Medical Students Are Deep In Debt!
Medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating over £13,000 more in debt than their better off peers, says a new report from the BMA. The...
Privateers awarded one third of contracts since 2012 Health Act!
A THIRD of NHS contracts have been awarded to private sector providers since the Health and Social Care Act came into force, finds an...
‘THE CRISIS IS BEING PAID WITH OUR RIGHTS!’ – says Ecuadorian...
‘We are quarantined but not silent. The millionaire cut to public education moves us to take the space, ours, the house, the neighbourhood, the...
Washington lawsuit against Trump attack on unions
A coalition of American unions has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation...
‘WE’RE HERE TO GET FREE EDUCATION BACK’ say students
Students on a 1,000-strong march through London on Wednesday called on the trade unions to act to restore free education. Students marched from University of...
‘DETAINEES WERE HELD IN FLOODED CELLS WHILE FIRES BURNED’ – Liberty...
As evidence is revealed of vulnerable detainees being imprisoned in overcrowded and flooded cells while fires burned, Liberty last Monday called on the Home...
Stonethrowers Charged With Attempted Murder By Israeli Police
SUNDAY marked two years since five boys from the northern West Bank village of Hares were arrested over an alleged stone-throwing incident that saw...
Peretz Continues With ‘Extrajudicial Killings’
AHEAD of officially assuming his post on Sunday, Israel’s incoming ‘Defence’ Minister Amir Peretz was anxious to carry on the mission of his predecessor,...
RENATIONALISE RAILWAYS! – demands ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan
TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan on Monday called for the railways to be taken back into public ownership. Whelan welcomed news that...
AFL-CIO & SEIU are reuniting in the United States – 13...
THE AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Thursday that they are reuniting to launch ‘a new, long-term effort to make...
‘We Cannot Tolerate And Forgive Those That Shed The Blood Of...
MARKING one week since local Hezbollah leader Samir Al-Kuntar’s assassination near Damascus at the hands of an Israeli missile, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan...
Over 2 Years Since Grenfell Inferno And Still 321 High-Rise Blocks...
DESPITE it being well over two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, which claimed the lives of 72 men, women and children, only...
30,000 Oklahoma teachers march as strikes spread ‘like wildfire’
TEACHER strikes and massive demonstrations of teachers, parents and students are spreading across the United States ‘like wildfire’. In Oklahoma City, at the state...
David King 1943-2016
BY ALEX MITCHELL GRAPHIC designer, photographer, collector and writer David King dedicated most of his adult life to celebrating the Russian Revolution of 1917. He produced...
SAFTU condemns 30,000 public sector ‘jobs slaughter’
SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) is incensed at the report in the Mail & Guardian that there is a plan lay off...
Palestinian Intifada erupts!
A PALESTINIAN was fatally shot on Monday by Israeli forces’ fire, after he carried out a shooting attack against Israelis in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood...
Bma Must Decide Action To Defend The NHS – Reject The...
The Health and Social care bill brings in the legislation to privatise the delivery and commissioning of healthcare in England. Coupled with the massive cuts,...
Iran wins legal battle against US attempt to seize bank funds!
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as Bank Markazi, says the country has won a legal battle in Europe...
Bectu And Nuj Members Condemn Catering Sackings
ONE HUNDRED BECTU and NUJ members demonstrated outside Bush House in Aldwych, Central London last Friday, in support of ten workers sacked from the...
400 under-18s disappear from the UK’s government-supervised hotels!
WHEN young Jay (name changed), an Iranian teenager, set foot on UK shores, a myriad of emotions swirled within him: relief, uncertainty, hope, and...
END CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DISCRIMINATION – says GMB lobby
Calling for victory over ruthless employers, Construction and Engineering workers from many parts of Britain, rallied 100 strong outside the Houses of Parliament on...
‘MY FATHER WAS A FREEDOM FIGHTER: GAZA’S UNTOLD STORY’ –new book...
RAMZY BAHROUD is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. He has just written his latest book: ‘My Father Was a Freedom...
IRAQ WAR: GOLDSMITH WARNED BLAIR HE EXPECTED ‘the government to be...
The Iraq Inquiry on Wednesday released details of former Attorney General Goldsmith’s legal advice, given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq,...
Israeli Forces Raid West Bank
ISRAELI forces early on Friday detained three Palestinians, including a minor, from multiple West Bank districts, said security sources. Israeli forces raided Rummana, a...
Thousands demonstrate in Santiago for Palestine!
Thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday in the Chilean capital Santiago for the protection of children in Palestine and in support of the inhabitants...
Compass Coffee workers announce union drive across America
COMPASS Coffee workers have announced a unionisation drive across seven stores in America to end the chain’s no-tipping policy and improve benefits and working...
Greece quarantines Ritsona camp refugees
GREECE has quarantined a refugee camp in the country’s mainland – home to 2,300 people – for at least two weeks after 20 of...
STRIKES, SIT-INS AND OCCUPATIONS IN EGYPT –as workers fight to scrap...
Between 1st January 2011 and 31 December 2011 there were 335 labour protests in Egypt, said a report issued by the Egyptian Ministry of...
Over 3,000 Washington health workers on strike!
More than 2,400 striking healthcare workers in the Service Employees International Union at MultiCare, held a demonstration at the Navos Behavioral Health Hospital in...
Deadly attacks on Colombian teachers & trade unions are condemned by...
Education International supports its affiliate, the Federación Colombiana de Educadores, in denouncing and firmly condemning assassinations and threats targeting Colombian educators, trade unionists, and...
Washington DC parents keep children home as ICE raids intensify
Immigrant families across the United States capital are facing the new school year under the shadow of aggressive federal immigration enforcement, with raids and...
Chicago erupts against Trump
MORE than a week after Donald Trump’s election as next US president, protesters continue to take to the streets in the US and elsewhere...
Islamic Jihad slams hostile US statements
THE statements by American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her visits to Tel Aviv and Ramallah are ‘aggressive and anti-Palestinian’, the Palestinian resistance...
‘Gaza still patient and steadfast against massacres, slaughters, starvation and displacement,...
The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haneyya, made a televised speech on Sunday evening, to mark the beginning of Ramadan. ‘Ramadan is peace upon...
Israel’s mass arrests ‘a systematic campaign of persecution targeting Palestinians’
ISRAELI police arrested 561 Palestinian workers throughout the 1948 occupied territories last week under the pretext of entering ‘without permits’. Human rights groups have condemned...
‘Restore citizens’ freedoms’ – Demand 100 civil society organisations
OVER 100 Civil Society Organisations produced the following Joint Statement on the Military Take Over in Zimbabwe on November 15, 2017. ‘We the undersigned civil...
Over 11,000 children killed in Yemen since 2015
At least 18 people were injured in Yemen’s north-western province of Sa’ada when Saudi border troops fired artillery at residential neighbourhoods near the border...
‘LEBANESE PRISONERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE’ – says Hezbollah
SHEIKH Na’im Qasim, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, told a Beirut rally marking the ‘29th anniversary of the arrest of Samir al-Qintar’ in Israel and...
Tahrir Square won’t accept El-Ganzouri
The sit-in at Cairo’s Tahrir Square was continuing on Sunday with hundreds of protesters still occupying tents in the square while others continued chants...
GHOST STATIONS AND A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE! – RMT staff survey reveals...
A MASSIVE staff survey carried out by the RMT railway workers union reveals the dystopian future awaiting passengers if the industry privateers and the...
Unions demanding the reinstatement of 78 sacked workers in the Philippines
THE ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) are demanding the reinstatement of 78 unfairly...
‘Confessions coerced in case after case’ in Bahrain – says Human...
SECURITY services in Bahrain supported by the UK have been accused of ‘serious and persistent’ human rights abuses. A joint Human Rights Watch and Bahrain...
Striking Butler Hospital workers reject pay offer and remain on strike
Three weeks after Butler Hospital management issued what it called its ‘last, best and final’ contract proposal, the union representing striking workers has ‘overwhelmingly’...
Teachers to ballot for academies strike!
TEACHERS have voted to ballot for a one-day strike as part of a campaign against Tory plans to force every school in England to...
890 arrested on Palestine Action demonstration!
MORE than 890 people were arrested on Saturday at a demonstration against the government’s ban of campaign group Palestine Action. An estimated 1,500 gathered in...