MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH STRIKE AGAINST CUTS – nurses, therapists and admin...
UNISON has given official notice to the NHS employers Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust that 250 of their staff will take their...
DON’T RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE say unions
GMB trade union yesterday said it rejects the Turner report proposal to extend the pension age. Turner recommends extending the retirement age to ‘between 67...
Families struggle to find loved ones beneath millions of tons...
FOR 200 days, Abu Ismail Hammad has been digging beneath his destroyed home in Gaza City, sifting through the sand to collect the remains...
Hezbollah and Hamas meet in Beirut to discuss closer coordination
THE secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has met with a delegation of senior officials with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, as hundreds...
Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian affirms his unwavering support for Hezbollah
IRAN’S President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian has responded to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, affirming the Islamic Republic’s unwavering support to the resistance. In a letter...
SOUTH EAST LONDON HOSPITALS ‘SERVICE RECONFIGURATION’ – a closure and privatisation...
A ‘service reconfiguration’ for Outer South East London Service is being proposed. Outer South East London comprises the boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley....
BOYCOTT ISRAEL! – demands Free Palestine rally
Over 5,000 members and supporters of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign last Saturday marched and rallied in central London under the banner of Free Palestine. The...
DEMONSTRATE AGAINST OBAMA’S VISIT – urges youth ‘Palestinians for Dignity’
IN OCCUPIED Ramallah the Palestinian youth group ‘Palestinians For Dignity’ has called to reject US President Obama’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territory expected...
Palestinian Children Being Held In Solitary Confinement
BY ADRI NIEUWHOF ISRAEL has held six Palestinian boys from Nablus in solitary confinement in al-Jalame detention centre near Haifa, writes Defence for Children...
Community Camp 4 Palestine support for hunger strikers
THE Community Camp 4 Palestine, opposite the US Embassy in south London, hosted a meeting to support the hunger strikers from Filton 24 on...
OPEN LETTER TO UAW LEADERSHIP – don’t agree to a VEBA
THREE veteran leaders of the UAW have sent an open letter to Ron Gettelfinger and the UAW leadership expressing their concern that the leadership...
‘CHILD POVERTY SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING’ – NEU survey
Education professionals are reporting a significant increase in the visibility of child poverty in their school/college and have provided many distressing examples from daily...
Black people in US ‘subjected to brutality and death in the...
AN African American journalist and political analyst has said that ever since the inception of the police in the United States African people have...
TO DIE BY MISTAKE by Brazilian writer Urariano Mota translated by...
There are various ways of dying by mistake. All of them against one’s own will. Not so long ago I believed that we could...
UN DEMANDS TOTAL ACCESS TO INTERNMENT CAMPS – as Sinhala youths...
TAMILNET reports that gangs of Sinhala youths brandishing Lion flags in the name of victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have...
7,000 NY nurses strike against ‘dangerous understaffing’
A STRIKE by more than 7,000 nurses at two major New York City hospitals began at 6.00am on Monday after talks aimed at averting...
RMT Tube Strike ‘Rock Solid’
THE WEEKEND strike action on London Underground (LU) on the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly & Victoria Tube lines was rock solid. The striking Tube driver...
Safety must be mandatory! – Australian maritime workers step up action...
ON Wednesday, 18 June, Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) members will take action in Sydney to draw attention to the safety crisis in stevedoring. The...
SAFTU demands action to solve South Africa’s education crisis!
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has demanded that the African National Council-led government takes action to end the education crisis in...
‘There must not be any cooperation between Volkswagon and yellow unions’...
THE head of the German union (IG Metall) representing automotive workers has spoken out against Volkswagen working with anti-labour groups at its plant in...
‘THE BRITISH ARMY IS NOT OUR ARMY’ – says Sinn Fein...
By Irish politcal journalist JOHN COULTER THE war of words between Unionists and Republicans over the British Army’s presence in the North hotted up as...
Teamsters vote 85% for national strike at Costco for a fair...
Teamsters members at the supermarket Costco across the United States voted by an overwhelming 85 per cent margin on Thursday to authorise a national...
Frontline Services ‘To Be Devastated’ In Ireland
In the Republic of Ireland, a government report has been released which shows that public sector cuts will mean 23,500 workers lose their jobs,...
No harassment! No discrimination! Demand students working for California University
STUDENT workers from the University of California demanded the UC implement new anti-discrimination and harassment provisions at a union contract negotiation session last Thursday. UAW...
Grenfell smoke system failed
‘DAMPER’ devices placed in Grenfell Tower’s ventilation system to prevent the spread of smoke were of the ‘lowest possible standard’, the ongoing Grenfell inquiry...
Ongoing Strikes And Sit-Ins Throughout Egypt
The ITUC on Monday expressed deep concern over statements attributed to the new Minister of Manpower in Egypt, Ismail Fahmy, that ‘the issue of...
Syria rebuilds 52 Hospitals & health centres in Aleppo
N A VICTORY against the foreign backed terrorists, the Syrian government under President Assad have announced that they have managed to get 52 health...
Rajapakse Bids For Permanent Dictatorship
THE 18th Constitutional Amendment Bill will be debated and put to the vote on September 8th in the Sri Lankan parliament, following a decision...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘The revolution will make...
Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN 7. Internal Forces of the Russian Revolution (Appeared in the New York daily paper...
ISS cleaners protest today in Manchester
cleaners working for ISS on the Arriva Rail North contract will be holding a protest today, Wednesday 10th April, outside Manchester Victoria station between...
THE PEOPLE OF GAZA MUST NOT BE LEFT TO THEIR FATE...
THE Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah issued a strong warning to Israel in his Ashura Day address in Beirut, last Saturday. Speaking on this...
Israeli Settler Terrorism On The Rise!
THE following article by Wafa Aludaini appeared on the Hamas website ‘Palestinian Information Centre’. She is a Gaza-based journalist and activist, reporting on how...
UK COMPLICIT ‘IN THE MOST SERIOUS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ –...
THE Chagos islanders were thrown out of their Indian Ocean home in the mid 1960s by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson in...
TRADE UNIONISTS MURDERED FOR DEFENDING WORKERS’ RIGHTS – ICFTU report
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEEN trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested,...
Putin Declines To Call Assad An Ally!
IN his recent interview with the German newspaper Bild Vladimir Putin was asked a number of questions about Syria. Question: Now let’s turn to Syria,...
Bloodbath Of Jobs At Marikana’s Mines!
WE KNEW there would be a bloodbath of jobs if Sibanye-Stillwater’s acquisition of Lonmin’s Marikana operations was approved by the Competition Commission.’ Association of Mineworkers...
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,...
US committed a war crime at Minab school in Iran says...
A United Nations fact-finding mission has found that the United States committed a war crime when Tomahawk cruise missiles struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh school...
Tamils Flee Villages In Northern Mannaar
TAMILNET reports that internally displaced families (IDPs) in Moon’raampiddi and Ve’l’laangku’lam villages, located in the northern part of Mannaar district, were fleeing their villages...
Israelis Destroy Al-Araqib Village
In the early hours of Tuesday morning Israeli Police demolished a whole Bedouin village in the Negev desert. Approximately 1,500 Israeli forces were involved including...
Kenya teaching unions announce joint strike
TEACHERS in Kenya are to down their tools as unions KNUT, KUPPET announce a joint strike. Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) chairperson Omboko...
US-led coalition troops quit Afghanistan a beaten and defeated force!
TWENTY years after invading Afghanistan, US-led coalition troops have vacated the largest military base in the war-torn country, located in the ancient city of...
70 years since the Hungarian revolution
The Hungarian revolution was ignited on October 23rd 1956 when a demonstration called by students in the Hungarian capital Budapest to demand reforms and...
Syrian villagers battle Israeli occupation raids alone – as Damascus government...
SYRIAN President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday that Israel had carried out nearly 500 air and artillery...
‘US Wants An Iraq Base To Strike At Iran And Syria’
TribAL leaders in southern Iraq accused the US Administration last week of attempting to establish permanent bases in Iraq to strike against its opposing...