Western Powers Warn Assad Not To Stand!
ELEVEN Western and Middle Eastern powers on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against holding elections, saying that the vote would have no credibility...
‘I AM READY FOR THE GALLOWS’ – Says Rajapaksa as...
SRI Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa, during a meeting held at Temple Trees with electoral officers, declared that he is willing to go even to ...
‘NO ONE BUT SERBIA MAY LAY CLAIM TO THE TERRITORY OF...
VLADIMIR CHIZHOV, The Russian ambassador to the EU, has warned that Moscow will react negatively to countries which recognise Kosovo independence. ‘This, above all, refers...
Gate Gourmet Has To Win For The Whole Working Class
MORE than 400 youth and trade unionists showed their solidarity with the Gate Gourmet sacked workers at a second anniversary benefit rally in Southall...
Release Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar – demands Palestinian Authority Prisoners Affairs...
AN Israeli court on Thursday ordered the release imprisoned Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners’ Affairs Committee said. Issa Qaraqe...
THREE FIRE STATIONS THAT RESCUED APOLLO THEATREGOERS ARE TO CLOSE IN...
THREE of the eight fire stations that sent engines to the Apollo Theatre last night are set to close in less than three weeks,...
NO JOBS FOR NEWLY QUALIFIED MIDWIVES – as Tory coalition refuses...
A survey of 803 students and newly qualified midwives by the RCM found that more than a half (52 per cent) of students ‘strongly...
Iranian tanker ‘Fortune’ arrives in Venezuela
VENEZUELA’S permanent representative to the UN has welcomed the arrival of Iranian tankers loaded with gasoline to the South American country’s waters, urging US...
‘WE’RE HERE TO GET FREE EDUCATION BACK’ say students
Students on a 1,000-strong march through London on Wednesday called on the trade unions to act to restore free education. Students marched from University of...
‘Summer Of Dissent’ Against Police Bill
A mass petition with over 600,000 signatures was delivered to the Government on Monday, demonstrating the strength of public opposition to the Police, Crime,...
Agreement Between Hamas And Fatah To ‘Contain Tensions’
THE Egyptian security delegation’s efforts succeeded last Friday night in reaching a mutual agreement between Fatah and Hamas to contain the tensions and differences...
‘Western countries preparing for direct conflict with Russia’ – warns Serbian...
WESTERN countries are actively preparing for a direct conflict with Russia, says Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Vucic told the Pink TV channel: ‘The West would...
‘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...
Russia Making Major Advances In Ukraine
A Ukrainian drone has been shot down by Russian air defence systems over the Bryansk Region bordering Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said on...
Kerry Says Washington And Moscow Have Found Common Ground Over Syria...
RUSSIA and the US have agreed on a number of ‘critical’ issues, particularly with regard to Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry and...
Gate Gourmet Workers’ 6-Months Picket Success
THE locked-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to fight until they win reinstatement on their old terms and conditions, six months after the 700-strong...
‘UNIVERSITY LEADERS HAVE FAILED STAFF AND STUDENTS!’ says UCU trade union...
UNIVERSITY leaders have ‘failed staff and students’, the University and College Union (UCU) said today as up to ten days of strike action began...
‘In short the worst is yet to come!’ – IMF Director...
CONSISTENCY between fiscal and monetary policy is paramount for economic and financial stability as high debts and deficits push more countries into budget crises...
‘EDUCATION IS NOT A CONVEYOR BELT’ NUT leader Christine Blower condemns...
TORY-LIBDEM plans to ‘rank’ 11-year-olds were denounced as potentially the return of the hated 11-plus by the NASUWT on Wednesday, while they were also...
Clarke’s New Security Measures . . . ‘Violate Human Rights’ Says...
‘The new measures, proposed today by the UK government, targeting non-nationals considered to be threatening public order, national security and the rule of law,...
‘Innocent Men Were The Victims Of Violent And Cowardly Abuse By...
AT A press conference last Thursday on the just published report by Sir William Gage on the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, lawyers issued a...
GAZA DEATH TOLL ‘AT LEAST 360,000’ says US attorney
A RENOWNED American attorney and indigenous rights campaigner estimates that the Israeli military has killed at least 360,000 people in its 15-month-long genocidal war...
PALESTINIAN PILGRIMS RETURN – while Gaza faces health disaster
ISMAIL Haniyeh, the Hamas leader in Gaza, has said that Egypt had ‘not surrendered to blackmail’ when it decided to allow Palestinian pilgrims to...
‘The right to return is not subject to any haggling process’...
HAMAS LEADER, Ismail Haniyeh warned the Palestinian resistance has many ‘powerful cards’ it can use in the fight to put an end to the...
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up Victoria&Albert Museum, Cromwell Road,London SW7 2RL 16 June – 4 November 2018 Admission £15 (concessions available). SOLD out to the end of...
RMT Opposes General Council’s Statement On The Single Market
THE first session of the TUC Congress, on Sunday afternoon in Brighton saw a division over the General Council statement on Brexit and Composite...
FBU Angry Over Police Attack On Black Firefighter!
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has welcomed the news that three Metropolitan Police officers are to face disciplinary proceedings following a racially motivated attack...
33% rise in Court Orders to evict private tenants – while...
new figures show there has been a massive 33% rise in court orders to evict private tenants over the past two years. Housing charity Crisis...
NATO declares Russia to be the ‘most significant and direct threat!’
NATO has officially declared Russia the ‘most significant and direct threat’ to the security of its members. This marks a radical strategic shift spurred...
Three children killed in US-led bombing of Deir Ezzor
THREE children were killed in air strikes carried out by the US-led coalition on the small Syrian town of Al-Shaafah in the Deir...
Israeli troops destroy water pipelines in the Jordan Valley
THE residents of the village of Kardala in the northern Jordan Valley said this week that Israeli forces came to their village and destroyed...
Greek Seafarers Call 24-Hour Strike
The Federation of Greek Seafarers Trades Union PNO have called a 24-hour strike for 16 April on all ferries, passenger and cargo ships, against...
Journalists Cannot Reveal Sources
IN a hard-hitting personal reflection, Irish Political Journalist and National Union of Journalists member JOHN COULTER vehemently defends the right of reporters to withhold...
Amnesty Condemns Egyptian Military
THE Egyptian military authorities expansion of the emergency law is the greatest erosion of human rights since the revolution forced the resignation of...
Russia focussing on the liberation of the Donbass
RUSSIAN Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow has completed the main objectives of the first phase of the special military operation in Ukraine and...
TUC holds Palestine Day of Action!
There was a lively protest on Thursday afternoon of around 60 people outside Stratford Town Hall in support of the ‘Day of Action for...
‘The Martyrdom of Palestinian Women and Children Will End the Zionist...
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Israeli regime’s killing of innocent Palestinian women and children will spell its end. Raeisi made the remarks at the...
UNITE MUST CALL MASS MEETINGS TO REJECT BA’s WAGE-CUTTING & MASS...
FORTY-TWO THOUSAND British Airways workers have been sent letters from Director of Heathrow, Mel Birch, dated 15th July 2020, telling them that they face...
‘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...
‘Resist Israeli Pressure Tactics’
PALESTINIAN leaders called on factions responsible for capturing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to resist ‘Israeli pressure tactics’ aimed at forcing them to drop their...
RAJAPAKSE WAR CRIMINAL – declare 6,000 Tamil Eelam demonstrators
WE WANT Tamil Eelam!’, ‘Don’t kill Tamil people!’, ‘Let us live in peace!’, ‘Rajapakse – war criminal!’ and ‘Sri Lanka – terror government!’ shouted...
Hezbollah Urges Unity Among Resistance Groups Until Final Victory Is Achieved!
The secretary General Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has underscored the significance of unity among resistance groups until achieving final victory in Operation al-Aqsa Storm,...
‘Gangster capitalism has no place in 21st century!’
GMB holds fruit-picking giant Fyffes ultimately responsible for a brutal machete attack which left a young man with life-changing injuries. Misael Sanchez was slashed across...
Nuj Demands Official Investigation Into Police Misconduct!
THE NATIONAL Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for an official investigation into the reporting of police misconduct cases. The Times newspaper has alleged that...
ATHENS: 40,000 MARCH – on 37th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising
OVER 40,000 students and workers demonstrated in Athens last Wednesday on the 37th anniversary of the Polytechnic students’ Uprising of November 17, 1973, which...