INCLUDE HEALTHCARE IN ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE urges SEIU
‘Today, Congress took a first and important step to rebuilding the American Dream,’ said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Thursday as Senators from...
‘The region is being recreated from scratch!’ – Hezbollah leader Nasrallah...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered on Monday a speech commemorating the Resistance Martyrs, in which he tackled various internal and regional titles. As...
WHITE FLAG DEATHS – Human Rights Watch calls for probe into...
During Israel’s recent Gaza offensive, Israeli soldiers unlawfully shot and killed eleven Palestinian civilians, including five women and four children, who were in groups...
‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a Tome of...
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has published ‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a tome of tragedies,’ in which homeless people and...
US-Made Cluster Bombs Found At Many Sites In Lebanon
The US State Department said last Friday it has launched an inquiry into whether Israel misused US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon during the US-backed...
MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH STRIKE AGAINST CUTS – nurses, therapists and admin...
UNISON has given official notice to the NHS employers Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust that 250 of their staff will take their...
Sheffield Jobcentre Workers Launch Their Two-Week Strike!
JOBCENTRE workers in Sheffield launch their two-week strike this morning, stepping up their action against the planned closure which the Public and Commercial Services...
M&s ‘Guarantee’ Just Seven Hours Of Work At Their Swindon Depot
WORSE then a zero-hour contact, supermarket giant Marks & Spencers will only guarantee their staff at the Swindon distribution depot seven hours of work...
Oppose BBC Pensions robbery!
‘Over the past few days the joint unions have held a number of packed meetings as part of our campaign to oppose the BBC’s...
Israel kills 190 in 24 hours while Iran sends Soraya satellite...
ISRAEL has killed at least 190 people in a time span of just 24 hours in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Gaza’s...
Universal Credit: ‘Cruel and flawed’ – says Unite
A bombshell report and survey of nearly 1,200 claimants by the union Unite lays bare the misery caused by the roll-out of Universal Credit. The...
Israel is ‘turning Palestinians into criminals in their own homes’ says...
ISRAEL’S latest military orders facilitating the illegal expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland are simply the latest in a string of Zionist attempts to...
US-Israeli scheme for Syria ‘in its last throes’
INFORMATION Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, stressed on Monday that the regional US-Israeli scheme in Syria ‘is in the last throes and it has clinically...
‘OUR TASK IS TO FIGHT ALL CUTS’ – says PCS NEC...
STRIKING PCS members in Harrow, north-west London, staged pickets at the Land Registry, the local Jobcentre, Harrow Magistrates and Harrow Crown Court from early...
Australian Unions Accuse Aldi Of Attacking Workers Free Speech!
THE Australian Transport Workers’ Union has accused Aldi of attacking free speech by pursuing a Federal Court case to stop truck drivers from protesting...
US must immediately lift sanctions off Iran say Russia and China
CHINA and Russia say the United States should immediately lift the sanctions it has re-imposed on Iran and fulfil its obligations in order to...
Capitalism bankrupt worldwide – forward to world revolution! – WRP General...
‘Capitalism is bankrupt worldwide and has to be brought down. In Britain there is a massive strike wave and the working class is crying...
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...
‘Every government, including the UK, must be made to boycott Israel’...
IN TRAFALGAR Square, the chairwoman introduced the 11th national demonstration for Freedom and Justice for Palestine on Saturday 30 March, as of special significance...
‘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’,...
Kenyan doctors & nurses continue strike and defy threats
STRIKING Kenyan doctors and nurses have made it clear that no threat will force them back to hospitals. Nurses and clinical officers stood their ground...
‘The Palestinian resistance will repulse Israeli aggression’ says Hamas Political Bureau
THE PALESTINIAN resistance is ready to repulse any Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, member of Hamas Political Bureau Khalil al-Hayya has said. Speaking at...
CAMERON SEEKING A ‘SWEATSHOP BRITAIN LOW WAGES AND NO RIGHTS’ –...
More than 80,000 new homes could be built in Britain each year if just half the total of £22,812m that was spent on housing...
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...
Sparks Step Up Campaign To Defend Their Pay And Conditions!
CONSTRUCTION site electricians stepped up their campaign on Wednesday to defend pay and conditions against a brutal onslaught by a ‘cartel’ of contractors to...
Iran rebuffs US false allegations of drone attacks
IRAN has rebuffed US accusations that it launched the drone attack that cut Saudi Arabia’s oil output in half, as a senior Islamic Revolutionary...
Amnesty warns over Gulf States human rights record – PM May...
AMNESTY International has warned that the human rights records of Persian Gulf Arab states must not be ‘swept under the carpet’ during the upcoming...
Russell Group’s ‘nightmare scenario’ will leave students with mortgage-style debt –warns...
The University and College Union (UCU) on Monday warned that lifting the cap on tuition fees would be ‘the most regressive piece of...
No Action Proposed By Tuc To Defend Steel Industry
THE TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday made a show of defending the steel industry and steel jobs. Steel workers were guests of honour in...
Education cuts put kids’ education at risk
MANCHESTER City Council, local trade unions and community groups are coming together in Manchester today, Saturday 25 February, to highlight the devastating effects of...
Israeli raids on Palestinian civil society groups condemned worldwide
THE UNITED Nations and other international organisations have condemned Israel’s military raids on the offices of Palestinian civil society and rights groups in the...
South African workers launch ‘Scrap New Labour Laws’ campaign
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) are marching in Gauteng today, Human Rights Day, to protest against the proposed new...
SADDAM WAS ASSAULTED AT THE COURT HEARING – insists his defence...
ABD-AL HAQ-AL ANI, counsellor for the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s defence panel, has revealed that an assault took place on the Iraqi leader at...
‘I MADE MY CHOICE’ AND STAND BY IT – Straw tells...
In a 25-page memorandum submitted to the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, said: ‘My decision to support military action in...
US Workers Take Action
JUST one day before Democrats and Republicans were set to forge a trillion dollar debt deal that would impose savage cuts on the American...
Not Brown But A Workers Government And Socialism
The News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance Conference held in east London on Sunday May 13th unanimously voted to carry into action the following Main...
Putin warns West against underestimating Russia–but that Russia has no intention...
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has warned the West against underestimating Russia, saying it is ‘impossible’ to defeat his country in Ukraine, but that Moscow does...
Ealing marchers call for occupation and a general strike! –‘Drastic times...
‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital – Occupy Now!’ rang out in a crescendo as the Ealing leg of the march against four hospital closures stopped outside...
Leon Trotsky On The Easter Rising
Written: 11 May 1916 First Published: Nashe Slovo, 11 May 1916 Source: Trotsky’s Writings on Britain New Park Publications Ltd, London 1974 THE Irish rising has...
‘No choice but victory – defeat not an option against this...
THE UNITED States has no option but to abandon its excessive demands and fully respect the rights of the Iranian people – diplomacy is...
‘IT’S TIME TO MAKE THE TUC CARRY OUT THE WILL ...
TWO-HUNDRED workers, trade unionists, students and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) Conference at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, in Holborn,...
LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE?’ TODAY – Part 4: For workers power...
IN Once Again, Whither France? (March 1935) Leon Trotsky discussed the call for a general strike. He wrote: ‘The general strike, as every Marxist knows,...
Housing benefits siphoned off to the super rich
BILLIONS going into fat cats’ wallets and off-shore tax havens from Housing Benefit would be better spent building houses and homes for working people,...
Powerful start to month-long St Mungo strike!
Workers at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s began four weeks of strike action on Tuesday May 30, fighting to win a backdated pay rise...
Over 2,000 international journalists demand immediate release of Julian Assange!
OVER 2,000 journalists have signed the following statement in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. ‘If the US government can extradite Assange for this, it...