Bedouins rally against Negev expulsions
PALESTINIAN Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev announced Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal to be put before the...
Palestine Action’s ‘Elbit Eight’ acquitted!
IN a significant development, a group of Palestine Action activists, known as the ‘Elbit Eight’, have been acquitted for their role in shutting down...
Ferry Crews Back Greek Farmers
Greek armed riot police repeatedly attacked with tear-gas and stun bombs 1,500 protesting farmers from Crete in the port of Piraeus...
General Strike In South Africa
BOTH COSATU (the Confederation of South African Trade Unions) and the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) have vowed to bring the country...
On the eighth anniversary of the September 21st Revolution thousands of...
ON the eighth anniversary of the September 21 Revolution, thousands of Yemeni people poured onto streets in the northwestern city of Sa’ada and other...
‘The workers are with us and that’s why we are going...
‘A GENERAL STRIKE to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!’ was the main demand on the 100,000-strong TUC march from the...
Stop defunding UNRWA – demands UN General Assembly chief
WITH increasing numbers of babies and children now dying of starvation in Gaza, Dennis Francis, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, has...
Almost A Third Of Fire Safety Inspectors Have Been Cut!
ALMOST a third of fire safety inspectors have been cut by this Tory government, a new report revealed, leaving buildings which are potential fire...
London Met Governors Must Resign Now!
HUNDREDS of students and lecturers demonstrated outside the meeting of the Board of Governors of London Metropolitan University on Tuesday night, demanding: ‘RESIGN NOW!’ Calling the demonstration,...
‘Only Syrians can choose their president’ Assad
PRESIDENTIAL elections should be ‘about what the consensus is among the Syrians’ President Bashar al-Assad said in an extensive interview to Italian TV channel...
Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Supports The Third Intifada
SAYYED Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, says a new Intifada (uprising) is the right choice for Palestinians to fight the...
‘TAMIL PEOPLE DEMAND VISIBLE PRESSURE ON COLOMBO’ – urge Norwegian Tamils
‘The defining moment for the International Community (IC) is right now, if it really wishes to establish its commitment to a principled approach towards...
‘Liberating The NHS’ – Bma Responds To Coalition Privatisation Plan
‘THIS response details the BMA’s position on the specific areas for reform contained in the consultation Liberating the NHS: Greater choice and control, building...
Amazon strike on Spain’s Three Kings gift-giving day
WORKERS at Amazon’s biggest warehouse in Spain began a two-day strike in Madrid last week – just ahead of a popular feast day –...
Major Privatisation Drive In North Of Ireland
UNISON has called on the Public Accounts Committee and the Assembly Health Committee to investigate the startling growth of private medicine funded out of...
This BMA ARM must decide on action to defend NHS! –...
THE health services in England and Wales and Northern Ireland are in massive crisis. In February, The Francis report on Mid Staffordshire hospital (MSH)...
NUMSA defends the Bolivarian revolution! – stop coup attempts in Venezuela
STOP coup attempts against Maduro in Venezuela! says National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) general secretary Irvin Jim. A statement issued on Sunday:...
Mass picket of Ealing Hospital
‘EALING Hospital is the beating heart of the whole community, leave our hospital alone!’ local resident Prempal Dhaliwal said on the mass picket of...
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...
Two Years Since Myanmar Military Coup
On the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the Global Unions – which represents 200 million workers worldwide – has called for...
Overthrow bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution! – demands WRP May Day...
‘IT IS our international duty to organise the overthrow of the capitalist system here in Britain,’ WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney told the 100-strong...
Modi denounces Indian farmers as ‘beggars’ – CITU accuses Modi...
‘THE CENTRE of Indian Trade Unions vehemently denounces the utterly humiliating and derogatory statement by the Prime Minister against the struggling farmers and their...
Glencore Locks Out Australian Workers
ON THE same day the global Paradise Papers scandal exposed the offshore tax havens and tax avoidance strategies of companies including multinational mining giant,...
Terrorists have gained from the ‘American Alliance’ says Syrian President Assad
PRESIDENT al-Assad has given an interview to the Chinese ‘PHOENIX’ TV Channel The following are excerpts from the interview: Question: You...
Judge thwarts Trump’s federal mass sackings
A US federal judge has extended her freeze on President Donald Trump’s plan for mass job cuts and reorganisations at 22 federal agencies until...
‘BUSH IS ELIMINATING THE GAINS OF ORGANISED LABOUR’ – warns Hoffa
In a Labor Day statement last Saturday the US Teamsters Union President Jim Hoffa stressed that workers have to rely on themselves and their...
US McDonald’s workers strike for $15 an hour
McDonald’s cooks and cashiers in 16 cities went on strike last Wednesday, the day before the company’s annual shareholders meeting, to demand the burger...
PROTECT OUR TRAINING, PROTECT OUR NHS! – Doctors march against MTAS
Over 12,000 junior doctors and supporters, including medical students, registrars and a number of consultants, marched through central London last Saturday against government ‘reforms’...
‘Deafening Silence’ Over Sri Lankan Massacres Condemned
THE ‘Elders’, an independent group of eminent global leaders, cautioned on Friday that ‘the international response to Sri Lanka’s worrying approach to human rights,...
We are going to the Security Council to seek full UN...
THE PLO will in September approach the UN Security Council to seek full membership in the global body, President Mahmud Abbas said on Wednesday. ‘We...
‘We will win!’ says Families and Friends Campaign on march in...
‘WE believe that we will win! We believe that we will win!’ chanted one thousand marchers on the United Families and Friends March from...
North of Ireland health workers demand £2,000 wage rise
HEALTH staff in Unison across the north of Ireland – including nurses, paramedics, cleaners, domestics and porters – are urging the UK government to...
Sinn Fein – Waiting For UK To Hand Back The North!
By Jim Graham FOR Marxists, Irish liberation and Irish Freedom have always been a burning issue, since the period of the industrial revolution when the...
Russia prevented ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ says Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin ‘prevented a humanitarian catastrophe when he launched the special operation in Ukraine,’ speaker of the Russian State Duma (lower parliament...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION – PLO says UN must act
THE Palestinian leadership agreed on Saturday to call on the UN Security Council for an urgent meeting on Israel’s settlement expansion on Palestinian land. The...
‘Every square inch of Palestine must be liberated!’
‘EVERY square inch of Palestine must be liberated,’ Palestinian born in Lebanon Sandra Wafta told News Line on Sunday as hundreds of people lined...
‘THERE’S GOT TO BE DIRECT ACTION TO SAVE OUR HOSPITALS’ –...
UP TO 5,000 workers and local residents marched in west London against the closures of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals on Saturday. The angry demonstration...
Ramaphosa is under fire for sacking twenty-two farm workers!
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa might soon find himself embroiled in a Labour Court battle as Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) is set to take...
Israel Guilty Of Crimes Against Humanity In Gaza
The latest health report from the Lancet considers Israel guilty of ‘crimes against humanity’ for the deaths of pregnant women and their babies at...
WHOLE GAZA NEIGHBOURHOODS TURNED INTO RUBBLE – by Israel’s 3-week war
Six months after Israel launched its three-week military operation in Gaza on December 27 2008, Gazans still cannot rebuild their lives, a new...
Greek schoolchildren and students rally against education cuts
SCHOOLCHILDREN and students across Greece protested on Monday against cutbacks to the education sector, and the ‘intensification of performance evaluation’ which is part of...
China ready to forge closer links with Russia – ...
CHINESE President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China is ready to work with Russia to forge a closer partnership in energy cooperation. Energy cooperation...
Miners dig in at Chile’s Collahuasi strike
THE copper-mining strike by 1,551 members of Sindicato de los Trabajadores de Collahuasi in Chile enters its second week today, with miners emboldened by...
‘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...
Powerful international reaction to ICJ ruling that Israeli occupation is illegal!
International reaction has poured in since last Friday’s ruling by the top United Nations court that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory...