Pna Being Bullied To Prevent Hamas Standing
The Palestinian National Authority is being bullied into choosing between democracy or empty coffers, the Palestine Media Center (PMC) says. The PMC said on Tuesday:...
Seven Mineworkers Die At Driefontein Mine
AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa has criticised the Mineral Resources Department after the deaths of seven mineworkers at Sibanye-Stillwater’s mine in Driefontein. He said on Saturday...
Houston Janitors Condemn Mounted Police Attack
Following on the heels of two days of record-breaking acts of non-violent civil disobedience in Houston, last Friday janitors and their supporters spoke out...
LEGAL AID BEING DESTROYED – Lawyers rally to defend ‘vital pillar...
LAWYERS have vowed to fight government plans that they warn will destroy the legal aid system. Hundreds of lawyers staged a mass lobby outside...
Palestinian Children Being Held In Solitary Confinement
BY ADRI NIEUWHOF ISRAEL has held six Palestinian boys from Nablus in solitary confinement in al-Jalame detention centre near Haifa, writes Defence for Children...
Hundreds of burns victims in Gaza–and only one operating theatre!
LYING on his bed in a Gaza hospital, three-year-old Yamin now sees the world from behind burns which have disfigured him for life. The tiny...
US commander dismissed after requesting help –137 sailors aboard aircraft carrier...
DEMOCRATIC lawmakers have formally protested against the Navy’s dismissal of the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, who requested urgent aid to...
The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...
A STATEMENT by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office Bearers on Sunday outlined the union’s views ‘on the state of...
More than half a million Ukrainian troops killed last year
Ukrainian forces lost 593,410 troops over the course of 2024, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry’s weekly briefings over the year indicate...
Fort Worth Teamsters Strike
TEAMSTERS Local Union 767 Members at Allied Waste Services, Fort Worth, Texas have been on strike since December 18th 2006. They have taken action...
‘We as Syrians will never accept that Syria become a western...
‘SYRIA won’t be a puppet state for the West,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview with ‘Paris Match’ Magazine. The interviewer began by...
Qurei Rejects Gaza ‘State’
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei, also known as Abu-Ala, last Saturday said that an independent and sovereign Palestinian state will inevitably be established on...
Medicine company workers fury over Iraq police attack
The Iraqi resistance is dealing daily blows against the US-UK led occupiers as it steps up its attacks. Last Tuesday fighters attacked with three mortars a...
‘Demand the countries of the world review their recognition of the...
PRESIDENT ABBAS addressed the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday in Istanbul. ‘We are here today, and behind us all our...
Sri Lankan Army Preparing For A Major Offensive
Thousands have been displaced in a fresh Sri Lankan offensive, reported the Tamilnet website on Thursday. The head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s...
One in four women prisoners self-harm in a year!
AS MANY as one in four women prisoners in England and Wales self-harm every year, and female prisoners are four times more likely to...
NHS White Paper means ‘rapid and drastic removal of care!’
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has failed the first test of his promise to let GPs lead NHS reforms, doctors say. Lansley has backed plans to...
New York’s Lincoln centre must cancel Israeli-sponsored show
More than 80 theatre artists and 12 Palestine-based theatre and performance groups are demanding that New York’s Lincoln Centre cancel upcoming Israeli government-sponsored performances...
‘Between the Fence and a Hard Place’ Israeli-imposed restrictions strangling Gaza
‘Over the past ten years, the Israeli military has gradually expanded restrictions on access to farmland on the Gaza side of the “Green Line”,...
ISRAEL ‘COMMITTING CRIMES AND TERROR’ – against Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli jets fired missiles at a car in Gaza City on Saturday night, killing three people, said the Israeli army. It claimed at least...
WE WILL FIGHT WAGE CUTS IN 2008 say NHS unions –...
THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over one million health workers have...
BUCHNER, BRENTON AND REVOLUTION! – The revolutionary role of Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn By Howard Brenton Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside Until 21 August, Tickets: £5 - £35 IT’S the little emphases throughout Howard Brenton’s new play at the Globe that...
‘Massacres by Israeli army indicate plan to empty land and eliminate...
‘THE MASSACRES that are being committed on the ground by the Israeli army indicates that there is a plan being implemented at an unprecedented...
Greek Students And Teachers Are Determined To Win
TENS of thousands of students took part in two days of action in Greece last Wednesday and Thursday against the government’s proposed Higher Education...
Arab World Condemns Iraq Partition Plan
The Egyptian People’s Assembly Arab Affairs Committee has denounced the US Congress resolution to divide Iraq into three states on religious and ethnic bases. The...
Global unemployment is expected to rise in 2024
GLOBAL unemployment will rise in 2024 and growing inequalities and stagnant productivity are causes for concern, according to the ILO’s World Employment and Social...
‘IRAN HAS PROVEN THAT IT IS HIGHLY CAPABLE OF RESISTING AGGRESSION’...
THE ex-Iranian president and current chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has spoken up about the crisis that the US is seeking...
Teachers Condemning Tory Poverty Policies!
TEACHERS’ unions and charities joined the condemnation of the Tory policies that have driven over two million children into poverty. Office for National Statistics figures...
Congress gives green light to abuses – warn Amnesty
‘BY passing the Military Commissions Act, the United States Congress has, in effect, given its stamp of approval to human rights violations committed by...
Government Won’t Talk To Firefighters!
WEST Midlands Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Phil Loach has written to members of parliament in the West Midlands urging a negotiated settlement be found...
Bush Anti-Iran Campaign Hitting Difficulties
US President George W Bush was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his campaign to isolate arch foe Iran and for...
SA government says that ‘austerity is a necessary pain for the...
IN THE much-anticipated medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will, like his counterparts at the South African Reserve...
French Workers Fight Wage Cuts, Sackings And Privatisation!
Bagneres de Bigorre, a small town near Tarbes has been hit by a wave of redundancies and short-time working in the local factories. Over 500...
‘Sunak wants to break our resolve – instead he has united...
Thousands of junior doctors are manning picket lines outside hospitals around the country again today as they continue their four days of strike action...
Sheffield lecturers vote for strike action!
SHEFFIELD College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in defence of jobs and quality of education. 86% of University College Union (UCU)...
Nationwide general strike in India Wed January 8th ‘DOWN WITH MODI!’
A GENERAL strike is set to take place in India on January 8 against the ‘anti-worker, anti-people, anti-national policies’ of the country’s Narendra Modi...
MASSIVE SHORTAGE OF MIDWIVES! –service in crisis – 5,000 more needed...
THE latest State of Maternity Services report from the Royal College of Midwives shows the baby boom in UK continuing and maternity services at...
Threat To Sack All London Firefighters!
Ian Leahair, FBU Executive Council Member for London, on Thursday issued the following statement on London fire commissioner Ron Dobson’s threat to sack the...
TURKISH ARMY SHELLS AFRIN AS TERRORISTS SHELL DAMASCUS – US bombing...
ON WEDNESDAY more civilians were killed or injured and material damage caused to the citizens’ houses and public facilities in Afrin city and its...
US aircraft carrier group to enter South China Sea!
THE US has dispatched an aircraft carrier group to the South China Sea, in a move that is set to escalate tensions after China...
‘REMEMBER THE DEAD, FIGHT FOR THE LIVING’ – Workers Memorial Day...
We are gathering to ‘remember the dead and fight for the living’, RMT leader Pat Sikorski said at the rally at City Hall on...
RMT launches fight against mass Greater Anglia ticket office closures
RAIL union RMT has launched a campaign to fight a planned programme of ticket office closures the length and breadth of the Greater Anglia...
COALITION ‘TAKING A CHAINSAW TO OUR PUBLIC SERVICES’ – Prentis...
MOVING the Public Services composite motion at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday, Unison General Secretary, Dave Prentis said: ‘Conference, today we...
‘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...
Child labourers worldwide increase to 160 million!
THE NUMBER of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million in the last four years. These...