‘GAZA IS OPEN FOR ALL’ – Hamas’ Haniya welcomes Fatah’s Sha’ath
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya welcomed Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Sha’ath into his home in the Ash-Shati Refugee Camp on Thursday, along with...
179 UK MEDICS HOLD LONDON PROTEST FOR GAZA – to highlight...
HEALTHWORKERS 4 Palestine and Amnesty International UK staged a mass solidarity protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Friday night. The protest was to...
German GDLTrain Drivers Union 3-Day Strike
GERMANY'S GDL train drivers’ union started a three day strike yesterday which concludes tomorrow. The strike is an escalation of a wage dispute with rail...
TORTURE, STATE EXECUTIONS AND ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENT! – the US human rights...
In the Americas many human rights have been recognised in law, if not always in practice, over the past 50 years, says the annual...
Threat To Sack All London Firefighters!
Ian Leahair, FBU Executive Council Member for London, on Thursday issued the following statement on London fire commissioner Ron Dobson’s threat to sack the...
Global Academic Boycott Of University Of Liverpool As Lecturers Fight Sackings
THE GLOBAL academic boycott of University of Liverpool began on Friday as lecturers fight against the sacking of 21 staff. The University and College Union...
Senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustains multiple rib fractures after...
SENIOR Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustained multiple rib fractures after being violently assaulted by Israeli prison guards, it was revealed on Wednesday. Barghouti was attacked...
‘STOP CODDLING ECONOMIC CRIMINALS’ – SAFTU tells South African Treasury
SAFTU (The South African Federation of Trades Unions) has called on the South African Treasury and the Reserve Bank to ‘stop coddling economic criminals...
The Art of Revolution 1917-2017
Undercroft Gallery 112-134 Market Place Norwich NR2 Until October 14 HURRY to catch the ‘Art of Revolution’ exhibition taking place in Norwich, dedicated to the 100th anniversary...
SAFTU calls South Africa national strike for August 24th – against...
A NATIONAL strike across South Africa against the rising costs of living, load shedding, and other economic challenges will take place on 24 August,...
Assad ‘ready for dialogue’ – says President Putin in Sochi
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi on Thursday that he is convinced that Syrian...
Bin anti-union Commission report say Aussie unions
THE Royal Commission report into Trade Unions should be relegated to the dustbin of 2015, along with Abbott and Co,’ said Australian Construction, Forestry,...
Emergency Clinic Replaced With ‘Information Service’!
OVER 60 health workers, service users and local residents demonstrated against the closure of the Maudsley Hospital Emergency Clinic outside the renowned mental health...
‘The criminal assassination of Qassem Soleimani must be pursued vigorously’ –...
RAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf has called on neighbouring Iraq to ‘vigorously’ follow up on the US assassination of top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General...
Striking South African social workers barricade
STRIKING South African social workers have barricaded the entrances to care centres and are vowing not to leave until their demands – an immediate...
IndustriALL demonstrates at mine owners Glencore HQ
IN RESPONSE to mine owners Glencore and Xstrata’s arrogant refusal to meet with a delegation of IndustriALL global union affiliates to discuss labour issues...
10,000 SA workers indefinite strike
NEARLY 10,000 workers employed by the South African Revenue Services (SARS) began indefinite strike action last Thursday to fight for an 11.4% salary increase. Members...
Behind The Scenes Plan To Close Remploy Factories
THE GMB trade union say it has found out that senior members of Remploy management are visiting MPs to brief them about the closures...
Usw Steps Up Global Campaign For Vale Miners’ Strike
The United Steelworkers’ (USW) global campaign to prevent Brazilian mining giant Vale S.A. from eroding working conditions and denying basic labour rights at its operations worldwide...
DONALDSON SUBSTITUTES ‘BIG BROTHER’ FOR THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL – Part...
THE General Medical Council (GMC) was set up in 1858 to register genuine medical practitioners and make a distinction between them and pretenders. This...
BMA CHAIR TELLS GPs: INDUSTRIAL ACTION ILLEGAL!
ANGRY GPs on Saturday voted for action over underfunding and a workload that threatens patient safety and their own health. But at the start of...
Stop gagging asylum seekers’ doctors – warns BMJ
IN THE British Medical Journal this week, two doctors criticise Australia for passing legislation that may be used to silence doctors working with asylum...
Sanctions on Russia adversely affect global economy
RUSSIA’S President, Vladimir Putin, has opined that the latest raft of unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and its allies over the...
Public hearings into 200 unlawful killings in Iraq
THE families of Iraqi civilians killed and tortured by British troops during the US-UK 2003 war and occupation have won a legal battle to...
End The Occupation Of Iraq! End The US/UK War Alliance!
OVER 100,000 people marched in London and many thousands more marched in Glasgow on Saturday, to demand the immediate withdrawal of all British troops...
UK singled out for care home deaths and assault on ...
‘CORONAVIRUS has exposed global inequality, and leaders have ramped up attacks on human rights,’ so concludes the Amnesty International Report 2020/21 released today, which...
Offshore workers North Sea strike
OFFSHORE union RMT along with Unite and GMB on Tuesday issued notice of strike action by offshore members employed with North Sea contractors Ponticelli...
Manchester Met University To Strike Over Closure Of Crewe Campus!
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Manchester Metropolitan University will be on strike later this month after they overwhelmingly backed industrial...
Palestinian Child Killed In Nablus
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas last Saturday condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the wake of a deadly attack in the...
Palestinian Intifada erupts!
A PALESTINIAN was fatally shot on Monday by Israeli forces’ fire, after he carried out a shooting attack against Israelis in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood...
Sheffield refuse workers vote for indefinite strike!
TWO HUNDRED Sheffield refuse workers voted unanimously on Monday to go on indefinite strike from Monday 22nd November. The vote took place at a mass...
‘Threats to shut down West Coast ports reckless and unnecessary’–ILWU
THE battle between dockworkers and shipping officials intensified this weekend at the Port of Oakland as the long-running contract dispute at 29 ports on...
Starbucks workers mass walk- out in 34 cities of the USA
THE Starbucks workers’ union said on Thursday that hundreds of new union baristas are walking out of their jobs in 34 cities, joining the...
BACCALAUREATE THREATENS ‘CULTURAL APARTHEID’ –says theatre director Richard Eyre
High profile figures from the arts have joined with the National Union of Teachers in condemning the Coalition’s planned secondary school Key Stage 4...
15,000 Greek Workers March Against Syriza Coalition!
OVER 15,000 workers and youth marched last Saturday in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on the opening of a trade fair, demanding an end to the...
JUSTICE FOR GAZA! –demand Jewish Holocaust survivors
Jewish Holocaust survivors from around the world call for justice in Gaza. Forty Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and 287 descendants of survivors and...
Rafah crossing shut for 6 months
Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Wednesday that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) will close the international Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip...
Telegraph appoints spin doctor Coulson
THE decision of the Telegraph Media Group (TMG) to appoint former Cameron spin doctor Andy Coulson to provide PR advice to the company has...
‘Police are the murderers! No Justice No Peace!’ – chants 2,000-strong...
‘POLICE are the murderers! No justice, no peace!’ chanted the crowd of workers and youth at a 2,000-strong mass vigil for Mark Duggan outside...
Gaza’s children paralysed in Netanyahu’s genocide!
The Gaza Strip is witnessing a worrying increase in cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), a rare neurological disorder that strikes children suddenly, causing...
‘WE WILL NOT RENEW THE TRUCE’ say Hamas and Islamic Jihad
The ongoing Israeli violations and extra-judicial killings have put the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the anti-occupation groups on opposite sides of the argument...
First Plane Uses Aleppo International Airport In Four Years!
A SYRIAN government airplane successfully took off from the Aleppo International Airport on Friday, marking the first time in four years that any aircraft...
27 International organisations condemn Israeli ‘mass murder’ of Palestinians
A JOINT statement by 27 international organisations has called for urgent international action to stop Israeli ‘mass murder’ of Palestinians in Gaza. The Euro-Mediterranean Human...
Tory Asylum Bill will see refugee children locked up!
THE TORY government’s new asylum bill will allow thousands of refugee children who are separated from their parents to be locked up, according to...
Government officials knew cladding would go ‘whoosh’ when exposed to fire,...
A SENIOR civil servant ‘ignored’ a ‘red alert’ warning about the ‘widespread, historic and ongoing’ use of a highly combustible cladding product on UK...