Bangladesh garment workers’ unions demand massive increase in minimum wage!
BANGLADESH garment workers’ organisations will picket the wage board office in Dhaka on August 5th to demand Tk 16,000 as the minimum monthly wage...
Mirror Journalists Fight – 200 ‘neanderthal Sackings’
By Save the Mirror Campaign Group TRINITY Mirror’s Chief Executive Sly Bailey is planning to axe a further 200 editorial staff from The Mirror, Sunday...
‘Two-thirds of firefighters will face the sack in their late 50s!’
WEDNESDAY’S four-hour strike by firefighters in England and Wales was an enormous success, with pickets and demonstrations outside fire stations and in town and...
Greek Workers Fight Moves To New Stage
TENS of thousands of Greek workers, students and youth took part in strike rallies last Friday throughout Greece against the ‘socialist’ government’s austerity measures....
Israel encourages coronavirus outbreak amongst Palestinian prisoners!
PALESTINIAN prisoners have again rejected their meals in protest against the Israeli Prison Service’s plans to stop supplying 140 products – including cleaning products...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreading across Gaza Strip – warns The Lancet
A NEW British medical study has warned of a dangerous spread of diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria across the Gaza Strip, as the ongoing...
Gaza’s Power Plant Shut Down
The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant shut down due to a lack of fuel on Saturday, Kan’an ’Ubaid, the deputy chair of the Palestinian...
US teachers, farmers and health workers fighting for pay, jobs and...
Educators in Dublin, California were on strike on Tuesday after no deal was made between the teachers union and the school district on Monday...
Israeli-Palestinian Talks Postponed Until October
INDIRECT talks between Palestinian and Israeli officials will continue in the last week of October, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday. Izzat al-Rishaq said...
US aircraft carrier group to enter South China Sea!
THE US has dispatched an aircraft carrier group to the South China Sea, in a move that is set to escalate tensions after China...
GUL DETERMINED TO FIGHT THE PKK IN NORTHERN IRAQ – has...
THE Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Wednesday that his country is determined to fight against ‘PKK terrorists’ operating out of northern Iraq. He urged...
‘Oval Quarter’ residents are very angry with profiteer developers!
Residents living on the Myatts Field North PFI (Private Finance Initiative) ‘regeneration’ scheme, situated between Brixton and the Oval in south west London...
‘I WANT NO ONE TO SLEEP AT NIGHT’ – Olmert tells...
USING the release of the Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit as pretext, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed his occupation forces to reoccupy the...
‘Teachers Are Exhausted By Ofsted And Hours Of Pointless Paperwork!’
TEACHERS are suffering from ‘ludicrous levels of workload pressure’ teachers unions have warned. They were responding to a ‘bitterly disapointing’ new Tory government ‘Workload Challenge...
‘Go to the Gaza strip to take part in the battle...
MARWAN AL-BARGHOUTHI, the Fatah leader imprisoned in Israel, called on the Palestinian leaders ‘to go to the Gaza Strip in order to take part...
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...
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...
10,000 Rohingya shelters destroyed by fire in Bangladesh camp!
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said that it is ‘deeply saddened at the loss of life and immense suffering caused’ by Monday’s massive fire...
‘Mistreatment, abuse, and deliberate extortion’ at the Rafah crossing!
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned the treatment of Palestinians by Israeli forces at the Rafah border crossing, calling it collective punishment and a...
‘LEBANESE PRISONERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE’ – says Hezbollah
SHEIKH Na’im Qasim, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, told a Beirut rally marking the ‘29th anniversary of the arrest of Samir al-Qintar’ in Israel and...
5th Anniversary of Trincomalee students’ execution
RELATIVES of the five Trincomalee students, who were shot dead execution-style by Sri Lanka soldiers on January 2nd 2006, are remembering the fifth anniversary...
Summer strikes at Isle of Wight ferries and Heathrow – RMT’s...
ALL of the Isle of Wight’s Southampton-to-Cowes ferries will shut down during summer holidays as 120 workers take strike action against Red Funnel and...
‘NO MORE GAMES WITH NHS’ – says BMA as RCM members...
MIDWIVES and doctors unions have responded to Labour leader Miliband’s pledge to find ways to increase NHS funding. Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair said:...
‘THE CHIEF SUSPECT HAS BECOME THE CHIEF INVESTIGATOR’ – MP Tom...
LABOUR MP TOM WATSON made an intervention of some interest in the emergency debate on the News International phone hacking scandal in the House...
The Israeli Cabinet approves the legalisation of settlements
THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...
‘A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR HARD WORKING AUSTRALIANS’ – ACTU...
Last Thursday’s pay rise for minimum award wage workers, the lowest in ten years, is below the rate of inflation and means the living...
‘FRY CRIMINALS’ – demand Orangefest leaders
Orangefest’s family fun dissolved into political Orange fury as demonstration speakers blasted homosexuals, the Irish language and even called for volunteers to execute criminals...
UN condemns US’ mass expulsions of Haitian migrants
THE United Nations has condemned the US’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants who have been camped in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del...
UK teachers longest hours!
TEACHERS in the UK work ‘some of the longest hours in the world’ a study of 35 countries in the world has found, with...
Investigation Into Israeli War Crimes To Begin
AT LONG last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that ‘all the statutory criteria...
900,000 still working on zero-hour contracts
THE TUC has reported: ‘The Office of National Statistics (ONS) release this week on the number of zero-hours contracts showed that there has a been...
Massive nationwide industrial action in Germany!
Massive nationwide industrial action paralysed air and rail travel across Germany yesterday and Thursday as striking workers walked off the job to demand better...
Irish support for the Filton 24 hunger strikers
The first part of this article is a solidarity statement to the six Filton 24 hunger strikers from Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, who in April 1969...
Elderly and disabled Gazans starving to death!
On a daily basis, the death toll among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly the elderly, is increasing due to hunger, malnutrition, and lack...
The Lesson From The NHS Logistics Betrayal
NHS Logistics was taken over by DHL on 1 October – the Blair/Brown government’s first privatisation of an NHS department so far. The supplier of...
End all arms sales to Israel NOW! – demands Palestinian Youth...
There was a demonstration of over 500 people outside the Foreign Office in Westminster on Friday evening organised by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)...
Marikana platinum miners ready to strike for a year!
MORE strife is looming at South Africa’s Marikana platinum mines, as members of Amcu (the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union) warned Lonmin’s new...
‘We will stop the closure at Chase Farm’ – states second...
‘We’re determined to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments, we will occupy if they move to close them,’...
‘WE WON’T LET YOU SELL OUR JOBS’ – civil servants tell...
OVER 200 civil servants gave a standing ovation to colleague Sheila Coote at a lunchtime rally in Westminster last Friday, as she vowed to...
‘EVERYTHING RELATED TO THE FUTURE OF SYRIA IS A 100% ISSUE...
‘EVERYTHING related to the destiny and future of Syria is a 100% Syrian issue. The unity of Syrian territory is self-evident and not up...
Bush, Blair And Ahern Welcome Ira Statement
The IRA announced the end of the armed struggle against British imperialism in a statement issued on Thursday. The statement said: ‘The leadership of...
Over 500 on 26th annual United Families and Friends march
THERE were 500 demonstrators on Saturday’s annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street, where a petition was...
Israel initiates a military plan to seize 25% of Gaza as...
The Israeli forces have initiated a military plan to capture and control 25 per cent of Gaza, calling it the buffer zone that it...
National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign launched
OVER 2000 workers rallied in San Francisco for the kickoff of the ‘National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign’ on February 15. Chanting ‘Si...
Bessemer, Alabama workers fighting to unionise Amazon
STUART Appelbaum president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has spoken about the campaign to unionise Amazon workers. ‘In Bessemer, Alabama, a...