Labour has armed Israel more than the Tories!
An explosive revelation came from the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) on Tuesday, declaring that arms sales to Israel under Labour in the past...
South African universities strike looms
STRIKE action is looming for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology after talks with workers over salary and service conditions deadlocked last weekend. The declaration...
‘BREAK THE CRIMINAL SEIGE ON GAZA!’ – urges Ramzi Kysia
Ramzi Kysia vividly describes the human catastrophe imposed on the people of Gaza by Israel and asks you to join other people of conscience...
International ‘Make Amazon Pay’ campaign
THE GMB trade union has called for a parliamentary inquiry into ‘dehumanising’ working conditions at Amazon warehouses, as the company enjoyed mammoth Black Friday sales. GMB...
China hails recent naval drills with Russia & Iran in Sea...
CHINA has hailed the recent joint naval drills with Russia and Iran in the Sea of Oman, saying the exercises boosted the ability of...
SA National Banking Strike Banned!
ATTEMPTS to put on trial the most notably capitalist elements of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ suffered a major blow at the Labour Court of...
‘This is Jerusalem: Violence and Dispossession’ – report by B’Tselem Israeli...
ISRAEL’S policy regarding Palestinian neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem is driven by its goal to take over as much land as possible and expand...
‘WE WANT PROSECUTIONS! – We want to see the guilty behind...
TODAY is the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, when 72 Kensington and Chelsea Council tenants and residents were burnt to death in...
LIBYAN PREMIER ZEIDAN FLEES TO GERMANY as militias fight over ‘ownership’...
THE ousted Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has fled to Germany despite a travel ban slapped on him by Libya’s top prosecutor for his suspected...
FREE THE FILTON 24 NOW! – demands the 500-strong Pentonville prison...
There was a powerful 500-strong picket of Pentonville Prison on Caledonian Road in north London on New Year’s Eve in support of the Filton...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION – PLO says UN must act
THE Palestinian leadership agreed on Saturday to call on the UN Security Council for an urgent meeting on Israel’s settlement expansion on Palestinian land. The...
‘13 Local Authorities Remain 20% Below Their Targeted Fundings!’
‘IT IS concerning that the Department of Health is not getting local authorities to their target funding allocations for public health quickly enough,’ says...
Support Growing For Wrp Candidates
SUPPORT is growing for the Workers Revolutionary Party candidates standing in the general election. In south London on Saturday, many new recruits were made, especially...
RUSSIA COULD NOT ALLOW CIVILIANS IN SOUTH OSSETIA TO BE ATTACKED...
THE UN Security Council held a third emergency meeting on August 10th on the situation in South Ossetia, where the conflict is expanding in...
4 MILLION DISPLACED IRAQIS – international help ‘seriously inadequate’
The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, Amnesty International said in its report ‘Millions in Flight’, published yesterday. Help from the international...
Miners and dockers had Thatcher by the throat – SECRET PAPERS...
FEARFUL Britain was going to run out of food and grind to a halt due to a docks strike at the height of the...
Israeli forces killed 78 Palestinian children in the West Bank and...
ISRAELI military forces killed 78 Palestinian children under 18 years in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip in 2021, the Palestinian...
CUT MY PAY – NO WAY! – 800,000 council workers strike
Picket lines were out across the country on Wednesday morning as 800,000 UNISON and Unite council worker members began the first day of a...
WHOLE GAZA NEIGHBOURHOODS TURNED INTO RUBBLE – by Israel’s 3-week war
Six months after Israel launched its three-week military operation in Gaza on December 27 2008, Gazans still cannot rebuild their lives, a new...
‘THE ISSUE TODAY IS AN ALL-OUT GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING DOWN...
OVER two hundred workers, trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-North East London Council of Action Special Conference to defend our hospitals and...
STRUGGLE FOR UNION RIGHTS ESCALATES IN THE UNITED STATES –Oklahoma senate...
A bill that would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees in Oklahoma’s largest cities is on its way to Republican Governor Mary Fallin’s...
Hundreds of thousands of young workers are on zero-hours contracts –...
ZERO-HOUR contracts have risen sharply in recent years, hundreds of thousands of zero-hour contract workers, the majority being young, are on minimum wage whilst...
US-led Black Sea drills a ‘provocation’ – Russia’s Embassy in Washington
RUSSIA is warning Western allies that nothing good will come out of provocations in the Black Sea as any attempts to test Moscow’s willingness...
‘Israel trying to take advantage of gas forum’ says Palestinian leadership
NOT PARTICIPATING in the signing ceremony of the agreement to launch the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) on Tuesday does not mean withdrawing from...
Tolpuddle Martyrs festival weekend
THE TOLPUDDLE Martyrs annual festival where thousands of people come together to celebrate trade unionism and remember the role of the Tolpuddle Martyrs began...
3,000 Boston University workers begin indefinite strike for pay, healthcare and...
The SEIU union that represents over 3,000 Boston University (BU) graduate student workers started an indefinite strike on Monday. The decision came a week after...
‘WE WERE SHAFTED’ – say angry Stead McAlpin workers
Over fifty Stead McAlpin sacked textile workers held a 24-hour picket and demonstration outside the factory in Cummersdale near Carlisle on Wednesday and are...
GOLD AND DOLLARS SMUGGLED OUT OF IRAQ – as insurgency escalates
The Islamic Army in Iraq last Sunday, in a videotape, claimed responsibility for an attack with an explosive device against a US foot patrol...
HOME CARE CRISIS! Vulnerable and elderly are being left to...
A NEW report has exposed the growing homecare crisis where shorter and shorter visits mean that homecare workers cannot provide proper care, leaving the...
French workers strike against 44bn euro budget cuts!
FACED with the social emergency of PM Bayrou’s planned 44bn euros budget cuts, French trade unions have called a national strike on Wednesday 10th...
NATIONALISE THE BUSES! – demand London bus strikers
‘THE BUSES should be renationalised. They should put the companies under one name then everybody will have the same rights,’ Unite member Michael Wood...
Canadian trade unions fighting new anti-union legislation
Last week, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government of Jason Kenney introduced Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act, which constitutes ‘an attack...
‘100 ROUNDS FIRED ON SLEEPING FAMILY’ – ACLU releases files on...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...
Nigerian unions will strike against oil company intimidation!
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN said that...
SA trade unions occupy council offices in Northern Cape demanding proper...
THE SOUTH African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Workers Union (IMATU) occupied the Sol Plaatje council chambers last...
Hezbollah marks 40 years of Iranian revolution!
THE SECRETARY general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has praised the outstanding achievements made in Iran, stressing that the Islamic Republic is now...
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...
ISRAEL BLOCKADES GAZA – and steps up assaults in the West...
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) last Saturday condemned as ‘unacceptable’ Israel’s threat to turn the ‘economic siege’ it is imposing on the Gaza Strip...
Tax the rich! – urge SAFTU leaders as they condemn ANC...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) last Thursday condemned the ANC, saying that there is no real difference on the economy between...
30,000 New Zealand nurses take strike action
30,000 NEW Zealand nurses went on strike across the country last Thursday over pay and conditions, the first national nurses strike for 30 years. The...
Shop Stewards Barred By Unite
‘I REFUSE to be bribed and blackmailed into silence. My struggle for justice continues’ Gordon McNeill declared last Wednesday. Discussions between the sacked Belfast airport...
Israeli forces raid al-Quds University
Israeli forces raided the al-Quds University, on Wednesday, in Abu Dis village, south east of the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. Local...
Scrap Coronavirus Act – Liberty
Liberty is calling for the Coronavirus Act 2020 to be scrapped, highlighting that it contains sweeping powers that continue to threaten basic civil rights...
Gadaffi’s son Saif al-Islam freed!
SAIF al-Islam, the second son and heir apparent of the late deposed Libyan Leader Muammar Gadaffi, is said to have been freed in Libya...
Gaza Hospitals Stormed And Put Under Siege!
WORLD Health Organisation Director-General has said he is ‘deeply concerned’ after Israeli forces stormed one hospital and put another under siege as they advanced...