Numsa’s Construction Workers Down Tools!
WORKERS at South Africa’s construction supplies giant, Form-Scaff, nationally, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) have downed tools and...
New Art For A New World
‘LENIN started out from a position that Art is the most powerful means of political propaganda for the triumph of the Socialist cause,’ Margy...
GAZA: ‘healthcare, water and sanitation teetering on brink of collapse’
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on Thursday announced it is unable to continue its operations...
STOP RACIST ATTACKS IN GREECE says Amnesty
THE Greek authorities must act immediately to curb the growing spate of xenophobic and racist attacks, Amnesty International says. It follows a brutal knife attack...
TWU urges halt to 5,000 Qantas sackings!
AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers Union (TWU) National Secretary Tony Sheldon, at talks in Sydney on Thursday afternoon, said he would urge Qantas CEO Alan Joyce...
HAGUE MUST RESIGN – calls WikiLeaks after UK threat to storm...
ECUADOR has granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because it believes he will be politically persecuted if extradited, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño...
‘Monopoly capitalism causing job loss bloodbath’ –warns South Africa’s NUMSA union
‘MONOPOLY capitalism is plunging the country into a catastrophic crisis, which will inflict misery upon millions of workers and the poor,’ the National Union...
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...
48 SOUTH AFRICAN FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS ARE SUSPENDED! – after working...
THE SOUTH African City of Ekurhuleni on Monday suspended 48 female firefighters after they protested about their working conditions and the non-payment of shift...
Clinton Accuses Bashir Of Undermining South Sudan!
AFTER having pushed to separate oil rich South Sudan from the North, the US is now preparing for military action against the north, accusing...
EDUCATION NOT FOR SALE! – 100,000 students march against tuition fees
OVER 100,000 students from all parts of Britain joined a massive demonstration against tuition fees in Westminster on Wednesday. The march called by the National...
‘INSTITUTIONAL MURDER’ – says Mubarek family
‘We make no bones about the death of Zahid Mubarek. He died because of institutional murder,’ said the young Asian’s uncle, Imtiaz Amin. In response...
Bush Refuses To Aid Victims Of Alabama And Georgia Tornadoes
THE AFL-CIO US trade union federation has condemned President Bush for his lack of any action in support of the victims of the recent...
US actions have throttled the Palestinian Authority politically and financially!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ and the forthcoming economic summit in Bahrain have reaped a multitude of analyses, not least from...
‘Israel trying to take advantage of gas forum’ says Palestinian leadership
NOT PARTICIPATING in the signing ceremony of the agreement to launch the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) on Tuesday does not mean withdrawing from...
Report Alleges Orange Participates In Violations Of Palestinian Rights!
THE global telecom company Orange participates in systematic violations of Palestinian rights, according to an investigation published this week by a coalition of French...
SHUT DOWN WEST COAST PORTS! says Occupy Oakland
A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...
The Israeli Cabinet approves the legalisation of settlements
THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...
Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally told that Iraq had no...
THE US Think-Progress website has published the text of the ‘60 Minutes’ TV interview with former CIA official Tyler Drumheller who revealed that in...
Guantanamo detainees suffering is ongoing says UN Special Rapporteur
THE first UN investigator allowed inside the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay said the 30 remaining detainees in the facility are facing ongoing,...
Syrians demonstrate against the ‘Caesar Act’ sanctions
POPULAR protests against the US and Turkish occupation forces and in rejection of the so-called ‘Caesar Act’ have continued in Syria’s Hasaka province. The Caesar Syria...
Prisons Inspector Condemns Global Solutions ‘Failures’ At Oakington Removal Centre
Privateer Global Solutions Ltd (GSL) has been criticised again for its management of Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers published today...
NUJ hears of suicide fears for Julian Assange – PCS ‘outrage’...
JULIAN Assange will most likely take his own life if he is convicted, an online meeting for NUJ members has heard. Jen Robinson, lawyer to...
Pilots criticise BA’s strikebreaking scheme
PILOT representatives from the European Cockpit Association (ECA) and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have voiced concerns about British Airways’ (BA) use of...
Stop east London GP surgery closures!
EAST London GPs, patients and supporters on Thursday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen...
PNC convened to ‘counter the serious conspiracy to undermine the Palestinian...
THE PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) convened of the Palestinian National Council yesterday in the face of the ‘attacks and conspiracies’ launched by US President...
SA High Court orders government to halt ‘load shedding’
SOUTH Africa’s Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union is relieved that deadly electricity blackouts have stopped in all health-care facilities. The Health and Allied...
Thousands rise up against the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Paul Yarl
Thousands of protesters took to the streets again on Tuesday to demand justice for a black teenager, who was shot twice by a white man...
‘End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange!’ say doctors in...
‘End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange,’ demand Doctors for Assange – Stephen Frost, Lissa Johnson, Jill Stein and William Frost on behalf...
Revolutionary leader RAY ATHOW (12.12.1945 TO 20.11.2013)
By Paddy O’Regan RAY ATHOW WAS a party member for 47 years and an organiser for over 30. In all that time, what distinguished him is...
IHRA seeks to ‘silence criticism of Israel’
PALESTINIAN civil society groups issued a statement on Wednesday urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject the ‘biased, anti-Palestinian’ International...
Scottish strike wave during COP26 summit
Council workers in more than half of Scotland’s local authorities are striking during next month’s COP26 climate summit as part of a rapidly escalating...
Call a general strike to overthrow Samaras! – demand Greek TV...
TENS of thousands of workers and youth mass day and night in the grounds around the occupied Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) building...
Numsa SA Workers Vow To Continue Their Strike!
South African Airways (SAA) workers have vowed to continue their strike until the company meets their demands. Numsa members embarked on a strike on Friday...
Bloody Sunday Commemorative March, Derry, forced off the road!
By Fra Hughes in West Belfast FOR the first time in 49 years, the Bloody Sunday Commemorative March has been forced off the road, as...
Breast implants: private sector wrecks women’s bodies – NHS to pay...
FORTY thousand women are affected by the industrial-grade silicone breast implant scandal in Britain alone, and now recriminations are flying between the government, the...
EGYPT SHOULD LEGALISE INDEPENDENT TRADE UNIONS! – urges Human Rights Watch
THE Egyptian government should legalise independent trade unions, Human Rights Watch said last Sunday, May 1st, International Workers’ Day. What has emerged is that police...
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...
Bring to trial the killers of Aminul Islam –demand the Bangladesh...
Four years after the tortured, lifeless body of Bangladesh garment worker – organiser Aminul Islam – was discovered in a ditch, his killers have...
CHARRED CORPSES ‘PART OF THE PATTERN’ – of deaths and abuses...
AMNESTY International said yesterday that recent revelations about deaths in custody and abuses by US troops in Afghanistan are further evidence of a culture...
Tamils Braced For A Major Onslaught On Vanni
TamilNet said that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) during the weekend has reportedly been engaged in heavy deployment of its troops poised for a...
Pakistan and China condemn Kashmir G20 summit
SRINAGAR, India – The Group of 20 (G20) summit commenced in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, focusing on the topic of tourism. However, the meeting has...
Israeli Raids And Evictions Continuing In The Occupied Territories
ISRAELI forces detained at least 14 Palestinians during raids in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem before dawn on Wednesday, with one family...
‘Why hasn’t British Airways held an inquiry into the death of...
BY CLARE SAMBROOK THREE years after the unlawful killing of a passenger in its care, why hasn’t British Airways held an inquiry into what went...
560,000 have fled the sudan conflict
BORDERing countries must give people fleeing the Sudan conflict immediate access for asylum, says Amnesty International UK. More than 560,000 have fled the ongoing crisis...