Abu Tair and twenty-two others arrested in Israeli police raids...
ISRAELI forces detained Palestinian lawmaker Muhammad Abu Tair and at least 22 others from across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during...
‘Israelis opened fire and assaulted the Freedom Flotilla!’ say freed humanitarian...
Knesset Member Hanin Zoabi, who was on board the Marmara ship when it was raided by Navy fighters, held a press conference in Nazareth...
Marwan Barghouthi Elected To Fatah Central Committee
Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, has been elected to the governing body of Fatah which dominates the Palestinian Authority,...
Airport workers strike in Argentina – while Milei pursued for arrest...
Airport workers carried out an 11-hour strike at 27 airports in Argentina on Thursday. The action took place in two slots, between 6am and 12...
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...
LONDON COLLEGES MARCH TO DEFEND EDUCATION – London Met cuts the...
Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their supporters marched through north London on Saturday in defence of education.Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their...
As Gaza genocide intensifies thousands of Palestinians are being detained
AS THE genocidal attack on Gaza intensifies and Israel expands its crackdown, thousands of Palestinian civilians, including medical workers, labourers and journalists, have found...
‘Any attempt to use force against Manus Island refugees could lead...
RESPONDING to a notice issued by Papua New Guinea (PNG) authorities on Thursday morning at the Lombrum refugee detention centre on Manus Island stating...
Workers Are Furious Over Attacks On Pay Pensions And Services
TWO million teachers, education support workers, lecturers, local government workers, firefighters, civil servants and other public sector workers went on a 24-hour strike on...
‘Innocent Men Were The Victims Of Violent And Cowardly Abuse By...
AT A press conference last Thursday on the just published report by Sir William Gage on the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, lawyers issued a...
South Africa education workers fight ‘appalling’ casualisation and ‘declaration of war’...
SOUTH Africa’s National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) on Tuesday called on the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane...
Israel demolishing homes of accused Palestinians
ISRAELI authorities on Thursday handed the families of two Palestinian suspects – whom Israel accused of being involved in an attack against Israeli soldiers...
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...
Tshwane bus workers strike gridlocks city centre
SOUTH Africa’s administrative capital Tshwane (Pretoria) was gridlocked for a second day on Tuesday as bus drivers disabled their vehicles and the City insisted...
Tens of thousands of Yemeni troops attend military parade
THE spectacular military parade by the Yemeni Army and the Ansarullah resistance movement on September 21 at Al-Sabeen Square in the capital city of...
15,000 Greek Workers March Against Syriza Coalition!
OVER 15,000 workers and youth marched last Saturday in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on the opening of a trade fair, demanding an end to the...
‘NO MORE PAY CUTS!’ – demands SIPTU
SIPTU President, Jack O’ Connor, last Friday condemned a call by the Central Bank for more pay cuts across the economy. He said the...
Sri Lanka Garment Workers Rise Up Over Pensions
THE Sri Lankan proposed private sector pension scheme has angered workers in the garment sector, with trade unionists warning of mass street...
OCCUPY CHASE FARM TO STOP IT CLOSING! – urges 1,000-strong...
A THOUSAND people – hospital staff, local residents, trade unionists and other groups from as far away as Crawley and Cambridge – joined the...
‘WHO ARE THE MURDERERS – POLICE ARE THE MURDERERS!’ –say United...
‘No Justice, No Peace! Who are the murderers – Police are the murderers!’ shouted over 300 bereaved relatives and supporters as they made their...
Israel refuses to apologise for Freedom Flotilla massacre
ISRAEL has rejected a US request to apologise to Turkey over its 2010 commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine Turkish...
END SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY – ‘I don’t want any other mother to...
‘AS Jean’s mother I have felt immense pain,’ Maria Otone de Menezes told a packed public meeting in London on Monday night. The meeting was...
Israeli troops and settlers raid al-Aqsa Mosque
AMID international efforts to de-escalate tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli settlers have once again raided the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied...
Sri Lankan Army Steps Up Its Attacks On Tamil Civilians
TAMILNET reports that yesterday, at 6.50am the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intensified its offensive aimed at dividing the so-called Safety Zone into two. With fire...
Occupation authorities are waging a relentless war against the Palestinian youth...
ISRAELI occupation forces on Tuesday and Monday night detained at least 14 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, six of them from East...
ISRAELI TROOPS RAID KOBAR VILLAGE –settlers go on the rampage in...
THE ISRAELI army has told members of the Barghouti family from the village of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah on Saturday, that they will be...
PENTONVILLE SPIRIT REQUIRED TO FIGHT THE ANTI-UNION LAWS –but precious little...
JULY 31 marked the 40th anniversary of a great working class victory, the release of the jailed Pentonville Five dockers in 1972. The TUC was...
Gaza genocide – 325 days of mass murder!
THE ISRAELI-American genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip has completed 325 days and there are still no signs of this murderous aggression ending...
Israel ‘intends to impose full sovereignty over Jerusalem’ – warns Hamas
Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, exchanging a volley of tear gas and rocks. Israeli troops entered the Haram...
French Workers & Youth Fighting Hollande’s Anti-Union Legislation
FIERCE battles broke out between French workers and police as over 170,000 workers, students and youth took to the streets in 110 cities across...
Hezbollah leadership not involved in HARIRI murder says UN-backed court
THE SPECIAL Tribunal for Lebanon has not found evidence that the leadership of Hezbollah was involved in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime...
Lebanon Imports More Fuel From Iran
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Tehran is ready to sell more fuel to the Lebanese government and businessmen if need be, as an...
Millions Strike For $15 An Hour In The Usa
MORE than 1,000 low-wage workers from the fast food, retail, healthcare and delivery industries marched to McDonald’s at 82 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn...
MARCH AND RALLY WITH US TO DEFEND ROYAL MAIL! – Letter...
Dear Editor, The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is working with other Trade Unions, politicians and members of the public to retain a wholly publicly owned...
Sheltered Housing In Danger
THE future of Sheltered Housing Schemes is in danger, unless the government acts to stop their funding being cut, the UK Pensioners Strategy Committee...
Nationwide trade union protests across Australia March 4 – ‘Time to...
JOIN the national protests around the country on Wednesday 4 March 2015, urges Australia’s Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). The CPSU warns: ‘It’s not...
Richest countries not helping refugees
‘IT is shameful that, as one of the richest economies, the UK has provided shelter for less than one per cent of refugees,’...
‘The Syrian army has full control of the city of Manbij!’...
RUSSIA says its military police units are patrolling along contact line areas between Turkish and Syrian armies near Syria’s flashpoint northern city of Manbij...
Yarl’s Wood indefinite hunger strike
The women from Avocet and Dove units, along with a few men on the family wing, are refusing food and are planning further protests....
American unions form partnership with United Students Against Sweatshops
IN the first of many concrete moves after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its national convention to create new and lasting community partnerships...
Close The Concentration Camps – Free The Tamils! – Say 30,000...
Despite the October chill, over 30,000 British Tamils and supporters took to the streets on Saturday, to highlight the desperate situation faced by Tamils...
Junior doctors mass rally in Trafalgar Square – ‘A turbo-charged...
ON THE FIRST day of the four-day strike by 47,600 junior doctors they held a mass rally in central London. From 2pm onwards Trafalgar Square...
Modi’s government freezes main opposition party’s funds before elections
The Congress party, India’s principal opposition force, has levelled serious accusations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration, alleging that the government has deliberately undermined...
‘SERIOUS THREAT’ TO EXISTENCE OF STUDENT UNION – warns London Met...
‘To whom it may concern,’ writes Michelle Harris, president of London Metropolitan University Students’ Union. ‘There is a serious issue occuring at London Met university...
Dozens Of Palestinians Wounded In Clashes With Israeli Troops
DOZENS of Palestinian worshipers were wounded and dozens were detained after clashes broke in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning with Israeli forces...