UCU slams call for higher tuition fees
The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday (Thursday) that forcing students to pick up the bill for higher education was an astonishingly weak,...
95% of RCM members in north of Ireland vote for strike...
ALMOST 95% of RCM members in Northern Ireland who responded to a consultation about industrial action, including strike action, over pay conditions have voted...
RESISTANCE IS A LEGITIMATE RIGHT – affirms Haniya
‘I welcome you all on this great day’, said Ismail Haniya last Saturday, just before he was sworn in as Prime Minister of the...
STATE SCHOOLS ‘£3bn SAVINGS’ = MOST SAVAGE CUTS EVER!
STATE schools in England will have to find £3bn in ‘savings’ (ie savage cuts and sackings) by 2019-20, the public spending watchdog has said. Schools...
US Civil Liberties Groups Seeking To Prosecute Rumsfeld For War...
Donald Rumsfeld, who was forced to resign as US defence secretary last Wednesday, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo...
Israel demolishing homes of accused Palestinians
ISRAELI authorities on Thursday handed the families of two Palestinian suspects – whom Israel accused of being involved in an attack against Israeli soldiers...
Renewed genocide, continued military aggression, record settlement expansion!
THE Palestinian Government Communication Centre has issued its weekly Situation Report covering the key recent developments across occupied Palestine. This week’s report highlights Israel’s renewed...
Usa Is Handing Millions To The White Helmets!
THE US is handing millions of dollars of cash over to the White Helmets organisation, the Syrian and Russian coordination committees said on Tuesday. The...
President Sisi ‘played pivotal role’ in helping Fatah & Hamas overcoming...
EGYPTIAN President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi played a pivotal role in helping Fatah and Hamas overcome their differences to form a National Consensus Government in...
GMB calls for an independent inquiry into South East Coast Ambulance...
‘HEADS of the managers responsible must roll,’ the GMB union insisted yesterday after South East Coast Ambulance (SECAmb) Trust claimed that bullying allegations are...
Sub-Continent In Turmoil As Imran Khan Is Sentenced To A...
FORMER Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to a decade in prison by a special court in what is being termed as...
Cosatu Gives Its Fullest Support To Numsa Strikers
ZWELINZIMA Vavi, General Secretary of COSATU, addressed the FAWU (Food and Allied Workers Union) Eastern Cape Regional Congress last Friday. He said: ‘We meet at...
Palestinians Condemn Israeli ‘State Terrorism’ And War Crimes
President Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday condemned the ongoing Israeli air strikes in Palestinian civilian areas as ‘state terrorism’. The attacks claimed the lives of three...
”NEGOTIATE A FAIR CONTRACT!” – demands UFCW and its supporters
LABOUR activists, community allies and family members came out in force to support UFCW Local 1400 members at Saskatoon Co-op on December 20. They...
‘Recognise the State of Palestine!’ PLO Secretary General demands of EU...
THE PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) has called on the European Union (EU) to pressure Israel to stop escalatory unilateral measures in the occupied territories. In...
GREECE ERUPTS! – Thousands march against police killing
SOME 15,000 students, youths, workers and trade unionists marched on Sunday afternoon from Athens Polytechnic to the Greek police HQ in protest against the...
VOTE WRP ON DECEMBER 12! BREAK WITH THE EU! FORWARD TO...
THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...
INVESTIGATION INTO RAIL DEATHS ‘failure to protect staff over many years’
AN INVESTIGATION released last week into the deaths in July 2019 of two railworkers at Magram, a suburb of Port Talbot in Wales, has...
‘We will never let imperialist powers destroy Syria’ – say Syrian...
‘We’re here, the Syrian community, at this protest organised by Syrian Youth in Britain,’ Danny Makki, one of over 60 mainly young people outside...
COSATU celebrates 35 years of struggle
THE CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is celebrating 35 years of existence – and relentless struggle – since it was formed on...
‘WE WILL NOT RENEW THE TRUCE’ say Hamas and Islamic Jihad
The ongoing Israeli violations and extra-judicial killings have put the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the anti-occupation groups on opposite sides of the argument...
Syrian Democratic Council Sends Delegation To Damascus To Talk To Assad!
US BACKED militants in Syria have sent a delegation to the Syrian capital for talks with Syrian government officials. The so-called Syrian Democratic Council...
4 MILLION DISPLACED IRAQIS – international help ‘seriously inadequate’
The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, Amnesty International said in its report ‘Millions in Flight’, published yesterday. Help from the international...
‘STOP THE BULLYING, THE HARASSMENT AND THE CUTS’ – Postal workers...
‘royal Mail – not for sale! Mandy, Mandy, Mandy – Out Out Out!’ chanted over 200 postal workers as they lobbied the heavily-fortified...
STOP WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL CLOSING! – – we must all defend our...
WHITTINGTON Hospital is threatened with being reduced to a ‘local hospital’ through having its Accident and Emergency and other vital Departments closed, and...
Day 16 of strike action against academisation
TEACHERS and pupils at The John Roan School in Greenwich took their 16th day of strike action to stop its privatisation. The school is being...
‘MUCH OF THE PRESENT CRISIS IS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S OWN MAKING’...
The UK’s midwifery service is facing crisis point, the General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives warned the Blair government on Wednesday. ‘With midwifery...
ABBAS REJECTS KERRY’S SECURITY PLAN – while US ex-CIA chief says...
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas has rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along its border with Jordan, a Palestinian...
CHINESE STALINISTS PROP UP RAJAPAKSE – as India and US compete...
TAMILNET reports that the Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang last Saturday morning called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse at the Presidential residence House....
ISRAELI LEGAL SYSTEM A SMOKESCREEN FOR WAR CRIMES says PCHR
ISRAELI forces opened fire at farmers in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, locals said. Witnesses said that Israeli troops stationed at a watchtower fired...
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...
Poorest Families With Children Are Hit The Hardest By Tory Cuts!
POORER groups have been worst affected by changes to direct taxes, benefits and tax credits despite the Coalition’s promise that the rich would carry...
‘Cliques Brought In By The Occupiers Are Assassinating Iraq’s Scientists’
‘stray cliques brought in by the occupation’ are assassinating Iraq’s scientists and intellectuals, Dr KhUdayir al-Murshidi, professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Baghdad...
Israeli Election Preceded By Massive Attack On Gaza
‘JUST days away from its third General Election in less than a year, Israel launched another attack on the Gaza Strip which began with...
French Trade Unions March And Denounce Israel’s Atrocities Against The Palestinians...
AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...
SAS sent to Iraq to help evacuate stranded Britons
EARLY on Sunday 5th January, about 50 members of the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) were sent to Iraq ‘to help’ with the potential...
ESSENTIAL TO END ‘ESTRANGEMENT’ BETWEEN HAMAS AND FATAH – says Hamas...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on Friday called on the participants in the Paris meeting of the donor states to stand...
‘WE WILL DEFEAT THE ENEMIES’ – Gadaffi call to arms
TRIPOLI – Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi on Thursday evening appealed to people in Tripoli to capture and kill the ‘rats, street by street, house...
150 YEARS SINCE THE PARIS COMMUNE – the Bolshevik Party learned...
THE FRENCH trade unions held a mass demonstration on Saturday, 29 May, to mark the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune when, as Karl...
TORTURE, STATE EXECUTIONS AND ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENT! – the US human rights...
In the Americas many human rights have been recognised in law, if not always in practice, over the past 50 years, says the annual...
Bush Rails As Pelosi Visits Damascus
US President George W Bush on Tuesday warned that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria sent ‘mixed signals’ that undermined US-led efforts...
Amnesty Shocked At Mosul Civilian Casualties
THE scale of civilian deaths in Mosul raises questions over rules of engagement being used by US-led coalition and Iraqi forces, says Amnesty International. Commenting...
Public sector general strike in Portugal
Leaders of the Common Front of Public Administration Unions (Frente Comum) and the National Federation of Teachers (FENPROF) have welcomed the large turnout for...
Occupations and strikes are sweeping through Canada!
OCCUPATIONS, strike votes and rallies by health and care workers are sweeping Canada as trade unionists fight against low pay, unequal pay and privatisation...
END THE OCCUPATION! VICTORY TO PALESTINE! – demand 25,000 marchers
A MASS demonstration of around 25,000 people from all over Britain and other countries marched in support of Palestine from Downing Street through central...