Appeal Against Fox’s Refusal To Hold Public Inquiry Into Torture Of...
THE Court of Appeal will on Monday 18th July 2011 commence a three-day hearing to consider the lawfulness of the refusal by Liam Fox,...
NHS trade unions ‘strongly oppose local pay’
On Thursday, NHS trade unions declared they ‘strongly oppose’ local pay. NHS trade unions warned that a move to local pay for NHS staff would...
Israeli Settlers Invade Al-Aqsa Mosque
THE Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly warns the Israeli regime and illegal settlers against keeping up their provocations in the holy occupied city...
Greece quarantines Ritsona camp refugees
GREECE has quarantined a refugee camp in the country’s mainland – home to 2,300 people – for at least two weeks after 20 of...
‘Syrian Government Is Resolved To Restore Sovereignty Over The Whole National...
PRESIDENTIAL Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban asserted in Damascus yesterday that the Syrian Arab Army will strike wherever there is terrorism in...
Israeli Forces Storm Hebron Radio Station
ISRAELI forces on Tuesday morning stormed the offices of a Palestinian radio station in Hebron, where they destroyed equipment and ordered the station’s closure,...
‘BREATHTAKING ARROGANCE – PCS slams Tory Coalition’s cuts
The country’s largest civil service union, PCS, has condemned the suggestion that public servants should put forward ideas for spending cuts as ‘breathtakingly arrogant...
Amnesty indicts Israel’s Gaza war crimes!
NEW evidence showing that Israeli forces carried out war crimes in retaliation for the capture of an Israeli soldier was released on Wednesday in...
Electricity worker in Syria blown up by terrorist land mine
A SYRIAN Electricity Ministry official said on Thursday that a worker was killed and four others were injured in an explosion of a landmine...
FAILED ISRAELI GENERALS FAILED IN GEORGIA AS WELL says Hezbollah leader...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has spoken on the second anniversary of the end of the war of July-August 2006, or what Hezbollah...
‘Trump’s victory leads to outsourcing jobs’ – warns Sanders
PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump may be touting his deal with heating and ventilation systems manufacurer Carrier as a triumph for working-class Americans, but Vermont Sen....
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...
‘No return to robber baron capitalism’ – says TEEU leader Devoy
THE Irish State may need to contemplate becoming an employer of last resort to tackle unemployment, says the ICTU General Secretary David Begg. Addressing the...
New York workers win minimum wage rises
THREE increases in the minimum wage in New York took place on the last day of 2015, with workers in the fast food industry,...
Afl-Cio Supports Wage Act!
ON THURSDAY, members of Congress, led by Senator Patty Murray (Democrat-Washington) and Representative Bobby Scott (Democrat-Virginia), proposed the Workplace Action for a Growing Economy...
Hunt’s appointment – a declaration of war on the NHS!
THE appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State (SoS) for Health, is a declaration of war on the NHS. Hunt is a right winger...
Abbas Accepts Italy’s Offer To Host Peace Talks
President Mahmud Abbas on Friday accepted Italy’s offer to host Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, urged international commitment to the UN-adopted ‘roadmap’ peace plan, the Palestine...
‘It’s The People vs The Developers’ – declares powerful Peckham meeting
A PUBLIC meeting of over 200 Peckham residents on Thursday evening stepped up the fight against plans by developer Berkeley Homes to tear down...
Palestinians Banned From Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound!
ISRAELI police at dawn carried out a large-scale detention campaign in the Jerusalem area, detaining at least 18 Palestinians before releasing them after handing...
‘Action must be taken against the officers responsible for my...
THE Justice4Jean Campaign said on Friday that Coroner Michael White ‘has presided over a complete whitewash’, following the conclusion of the inquest into the...
Assad Denounces Imperialist Wars For ‘Redrawing The Map Of The World!’
President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday received Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Yong-ho and the accompanying delegation. Talks during...
SOUTH AFRICA: ‘electricity crisis worsens with every day that passes’
THE ‘Civil Society Conference on the Electricity Crisis’ took place last week in Johannesburg, South Africa and declared: ‘The electricity crisis calls for de-corporatisation...
NHS CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER MUST RESIGN NOW! – demands BMA consultants...
ANGER over the junior doctors training debacle saw hospital consultants on Wednesday demand the ‘immediate resignation’ of NHS Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Liam Donaldson. The...
Education cuts put kids’ education at risk
MANCHESTER City Council, local trade unions and community groups are coming together in Manchester today, Saturday 25 February, to highlight the devastating effects of...
RESTORE WORKERS LIVING STANDARDS – demand US trade unions after Obama’s...
THE American trade unions, who invested heavily in Barack Obama’s election campaign, have called on the newly-elected US president to give a voice to...
‘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...
UK leading the way in privatisation of modern war – as...
BRITAIN is set to designate Russia’s private security company Wagner Group as a ‘terrorist organisation’, according to a report in The Times of London...
RMT strike action to defend guards safety role
A FURTHER two days of strike action will take place on South Western Railway next week after RMT Guard members voted for industrial action...
Delivery riders unions are taking on gig economy employers
UNIONS representing delivery riders met at ITF (International Transport Federation) House in London to plan how to take on exploitative ‘gig economy’ employers, the...
Demonstrators call for trade unions to take action over Palestine!
A-QUARTER-of-a-million workers and youth, including whole families, marched and rallied in central London on Saturday demanding ‘stop the killing’ of Palestinians in Gaza. Demonsterators shouted...
DEATH TOLL PASSES 1,100 – in the Rana Plaza disaster
THE death toll from the collapse of the Dhaka building housing garment factories that workers were ordered back into, despite warnings, reached over 1,121...
NHS: all-year-round crisis!
THE NHS is in ‘all-year-round crisis’, Dr Rob Harwood, BMA consultants committee chair, said on Thursday. He was responding to new figures A&E attendances...
Afghan Refugees Claim Their Boat Was Rammed By Greek Coastguard!
THREE Afghan refugees who survived last Monday’s wreckage of their boat off the Greek island of Farmakonisi in the eastern Aegean, emphatically and repeatedly...
NAHT and NUT boycott of SATs to go ahead
Following a successful ballot of both unions’ leadership members, the NUT and NAHT executives have decided that the boycott of this year’s SATs will...
Police Spies Infiltrated 1,000 Groups
The public inquiry into the actions of police spies over several decades got underway on Monday and is expected to last for three years. Members...
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...
Thousands turn out for Palestinians massacred in Nablus
THOUSANDS of people have turned out for the funeral procession of eleven Palestinian men killed by Israeli military forces during a raid in the...
2000 TAMILS KILLED IN VANNI – SLA shells and bombs safety...
TamilNet reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) launched an indiscriminate artillery barrage into the newly announced ‘safety zone’ on Tuesday killing at least...
‘FAR FROM BEING THE PROTECTORS OF HUMAN RIGHTS’ – the role...
EVEN puppet politicians are complaining about the conduct of British troops in southern Iraq. The Basra newspaper Al-Manarah has interviewed National Assembly Deputy ...
RATP bus drivers strike against wage cutting!
BUS drivers in London have launched a fresh wave of strikes as their union Unite announced further strike action involving bus drivers employed by...
ISRAEL ISSUES STOP WORK ORDERS –to Palestinian wind and solar power
There is an underground bunker in the South Hebron Hills, camouflaged by bracken and heavy sacks, where a tiny Palestinian village is sheltering a...
‘THERE WILL BE AN EVEN WORSE DISASTER THAN THE MARCHIONESS’! –if...
THE Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), the Marchioness Action Group and others demonstrated on Tuesday against the lowering of age and training standards...
GLENCORE LOCKOUT REACHES 200 DAYS The longest lockout in Australia’s history
IN THE same week that the Glencore Lockout reached its 200th day last Friday, the nearly 200 locked out workers defiantly rejected an attempt...
France Is Rising Up!
FRANCE is fast approaching a revolutionary upheaval. In Paris the social crisis increases as the school youth begin to hit the streets in often impromptu...
West Bank General Strike after al-Mawasi massacre
WEST BANK Palestinians held a general strike yesterday in solidarity with people in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli attack on a ‘safe...