Israel Prepares New Attacks On Gaza
Israel’s security cabinet warned on Wednesday that it will hold Hamas responsible for any attacks from Gaza, and it will also keep the crippling...
‘WE WANT A FREE GOVERNMENT’ – Beirut demonstrations continue
Demonstrators remained camped near central Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square and on streets leading to the government’s headquarters on Saturday following Friday’s million-strong opposition protest, led by...
The Hague rules two top Israeli commanders cannot be sued for...
FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA DUTCH judges ruled on Tuesday that two top Israeli military commanders cannot be sued for killing a Palestinian family in the...
Vote ‘NO!’ to NHS pay offer! – 6.5% increase over 3...
A CONSULTATION of NHS workers was launched at the Unison health conference in Brighton on Monday on the new ‘pay deal’. Unison members...
Kentucky unions fight Trump’s deportation of 200 workers
KENTUCKY trade unions are standing up to halt the deportation of two hundred immigrant workers. Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers,...
10,000 SA workers indefinite strike
NEARLY 10,000 workers employed by the South African Revenue Services (SARS) began indefinite strike action last Thursday to fight for an 11.4% salary increase. Members...
Delay in payments means no new patients at Palestinian hospital
THE AUGUSTA Victoria Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem announced on Sunday that it would no longer accept new patients, owing to a ‘crisis level’...
South Africa education workers fight ‘appalling’ casualisation and ‘declaration of war’...
SOUTH Africa’s National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) on Tuesday called on the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane...
US McDonald’s workers strike for $15 an hour
McDonald’s cooks and cashiers in 16 cities went on strike last Wednesday, the day before the company’s annual shareholders meeting, to demand the burger...
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is ready to confront Israel – while...
THE commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warns the Islamic Republic will harshly confront the Israeli regime wherever...
UK VIOLATED IRAQIS’ FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS – rules European Court
In a double blow to the UK Government, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has held that ‘the three-year internment...
Unite Warns Over ‘Shameful’ Agency Practices!
UNITE has warned that ‘shameful’ agency practices towards workers at Sports Direct have contributed to its falling profits and reputation. The high street retailer, which...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – over 100,000 workers march in Athens
OVER 100,000 workers flooded the entire Athens city centre on Thursday March 11th, in a magnificent demonstration on the day of a 24-hour general...
‘Wheels on the verge of falling off’ the ambulance service say...
Unite, which has over 100,000 workers in the NHS, including thousands of paramedics, is warning that unprecedented demand is resulting in the ‘wheels being...
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...
‘Pandemic has left the NHS running on empty! – Overworked doctors...
OVERWORKED doctors must be allowed to rest and recover so we can keep patients safe, doctors’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) warned. The BMA...
‘KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITAL’ – mass picket issues warning...
‘KEEP your hands off our hospital! This hospital belongs to the public, not the government!’ Kaushalya Gussar declared at the mass picket of Ealing...
WORLD HAS PAID A HEAVY PRICE FOR ‘WAR ON TERROR’ says...
The world’s poor and disadvantaged pay the price of war on terror, says Amnesty International in its annual report 2006 published on Tuesday. Introducing the...
Marx And The Permanent Revolution
BY MIKE DRIVER PART ONE: ‘Fraternity found its true unadulterated and prosaic expression in the war of Labour against capital’ AS French and European workers...
‘Our people haven’t struggled to change the size of our chains!...
PALESTINE’S Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, Riyad al-Maliki, described on Friday the US deal of the century as a ‘consecration’ of the century-long...
‘50% chance of war with Israel’ –declares Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah –...
The HEZBOLLAH Lebanese resistance movement does not rule out going to war with Israel over the regime’s attempts to move in on Lebanon’s natural...
Greek Workers, Youth & Farmers Demonstrate To Continue The Struggle To...
GREEK workers, youth, farmers and professionals are continuing and developing the struggle against the government’s Pensions Bill. On Tuesday night over 5,000 workers and youth...
60 Canadian workers face trial for storming City Hall
MORE than 60 Montreal municipal employees will be tried together on charges related to a 2014 protest that saw hundreds of union members storm...
Californian social workers strike!
MORE than 1,100 California social workers and eligibility workers conducted a three-day strike in Contra Costa County, then voted on Wednesday to extend their...
‘Trump’s plan to drive the Palestinian people out of Gaza will...
‘TODAY, we march not just against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but also to stand up for our right to demonstrate on the streets...
Iran Hails Iraq Parliament Call For All Foreign Troops To Leave...
IRAN’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the assassination in January of top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq,...
END PRIVATISATION AND DE-REGULATION – renationalise Bus Sevices
PRIOR to the deregulation of the buses in 1985-86 many important decisions concerning our bus services were decided by the Traffic Commissioners and local...
APOLOGISE! – demands GMB union after sick worker’s sacking ends in...
The GMB trade union Tuesday called upon DHL management to publicly apologise to the family of one of its employees, whom it ‘callously sacked...
NUMSA CALLS MASSIVE STRIKE ACTION ON SEPTEMBER 30th AGAINST CORRUPTION...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has served notice on behalf of a growing number of unions and their...
‘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...
Russian air defence systems strike nine Ukrainian aircraft
Russian air defence systems have struck nine Ukrainian Air Force aircraft, including seven Su-27s, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported on Tuesday. They said: ‘Two...
‘LIFT SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA’ – UN Human Rights Commissioner
Since 2017, the United States has imposed numerous sanctions on Venezuela, targeting its oil industry, financial sector, and political leaders. These sanctions have severely damaged...
CARILLION MUST COMPENSATE 224 BLACKLISTED WORKERS says GMB
THE GMB has called a meeting in Stafford on November 13th to mobilise opposition to the outsourcing of Staffordshire Education Support Services (ESS) and...
Houthi leader slams Saudi Arabia for doing bidding of the United...
THE LEADER of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has slammed Saudi Arabia for doing the bidding of the United States, saying the Riyadh regime has...
‘We need to start building for a general strike’ 4,000 striking...
4,000 striking station and revenue control staff shutdown London Underground on Monday in a show of strength to oppose pension attacks and job cuts. Trains...
Foreign Ministers from 10 countries condemn Israel’s attack on flotilla to...
TEN countries’ foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a peaceful civilian humanitarian mission attempting to break the Israeli...
Hezbollah Will Not Give In To Israeli Provocations
Hezbollah on Wednesday held a memorial service in the township of Majdal Silm in south Lebanon. During the service, Shaykh Nabil Qawuq, Hezbollah’s official in...
Colombian Anniversary of Resistance
A CROWD of over 100 Colombians held a rally on Thursday night in Trafalgar Square to commemorate the martyrs of the April 28th uprising...
Netanyahu Rejects French Peace Initiative!
PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat slammed Israel’s official rejection of the upcoming French initiative as a ‘reaffirmation of the Israeli government’s decision to continue...
Gate Gourmet Has To Win For The Whole Working Class
MORE than 400 youth and trade unionists showed their solidarity with the Gate Gourmet sacked workers at a second anniversary benefit rally in Southall...
South Korean unions angry at the death of a young worker!
THE KPTU (Korean Federation of Public Services and Transportation Workers’ Unions) has issued the following statement on the measures announced by the South Korean...
Bahrain Parliament pressing to reverse normalisation with Israel
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...
Make corridor care ‘a never event’ – demand Welsh NHS unions
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) and the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales have joined forces to address the alarming state of corridor...
Nine Yemenis killed by Saudi airstrikes!
AT LEAST nine Yemenis were killed late last week as Saudi-led military aircraft carried out a string of airstrikes against an area in Yemen’s...
ISRAEL IS A TERROR STATE! – boycott Israel say protesters
‘FREE, free Palestine! Occupation no more! Israel is a terror state!’ chanted workers and youth at a 3,000-strong protest outside the Israeli embassy in...