Labour being sued over Bagram rendition
Legal charity Reprieve on Monday warned the Brown government that it is suing it to obtain the necessary information in order to identify two...
Occupy Wall Street calls for hundreds of thousands to march on...
AN open letter from the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (OWS) movement that began in New York and spread world wide, calls for all workers...
South Korea’s MBC on strike – joins 1,130 KBS producers
WORKERS at the South Korean broadcaster MBC go on strike from Monday joining 1,130 KBS producers who stopped working on Thursday. They are calling for...
Only 3,300 people released from Sri Lanka’s internment camps not 10,000!
Andrew Stroehlein, International Crisis Group’s Communications Director, has slammed the Sri Lankan regime’s ‘duplicity’ over the 240,000 Tamils being held in desperate conditions in...
Barnado’s! Quit The Child Detention Business!
By Alida Alisis BACK in March, almost a year after the government had promised to end what Nick Clegg called the ‘shameful practice’ of locking...
‘Release Assange From Prison Immediately!’
IN THE run-up to the resumption of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange’s US extradition trial in September, and to mark his birthday on 3rd July,...
Workers, Students, Youth Discussing ‘Whither Egypt?’
The Pipeline in Egypt that supplies Israel with gas was bombed last Monday for the 13th time since the overthrow of former president Hosni...
Student Leader Is Attacked In Jaffna
A STUDENT leader was attacked and seriously wounded in Jaffna on Sunday, reports TamilNet. Suspected Sri Lanka Army intelligence personnel armed with sharp iron rods...
South African union NUMSA wins right to organise workers, while bosses...
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, NUMSA, and mining company, SASM, have vowed to fight it out in court as the company intends...
How many children secretly deported under UK Border Agency’s Gentleman’s Agreement?
BY CLARE SAMBROOK BACK in January, I reported here on the wretched experience of a boy apprehended by the UK Border Agency at Dover who...
Carnage And Despair: Iraq Five Years On
Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is in disarray, the human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity prevails,...
Abbas To Urge Hollande That France Must Recognise Palestine
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas will ask his French counterpart Francois Hollande for official recognition of Palestine in an upcoming meeting this week, the Palestinian...
‘Cutting salaries and benefits will be met with hellfire’ – South...
‘ANY TALK of cutting salaries and benefits will be met with hellfire,’ Tahir Maepa, deputy general manager of the 200,000-strong Public Servants Association of...
Garment workers denounce wage structure in Dhaka and clash with police
GARMENT workers have flooded the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, this week, clashing with police and denouncing the new wages structure introduced on...
STOP DEPORTATIONS! – demands march for migrant workers
‘Stop deportations! Asylum rights are human rights! Equal rights for migrants!’ shouted over 500 people taking part in a March for Migrant Workers last...
”DEFEND WALSALL YOUTH CENTRES’ – says Unite
PLANS to shut nearly every Walsall youth centre will leave thousands of the town’s young people with nowhere to go, Unite has warned in...
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...
Australian government planning wage-cutting anti-worker legislation
AUSTRALIA’S Prime Minister Scott Morrison used the cover of the Easter long weekend to announce his government’s plan, if re-elected, to bring in anti-worker...
NUMSA’s international tour to investigate forming a workers’ party
THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) has kicked off its year with study tours overseas to investigate the feasibility of forming a...
‘No such thing as a free lunch’ BofE warns furlough scheme...
DEPUTY governor of the Bank of England Ben Broadbent said this week that ‘resilient’ household spending has been ‘funded by tomorrow’s taxpayers’ – in...
Israel Supports Al-Qaeda Against Syria
SYRIAN TV has carried a report on the Al-Nusrah Front and Israel’s position on it, conducted by anchors Wa’il al-Tawil and Alisar Mu’alla...
Far right Israeli minister Ben Gvir repeats calls for Palestinians to...
FAR RIGHT Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for ‘encouraging’ Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, saying the regime’s occupation of the...
Iran wins legal battle against US attempt to seize bank funds!
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as Bank Markazi, says the country has won a legal battle in Europe...
South African workers fear a lack of health cover
COSATU – The Confederation of South African Trade Unions – has held a Central Executive Committee workshop to discuss a number of pertinent issues...
‘What is needed now is to grow the economy–pickpocketing the public...
‘WHAT is needed now is to grow the economy. That is the only sober and sustainable path to pay down our worrying debt trajectory....
‘PIRAPAHARAN – the the Embodiment of the Tamils’ Struggle’
THE much anticipated ‘Pirapaharan – Tamizhar Ezhuchchiyin Vadivam’ (Pirapaharan – The Embodiment of The Tamils’ Struggle) written by veteran Tamil Nadu political activist Pazha...
Trumpcare ‘Sabotages Healthcare System’
AMERICAN Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s decision to end...
Dozens of doctors, nurses and paramedics killed in relentless Israeli bombing...
Amid relentless Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, paramedics, medical centres and ambulances have once again come under fire from Zionist fighter jets, echoing the pattern of Israeli...
The Gap Between The Richest Americans And The Rest Is Growing...
THE gap between the richest Americans and the rest of the nation has widened after the recession, highlighting the worsening income inequality in the...
‘We’ve got to get beyond the limits of capitalism’ say SAFTU...
TRUE empowerment lies beyond the limits of capitalism, says SAFTU, the South African Federation of Trade Unions. A statement issued on Tuesday on behalf of...
Group 77 ministers & China demand Israel ends its occupation and...
MINISTERS of Group 77 (coalition of developing countries at the United Nations) and China last Saturday reiterated their demand for the Israeli occupation to...
Israeli raids across the West Bank!
ISRAELI forces detained at least ten Palestinians, including a journalist, in Wednesday night raids across the occupied West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian officials said...
Syria’s Air Defences Thwart Israeli Daylight Missile Attack!
SYRIAN air defence systems have thwarted an Israeli aerial aggression in the Arab country’s south, state media say. ‘Our air defence systems thwarted ......
Teachers condemn ‘forced academisation’
TEACHERS unions on Monday condemned plans for a huge acceleration of the forced academisation of state education, with another 3,320 schools handed over to...
‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE’ says CWU Eastern Region Secretary
‘THIS conflict could be resolved very easily. Lift the sackings and we can all go back to work,’ declared Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general...
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...
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...
Muslim and EU countries move to stop Israeli genocide
A group of Muslim countries has strongly condemned Israeli settler incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound amid escalating violations and rising tensions across the...
Big Bike Ride to save Ealing Hospital greeted with cheers and...
THE WEST London Council of Action Big Bike Ride to Save Ealing Hospital on Sunday was a great success. More than two dozen riders with...
Nurses are working longer hours and above pay grades to deal...
A MAJOR Royal College of Nursing (RCN) survey has revealed how the pandemic has affected the professional lives of nursing staff. It shows, from...
Increase of maternal deaths a tragic indictment of the lack of...
THE ‘STATISTICALLY significant’ increase in maternal deaths reported on Thursday by MBRRACE-UK is a tragic indication of a lack of government investment in maternity...
Syrian Masses Take To The Streets Against Israeli State Terrorism
Syrian governorates on Monday witnessed huge mass demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance in the face of continued savage Israeli aggressions...
Hundreds of thousands across Europe march for Palestine
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and young people took to the streets across Italy on Friday in a general strike organised by the CGIL...
Police Spies Infiltrated 1,000 Groups
The public inquiry into the actions of police spies over several decades got underway on Monday and is expected to last for three years. Members...
UK Manufacturing Employment Less Than In 1841!
Confirmation that manufacturing employment levels are at their lowest since 1841 drew an angry and frustrated response from the Transport and General Workers Union. Tony...