‘It’s a nightmare – patients and dead bodies arriving in overwhelming...
Two Australian doctors, Dr Nada Abu Alrub and Dr Saya Aziz, recounted the harrowing details of their work under constant Israeli bombardment and severe...
‘EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE, TORTURE AND DETENTIONS’ – Amnesty reports allegations...
A report published on Monday, March 30 by Amnesty International reveals a pattern of serious human rights violations by Greek police and other...
French unions demand repeal of education & pension reforms
TENS of thousands of teachers and their supporters rallied in Paris and towns across France on Wednesday to show their opposition to the Macron...
‘Liberating The NHS’ – Bma Responds To Coalition Privatisation Plan
‘THIS response details the BMA’s position on the specific areas for reform contained in the consultation Liberating the NHS: Greater choice and control, building...
‘The solution is uprising’– say 120,000 Athens workers!
CHANTING ‘It’s their crisis – the solution is uprising!’; ‘Down with the government and the troika of the EC-IMF-ECB. The time has come...
‘We’Ll Fight Until We Win Our Jobs Back’
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to ‘fight until we win our jobs back’ and defeat attempts by their union leadership to sell-out their...
Student nurse numbers declining! –10,000 off target by 2025! – says...
STUDENT nurse numbers are declining to the extent that the official NHS workforce plan for England will be over 10,000 off target by 2025,...
GOLAN HEIGHTS SYRIAN TERRITORY – says UN Special Envoy for Syria!
UN SPECIAL Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen on Friday underlined Syria’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, rejecting a US congressional motion to recognise Israel’s...
‘We face our jailers with firm will and steadfastness’ –...
Israeli forces raided the Jerusalem office of a university media institute on Monday, shutting down the launch of an online media network and detaining...
Edl Fascists Chased Out Of Norwich!
OVER 2,000 workers and youth marched to city hall Norwich in opposition to the English Defence League on Saturday. This is the first time that...
Bin Laden condemns ‘crusader war’ on Islam
THE Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has said in a new audio tape attributed to him that the siege imposed on the...
RMT DEFENDS TUBE WORKERS – and supports justice for Shrewsbury pickets
THE RMT tube union has slammed a plan unveiled by Transport for London which would replace nearly a thousand safety-critical tube station staff jobs...
24 hours in occupied Palestine!
WEDNESDAY began with a horrendous ordeal for one man of the Dawabsha family in Dura village near Nablus in the Palestinian West Bank. Muhammad Fayiq...
Photographic evidence of police spying on RMT
THE Blacklist Support Group has revealed photographic evidence of undercover police spying on the RMT rail union. Photographic evidence shows that in October 2004 a...
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...
Silent March Marks Six Months Since Grenfell Inferno
AHEAD of tonight’s Silent March to mark the six-month anniversary of the Grenfell Tower inferno, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has condemned the inclusion...
Five Picturehouse cinemas out today!
FIVE Picturehouse cinemas are on strike this May Day. In a repeat of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history in April, five...
GRENFELL – ‘Change the law so that those who are considered...
As the phase 2 of the public inquiry in the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the life of 72 residents draws to a close...
Usw Steps Up Global Campaign For Vale Miners’ Strike
The United Steelworkers’ (USW) global campaign to prevent Brazilian mining giant Vale S.A. from eroding working conditions and denying basic labour rights at its operations worldwide...
Secondary teacher recruitment crisis Teacher trainee census 2018-19
‘WE are at a crisis in secondary teacher recruitment,’ said Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, commenting on the...
Amnesty Shocked At Mosul Civilian Casualties
THE scale of civilian deaths in Mosul raises questions over rules of engagement being used by US-led coalition and Iraqi forces, says Amnesty International. Commenting...
3,200 Boeing workers vote to extend indefinite strike
Boeing workers in the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union at three midwest plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed...
MASSACRE IN BEIT HANOUN – Hamas vows revenge
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Friday evening condemned the Israeli Army for firing into a crowd and killing two Palestinian women during a...
South African trade unions battle inflation as food prices rise by...
SAFTU – the South African Federation of Trade Unions – notes the stubborn inflation which remains high above 7%, and averaged 7,2% in December...
Turning a blind eye is ‘collaborating with abuses’ – Amnesty warning...
HUMAN rights group Amnesty International has welcomed the call for European governments to cooperate fully with an investigation into ‘extraordinary rendition’ and secret...
‘Carillion Has No Right To Bully And Harass US’
‘We are comrades! We have shown we are not just GMB but all of Swindon together!’ GMB shop steward Paulo Fernandes told a cheering...
Striking Garment Workers Shot And Killed In Bangladesh!
TWO striking garment workers were shot dead by police in Bangladesh on Monday. Almost 140 Bangladeshi garment factories were shut as thousands of workers took...
California teachers strike as workers take action across USA
Hundreds of teachers in the East Bay area of San Francisco, California went on strike last Thursday after talks collapsed over better pay and...
‘An appalling situation!’ – BMA Council Chair Professor Philip Banfield condemns...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the use of physician associates warning of serious risks to patients. Responding to revelations from Channel 4 News...
Gaza ceasefire framework agreed
HAMAS and other Palestinian factions agreed on Thursday to a framework for a Gaza ceasefire after months of mediation by Qatar and Egypt. ‘From our...
Arab summit agrees to form Arab joint military force to fight...
EGYPTIAN President Abd-al-Fattah al-Sisi has hailed Arab state leaders for ‘agreeing on the principle of forming a joint Arab military force’ to face...
‘20-50 NHS TRUSTS AT RISK’ – BMA ARM warned
THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Bournemouth on Thursday passed, almost unanimously, Emergency Motions calling to halt the take-over...
Qantas Staff At Adelaide Airport Directed To Continue Working Despite Coronavirus...
Qantas staff at Australia’s Adelaide Airport were directed to continue working after it was discovered they had been exposed to the coronavirus, the Transport...
Goldsmiths Students March In Support Of Council Workers
MORE than 200 students marched from Goldsmiths College to Lewisham Town Hall on Tuesday evening in solidarity with council workers facing mass sackings and...
‘SYRIA IS A CIVIL STATE THAT SOME SITTING IN THIS ROOM...
Syrian Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, opened the Geneva 2 conference in Montreux on Wednesday by insisting on delivering the whole...
‘NO WAR ON VENEZUELA – Bank of England must end its...
A DEMONSTRATION of over 100 people gathered outside the Bank of England on Saturday as part of a global day of action to demand:...
ELECTION MANIFESTO of Young Socialists – Workers Revolutionary Party
General Election – Thursday 7 May 2015 ALL over Europe the anti-austerity revolution is raging and on May 7 workers in the UK will deliver...
BLACKLISTING SCANDAL HEARING–CULLUM McALPINE REFUSES TO GIVE EVIDENCE
THE alleged architect of the construction ‘blacklisting’ scandal, Cullum McAlpine, has declined to give evidence in the High Court case, due to start next...
Heavy Christmas Eve Fighting In Ki’Linochchi
THERE is very heavy fighting around the Tamil Tigers’ stronghold of Ki’linochchi on the eve of Christmas as the Tamil Tigers are defending the...
UK public service workers doing 40 million hours unpaid overtime
Public services support staff – including teaching assistants and hospital porters – are doing more than 40 million hours of unpaid overtime a year,...
Iran-Iraq historic talks
IN A HISTORIC meeting, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has held talks with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the Iraqi holy...
Kaddoumi And Hawatimah To Attend Ramallah Plo Meeting
THE Israeli government is permitting Nayif Hawatimah and Faruq al-Kaddoumi to attend the PLO Central Committee’s meeting in Ramallah. The approval constitutes an acceptance...
STOP ARMING ISRAELI TERRORISTS! – Arab Organisation for Human Rights urges...
THE Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) on Wednesday called on Britain to stop arming the Israeli terror state after Israel resumed its attacks...
NASUWT Conference votes for strike action over pay
TEACHERS have instructed their trade union’s executive to consider calling action, ‘up to and including strike action’ against the Tory government’s attacks on their...
‘Pandemic has left the NHS running on empty! – Overworked doctors...
OVERWORKED doctors must be allowed to rest and recover so we can keep patients safe, doctors’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) warned. The BMA...