‘OUR TIME HAS COME’ – Israel to double Golan settlements
‘OUR TIME has come’ said Israeli Premier Naftali Bennett on Sunday adding that the Tel Aviv regime intends to double the number of illegal...
1,383 US medics demand deportations stop!
1,383 MEDICAL professionals last Friday demanded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) end the Title 42 border expulsions order that has...
‘DO WHATEVER IT TAKES’ – to save the Whittington, say demonstrators
MOTORISTS and shopkeepers showed their enthusiastic support and passers by joined in, as the march to save Whittington Hospital went through Holloway in north...
NUMSA proved right to predict ‘fierce battles’ between workers and...
AS SOON as the 2016 bargaining negotiation began, it became clear that the National Union of Metalworkers SA (NUMSA) had been proved right to...
Huge Support For Delphi Workers
Huge support is building up for US Delphi workers confronting a massive attack on their wages, healthcare and pensions. The former General Motors subsidiary,...
Over 20 killed in double strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital!
THE Israeli military killed at least 20 people on Monday morning, including four journalists serving international outlets, during back-to-back strikes against an overstretched hospital...
Colombia has a new president – in an historic poll victory...
BY YONATAN MOSQUERA ‘We won, we did it, yes we can,’ are perhaps the most repeated phrases these days by the masses of the Colombian...
EMPLOYERS TRYING TO FORCE WORKERS ONTO AWAs – say Australian trade...
Employers should accept the outcome of the federal election and immediately stop trying to push workers onto individual contracts, known as ‘Australian Work-place Agreements’...
Miners and dockers had Thatcher by the throat – SECRET PAPERS...
FEARFUL Britain was going to run out of food and grind to a halt due to a docks strike at the height of the...
Fire-Fighters Battle Life-Threatening Cuts
Firefighters are gearing up for a major fight against life threatening cuts to the service across the country. The FBU (Fire Brigades Union), in...
South African Workers Taking Action Over Jobs & Wages
WORKERS at South African Airways (SAA) are threatening to go on strike if their salary increase demands are not met. The workers are calling for...
Save Charing Cross A&E – anger over NHS cuts
THOUSANDS are marching through west London against hospital closures today, determined that Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing hospitals will not close. Today’s march...
Tamil Tigers Repulse Sri Lankan Ground Attack
LIBERATION Tigers repulsed a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) ground operation towards the Northern Forward Defence Line (FDL) positions between Ki’laali and Mukamaalai in...
Francis Inquiry demands hospital closures
THE Francis Inquiry – which took three years and cost £13 million – was presented to the public on Wednesday 6th February. Apparently finished last...
30 Years Since The Soweto Uprising
‘Long live the memory of the June 16 martyrs!’ declared the African National Congress last Friday as it marked the 30th Anniversary of the...
Belarus holding Victory Day march today!
‘WE invite other heads of state to come to Minsk for the Victory Parade,’ Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked to the...
ANC has been warned ‘Don’t make pact with Democratic Alliance’
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...
‘A blatant act of international piracy’ – US forces seize Venezuelan...
THE US has ignited outrage after seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker in what Caracas compared to Israel’s pattern of unlawful military aggression and resource...
The Bma Slams ‘Deliveroo Doctors’!
GPs HAVE recoiled in horror at the latest in a line of private services to spring up in recent months: ‘Deliveroo Doctors’ that...
‘Tories Continuing Fire Service Cuts While They Are Asking People To...
‘THE PRIME Minister and government ministers are asking people to clap for frontline workers on Thursdays – while their policies continue gutting frontline services,’...
CWA condemns the Obama proposal for immigration raids and deportations!
THE CWA trade union has issued a statement on the Obama administration’s planned Immigration Raids and proposed mass deportations. It reads: ‘We have seen...
Venezuelan people demand the release of Maduro – a letter from...
FRIDAY 2 January was a typical day in Venezuelan capital Caracas. The roads were unusually quiet and few people were out on the streets,...
Don’t Let Colombia’s Paramilitaries Off The Hook!
The British government should not support Colombia’s new paramilitary demobilisation law, which Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will promote when he meets with Tony Blair...
Rain a nightmare haunting thousands! – ‘We Will Rebuild It Again’...
The rain was not just droplets of water, it became a nightmare haunting thousands of displaced people in the Gaza Strip. Families forced by war...
Tens of thousands of Yemeni troops attend military parade
THE spectacular military parade by the Yemeni Army and the Ansarullah resistance movement on September 21 at Al-Sabeen Square in the capital city of...
‘Healthcare workers … are our soldiers being sent into war without...
‘HEALTHCARE workers are our soldiers on the front line, and they are literally being sent into war without any weapons,’ insisted Numsa general secretary...
Harassment, Intimidation And Violence Produces A Record Low Sri Lankan...
TAMILNET reports that voting at Thursday’s Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary Elections ended on schedule at 4.00 pm local time as independent monitors placed the voter...
Doctors Angry At NHS Privatisation
DOCTORS’ anger at the drive to privatise the NHS dominated the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh this week. Delegates voted overwhelmingly for...
UCU warns on University privatisation
The University and College Union (UCU) has warned universities and colleges to think very carefully before entering into partnerships with private firms. This is after...
Russia thwarting aerial and underwater drone attacks – NATO using Ukraine...
RUSSIAN forces have repelled a ‘terrorist attack’ by Ukraine on the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol in Crimea, destroying several aerial and underwater...
French Unions Call A Nationwide Port Strike!
FRANCE’S trade unions are calling for a nationwide port strike on June 23 and June 28 as part of ongoing strikes and protests against...
END LOW PAY – END POLICE OPPRESSION – demand US May...
THE unity of the struggles of workers and youth across the USA was expressed last Friday in May Day demonstrations and rallies across the...
SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Corporate executives sit around tables with the President… while...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has condemned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s launch of Phase 3 of the Government-Business Partnership In a statement on...
UN releases database of companies supporting illegal Israeli settlements
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has welcomed this week’s release of the United Nations database of companies involved in supporting Israeli settlements. ‘We welcome the...
Israeli Guards Attack Palestinian Prisoners!
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has published a ‘A Communiqué from Arab Prisoners of War In An-Naqab Desert Prison. ‘Demanding to put the...
Egyptian Army Demolitions Creating A Gaza Buffer Zone
AL-AQSA TV on Sunday morning carried the following ‘urgent’ screen caption: ‘Residents on the Egyptian side of Rafah are angry because the Egyptian army...
PCS Calls For Universal Credit To Be Smashed!
‘THROUGH our Universal Credit Fact Versus Fiction campaign, PCS is exposing the massive problems with a system that we say needs to be scrapped...
SAFTU demands resignation after attempts to derigister municipal workers union
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions has called on Labour Registrar Advocate Lehlohonolo Molefe to ‘resign’ – after the labour court suspended as...
Fourteen delivery drivers in South Korea dead from overwork this year
Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due...
DEFEND WHIPPS CROSS AND FIGHT FOR NATIONAL STRIKE ACTION! – call...
‘We have to take action at Whipps Cross Hospital against cuts and closure,’ consultant surgeon Mrs Anna Athow told a packed public meeting in...
200,000 March On Israeli Embassy
OVER 200,000 people joined the largest-ever demonstration in Britain in support of the Palestinian people, when they marched in London on Saturday. About 10,000 people...
Tens of thousands of VW workers strike across Germany
66,000 VW employees went on a ‘warning strike’ on Monday, said their union IG Metall on Tuesday. A union statement continued: ‘The employees are making...
Gaza starves as Israel turns blockade into a weapon of mass...
AT DAWN on 26th April, a single Israeli airstrike obliterated an entire Palestinian family in central Gaza’s al-Sabra neighbourhood. The al-Khour family, spanning three generations,...
‘End The Bullying & Witch-Hunting Of Staff At Worcester Royal Hospital!’
A DEMONSTRATION held last Thursday March 12 outside the A&E at the Worcester Royal Hospital, demanded an end to the bullying and...
New Zealand Unions Defend Health And Safety
TODAY a widow and a mother sit together in the High Court in Wellington fighting for justice for the men that were killed at...