Israel’s genocide has created a widening environmental catastrophe
Israel’s genocide in Gaza, has dismantled long-standing civilian waste systems, forced displaced Palestinians into burning plastic to survive amid siege conditions, and created a...
Lebanon’s foreign minister quits while financial crisis rages!
LEBANON’S Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Monday in protest at what he described as the government’s...
‘Israel trying to take advantage of gas forum’ says Palestinian leadership
NOT PARTICIPATING in the signing ceremony of the agreement to launch the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) on Tuesday does not mean withdrawing from...
Sri Lanka doctors strike against privatisation
A STRIKE by doctors over private medical universities gripped Sri Lanka on Friday. The country-wide strike action was launched by the Government Medical Officers Association...
PNC convened to ‘counter the serious conspiracy to undermine the Palestinian...
THE PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) convened of the Palestinian National Council yesterday in the face of the ‘attacks and conspiracies’ launched by US President...
EU SUPPORTS PALESTINIAN UNITY! – while Netanyahu is to annex 19...
PALESTINE''S ambassador to the European Union, Abdel Rahim al-Farra said on Thursday that EU officials had informed him that financial support to the Palestinian...
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...
100,000 workers & youth march in Athens
THE Greek working class has once again demonstrated its strength and determination with a powerful one day general strike last Wednesday, called by the...
STOP WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL CLOSING! – – we must all defend our...
WHITTINGTON Hospital is threatened with being reduced to a ‘local hospital’ through having its Accident and Emergency and other vital Departments closed, and...
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...
EU – ‘a rich man’s club’ – Aslef
TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF’s general secretary, Mick Whelan, has written an article reasserting the union’s commitment to withdrawing from the European Union. It was written...
Thousands march in support of the Venezuelan government
VENEZUELA’s President Nicolas Maduro has urged the United States to discuss ‘peace and sovereignty’ in a high level commission mediated by the Union of...
‘Venezuelan people will triumph over US’ – SAYS SYRIA
SYRIA’S Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali AbdulKarim, has affirmed that the Venezuelan people will ‘triumph’ over the US conspiracy. Meeting the Venezuelan Ambassador to Lebanon, Jesus...
Wikileaks Cables Indict Rajapaksa Regime!
Secret US embassy cables published by WikiLeaks last Friday allege that the Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka is complicit in abduction, murders and...
Qassam Brigades target Israeli tanks and soldiers
RESISTANCE groups in Palestine and across the region are continuing their operations against Israel and its Western backers amid the regime’s genocidal war on...
TORY AUSTERITY POLICIES ARE DESTROYING THE NHS says the BMA
‘AUSTERITY-LED changes of the past decade have stirred up a “perfect storm”. The Government in England shifts responsibility for providing services from the centre...
25,000 held in US customs on Mexican border
DESPITE the end of the United States Title 42 border restrictions, obstacles and the lack of legal options to reach the US will continue to have a serious...
Trade unions welcome pledges in Labour’s election manifesto!
THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) welcomed pledges made in Labour’s election manifesto. Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: ‘Labour’s pledges to end the...
The ‘Silent Tsunami’ Hits Sri Lanka
HUMANITARIAN agencies in Sri Lanka have told the UN agency IRIN that they are preparing for the fallout as increasing...
‘Inquests Behind Closed Doors Unacceptable’
Human rights organisations said yesterday that legislation enabling inquests into those who have died in police custody or been killed at the hands of...
Embers May Flare Up!
May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...
‘The US is working to serve Israel’s interest – destroying all...
DEPRIVING Palestinian refugees of their basic rights is a recipe for trouble, says PLO official Hanan Ashrawi. Depriving 5.3 million Palestinian refugees of...
Irish support for the Filton 24 hunger strikers
The first part of this article is a solidarity statement to the six Filton 24 hunger strikers from Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, who in April 1969...
8 million workers and youth on 3,200 ‘No Kings’ protests in...
More than eight million workers and young people took to the streets in the United States as at least 3,200 demonstrations took place. There were...
Unite will support strikes, work-ins and occupations to defend NHS –...
OVER 5,000 trade unionists, youth and families from across north London marched on Saturday from Highbury and Islington Station to the Whittington Hospital, Archway,...
Para-military police units ‘should not have been used at Marikana!’
WITH the strike by platinum miners continuing to grip South Africa, senior police officer Lieutenant Colonel Salmon Vermaak outlined internal problems that contributed...
WRP’s ANNA ATHOW GETS BIG SUPPORT ON WOOD GREEN HIGH STREET
WOOD Green and Hornsey Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team won big support on Wood Green High Street on...
Unions angry over pay and progression cuts!
In his budget speech Chancellor Osborne announced that there would be a one per cent annual pay rise of the public sector up to...
‘WE WILL BREAK THEM AT THE GATES OF SIRTE’ – says...
COLONEL Gadaffi’s spokesman, Musa Ibrahim, has said that UK and French leaders were ‘rushing to reap the benefit of Tripoli’s temporary fall into their...
‘IF TRUMP IS GOING TO FIGHT THE TERRORISTS – WE WILL...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to RTP TV channel on 16 November 2016. Question 1: Mr. President, let’s start with Aleppo if you don’t...
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...
‘MASSIVE FIGHTS AHEAD AS POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TURMOIL RAGES’ says RMT
‘THERE are massive fights ahead as political and economic turmoil rages,’ the leader of the RMT railway workers’ union Mick Cash warned his union’s...
‘Government policy is failing to deliver for a generation of children’...
‘THE implications for children’s life chances can’t be allowed to continue,’ said the National Education Union (NEU) on Wednesday, commenting on the Public Accounts...
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...
We salute the struggle of the Palestinian people – General Strike...
The News Line Rally of 200 people took place at the Hargrave Hall, in north London on Saturday. Chairman, Tony McEvoy, said the struggle for...
‘We have children as young as four who are at school...
CHILDHOOD is being eroded as children spend less time with families and friends, according to a survey of members of the Association of Teachers...
Bangladesh government using court to put workers’ safety at risk say...
The Bangladesh government is using proceedings before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh to prevent the Accord on workers’ safety from operating, thereby putting safety...
IRAN MUST ATTEND ANY GENEVA CONFERENCE – insists Russia
SPEAKING in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said said on Thursday that the ‘international community’ has to decide with whom it will...
Students support Notts lecturers striking against ‘sign or be sacked’ contracts
STUDENTS are campaigning to support striking staff at Nottingham College and have organised a petition in support of the action which has already topped...
‘WE ARE APPROACHING VICTORY’ – says Hamas leader Haniya
The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip vowed on Monday that the Palestinian resistance, backed by the population, would emerge victorious over Israel’s...
PCS ‘serious concerns’ over privatisation of government helpline – and RMT...
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka has written to home secretary Theresa May to highlight serious concerns over the privatisation of a government helpline and...
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...
RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO GEORGIA ‘SHOULD GIVE A LESSON TO PRO-WESTERNERS’ –...
THE Iranian daily Keyhan has been examining the Russian intervention into Georgia and seeking to draw lessons from it. It states: ‘In the early hours...
Lesbos: epicentre of refugee crisis!
WARS in Syria and Afghanistan are driving refugees through Turkey as they make their way to Greece. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos,...
HAMAS SLAMS ABBAS ‘INCITEMENT’ –during Arafat anniversary speech
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas’ comments during a memorial ceremony for the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat were slammed as an ‘attempt at incitement’ by...