‘UNIVERSITY LEADERS HAVE FAILED STAFF AND STUDENTS!’ says UCU trade union...
UNIVERSITY leaders have ‘failed staff and students’, the University and College Union (UCU) said today as up to ten days of strike action began...
SA trade unions want trade deal with USA before 30% tariffs...
SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...
More workers being forced to take strike action!
THE NUMBER of UK strike actions is growing! A Public and Commercial Services union representative sacked by the National Gallery was likely to have been...
EU Sanctions On Russian Oil Backfire
The European Union heavily sanctioned Russia and pledged to boycott its oil, yet continues to buy it, and at an even higher price, albeit...
Illegal Israeli settlements are ‘nature reserves’! says Israeli Defence Minister
THE Palestinian Foreign Ministry yesterday condemned in a statement remarks by Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett in which he announced the establishment of what...
70 Palestinian Homes In Jerusalem To Be Demolished
ON JULY 9th, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an Advisory Opinion on the wall Israel had started building in the occupied...
Behind The Scenes Plan To Close Remploy Factories
THE GMB trade union say it has found out that senior members of Remploy management are visiting MPs to brief them about the closures...
HAMAS SLAMS ABBAS ‘INCITEMENT’ –during Arafat anniversary speech
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas’ comments during a memorial ceremony for the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat were slammed as an ‘attempt at incitement’ by...
STOP SHOOT-TO-KILL – demands De Menezes family
‘Please help us in our quest for justice,’ Allessandro Pereira, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told a vigil in Parliament Square last Friday...
‘A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR HUNT’ – caught out acting...
‘A SLAP in the face for Hunt’ is how Unite the union described the victory of the Lewisham Hospital campaigners in the High Court...
West Virginia Teachers Walk Off The Job!
TEACHERS across West Virginia walked off the job last Thursday and Friday amid a dispute over pay and benefits, causing more than 277,000 public...
Hezbollah Slams Delay Of National Unity Government As ‘Sectarian Incitement’
HEZBOLLAH has slammed the delay in forming a new government in Lebanon, as ‘sectarian incitement’. Following a Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc meeting at the...
Days of ‘proportionate responses’ are over – Iran warns
Iran’s Parliament speaker has warned the United States that any aggression against the country will be met with a ‘faster, heavier, and more painful’...
Gaza Freedom Flotilla to set sail!
A FLOTILLA of ships, carrying some 5,000 tons of food, drinking water, and medical aid, is expected to depart from Turkey in the coming...
Argentine government steps up attack on migrant workers
ARGENTINA'S government ended free medical care for non-resident foreigners in national public hospitals and approved the expulsion of migrants who incite hate messages, expanding...
Israel Steps Up Jerusalem Demolitions
Israeli bulldozers demolished two Palestinian houses in the Ath-Thuri neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Al-Quds Centre for...
PAY FREEZE – NO WAY! – unions demonstrate outside LGA
More than 100 members of the three local government unions, Unison, GMB and Unite, held a noisy demonstration over pay, job and service cuts...
MASS DEMONSTRATION AT PALESTINIAN FUNERAL – against ‘all policies of occupation,...
A GENERAL STRIKE has been held across towns and cities in the occupied Palestinian territories following the Israeli regime’s killing of a Palestinian youth...
Palestinian academic killed in targeted Gaza airstrike
Dr Yasmeen Khamis Al-Bubu was not merely a new name added to the lists of war victims in the Gaza Strip, but a Palestinian...
‘Without doubt we are experiencing tough and serious conditions’ – Palestinian...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei has touched on a number of foreign and domestic policy issues, such as the relations with the USA, the...
‘Tehran will not bow to pressure or aggression’ warns President Pezeshkian
IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian says that Tehran will not bow to pressure or aggression, warning that the country will deliver a ‘crushing response’ to...
24 Hours Under The Israeli Occupation!
ISRAELI forces on Wednesday detained at least 14 Palestinians, including a woman and a minor, during predawn raids across the West Bank, said security...
IRAN MUST ATTEND ANY GENEVA CONFERENCE – insists Russia
SPEAKING in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said said on Thursday that the ‘international community’ has to decide with whom it will...
‘CLOSE DOWN CAMPSFIELD! – 12 years too long’
‘Close Down Campsfield – 12 years Too Long!’, declared campaigners yesterday. They were announcing a national demonstration outside the Immigration Removal Centre’s main gates on...
NO WORKER CAN BE JAILED FOR GOING ON STRIKE! – say...
AN Alexandria misdemeanors court on Sunday overturned jail sentences for five workers from the Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Company. The court had sentenced the...
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...
31,000-strong strike at US health privateer Kaiser Permanente!
Up to 31,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California and Hawaii went on indefinite strike on Monday in the latest work stoppage at the...
Probe drugging of Palestinian prisoners – demands Hamas
THE Hamas Movement has appealed to the Palestinian authority and the international groups in the occupied Palestinian lands to investigate news reports saying that...
‘We are here for our city, we won’t let you down,...
OVER 3,000 striking Birmingham binworkers and their supporters marched from the Unite office to Birmingham City Hall on Saturday, fighting against massive £8,000 pay...
Israel wants another $1 billion military funding from the US –...
UNITED STATES Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has called on Congress to immediately authorise Tel Aviv’s request for extra emergency funding. Graham made the remarks in...
‘REJECT NORMALISATION AGREEMENT’ – Palestinian Minister tells Arab League
PALESTINIAN Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Malki, called on the Arab League to reject the United Arab Emirates-Israel normalisation agreement. ‘Otherwise, our meeting...
US Trade Unions Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down...
CURFEWS are now in place in cities right across the USA after President Trump sent in the National Guard to try and drive back...
‘I WANT NO ONE TO SLEEP AT NIGHT’ – Olmert tells...
USING the release of the Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit as pretext, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed his occupation forces to reoccupy the...
US Tamils Demand Sanctions Against Sri Lanka
TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil eelam (LTTE) clashed last Thursday at around 2.00 am...
US Embassy in Baghdad ‘a command centre conspiring against the Iraqi...
IRAQ’S anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah says the United States has turned its embassy compound in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad into a...
Reconstruction of Gaza will cost $4bn
THE Palestinian National Authority has announced the details of its ‘national recovery plan’ for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which it has...
Iran and Iraq establish closer security and cooperation – Iraq demands...
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian Foreign Minister, has discussed security cooperation with Iraqi government officials during a visit to the neighbouring country, stressing that this...
Children are doing hazardous work in tobacco farming!
THE United States government and tobacco companies are failing to protect teenage children from hazardous work in tobacco farming, says a new report by...
Power Cuts Hit Greek Cities
GREEK workers of the State Electricity Corporation staged a solid-rock 48-hour national strike on Tuesday and Wednesday and occupied several power plants as well...
Assad says Syria supports joint Arab action in the face of...
President Bashar al-Assad says Syria supports joint Arab action in the face of regional challenges, stressing that the Arab country attaches paramount significance to...
25 YEARS SINCE THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE – Part 2: Capitalist state...
NOT only the print unions got dragged before the Courts. In February 1986 the postal workers union (UCW) was hauled before the judge who ruled...
EXILED LEADERS RETURN TO TUNISIA – following the overthrow of Ben...
After more than 20 years in exile, Tunisian Ennahda movement leader Rached Ghannouchi returned from London on Sunday, with thousands of supporters greeting him. Ghannouchi...
FBU condemns AssetCo’s ‘provocative manoeuvre’
‘AssetCo have taken 27 fire engines off station,’ London FBU official Ian Leahair told News Line. The private company AssetCo was awarded a 5-year...
‘All public hospitals and public schools must be exempt from power...
NUMSA (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa) has welcomed the High Court judgment, ordering the Energy minister, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, to take all reasonable steps,...
DANGEROUS PLOT AIMED AT SETTLING PALESTINIAN ISSUE’ – warns Hamas
In a statement on Saturday to mark the 7th anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada, Hamas warned of a ‘dangerous plot in accordance with a...