Iran-Iraq investigation into the US ‘criminal and terrorist’ assassination of top...
A SENIOR Iranian judiciary official says Iran and Iraq have issued a joint statement on an investigation into the ‘criminal and terrorist’ assassination by...
‘Rise up– be steadfast!’ – urges Ayshah al Gadaffi
THE Damascus-based pro-Al-Gadaffi Al-Ra’y TV has broadcast a four-minute audio message to the Libyan people by Colonel Gadaffi’s daughter, Ayshah...
Four Seasons ‘The Son Of Southern Cross’ Warns Gmb
SEVENTY-ONE former Southern Cross Care Homes in the UK were being transferred to new operator Four Seasons on Monday (31 October 2011). These are the...
Kenya teaching unions announce joint strike
TEACHERS in Kenya are to down their tools as unions KNUT, KUPPET announce a joint strike. Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) chairperson Omboko...
DON’T USE FORCE AGAINST IRAN – Lavrov warns US and Israel
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there was no proof it was trying to...
South African unemployed doctors launch 3rd sit-in
SOUTH African unemployed doctors have been protesting once again, launching their third sit-in of the year outside KwaZulu-Natal’s Office of the Premier on Monday...
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...
‘We are committed to holding the elections in Jerusalem’ says imprisoned...
IMPRISONED deputy Marwan al-Barghouthi, the secretary of the Fatah movement in the West Bank and the head of its list in the forthcoming legislative...
McGUINNESS PLEDGES WAR ON RACISM
By JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist THE sectarian war in Ireland is over, but the war on racism has begun. That was the pledge from Sinn...
‘THIS IS AN ENORMOUS VICTORY!’ says Peter Chappell – organiser of...
GEORGE Davis, now 69, says he should not have had to wait ‘36 long years’ for his conviction for armed robbery to be quashed...
MILITARY ATTEMPT NEW EGYPTIAN COUP – Will not be able to...
FOLLOWING Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that the just-elected parliament is illegitimate, workers are vowing that they will not allow the return to a...
100 years since the Easter Rising
This Easter is the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin of 1916.. In Britain’s first, and indeed its last, imperialist dominion the flag of...
‘Police Need To Be Accountable For These Killings’
OVER 1,500 people on Saturday took part in the United Families and Friends Campaign 13th annual procession in central London against deaths in custody. The...
KILL THE BILL! – Michigan workers fight anti-union legislation
THOUSANDS of Michigan citizens descended on the state Capitol last Tuesday, January 8, to show their outrage over efforts by corporate-driven legislators to pass...
100,000 march through Dublin
OVER 100,000 workers in their unions, with students and youth marched on Saturday through the centre of Dublin, furious at the 64 billion euros...
London Bus Privateers Must Stop ‘Race To The Bottom’ Or Face...
UNLESS London bus privateers stop the ‘race to the bottom’ and cease their onslaught on working conditions all-out strike action will swiftly ensue, Unite...
Youth organisations lead 150,000-strong march in Paris
A dozen youth organisations marched through Paris on Saturday afternoon against the government’s pension age hike from 62 to 64, following last Thursday’s mass demonstrations...
Embers May Flare Up!
May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...
Stop Attacking Costa Rican Banana Workers – Catholic Church Is Urged
‘Trade union members are threatened, victimised, sacked and blacklisted by employers who pay sums of money to the Catholic Church which coordinates anti-union activities,’...
Sri Lankan university teachers demand the resignation of Rajapaksa and the...
The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) has demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D. Wickremaratne,...
Seven US Soldiers Killed Near Haditha
Seven US marines have been killed in western Iraq, the US military said yesterday. The soldiers were killed on Monday near Haditha, a town...
‘The danger to our lives is growing hour by hour’ say...
PALESTINIAN prisoners in Israeli jails sent a humanitarian appeal to the world yesterday calling to save them from the deadly coronavirus pandemic before it...
76th anniversary of Nakba Day – 15th May 1948!
TODAY, May 15th, marks the 76th anniversary of Nakba, ‘the Catastrophe’, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land to...
RAJAPAKSA BROTHERS ‘GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES’ says US expert in international...
A US-based group has independently verified the authenticity of the Channel-4 video in October showing the murder of Tamil Tiger prisoners by Sri Lankan...
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...
‘THERE WILL BE AN EVEN WORSE DISASTER THAN THE MARCHIONESS’! –if...
THE Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), the Marchioness Action Group and others demonstrated on Tuesday against the lowering of age and training standards...
O’LOAN REPORT CONFIRMS YARL’S WOOD ABUSE – ‘and the failure to...
‘THE O’Loan Report confirms Yarl’s Wood abuse and the failure to investigate it,’ says Public Interest Lawyers. Public Interest Lawyers said: ‘Today’s report by Baroness...
NO RESCUE FOR CAPITALISM– FORWARD TO THE WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION! –...
THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...
Clarke’s New Security Measures . . . ‘Violate Human Rights’ Says...
‘The new measures, proposed today by the UK government, targeting non-nationals considered to be threatening public order, national security and the rule of law,...
Israeli police storm funeral tent of Palestinian prisoner hero Walid Daqqa!
ISRAELI police stormed the funeral tent of Palestinian hero, writer and prisoner Walid Daqqa in the West Bank city of Baqa al-Gharbiya in Occupied...
A Decisive Week For Lebanon
Lebanon has entered a decisive week during which its parliament is due to elect a new president. With tanks and troops deployed on the streets,...
‘We will continue to fight Macron by all means’ – Force...
FRENCH trade unions are continuing their fight against the Macron government’s increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 which was forced through...
Israel plans settlement in heart of occupied Jerusalem
ISRAEL plans to build a new settlement in the central area of the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds, despite international condemnation, a new report says. Israeli newspaper Calcalist...
Jamaica, Barbados & Trinidad and Tobago recognise Palestinian statehood
JAMAICA, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, three island countries in the Caribbean, have in recent days officially recognised Palestinian statehood, signalling a shift towards...
Hamas-Fatah agree to immediate ceasefire
ISLAMIC Jihad official Da’ud Shihab in a press conference in Gaza on Sunday, held by the Higher Follow-Up Committee of the National and Islamic...
‘RUSSIA WILL CIRCUMVENT EU SANCTIONS!’ – Dmitry Peskov
RUSSIA will circumvent the European Union’s sanctions, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Peskov stated: ‘As far as Russian diamonds are concerned, it was...
‘Opening schools at this stage would be committing genocide’ – Educators...
‘THERE is no way schools can be opened at this stage because that would be committing genocide,’ Educators Union of South Africa (EUSA) Secretary...
Civil servants at war with Tories
THE PCS trade union issued a statement on Thursday in which it criticised the Tory government and the attacks on the living standards of...
Cardiff UCU staff vote 83% for strike action against huge job...
CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...
FAILED ISRAELI GENERALS FAILED IN GEORGIA AS WELL says Hezbollah leader...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has spoken on the second anniversary of the end of the war of July-August 2006, or what Hezbollah...
ACCESS MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR ALL STUDENTS – UCU and NUS...
The University and College Union (UCU) said on Wednesday that for widening participation to really succeed, potential students must have access to the courses...
Scrap Coronavirus Act – Liberty
Liberty is calling for the Coronavirus Act 2020 to be scrapped, highlighting that it contains sweeping powers that continue to threaten basic civil rights...
END THE INHUMAN GAZA SIEGE – demand Lebanese masses
Action to end the inhumane Gaza siege has started from Lebanon, says the Hezbollah resistance movement. On Friday, Lebanon, the country of resistance and patriotism,...
Merseyrail scabbing operation will ‘rip up the rule book’
THE RMT has issued a warning that the privateer Merseyrail’s planned Grand National scabbing operation will ‘rip up the safety rule book’. Rail union...
STRIKE WAVE ERUPTING ACROSS AUSTRALIA – as gas companies increase prices...
A STRIKE wave is erupting in Australia, with airport firefighters and guards walking out in the lead-up to Christmas. An industrial dispute between a major...