British surgeon training Palestinian doctors in complex limb reconstruction
BY PETER OBORNE & JAN-PETER WESTAD From Middle East Eye TERENCE English is a celebrated British surgeon. In 1979 he performed the first successful heart...
THE COST OF ‘DARING TO DISSENT’ – death threats and detention...
TamilNet reports that Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has condemned an anonymous death threat and his detension in the airport by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID)...
LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE?’ TODAY – Part 4: For workers power...
IN Once Again, Whither France? (March 1935) Leon Trotsky discussed the call for a general strike. He wrote: ‘The general strike, as every Marxist knows,...
CAPITALISM HAS TO GO! – say May Day marchers
‘Capitalism has had its day, it’s historically bankrupt. Now’s the time to bring it down and go forward to socialism.’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary...
Saudi war brings Yemen to ‘brink of abyss’
YEMEN’S 20-month war has killed over 7,000 people and wounded nearly 37,000, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says, and a UN envoy has voiced...
Brazilian meat and poultry workers defeat government attempt to cut safety...
AN IUF global union statement last Friday reminded that a determined campaign by IUF affiliates and allies has beaten back a government attempt to...
‘UK should examine its own destructive past actions in the Middle...
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the United Kingdom needs to take a retrospective look at its past destructive actions in the Middle...
Israel’s aggressive blockade pushes over two million Palestinians to the brink...
AS ISRAEL'S second total blockade stretches into its second month, more than two million Palestinians are being pushed to the brink of famine. Hunger is...
Nursing on a ‘knife-edge’ RCN warn of intensifying staffing crisis
NURSES’ unions have declared that World Patient Safety Day 2021 must be a ‘wake-up call’ to ministers to tackle – ‘urgently’ – the nursing...
Occupy Wall Street Marchers On The Road To Washington
Last Wednesday November 9th, 21 protesters left Zuccotti Park, the centre of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and set off down...
Hotel workers unionising and striking across the USA – 2,000 on...
Hundreds more UNITE HERE hotel workers have walked off the job, as another wave of strikes hits the US hotel industry last Thursday. Nearly 2,000...
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...
‘HUMANITY IS UNDER ATTACK IN GAZA STRIP!’ – Abbas urges UN...
STATE of Palestine President Mahmud Abbas, last Wednesday declared the Gaza Strip a humanitarian disaster area. In a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,...
Masses of vital council services to close!
LOCAL services including leisure facilities, children’s centres and pothole repairs will be slashed due to funding cuts over the next two years, a survey...
Police surround the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia to try & seize...
Last Sunday night in Bolivia around 10pm, 220 police, armed and accompanied by trained dogs, surrounded Mexico’s Embassy in La Paz. According to a statement...
Battle for ‘living wage’ is escalating
THE BATTLE for a living wage is escalating, with Southampton Solent University and Norwich City Football Club, being the latest employers who have now...
‘President Assad is not going to leave’ – says Russian Foreign...
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave an interview to the BBC on 7 March, ahead of his visit to London to take part in...
IG Metall demands 6% rise & 28-hour week for parental leave!
HUNDREDS of thousands members of IG Metall union, Germany’s largest trade union, are engaged in short-term ‘warning strikes’ against 80 companies, for the right...
Harvard University 3 weeks strike
CLASS struggle has erupted on the campus of one of the top universities in the United States of America, Harvard. Four hundred US students gathered...
‘Whose NHS? Our NHS! 150 junior doctors rally in Hackney
‘WHOSE NHS? Our NHS!’ chanted over 150 junior doctors from east London hospitals at a lunchtime strike rally outside Hackney Town Hall on Thursday. One...
Usa Is Handing Millions To The White Helmets!
THE US is handing millions of dollars of cash over to the White Helmets organisation, the Syrian and Russian coordination committees said on Tuesday. The...
250,000 Public Sector Sackings Since Election
UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, on Monday welcomed a report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) calling on the...
MILITARY MIGHT CANNOT END TAMIL INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE – says Tamil National...
HISTORY has shown that there is not a military solution to the struggle taking place in Sri Lanka, says a Tamil politician, in an...
Government Workers Marching Today!
WORKERS from three separate government departments, some of them engaged in indefinite strike action, will hold a joint demonstration and march through central London...
Nearly two million US citizens held behind bars – Lashawn Thompson...
LASHAWN Thompson, a 28-years-old black inmate, was found dead in his cell in an Atlanta jail with more than one thousand insect bites all...
Black Lives Matter: 60,000 Rally And March In London
SIXTY THOUSAND youth and older workers joined the Black Lives Matter march in London on Saturday, from Parliament Square to the Home Office, then...
Over 500 on 26th annual United Families and Friends march
THERE were 500 demonstrators on Saturday’s annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street, where a petition was...
76.5 million children are living in poverty in the ‘developed’ world!
THE number of UK children living in poverty has increased to more than a quarter as a result of austerity measures introduced following the...
US Collapse Shocks Afl-Cio Leaders
‘One day after George W Bush asserted that the ‘fundamentals’ of the US economy are strong, the Dow Jones stock index plummeted by 387,...
Solano County workers win a two year contract after two strikes
ON WEDNESDAY evening, Solano County, California workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021 overwhelmingly ratified a two-year contract with the...
Bakers pay battle while jobs in Cork and Shannon under threat
NEARLY 130 workers are facing the sack at Shannon Airport while almost 200 others are to be laid off for three months without pay...
‘WE NEED THE REST OF THE WORKING CLASS BY OUR SIDE’...
YET more mass demonstrations were held on Wednesday in Athens and Salonica by state primary and secondary school teachers and their supporters in the...
FIREFIGHTERS FACE GREATER CANCER RISK – because of alarmingly high levels...
FIREFIGHTERS face a greater risk of developing cancer because of an ‘alarmingly high’ level of dangerous chemicals carried on their clothing, researchers have found....
Avoid duplicitous behaviour and stop resorting to violence against protesters! –...
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has condemned the violence by the French police against anti-government demonstrators in the European country as demonstrating France’s non-adherence to...
‘The political people … have delivered incompetence and indifference towards us’...
FIVE years ago, in the early hours of the morning of June 14th 2017, a kitchen fire led to an inferno that set alight...
South African metalworkers take action to defend pensions
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is preparing to take action, ‘including lunchtime pickets, placard demonstrations, marches and strikes’, to defend...
SCHOOLS PRIVATISATION MUST BE RESISTED says ATL President Hank Roberts
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove’s plans for schools to be run for profit and to end state education as we know it must be resisted,...
‘The solution is uprising’– say 120,000 Athens workers!
CHANTING ‘It’s their crisis – the solution is uprising!’; ‘Down with the government and the troika of the EC-IMF-ECB. The time has come...
‘CALL A GENERAL STRIKE’ – lobby urges TUC General Council
OVER 200 Young Socialists and trade unionists lobbied the General Council of the TUC on Wednesday morning as it assembled to discuss the calling...
170,000 workers & youth march in London for ‘Victory for Palestine’
OVER 150,000 workers, students and youth joined the National March for Palestine from the BBC in Portland Place, central London to Downing Street on...
Clover workers strike in SA since November 22
The General Industries Workers Union of SA (Giwusa) has lambasted Clover, claiming that the massive South African dairy producer is lining its pockets at...
Female former LTTE cadres being continually abused
THE genocidal Sri Lanka military occupying the country of Eezham Tamils is routinely engaged in repeated sexual abuse of the former female members of...
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...
‘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...
‘After years of fighting SA domestic workers are closer to being...
‘ANYTHING can happen,’ says domestic worker Florence Sosiba. ‘I am sitting here in the house. A criminal can come. I am the victim. My...