82% of midwives work unpaid overtime – ‘We desperately need 5,000...
MIDWIVES have commented on the NHS Staff Survey and the impact of staff shortages and inadequate staffing levels on the health of midwives and...
Iran Ready To Defend Missile Programme!
IRAN has rejected any foreign meddling in its domestic affairs, and says it is ready to defend its missile programme ‘with full strength’ in...
MPs rattled by phone hacking crisis! – PART 2: Privileges Committee...
TOM Watson, (West Bromwich East Labour MP, told the House of Commons: ‘Anyone can have their phone tapped by the newspapers, and they do. He...
New Egyptian Protest Law Will Be Used To Ban Demonstrations And...
THE DRAFT Protest Law to regulate the right to peaceful assembly, issued by Egyptian Interim President Adly Mansour on Sunday, has been widely criticised...
IRAQ – Attacks on US troops reached a peak in the...
THE US military has reported the deaths of three more troops, two in blasts and one hit by small arms fire in insurgent...
London Mayor Accused Of Gambling With Tube Safety
TUBE unions have reacted angrily to the announcement that all London Underground ticket offices will be shut by 2015 with the loss of nearly...
WE WILL FIGHT TO DEFEND PENSIONS – union leaders tell TUC...
THE TUC delegates in Liverpool at the 2009 Congress on Monday voted unanimously to defend public services. Composite Motion C21 Public Services and the Economy...
‘Oval Quarter’ residents are very angry with profiteer developers!
Residents living on the Myatts Field North PFI (Private Finance Initiative) ‘regeneration’ scheme, situated between Brixton and the Oval in south west London...
500,000 March Against The Coalition Attacks
OVER half a million trade unionists and youth from every town and city in Britain joined Saturday’s TUC march against the savage spending cuts....
HEZBOLLAH FIGHTS WITH HONOUR IN SYRIA – while Cameron seeks to...
HEZBOLLAH’S deputy leader Shaykh Na’im Qasim said last Wednesday that his group had fought ‘with honour’ in Syria and had helped in the...
Drive To Recover Stolen Syrian Antiquities!
SYRIA’S Head of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, Mahmoud Hamoud, said that the Directorate is filing a file for stolen antiquities to...
25 YEARS SINCE THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE – Part 1: Eddie Shah,...
‘THAT courage is required for a turnout, often indeed much loftier courage, much bolder, firmer determination than for an insurrection, is self-evident.’ ‘It is,...
South African NUM to march against privatisation of electricity
THE South African NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has said it will march on the imminent meeting of the ANC National Executive Council, as...
Fury Over Cancellation Of Philadelphia Teachers’ Contracts
FURIOUS over the Philadelphia School Reform Commission’s (SRC) move to unilaterally cancel its teachers’ contract, 3,000 people shut down North Broad Street last Thursday,...
‘WE MUST HAVE A PUBLIC INSURANCE OPTION’ –insists AFL-CIO President Trumka
LAST Friday the new AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued a statement on the Senate Healthcare Bill being sponsored by President Obama. He said: ‘The labour...
‘THE MOST SERIOUS BANKING CRISIS SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST...
MERVYN KING, the Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), said on Wednesday that Britain was already in a recession. He added that he expected...
‘Release database of businesses engaged in Israel’s illegal settlements –Palestinians demand...
The Ramallah-based Al-Haq human rights organisation on Tuesday called on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to release the long-overdue...
‘Threats to shut down West Coast ports reckless and unnecessary’–ILWU
THE battle between dockworkers and shipping officials intensified this weekend at the Port of Oakland as the long-running contract dispute at 29 ports on...
INDIA GIVES GO-AHEAD TO ‘ELIMINATE LTTE’ – claims Sri Lankan Premier
IN his recent addres to the Oxford Union, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa tried to assert, very unconvincingly, that he did not believe...
‘I Call On Youth – Take To The Streets Of The...
JAILED Palestinian Leader Marwan al-Barghouthi believes much must be carried out in 2013, starting with national reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, the liberation of...
HUGE WAGE AND PENSION CUTS – hundreds of thousands to lose...
IN a press conference on Sunday afternoon, May 2nd the Greek Finance Minister Yiorghos Papakonstantinou announced yet another set of austerity measures verified later...
Palestine Action’s ‘Elbit Eight’ acquitted!
IN a significant development, a group of Palestine Action activists, known as the ‘Elbit Eight’, have been acquitted for their role in shutting down...
‘KICK THE DAMN INVADERS OUT’ – urges Saddam Hussein at his...
SADDAM HUSSEIN, the legal Iraqi president, was dragged from his hospital bed where he was being forcibly fed after a 17 day hunger strike...
Striking NUT 6th form college teachers defy the Tories!
STRIKING 6th Form College National Union of Teachers (NUT) members from around England took part in a national demonstration on Tuesday to defend their...
We salute the struggle of the Palestinian people – General Strike...
The News Line Rally of 200 people took place at the Hargrave Hall, in north London on Saturday. Chairman, Tony McEvoy, said the struggle for...
The family of Abu Akleh has demanded that President Biden takes...
THE family of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in May, has...
Government Wants To ‘Rid North-East Of Any Witnesses Of The Carnage’
COLOMBO has abrogated the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) to remove the presence of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) which was instrumental in exposing...
Egyptian Strike Wave
A STRIKE wave is continuing in Egypt as workers battle the El-Sisi regime, determined to improve their wages and conditions. Protests by workers at government-run...
GARMENT WORKERS ARE BEING TERRORISED IN BANGLADESH – says Human Rights...
GARMENT factory workers in Bangladesh who try to start trade unions are being intimidated and threatened with murder to stop their efforts to organise,...
RIGHT TO RETURN IS CENTRAL TO FINAL STATUS – Palestinian factions...
The following letter was presented to President Mahmud Abbas’s office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organisations on Wednesday September 24, 2008, the Badil Resource...
Israel violates ceasefire for 60 consecutive days! – and claims ‘yellow...
The Israeli occupation army continued, for the 60th consecutive day yesterday, to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, targeting residential buildings and...
GENERAL STRIKE IN JERUSALEM! – in protest at security fences
A GENERAL strike took place on Tuesday in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Issawiya in protest at the latest Israeli ‘security fences’ dividing Palestinian neighbourhoods...
US war games plan to intimidate North Korea
AN US aircraft carrier and warships from its strike group arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in nearly five years...
UK government ‘balancing the books on the backs of the starving...
THE BRITISH government has decided to ‘balance the books on the backs of the starving people of Yemen,’ in an act that will see...
Palestinian fishermen attacked by Israeli naval troops off Gaza coast!
A PALESTINIAN fisherman was injured and detained along with four others by Israeli naval troops who attacked them on Tuesday off the coast of...
Riot Police Attack Huge Athens Demonstration
A HUGE march of over 100,000 workers and students held in Athens last Wednesday afternoon, as part of a 24-hour general strike, was viciously...
Daily Picket Starts At Chase Farm
The daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital to stop its closure kicked off last Monday with an extremely lively mass picket. From the moment the...
170,000 Teachers Take One-Day Strike Action
By Sanath Rathnaweera COLOMBO – 170,000 out of Sri Lanka’s 200,000 teachers took part in a one day strike action on September 13th,...
Saudi Arabia Using Banned Cluster Munitions In Sa’Da
AMNESTY International has corroborated new evidence the Saudi Arabia-led coalition recently fired banned cluster munitions in Yemen. The Brazilian-manufactured rockets struck three residential areas and...
Erekat ‘Disappointed’ That Obama Ignored Palestine At UN Assembly
SECRETARY-General of the PLO’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat Monday expressed his disappointment in US President Barack Obama for ignoring the Palestinian question during his...
DONALDSON SUBSTITUTES ‘BIG BROTHER’ FOR THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL – Part...
THE General Medical Council (GMC) was set up in 1858 to register genuine medical practitioners and make a distinction between them and pretenders. This...
Fire rips through Greek refugee camp
A FIRE has ripped through one of Greece’s largest refugee camps after the death of an Iraqi woman sparked an uprising. The blaze late on...
TUC calls for Israeli boycott but sets no date for action
TUC Congress delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday voted for composite motion C22: ‘Right to boycott’ from the National Education Union. Moving the motion, Louise Regan,...
‘Starmer has a legal duty to stop the Gaza genocide’ says...
Greta Thunberg has said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is legally obliged to stop the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. ‘Starmer has...
Drop the extradition case! Free Assange! – answers demanded over destruction...
From an article by Di Stefania Maurizi FOR the last six years, the Crown Prosecution Service have rejected all of our attempts to shed light...