Luas Tram Drivers 12 Days Of Strike Action In Dublin!
DUBLIN’S Luas tram drivers are taking their 12th day of strike action tomorrow (Friday), with their union SIPTU accusing management of being ‘out of...
SETTLERS ATTACK PALESTINIAN CAMP –as Israel on brink of ‘civil war’...
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers on Friday stormed Ein el-Sultan camp to the northwest of Jericho city, leading to clashes. Witnesses said that...
US Screen Actors Guild begins strike action for compensation over use...
The Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union has initiated a strike in the United States against video game...
Food Crisis Hitting Poor In Pakistan
PAKISTAN has faced a rising food crisis for the last three years, and global price hikes could worsen the situation, warns UN agency IRIN. ‘Given...
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...
Gate Gourmet Workers’ 6-Months Picket Success
THE locked-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to fight until they win reinstatement on their old terms and conditions, six months after the 700-strong...
UN reports horrific mass graves at Nasser & al-Shifa hospitals on...
THE DISCOVERY of hundreds of mass graves at the Nasser and al-Shifa hospital complexes, where United Nations (UN) officials reported that bodies were ‘buried...
Erekat calls on UK to recognise Palestine and reconsider plans to...
SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, has called on the United Kingdom to recognise the State of Palestine on the...
More countries avoiding using the US dollar for their financial transactions
WHILE there is a decline in Washington’s standing as a superpower, the United States is facing another harsh reality – the decline of the...
Sabra & Shatila residents celebrate Sharon’s death
RESIDENTS of Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on Saturday celebrated the death of Israeli former general and prime minister...
Iran Successfully Test Fires Surface-To-Air S-200 Missile During Velayat 7 War...
IRAN has successfully test-fired its long-range surface-to-air S-200 missile as its air defence drills enter the final phase in the country’s southern belt. Wednesday marked...
GREEK POLICE – ‘MURDERERS AND TORTURERS!’ –shout thousands of youth
OVER 15,000 Greek school and university students and secondary school teachers marched through the Athens city centre on Monday afternoon in commemoration of the...
Support Building Up For Indian Farmers Struggle
SUPPORT has been pouring in for protesting farmers, who are camping on the Indian national capital’s borders demanding repeal of three new farm laws. On...
Medical Students Are Deep In Debt!
Medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating over £13,000 more in debt than their better off peers, says a new report from the BMA. The...
NHS trade unions ‘strongly oppose local pay’
On Thursday, NHS trade unions declared they ‘strongly oppose’ local pay. NHS trade unions warned that a move to local pay for NHS staff would...
Striking Sa Parliamentary Staff Demand Removal Of Parliament Secretary
STRIKING South African parliamentary staff on Friday said they would no longer negotiate with the unpopular secretary of the legislature Gengezi Mgidlana and demanded...
£4bn of UK property is owned by ‘high risk individuals!’ Lords...
FOUR BILLION pounds of UK property is owned by high-risk individuals. The House of Lords Joint Committee is looking at the market and money laundering. The...
US is constructing Egypt’s ‘Wall of Death’
A SENIOR Egyptian engineer working on the ‘steel wall’ which the Egyptian authorities are building along the borders with the Gaza Strip, has confirmed...
Only World Revolution Can Solve Africa’s Health Crisis
THERE is a universal shortage of 4.3 million healthcare workers, but the crisis is most severe in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation’s...
Palestinian Prisoners Are Denied Representation
The Israeli Security Agency, Shin Bet is preventing as many as 90 per cent of Palestinian prisoners from consulting with an attorney, even though...
500,000 workers and youth march for Palestine
While the so-called Israeli Defence Force intensified its genocidal bombing campaign against Gaza and its ground forces invaded in their tanks, more than half...
‘Britain, Zionism and Jewish Resistance to Israel’
THE Palestine Expo event at London’s Olympia last weekend attracted thousands determined see the establishment of a Palestinian state. In addition to a host of...
‘EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE’ – or millions of Americans will have no...
Some 200 unemployed workers converged on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, on Thursday to demand that Congress act immediately to extend unemployment insurance to those...
Hamas Calls For National Unity Government
HAMAS political bureau member, Osama Hamdan, reiterated his Movement’s position on the formation of a national unity government capable of running the Palestinian affairs,...
Yemeni Police Open Fire On Taiz Protesters
YEMENI police killed at least one person and injured scores of other protesters when they opened fire in the city of Taiz on Sunday,...
‘No extradition – free Julian Assange!’ – says Julian Assange Defence...
‘THERE is only one decision: No extradition! – free Julian Assange’ chanted a demonstration of over 50 supporters of the jailed Wikileaks founder Julian...
‘GAZA IS OPEN FOR ALL’ – Hamas’ Haniya welcomes Fatah’s Sha’ath
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya welcomed Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Sha’ath into his home in the Ash-Shati Refugee Camp on Thursday, along with...
PUTIN DISCUSSES BETTER RELATIONS WITH PRESIDENT ABBAS – while Hamas says...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, discussed in a telephone conversation last Thursday the latest developments related to the...
Essex FBU Gives Industrial Action Notice
As the TUC Congress kicked off in Manchester, the Fire Brigades Union on Monday issued lawful notice of the resumption of industrial action short...
SA goldmine fires 1,500 strikers
SOUTH AFRICAN mining company Sibanye Gold has fired around 1,500 workers for taking part in a wildcat strike at its Cooke mine. The decision, announced...
QATAR ACTING LIKE 21ST CENTURY SLAVE STATE –TUC demands re-run vote...
‘Qatar is acting like a 21st century slave state’, delegates attending the UEFA Congress in London heard. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)...
‘Too early to talk about negotiations with USA’–Taliban
THE Afghan Taliban militant group says it is ‘way too early’ to speak of restarting direct negotiations with the United States, a day after...
NAME THE DAY FOR A GENERAL STRIKE! –POA secretary urges General...
‘WE SHOULD pool together and name the day for a General Strike and bring this government down’, Prison Officer’s Association (POA) General Secretary Steve...
END THE INHUMAN GAZA SIEGE – demand Lebanese masses
Action to end the inhumane Gaza siege has started from Lebanon, says the Hezbollah resistance movement. On Friday, Lebanon, the country of resistance and patriotism,...
General Practice is already ‘stretched close to breaking point’ – ...
‘WE cannot continue to meet rising demand with falling investment, general practice is already stretched close to breaking point so we need to address...
Sanctions on Russia adversely affect global economy
RUSSIA’S President, Vladimir Putin, has opined that the latest raft of unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and its allies over the...
‘ANOTHER DANGEROUS STEP IN THE ANNEXATION OF THE WEST BANK’ says...
Knesset’s vote to extend Israeli law to academic institutions in the illegal settlements and place them under the authority of the Council for Higher...
‘HEZBOLLAH ARE RIGHT TO DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY’ – 100,000 march through...
‘Bush, Blair terrorists!’ shouted workers and youth last Saturday as they passed the American embassy in central London on a 100,000-strong demonstration against the...
Clinton Accuses Bashir Of Undermining South Sudan!
AFTER having pushed to separate oil rich South Sudan from the North, the US is now preparing for military action against the north, accusing...
Palestinians protest as UNRWA dismisses 130!
LABOUR leaders at Palestinian refugee camps on Tuesday shut down all UNRWA sub-offices in the West Bank in protest at the dismissal of 130...
‘Wendy’s Allowing Slavery To Flourish!’
‘IT is time for Wendy’s to commit to justice and human rights – to choose meaningful and verifiable rights protections for the workers who...
US hostile to Ireland’s ‘Occupied territories Bill’ becoming law!
IRELAND’S elected representatives are coming under pressure from corporate lobbyists to drop a proposed ban on goods from Israel’s settlements in the occupied West...
Israeli Pm Netanyahu Delighted To Restore Ties With Turkey
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lauded last Sunday’s deal to restore ties with Turkey, six years after a deadly raid on an...
‘We cannot fashion the future of Africa by begging’ – Colonel...
Members of the 53-nation African Union held a summit meeting in the Libyan coastal town of Sirte last Monday and Tuesday, on the eve...
No cuts to museums & galleries!
THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services Union) is holding a rally in parliament from 6.30pm next Wednesday, 9 May, to highlight how jobs and...