UNACCEPTABLE! Over 170,000 waiting for asylum claims decision
‘It’s unacceptable that there are now over 170,000 people stuck in limbo as they wait for a decision on their asylum claims – with...
Nationwide university strike looms
THE ONLY way to stop the nationwide shutdown of almost every university in the country, beginning on Thursday 22nd February, is for university management...
Argentinian cotton workers strike
COTTON processing workers in Argentina began a new strike on Monday, 22 February 2021, demanding wage increases, the latest in a string of farming...
Government Wants To ‘Rid North-East Of Any Witnesses Of The Carnage’
COLOMBO has abrogated the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) to remove the presence of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) which was instrumental in exposing...
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...
Stop Attacking Costa Rican Banana Workers – Catholic Church Is Urged
‘Trade union members are threatened, victimised, sacked and blacklisted by employers who pay sums of money to the Catholic Church which coordinates anti-union activities,’...
‘WE WILL SAVE OUR NHS’ – Junior Doctors co-chair tells 1,000-strong...
Over 1,000 striking junior doctors, consultants and radiographers held an angry rally in St Peter's Square, Manchester outside the Tory party conference on Tuesday...
NO DEBATE ON ‘ACTION’ MOTION – at London Region Equity AGM
THE ACTORS’ union Equity is angry as Arts Council and local authority funding cuts lay waste to theatres and arts organisations across Britain and...
Israel will not end administrative detentions – as thousands join hunger...
An Israeli military court has refused an appeal by long-term hunger-strikers Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diyab to end their detention without charge, prisoners groups...
PALESTINE WILL BE FREE! – Message from PALEXPO July 6th &...
THOUSANDS turned out over the weekend and packed the main auditorium sections at the Olympia Stadium, London for the PALEXPO exhibition to boost the...
Give Fed workers right to strike–get rid of ‘right-to-work’ anti-union laws...
THE VERMONT US Senator Bernie Sanders wants to give federal workers the right to strike, to eliminate so-called ‘right-to-work’ laws, and at the same...
EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION CONTINUES! – with second ‘Day of Rage’
EGYPTIANS were out Friday for nationwide rallies to protest against the ruling military council’s attempt to halt the revolution, in a call that has...
‘Privatisation gravy train must end’ says GMB
‘The gravy train needs to end – public services should be just that; public,’ said the GMB union on Tuesday, in response to a...
Stark Portrait Of Revolutionary Resistance To British Imperialism In Ireland
Hunger Directed by Steve McQueen Starring Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham and Liam Cunningham Specially reviewed at the London Film Festival and on general release later this month ‘HUNGER’...
Tsipras Says ‘No’ To Mass Sackings Of Civil Servants
LEFTIST SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras addressed a crowd of party supporters in Sparti, in the Peloponnese, on Thursday night. Tsipras said that his party would...
90 YEARS OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION – Forward to the World...
IN OCTOBER 1917 workers took power in Russia. This is the 90th anniversary of the victorious October Revolution, the first time in history that the...
‘I dream of hanging a huge map of the world on...
THE new Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmud al-Zahhar urged the international community last Saturday to respect the Palestinian people’s choice in electing...
‘West is using Ukraine as an instrument for making a threat...
RUSSIA has rejected any possibility of a nuclear war amid the conflict in Ukraine, warning the United States and the European Union that Moscow...
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...
TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMME OUR GUIDE FOR TODAY – Part three: The Transitional...
Military disaster stares Bush and Blair in the face in Iraq, where the toppling of the puppet regime in the Green Zone will result...
Hezbollah marks 40 years of Iranian revolution!
THE SECRETARY general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has praised the outstanding achievements made in Iran, stressing that the Islamic Republic is now...
‘Child poverty is on the rise–the effects can last a lifetime’...
‘The State of Education: Poverty, the Pandemic and Recovery’ is the title of a devastating new NEU (National Education Union) survey of 10,000+ school...
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...
Tuc Supports Strikes By Writers Guild Of America
British trade unionists on Wednesday demonstrated their support for America’s striking screenwriters as part of an international day of solidarity called by the Writers...
Nasrallah celebrates Israel’s defeat in 2006!
AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...
Abu Shujaa the commander of the Tulkarm Brigade was assassinated last...
ABU Shujaa, the intrepid commander of the Tulkarm Brigade, was assassinated last Thursday during a deadly Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee...
‘Iran Will Give A Crushing Response To Any Military Assault
Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pour-Dastan said on Monday that if its enemies dare to commit any mistake and...
SA police clear 87 officers of Marikana miners massacre
SOUTH African Police have investigated and cleared 87 of their own officers in relation to the August 2012 police killings of 34 Marikana miners. South...
Argentinian education workers 24-hour National Strike
On Monday, the Confederation of Education Workers of Argentina (CTERA) held a 24-hour national strike against the far-right President Javier Milei’s policies. The education workers...
Marx And The Permanent Revolution
BY MIKE DRIVER PART ONE: ‘Fraternity found its true unadulterated and prosaic expression in the war of Labour against capital’ AS French and European workers...
CHAGOS ISLANDERS MAY WIN BACK THE RIGHT TO RETURN says Royal...
The Foreign Secretary was asked to consider alternative options when deciding the best strategy for the protection of the Chagos Archipelago, and the return...
Stalinist Bureaucracy Fears Russian Workers Political Revolution
Workers of Ship-Repair Yard 178 in Vladivostok began a strike on June 3rd 2009, demanding their pay. The workers have not had any money...
‘Marikana massacre demonstrated the class character of the ANC’ says South...
‘WILL VICTIMS of Marikana ever get justice under the ANC (African National Congress) government?’ asked the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on...
Under the ANC ‘Wealth is shifting further into the pockets of...
THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...
‘KILL THE HEALTH BILL’ say ‘Bevan’s Run’ consultants
Over two hundred doctors, medical staff and health campaigners on Sunday welcomed two NHS consultants at the end of their ‘Bevan’s Run’ against the...
Half of US cop killings unreported
THE British medical journal The Lancet says more than half of police killings in the United States are unreported and Black Americans are most...
710 Palestinian babies under the age of one killed by Israeli...
THE ISRAELI military killed at least 710 Palestinian babies before they made it to their first birthday, the equivalent of two infants under one-year-old...
TAKE ACTION TO DEFEND THE NHS – down with corporate healthcare...
THE government has launched a blitzkrieg of around £900m cuts to NHS hospitals resulting in the closure of thousands of hospital beds and compulsory...
Junior doctors’ strike escalates
‘WE ARE not striking for cash, we are not striking for our personal careers, we are striking for the long-term sustainability of the NHS...
Egyptian lawyers to strike over police ‘kidnapping’
SAMEH Ashour, the head of Egypt’s Lawyers Syndicate, has called a lawyers strike against the Ministry of Interior after the disappearance of lawyer Ibrahim...
GAZA PALESTINIANS SUFFERING UNDER THE BLOCKADE –industries have stopped, –ambulances without...
A GROUP of British and Irish activists have arrived in the Gaza Strip to show their solidarity with Palestinians living under siege in the...
Palestinian workers and youth are on the march
DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...
Palestinians defy Israeli clampdown!
AT least four Israeli soldiers have been injured after an improvised explosive device was hurled at a military post in the central part of...
US Embassy in Baghdad ‘a command centre conspiring against the Iraqi...
IRAQ’S anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah says the United States has turned its embassy compound in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad into a...
‘systematic Exploitation Of Migrant Workers In Israel
Migrant workers in Israel’s agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to an October 28th report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning...