The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...
A STATEMENT by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office Bearers on Sunday outlined the union’s views ‘on the state of...
Escalation of violence against Palestinians in Israel
PALESTINIANS in Israel on Monday launched a convoy of vehicles to protest against violence and crime in their towns and Israeli police inaction. The vehicles...
‘ISRAEL OUT OF LEBANON’ – demands Downing Street picket
‘Victory to Hezbollah! Israel out of Lebanon! Freedom for Palestine! Cease-fire now!’ chanted over 800 demonstrators opposite Downing Street last Friday night. The two-hour evening...
Rajapakse regime condemned for harassment and deadly threats to opponents
TAMILNET reports that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York based media rights group, has slammed the Sri Lankan Government for its...
PSC wins court victory to divest pension funds from Israel’s military...
‘TODAY is a great victory from which we will draw strength for the battles ahead,’ chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign Kamel Hawwash said yesterday,...
Workers Demand A General Strike To Defend Their Pensions
750,000 public sector workers struck to defend their pensions on Thursday. 70,000 of them marched through London with banners flying, determined to see the...
NUJ addresses May Day in Ramallah
THE HEAD of the National Union of Journalists in the UK, Michelle Stanistreet, visited Ramallah in Palestine on May Day, reinforcing the unity between...
Abbas looking forward to meeting with Trump
RAMALLAH – March 16, 2017 President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday welcomed current international and Arab efforts to advance a comprehensive and just peace...
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...
‘THE SYRIAN PEOPLE ALONE DECIDE WHO RULES THEM’ – message from...
‘WHAT Are the Real Reasons of the Western Positions Vis-A-Vis President Al-Assad? Or Why Has President Al-Assad Become an Obsession for the United States?’...
‘THE HUMAN COST OF DETENTION’ –Refugee Council welcomes Amnesty report
The Refugee Council has welcomed today’s publication of a new Amnesty International UK report on detention of asylum seekers ‘The Human Cost of Detention’....
Sri Lankan Air Force Attacks ‘Red Barra’ Settlement
TAMILNET reports that on Saturday Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers attacked a populated village, known as ‘Redd Barna’ settlement, in Visuvamadu after targeting...
Save Elliot playing fields!
THE GMB trade union is staging a protest demonstration outside Wandsworth Town Hall from from 6.45pm on Wednesday 4th July 2012, where the borough’s...
WE HAVE TO STRIKE AND OCCUPY! says 500-strong firefighters lobby
‘OCCUPYING fire stations to stop their closure is a tactic that should be considered,’ David Williams West Yorkshire Brigade Secretary told News Line at...
JAPANESE CALL FOR A ‘COMPLETE, UNVARNISHED INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION’ – into war...
THE civilian casualty list in Sri Lanka’s offensive against the Tamil Tigers ‘is long and growing’ TamilNet, reported on Monday. And the Japan Times,...
‘Re-colonisation of Africa will never be allowed’ – says ANC Youth...
NATO has blatantly overstepped its UN resolution mandate in Libya by engaging in offensive military support to the Libyan rebels beyond the UN mandate,...
Assad ‘ready for dialogue’ – says President Putin in Sochi
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi on Thursday that he is convinced that Syrian...
SAVE JOBS AND SAVE OUR ECONOMY – UNITE HERE urges Obama
Today, January 20th, UNITE HERE will launch its UNITE HERE for Change campaign, an ‘effort to work with President Obama and Congress to make...
AZELLE RODNEY–‘END CLOAK OF SECRECY’ says family’s QC Tim Owen
Chairman, retired judge Sir Christopher Holland formally opened a public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney at 10.30am on Wednesday and adjourned it...
‘WE ARE TREATED LIKE PIECES OF COAL’ – Colombian miners tell...
On an AFL-CIO Solidarity Center-sponsored exchange visit, Florida AFL-CIO Vice-President Mike Williams learned about Colombian workers’ constant struggle for social and economic justice – and...
There will be no peace without a Palestinian state – says...
ISRAEL is up to its old tricks, which does not make anyone optimistic about seeing an end to the Middle East conflict, says an...
‘We are fighting for the NHS and fighting to win’ –...
PICKET lines were mounted outside hundreds of ambulance stations across the country on Monday as 23,000 Unison, Unite and GMB paramedics and other ambulance...
2,500 US troops have already left Iraq says Iraqi Premier
THE Iraqi prime minister says as many as 2,500 US troops have left the country as part of agreements reached with Washington to enable...
‘WE ARE APPROACHING VICTORY’ – says Hamas leader Haniya
The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip vowed on Monday that the Palestinian resistance, backed by the population, would emerge victorious over Israel’s...
Fatah leader Barghouthi – hunger strike leader’s condition is deteriorating
IMPRISONED Palestinian parliamentarian and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, who has been leading a large-scale hunger strike in Israeli prisons, has suffered a serious deterioration...
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...
Recognise The State Of Palestine Now!
Continued from lead story
The first speaker at the London Rally for Palestine in Whitehall opposite Downing Street at the end of last...
Egyptian class struggle continues
While Egypt’s presidential election has dominated the headlines, the class struggle continues unabated with workers determined to defend their rights and improve living standards. Egypt’s...
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...
France Determined To Arm The ‘Syrian National Coalition’
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that the composition of a UN group to be assembled to investigate the alleged use of...
ARAB LEAGUE ORGANISING LAND FOR PEACE SELL-OUT! – in return for...
ISRAEL’S lead ‘peace negotiator,’ Tzipi Livni, has praised as ‘important’ a concession by the Arab League that Israel and the Palestinians could trade land...
PUERTO RICO GOVERNOR RESIGNS! – after one million-strong march and general...
PUERTO RICO’s Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned on Thursday – just three days after a million demonstrators marched down Puerto Rico’s Las Americas highway insisting...
NEW WEST BANK SETTLEMENT EXPANSION ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ – says Abbas
Netanyahu’s planned approval of the construction of new homes for settlers in the West Bank is ‘unacceptable’, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday in...
Abbas hopes US Deal of the Century ‘will all go to...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated his hopes that the US-proposed peace plan, dubbed Deal of the Century, will go to hell. ‘I hope that the...
The ‘Framework For Action’ Is A Blueprint For Privatising The NHS
THE ‘Framework for Action’ plan for London’s healthcare, fronted by Professor Sir Ara Darzi, proposes the destruction of a publicly-provided National Health Service (NHS)...
US and EU prepare for direct armed conflict with Russia
US REPRESENTATIVES have launched a campaign in the Philippines to recruit local citizens to fight on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces, Russian...
‘THIS RESOLUTION OPENS THE DOOR OF WAR FOREVER’ –says Nabih Birri,...
LEBANESE Al-Manar Television on 6 August carried a live news conference given by Nabih Birri, Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies...
SIX YEARS OF GUANTANAMO – the detainees speak
On January 11, 2008 it will be six years since the US authorities first transported ‘war on terror’ detainees to the military prison at the naval camp...
‘A blatant act of international piracy’ – US forces seize Venezuelan...
THE US has ignited outrage after seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker in what Caracas compared to Israel’s pattern of unlawful military aggression and resource...
250 million strong India strike!
OVER 250 million workers staged a day-long general strike in India last Wednesday, and demonstrated their opposition to the government of Narendra Modi. Banking and...
‘HISTORY WILL JUDGE BRITAIN FOR ITS FAILURE TO SUPPORT THE...
‘BRITAIN will be judged by history for its failure to support the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday. ‘For how...
TORTURE, STATE EXECUTIONS AND ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENT! – the US human rights...
In the Americas many human rights have been recognised in law, if not always in practice, over the past 50 years, says the annual...
Numsa’s Construction Workers Down Tools!
WORKERS at South Africa’s construction supplies giant, Form-Scaff, nationally, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) have downed tools and...
Bush Vetoes Child Healthcare Extension
US President George W Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP), after it was passed with...
Tories Planning Police-Fire Service Merger
THE Fire Brigades Union in Northamptonshire is extremely concerned at reports suggesting a possible merger of the fire and rescue service and the police,...