falls between platform and train at Canning Town – RMT...
TUBE union RMT is demanding a ‘full and transparent formal investigation’ into the recent Canning Town overcrowding incident and calls for all London Underground...
Food Crisis Hitting Poor In Pakistan
PAKISTAN has faced a rising food crisis for the last three years, and global price hikes could worsen the situation, warns UN agency IRIN. ‘Given...
Palestinian teenagers shot dead by Israelis
ISRAELI soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager at Mazmoria checkpoint, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday afternoon – only a few hours after...
Collective punishment after truck attack
A PALESTINIAN was shot dead after driving a truck into a group of uniformed Israeli soldiers, killing four soldiers and injuring at least 13...
British Troops Massacred Unarmed Malays At Batang Kali!
SUCCESSIVE British administrations have hidden the truth about the massacre of 24 unarmed Malaysian rubber plantation workers by UK troops in 1948, says...
‘Tories Continuing Fire Service Cuts While They Are Asking People To...
‘THE PRIME Minister and government ministers are asking people to clap for frontline workers on Thursdays – while their policies continue gutting frontline services,’...
Iran and Iraq establish closer security and cooperation – Iraq demands...
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian Foreign Minister, has discussed security cooperation with Iraqi government officials during a visit to the neighbouring country, stressing that this...
Renault Workers Battle For Their Jobs
Forty-six Renault workers from the sackings-hit Sandouville plant were before a court in Le Havre last Thursday, October 30. They were taken to court by...
Governments from 2002 knew Grenfell cladding was violently combustible
GOVERNMENT officials knew of the dangers of flammable cladding 15 years before the horrific Grenfell Tower fire which on June 14, 2017 claimed the...
Hezbollah marks 40 years of Iranian revolution!
THE SECRETARY general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has praised the outstanding achievements made in Iran, stressing that the Islamic Republic is now...
Israel ‘Guilty Of Multi-Dimensional Crimes’
THE PALESTINIAN resistance movement of Hamas has denounced the Israeli shooting of a Palestinian, Raed al-Salihi, who died later in detention as a ‘new...
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...
‘Outrage’ At Remploy Closures
Hundreds of disabled workers demonstrated yesterday against the closure of Remploy factories outside the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) offices in London and...
300 garment factories shut down in Bangladesh!
BANGLADESH garment bosses have indefinitely shut down all operations in over 300 factories at a key industrial hub after five days of violent protests...
‘We want no more weasel words – we want immediate recognition...
On the fifteenth National march for Palestine over one hundred thousand workers and youth took to the streets in central London in support of...
Hyundai workers vote for strike action!
Korean workers are rising up in militant struggles, with unions at the motoring giant Hyundai voting overwhelmingly to strike for a 5.3% pay increase....
Prosecute Vale over mine deaths – demands USW
If anyone needs further proof to Vale’s global social neglect, it comes in a pair of dirty deeds committed by the Brazilian mining company...
Lack of schools funding ‘is nothing short of scandalous’ says...
A DEBATE was held in Westminster Hall on Monday, attended by MPs, teachers, headteachers, support staff and members of the public to discuss the...
PNA CALLS FOR MEETING ON GOLDSTONE – Palestinian anger forces U-turn
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has executed a U-turn over action on the Goldstone report on the Israeli war on Gaza last December 2008/January...
‘£5BILLION WASTED’ ON PRIVATE TREATMENT CENTRES – NHS left to pick...
There is no good evidence that independent sector treatment centres have provided additional capacity, value for money, or high quality care, argue researchers in...