Thousands March To Defend Rio Tinto Alcan Jobs!
THOUSANDS of people marched through the streets of Alma in Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec province on Saturday to demand an end to the...
Renault Workers March Against Thousands Of Sackings
Angry, striking carworkers from Sandouville (Seine-Maritime) Renault plant demonstrated in the streets of Le Havre on Thursday, September 25. The French motor manufacturing giant recently...
Iran-Russia Joint Naval Manoeuvres
IRANIAN and Russian naval forces have practised anti-piracy operations, during which they rescued two hijacked merchant vessels, on the second day of their joint...
Hezbollah Stands With Palestinians Says Nasrallah
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has hailed the new acts of heroism by Palestinians against Israel, saying the Lebanese resistance movement will continue...
25,000 War Widows In Batticaloa
‘Estimates reveal that there are more than 89,000 war widows in the North and Eastern provinces and more than 25,000 of these widows are...
Israel attacks ICC & Palestinian rights organisations – as it censors...
THE RAMALLAH-based Al-Haq human rights organisation has condemned as ‘misleading and inflammatory’ a recent publication by the Israeli Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs of...
DESPERATE STATE OF CARE PROVISION IN UK –a catalogue of unmet...
PEOPLE with care needs are having to turn down support packages because they cannot afford them. Backdated bills for care arrive without any explanation of...
CUTS WILL PUT THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE AT RISK...
Public sector union Unison on Tuesday published a dossier of cuts hitting social work departments, warning that, together with existing shortages, cuts will put...
‘MOVE AWAY FROM THE SOUL- DESTROYING ASSESSMENT REGIME’ – ATL message...
EDUCATION secretaries need to ‘up their game’, listen to the professionals or step away to avoid damaging children’s life chances, says Association of Teacher...
Iran exposed myth of Israeli invincibility in April 13 operation!
A senior Iranian military commander has disclosed new details about Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israeli-occupied territories last month, and that 240 fighter jets from...
Nigerian Health Workers Indefinite Strike!
HEALTH workers at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano State, Nigeria, last Wednesday began an indefinite strike over non-payment of three months’ salary. The workers...
Trade unions worldwide support Wisconsin workers!
MESSAGES of solidarity are being received by the workers of Wisconsin from trade unions and trade unionists all over the world, supporting their battle...
‘US Wants An Iraq Base To Strike At Iran And Syria’
TribAL leaders in southern Iraq accused the US Administration last week of attempting to establish permanent bases in Iraq to strike against its opposing...
Reprieve calls on Lithuania to re-open torture site inquiry
REPRIEVE has called on Lithuania to re-open its torture site inquiry after discovering another suspicious flight into Vilnius. Legal action charity Reprieve is demanding that...
‘SECRET FLIGHTS TO TORTURE AND DISAPPEARANCE’ – Amnesty
¸??ternational has released a new report which exposes a covert operation whereby people have been arrested or abducted, transferred and held in secret or...
IMF presides over historic crisis of Capitalism!
NEXT week Washington will host the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. At this gathering, the world’s economic policymakers will...
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...
US Workers Fight For Permanent Jobs And Against Massive State Cuts!
WORKERS in Ohio have spoken out about their struggle earlier this year which saw them go from being unrepresented temporary agency workers to direct...
Join us on 27th August at 5.30pm opposite 10 Downing Street...
‘THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) London Freelance Branch calls on journalists and media workers to join us on Wednesday 27 August at 17:30 opposite Downing Street, where...
‘Israel cannot confiscate our dignity’ – says Issa Qaraqe
‘Israel may be able to confiscate our money, but it cannot confiscate our dignity.’ So says Issa Qaraqe, Head of the Commission of Detainees...
Specialist nurse numbers drop by 40%!
‘The nursing shortage in England is harming some of the most vulnerable members of society,’ a senior nurse and Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...
Joint Justice4Grenfell-FBU demonstration
‘THERESA May we don’t trust you, We trust the FBU,’ shouted over 3,000 marchers from Downing Street in London on Saturday. The joint...
US and EU prepare for direct armed conflict with Russia
US REPRESENTATIVES have launched a campaign in the Philippines to recruit local citizens to fight on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces, Russian...
‘No Difference’ Between Bush And Obama Policies Towards Iraq
SHEIKH Harith al-Dari, secretary-general of the Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), has said, speaking from Amman, that there is no difference between the...
Labour plans to transform the NHS into ‘Neighbourhood Health Service’ –...
THE NHS trade union leaders have given a muted response to Monday’s Declaration of War on the NHS by the Labour government. PM Starmer and...
Political Messiah Quits!
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER Rev Ian Paisley, a political messiah to Protestant Unionism, has shockingly quit as both Stormont First Minister and leader...
Russia launches a new 10-year space programme
The Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) is about to start its Kliper launch vehicle project, the head of the agency told a Moscow press conference...
British Trained Forces Run Amock In Basra
WHILE British troops are sheltering in their heavily protected barracks, the puppet army and police forces that they have trained in Basra are running...
Occidental College student workers vote to join SEIU Local 721
OCCIDENTAL College student workers have voted to join the SEIU union Local 721, allowing over 1,000 undergraduate workers – baristas, tutors, translators, lifeguards, and...
‘GET THE TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN!’ – demand 10,000 marchers
OVER 10,000 people marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday demanding the withdrawal of the British Army from Afghanistan. At the...
Eu ‘Harbours Serious Concerns’ Over Sri Lanka’s Rights Abuses
The European Union (EU) has expressed serious concern over Sri Lanka’s rights abuses, TamilNet reported yesterday. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the EU...
Russia Barred From Investigating Nord Stream Explosions
THE Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the ‘truth’ behind the September explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines would ‘surprise’ many Europeans if...
Settlement with Vale–but no final accord!
WITH a 75% ratification vote announced late on 7 July, Canadian nickel mining and processing workers represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Locals 6500 and...
Russia will expose Western sabotage of Nord Stream 2 – warns...
RUSSIA will determine the future prospects of interaction with Western countries on its own terms, when and if their leadership sobers up, Foreign Minister...
TAKE ACTION AGAINST NHS CUTS! – call from delegates at BMA...
Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Cardiff expressed their serious concerns at the impact of cuts on healthcare. They...
TUC calls for Israeli boycott but sets no date for action
TUC Congress delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday voted for composite motion C22: ‘Right to boycott’ from the National Education Union. Moving the motion, Louise Regan,...
Sri Lankan Military Intelligence Threaten Protesting Tamil Fishermen
While hundreds of fishermen from Maathakal were staging a silent protest on Monday morning in front of the Indian consulate in Jaffna, Sri Lankan...
‘DEFEND COUNCIL HOUSING!’ urges SE London Council of Action march
One hundred workers and youth won big support as they marched through south east London in defence of council housing on Saturday afternoon. The march...
14 Hours In Iraq
Al-Sharqiyah TV reported on its 2 pm news broadcast last Sunday the security and political developments of that day. The report stated: ‘The US Army...
More Than 100 Covid Cases At Napier Camp
ACTIVISTS threw fake blood at the gates of Napier Barracks last Thursday – in protest against the conditions in which hundreds of asylum seekers...
THE LEBANESE RESISTANCE POUNDED THE LAST NAIL INTO THE COFFIN OF...
THE LEADER of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has delivered a revealing analysis of the current political situation and spoke candidly about his organisation’s increasing...
THREE FIRE STATIONS THAT RESCUED APOLLO THEATREGOERS ARE TO CLOSE IN...
THREE of the eight fire stations that sent engines to the Apollo Theatre last night are set to close in less than three weeks,...
Gadaffi’s son Saif al-Islam freed!
SAIF al-Islam, the second son and heir apparent of the late deposed Libyan Leader Muammar Gadaffi, is said to have been freed in Libya...
Sodexo Oppressing Workers In The US And Colombia
Sodexo laundry workers in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday delivered a petition to management calling for greater safety standards. The petition included hundreds of signatures from...
THERE MUST BE ‘A FULL RECRUITMENT INTO EMERGENCY MEDICINE’ – essential...
THE College of Emergency Medicine on Monday announced guidelines titled Creating satisfaction and maintaining wellbeing in Emergency Medicine. The College of Emergency Medicine said in...