RMT leader Steve Hedley attacked by fascists
RMT Union leader Steve Hedley was attacked after taking part in a counter-protest to the Trump and Robinson rally on Saturday. The union leader...
Nationwide general strike in India Wed January 8th ‘DOWN WITH MODI!’
A GENERAL strike is set to take place in India on January 8 against the ‘anti-worker, anti-people, anti-national policies’ of the country’s Narendra Modi...
UN condemns US’ mass expulsions of Haitian migrants
THE United Nations has condemned the US’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants who have been camped in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del...
3,000 to be sacked at the Trump Taj Mahal casino
THREE thousand jobs are set to disappear after the owner of the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has announced that...
‘stiff Resistance And Bombs Everywhere’ In Marjah
DESPITE the military claims of US and NATO-led occupation troops, progress remains slow because of the stiff resistance and homemade bombs ‘everywhere’. However, the...
Irish Nurses strike
IRISH nurses and midwives are taking strike action from next week, with two-hour rolling stoppages commencing on Thursday, 14th January. Members of the Irish Nurses...
Amnesty condemns Israel’s ‘efforts to annihilate Gaza’
Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International, has said that ‘for over a year, Israel has convinced its allies, and much of the world, that...
‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free’
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ shouted Palestinians and their supporters demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy, west London, on Saturday...
Syria bolsters relations with Algeria and steps up rehousing of quake...
SYRIA’S Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Firas Kaddour, discussed on Sunday with the Algerian Ambassador to Damascus, Kamel Bouchama, ways to bolster cooperation...
‘YOU WON’T BREAK MERSEYSIDE FBU’ – say strikers and supporters
Over 7,000 striking Merseyside firefighters and their supporters marched through Liverpool last Saturday in a show of strength to demonstrate their determination to defeat...
Four million children growing up in poverty! – ‘Heart-breaking & wrong’...
‘IT’S HEART-breaking and wrong’ that a million children under 4 are growing up in poverty, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) charity. Almost 3 in...
ATI threatens US workers health insurance coverage
ATI management recently mailed a letter to the homes of all of locked-out Steelworkers who are currently covered under the company’s programme of insurance...
Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...
‘PUT MORE MONEY INTO ORDINARY PEOPLE’S POCKETS’ – TUC urges Brown
‘The newly unemployed face a bigger cut in their living standards in this recession than those who lost their jobs under the previous government’,...
Bma Must Decide Action To Defend The NHS – Reject The...
The Health and Social care bill brings in the legislation to privatise the delivery and commissioning of healthcare in England. Coupled with the massive cuts,...
South Africa–Massive State Fraud Exposed!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has released a full statement saying it is ‘outraged’ by accusations that Public Protector Thuli...
‘THE UNITED STATES CANNOT DECIDE OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE’ says Khalid...
Al-Jazeera satellite TV carried live on 15 October a 50-minute episode of its weekly programme ‘Open Dialogue,’ hosted by Ghassan Bin-Jiddu. He interviewed...
Ealing Midwives Condemn Maternity Closure Plans
NINETY Ealing Hospital midwives have written a shocking open letter condemning the threatened closure of their Maternity Unit, warning that the ‘rotting away’ of...
‘Occupy–Stop The Closure Of Chase Farm To Defend Patients And Jobs!’
PATIENTS, staff and local residents joined the North-East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday, and agreed with the call...
New Art For A New World
‘LENIN started out from a position that Art is the most powerful means of political propaganda for the triumph of the Socialist cause,’ Margy...
Time to build a new independent, militant, anti-imperialist trade union federation...
IN THE wake of the COSATU special congress, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has declared: ‘The time has arrived to...
MI5 ‘unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years’ says Liberty
THE British security and snoop service MI5 has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years,’ alleged rights organisation Liberty. ‘It has also failed,’ Liberty...
‘Land swaps must be on equal basis’ – insists Fatah, as...
LAND swaps should be a result of negotiations with Israel rather than an ‘advance payment’ given by Arab states on behalf of the Palestinians,...
Visa-free travel between US and Israel – ADC movement files lawsuit...
THE BIDEN administration has formally included Israel in the US Visa Waiver Programme. This decision has ignited a heated debate surrounding issues of discrimination, American...
OPCW chemical watchdog report ‘full of discrepancies’
‘THE Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) could not come up with an unbiased report on the alleged 2018 chemical attack in...
Doctors Pensions Victory – Presumption Of Guilt Proposal Is Outlawed By...
THE BMA doctors’ union secured a high court victory on Friday over controversial changes made by the Tory secretary of state for health and...
Unions prepare to bring France to a standstill on March 7
‘THE CONFEDERATION has brought together all of its federations in order to continue the mobilisation against the pension reform and to prepare for “France...
Miliband’s refusal ‘to back his natural supporters is a slap in...
LABOUR Party leader Ed Miliband was heckled during his speech at the Trade Union Congress (TUC) conference on Tuesday. Miliband angered delegates as he condemned...
NEHAWU prepares for September 3 national strike
MEMBERS of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in Kimberley picketed outside the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital on Monday, in preparation...
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...
Thousands of US youth face life in jail – No parole...
‘America is one of only a few countries in the world where children face life sentences without parole’, said Amnesty International on Wednesday. ‘There are...
China ready to forge closer links with Russia – ...
CHINESE President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China is ready to work with Russia to forge a closer partnership in energy cooperation. Energy cooperation...
Writers, doctors and former political prisoners demand immediate release of pro-Palestine...
Authors Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney and China Mieville, philosopher Judith Butler, and activist Angela Davis, have joined global scholars in a declaration of solidarity...
Met Gangs Matrix database is ‘racially discriminatory’ – says Amnesty
THE METROPOLITAN Police is using a ‘racially discriminatory’ Gangs Matrix database, says Amnesty International in its new report. Amnesty International UK’s Director, Kate Allen,...
DON’T BOMB SYRIA! – demand 4,000 in Whitehall
‘DON’T bomb Syria! Don’t bomb Syria!’ chanted a crowd of over 4,000 that blocked Whitehall opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The mass protest was one...
Youth from poor backgrounds hit hardest by coronavirus pandemic
YOUNG people, particularly those from deprived backgrounds, have had their earnings and job prospects hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, adding to fears...
CONTROL REGIONALISATION IS ‘BLEEDING THE FIRE SERVICE DRY’ – scrap Whitehall...
Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack says the deaths of four firefighters in Warwickshire has echoed in fire services around the world. The...
‘No such thing as a free lunch’ BofE warns furlough scheme...
DEPUTY governor of the Bank of England Ben Broadbent said this week that ‘resilient’ household spending has been ‘funded by tomorrow’s taxpayers’ – in...
Guantanamo Detainees Fight To Challenge Their Detention In Civilian Courts
The US Supreme Court addressed a landmark case over the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees on Wednesday, deliberating on whether the military prison camp’s...
Swiss Clothing Giant Signs Bangladesh Accord–But Migros And Coop Still Refuse
TALLY Weijl, the Swiss clothing giant, has signed the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, piling further pressure on supermarkets Migros and Coop...
Health & Safety Fit for workers 2019 manifesto
‘EVIDENCE shows’, says a just-released statement by the Hazards Campaign, ‘that the three factors that make work “safer and healthier” are – strong laws,...
‘15 MILLION AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING’ – Machinists call for jobs...
THE president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) cited the unemployment numbers for the month of July as hard evidence...
Syria denounces Israel’s continuing assaults on its territories!
SYRIA’S permanent representative to the United Nations has denounced Israeli assaults on Syrian territories as a ‘continuing, flagrant violation of the UN Charter, of...
BBC journalists and technicians set to strike Thursday – over job...
BBC journalists and technicians are set to strike for 12 hours on from midday to midnight this Thursday, 28 March. BBC Easter programmes will be...
ISRAELI ASSAULTS ON GAZA CIVILIANS ARE WAR CRIMES – says Amnesty
DELIBERATE attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip violate international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes, Amnesty...