New Zealand junior doctors strike!
Thousands of New Zealand junior doctors walked off the job for a record five days from Monday in the fifth and longest strike for...
Ealing marchers call for occupation and a general strike! –‘Drastic times...
‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital – Occupy Now!’ rang out in a crescendo as the Ealing leg of the march against four hospital closures stopped outside...
Israel wants another $1 billion military funding from the US –...
UNITED STATES Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has called on Congress to immediately authorise Tel Aviv’s request for extra emergency funding. Graham made the remarks in...
CPSU suspends its election campaign
AUSTRALIA'S Community and Public Sector Union leaders voted on Monday to extend the suspension of all CPSU election campaigning. The union called for an urgent...
Over 300 United Families and Friends march on Downing Street
‘Who ARE the murderers? Police are the murderers!’ shouted a demonstration of over 300 on the annual United Families and Friends march from Trafalgar...
Fatah Suspends Participation In Unity Government!
THE Fatah movement said on Tuesday night that it is suspending participation in the three-month old unity government with Hamas until the...
‘We will resist until every inch of Palestine is free!’ –...
OVER 15,000 workers and youth demonstrated in London on Saturday to mark the 74th anniversary of Nakba Day, marching from BBC Broadcasting House near...
UCU SLAMS PLANS TO AXE DEGREE FUNDING – adults and part-time...
Government plans to axe degree funding for certain students contradict its own lifelong learning agenda and will hit universities offering courses to adults and...
‘US and British governments embroiled in enforced disappearances’ – charges Reprieve
Mustafa Setmariam Naser was ‘disappeared’ while in US custody in 2005. Legal charity Reprieve on Monday demanded that the British government reveal details of the...
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...
Palestinian teachers strike enters third week
AN emergency meeting between Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members, teachers, and the Palestinian teachers’ union ended on Sunday without reaching a solution to end...
‘We’ll keep on striking till we win!’
‘WE are not quitting until we are winning! We will keep on striking until we win,’ Unite member and Serco worker Yomi Sogbesan told...
‘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...
The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...
A STATEMENT by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office Bearers on Sunday outlined the union’s views ‘on the state of...
Palestinian workers and youth are on the march
DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...
Fast food revolt in New Zealand!
RESTAURANT Brands which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr and Starbucks chains has committed to end zero-hour contracts by July this year in...
British Trained Forces Run Amock In Basra
WHILE British troops are sheltering in their heavily protected barracks, the puppet army and police forces that they have trained in Basra are running...
Gadaffi’s son Saif al-Islam freed!
SAIF al-Islam, the second son and heir apparent of the late deposed Libyan Leader Muammar Gadaffi, is said to have been freed in Libya...
Greek public workers national strike
ABOUT 5,000 public sector workers took part in two strike marches in Athens last Wednesday against mass sackings and wage cuts. The one-day national...
700 airport workers on strike in Canada ‘Swissport willing to sacrifice...
OVER 700 ground crew workers at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada’s busiest airport, have been on strike since 9.30pm last Thursday evening, after their...
31 human rights organisations demand UN takes action to defend Palestinians!
Human rights organisations have urgently called on UN member states to take immediate action to ‘protect people deprived of their liberty’ across the occupied...
2000 TAMILS KILLED IN VANNI – SLA shells and bombs safety...
TamilNet reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) launched an indiscriminate artillery barrage into the newly announced ‘safety zone’ on Tuesday killing at least...
US capitalism faces fiscal ‘heart attack’ – socialist revolution is the...
AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...
25 Years Since The Sabra And Shatila Massacres
PALESTINIANS are remembering 25 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre in the Lebanese capital Beirut – in which over 2,000 defenceless Palestinian refugees...
No privatisation of US Postal Service! APWU and NALC oppose Trump...
UNI Global Union said on Thursday that its US affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire...
Venezuelan parliamentary elections are on December 6th!
ON TUESDAY, November 3, the electoral campaign for the parliamentary elections of December 6, 2020 begins based on the schedule set by the National...
Syrian army regaining control in Ghouta
THE Syrian Arab Army has regained control over Madyra town and a number of farms near Jisreen town as part of the ongoing military...
Syria welcomes Russian proposal to ‘prevent US aggression against the Syrian...
DEPUTY Prime Minister and Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, has announced that the Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the proposal of the Russian leadership...
‘THE UNITED STATES CANNOT DECIDE OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE’ says Khalid...
Al-Jazeera satellite TV carried live on 15 October a 50-minute episode of its weekly programme ‘Open Dialogue,’ hosted by Ghassan Bin-Jiddu. He interviewed...
33 arrested ‘indiscriminately’ at Elbit factory siege
PALESTINE Action campaigners have laid siege to a factory in Leicester which is the base of UAV Tactical Systems, owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s...
Thousands Of Calais Refugees To Be Evicted By Police And Troops
THOUSANDS of refugees living in the southern part of the camp in the French port of Calais known as the Jungle have been ordered...
AUSTERITY–• eroding workers rights • driving up unemployment says ILO report
In light of the new International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) ‘World at Work’ report the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is holding the world’s first...
Abbas Under Fire Over Goldstone Surrender
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) decision not to press a vote on a UN report on the Gaza war has angered many Palestinians and...
NOMZAMO WINIFRED MADIKIZELA-MANDELA A TIRELESS FIGHTER AGAINST APARTHEID says SAFTU
‘The South African Federation of Trade Unions lowers its flags in honour of Comrade Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, one of the great revolutionary icons of the...
Striking Butler Hospital workers reject pay offer and remain on strike
Three weeks after Butler Hospital management issued what it called its ‘last, best and final’ contract proposal, the union representing striking workers has ‘overwhelmingly’...
Free the hunger strikers! – demands Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey
OVER 200 people stood in a minute’s silence for those who died in Palestinian and UK jails at the beginning of an Irish solidarity...
17,070 Disabled People Have Died Before Receiving One Penny In Benefits!
IT NOW takes so long for claims to be processed that 17,070 disabled people have died before receiving a penny because they were still...
NUMSA proved right to predict ‘fierce battles’ between workers and...
AS SOON as the 2016 bargaining negotiation began, it became clear that the National Union of Metalworkers SA (NUMSA) had been proved right to...
Furious Parents Fight Plans To Close After-School Clubs And Play Centres
FURIOUS parents and staff belonging to Unison public sector union have forced Crawley Borough Council (CBC) to issue letters to parents to deny it...
Chicago Teachers Take Strike Action!
SCHOOLS were shut once again on Monday morning for 1,500 students in Prospect Heights School District 23, in Chicago, Illinois. The increasingly combative teachers...
30 Years Since The Soweto Uprising
‘Long live the memory of the June 16 martyrs!’ declared the African National Congress last Friday as it marked the 30th Anniversary of the...
Doctors warn of worst-ever winter crisis!
THE President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Katherine Henderson, has urged hospital boards to ‘take immediate action’ to reduce crowding in...
US unions demand no cuts to Medicaid and education
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members across the country have been holding demonstrations throughout the last week against the plans of US President Trump...
£9,000 pinched from public sector pay packets since 2010 says Unison
‘FACING 10 years of pay cuts in real terms, our vital public sector workers – nurses, midwives and refuse collectors – have had an average of...
Syria Condemns US Terrorist Airstrikes!
SYRIA on Friday condemned ‘the US criminal aggression’ which Qassemled to the martyrdom of the leader of al-Quds Failaq, Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani...