‘The Balfour Declaration is primarily responsible for war crimes and the...
SYRIA’S top legislative body says the 1917 Balfour Declaration, through which Britain executed its plan of establishing a Jewish national home in Palestine, is primarily responsible for war...
‘Over 1 in 5 A-level students missed 20 days of school...
THE Sutton Trust has warned: ‘Over 1 in 5 A-Level students missed more than 20 days of school due to Covid-19, in the run...
Israeli Forces Have Launched A Campaign Of Exterminating The Palestinians
THE Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip says Israeli forces have killed more than 2,000 civilians in the northern part of the besieged...
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...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreading across Gaza Strip – warns The Lancet
A NEW British medical study has warned of a dangerous spread of diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria across the Gaza Strip, as the ongoing...
Education spending cuts ‘without precedent’ in post-war UK history – Institute...
‘The cuts to education spending over the last decade are effectively without precedent in post-war UK history, including a 9% real-terms fall in school...
Russia focussing on the liberation of the Donbass
RUSSIAN Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow has completed the main objectives of the first phase of the special military operation in Ukraine and...
FIGHT ‘RE-CONFIGURATION’ – Labour’s plans for hospital closures • PART TWO
Commenting on the government’s NHS ‘reforms’, Professor Ham, a former Director of Strategy at the Department of Health said: ‘The foundations have been laid...
NHS staff ‘exodus’ if no increase in pay says BMA –...
DOCTORS’ union the Medical Association (BMA) underlined their demand on Thursday for a pay increase for NHS staff. Responding to a recent analysis by the...
Trade unions must take action for 15% – demand NHS staff
‘WHAT DO we want? 15%! When do we want it? Now!’ rang out on the Nurses March through London on Saturday afternoon. More than 1,000...
Numsa Pledges To Fight ‘jobs Bloodbath’
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) held a highly successful Central Committee meeting (CC) from Sunday the 11th to Wednesday the...
Thousands Of Tunisian Workers March For The Restoration Of Parliament And...
ON SUNDAY, thousands of Tunisian workers and youth rallied on the streets of the capital, Tunis, to demand that President Kais Saied restore the...
British Army Mounts Belfast Provocation
BY JOHN COULTER, Irish political journalist ANY serious trouble at this Sunday’s proposed ‘Home Coming’ British army parade and republican counter demonstrations in Belfast city...
‘Every square inch of Palestine must be liberated!’
‘EVERY square inch of Palestine must be liberated,’ Palestinian born in Lebanon Sandra Wafta told News Line on Sunday as hundreds of people lined...
‘UNITED ACTION IN EVERY SENSE’ – call by PCS leader Serwotka
‘WE need to fight like never before,’ Public and Commercial Services (PCS) leader Mark Serwotka told the union annual conference on Wednesday. Tory Government cuts...
End ‘business as usual’ with Israel – Human Rights Watch and...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), along with 125 other civil society organisations, has urged the European Union (EU) to review Israel’s compliance with its human...
Ontario ‘Rally for Rights and Democracy’
ONTARIO trade unionists and their families rallied in Toronto on Saturday to demand good jobs, public services, workers’ rights and the recall of the...
‘Young people want to work!’: says Hassan Yussuff of the Canadian...
FAR too many young Canadian workers are either unemployed or underemployed and governments must come up with a strategy to solve the problem –...
1,500 Greek Hospital Workers March In Athens
SOME 1,500 hospital workers and doctors, along with delegations from public and private sector trade unions and university students, staged a militant rally and...
Put Iran First Says Iranian Newspaper
A FOREIGN Ministry spokesman said in Tehran last Sunday that the allegations being made by US General David Petraeus were baseless. Petraeus said...
Money worries the main concern of most students – NUS survey...
Interim results from the National Union of Students (NUS) ‘The Pound in your Pocket’ survey of students’ perceptions of financial support show that two-thirds...
Government Fails To Meet The NEU’s Five Tests
OVER 1,200 members of the National Education Union (NEU) – all of whom are teachers who work in special school settings with children, many...
‘Thousands of seriously sick people are being put under pressure by...
On the eve of the new Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s announcement of plans to drive the unemployed and sick off...
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...
‘AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO ALL OF THE CUTS!’ – Theatre workers...
CLOSURE-THREATENED theatre companies are lobbying today’s meeting of the Arts Council in the Roundhouse in Camden, North West London today at 1.30pm, demanding a...
Millions of US workers to be barred from trade unions
THE Republican-dominated National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) voting along party lines to slash long-time federal labour laws protecting workers’ freedom to form unions has opened...
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...
A SERIOUS ATTACK ON EDITORS AND THE PRESS! – NUJ condemns...
THE draft communications data bill is a serious attack on the privacy of citizen’s electronic data and will severely restrict the freedom of the...
Huber Ballesteros, Freed Colombian Trade Union Leader Addresses Tuc!
COLOMBIAN trade union leader, Huber Ballesteros, was finally able to address the TUC Congress in Brighton on Wednesday. Weeks before he was due to fly...
US Department of Defence doctors concealed evidence of torture at Guantanamo...
DOCTORS, psychologists and behavioural consultants working with the US Department of Defence-CIA have concealed evidence of torture. Hippocratic or hypocritical oath? US Department of Defence doctors...
Oppose BBC Pensions robbery!
‘Over the past few days the joint unions have held a number of packed meetings as part of our campaign to oppose the BBC’s...
Clover Workers Escalate Strike Action!
THE STRIKE at South African dairy giant Clover, that started on 22 November last year, has brought together unions, political parties, civic organisations and...
Occupy To Keep Lewisham Hospital Open!
THE picket called each Wednesday by the South East London Council of Action, to prepare to defend Lewisham hospital with an occupation to keep...
THE COST OF ‘DARING TO DISSENT’ – death threats and detention...
TamilNet reports that Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has condemned an anonymous death threat and his detension in the airport by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID)...
US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN! – hundreds of thousands of federal...
THE federal government is shutting down right now because President Trump and his administration chose chaos and pain over responsible governing,’ AFL-CIO President Liz...
US-led coalition forces killing hundreds of civilians in air attacks...
US-led Coalition forces carrying out air strikes in Syria must conduct thorough investigations into reports of civilian casualties from its operations and disclose their...
‘WELCOME TO HELL’ ‘The Israeli prison system as a Network of...
‘WELCOME to Hell,’ is the title of a new report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem: ‘The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture...
Sri Lankan students battle against privatisation of the universities – Report...
UDARA Sandaruwan, Acting Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation has issued an appeal to trade unions and human rights organisations of the world to...
‘WHO ARE THE MURDERERS – POLICE ARE THE MURDERERS!’ –say United...
‘No Justice, No Peace! Who are the murderers – Police are the murderers!’ shouted over 300 bereaved relatives and supporters as they made their...
US teachers, farmers and health workers fighting for pay, jobs and...
Educators in Dublin, California were on strike on Tuesday after no deal was made between the teachers union and the school district on Monday...
Eskom Mass Dismissals As Oakvalley Farm Workers Battle ‘Apartheid’ Conditions
TROUBLE is brewing at Eskom’s Kusile Power Station in South Africa, following the mass dismissal of hundreds of outsourced workers after protests threatened operations...
UK and France ready for Syria war!
FRANCE and Britain are preparing to arm anti-Syria rebels even without unanimous EU support, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday. Paris and London...
A CHANGE OF SYSTEM IS REQUIRED – says worker in UAW...
THERE is widespread opposition amongst members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) trade union in America to the deal its leaders agreed to call...
‘The Ltte Is Ready To Implement Every Clause Of The Cease-Fire...
TAMILNET has reported that the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Major General Lars Johan Solvberg, met Liberation Tigers (LTTE)2 political chief B...
PNA and Hamas condemn Israeli ‘meddling’
Israel’s military escalation is ‘an attempt by Israel to meddle in our internal Palestinian life,’ Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned in a press...