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Amnesty report reveals the brutal crackdown on the Palestinians

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IN a detailed report released by Amnesty International, the organisation has shed light on a dramatic increase in the deployment of unlawful lethal force...

Armed conflicts displace millions in Sudan and the DRC

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THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has raised alarms over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Dominique Hyde, UNHCR’s Director of External Relations,...

Role of pro-Israel groups in US terrorism laws exposed

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Decades before the events of 9/11, Zionist organisations such as the Anti-Defamation League were advocating for counter-terrorism laws that specifically targeted Palestinians, unveils a...

Stop arming Israel! Recognise Palestinian state now! – demands 100,000-strong London...

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The march set off at 1pm and was led by the banners of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestine...

Pro-Palestine protests & occupations erupting across the USA

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PRO-PALESTINE protests and occupations are sweeping universities across America, with students and lecturers demanding an end to US arms to Israel. The demonstrations, which started...

Vote no to imposition of Driver Only Operation – urges RMT’s...

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SCOTRAIL employees are set to vote on strike action against the introduction of Driver Only Operation (DOO) trains, the RMT has announced. The management of...

US auto industry workers launch major UAW union drive

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MOTOR industry workers at more than a dozen non-union automakers have announced simultaneous campaigns across the country to join the UAW. Thousands of non-union autoworkers...

‘NetHunter’ demands the release of 500 Palestinian prisoners!

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HACKERS have managed to break into the Israeli regime’s ministry of military affairs, offering to sell stolen data unless the regime releases hundreds of...

‘Daughter of Libya’ – Aisha Gaddafi’s personal exhibition

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The Russian State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow is mounting an exhibition of artwork by Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of slain Libyan leader Muammar...

Elderly and disabled Gazans starving to death!

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On a daily basis, the death toll among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly the elderly, is increasing due to hunger, malnutrition, and lack...

‘Take immediate action to stop the genocide!’

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‘The attack by the terrorist enemy army on the city of Rafah is a compounded crime, a deepening of genocide and forced displacement attempts...

French workers demand a Gaza ceasefire!

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WORKERS and youth throughout France are demonstrating today for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a call by the CGT trade union federation. A union statement...

‘UK must stop funding the Israeli terrorist state’ – Hyde Park...

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The first speaker at the rally in Hyde Park was Lujain Abdullah from the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘It’s the 29th week...

Student nurse numbers declining! –10,000 off target by 2025! – says...

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STUDENT nurse numbers are declining to the extent that the official NHS workforce plan for England will be over 10,000 off target by 2025,...

NEHAWU union condemns Nelson Mandela University for refusing to meet strikers’...

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The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU)  has condemned the reluctance to meet strikers’ demands, displayed by the management of the Nelson...

Gaza Freedom Flotilla to set sail!

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A FLOTILLA of ships, carrying some 5,000 tons of food, drinking water, and medical aid, is expected to depart from Turkey in the coming...

Prestigious universities using ‘gig economy’ practices

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University and College Union (UCU) has released a report today, (Wednesday 31), which finds that around two-thirds (66 per cent) of research staff are...

Mahmoud Almadhoun, the chef behind ‘Gaza Soup Kitchen’, killed

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Mahmoud Almadhoun and his friends gathered utensils, fuel, and some basic ingredients to set up ‘Gaza Soup Kitchen’ to feed the displaced families amid...

Labour movement rises up in Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe

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Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, on Thursday, called on the leadership of the...

SAFTU is appalled ‘by the continued bungling’ of the National Student...

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) released a statement on Monday saying it is ‘appalled by the continued bungling’ of the National...

‘Any Israeli act of aggression will ignite new version of 2006...

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THE HEZBOLLAH resistance movement has warned that any Israeli act of aggression against Lebanon will ignite an advanced version of the 33-day war fought...

Russian forces destroy Ukrainian combat drone training centre!

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Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian combat drone training centre and three radar stations over the course of Tuesday in the special military operation in...

Ayatollah Khamenei praises Syria’s Assad for Syrian nation’s ‘resistance to imperialism!’

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Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, received Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday. Assad travelled to Tehran to offer condolences over the loss...

Nations of the world condemn Israel’s tent camp massacre!

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The horrifying news of Sunday night’s tent attack sent shock waves throughout the globe, prompting world leaders to call for the immediate implementation of...

Hezbollah Is In A State Of War With Israel

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A high-ranking official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the popular resistance movement is in a state of war with Israel, calling on the Muslim world...

IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE! – demands powerful east London march for Palestine

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A POWERFUL march of 500 protesters for Palestine marched through east London on Saturday, setting off from Mile End and marching to Aktab Ali...

The Spokesman For Yemen’s Armed Forces Warns Israel Against Any Further...

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THE spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces has warned Israel against any further act of aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, saying the coastal...

Israeli police storm funeral tent of Palestinian prisoner hero Walid Daqqa!

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ISRAELI police stormed the funeral tent of Palestinian hero, writer and prisoner Walid Daqqa in the West Bank city of Baqa al-Gharbiya in Occupied...

ANC has been warned ‘Don’t make pact with Democratic Alliance’

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IT HAS been predicted the African National Congress (ANC) will have a tough time persuading its alliance partners to get into a pact with the...

‘Gaza is suffering from industrial scale savagery!’ says Palestinian Ambassador

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The first speaker at the Downing Street rally, Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, said: ‘Thank you for showing you will not relent...

Athens Students March Attacked By Police

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Over 30,000 university students from all the main Greek cities, along with delegations of school students and some 3,000 secondary school teachers and university...

Palestinians have the ‘Right to Resist’ The occupying Israeli regime says...

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THE head of Hamas resistance movement in the occupied West Bank says Palestinians have the right to resist the occupying Israeli regime, and are...

The number of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel is...

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THE NUMBER of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Government figures show the...

710 Palestinian babies under the age of one killed by Israeli...

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THE ISRAELI military killed at least 710 Palestinian babies before they made it to their first birthday, the equivalent of two infants under one-year-old...

‘USA must stop funding Netanyahu’s war machine’ says Senator Bernie...

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INDEPENDENT Senator Bernie Sanders has said that the United States cannot continue funding Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war machine as it presses ahead...

Israel resumes slaughter of civilians in the Gaza Strip as the...

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A NUMBER of Palestinian civilians, predominantly children and women, were killed or injured yesterday morning as the Israeli occupation resumed its genocide in the...

‘AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL NEARLY A CEMETERY’ says World Health Organisation ahead of...

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Tuesday that al-Shifa Hospital is ‘nearly a cemetery’ and unable to bury dead bodies as the facility is...

Bahrain Parliament pressing to reverse normalisation with Israel

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THE DEPUTY speaker of Bahrain’s National Assembly Abdulnabi Salman said on Tuesday that members of the parliament are pressing to reverse the normalisation of...

UCU action to begin against Goldsmiths plan to bulldoze through brutal...

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GOLDSMITHS University UCU (University and College Union) members, who have overwhelmingly voted to strike against the sacking of more than one-in-six academic staff at...

Labour plans to transform the NHS into ‘Neighbourhood Health Service’ –...

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THE NHS trade union leaders have given a muted response to Monday’s Declaration of War on the NHS by the Labour government. PM Starmer and...

76th anniversary of Nakba Day – 15th May 1948!

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TODAY, May 15th, marks the 76th anniversary of Nakba, ‘the Catastrophe’, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land to...

Bangladesh workers and students ‘lay siege to Dhaka!’

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At least 76 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and dozens more injured in a new round of violence in Bangladesh over the...

‘Structural racism’ in the US affecting healthcare of black and hispanic...

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The medical journal, the Lancet, has released two papers called Lancet Child & Adolescent Health in which it shows that paediatric care for non-white...

German GDLTrain Drivers Union 3-Day Strike

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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...

Kenya teaching unions announce joint strike

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TEACHERS in Kenya are to down their tools as unions KNUT, KUPPET announce a joint strike. Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) chairperson Omboko...