Arms Embargo On Israel Now!
DEMONSTRATORS picketing the High Court on Wednesday, at the start of a court case against the government, demanded an immediate end to British arms...
Families struggle to find loved ones beneath millions of tons...
FOR 200 days, Abu Ismail Hammad has been digging beneath his destroyed home in Gaza City, sifting through the sand to collect the remains...
Unite’s Response To Health Select Committee Inquiry!
‘THESE changes can not be separated from the problems A&E is facing. Unite believes that at the heart of this issue is...
Argentina 24-hour general strike to protest at President Javier Milei’s austerity...
On Thursday, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), Argentina’s largest trade union federation, held a 24-hour general strike to protest against right-wing President Javier...
Resistance Launches ‘Autumn Of Gaza’ Campaign
Chief PLO Negotiator Saeb Erekat met with US Assistant Secretary of State David Walsh and American Consul General Jake Wallacey on Sunday. The meeting took...
Malema blames ANC leaders for massacre
EXPELLED ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema last Saturday blamed the ANC leaders for the massacre of 34 miners and the...
Greek Farmers Join The Revolutionary Masses
Over 8,000 tractors and tens of thousands of small farmers have occupied sections of motorways and national roads in central and northern Greece, setting...
US considers sending banned cluster bombs to Ukraine
Laura Cooper, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia at the US Defence Department, has said that despite a global...
SOUTH AFRICA ‘A COUNTRY RUN BY THIEVES’ – say the SAFTU...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions’ (SAFTU) claim that South Africa is becoming a kleptocracy – a country ruled by thieves – is...
From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free! –...
PALESTINIAN heroine Ahed Tamimi was introduced to the cheering crowd at the end of the 10,000-strong march to 10 Downing Street marking Nakba Day...
Tea Factory Workers Step Up The Fight For Permanent Jobs
Supported by the IUF-affiliated National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan, over 700 contract agency workers at Unilever’s last directly-owned and...
Egyptian Workers Demand The Legal Right To Form Free Trade Unions
EGYPTIAN labour activists are keenly anticipating a new law on labour syndicates, a draft of which has apparently been completed and which could be...
Academies are ‘managing out’ pupils!
THE ‘MANAGING out’ of pupils in order to ‘game’ government league tables is rife among academies, Education DataLab revealed on Wednesday. ‘The NUT has long...
‘KILLING KELLY’ A documentary by George Galloway
REVIEW BY FRA HUGHES THE strange death of Dr. David Kelly was exposed on celluloid at the premiere of the Killing Kelly documentary screened at...
French trade union federations are deciding on their next major mobilisation!
THE FRENCH trade union federations were meeting on Thursday to decide their next mobilisations after MPs in the National Assemby on June 8 failed...
Libya Proving Too Hot To Handle For Divided Nato Powers
THE Libyan people and their armed forces are more than giving NATO a run for its money. In fact they are bringing the ‘mighty...
US trying to destabilise Venezuela before July election!
VLADIMIR Padrino López, the Venezuelan Defence Minister, has denounced what he has called a new US-backed attempt to destabilise the country before the Presidential...
Palestinian Premier Hamdallah is to visit Gaza Strip
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said on Thursday that no mechanisms had been put in place to ensure the implementation of the reconciliation agreement...
‘THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ DO NOT NEED FOREIGN INTERFERENCE’ says Ba’ath...
THE Iraqi Ba’ath Party has issued a communique warning that the execution of Saddam Hussein is a red line that must not be crossed. The...
Russia Repeats Its Warnings Against Nato Expansion
RUSSIA has repeated its warning against further expansion of the NATO military alliance, saying the alliance remains ‘a tool of confrontation’. Addressing a press conference...
INDIA-SRI LANKA TALKS – while Fonseka is stripped of military rank
An official visit of a three-member top level delegation of the Government of Sri Lanka to India is scheduled to leave Colombo on August...
Blair’s colonial plan for Gaza: – legitimising occupation, undermining self-determination
As Israel continues its war of extermination in Gaza with the death toll surpassing 65,000, more than 168,000 wounded, and thousands missing, another battle...
Walmart strike wave in USA
This week has seen the biggest strike wave of low-paid retail workers at Walmart in the US – the first-ever strike in the 50-year...
Japanese Foreign Minister Visits Al-Quds University!
JAPANESE Foreign Minister Taro Kono pledged during a visit to Al-Quds University on Wednesday to work to strengthen the working relationship between the Palestinian...
‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian victim that the Israeli...
EXECUTIVE Director of Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, Hagai El-Ad, has slammed the Israeli government’s record saying: ‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian...
Sparks Step Up Campaign To Defend Their Pay And Conditions!
CONSTRUCTION site electricians stepped up their campaign on Wednesday to defend pay and conditions against a brutal onslaught by a ‘cartel’ of contractors to...
NEHAWU prepares for September 3 national strike
MEMBERS of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in Kimberley picketed outside the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital on Monday, in preparation...
Carter Warns Against War With Iran
EX-US President Carter has decried his nation’s involvement in unjust conflicts and wishes the US could be seen as a champion of peace. Former US...
Corbyn condemns Israeli human rights violations!
THE LEADER of the UK opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, reiterated on Saturday his party’s support for the Palestinian cause, condemning human rights violations...
US-led coalition forces killing hundreds of civilians in air attacks...
US-led Coalition forces carrying out air strikes in Syria must conduct thorough investigations into reports of civilian casualties from its operations and disclose their...
CANADIAN POST UNION OPPOSES ‘US-BACKED COUP’ IN VENEZUELA
CANADA’S postal workers union, the CUPW, has condemned the government of Canada’s decision to recognise Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president...
AFRICA BOILING! • Nigerian unions fight 300% energy price hike •...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the government against the proposed 300 per cent hike in the electricity tariff. On Monday, the NLC cautioned...
Permanent roles not agency! says Unison Renfrewshire
SOCIAL WORK managers in Renfrewshire in Scotland have spent almost £4 million on agency care staff in just five years, figures reveal. Renfrewshire Health and...
ESSEX FBU STRIKE BALLOT ‘Don’t doubt the outcome’ – warns Brigade...
Essex fire crews have given formal legal notice of a strike ballot in a dispute over frontline cuts and changes forced through without proper...
Doctor at centre of Baha Mousa’s death faces a six-week ‘fitness...
DR DEREK Keilloh is to face a six-weeks General Medical Council fitness to practice panel, commencing 11 June 2012, over his role in the...
Student nurse numbers declining! –10,000 off target by 2025! – says...
STUDENT nurse numbers are declining to the extent that the official NHS workforce plan for England will be over 10,000 off target by 2025,...
10,000 workers and youth besiege Downing Street demanding banning of all...
OVER 10,000 workers, students and youth attended a protest rally outside Downing Street on Tuesday night with banners, placards and Palestinian flags. They demanded the...
Split PLO votes to support proximity talks
IN a controversial vote, the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) Executive Committee gave its support on Sunday to proposed indirect peace negotiations with Israel. ‘In...
Lieberman Lashes Abbas And Israeli Diplomats
Israel’s ultra-Zionist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday questioned on Israeli radio if President Mahmud Abbas represents all Palestinians, given his lack of authority...
200 years since the birth of Frederick Engels
TODAY is the 200th anniversary of the birth, on 28th November, 1820, of Frederick Engels, the closest collaborator, benefactor, friend and comrade of Karl...
Murdoch University in Perth: Unprecedented 80% cut to staff pay!
MURDOCH University in Perth, Western Australia, is attempting to force ‘safety-net award conditions’ onto staff – slashing their pay by up to 80 per...
Families preparing to launch legal action against Blair!
FOLLOWING publication of the Chilcot Report into the Iraq War, the families of British soldiers who were killed during the war are preparing to...
Israeli troops shoot dead 3 Palestinians in a car in Nablus
THREE Palestinians were killed on Tuesday after Israeli forces opened fire at their vehicle in al-Tur area in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus,...
Mass Civil Disobedience In Port Said
EGYPT’S Port Said entered its eighth day of a mass civil disobedience campaign on Sunday in response to the killings of protesters during clashes...
BMA demands ‘an end to PA postcode lottery after review concludes...
A NEW rapid systematic review published last Friday 7th March by researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford,...