‘RESISTANCE IS OUR PEOPLE’S LEGITIMATE RIGHT’ – decides Palestinian National Dialogue...
THE Palestinian National Dialogue Conference (NDC) held on the 25th and 26th of May to try to end the armed conflicts between Hamas...
Sri Lanka Garment Workers Rise Up Over Pensions
THE Sri Lankan proposed private sector pension scheme has angered workers in the garment sector, with trade unionists warning of mass street...
Israeli police raid Jerusalem
ISRAELI police arrested two Palestinians early on Sunday during a police raid on the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya, while the Israeli army arrested...
Angry Cadbury Workers Demand Job Guarantees
Angry Cadbury workers lobbied MPs on Tuesday, entering parliament at precisely 1pm, the exact time that Cadbury shareholders voted in favour of a ‘highly-leveraged’...
Austerity driving up infant mortality
THE GAP in infant mortality rates between English local authorities narrowed between 1999-2010, but that trend has been reversed since 2011 as a result of...
Israel’s Golani Brigade Butalises Palestinians In The City Of Hebron
A NEWLY released report submitted to the United Nations by international organizations working in Hebron (Al Khalil) documents a sharp increase in serious...
Medical Aid Reaches Gaza Following Mass Protests Against The Egyptian Government
MEDICAL aid and 518 international activists finally entered Gaza on Wednesday night, following protests against the Egyptian government’s refusal to let them in led...
Amazon workers ‘Black Friday’ strike
WORKERS at six Amazon distribution centres in Germany and one in Italy began a 24-hour strike on Friday, in a protest timed to coincide...
‘OUR TIME HAS COME’ – Israel to double Golan settlements
‘OUR TIME has come’ said Israeli Premier Naftali Bennett on Sunday adding that the Tel Aviv regime intends to double the number of illegal...
Powerful 5th Anniversary Grenfell Silent Walk’
THERE were more than 5,000 people on the Grenfell Tower Fire 5th Anniversary Silent Walk, organised by Grenfell United on Tuesday 14th June. The walk,...
End Military Trials –Release Detainees
Dozens of activists launched a hunger strike on Sunday at the Egyptian Press Syndicate’s headquarters in Cairo to protest against military rule and the...
US Union Leaders Speak Up In Favour Of Employee Free Choice...
JOHN SWEENEY the president of the AFL-CIO US trade union federation has spoken out in favour of the Employee Free Choice Act. He said...
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...
US airstrikes on Iraq are ‘a clear example of terrorism’ –...
THE United States’ latest military aggression against Iraq’s popular Hashd al-Sha’abi forces that left dozens of casualties continues to draw widespread condemnation from officials...
Civil servants are dreading energy bill hike of 54%
CIVIL servants in the PCS union have shared how they are dreading the steep rise in energy prices as energy regulator Ofgem yesterday confirmed...
US communication workers Labour Day fightback
‘ON this Labour Day, CWA members aren’t taking it easy. Across our union, we’ve been mobilising for fair contracts, organising new members, fighting back...
Leon Trotsky’s CLASS AND ART
THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...
Israeli Occupiers Seal The West Bank And Gaza Strip!
ISRAELI authorities implemented a large-scale closure on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, adding to a long line of punitive measures...
Seven African states condemn AU granting Israel observer status
SEVEN African Arab states have rejected a recent decision by the African Union (AU) Commission to grant the Israeli regime an observer status at...
‘CAPITALISM HAS PROVEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT IT HAS NO...
COSATU President Sidumo Dlamini addressed the COSATU union federation’s 25th anniversary celebration last Sunday. He told his audience: ‘Comrades and friends, we are here today...
GOLAN HEIGHTS SYRIAN TERRITORY – says UN Special Envoy for Syria!
UN SPECIAL Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen on Friday underlined Syria’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, rejecting a US congressional motion to recognise Israel’s...
‘We are staring the death of justice in the face’ –Barristers...
OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...
END ISRAELI OCCUPATION – demands 2,000-strong al-Quds Day London march
TWO THOUSAND people marched through the centre of London on Sunday demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine as part of the...
Make corridor care ‘a never event’ – demand Welsh NHS unions
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) and the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales have joined forces to address the alarming state of corridor...
Milltown Massacre ‘Could Have Been Prevented’
THIS year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations on Monday, March 17 were overshadowed by the 20th anniversaries of two of the most televised bloody massacres...
‘WE WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE’ says Jean Charles de...
THE Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign has vowed to continue fighting until they get justice over the police killing of the Brazilian man...
Israeli missile attack on Homs thwarted by Syria’s air defence!
SYRIA’S air defences have thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a military airbase in the country’s central province of Homs, shooting most of the...
Mexican maquiladora workers win
MEXICAN maquiladora workers in 70 factories have won big wage increases and bonuses in a strike wave that began in January. Maquiladoras are tariff and...
Usw Steps Up Global Campaign For Vale Miners’ Strike
The United Steelworkers’ (USW) global campaign to prevent Brazilian mining giant Vale S.A. from eroding working conditions and denying basic labour rights at its operations worldwide...
‘We’ve just replaced white capitalists with black capitalists’ – NUMSA...
THE working class and the poor have no good story to tell about how their lives have been changed for the better, National Union...
‘The Covid-19 Outbreak Is The Biggest Public Health Challenge For A...
IN LIGHT of the coronavirus pandemic leaseholders who live in buildings clad in the same flammable material which rapidly spread the Grenfell Tower Fire...
NEW ORLEANS POVERTY LEVELS TWICE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE – five years...
NEW Orleans workers and their families are struggling to survive a desperate poverty crisis, five years after the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, the AFL-CIO union...
Yemen Tanks shell protesters
Yemeni protesters kept up the heat on President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday as fresh clashes raged in the flashpoint city of Taiz, and...
5,000 march in Cheltenham as TUC refuses to call a general...
FIVE thousand trade unionists descended on Cheltenham on Saturday, 40 years after 14 workers were sacked at GCHQ for refusing to sign away their...
Powerful march demands ‘Stop closure of children’s services in Ealing’
‘SAVE the Charlie Chaplin Ward, stop the closure of Children’s Services!’ demanded yesterday morning’s 7am-9am Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital. The picket was called by...
Workers Are Furious Over Attacks On Pay Pensions And Services
TWO million teachers, education support workers, lecturers, local government workers, firefighters, civil servants and other public sector workers went on a 24-hour strike on...
‘US RETREATING FROM ATTACKING IRAN’ – claims Iranian newspaper
The US is retreating from an attack on Iran, says an article in Iran’s newspaper Jaam-e Jam, published last Tuesday. It reports: ‘The Israeli Haretz...
Met police officer charged with murder of Chris Kaba – ...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Wednesday that the Metropolitan Police Officer who shot Chris Kaba is being charged with murder. Chris Kaba, 24,...
Open letter to chairs of BMA and BMAGPC
Dear Dr Meldrum, Dr Buckman and all members of the BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC) Following the publication of the health White Paper earlier this...
Sri Lankan students battle against privatisation of the universities – Report...
UDARA Sandaruwan, Acting Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation has issued an appeal to trade unions and human rights organisations of the world to...
GREECE: 50bn Euros sell-off to repay loans
At a press conference last Friday the Greek Finance Minister Yiorghos Papakonstantinou announced the main points of the revised IMF-EC Accord that calls for...
Pirapaharan Pays Tribute To Tna Mp Sivanesan
TAMILNET reports that the leader of the Liberation Tigers, Velupillai Pirapaharan, on Saturday, paid tribute to the slain Jaffna District Tamil National Alliance MP...
7,000 NY nurses strike against ‘dangerous understaffing’
A STRIKE by more than 7,000 nurses at two major New York City hospitals began at 6.00am on Monday after talks aimed at averting...
Striking Garment Workers Shot And Killed In Bangladesh!
TWO striking garment workers were shot dead by police in Bangladesh on Monday. Almost 140 Bangladeshi garment factories were shut as thousands of workers took...
USA public service workers fight anti-union attack
IN ITS 5-4 decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Supreme Court ended the practice of requiring...