Russia thwarting aerial and underwater drone attacks – NATO using Ukraine...
RUSSIAN forces have repelled a ‘terrorist attack’ by Ukraine on the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol in Crimea, destroying several aerial and underwater...
HOLD PRESIDENTIAL AND LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS SAYS BARGHOUTHI – The peace process...
PRISONER and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has emphasised the need to accelerate the reform and development of the PLO; to hold the National Council...
‘We want to continue our Revolution!’ – say Egyptian workers, students...
Some 50 political movements, groups and parties in Egypt last Friday launched a week of mass protests and marches to commemorate, not celebrate, the...
Assad Denounces Imperialist Wars For ‘Redrawing The Map Of The World!’
President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday received Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Yong-ho and the accompanying delegation. Talks during...
Tory Cuts Produce ‘Chronic Shortage Of Teachers’
AS schools prepare to break up for the Christmas holidays, new analysis by the Labour Party reveals the impact of the chronic shortage of...
Specialist Health Services sell-off!
IN a historic crime a new report paves the way for the sell-off of England’s Specialist Health Services. Since the passage of the Health...
Settlers attack West Bank farmers on eve of peace talks
As Palestinian leaders were preparing for direct talks with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu in Washington today, the village mayor in the West Bank town...
Numsa’s Construction Workers Down Tools!
WORKERS at South Africa’s construction supplies giant, Form-Scaff, nationally, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) have downed tools and...
Damascus reserves the right to take back Golan Heights!
SYRIA has censured Israel’s land theft and repressive measures against Syrians in the occupied side of the Golan Heights as a flagrant violation of...
Argentina’s President Milei reduces the workforce at state-owned airline by 13%
RIGHT-WING Argentina president President Javier Milei’s spokesman said on Thursday that his government has reduced the workforce at state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas by 13...
Russia accuses the West of using sanctions to steal its gold...
RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...
TURIN STUDENTS DEMAND FREE PALESTINE! – French CGT workers national mobilisation...
STUDENTS protested against the genocide in Gaza clashed with Italian police last Friday. The students reject ‘the war economy’ imposed by Giorgia Meloni’s ‘reactionary and...
Tories Declare Class War – By Permission Of The Liberal Democrats
The draft coalition agreement reached by the Tories and the Liberal Democrats published on Wednesday makes clear their number one priority is to make...
Hamas prisoner begins hunger strike
Palestinian detainee Abdullah al-Barghouthi announced on Thursday that he will begin a hunger-strike in protest against solitary confinement. Al-Barghouti, former head of Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades...
Explosion Injures 61 Shanghai Workers!
A WEEKEND explosion at a Shanghai factory run by Apple supplier Pegatron injured 61 workers, 23 of whom were hospitalised according to the Taiwan-based...
Israel facing ‘financial meltdown!’ – say hundreds of Israeli economists
A GROUP of hundreds of Israeli economists have issued a fresh warning that a financial meltdown could occur more ‘powerfully and faster’ than they...
‘SKYROCKETING COSTS OF FAILING US HEALTHCARE SYSTEM’ HITTING WORKERS – warns...
‘The skyrocketing costs of our nation’s failing health care system are hitting employers hard and that means higher costs for all of us,’ says...
Canadian Workers Struggling Against Privatisation
LONDON Ontario’s first strike by inside civic workers in 36 years entered its sixth week on Monday, after mediated contract talks over the...
Firefighter Numbers Cut By 25% In 10 Years
THE NUMBER of firefighters has been cut by nearly a quarter over the past decade, a newly released Home Office report has shockingly revealed...
US police committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter...
Police forces across the USA have committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter protesters, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, as it launched...
IndustriALL calls for end to persecution of Bangladesh Garment workers unions!
GLOBAL union IndustriALL is calling for an immediate end to the persecution of garment workers, trade union leaders and worker activists in Bangladesh in...
No to Fire and Rehire at Open University – insists UCU
THE UCU (University and College Union) has called on the Open University (OU) to scrap its plans to fire and rehire staff. The OU first...
THERE MUST BE ‘A FULL RECRUITMENT INTO EMERGENCY MEDICINE’ – essential...
THE College of Emergency Medicine on Monday announced guidelines titled Creating satisfaction and maintaining wellbeing in Emergency Medicine. The College of Emergency Medicine said in...
Lieberman likely to face money-laundering charges
THE corruption investigation into Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is likely to produce charges of money laundering, fraud and breach of trust, Israeli police...
‘I’LL BE CALLING FOR MASS PICKETS WHEREVER SCABS COME AND TRY...
IN HIS speech to the GMB conference in Blackpool yesterday, the union’s general secretary Paul Kenny featured the union’s current dispute with Asda. He said:...
US, Turkish And Japanese Workers Unite To Fight Capitalism!
THE AFL-CIO trade union federation in the USA has given its support to the Turkish trade unions and workers and youth who have been...
2.3m workers and youth marched all over France on May Day
FRENCH union federation Force Ouvriere congratulated workers for their May Day action. It said: ‘2.3 million young people, employees and retirees marched all over France,...
US no longer recognises the Syrian National Council as leader of...
US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington wanted to help the Syrian opposition unite against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime but...
Striking nurses support general strike call!
Nurses were in a determined mood on the picket lines outside King’s College Hospital (KCH), roundly condemning Prime Minister Sunak’s refusal to even speak...
Aussie student nurses: funding frozen
AUSTRALIA’S Federal Government has quietly decided to freeze university funding for regional nursing and other students, warns Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union (QNMU). In a...
Hundreds of burns victims in Gaza–and only one operating theatre!
LYING on his bed in a Gaza hospital, three-year-old Yamin now sees the world from behind burns which have disfigured him for life. The tiny...
Amazon working through the tornado ‘inexcusable’ says US Retail, Wholesale and...
THE RWDSU (Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union) has issued a devastating ‘Statement on the Amazon Warehouse Collapse,’ after at least six workers were...
US Supreme Court Victory for ‘Dreamers’
A US FEDERAL judge has rejected the limitations imposed by the Trump administration on a programme protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants – often...
10 Years After Katrina 100,000 Of The Poorest People Have Not...
TEN years of uneven recovery have exacerbated the economic inequalities that predated Hurricane Katrina, says Louisiana SEIU local 21LA. Without a doubt, the economic progress...
GMB and Unite slam the Grenfell Report
THE GMB union has slammed the failure of the Grenfell Report to tell the full story. The roots of this disaster lay not with the...
Siptu is joining the national homeless march
SIPTU members will join the march by the National Homeless and Housing Coalition (NHHC) which is taking place today, Saturday 28th May, in Dublin...
Brutal repression in Bolivia
BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE
Bartolina Sisa Resistance ON November 4th, violent repression in Bolivia continued with more arrests in the town of Mairana, Santa Cruz. Repressive...
Sanders marches with McDonald’s workers in ‘Fight for $15’
VERMONT Senator Bernie Sanders marched alongside McDonald’s workers at a rally last Sunday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He joined McDonald’s workers in the same way...
Occupy movement erupts over mass Oakland Arrests
FOUR hundred Occupy Oakland protesters were arrested following clashes with police in the Northern California city last Sunday. Across the US and Europe occupy protesters...
Greek Civil Servants Fight 15,000 Sackings
GREEK civil servants staged a one-day strike in the Athens area last Friday against the coalition government’s plan to sack some 15,000 ministries workers...
The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been serving as a security...
GAZA authorities say the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been serving as a security front for the Israeli regime under the guise of...
Hezbollah Rejects Israeli War Threats
Hezbollah TV on Sunday commented on contradictory statements coming out of Israel on a possible new war against Lebanon. The TV said: ‘Israel is heading...
3.1 MILLION NEW HOMES NEEDED – Shelter’s vision for social housing
A LANDMARK report by Shelter’s social housing commission published today calls for an ambitious 3.1 million new homes, extending the offer of social housing...
KHADER ADNAN HEARING DUE ON 68th DAY OF HUNGER STRIKE
The Israeli Supreme Court will hear a petition on Thursday against the continued administrative detention of hunger-striking prisoner Khader Adnan, the Palestinian prisoners society...
‘STOP ARMING ISRAEL–LIFT THE SIEGE!’ – 2,000 workers and youth demand...
‘STOP arming Israel!’ ‘Free, free Palestine!’ ‘Lift the siege!’ ‘Boycott!’ shouted over 2,000 workers and youth at a lobby of Downing Street on Saturday. A...