Israel’s position has eroded further with each new round of fighting!...
AN ARTICLE in Haaretz says Israel is fatally weak against the Axis of Resistance, which includes the Palestinian and Lebanese movements. Writing in the leading...
‘RESIST DELPHI ATTACKS’ – says ‘The Future of the Union’ UAW...
‘We are moving nearer to Delphi motioning the bankruptcy court to pitch out our labor agreement,’ said ‘The Future of the Union’ rank and...
58 YEARS SINCE THE NABKA – the holocaust through which the...
ON May 15th, Nakba Day, Palestinians commemorate their forced displacement and dispossession resulting from the establishment of the state of Israel. By marking the Nakba...
RAIL FARES SOARING BY 6.2 PER CENT – ‘a massive kicking...
Rail unions, transport campaigners and passenger groups held a national day of action on Tuesday to protest against massive hikes in rail fares, widespread...
Abu Tair and twenty-two others arrested in Israeli police raids...
ISRAELI forces detained Palestinian lawmaker Muhammad Abu Tair and at least 22 others from across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during...
MARIKANA HAS ONCE AGAIN ‘BECOME A KILLING FIELD’ says Amcu
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), the biggest union in South Africa’s ‘platinum belt’, says that Marikana has once again become a...
CHASE FARM A&E AND MATERNITY TO CLOSE with nothing to replace...
IN October 2012 Enfield Council engaged the services of Hygeian Consulting, a specialist healthcare consultancy, to support its scrutiny of the implementation of the...
BUSH TOLD ‘STOP TAX CUTS’ – as over 200,000 refugees...
LOUISIANA authorities say they now have control over the capital New Orleans and have restored law and order, almost a week after the chaos...
CEASEFIRE NOW! – Halt the massacre of the Palestinian and Lebanese...
‘MY TOWN has been demolished. Children are still under rubble. Families are still under rubble,’ said Najid Faqih, from Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, as...
Excessive workload blighting teachers’ lives
EXCESSIVE workload is blighting teachers’ professional lives, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT teachers’ union, has told the Union’s Cymru Annual Conference. The assertion...
PA Cabinet will not allow ‘a return to violence’ – but...
DURING its weekly cabinet meeting on Monday, the Palestinian government in Ramallah condemned the killing of four Palestinians in Nablus in less than 24...
‘The Ltte Is Ready To Implement Every Clause Of The Cease-Fire...
TAMILNET has reported that the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Major General Lars Johan Solvberg, met Liberation Tigers (LTTE)2 political chief B...
Greek seafarers & dockers in 24-hour national strike
GREEK seafarers along with dockers and all other ports workers staged a solid 24-hour national strike last Wednesday against two separate government Bills to...
Two Ukrainian generals and up to 50 officers plus foreign mercenaries...
Two Ukrainian generals and up to 50 officers along with about 20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers were eliminated in Russia’s strike on the...
NO SICK PAY FOR 3.3m AUSTRALIAN WORKERS
Casual workers and those in insecure jobs have been left cruelly exposed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, says the...
‘Who will slay the Elbit Beast?’
TODAY at Woolwich Crown Court the jury is due to deliver the verdict on six of the Filton 24, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema...
25 YEARS SINCE THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE – Part 1: Eddie Shah,...
‘THAT courage is required for a turnout, often indeed much loftier courage, much bolder, firmer determination than for an insurrection, is self-evident.’ ‘It is,...
FORCED MIGRATION USED TO DEFLECT SOCIAL REVOLT – says Philippines health...
‘Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is like a poster girl promoting migration of Filipinos in the name of dollar remittances, at the expense of the poor’, the...
Mishaal Calls For Palestinian Talks Without Conditions
KHALID MISHAAL, head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, has called for an all-inclusive dialogue among all political Palestinian forces, particularly Fatah and Hamas, which would...
Maliki Shuts Down Iraq’s Electrical Trade Unions
THE International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions has expressed outrage at the banning last week of the Iraqi electrical trade...
British soldier who shot Daniel Hegarty charged with murder
A SOLDIER who shot dead a 15-year-old boy in Derry, in the north of Ireland in July 1972 is to be charged with murder. Daniel...
‘This is the generation that is going to end capitalism!’
THE WRP held a 150 strong rally at the end of the London Sertuc (TUC) May Day march from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar...
Banking Panic In The Ukraine
THE Abkhazian and South Ossetian parliaments have been unanimously granted permanent observer status at the 34th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia...
‘RUSSIA WILL CIRCUMVENT EU SANCTIONS!’ – Dmitry Peskov
RUSSIA will circumvent the European Union’s sanctions, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Peskov stated: ‘As far as Russian diamonds are concerned, it was...
Amazon strike on Spain’s Three Kings gift-giving day
WORKERS at Amazon’s biggest warehouse in Spain began a two-day strike in Madrid last week – just ahead of a popular feast day –...
SAFTU demands expropriation of the land without compensation! 72 per cent...
TUESDAY 6th April, marked the 369th anniversary of the arrival of Dutch settlers in South Africa. The first settlers aimed at establishing trading posts...
ACTU fights ‘disgrace of racial discrimination’
‘This programme is a disgrace to all Australians and must be scrapped,’ ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) Indigenous Officer Lara Watson said on...
Turkish Airlines Workers Continue Their Struggle
305 THY (Turkish Airlines) workers who were sacked because they rose against the banning of their strike action in the aviation industry by law,...
US indebtedness unnerves the Bourgeoisie!
THE American viewing public got a stark warning from the billionaire Donald Trump during a recent TV interview when he announced that Americans should...
Israeli Blockade On Medical Supplies Killing Gazans
‘The four-year Israeli siege on Gaza has resulted in the deaths of dozens of Palestinians suffering from health problems due to the lack of...
‘We have jumped from the frying pan into the fire’ say...
ALTHOUGH Zimbabwe’s main opposition group, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), called off anti-government protests in the capital Harare at the last minute last...
28,000 Canadian actors locked out for a year! – nurses rally...
THE UNION representing 28,000 Canadian actors and radio artists reports that 28,000 commercial workers have been locked out from commercial acting work for over...
Canadian schools – not safe to reopen – say union leaders
‘The current back-to-school plan does not provide the adequate level of safety required to protect students and their families from Covid-19,’ say union leaders...
Iran, Russia And China Begin Military Drills In Indian Ocean
IRAN, Russia, and China have kicked off joint military drills in the north of the Indian Ocean, with vessels from the three countries hitting...
‘If Pelosi cares so much for human rights she should apologise...
CHINA has called on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to express remorse and apologise for the atrocities committed by the Americans in Afghanistan, Iraq,...
China hosts Shanghai Cooperation Summit
China and Russia are the key victors of World War II, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin...
1,380 Workers From India And Nepal Have Died Since Qatar ...
On International Workers Memorial Day, 28th April 2014, it is time to call the 2022 World Cup in Qatar by its proper name: a...
South African health unions demonstrate in Pretoria for more hospital doctors
SOUTH African health unions demonstrated outside the Health Ministry in Pretoria on Friday demanding that the ANC government increase the health care budget and...
PRISONERS ‘TREATED LIKE ANIMALS’ alleges Human Rights Watch and NAACP
THE US Department of Justice should immediately investigate allegations that pre-trial detainees evacuated after Hurricane Katrina to Louisiana’s Jena Correctional Facility were ‘treated like...
Algerian riot police invade court to attack judges!
Algerian riot police clashed with judges participating in a nationwide strike on Sunday in the north-western port city of Oran. The judges are pushing for...
Occupation a ‘major barrier’ to healthcare for Palestinians says World Health...
PALESTINIANS in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continue to face major barriers to the realisation of the right to health, said Gerald Rockenschaub,...
Amazon workers campaign for their rights in the US
WASHINGTON – Could Amazon’s Jeff Bezos survive one of his company’s own warehouses for a week? That’s the question Nancy Becker, an American employed...
Mass Hunger Strikes In Israeli Jails Planned
AFTER Fatah-affiliated Palestinians held in Israeli prisons organised a mass hunger strike to take place on Palestinian Prisoners Day later this month, scores of...
US DAIRY WORKERS FATALITIES United Farm Workers union fighting Darigold
AMERICA’s United Farm Workers union (UFW) is fighting an attack by Darigold, the largest dairy processor and cooperative in the Pacific Northwest. UFW says: ‘While...
Essex FBU Fighting Imposed Unworkable Shifts
CONTROL staff with the Essex fire service, 95% of whom are women, held a one-day strike on Tuesday (25 August 2015) as part of...