LEBANON AGREES NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT – ‘issue of Hezbollah weapons’ postponed
Qatar formally announced on Wednesday a deal between Lebanon’s opposition and ruling bloc to end an 18-month political crisis that will see Army commander...
US must reconstruct what it has destroyed says Taliban
THE TALIBAN say the United States could now step forward and participate in the reconstruction of Afghanistan given how it contributed to the destruction...
Narrow New Democracy Win – A Minor Breathing Space For Bosses!
IN CONDITIONS of polarisation, the conservative New Democracy party won Sunday’s crucial and vastly internationally significant Greek general election gaining 29.6 per cent of...
RUSSIA, GERMANY & FRANCE SUPPORT 2015 IRAN DEAL – while the...
THE leaders of Russia, France and Germany have underscored the need to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, stressing their commitment to boosting...
Scotland’s A&Es ‘on the brink’ warns Royal College of Emergency Medicine...
THE NHS in Scotland is ‘on the brink’ as A&E hospital waiting times are the worst since records of them began, the Royal College...
‘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...
Birri Proposes Solution To Lebanese Political Crisis
ON Friday August 31, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Birri, delivered a speech outlining his proposals for the current political crisis...
TEMPORARY WORKERS USED AND ABUSED – TUC urges protection against exploitation
TEMPORARY workers in Britain are being paid illegally low wages, having unlawful deductions taken from their pay packets, and are being denied holiday pay...
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...
Damascus reserves the right to take back Golan Heights!
SYRIA has censured Israel’s land theft and repressive measures against Syrians in the occupied side of the Golan Heights as a flagrant violation of...
‘THE GOVERNMENT IS ENGINEERING THIS FIGHT NOW’ says Unite leader McCluskey
UNIONS have reacted angrily following the Tory-LibDem Coalition government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable’s threat to ban strikes. Cable accepted an invitation from GMB General Secretary...
Israeli forces raid town, detaining Palestinians and ransacking homes
ISRAELI forces early on Thursday detained four Palestinians from several West Bank districts. Two Palestinians were detained from Jericho, another from Jerusalem and one from...
SRI LANKA–10-DAY STATE OF EMERGENCY – as Colombo Port workers take...
COLOMBO Port workers engaged in the clearance of containers and cleaners resorted to trade union action on Monday following repeated requests to allow inspections...
Abbas Predicts ‘Hamas Digging Its Own Grave’
THE Palestinian Information Centre, the website of Hamas, last Friday posted a statement by Hamas denouncing PNA President Mahmud Abbas’s speech...
G bay a ‘a US Gulag’ – Shaker Aamer tells ITV
As lawyers today present a motion to the US Federal Court demanding Shaker Aamer’s immediate release, he has given an exclusive interview to ITV...
Sharon Dying – Palestinian Revolution Lives!
ARIEL Sharon, the arch Zionist Israeli prime minister, who has spent his whole life killing Arabs, is fighting for his life in a Jerusalem...
Washington DC parents keep children home as ICE raids intensify
Immigrant families across the United States capital are facing the new school year under the shadow of aggressive federal immigration enforcement, with raids and...
Numsa SA Workers Vow To Continue Their Strike!
South African Airways (SAA) workers have vowed to continue their strike until the company meets their demands. Numsa members embarked on a strike on Friday...
‘This government is all about vilifying Teachers’ NUT LEADER CHRISTINE BLOWER...
OVER two thousand teachers held a ‘March for Education’ organised by the London Region National Union of Teachers in central London on Tuesday...
How Israel Militarised Gaza’s Aid!
BACKED by both the US and Israel, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was introduced by the Trump administration as a ‘humanitarian’ mechanism for food...
Stop the closure of Ealing maternity!
‘ONCE we know we are ready it will take just six weeks to close the maternity at Ealing,’ Pippa Nightingale, Head of Midwifery, Imperial...
Baghdad would have fallen without Iran’s Help – says Iranian ...
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that if it wasn’t for ‘Iran’s support (for Iraq) and presence’ in fighting the group calling...
90% Of The Bedouins Were Expelled By Israel
THE killing of two Bedouin youths in southern Israel by police over the last fortnight has shocked the nation’s Palestinian community and has brought...
Airport workers sacked, construction workers not paid! ‘Management callously sacking staff...
THE UNITE union, has accused Blue Handling at Stansted, which provides services to Ryanair, of cruelly sacking over a hundred workers instead of using...
US-NATO PLANNING MASSIVE AFGHAN WAR REINFORCEMENT! – 60,000 more troops demanded
The US and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase of troops for the war in Afghanistan, even in addition to the 17,000...
‘No Retreat, Forward Forward!’ – Gadaffi Urges Libyan People!
WE print excerpts of Colonel Gadaffi’s speech to the Libyan people made last Tuesday evening to rally them against the internal counter-revolutionary forces...
France Hit By Massive Strike Actions
WORKERS at Sanofi, which is France’s largest pharmaceutical company, went on strike on Tuesday following the announcement of 1,000 sackings as part of a...
Yemen Fury Over Tear Gas Attack On Protesters
Protests resumed in Yemen on Monday after a fruitless meeting with Gulf mediators and late night demonstrations turned violent in Sanaa. The streets of Sanaa...
General Strike In South Africa
BOTH COSATU (the Confederation of South African Trade Unions) and the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) have vowed to bring the country...
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...
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...
The Palestinian resistance stands firm on the battlefield
THE head of Hamas’ political bureau says the Palestinian resistance stands ‘firm on the battlefield’ despite two and a half months of Israeli war...
ISRAEL MUST EVACUATE MILITARY OUTPOSTS AND MINEFIELDS FROM THE OCCUPIED GOLAN...
ADALAH, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, and Al-Marsad Arab Human Rights Centre in the Golan Heights, sent a letter to...
Royal Mail Desperate To Break The Union!
ROYAL Mail staff across the whole of the London postal area walked out on strike again yesterday. It was the latest action in the capital...
‘THIS IS TORTURE BY ANY DEFINITION OF THE WORD’ – Shiner...
THE Blair government is challenging a High Court and Court of Appeal ruling that human rights law applies to the British army’s activities in...
NHS privatisation programme ‘still on track’
UNISON said on Monday that the NHS Future Forum’s report into the NHS Health and Social Care Bill, ‘shows a Bill beyond repair’. Even if...
JUNIOR DOCTORS’ ANGER REMAINS HIGH – ‘trade unions need to follow...
‘THE strike is going extremely well. Pickets have been well-attended and junior doctors remain united in their struggle against contract imposition.’ Speaking on the second...
‘Free Mahmoud Khalil’ – Camp4Palestine US embassy protest
‘FREE Mahmoud Khalil!’ demanded a lively demonstration organised by the Camp4Palestine outside the US Embassy in South London on Wednesday night. Addressing a rally outside...
Court Of Appeal To Hear Case For Torture Inquiry
A court hearing on a case about the torture of 142 Iraqis in UK detention opens this Friday, November 5th. Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) are...
BMA CHAIR TELLS GPs: INDUSTRIAL ACTION ILLEGAL!
ANGRY GPs on Saturday voted for action over underfunding and a workload that threatens patient safety and their own health. But at the start of...
South Korean General Strike Today!
A GENERAL strike takes place in South Korea today, Wednesday 30th November, with President Park Guen-hye receiving dozens of letters from trade unions all...
‘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...
Dissolve state controlled trade unions – Egyptian workers demand
AROUND 500 workers and labour activists congregated outside the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) on Monday to demand the federation’s dissolution. Protesters gathered at...
‘THIS ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT DOWN BEFORE IT BRINGS ALL...
THE Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection, Avi Gabay, has officially resigned in protest at the appointment of extremist politician Avigdor Lieberman as the regime’s...
Israel imposes travel ban on journalists!
Israel ‘indefensibly prevents dozens of Palestinian journalists from travelling as a punishment for their journalistic work or expression of their opinions,’ Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights...