Massive support for GMB strike call at ASDA
GMB shop stewards met in Manchester yesterday to plan strike action after members of the union at 20 Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots voted decisively...
‘THE DAY OF ISRAELI MILITARY TOURISM ON THE LEBANESE BORDER AND...
HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking via a giant screen on Saturday, vowed to respond to attacks on Hezbollah. HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking...
Egypt Collaborating With Israel In The Sinai!
EGYPT’S President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has just acknowledged, in an interview broadcast just eight days ago on US television, that his administration maintains deep...
Colombia Orders Israeli Ambassador To Leave Country!
Colombia said on Monday evening that Israel’s ambassador must leave the country after President Gustavo Petro criticised the regime for crimes against the Palestinians...
Israeli forces demolish hundreds of homes in Jerusalem
LAST year, Israeli officials approved plans for the construction of thousands of new settler housing units and demolished dozens of Palestinian-owned buildings in occupied...
‘Not One Dollar, Not One Dime, – Cutting Wages Is A...
AROUND 75 rank-n-file members of the United Auto Workers demonstrated outside the historic Flint East Delphi plant on February 16, 2006. Workers from Saginaw, Flint...
Huge Palestine demonstration in the Yemen
Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets across the country to express their solidarity with Palestinians in the face of the relentless Israeli air...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
General strike to support Junior Doctors and save NHS!
JUNIOR Doctors start their continuous four-day 96-hour strike at 06.59 today, Tuesday 11 April, and end it at 06.59 on Saturday 15 April. Backed by...
Thousands march in funeral procession of Al-kharroubi
THOUSANDS of Palestinians in the city of al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank took part in the funeral of 19-year-old Ahmad Nashat Othman...
HUGE MOBILISATION – BUT HARDLY ANY AID – as 20,000 bodies...
THE death toll in Haiti is mounting, with about 20,000 bodies driven out of the capital Port-au-Prince to be burned, according to the Haitian...
5,000 mass protest against Palestinian starvation
‘STOP starving Gaza!’ demanded over 7,000 workers and youth at a mass demonstration outside Downing Street last Friday evening. The ‘emergency protest’ was called by...
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Strike
SAN ANTONIO Symphony Orchestra musicians have called a strike after management imposed a binding new contract on them from September 13. The Texan San Antonio...
Germany to send 2,000 additional anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to...
GERMANY will send 2,000 additional anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to replenish the country’s depleting arsenal and bolster its defences against the Russian military operation. The...
US fast food strikers demand $15 an hour!
FAST food workers walked out of their restaurants all around America last week for the seventh time in nearly two years – to demand...
GEORGIA’S ACTIONS ARE US-INSPIRED – to bring NATO peacekeepers into Ossetia...
GEORGIA’S latest actions are aimed at ousting Russian peacekeepers from South Ossetia and bringing a NATO police force there, Col-Gen Leonid Ivashov, former chief...
Nigerian unions will strike against oil company intimidation!
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN said that...
Palestinian teenagers seized in overnight raids
ISRAELI occupation forces arrested 13 Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids on Wednesday night – one of the arrests was south of Nablus,...
25,000 held in US customs on Mexican border
DESPITE the end of the United States Title 42 border restrictions, obstacles and the lack of legal options to reach the US will continue to have a serious...
NO TO NHS SELL-OFF! – say angry workers and patients
Unison on Monday sent a file of hundreds of testimonies from health workers, patients and members of the public who care about the NHS,...
CGT to march in Paris against far right immigration law
ON JANUARY 21, ‘let’s march for freedom, equality, fraternity,’ the French trade union federation CGT is urging. It said: ‘201 personalities are calling to march...
UNHCR condemns UK for plan to deport all asylum seekers
THE UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has condemned the practice by countries like the UK of deporting asylum seekers for processing in...
Harvard Students Battle For Union
SUPPORTERS of Harvard’s student unionisation effort held a rally in the Yard and delivered a petition to Massachusetts Hall on Wednesday, urging the University...
Bangladesh workers and students ‘lay siege to Dhaka!’
At least 76 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and dozens more injured in a new round of violence in Bangladesh over the...
100,000 March In Dublin Against Water Charges
HUGE numbers of anti-water-charges demonstrators marched through Dublin city last Saturday, ending with a 100,000-strong rally at the Spire on O’Connell Street, with...
37 farm unions demonstrate on Indian Independence Day
From Our India Correspondent ON TUESDAY 26th January, Indian Republic Day, a huge parade took place of at least 37 farm unions.
In this rally, they...
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...
Lecturers & Students Must Unite And Fight
‘EVERYONE, all of the country, must get organised to take rent strike action, we have shown that rent strikes work,’ Angus O’Brien, the student...
China’s economy grows by 5.4% each year
CHINA has the confidence and capability to mitigate the adverse impacts of external shocks on its economy and sustain sound economic development, a Chinese...
68 Yemen Covid-19 deaths ‘tip of iceberg’ says MSF
THE DOCTORS Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres – MSF) main Covid-19 treatment centre in Aden in southern Yemen has recorded at least 68 deaths...
‘Corruption Is The Programme Of The Elite To Steal From The...
‘We do not like corruption, because corruption is a programme of the elite in society to steal from the poor,’ said COSATU General Secretary,...
STOP THE WAR AGAINST THE TAMILS – urges mass demonstration
TAMILNET reports that the Indian High Commissioner in Mauritius last Friday rebuffed a memorandum from thousands of Mauritian Tamil demonstrators, requesting India stop the...
Egyptian forces turn back fleeing refugees – as attacks on Gaza...
ISRAELI shells hit the Gaza tunnels last Sunday evening, killing two and injuring 22. The blasts also prompted hundreds to race for new...
‘We want justice for myself and my family’ – Mohammed Abdul...
THE anger of the local community against the police raid in Forest Gate on June 2 burst onto the streets of Newham, east London,...
Glasgow Unemployment Crisis
Targets set by ministers for agencies trying to get Scotland’s long-term unemployed off benefits are making the problem worse, not better. That is the finding...
Release Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed
On International Day Against Torture last Thursday, legal charity Reprieve renewed its call for the release of torture victim Binyam Mohamed from US concentration...
UN Security Council must condemn Israeli nuclear weapons
THE Iranian Ambassador to the UN urged the UN Security Council (UNSC) to address international demands that Israel be condemned for its nuclear weapons,...
‘Police Need To Be Accountable For These Killings’
OVER 1,500 people on Saturday took part in the United Families and Friends Campaign 13th annual procession in central London against deaths in custody. The...
University of California workers strike for pay! – while unions condemn...
Tens of thousands of workers at University of California campuses and UC health care facilities started a 48-hour strike on Wednesday. The strike includes more...
Rouhani answers Trump’s ‘insults and false accusations’
IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani made a defiant televised speech to the nation on Saturday night in response to the anti-Iran stances of US President...
US Volkswagen workers win union recognition
UNITED AUTOWORKERS (UAW) officials on Saturday applauded workers’ ‘courage and persistence’ after a vote on union recognition at VW’s Chattanooga plant and...
Iranians turn out in their millions to bid farewell to Ayatollah...
Iran will never abandon its quest for revenge over the assassination of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Army chief...
‘WE WILL PROTECT YOUR PENSION BY ALL MEANS’ – pledges PCS
in a notice to members, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) explains why the government’s pensions offer is bad news for all members. The...
‘QANTAS PLANNED TO USE PANDEMIC TO OUTSOURCE 2,500 WORKERS’ –...
AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is demanding that PM Scott Morrison explains what he knew about Qantas management’s long-term decision to axe and outsource...
Nursing Associates to administer drugs unsupervised!
NURSING Associates have been given the go-ahead to administer drugs, unsupervised, to the alarm of the nurses’ union RCN. NHS to train 2,000 new Nursing...