US launched cruise missile strikes in Yemen
RECENT attacks on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile strikes, were led by the United States according to a CBS television report Saturday. The...
GMB demands Amazon conduct health risk assessments
A GMB member employed by Amazon in one of its depots fell ill after handling packaging on goods imported into the UK. The member is...
South African education unions will ballot for strike action to fight...
South African education unions, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation (Naptosa) and the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), responded on Monday to the Western...
HEZBOLLAH ‘JIHAD FOR CONSTRUCTION’ – dispenses £10,000 for each destroyed...
The Lebanese Hezbollah movement on Monday began paying compensation to the residents of buildings that were totally destroyed in the city of Baalbek by...
HUGE MOBILISATION – BUT HARDLY ANY AID – as 20,000 bodies...
THE death toll in Haiti is mounting, with about 20,000 bodies driven out of the capital Port-au-Prince to be burned, according to the Haitian...
OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT! –demand hundreds of thousands of Greek workers
HUNDREDS of thousands of Greek workers and youth congregated on Wednesday evening and late into the night outside the Vouli (parliament) in...
World Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns state repression in Sri...
THE WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions) has ‘strongly denounced’ and condemned state repression against the workers and the people of Sri Lanka. A WTFU...
Kentucky unions fight Trump’s deportation of 200 workers
KENTUCKY trade unions are standing up to halt the deportation of two hundred immigrant workers. Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers,...
‘THIS IS MORE THAN ENOUGH!’ – Palestinian population being caged in...
‘ENOUGH is enough!’ The Palestinians must be treated with equity, with Israel ending its occupation of the Palestinian territories. That was the message from the...
CUTS HIT US EDUCATION –while workers battle for union rights
Policy Matters Ohio has released a report showing the impact of the $1.8 billion cuts to local education budgets across Ohio, reports the Ohio...
‘Boycott General Motors’ Demands Unifor’s Dias
UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...
Hezbollah and Hamas meet in Beirut to discuss closer coordination
THE secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has met with a delegation of senior officials with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, as hundreds...
Myanmar’s trade unions facing a brutal regime
MYANMAR’s trade unions are facing brutal retaliation in the fight for democracy, says Khaing Zar Aung, the President of the Industrial Workers Union of Myanmar. Democratic...
Kick the Tories out and stop the disaster of the second...
BECAUSE the government waited so long before imposing a national lockdown on 31 October, large numbers of people will continue to die of coronavirus...
Power cuts and 43% unemployment dominate SA State of the Nation...
THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...
Uni treating workers like slaves! – NUMSA mass picket
AT THE end of last week, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) staged a mass picket at the University...
PAUL DAVIES: ‘highly critical jury verdict’
THE legal charity Inquest is welcoming a ‘highly critical jury verdict’ on the death in custody of Paul Davies. The jury at the inquest into...
‘Hezbollah strong enough and ready for all scenarios!’
HEZBOLLAH Deputy Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has stated that the Lebanese resistance group is strong enough and ready for all scenarios, despite losing Secretary...
‘100 ROUNDS FIRED ON SLEEPING FAMILY’ – ACLU releases files on...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...
PUERTO RICO GOVERNOR RESIGNS! – after one million-strong march and general...
PUERTO RICO’s Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned on Thursday – just three days after a million demonstrators marched down Puerto Rico’s Las Americas highway insisting...
Greek Workers Fight Moves To New Stage
TENS of thousands of Greek workers, students and youth took part in strike rallies last Friday throughout Greece against the ‘socialist’ government’s austerity measures....
‘We are fighting for the NHS and fighting to win’ –...
PICKET lines were mounted outside hundreds of ambulance stations across the country on Monday as 23,000 Unison, Unite and GMB paramedics and other ambulance...
US Working People’s Day of Action–February 24
ACROSS the US a Working People’s Day of Action calling on the masses to ‘rise up and fight’ for strong unions, and equitable ...
Iran offers to replace Iraqi oil to bail out US!
DEPUTY Oil Minister for International and Trade Affairs Ali Majedi has voiced Iran’s readiness to speedily replace Iraq oil in the world market if...
‘A MAN AND HIS BOAT’ The story of a fisherman...
ASPIRING “word artists” from around the world have joined with youth in Gaza, and now, Lebanon, to create "WE ARE NOT NUMBERS: We are...
Israeli Warships Shell Gaza Fishermen
Israeli warships bombarded Palestinian boats off the Sudaniyya shore north of Gaza City Monday morning, Nizar Ayyash, head of the Fishermen’s Union...
IAM Aerospace workers in the US demand a 40% pay rise...
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM) leaders at Boeing the aircraft manufacturers are demanding a 40 per cent pay rise over...
Gaza genocide – 325 days of mass murder!
THE ISRAELI-American genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip has completed 325 days and there are still no signs of this murderous aggression ending...
Two Media Workers Killed Every Week Says IFJ
NUJ comment on an International Federation of Journalists report TWO MEDIA workers die every week, according to an International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) report.
The UK’s...
KENYA STRIKE WAVE – Lecturers, Council Workers and Nurses fight for...
AN attempt to stop a strike by lecturers in public universities continuing in Kenya failed on Monday, after a university employers organisation failed...
‘WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NATIONAL STRIKE’ – say CWU pickets
Postmen and women were out in force on picket lines at 5.30am on Saturday all over London discussing the progress of their dispute against...
Washington Fears ‘Ukraine Fatigue’ While Nato Chief Calls It A ‘War...
THE US administration of Joe Biden is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal...
Syrian local elections ‘prove the failure of our enemies’ – President...
SYRIAN president Bashar al-Assad said that holding local council elections on time proves the strength of the Syrian people and the state. In a speech...
‘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...
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...
Republicans throw pro-Palestinian Congresswoman off Foreign Affairs Committee
NEWLY empowered Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted to oust Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee, because of her...
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...
Migrant Workers Paid £1.30 An Hour
The TGWU trade union and the author of the Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004, Labour MP Jim Sheridan, last Wednesday organised a briefing in the...
NAHT head teachers union set to join NEU in national action...
On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...
‘CALL A GENERAL STRIKE RIGHT NOW!’ Young Socialists tell the TUC
THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth on Sunday to clamorous demands for an indefinite General Strike to bring down the government. After last year’s vote...
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...
Reports of PM Johnson reducing the private sector in the NHS...
BY RETIRED BMA MEMBER ANNA ATHOW THE main story on BBC news on Saturday, was that Boris Johnson was proposing to reverse the Cameron health...
‘Convene our own people’s parliament to unite against poverty’ – SAFTU...
ZWELINZIMA VAVI, SAFTU general secretary, addressed the THOR Congress at the Plaza hotel, Durban 24-25 Feb 2018. He said: ‘THOR (Transport Action Retail...
President Assad greets children freed from ISIS captivity!
THE Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has greeted children, who were released from Daesh’s captivity in Suwayda Province, during a meeting in Damascus on November...
IRAN IS READY FOR TALKS ON REVIVING 2015 NUCLEAR DEAL! –...
FOREIGN Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Iran is ready to resume talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal but the administration of US President Joe...