Israeli army attacks Syrian army positions near Golan Heights! –while Japan...
THE Government of Japan has signed a contribution agreement worth $22.4 million with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees...
LOW WAGES WILL LEAD TO SOCIAL AND RACIAL TENSIONS – Irish...
THE Irish trade union movement has been discussing the dangers that a low rate minimum wage, if not corrected, will lead to it being...
NATO Patriot missiles–‘harbingers of a war on Syria’
THE Turkish privately-owned, mass-circulation daily Hurriyet, on 23 November, discussed the issue ‘Are the Patriots Harbingers of a War in Syria?’ It stated: ‘Turkey first...
Hezbollah Slams Delay Of National Unity Government As ‘Sectarian Incitement’
HEZBOLLAH has slammed the delay in forming a new government in Lebanon, as ‘sectarian incitement’. Following a Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc meeting at the...
Chinese Foreign Ministry Calls For Direct Moscow-Kiev Talks
The international community should create conditions for the resumption of direct talks between Moscow and Kiev, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lin Jian said on...
NO JOBS FOR STUDENTS! – NUS warns of ‘disastrous’ summer
THE National Union of Students (NUS) has expressed alarm at the rapid rise in youth unemployment, warning that the chances of students getting summer...
FBU Angry Over Police Attack On Black Firefighter!
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has welcomed the news that three Metropolitan Police officers are to face disciplinary proceedings following a racially motivated attack...
Britain aiding King Hamad drive to crush Bahraini democracy!
THE unholy alliance between Prime Minister Theresa May and the King of Bahrain was cemented last Wednesday when she met King Hamad bin...
10,000 workers and youth besiege Downing Street demanding banning of all...
OVER 10,000 workers, students and youth attended a protest rally outside Downing Street on Tuesday night with banners, placards and Palestinian flags. They demanded the...
‘Damage To The NHS Is Profound And Intense’ Says The Bma...
ONE year on from the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act, the BMA has launched a new campaign, warning that ‘the damage...
Over 180 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza!
Marking Saturday’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United States officials have yet again failed to condemn the Israeli regime for...
UN Security Council Has Failed The Syrian
SYRIA’S UN ambassador says the UN Security Council has failed the Palestinian and Syrian people by not enforcing its resolutions on the Israeli occupation...
I‘LL GO TO JAIL’ – Rather than pay Household Tax
THE Dublin Trades Council has declared that it is not the job of local authority workers to knock on doors in pursuit of the...
‘OCCUPY EALING HOSPITAL! KICK OUT THE COALITION!’– shout 10,000 workers...
‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital – Occupy Now!’ and ‘No Cuts, No Closures – Kick this Government Out!’, were the slogans that dominated the march of...
‘NO MORE PAY CUTS!’ – demands SIPTU
SIPTU President, Jack O’ Connor, last Friday condemned a call by the Central Bank for more pay cuts across the economy. He said the...
Jail corporate killers – demand bereaved families
‘STOP the employers getting away with murder,’ angry bereaved relatives said on their Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) lobby of Parliament on Tuesday. Hilda Palmer...
‘Shoot to kill first and ask questions later’–if the target is...
IN THE span of less than 25 hours, two shooting incidents took place in two areas in the occupied West Bank. In both incidents,...
Palestinians Determined To Declare Their State
Palestinian leaders, determined to proclaim their state during the coming year, are readying an arsenal of diplomatic alternatives to negotiations with Israel, which are...
Walmart Workers Continuing With Their Fight!
AMERICAN trade unions are claiming that the giant Walmart company is retaliating against its workers for the leading role they have played in the...
Israeli jeeps and bulldozers attack Gaza
A FLEET of Israeli bulldozers and military vehicles crossed the border fence into the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday and flattened private Palestinian...
‘Teamster Women Are Going To Take Back America’
TEAMSTERS General President Jim Hoffa addressed the hundreds of Teamster women gathered in New York City on Saturday for the second day of the...
CIA having nightmares about US failure in war on Syria
THE war in Syria poses the greatest threat to US security because of the risk of the government falling and the country becoming a...
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...
Yemeni Forces Launch Missile Attack On Saudi Airbase
YEMENI forces successfully launched a missile attack on the airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia. The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces confirmed that army troops and allied...
Israel Stepping Up Mass Arrests Campaign
ISRAEL plans to step up arrests of suspected militants in the occupied West Bank to prevent a rising tide of low-intensity conflict and civil...
Unilever Workers Defending Their Pension
Last Tuesday Unilever workers from all over the country descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the companies ending of their final salary pension...
The Palestinian resistance stands firm on the battlefield
THE head of Hamas’ political bureau says the Palestinian resistance stands ‘firm on the battlefield’ despite two and a half months of Israeli war...
HEZBOLLAH UPHOLDS ARAB NATIONAL SECURITY says Sayyed Safieddine!
HEAD of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has lashed out at Saudi claims that the Lebanese Resistance movement ‘risks Arab national security’. Speaking at...
Irish state commemorates Roger Casement
ON April 21, Ireland held a State ceremony commemorating 100 years since Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand in Kerry as...
Over 40,000 nurses have quit the NHS in the past year...
A RECORD over 40,000 nurses have quit the NHS in the past year – one in nine of the workforce, an analysis by the...
Israel Seeking The Widest Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestinians
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly condemned the Israeli forces’ dismantling of two educational caravans in Ibziq village, in the northern...
Maternity At Breaking Point!
MATERNITY services are overworked, understaffed and struggling to cope, a senior midwives survey shows. Maternity unit closures, budget and training cuts and reduced services are...
‘WE ARE THE BEDROCK OF THE NHS’ – declares doctors’ conference
Over 400 family doctor delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) GPs conference on Thursday expressed their anger and voted no confidence in the...
ABBAS CELEBRATES 26th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PALESTINIAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE –and...
ON Saturday 15th November, the 26th anniversary of the Palestinian ‘declaration of independence’, and 10th Anniversary of the death of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat,...
Deal Macron’s pension plans a massive blow this May Day! –...
FRENCH trade union federation the CGT is calling ‘on the entire world of work to make May Day a powerful day of demonstration to...
Prison privateer’s pay offer ‘a farcical lucky dip’
TRADE union Unite, the UK and Ireland’s biggest union, has branded a pay ‘offer’ to its 500 members employed by the company Amey undertaking...
RESISTANCE, REBIRTH AND REVOLUTION – the fifth Congress of the United...
THE FIFTH Congress of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), is taking place in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Delegates filled the largest theatre...
Gadaffi – Swinging To The Right
THE swing to the right by the Libyan regime, led by Colonel Gadaffi, is now taking place at breakneck speed. The man who once...
Suffolk Council Rush To Sell Off Fire Control Centre
‘Without any prior public consultation, Suffolk county councillors have rushed through plans to sell-off the Ipswich fire control centre and get emergency fire calls...
‘VICTORY IS CLOSE!’ – say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
‘VICTORY is close now,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a meeting of more than 200 trade unionists and youth on Sunday in...
SA trade unions battle for inflation-beating pay increases for 1.2m
THE LABOUR Court in Johannesburg will be the setting for South Africa’s trade unions and the African National Congress (ANC) government to fight it...
25 YEARS SINCE ‘BLACK JULY’ – Tamil vigils in London and...
A candlelight vigil organised by the British Tamils Forum in association with the Tamil Councillors Association was held on Wednesday, 23 July, between 8pm...
COSATU organising general strike action against labour broking
‘We are concluding the year with greater levels of unity and cohesion in our ranks, which will help us confront the daunting challenges of...
SHUT DOWN WEST COAST PORTS! says Occupy Oakland
A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...
‘WE WILL NOT RENEW THE TRUCE’ say Hamas and Islamic Jihad
The ongoing Israeli violations and extra-judicial killings have put the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the anti-occupation groups on opposite sides of the argument...