OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘We are witnessing the...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 6. On the eve of Revolution This essay appeared in the New York Daily paper...
Yarl’s Wood indefinite hunger strike
The women from Avocet and Dove units, along with a few men on the family wing, are refusing food and are planning further protests....
RAIL STRIKE THREAT IN THE US – a strike could cost...
THE United States’ largest rail union has voted against a tentative contract agreement reached with rail management in September, raising the likelihood of a...
US Admits To Holding Talks With Insurgents
The outgoing US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has admitted for first time to holding talks with insurgent leaders. Meanwhile bomb attacks killed five...
ISS cleaners protest today in Manchester
cleaners working for ISS on the Arriva Rail North contract will be holding a protest today, Wednesday 10th April, outside Manchester Victoria station between...
‘Resistance means freedom and independence’ says Iranian military advisor Rahim...
A TOP military adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has described the Muslim world as a future power that...
KEEP OUR POST OFFICE OPEN! – demand angry Borough residents
MEMBERS of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have been joined by over 50 angry pensioners and other local residents in a demonstration against the...
AFL-CIO praises Canadian NAFTA negotiating team!
THE AFL-CIO, America’s trade union body, released a statement on September 20th giving its position on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and...
Tunisians march on fourth anniversary of revolution!
TUNISIANS on Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the revolution that toppled strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and sparked a mass wave of protests...
COSATU concerned at Goodyear plant closure
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Eastern Cape said on Thursday that is deeply concerned by the impending closure of...
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...
Pakistan and China condemn Kashmir G20 summit
SRINAGAR, India – The Group of 20 (G20) summit commenced in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, focusing on the topic of tourism. However, the meeting has...
National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign launched
OVER 2000 workers rallied in San Francisco for the kickoff of the ‘National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign’ on February 15. Chanting ‘Si...
QATAR – ‘a crucible of exploitation and misery’
TWO COFFINS carrying bodies of migrant workers arrive every day in Kathmandu’s airport on average, and their deaths mean disaster for their families. Purna Bahadur...
Abbas hopes US Deal of the Century ‘will all go to...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated his hopes that the US-proposed peace plan, dubbed Deal of the Century, will go to hell. ‘I hope that the...
‘LEGAL AID DESERTS’ half of councils have no legal aid for...
OVER 50% of local authorities in England and Wales cannot provide publicly funded legal advice on housing issues, the Law Society warned yesterday as...
US postal workers and teachers under attack
POSTAL workers and teachers are coming under attack as a result of the drive to cut federal and state spending in the crisis-hit United...
Gaza’s children slaughtered – sometimes by missiles, sometimes by hunger, always...
ON WORLD Day Against Child Labour, 12 June: Gaza’s crushed childhood turns into a struggle for survival, Hamas said yesterday. In Gaza, footballs, pencils, and...
Mass Protests All Over Palestine On Nakba Day
PALESTINIANS commemorated the 71st anniversary of the Nakba Day (May 15th – the Day of Catastrophe) in the occupied West Bank and the blockaded...
‘They are planning to get rid of the whole of Ealing...
ANN FRANKLYN, 22 years a nurse and midwife at Ealing Hospital, carrying heavy bags, stopped at the occupation at 6.30pm on Friday evening. ‘Today...
Nigeria Democracy Day protests demand Buhari Must Go
NIGERIANS on Saturday staged protests and rallies throughout the country to mark the second anniversary of the declaration of June 12 as ‘Democracy Day’...
South African trade unions demand action on unemployment
SOUTH AFRICA’S leading trade union federations the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) and the Federation...
Defend NHS with General Strike!
THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...
4,000 Attend The Funeral Of Salim Qawasmi – Murdered By Israeli...
At least 4,000 gathered on Friday afternoon to attend the funeral of Omar Salim Al-Qawasmi, 66, executed by Israeli forces early that morning, in...
‘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...
IndustriALL union supports investigation into PPE tenders in SA
INDUSTRIALL Global union affiliates in South Africa are supporting the current probe by the country’s Special Investigating Unit into fraudulent activities in the awarding...
Canada Marches Against Tuition Fees!
The Canadian Federation of Students last Wednesday held a National Day of Action for affordable, high-quality, post-secondary education in Canada. ‘Education shouldn’t be a debt...
Venezuela Must Not Support The Rajapakse Dictatorship!
Reprinted from Tamil Net ‘INSTEAD of making connections with the illegitimate opposition of Sri Lanka, Venezuela should be strengthening the hand of an ally that...
Greek Riot Police Attack Ship Repair Workers
GREEK armed riot police viciously attacked with clubs, smoke and lightning bombs and toxic tear gas grenades about 800 protesting ship repair workers last...
Reject The ‘reform’ Of Agenda For Change
ON 21st March 2018, Jeremy Hunt announced the government was offering NHS staff on Agenda For Change (AfC) a new pay offer. ON 21st...
Another deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh!
THE BWI (Building and Wood Worker’s International) union federation has undertaken a fact finding mission on the deadly building collapse in Mongla Cement Factory...
Food Price Hikes Grip West Africa
Benin is one of several West African states gripped by soaring food prices. In a scene on a popular Benin TV series, a farmer named...
Deal Macron’s pension plans a massive blow this May Day! –...
FRENCH trade union federation the CGT is calling ‘on the entire world of work to make May Day a powerful day of demonstration to...
EU imposes financial crisis on the Palestinians
FACING an imposed ‘suffocating financial crisis,’ Palestinian officials have made no immediate comment yet on an EU decision on Tuesday to suspend 35 million...
All those responsible for terrorist attacks on Russia will be held...
‘ALL THOSE complicit and responsible for the terrorist attacks on Russian territory will inevitably be held accountable,’ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said...
BIGGEST HOSPITAL CLOSURE PROGRAMME IN HISTORY REVEALED! Occupy to stop the...
LAST Thursday night Imperial Healthcare Trust, which runs Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals, published details of their plans for the three sites. It...
ROYAL MAIL BOSSES ‘SECRET PLAN’ –to smash the CWU and casualise...
ROYAL Mail management and government have a secret plan to smash the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and privatise the Royal Mail. It has been...
No to Fire and Rehire at Open University – insists UCU
THE UCU (University and College Union) has called on the Open University (OU) to scrap its plans to fire and rehire staff. The OU first...
Press TV campaigns against attack on Iranian satellite TV!
PRESS TV has launched a Facebook petition to save the news channel across Europe after European satellite provider Eutelsat SA stopped the broadcast of...
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...
25% Funding Cuts Will Cost 22,584 University Jobs
If the government pushes ahead with plans for 25 per cent funding cuts then there will be a loss of 22,584 university jobs in...
LOW WAGES WILL LEAD TO SOCIAL AND RACIAL TENSIONS – Irish...
THE Irish trade union movement has been discussing the dangers that a low rate minimum wage, if not corrected, will lead to it being...
Chagos Islanders Will Fight Until Victory!
TWO hundred Chagos Islanders and their supporters demonstrated in London on Monday, demanding their right to return home after 40 years of exile imposed...
GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY STAFF VOTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION! –while Sixth Form College...
STAFF at Glyndwr University have overwhelmingly voted in favour of industrial action in a dispute over job losses. 84% of members of the University and...
‘7th October was a justified rebellion against the Israeli occupying force!’
Drop Site News, a US-based publication, has recently conducted interviews with senior Hamas officials and reviewed statements from the group’s leaders. These efforts included background...