LEGAL AID BEING DESTROYED – Lawyers rally to defend ‘vital pillar...
LAWYERS have vowed to fight government plans that they warn will destroy the legal aid system. Hundreds of lawyers staged a mass lobby outside...
Israeli Warships Shell Gaza Fishermen
Israeli warships bombarded Palestinian boats off the Sudaniyya shore north of Gaza City Monday morning, Nizar Ayyash, head of the Fishermen’s Union...
Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...
General Soleimani’s Killers ‘Will Not Escape Punishment!’ Says Iran
IRAN will not let those behind the assassination of the country’s legendary anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani evade punishment. ‘We will not allow the martyr’s...
Canadian School Workers To Strike Against 5-Year Pay Freeze
CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...
Medicine company workers fury over Iraq police attack
The Iraqi resistance is dealing daily blows against the US-UK led occupiers as it steps up its attacks. Last Tuesday fighters attacked with three mortars a...
‘Down with Bolsonaro!’ – thousands of Brazilians take to the streets
THOUSANDS of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October’s...
STOP THE CLOSURE! – get ready to occupy Chase Farm Hospital
MORE than 400 people joined Saturday’s march through Enfield by the North-East London Council of Action to keep Chase Farm Hospital open. The march was...
‘UK must stop funding the Israeli terrorist state’ – Hyde Park...
The first speaker at the rally in Hyde Park was Lujain Abdullah from the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘It’s the 29th week...
Libya Disintegrates As Unknown Planes Bomb Tripoli
NATIONAL Libyan TV on Monday carried an on-screen ticker reading: ‘The Al-Qa’qa and Al-Sawa’iq militias have targeted Jami’ al-Arusi in Hay al Andalus with...
Strikes, fires and fuel hikes in South Africa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape notes recent developments affecting the Taxi Industry in Cape Town and the...
175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF 1834 TO FREE THE...
APRIL 21 saw the 175th anniversary of the Grand Demonstration of 1834 when over 100,000 marched from Copenhagen Fields in London to Parliament to...
ISRAEL IS STIFLING PALESTINIAN GROWTH –warns World Bank
THE Palestinian Authority in the West Bank faces a $400 million budget shortfall, even if current donor pledges are met, the World Bank warned...
Britain involved in smuggling arms to terrorists in Syria since 2012...
BRITAIN was involved in smuggling arm shipments to the terrorists in Syria from the beginning of 2012, training and organising them under the name...
Ukraine military highly likely to launch an attempt to retake Artyomovsk
THE Ukrainian military is highly likely to launch an attempt to retake Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut by Ukraine) and has amassed enemy manpower and equipment...
Trump’s Budget The Most Significant Betrayal Yet Of Working People
US PRESIDENT Trump’s Budget betrays working people, says a statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Trump’s Financial Year 2018 budget proposal. The US union...
Fort Worth Teamsters Strike
TEAMSTERS Local Union 767 Members at Allied Waste Services, Fort Worth, Texas have been on strike since December 18th 2006. They have taken action...
‘NOTHING BUT EVIL COMES FROM RICE’ says Islamic Jihad
A HAMAS leader Khalil Abu-Layla said on Saturday that the Palestinians are not pinning any hopes on a visit by US Secretary of State...
NUMSA STRIKE ENTERS FOURTH WEEK – bosses warn capitalist order under...
THE powerful strike by 220,000 NUMSA members, workers in South Africa’s steel and engineering sectors, entered its fourth week on Monday. NUMSA members in...
Microsoft backs down from Israeli investment
AFTER eight months of campaigning to demand that Microsoft drop their investment in the Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision, the hi-tech giant finally announced...
THE AMERICANS HAVE HELD TALKS WITH THE BA’ATHISTS says former...
IYAD Allawi, the former Iraqi puppet prime minister at the time of the US assault on Fallujah, and the leader of the Iraqi List,...
GREEK BANK WORKERS TO CONTINUE THEIR NATIONAL STRIKE -while armed police...
GREEK bank workers at the ATE Bank (Agrarian bank) decided last Monday in a mass meeting to continue their national strike against the sell...
NEW WEST BANK SETTLEMENT EXPANSION ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ – says Abbas
Netanyahu’s planned approval of the construction of new homes for settlers in the West Bank is ‘unacceptable’, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday in...
Offa Prison Camp Hunger Strike
PALESTINIAN prisoners declared a hunger strike in an Israeli prison camp in the West Bank on Sunday, a day after clashes with prison guards...
Football fans united to defend communities!
Far-right violence erupted across the UK in early August, prompting an alliance of football fans to rally in defence of threatened communities. In Liverpool, supporters...
‘OCCUPY TO KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN!’ – Bill Rogers tells Council...
OVER 100 workers and youth voted unanimously on Saturday for occupying hospitals against closure and to stop the smashing up and privatisation of the...
Israeli warplanes target Lebanese health facilities!
AT DAWN on Sunday, Israeli warplanes launched over 30 raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the ‘most violent attack’ on Lebanon since...
US activity in Ukraine ‘dangerously close to direct NATO-Russian confrontation’
A WASHINGTON-based think tank has warned that the NATO military alliance and the United States are ‘creeping closer to the catastrophic scenario’ in Ukraine,...
‘We will lift the siege on Gaza and commence reconstruction’ says...
THE PALESTINIAN resistance will finally succeed in lifting Israel’s years-long siege on the impoverished Gaza Strip and commence its reconstruction, the resistance movement Hamas...
South African Pay Strikes Escalate!
THE Health & Other Services Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (Hospersa) has declared a dispute against SANParks following months of protracted wage negotiations. Union...
Israeli Airstrikes On Gaza Kill 13
ISRAELI WARPLANES struck multiple sites across Gaza early Tuesday, killing three Islamic Jihad military leaders along with several others, with an initial total of 12 fatalities. Unnamed...
Russian forces destroy Ukrainian combat drone training centre!
Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian combat drone training centre and three radar stations over the course of Tuesday in the special military operation in...
Fatah leader Rjoub stresses the need for agreement with Hamas!
THE RULING Fatah party is going to run in the coming Palestinian legislative elections planned for May 22 in one list, today said Jibril...
Unison Leaders Seek To Gag Conference Over How To ‘Save Our...
THE AGENDA for UNISON’s 14th National Delegate Conference in Brighton from 19-22 June only palely reflects the exploding anger and determination of public sector...
‘Iran Will Continue To Support Syria!’
SYRIAN Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Mu’allim discussed with Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council Ali Larijani bilateral relations between Syria...
Overthrow bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution! – demands WRP May Day...
‘IT IS our international duty to organise the overthrow of the capitalist system here in Britain,’ WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney told the 100-strong...
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution
UNITED NATIONS special rapporteur on torture, Professor Nils Melzer, held a Question and Answer session with the Foreign Press Association (FPA) last Friday, discussing...
SAFTU calls South Africa national strike for August 24th – against...
A NATIONAL strike across South Africa against the rising costs of living, load shedding, and other economic challenges will take place on 24 August,...
Powerful march demands ‘Stop closure of children’s services in Ealing’
‘SAVE the Charlie Chaplin Ward, stop the closure of Children’s Services!’ demanded yesterday morning’s 7am-9am Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital. The picket was called by...
Israeli violations caught on film
AN ISRAELI police officer physically assaulted and injured several Palestinians in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi Joz on Thursday morning, a video...
Only BA renationalisation can defend wages and jobs – Part Two
BRITISH Airways workers are faced with taking strike action to defeat the management onslaught on their jobs, terms and conditions. BA boss Walsh has issued...
Nablus under siege for two weeks!
A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli...
Greek workers say ‘No’ to 13-hour day
The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the Greek TUC, responded on Thursday with an angry statement to the government Labour Ministry’s intention to...
‘Now listen you, you people of NATO. You’re bombing a wall...
AS EUROPE’S migrant crisis grows right across the continent, many in the Russian media are recalling the late Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s prophecy made...
Israeli PM brazenly breaks the truce and declares end of ceasefire...
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement, abruptly declared the end of the ceasefire agreement beyond the first phase with the...