FINANCIAL CRISIS HITS GAZA! – as the deadly siege is tightened
The Gaza government is facing a financial crisis in light of a ban imposed on bank transfers to the Hamas-led government by Egypt and...
THE NEW YORK BUS STRIKE GOES ON says ATU leader
‘AS I HAVE said from the beginning, the best way for this strike to end is with Local 1181, Mayor Bloomberg and the city’s...
Russian battlegroups are continuing to destroy Ukrainian formations!
The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 300 servicemen in the Kursk area between last Thursday and Friday, and 21,900 since the start of...
PROBE SRI LANKA WAR CRIMES demands TNA MP
TAMIL National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran has called for an international investigation into the state of Prisoners of War (POW) in Sri Lanka,...
AFRICA BOILING! • Nigerian unions fight 300% energy price hike •...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the government against the proposed 300 per cent hike in the electricity tariff. On Monday, the NLC cautioned...
‘STOP JUSTIFYING ISRAELI ASSAULT!’ – Ashrawi tells EU leadership
PALESTINIAN activist Dr Hanan Ashrawi yesterday called for the EU Foreign Affairs Council to stop ‘adopting Israel’s narrative’ and to stop ‘justifying Israel’s...
Sri Lankan university teachers demand the resignation of Rajapaksa and the...
The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) has demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D. Wickremaratne,...
‘THE FUTURE OF THE NHS IS AT STAKE!’ – say ‘Mums...
OVER 400 doctors, furious at government ‘reforms’ which threaten their profession – making a staggering 14,000 hospital doctors redundant from August – descended on...
How British spy planes aid Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza
BY IVAN KESIC The findings of aviation enthusiasts and UK-based investigative journalists about British espionage activities in Gaza with aircraft stationed in Cyprus reveal...
Food Crisis Hitting Poor In Pakistan
PAKISTAN has faced a rising food crisis for the last three years, and global price hikes could worsen the situation, warns UN agency IRIN. ‘Given...
Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Supports The Third Intifada
SAYYED Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, says a new Intifada (uprising) is the right choice for Palestinians to fight the...
‘ALL LEVELS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS’ FAILED NEW ORLEANS – says CAW...
On a special trip to New Orleans on Tuesday, August 29, one year after Hurricane Katrina, Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove said Canadian...
US government tottering after 40 days of shutdown
A deal aimed at ending the United States government shutdown was passed in the Senate on Sunday, paving the way for the record-breaking impasse...
Massive London marches call to kick out the Tories – Three...
NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...
French Foreign Minister Gets A Hostile Reception In Gaza
ANGRY Palestinians demonstrated against French Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie as she visited Gaza on Friday over a ‘war crimes’ quote attributed to her by...
‘Every government, including the UK, must be made to boycott Israel’...
IN TRAFALGAR Square, the chairwoman introduced the 11th national demonstration for Freedom and Justice for Palestine on Saturday 30 March, as of special significance...
‘Two-Faced Ed’ Reinstates Blairism At Cbi Conference
HE pledged to ditch Blairism when elected as the new Labour Party leader, but Ed Miliband made it clear on Monday that he...
Black Friday Wal-Mart strike! – in unity with Ferguson campaigners
THIS year’s Black Friday anti-Wal-Mart protests in the US were the widest-reaching ever, with pickets and strikes at 1,600 stores in 49 states to...
Hamas Frees Political Prisoners
ISMAIL Haniya, the prime minister of the Hamas-run de facto government in Gaza, pledged to release all political prisoners on Thursday, and called on...
Actors to join screenwriters in Hollywood strike!
WITH 160,000 performers – from A-listers to extras – voting to take strike action if a deal is not struck in time, the first...
NHS STRIKE ACTION ON 29th JANUARY – ambulance service out on...
NHS workers are striking again in a row over pay. Unison members working in the NHS in England will walkout for 12 hours between 9am–9pm...
Ussr: A New Stage Of Confrontation
THE DEEPENING world economic imperialist crisis is leading to a much worsening of working class conditions in all parts of the...
US launched cruise missile strikes in Yemen
RECENT attacks on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile strikes, were led by the United States according to a CBS television report Saturday. The...
‘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...
Strength of Palestinian resistance causes Kerry/Zionist fall out
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday blamed approval of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem for derailing peace talks with Palestinians, a charge...
SAFTU celebrates the International Day of the Nurse – condemns government...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), on this day when the world celebrates the International Day of the Nurse and the 200th...
Free the Filton 24! demands 100,000-strong London march
The first speaker in Whitehall was Faris Amer of the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘This government thinks when they clamp down on...
‘THIS ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT DOWN BEFORE IT BRINGS ALL...
THE Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection, Avi Gabay, has officially resigned in protest at the appointment of extremist politician Avigdor Lieberman as the regime’s...
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...
Investigatory Powers Bill threat to whistleblowers
HUMAN rights groups warned the United Nations this week that a new British law allowing police to see journalists’ communications threatens sensitive sources and...
‘UN ‘deeply Concerned’ About Gaza Healthcare
THE United Nations on Wednesday said it was ‘deeply concerned’ about the deterioration of the health care system in the Gaza Strip due to...
Telegraph appoints spin doctor Coulson
THE decision of the Telegraph Media Group (TMG) to appoint former Cameron spin doctor Andy Coulson to provide PR advice to the company has...
Tamil Students Demand Release Of Colleague
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in their sentry post along Jaffna lagoon found a male corpse with gun shot wounds washed ashore on...
Israel constantly violating ceasefire agreement in southern Lebanon – Lebanese villagers...
Israel has been violating the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon without break, deliberately targeting civilian areas in the south. Despite drones incessantly buzzing over their homes, people...
Youth workers being sacked–centres being closed
GOVERMENT cuts plunge youth work into crisis, warns a Unison report. More than 2000 youth workers have been axed and 350 youth centres closed since...
Terrorists intensify their crimes in Aleppo
ARMED terrorist groups, positioned on the western outskirts of Syria’s Aleppo province, have intensified their crimes and attacks on safe and densely populated neighbourhoods...
Tens Of Thousands Demand An End To Egyptian Military Rule
About 300 people are being held after violent clashes outside the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday which left one soldier dead and hundreds...
Champoor Tamils Call For Resettlement In Their Homes
TamilNet reports that uprooted Tamils in Champoor, whose lands were taken away by the Sri Lankan government for India’s thermal power project, depopulating the...
AL-GHAJAR OCCUPATION A ‘TIME-BOMB’ – warns Lebanese Foreign Minister
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Na’im Qasim said last Thursday: ‘We proposed the national unity government as a positive concept.’ Speaking on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television, Qasim continued:...
Stop the closure of Ealing maternity!
‘ONCE we know we are ready it will take just six weeks to close the maternity at Ealing,’ Pippa Nightingale, Head of Midwifery, Imperial...
Israeli attack on Gaza is an act of clear aggression says...
THE Leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the latest Israeli attack on the besieged Gaza Strip is an act of clear aggression and...
‘PUBLIC AND FIREFIGHTERS’ SAFETY NEEDLESSLY PUT AT RISK’ says East...
The FBU and the Chief Fire Officer met this week and agreed a way forward to maintain fire cover within East Sussex. Recently, East Sussex...
400 angry leaseholders rally at Parliament – they demand property owners...
OVER 400 angry leaseholders from the End Our Cladding Scandal campaign, the National Leasehold Campaign rallied in Parliament Square last Thursday demanding an end...
Not Brown But A Workers Government And Socialism
The News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance Conference held in east London on Sunday May 13th unanimously voted to carry into action the following Main...
Step Up The Struggle To Keep Chase Farm Open!
TUESDAY’S mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital heard that the decision to close the hospital’s A&E, Maternity and Paediatric Departments has been ‘put on...