BRITAIN’S DIRTY SECRET: UK aided CIA in extended programme of torture!
IN THE wake of recent revelations, it appears that agents from Britain’s intelligence community might finally be held accountable for their previously lesser-known involvement...
48,000 University of California workers strike!
THE UAW (United Auto Workers) union has been leading a strike involving some 48,000 academic workers in ten University of California cities — including...
Economic Freedom Fighters reject the deployment of SA Defence Force during...
THE EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) ‘rejected’ the deployment of members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) across the country, during Monday’s national...
‘I Can’t Breathe’: Race, Death and British Policing
BLACK men are seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism is not being addressed, the charity Inquest has found. Families of...
5,833 shops shut in 2018!
STORES, banks and other businesses are disappearing at the fastest rate since 2010 a PwC survey has revealed with 2,461 shop closures in 2018. 3,372...
Workers in the US are joining unions in their tens of...
Workers across the United States, including in multi-national corporations like Starbucks and Amazon, as well as in the video game industry, are joining trade...
Russian Troops Pushing Forward In Ukraine
RUSSIA’S victory is unavoidable. It is based on the unity of the Russian people, the heroism of special operation fighters and the operation of...
Marchers call for Tories to be brought down on ‘Britain is...
Over 10,000 workers and youth joined the ‘Britain is Broken’ march through London on Saturday, called by the People’s Assembly, with big delegations from...
Striking nurses support general strike call!
Nurses were in a determined mood on the picket lines outside King’s College Hospital (KCH), roundly condemning Prime Minister Sunak’s refusal to even speak...
Striking RMT Members Demand To Know How Much Has Been Paid...
WITH RMT members ‘rock solid’ in their latest day of strike action at Abellio ScotRail and Serco Caledonian Sleeper on Sunday, the railworkers union...
All India Coal Workers Federation Are Fighting The Break-Up And Privatisation...
THE RECENTLY held two-day national meeting of the All India Coal Workers’ Federation in Jharkhand’s Ranchi decided on launching a month-long series of actions...
August 21 – Felixstowe Port is to come to a standstill...
THE most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout. This is after after pay talks broke...
Israeli troops shoot dead two Palestinian Civil Defence workers in Nablus
THE Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have slammed the fatal Israeli shooting of two Palestinian men at a military checkpoint south of...
CGT calls Day of Action on June 6th!
FRENCH trade union federation, the CGT, says a new day of action is scheduled for June 6 at the call of the inter-union, which...
GRENFELL – ‘Change the law so that those who are considered...
As the phase 2 of the public inquiry in the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the life of 72 residents draws to a close...
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,...
TALKS WILL NOT STOP PLANNED STRIKES ‘ Money needs to be...
PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak is facing calls from senior Tories, including members of his own government, to tackle the crisis in the NHS and...
Ukrainian military using school buildings to launch rocket attacks – and...
UKRAINE’S Right Sector neo-Nazi battalion has deployed multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) in a school in the New York settlement, and is firing at Russian...
Education spending cuts ‘without precedent’ in post-war UK history – Institute...
‘The cuts to education spending over the last decade are effectively without precedent in post-war UK history, including a 9% real-terms fall in school...
‘Israel must eliminate its stockpile of nuclear weapons’ – says...
A SENIOR Iranian diplomat has condemned the lack of progress in the implementation of the UN 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) resolution and the...
‘A general strike to defeat this Bill is our policy!’ says...
‘We support a general strike to defeat this bill, we supported it in the TUC and it’s our policy,’ RMT leader Mick Lynch told...
ran’s Foreign Minister visiting Russia to facilitate solution to Ukrainian crisis
IRAN’S foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says his visit to Russia will focus on efforts to facilitate a resolution of the Ukraine conflict. ‘The main purpose...
Government Failed In Its Duty Of Care!
The UK government ‘failed in its duty of care’ to doctors and the healthcare workforce in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, says the...
Eskom pay struggle intensifies in SA – SAFTU calls for a...
SOUTH Africa’s trade unions have been meeting with their members to discuss the proposed wage offer from energy giant Eskom, after a proposed agreement...
SAFTU condemns interest rates hike as postal workers strike for 15%...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Friday condemned the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiking of the...
Politicians have been ‘too squeamish’ to take action on immigration –...
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman has come under fire for her speech to the party conference viciously attacking refugees. She told the Tory faithful that...
Telefonistas are set for national strike in Mexico!
TELEFONISTAS de Mexico are on the verge of a national strike. The Union of Telephone Operators of the Mexican Republic, STRM, issued a double strike...
Strikes, fires and fuel hikes in South Africa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape notes recent developments affecting the Taxi Industry in Cape Town and the...
Israeli military attacks the Gaza Strip!
JERUSALEM – Early on Friday, the Israeli military’s press service confirmed that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) launched a rocket strike on the Gaza Strip...
64 Palestinians wounded protesting against the desecration of Joseph’s Tomb!
HAMAS, the resistance movement, says Palestinians should keep up the ‘armed resistance’ against Israeli occupation in the West Bank, after one of the regime’s...
Iranian missiles strike Mossad bases in Erbil – after two Iranians...
IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a stern warning to Israel following a retaliatory missile strike on the ‘strategic centre of Zionist...
Union leaders address UCU strike rally
UCU MEMBERS were out on strike on Wednesday with historic numbers this week over stagnant pay, miserable working conditions and casualisation of academic work. In...
Iran, Russia and China hold joint naval exercise in Gulf of...
NAVAL forces from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and China have practised shooting at aerial targets during a night-time operation over an area...
‘Israel Is Encircled By The Resistance Front’ Says Iran
A TOP Iranian official says Israel has been caught off guard and is encircled by the resistance front, adding that normalisation of ties between...
Youth organisations lead 150,000-strong march in Paris
A dozen youth organisations marched through Paris on Saturday afternoon against the government’s pension age hike from 62 to 64, following last Thursday’s mass demonstrations...
‘SUPPORT OUR CAMPAIGN!’ – call by NEU ahead of next week’s...
‘AFTER the regional days of strike action across the union, the next action will be 15 and 16 March, by teachers in all state...
Putin plans to meet Chinese President and other leaders at Shanghai...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders at the upcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation...
‘We’re ready to take on the government and the employers’ –...
Prof Philip Banfield, Chairman of BMA Council had opened the rally. He said: ‘Every day I am 100% committed to restoring your pay and...
Black people in US ‘subjected to brutality and death in the...
AN African American journalist and political analyst has said that ever since the inception of the police in the United States African people have...
Myanmar junta jails photojournalists
ONE media worker has been sentenced and jailed and another detained amid rising attacks against the press by the military junta in Myanmar. A freelance...
150,000 public sector workers strike – manning 250 picket lines across...
WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...
Biden trip seeks to obliterate Palestinian cause
THE Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has condemned US President Joe Biden’s forthcoming visit to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, as being...
Most Ukrainian troops ‘killed or captured’ says Russia
TALKS between Russia and Ukraine should be held on conditions advanced publicly by the Russian side and take into account the actual situation, speaker...
Capitalism bankrupt worldwide – forward to world revolution! – WRP General...
‘Capitalism is bankrupt worldwide and has to be brought down. In Britain there is a massive strike wave and the working class is crying...
‘Return retirement age to 60’ says French CGT union
‘WHILE more than 2 million of us took to the streets on January 19th, a new day of inter-union mobilisation is scheduled for Tuesday...