Deep Public Service Cuts Are Harming Australian Workers!
OUTGOING Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson is right to highlight the impact deep public service cuts are having on the bureaucracy’s ability to do its...
Iran to target Israeli nuclear centres if it is attacked!
An IRGC official has issued a stern warning that Israel will face immediate reciprocal attacks on its nuclear centres if it targets Iran’s nuclear...
Occupation Contracted Out Torture To Iraqi Puppets
THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...
Hamas-Fatah agree to immediate ceasefire
ISLAMIC Jihad official Da’ud Shihab in a press conference in Gaza on Sunday, held by the Higher Follow-Up Committee of the National and Islamic...
South African Unions Fight For Democratic Rights In Swaziland
The Swaziland government has banned a peaceful protest planned by the trade union movement for 12-14 April. South African trade unions are supporting Swaziland workers. The...
‘If Spirit Alone Won Battles’
THE DIARY OF JOHN LOWE The 1984-1985 Miners’ Strike in Nottinghamshire edited by John Symcox These diary excerpts are a tribute to the heroic and determined...
Ex-President Zuma barred from standing for SA Parliament
South Africa’s highest court has barred former President Jacob Zuma from running for parliament in next week’s general election. The Constitutional Court ruled on Monday...
FREE HANA SHALABI NOW! – joint statement by rights groups and...
A JOINT Statement by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al-Haq begins with a statement by Hana Shalabi. ‘To...
STATES MUST REAFFIRM EVERYONE’S RIGHT TO ASYLUM – urges Amnesty International
In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International called on states to...
‘We need the TUC to organise a general strike’
CIVIL servants called for more action during their national Budget Day strike on Wednesday. PCS members at a lively picket outside the National Portrait...
France Determined To Arm The ‘Syrian National Coalition’
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that the composition of a UN group to be assembled to investigate the alleged use of...
US aggressors should know that Venezuela is not a colony
‘VENEZUELA is not a colony and any US aggression will be met with united regional response,’ President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday. Tensions are escalating...
FATIGUE ENDANGERING CREWS AND THE ENVIRONMENT – warns the Maritime Union...
A NEW report from Cardiff University’s Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology has added to the portrait of a maritime industry where fatigue...
‘We Must Have Council Housing’
TENANTS who attended this week’s council housing inquiry at parliament say a programme of new council house building must begin immediately and projects to...
Wal-Mart Plans To Slash Health Benefits
America’s campaign to change supermarket giant Wal-Mart, WakeUpWalMart.com, has released copies of Wal-Mart’s new health care benefits plan for current part-time employees and full-time...
New Hampshire SEIU endorses Bernie Sanders for President!
The New Hampshire chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president. In doing so, the Granite...
‘This is very much a fight for the NHS’ – Homerton...
On the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital by Westminster Bridge in Central London, Ada Zembrzycka, a junior doctor and anaesthetic trainee, told News...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘History is a tremendous...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 4. Preface to our round trip AT the Stockholm Convention of the Social-Democratic Party, some...
‘THERE MUST BE ACTION TO SMASH THE BILL! –doctors, medical students...
OVER 2,000 consultants, GPs, medical students and their supporters marched from the British Medical Association head office, Tavistock Square to Wednesday evening’s TUC rally...
1,000 Teachers, Parents And Supporters March On Department For Education
ONE thousand teachers, parents and supporters marched through Westminster in the cold and rain, led by the National Education Union, (NEU) to demand that...
REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION DEVELOPING IN ITALY! – as Cossiga calls to put...
‘THE forces of law and order should massacre the demonstrators without pity’ was the ruling class response from former Italian Prime Minister and president...
GAZA IS A BIG PRISON – says a former detainee
THE Palestinian Authority civil affairs minister said late Tuesday that Israel will return the bodies of 91 Palestinians buried in an Israeli cemetery on...
ABBAS HAD ‘BAD ADVICE’ OVER GOLDSTONE REPORT – says Sha’ath
Those who advised Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to defer the Goldstone report into war crimes in Gaza gave him bad advice, Fatah Central Committee...
7,000 NY nurses strike against ‘dangerous understaffing’
A STRIKE by more than 7,000 nurses at two major New York City hospitals began at 6.00am on Monday after talks aimed at averting...
Nut Condemns Academies’ Attack On State Education
The National Union of Teachers says the involvement of private sector companies in education over recent years ‘is of grave concern’. It stresses that the...
‘13 Local Authorities Remain 20% Below Their Targeted Fundings!’
‘IT IS concerning that the Department of Health is not getting local authorities to their target funding allocations for public health quickly enough,’ says...
HOME CARE CRISIS! Vulnerable and elderly are being left to...
A NEW report has exposed the growing homecare crisis where shorter and shorter visits mean that homecare workers cannot provide proper care, leaving the...
‘Few believe in two-state solution’ – says Palestinian leader Saeb Erekat
SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, said in a statement on the occasion of Palestine’s Independence Day on Sunday, that only...
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...
Nurses Urge All Out With The Junior Doctors! Adding ‘It’s...
‘NURSES should come on a half day strike with the junior doctors,’ Jenny a student occupational therapist told a mass rally opposite Downing Street...
Shrimp farming in Bangladesh for $0.83 a day!
EVIDENCE of human rights and labour abuses taking place in the Bangladesh Shrimp industry is revealed in a report released on Thursday by the...
THEIR MORALS AND OURS ‘The welfare of the revolution – that...
YET when we look around us now, what is there to see but a world where the epoch-making events of just a year ago...
Bangladesh garment workers slam minimum wage as a ‘cruel joke’
Garment workers’ unions in Bangladesh have rejected an increase in the minimum wage, describing it as a ‘cruel joke’ and a ‘slap on the...
Nasrallah Calls For National Unity Government In Lebanon
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has criticised the visit of British Premier Tony Blair to Lebanon in a recorded interview broadcast by Al Jazeera TV...
Israel Wants To Annexe Massive Bloc Of West Bank Settlements
ISRAEL has been organising with the US behind the Palestinians’ backs, over a ‘land swap’ deal, the Israeli media revealed last Wednesday. Israel has asked...
‘KEEP OUR LOCAL SURGERY OPEN’ –demand Camden Road patients
PATIENTS faced with the closure of their local Camden Road GP surgery overcame bureaucratic attempts to bar them from attending an invitation-only meeting with...
1,000 schools providing free school meals are facing the biggest cuts!
NEW research by NUT and the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) using DfE data shows that, under current government school funding policy, the 1,000...
Syria demands the withdrawal of US occupation forces! – who have...
SYRIA has renewed its call for the withdrawal of US forces from the energy-rich northeastern part of the country, saying the occupation troops and...
Deadly State Violence Against Children Exposed
A MANUAL obtained by a children’s rights charity under Freedom of Information laws reveals details of extremely violent restraint and so-called distraction techniques for...
Child poverty & food bank use rises!
A SURVEY of UK social workers by the Child Poverty Action Group, Child Welfare Inequalities Project and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services,...
Israel systematically squeezing Palestinians out of Jordan Valley – says PMC
Without fanfare, but with determination, Israel is systematically, militarily and economically squeezing Palestinians out of the Jordan Valley, expanding colonial Jewish settlement in the...
Tamil Tigers Repulse Sri Lankan Ground Attack
LIBERATION Tigers repulsed a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) ground operation towards the Northern Forward Defence Line (FDL) positions between Ki’laali and Mukamaalai in...
SA trade unions occupy council offices in Northern Cape demanding proper...
THE SOUTH African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Workers Union (IMATU) occupied the Sol Plaatje council chambers last...
NHS Direct Action fighting NHS privatisation
ON WEDNESDAY morning, at 9.00am, 15 NHS Direct Action and UK Uncut activists visited 2020health to protest against the think-tank’s role in lobbying...
MILIBAND SUPPORTS BOYCOTT OF COMMONWEALTH HEADS SUMMIT says BTF
MORE than 2,000 Tamils and their supporters marched from Embankment to Downing Street on Saturday afternoon. They demanded the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference planned...