Take Strike Action Against Royal Mail’s Draconian Plans!
Central to the Royal Mail ‘Pay Offer and Modernisation Agreement 2007/09’ are the sections on ‘flexible working’. These put the workforce at the minute-to-minute disposal...
Defend the NHS and the Welfare State!
YESTERDAY key Blairite cabinet ministers, Blunkett and Hewitt, launched a massive attack on the Welfare State. Hewitt promised to use the NHS budget to...
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...
Powerful start to month-long St Mungo strike!
Workers at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s began four weeks of strike action on Tuesday May 30, fighting to win a backdated pay rise...
CUTS HIT US EDUCATION –while workers battle for union rights
Policy Matters Ohio has released a report showing the impact of the $1.8 billion cuts to local education budgets across Ohio, reports the Ohio...
Abbas Defends Deferring Vote On Goldstone Report
Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas tried on Sunday to defend his controversial decision to support deferring a vote on the damning Gaza war report...
ABBAS HAD ‘BAD ADVICE’ OVER GOLDSTONE REPORT – says Sha’ath
Those who advised Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to defer the Goldstone report into war crimes in Gaza gave him bad advice, Fatah Central Committee...
‘Significant Concerns’ For Vulnerable Detainees
Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers’ ‘Report on an unannounced inspection of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre’ is another damning indictment of the brutal system...
Overseas Trained Teachers Face Unemployment
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) will be lobbying the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DfCSF) on Wednesday, 11 July 2007 to publicise...
Six Refugees Drown Off Coast Of Lebanon
SECRETARY-general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has warned of a slide towards violence after at least six people, including a...
Israeli Settlers Invade Al-Aqsa Mosque
THE Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly warns the Israeli regime and illegal settlers against keeping up their provocations in the holy occupied city...
‘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...
Overseas Operations Bill will ‘decriminalise torture’ says Reprieve
THE TORY government has announced that the Overseas Operations Bill will get its second reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 23rd September. In...
‘Syria owned by the Syrians’ insists President Assad – Part two
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed in Damascus that Syria is owned by the Syrians and that the peace is two things. First, fighting terrorists...
1,383 US medics demand deportations stop!
1,383 MEDICAL professionals last Friday demanded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) end the Title 42 border expulsions order that has...
Palestinians rally in Ramallah against Israeli annexation plan
THOUSANDS of Palestinians rallied in downtown Ramallah on Monday against Israel’s intention to annex a large part of the occupied West Bank. Participants hoisted the...
Secret Police State Helped Bosses Draw Up Blacklist And Used Women...
CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has exposed how the union was infiltrated by the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The revelation creates fresh questions about the...
‘I was threatened with arrest while searching for family members’ bereaved...
‘I WAS threatened with arrest while searching for family members,’ said bereaved Grenfell relative Nabil Choucair, speaking at Monday’s session of the Grenfell Tower...
6th day of French rail strikes
FRENCH rail workers began another two-day rolling strike on Friday which hit services across the country. But President Emmanuel Macron has vowed he will...
Undercover police targeted ‘subversives and left-wing activists’
COINCIDING with a rare public hearing of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) this week, ten women who were deceived into relationships with ‘spycops’ have...
UNIVERSITY STAFF MARCH TODAY! • NO casualisation! • Defend pensions! •...
STRIKING University and College Union (UCU) lecturers and their supporters are marching through London today, assembling at 12 noon outside Universities UK HQ in...
Tens Of Thousands March In Tehran Denouncing The Israeli Military Assault...
Thousands of people in the Iranian capital, Tehran, staged a demonstration on Tuesday to express their support for the Palestinians and denounce the Israeli...
Amcu Demands A ‘Social Democracy’
SOUTH Africa should transition from a constitutional democracy to a ‘social democracy’ and implement more socialist policies to retain jobs in the mining sector,...
‘Neo-Nazi Kiev knowingly pursuing the deliberate, intentional destruction of civilians’ –...
RUSSIA is not waiting for the agreements reached in Anchorage to be implemented, but rather for victory, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov stated on Sunday. ‘We...
Banning Boycotts Of Israel Is A British Reward For The Occupier
MEMBERS of the PLO Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi and Saeb Erekat on Wednesday slammed the United Kingdom’s decision to ban the boycott of Israeli...
‘HUNDREDS KILLED BY ISRAELI-BACKED DEATH SQUADS’ – A review of Sabra...
‘We commemorate the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in honour of the hundreds of men, women and children killed by death squads...
‘I’LL BE CALLING FOR MASS PICKETS WHEREVER SCABS COME AND TRY...
IN HIS speech to the GMB conference in Blackpool yesterday, the union’s general secretary Paul Kenny featured the union’s current dispute with Asda. He said:...
Palestinians Look Forward To Netanyahu Facing Trial!
THE indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a move that threatens his 10-year grip on power, dominated the front page...
Musicians back Bob Vylan and Kneecap!
ARTISTS have spoken out in support of hip-hop groups Bob Vylan and Kneecap, both of which provoked the fury of Zionism and imperialism for...
SHUT DOWN WEST COAST PORTS! says Occupy Oakland
A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...
Nurses & midwives determined to strike for pay!
A BALLOT of Royal College of Nursing members in Scotland has shown the majority are willing to take part in strike action – with the...
US nurses condemn Obama’s wage freeze
America’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses has condemned the Obama Administration’s decision to impose a two-year wage freeze on Veterans Affairs...
CHARGE GERMANY WITH FACILITATING GENOCIDE BY ARMING ISRAEL – ICJ at...
THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...
US-UK’s man in Uzbekistan ‘slaughtering protesters like rabbits’
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary Straw condemned the repressions by the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan. It has already killed 500 Uzbeks and is getting...
Tens of thousands march in Turkey on May Day
DOZENS of trade unions, youth groups, and resistance movements in Turkey marched on Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square on May Day, in open defiance of...
Thousands of West Virginia teachers on indefinite strike
THOUSANDS of public school teachers across West Virginia have been on strike for more than a week in protest over their pay and benefits....
Benefit for International Youth Conference is a huge success
A great night was had by all at the Young Socialists Benefit Concert in North Kensington, west London on Saturday night. It was held at...
COSATU leader Vavi attacks CP, Stalinism and ANC betrayal
COSATU leader Zwelinzima Vavi has written an open letter to the South African Communist Party (SACP) expressing his concerns over the party’s right wing...
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...
Israel is conducting violent raids in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm
THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...
‘Nations have awakened today, and they will determine their future’ says...
LAST Saturday the Iranian TV, IRINN, broadcast a live news conference by Iran’s President Ahmadinejad with domestic and foreign journalists. In the...
‘THE RESISTANCE WILL CHANGE THE FACE OF THE REGION!’ – Nasrallah...
HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed a mass rally in the Lebanese capital Beirut last Saturday to mark ‘Martyrs’ Day’ celebrations. He spoke about the...
French Unions Call A Nationwide Port Strike!
FRANCE’S trade unions are calling for a nationwide port strike on June 23 and June 28 as part of ongoing strikes and protests against...
The entire population of Gaza at risk of dying in Israel’s...
THE entire population of the Gaza Strip is at risk of dying in Israel’s genocide, says special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. The United Nations expert on...
Israeli genocide continues unabated despite ceasefire – says Amnesty
ISRAEL’S genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite the ceasefire, says rights group Amnesty International. More than a month after a ceasefire was...