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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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

Ontario nurses win 11.5% wage increase

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THE Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) in Canada has welcomed the arbitration decision that includes the most significant wage increase for registered nurses (RNs) and...

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...

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...

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...

Global Condemnation Of Israel’s Killing Of Palestinian Civilians

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GLOBAL condemnation has poured in following a recent deadly attack by the Israeli occupation forces on Palestinian civilians seeking food aid in the besieged...

‘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...

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...

179 UK MEDICS HOLD LONDON PROTEST FOR GAZA – to highlight...

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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...

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...

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,...

The Palestinian Struggle For Freedom From Occupation!

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BY WESAM BAHRANI IT IS unrealistic to observe the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza without understanding its strategic dimension, in particular the current phase of...

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...

Stop defunding UNRWA – demands UN General Assembly chief

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WITH increasing numbers of babies and children now dying of starvation in Gaza, Dennis Francis, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, has...

Hundreds of New York City police invade Columbia University campus

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HUNDREDS of New York City police officers entered the Columbia University campus on Tuesday evening, taking many people into custody, in the latest escalation...

‘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...

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...

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...

Numsa Has Won A Victory For Ford Workers In South Africa!

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NUMSA has won a victory for Ford workers in South Africa after the union was able to fight off over 500 jobs cuts, and...

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...

Hezbollah Urges Unity Among Resistance Groups Until Final Victory Is Achieved!

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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,...

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...

CGT to march in Paris against far right immigration law

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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...

US Embassy in Baghdad ‘a command centre conspiring against the Iraqi...

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IRAQ’S anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah says the United States has turned its embassy compound in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad into a...

Special assistant to the US chief of staff has publicly resigned...

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A Jewish-American political appointee who worked as a United States Interior Department staffer, has publicly resigned from her post, in protest against the Joe...

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...

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...

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...

General Strike call by protesters outside Parliament

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‘Ceasefire Now!’ demanded 5,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Parliament on Wednesday night as MPs were voting on amendments to the King’s Speech over Israel’s genocide...

ON THE 200th DAY 0F ISRAELI GENOCIDE ‘A NEW MASSACRE’ IS...

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THE Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on the 200th day of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on Tuesday the Israeli military is planning...

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...

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...

Only 4 Kenyan police officers to face prosecution for shooting and...

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ONLY four police officers in Kenya so far are to face prosecution for shooting and killing protesters over the last four weeks, amid rising...

Gaza witnessing the ‘worst of the worst levels of child malnutrition!’

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‘Gaza is witnessing the worst of the worst levels of malnutrition, especially child malnutrition, and it’s entirely man-made,’ Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh said...

‘No safe place to go’ for Palestinians in Gaza – says...

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THE United Nation says Israel’s indiscriminate strikes on the Gaza Strip and incessant evacuation orders have left displaced Palestinians with ‘no safe place’ to...

12.7% electricity tariff increase will entrench poverty for millions says South...

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Friday that it strongly rejects the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA’s) decision...

‘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...

Starbucks Baristas Battling For First Contracts

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Starbucks baristas from 21 stores around the United States told the company on Tuesday that they plan to organise, potentially adding hundreds of new...

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...