Supreme Court rejects Chagos Islanders’ Right to Return
CHAGOS Islanders were left disappointed and angry on Wednesday when the Supreme Court rejected their legal challenge to be allowed to return to their...
EIGHT YEARS SINCE RANA PLAZA COLLAPSE –‘the deadliest disaster in the...
ON THE eighth anniversary of Rana Plaza on Saturday 24 April, UNI Global Union and IndustriALL demanded fashion brands commit to a new legally-binding...
‘WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA’ – Chagos Islanders picket the...
over 150 Chagos Islanders, British trade unionists and youth held a mass picket outside the House of Lords on Monday. The picket was called to...
UNIVERSITY STAFF MARCH TODAY! • NO casualisation! • Defend pensions! •...
STRIKING University and College Union (UCU) lecturers and their supporters are marching through London today, assembling at 12 noon outside Universities UK HQ in...
I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem! We will not...
‘I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, and from besieged and heroic Gaza, and from...
Californian social workers strike!
MORE than 1,100 California social workers and eligibility workers conducted a three-day strike in Contra Costa County, then voted on Wednesday to extend their...
‘Israel must eliminate its stockpile of nuclear weapons’ – says...
A SENIOR Iranian diplomat has condemned the lack of progress in the implementation of the UN 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) resolution and the...
Trade unions must take action for 15% – demand NHS staff
‘WHAT DO we want? 15%! When do we want it? Now!’ rang out on the Nurses March through London on Saturday afternoon. More than 1,000...
‘Britain, Zionism and Jewish Resistance to Israel’
THE Palestine Expo event at London’s Olympia last weekend attracted thousands determined see the establishment of a Palestinian state. In addition to a host of...
Israel is ‘turning Palestinians into criminals in their own homes’ says...
ISRAEL’S latest military orders facilitating the illegal expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland are simply the latest in a string of Zionist attempts to...
BRITAIN’S DIRTY SECRET: UK aided CIA in extended programme of torture!
IN THE wake of recent revelations, it appears that agents from Britain’s intelligence community might finally be held accountable for their previously lesser-known involvement...
‘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...
Fatah leader Rjoub stresses the need for agreement with Hamas!
THE RULING Fatah party is going to run in the coming Palestinian legislative elections planned for May 22 in one list, today said Jibril...
Lecturers And Students March To Defend Pensions
‘OUR STUDENTS’ union supports our strike and supports our right to strike,’ Sean Rowland UCU committee member at City University said, speaking on Wednesday’s...
A call from Gaza to Labour Unions around the world
A CALL from the Workers of Gaza to Labour Unions Around the World: A Cry in the Face of Starvation and Genocide. ‘To all free...
‘We will not let our enemies vaccinate the people of Iran!’...
ran will only import coronavirus vaccines from countries whose products are certain to be safe, or use vaccines it produces itself, Major General Hossein...
‘Free Palestine–Free Al-Aqsa’ Demands 1,000-Strong Lobby Of Israeli Embassy
‘FREE, FREE, Palestine! Free Al-Aqsa!’ shouted participants in an over 1,000-strong lobby of the Israeli embassy in West London on Saturday evening. They also shouted...
‘OLMERT WILL EITHER RESIGN OR BE TOPPLED’ says Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah said in an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV broadcast on 19 January: ‘We will accept a transitional government that...
Save Elliot playing fields!
THE GMB trade union is staging a protest demonstration outside Wandsworth Town Hall from from 6.45pm on Wednesday 4th July 2012, where the borough’s...
Sri Lankan Army Grabs Tamil Villages!
THE Sri Lankan military on Sunday dismantled the Cheddiku’lam Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp and forcefully removed the inmates, without making any permanent...
‘Workforce burnout’ is on a large scale in the NHS –...
A CRITICAL report by MPs on the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee has warned of large scale ‘workforce burnout’ in the...
Families of 44 Marikana miners killed by police give evidence
ON SEPTEMBER 12 at the Farlam Commission into the deaths at Marikana, the families of the 44 people who died were telling their stories. The...
COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA
MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...
Daily Picket Starts At Chase Farm
The daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital to stop its closure kicked off last Monday with an extremely lively mass picket. From the moment the...
Drive To Recover Stolen Syrian Antiquities!
SYRIA’S Head of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, Mahmoud Hamoud, said that the Directorate is filing a file for stolen antiquities to...
Argentinian parliament narrowly passes huge cuts and privatisation plans!
The Argentinian parliament’s upper house narrowly passed a controversial bill key to President Javier Milei’s economic cuts and privatisation plans as thousands of protesters...
TWO MILLION BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS SACKED – 53.64 million face extreme...
MORE than two million garment workers have been sacked in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of fewer orders from the United...
Israeli troops are using Palestinian children as their human shields!
Film shot by Research Journalism Initiative and placed on YouTube, shows Israeli soldiers using Palestinian children as human shields in Balata refugee camp ...
CHARGE GERMANY WITH FACILITATING GENOCIDE BY ARMING ISRAEL – ICJ at...
THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...
‘KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITAL’ – mass picket issues warning...
‘KEEP your hands off our hospital! This hospital belongs to the public, not the government!’ Kaushalya Gussar declared at the mass picket of Ealing...
NO DEBATE ON ‘ACTION’ MOTION – at London Region Equity AGM
THE ACTORS’ union Equity is angry as Arts Council and local authority funding cuts lay waste to theatres and arts organisations across Britain and...
UCU To Ballot For Nationwide Industrial Action
UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU has warned of ‘chaos on campus’ as a nationwide strike is looming in response to a full frontal attack on...
25 YEARS SINCE THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE – Part 3: The TUC...
ON Saturday, March 16, the printers and their supporters replied to this attack on their picket line with a mass picket of 7,000. Again the...
Birmingham bin workers hold strong mega picket!
THE 400 STRIKING Birmingham bin workers held a ‘mega-picket’ on Friday 25th July, with trade unionists travelling from all over the country and arriving...
UCU Strike Actions At 10 Colleges
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at ten colleges will take strike action throughout May and June as part of a row...
Junior Doctors Must Reject Hunt’s New Contract!
ON 18th May the doctors union, the BMA, announced that it had agreed a new contract for junior doctors. The BMA had completed eight days...
India general strike brings country to a halt!
Workers across India stopped work on Thursday as part of the Bharat Bandh (general strike). They were protesting against labour reforms and economic cuts being...
Calls for a Council of Action and a workers dictatorship in...
‘TORIES out!’ ‘Resign!’ shouted angry Justice for Grenfell demonstrators on Wednesday night, lobbying the first meeting of Kensington and Chelsea Council since the fire...
Ten Palestinians Killed And 882 Injured By Israeli Forces In Gaza...
TEN Palestinians, including three children, were killed and 882 others have been injured by Israeli forces at the Gaza border during the past two...
Russia will expose Western sabotage of Nord Stream 2 – warns...
RUSSIA will determine the future prospects of interaction with Western countries on its own terms, when and if their leadership sobers up, Foreign Minister...
Police fire rubber bullets and teargas at Savar workers
At least 50 people were injured as garment workers clashed with police in Savar on the main road between Dhaka and Aricha in Bangladesh...
Huge increase in settlement expansion
The West Bank is witnessing an increasing acceleration in the pace of Israeli settlements, with the expansion of infrastructure projects and the construction of...
‘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...
Huge Clashes Between Swazi Workers And Feudal Regime!
RELATIONS between the workers and trade unions of Swaziland and the rule of the feudal monarchy has almost reached the point of civil...
Nasrallah celebrates Israel’s defeat in 2006!
AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...