‘ISRAEL ON ITS WAY TO COLLAPSE’ says Iranian President
Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that Israel was on its way to collapse, as Iran’s military displayed a range of home-built drones...
No forced academies – demand teachers unions
THE National Union of teachers (NUT) is utterly opposed to the government’s plan to convert all schools to academies, ending democratic accountability in England’s...
Five Picturehouse cinemas out today!
FIVE Picturehouse cinemas are on strike this May Day. In a repeat of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history in April, five...
Seven young men facing execution in Saudi Arabia –Amnesty International demands...
SEVEN young men who were juveniles at the time of their alleged offences are facing imminent execution in Saudi Arabia despite the country having...
SA trade unions battle for inflation-beating pay increases for 1.2m
THE LABOUR Court in Johannesburg will be the setting for South Africa’s trade unions and the African National Congress (ANC) government to fight it...
‘We Are Ready For A Long War Until We Defeat Them’
THE Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gadaffi has made a defiant 12-minute statement on the anniversary of the ‘1 September Revolution’ that was broadcast by Al-Ra’y...
Zionist witch-hunt costs Octavia Nasr her CNN job
CNN’s decision to fire a veteran Mideast editor over a Twitter message mourning the death of the Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is...
11,000 Residents & Supporters Join Grenfell Silent Walk
MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...
Israel Plans New Settlements on a UNESCO Heritage Site!
When a group of more than 100 Israeli settlers, masked and armed with pistols and automatic rifles, killed a Palestinian, injured others and burned...
Over 300 United Families and Friends march on Downing Street
‘Who ARE the murderers? Police are the murderers!’ shouted a demonstration of over 300 on the annual United Families and Friends march from Trafalgar...
BHOPAL SURVIVORS CELEBRATE VICTORY! – and vow to take action against...
Survivors and families of the Union Carbide Corpora-tion (UCC)/Dow Chemical plant disaster at Bhopal in India, and their international supporters, have been celebrating victory...
Iran will deal heavy blows to terrorists threatening the country’s security
THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Intelligence Organisation has strongly condemned the latest terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, warning that...
Herts FBU Warns Of Savage Cuts
Confidential documents passed to Hertfordshire’s Fire Brigades Union (FBU) show that confidential proposals have earmarked SEVEN more fire stations for either closure or downgrading,...
French Workers Taking Strike Action
THE Avignon theatre festival and France’s other summer arts festivals may not take place due to a strike threat by stage-hands and other arts-support...
Ryanair cabin crew win historic union recognition agreement!
TRADE union Unite has signed a historic union recognition agreement with Ryanair, which is infamous for fighting to stop the unionisation of its workforce. This...
Italian All-Out Strike!
A 24-HOUR general strike paralysed Italian towns and cities on Monday, while 127 Alitalia flights were cancelled and public transport ground to a halt. The...
US trade unions condemn racist rally in Charlottesville
AMERICA’S nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), has condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday which resulted in the death of a...
Israel is shutting down the Palestinian institutions
‘ISRAEL is attempting to erase Palestinian presence in Jerusalem by shutting more Palestinian institutions,’ Hanan Ashrawi, an Executive Committee member of the Palestine Liberation...
Fire Service Cuts And Station Closures Threatening Public Safety
Humberside fire crews are warning that cuts and station closures will compromise public and firefighter safety. The warning came as local fire crews launch their...
Directors amassing pension pots worth an average £3.8 million says TUC...
DIRECTORS of the UK’s top companies have amassed pensions pots worth an average of £3.8 million, according to the new TUC PensionsWatch survey published...
Knesset approves ‘the most far-right cabinet in history’
PALESTINIANS have denounced Binyamin Netanyahu’s swearing-in as Israel’s prime minister in his return as head of the Tel Aviv regime’s most far-right cabinet in...
‘THE RAISING OF OUR FLAG HERALDS THE FUTURE RECOGNITION OF PALESTINE’...
‘THE raising of our flag epitomises the triumph of all our diplomatic efforts and heralds the future de jure recognition of Palestine which is...
Israel’s killings of resistance commanders accelerating its own demise, says Mohsen...
MOHSEN Rezaei, a former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has warned that the Israeli regime’s targeted killings of resistance commanders...
‘WE WERE THE FIRST TO CALL FOR A UNITED, UNIFIED, SOVEREIGN...
‘WE were the first to call for a united, unified, fully sovereign, independent, free, and lofty Lebanon where the state and the government represent...
Gmb Fighting For A £10 An Hour Living Wage For Workers
GMB members held nine protest demonstrations outside fast food outlets and M&S on Tuesday across England in solidarity with members of the SEIU working...
‘They are planning to get rid of the whole of Ealing...
ANN FRANKLYN, 22 years a nurse and midwife at Ealing Hospital, carrying heavy bags, stopped at the occupation at 6.30pm on Friday evening. ‘Today...
STOP SCHOOL CLOSURES – STOP SACKING TEACHERS – demand Greek...
THOUSANDS of state secondary school teachers demonstrated throughout Greece on Tuesday night against the coalition government’s Education Bill for secondary education, schools closures and...
Israel proceeds with demolitions, evictions and arrests of Palestinians
THE UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli forces have either demolished or seized 24 Palestinian-owned buildings in the occupied...
Defeat Israeli plan to ‘manage starvation’ & drive Palestinians out of...
Two days after the limited entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian voices are rising to emphasise the ineffectiveness of the aid provided. They...
Damning Report On Deaths In Police Custody
INQUEST has launched a damning new report exposing the fact that after an inquest into a death in police custody, there is no mechanism...
‘What is going on in Gaza is systematic starvation & mass...
‘WHAT’S happening in Gaza of systematic starvation and deliberate destruction is not a war, but a genocide,’ the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation...
PCS Calls For Universal Credit To Be Smashed!
‘THROUGH our Universal Credit Fact Versus Fiction campaign, PCS is exposing the massive problems with a system that we say needs to be scrapped...
Over 100 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2022
A Palestinian human rights group says Israeli military forces have killed more than one hundred Palestinians, and wounded hundreds more during raids and various...
US military to be a more ‘lethal, adaptive and resilient force’...
US SECRETARY of Defence Lloyd Austin says his country is committed to protecting its Southeast Asian allies against what he called China’s aggression. ‘Beijing’s claim...
SOUTH CAROLINA AFL-CIO SUPPORTS SANDERS –while the UERMW convention votes to...
THE South Carolina AFL-CIO executive board passed a resolution supporting US Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and recommending...
NHS Direct Action fighting NHS privatisation
ON WEDNESDAY morning, at 9.00am, 15 NHS Direct Action and UK Uncut activists visited 2020health to protest against the think-tank’s role in lobbying...
‘IF WE DON’T WIN THIS BATTLE THERE WILL BE NO MORE...
AT A PACKED ‘Saving Vauxhall Jobs’ TUC Congress fringe meeting on Tuesday evening, Unite leaders Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson attacked the German government...
Migrant workers cheated of wages & deported from US!
GERADO Santiago-Hernandez was a worker at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Michigan. A lawsuit filed in June 2020, on behalf of him and other...
Israeli authorities are committing crimes against humanity says Human Rights Watch...
ISRAELI authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday. The finding is...
Brutally beaten Palestinian-American teen under house arrest!
AN Israeli court on Sunday placed under house arrest a Palestinian-American teenager who was filmed being brutally beaten by police during clashes in Jerusalem. Tarek...
BUCHNER, BRENTON AND REVOLUTION! – Contradictions of the French Revolution
Danton’s Death by Georg Buchner in a new version by Howard Brenton at the National Theatre (Olivier Theatre) London South Bank until October 14, Tickets from £10 IF...
Israel Renews Apartheid ‘Citizenship And Entry Law’
ISRAEL’S parliament, the Knesset, renewed the controversial ‘Citizenship and Entry into Israel’ law, which sets severe limitations on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian...
Thousands march in support of the Venezuelan government
VENEZUELA’s President Nicolas Maduro has urged the United States to discuss ‘peace and sovereignty’ in a high level commission mediated by the Union of...
Guantanamo Detainees Fight To Challenge Their Detention In Civilian Courts
The US Supreme Court addressed a landmark case over the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees on Wednesday, deliberating on whether the military prison camp’s...
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...