LONDON COLLEGES MARCH TO DEFEND EDUCATION – London Met cuts the...
Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their supporters marched through north London on Saturday in defence of education.Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their...
Putin Declines To Call Assad An Ally!
IN his recent interview with the German newspaper Bild Vladimir Putin was asked a number of questions about Syria. Question: Now let’s turn to Syria,...
Starbucks workers mass walk- out in 34 cities of the USA
THE Starbucks workers’ union said on Thursday that hundreds of new union baristas are walking out of their jobs in 34 cities, joining the...
‘There must be prosecutions, there’s got to be accountability’ says Manchester...
WEDNESDAY was the 6th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 tenants and residents of Kensington and Chelsea perished in their homes on...
Hamas rules out presence of foreign forces in the Gaza Strip!
THE Gaza Strip’s Hamas resistance movement has ruled out the deployment of any foreign force to the Gaza Strip that would effectively serve as...
US pro-Palestinian protesters rock Biden’s campaign and condemn him for...
PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters have disrupted president Joe Biden’s campaign speech in North Carolina by chanting slogans and protesting against his support for the crimes of...
Lecturers And Students March To Defend Pensions
‘OUR STUDENTS’ union supports our strike and supports our right to strike,’ Sean Rowland UCU committee member at City University said, speaking on Wednesday’s...
BRITISH COMPLICITY IN TORTURE – indicted by Human Rights Watch
The UK government should immediately order an independent judicial inquiry into the role and complicity of British security services in the torture of terrorism...
Palestinian doctor on hunger strike in Maghaberry prison has been joined...
BY FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST BRITAIN has been involved in duplicity and skulduggery in Palestine from the secret signing of the Balfour agreement in...
REJECT GLOUCESTER FIRE SERVICE CUTS! – demands FBU
PEOPLE trapped in property fires, floods and road traffic collisions will have to wait far longer for firefighters to rescue them if cuts are...
Usa Is Handing Millions To The White Helmets!
THE US is handing millions of dollars of cash over to the White Helmets organisation, the Syrian and Russian coordination committees said on Tuesday. The...
Settlers attack West Bank farmers on eve of peace talks
As Palestinian leaders were preparing for direct talks with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu in Washington today, the village mayor in the West Bank town...
RIGHTS OF MINORITIES ‘A GREY AREA’ IN GREECE – says...
FOREIGNERS shot on the border, asylum-seekers detained in metal containers, Roma forcibly evicted from their homes in Athens – these are some of the...
Greek Teachers And Doctors Strike Against Closures
Some 4,000 primary and secondary school teachers, from both state and private schools, plus state hospital doctors, short-contract workers of the Athens municipality, university...
Modi government blocks documentary, arrests journalists and raids newspapers and...
The offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in India have been raided and searched by the country’s income tax authorities on Tuesday, according...
Burning of the US embassy in Honduras ‘a provocation’ says former...
A TEACHER has been arrested for allegedly setting the US embassy in Honduras on fire last Friday, following police repression of educators and doctors who are protesting against privatisations. A group...
Afl-Cio Forms Partnership With National Day Labourers!
A NEW national partnership agreement signed yesterday by the AFL-CIO and the largest network of worker centres serving low-wage, often immigrant workers will help...
Afl-Cio Leader Trumka Quits Trump’s Manufacturing Council
ON SUNDAY August 13th AFL–CIO leader Richard Trumka made his initial statement on the Charlottesville clashes between neo-Nazis supported by the Ku Klux Klan...
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...
‘RESIST DELPHI ATTACKS’ – says ‘The Future of the Union’ UAW...
‘We are moving nearer to Delphi motioning the bankruptcy court to pitch out our labor agreement,’ said ‘The Future of the Union’ rank and...
THE IRAQI RESISTANCE IS STILL DIRECTING POWERFUL STRIKES AT THE OCCUPIERS...
‘The Iraqis today do not have control over their political, security or social situation – control is in the hands of the occupation, those...
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 ......
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...
Israel kills 190 in 24 hours while Iran sends Soraya satellite...
ISRAEL has killed at least 190 people in a time span of just 24 hours in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Gaza’s...
‘IF WE DON’T WIN THIS BATTLE THERE WILL BE NO MORE...
AT A PACKED ‘Saving Vauxhall Jobs’ TUC Congress fringe meeting on Tuesday evening, Unite leaders Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson attacked the German government...
‘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 students battle against privatisation of the universities – Report...
UDARA Sandaruwan, Acting Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation has issued an appeal to trade unions and human rights organisations of the world to...
Bradford Tower Block Evacuated!
A TOWER block in Bradford with 160 flats has been evacuated over ‘serious fire safety deficiencies’. All the residents at Appleton Point were told to...
EMPLOYERS TRYING TO FORCE WORKERS ONTO AWAs – say Australian trade...
Employers should accept the outcome of the federal election and immediately stop trying to push workers onto individual contracts, known as ‘Australian Work-place Agreements’...
Home Demolitions And Land Seizures Are Israeli Policy For Occupied Territories
THE Israeli army on Wednesday notified the demolition of two houses in Hebron and took measurements of another belonging to the families of three...
10th Anniversary of the Hillingdon Hospital Strike
The Hillingdon Hospital Strike began on October 1st, 1995 when 56 domestic and catering workers were sacked by private contractor Pall Mall for refusing...
‘We need to start building for a general strike’ 4,000 striking...
4,000 striking station and revenue control staff shutdown London Underground on Monday in a show of strength to oppose pension attacks and job cuts. Trains...
‘WE WILL COME OUT OF THIS FIGHT AS THE WINNERS!’ –...
TENS of thousands of Greek university and higher education college students from all over the country demonstrated last Saturday in the northern city of...
TUC CONGRESS CALLS FOR AN ‘ALTERNATIVE TO AUSTERITY’ – but refuses...
THIS year’s TUC Congress next month is meeting at a time when all of the basic rights and gains of the working class are...
TENS OF THOUSANDS CELEBRATE – after Palestinian membership bid is submitted...
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas waved to the crowd of tens of thousands during a celebration in Ramallah, upon his return from the UN General Assembly...
‘No extradition – free Julian Assange!’ – says Julian Assange Defence...
‘THERE is only one decision: No extradition! – free Julian Assange’ chanted a demonstration of over 50 supporters of the jailed Wikileaks founder Julian...
2019 was a disastrous year for the working class! – says...
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has bemoaned a tough 2019, describing the entire 12 months as ‘annus horriblis’ (Latin word meaning very...
Charter Flight Deportations ‘Forcing Families Apart’
A TOTAL of 17 people were deported on a chartered flight by the Johnson government to Jamaica early on Tuesday morning. The action was condemned...
Barnet families denounce mass evictions
TENANTS facing eviction from their homes in Sweets Way Estate in Barnet, north London, were joined by their recently evicted former neighbours on Sunday...
Global wave of farmers protests from India’s fields to Europe’s farms
Authorities in the northern part of India have resorted to using tear gas to halt the advance of thousands of farmers who are protesting...
Fire Bosses Spending £12 Million On Strikebreakers
LONDON Fire Brigade bosses are spending £12million of tax-payers’ money training a blackleg workforce to provide fire cover in the capital in the event...
Five Picturehouse cinemas out today!
FIVE Picturehouse cinemas are on strike this May Day. In a repeat of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history in April, five...
Striking South African social workers barricade
STRIKING South African social workers have barricaded the entrances to care centres and are vowing not to leave until their demands – an immediate...
‘Set up an independent Judge-led inquiry!’ – ‘Keep your word’ Rights...
NINE human rights NGOs (non-governmental organisations), including Reprieve, are urging prime minister Cameron to honour his 2010 promise of an independent, judge-led inquiry into...
Wandsworth traffic wardens – 2nd day of strike in pay battle
TRAFFIC wardens are into their second day of strike action today in an escalating struggle over pay and union rights. GMB the union which represents...