Abbas To Urge Hollande That France Must Recognise Palestine
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas will ask his French counterpart Francois Hollande for official recognition of Palestine in an upcoming meeting this week, the Palestinian...
Literacy rate in Palestine one of highest in the world
On the occasion of International Literacy Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published a report last week on the illiteracy rate in...
SMASH ALL FEES, RESTORE GRANTS –demand students
‘ONE, two, three, four – education, not war!’ ‘Five, six, seven, eight – occupy and demonstrate!’ shouted large contingents of students on Sunday’s national...
33 arrested ‘indiscriminately’ at Elbit factory siege
PALESTINE Action campaigners have laid siege to a factory in Leicester which is the base of UAV Tactical Systems, owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s...
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...
Athens Vouli Square Popular Assembly calls for – AN INDEFINITE, POLITICAL...
SOME 10,000 youth and workers congregated last Wednesday evening at the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens demanding for the seventh consecutive night the overthrow...
UK’s Afghan Detention Policy Is Declared Illegal!
In a landmark judgment on Friday in the High Court in London, the UK’s detention policy in Afghanistan was declared unlawful. Since November 2009, the...
‘GO HOME . . . you will be destroyed!’ – Gadaffi...
THE Libyan leader on July 1 addressed many tens of thousands of people in Tripoli’s main square and in the sidestreets around it....
Trade Unions Condemn Zanu-Pf – ‘Behaving Like The Racist Rhodesian Government!
THE ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has vowed to continue mobilising workers to protest until the government addresses their legitimate grievances. In a statement...
Factory Blast Probe Condemns ‘Dangerous And Dysfunctional’ Safety Culture
An independent report into the ICL Glasgow plastics factory fire disaster in which nine workers died in May 2004 has exposed a health and...
Meet Tory preparations to fight it out with working class by...
30 MILLION people in Britain will be unable to afford a decent standard of living in the coming year according to a study published...
Angry Cadbury Workers Demand Job Guarantees
Angry Cadbury workers lobbied MPs on Tuesday, entering parliament at precisely 1pm, the exact time that Cadbury shareholders voted in favour of a ‘highly-leveraged’...
Paris protest against ‘racial profiling’ – and state control of every...
HUNDREDS of people have taken to the streets in central Paris against continuing police brutality and racial profiling across France, despite a ‘shocking’ ban...
US fast food strikers demand $15 an hour!
FAST food workers walked out of their restaurants all around America last week for the seventh time in nearly two years – to demand...
Reinstate Ricky Matthews Demand 2,000 Striking Firefighters In Aylesbury March
OVER 2,000 striking firefighters marched through Aylesbury on Tuesday chanting ‘Reinstate Ricky Matthews!’ The national demonstration took place during the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) national...
FBU condemns plan for firefighters to be sent into fires with...
THE Fire Brigades Union has formally reported two fire and rescue services to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and identified several others, in...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – Part 4: The emergence of...
BY MIKE DRIVER LEON Trotsky’s analysis 1789-1848-1905 is contained in his 1906 book Results and Prospects. This was written while he was in prison awaiting trial...
Far right Israeli minister Ben Gvir repeats calls for Palestinians to...
FAR RIGHT Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for ‘encouraging’ Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, saying the regime’s occupation of the...
Few union rights, widespread child labour and extreme poverty in Bolivia...
There are few union rights, widespread use of child labour and extreme poverty in Bolivia, says the latest International Confederation of Free Trade Unions...
Put Iran First Says Iranian Newspaper
A FOREIGN Ministry spokesman said in Tehran last Sunday that the allegations being made by US General David Petraeus were baseless. Petraeus said...
Chinese Foreign Ministry Calls For Direct Moscow-Kiev Talks
The international community should create conditions for the resumption of direct talks between Moscow and Kiev, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lin Jian said on...
‘The system in place is responsible for the deaths of our...
OVER 300 United Families and Friends campaigners marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street to demand justice for their loved ones, who have died...
‘DON’T TAKE PART IN PROXIMITY TALKS’ –Hamas urges Abbas
CHIEF Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the Americans will respond to a Palestinian demand that Washington guarantee Israel’s commitment to the...
Greece applies for a ‘Third Austerity Accord’
Statement by the Revolutionary Marxist League Greek section of the International Committee of the 4th International TODAY, Wednesday 8 July, the Greek Finance Minister Efklides...
UK ‘Practising Deliberate Policy Of Destitution’ Of Asylum Seekers
‘The government has indeed been practising a deliberate policy of destitution’ of vulnerable asylum seekers, say MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee...
NATO Patriot missiles–‘harbingers of a war on Syria’
THE Turkish privately-owned, mass-circulation daily Hurriyet, on 23 November, discussed the issue ‘Are the Patriots Harbingers of a War in Syria?’ It stated: ‘Turkey first...
US And South Korea Trade Deal ‘Will Damage Working Families’
THE AFL-CIO will join with its Korean trade union allies and strongly oppose the just-completed South Korea-UStrade deal (KORUS) because of the damage it...
‘Reject minimum wage exploitation’ 4 SAFTU unions meet to discuss ANC
THE FOUR oldest trade unions affiliated to SAFTU gathered at Ngwelezana Community Hall last week to reflect on what South Africa’s workers have gained...
US AND ISRAEL FACING FAILURE, CONFUSION AND RETREAT – says Hezbollah...
HASSAN NASRALLAH the Hezbollah leader made an important statement over Hezbollah TV last Friday. He said: ‘In our region we witness a big and serious...
‘CALL THE PUBLIC SECTOR OUT’ – say striking post workers
Communication Workers Union (CWU) pickets were out in force on Saturday morning, in the first of the latest strikes against attacks on post workers’...
Hezbollah Is Determined To Fight In Support Of Palestinians In The...
A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of...
France General Strike
FRANCE’S nine main unions united for the first time in a decade in public sector protests earlier this week against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans...
Afl-Cio Condemns Bush Trade Deal With Colombia
US trade union federation AFL-CIO last Saturday condemned the Bush administration for seeking a free trade deal with Colombia, the most dangerous country in...
From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free!
First speaker at the rally in Parliament Square was Louise Regan, the chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who said: ‘Since October, Palestinians have...
Iran wins legal battle against US attempt to seize bank funds!
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as Bank Markazi, says the country has won a legal battle in Europe...
‘PAUSE’ A COVER FOR DESTRUCTION OF HOSPITAL CARE! Part 3: Ealing...
BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER THE destruction of NHS hospital care continues in London with the NORTH WEST LONDON CLUSTER. This includes Primary Care Trusts...
If Necessary ‘I And All Hezbollah Members Will Go To Syria’...
‘AFTER the first bombing, the situation was brought under control. After yesterday’s massacre, the situation was brought under control. ‘However, we cannot make predictions....
Over 5,000 on London Palestine demonstration – mass march called for...
A MASS demonstration of more than 5,000 workers, students and youth continued throughout the evening from 6.00pm and into the night outside the Israeli...
‘SERIOUS ATTACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS’ – Ammesty condemns Blair’s measures
Amnesty International has expressed considerable alarm over the onslaught on basic rights announced by Prime Minister Blair on Friday 5th August to deal with...
‘THE COST OF REMOVING CLADDING MUST NOT BE IMPOSED ON RESIDENTS’...
‘THE cost of removing dangerous flammable cladding must not fall onto a building’s residents,’ the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said. ‘The government must fund...
PNA will be the sole Gaza administrator– after Israeli pull-out, says...
THE Palestine National Authority will be the sole administrator of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal in August, the Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive...
Gate Gourmet Workers Determined To Win
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers, trade unionists and youth, held a successful over 150-strong mass picket on the mound near the Beacon roundabout at...
50 YEARS OF OCCUPIED PALESTINE SHAMES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY – says PLO
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on Monday condemned the 50 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine as ‘a shame on the international system’. Israel attacked...
‘The Ltte Is Ready To Implement Every Clause Of The Cease-Fire...
TAMILNET has reported that the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Major General Lars Johan Solvberg, met Liberation Tigers (LTTE)2 political chief B...
UNACCEPTABLE! Over 170,000 waiting for asylum claims decision
‘It’s unacceptable that there are now over 170,000 people stuck in limbo as they wait for a decision on their asylum claims – with...