Spain To Pursue Israeli War Crimes Probe
Spain’s National Court plans to proceed with an investigation of Israeli officials for possible war crimes against humanity over the 2002 killing of a...
SA goldmine fires 1,500 strikers
SOUTH AFRICAN mining company Sibanye Gold has fired around 1,500 workers for taking part in a wildcat strike at its Cooke mine. The decision, announced...
‘WAKING UP TO A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY’ – Information Commissioner slams ‘Big...
Last Thursday, the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, launched a public debate on ‘the implications of living in a surveillance society’. The Information Commissioner’s Office...
RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike
OVER 40,000 workers are supporting the action and manning the picket lines again today as the RMT railwayworkers union takes this week’s second day...
TUC calls for end to poverty-level pensions
THE TUC Congress in Brighton ended on Wednesday with a call on the TUC General Council to campaign for a state pension above the...
‘We Can’t Allow Another Gate Gourmet To Happen’
Delegates to the TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday afternoon demanded a campaign to restore the right to take solidarity strike action. This followed prime...
21 million trapped in forced labour – including six million children...
IN HER foreword to the US Department of Labor’s findings on the worst forms of child labour in 2011, Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of...
CGT calls for ‘day of mobilisation’
FRENCH trade union federation CGT has called for September 29 to be a ‘day of mobilisation and interprofessional strikes’ over unemployment. The CGT stated that...
END CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DISCRIMINATION – says GMB lobby
Calling for victory over ruthless employers, Construction and Engineering workers from many parts of Britain, rallied 100 strong outside the Houses of Parliament on...
4 MILLION DISPLACED IRAQIS – international help ‘seriously inadequate’
The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, Amnesty International said in its report ‘Millions in Flight’, published yesterday. Help from the international...
LOW PAY NO WAY! – MPs support cleaners strike
‘OUR battle will go on until we get justice for our people,’ said the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) General Secretary Tony Woodley...
Crowds Take To The Streets In Their Support Of Assad And...
CROWDS in Aleppo took to the streets following the announcement of the Army General Command restoration of security and stability to the city after...
Director of Al-Shifa Hospital – held by Israel for seven months...
THE director of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, who had been detained by Israeli forces for more than seven months, says he was put through ‘severe...
NUMSA BATTLES FOR PLASTIC WORKERS – while Marikana victims demand compensation
STRIKING members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) held a mass demonstration on Tuesday to hand...
‘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...
Elderly and disabled Gazans starving to death!
On a daily basis, the death toll among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly the elderly, is increasing due to hunger, malnutrition, and lack...
‘Supermajority’ vote to join union at Ford plant in Kentucky
A MAJORITY of workers at a Ford Motor (F.N) joint-venture battery plant in Kentucky have signed cards indicating their support for the United Auto...
KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN – as an acute District General Hospital
THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) has endorsed proposals to close Chase Farm Hospital as an acute District General Hospital (DGH). This is in order that...
700 airport workers on strike in Canada ‘Swissport willing to sacrifice...
OVER 700 ground crew workers at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada’s busiest airport, have been on strike since 9.30pm last Thursday evening, after their...
Fierce Fighting Taking Place In Gaza
AS it has vowed, the Palestinian resistance was waiting for the Israeli occupation soldiers to foil their aggression, killing nine of them and wounding...
Threat To Sack All London Firefighters!
Ian Leahair, FBU Executive Council Member for London, on Thursday issued the following statement on London fire commissioner Ron Dobson’s threat to sack the...
Palestinians rally to mark Land Day!
PALESTINIANS rallied across the West Bank and in Gaza on Saturday to commemorate Land Day. March 30 is commemorated every year because of a deadly...
HUNDREDS OF NEW ORLEANS DEATHS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED – findings...
the deaths of a hundreds of New Orleans residents and the suffering of so many thousands more people could have been avoided, an inquiry...
‘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...
PALESTINIAN PILGRIMS RETURN – while Gaza faces health disaster
ISMAIL Haniyeh, the Hamas leader in Gaza, has said that Egypt had ‘not surrendered to blackmail’ when it decided to allow Palestinian pilgrims to...
The Palestinian Struggle For Freedom From Occupation!
BY WESAM BAHRANI IT IS unrealistic to observe the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza without understanding its strategic dimension, in particular the current phase of...
Miliband Does Nothing To Stop Genocide Against The Tamils
TamilNet reports that Professor Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, has said Britain is obliged to...
Iran calls for meeting of OIC member states on ending Gaza...
IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called for an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Committee on Palestine at the Parliamentary Union of the...
Iranian missiles strike Mossad bases in Erbil – after two Iranians...
IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a stern warning to Israel following a retaliatory missile strike on the ‘strategic centre of Zionist...
‘USA must stop funding Netanyahu’s war machine’ says Senator Bernie...
INDEPENDENT Senator Bernie Sanders has said that the United States cannot continue funding Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war machine as it presses ahead...
‘BREATHTAKING ARROGANCE – PCS slams Tory Coalition’s cuts
The country’s largest civil service union, PCS, has condemned the suggestion that public servants should put forward ideas for spending cuts as ‘breathtakingly arrogant...
Appeal Against Fox’s Refusal To Hold Public Inquiry Into Torture Of...
THE Court of Appeal will on Monday 18th July 2011 commence a three-day hearing to consider the lawfulness of the refusal by Liam Fox,...
US targets Hezbollah with new sanctions
THE US Treasury Department has announced new sanctions targeting seven individuals and entities linked to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. The new sanctions target Hezbollah’s...
RESTORE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS – ACTU urges Rudd government
Turmoil in the global economy has increased the urgency for a fair and balanced industrial relations system, said Australian Council of Trade Unions (actu)...
FBI attacks Scottish government over Megrahi release
THE Scottish Nationalist government has defended its decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi amid a mounting and frenzied counter-attack directed...
The Bill Is ‘Final Step For Privatising The NHS’ Bma Arm...
DOCTORS at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representatives Meeting (ARM) on Tuesday made a bid to press forward their advantage, after passing Motion...
Loyalist Killers Turn To God
BY IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST JOHN COULTER The Castlerock massacre in Co Derry in which four Catholic workmen were shot dead could have been stopped if...
‘TIME FOR ACTION’ – ON JOBS, WELFARE AND PENSIONS – as...
US TRADE union leaders’ were yesterday demanding that the Democrats take action on workers’ issues in the Houses of Congress, in return for the...
ONE BIG TEACHERS UNION! – demands Professional Unity Conference!
OVER 100 teachers from around the UK attended a Professional Unity conference last Saturday, organised by their trade unions. Speakers were Mary Bousted, Association of...
DOOR CLOSING ON 2 MILLION IRAQI REFUGEES – Human Rights Watch...
‘Now that the international community is finally beginning to pay attention to the existence of an estimated two million Iraqi refugees in the Middle...
Israeli troops fire on Palestinian farmers
Israeli forces fired on Palestinian farmers as they were working on their lands east of Khan Younis on Monday morning. Khan Younis is a...
EQUITY MUST FIGHT ARTS CUTS! – call a national march urges...
AXED children’s theatre workers expressed outrage at Culture Secretary Andrew Burnham’s proclamation last Wednesday that ‘every schoolchild will get five hours of culture a...
Teachers Oppose Miliband Over Parent-Run Schools
TEACHERS’ unions on Monday rejected Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposal for parent-run schools. They were commenting on his Hugo Young lecture where Miliband set out...
Fury Over Planned Closure Of Camden Gp Surgery
OVER 30 angry patients denounced a sham consultation meeting by NHS managers over the imminent closure of the contracted-out Camden Town GP Surgery in...
A ‘PERMANENT WINTER NHS CRISIS LOOMS’ – warns BMA over Tory...
‘THE GOVERNMENT must resolve the long-term funding, capacity and recruitment issues’ if it is going to avoid a ‘winter crisis’ all year round, doctors...