Battle For Firefighters’ Jobs Builds Up
Lancashire firefighters are to be balloted over possible strike action in defence jobs. Chief Fire Officer Peter Holland plans to ‘save £1 million’ by cutting...
CIVILIAN CATASTROPHE IN WEST MOSUL says Amnesty
IRAQ: Battle between US-led coalition, Iraqi forces and Islamic State creates civilian catastrophe in west Mosul, says Amnesty International. The main findings of its report...
DISABLED MUST BE EXEMPTED FROM THE ‘BEDROOM TAX’ says Disability Benefits...
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), a national coalition of over 50 charities, has written a letter to the Department for Work and Pensions calling...
Clashes in Argentina as laws passed to extend working hours and...
IN A marathon session that lasted until after 4.00am on Thursday, the Argentine Senate approved the interim motion for labour reform proposed by the...
British Columbian longshore workers overwhelming strike vote
Longshore workers in British Columbia have overwhelmingly voted to authorise industrial action, raising the prospect of a strike at the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s...
Erekat Slams US Complicity With Israel!
SAEB Erekat, the Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Chief Palestinian Negotiator, wrote the following opinion article on Friday. ''THE US...
Gmb Fighting For A £10 An Hour Living Wage For Workers
GMB members held nine protest demonstrations outside fast food outlets and M&S on Tuesday across England in solidarity with members of the SEIU working...
The Israeli army carried out a horrific massacre during its military...
THE Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific massacre during its military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City recently over the...
The Spokesman For Yemen’s Armed Forces Warns Israel Against Any Further...
THE spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces has warned Israel against any further act of aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, saying the coastal...
UK must ban all goods in whole or in part from...
A group of 62 MPs and peers across parties have written to trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds to demand the government takes measures to ban...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART FOUR ‘Trying to reconcile...
THE TUC National Congress held in Brighton during the first week of September 1984 was dominated by the miners’ strike. Miners from the Cortenwood pit...
Save Charing Cross A&E – anger over NHS cuts
THOUSANDS are marching through west London against hospital closures today, determined that Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing hospitals will not close. Today’s march...
‘Lives sacrificed in the uncaring pursuit of profit’
CONTROVERSIAL India-based mining company Vedanta was again the subject of an angry protest in London yesterday. London Mining Network, Amnesty International, Survival International and other...
Passenger falls between platform and train at Canning Town – RMT...
TUBE union RMT is demanding a ‘full and transparent formal investigation’ into the recent Canning Town overcrowding incident and calls for all London Underground...
Tamil Tigers Repulse Sri Lankan Ground Attack
LIBERATION Tigers repulsed a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) ground operation towards the Northern Forward Defence Line (FDL) positions between Ki’laali and Mukamaalai in...
Trump’s Budget The Most Significant Betrayal Yet Of Working People
US PRESIDENT Trump’s Budget betrays working people, says a statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Trump’s Financial Year 2018 budget proposal. The US union...
Barbaric massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees – 34 years since...
MARKING 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon last Friday, Saeb Erekat, secretary...
APOLOGISE! – demands GMB union after sick worker’s sacking ends in...
The GMB trade union Tuesday called upon DHL management to publicly apologise to the family of one of its employees, whom it ‘callously sacked...
Hezbollah condemns USA for seeking to trigger Lebanese ‘social explosion’
A TOP official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has slammed the United States for its seditious schemes in Lebanon, warning that Washington is...
Occupations and strikes are sweeping through Canada!
OCCUPATIONS, strike votes and rallies by health and care workers are sweeping Canada as trade unionists fight against low pay, unequal pay and privatisation...
RUSSIA-INDIA ‘A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP’ says President Putin
FOLLOWING Russian-Indian talks on 11 December 2014 in New Delhi, President Putin made the following statement. ‘Mr Prime Minister has mentioned that in 2000...
‘Investigate The Tel Aviv Regime’s Crimes’
THE PALESTINIAN Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an immediate investigation into the Tel...
Capita GP services ‘shambolic’ – BMA GP committee chair Richard Vautrey
‘THIS NEWS is extremely concerning, but not altogether surprising considering the continued warnings the BMA has given over Capita’s shambolic running of backroom services...
NUMSA BATTLES FOR PLASTIC WORKERS – while Marikana victims demand compensation
STRIKING members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) held a mass demonstration on Tuesday to hand...
BREAK THE SIEGE! – –Nasrallah urges Arabs and the World
AFTER over a month of inhuman Israeli siege against the Gaza strip, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech, on Monday, in...
Huwara Set Ablaze By Rampaging Zionist Settlers
HUWARA, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, was almost entirely set ablaze on Sunday night as extensive fires engulfed...
St Paul’s occupiers support Chase Farm NHS occupation
Anti-capitalist occupiers camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral yesterday made it crystal clear that not only are they determined to stay indefinitely but will also...
Hamas Delegation Meets President Assad
A Hamas delegation headed by the Islamist movement’s senior most leader Khaled Mishaal met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday to...
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...
Junior Doctors Discussing One-Day Strike Action!
‘THE clear message we are trying to get across is that this is a fight for the future of the NHS,’ BMA junior doctors...
PNA illusions in Sharon move
THE Palestinian National Authority (PNA) immediately reacted to the latest Israeli political upheaval on Monday, describing it sceptically but hopefully as a ‘volcano’ that...
54 student halls of residence wrapped in same cladding as Grenfell...
AS A FRESH year of students start at their new universities, it has come to light that fifty-four student halls of residence tower blocks...
Conference Votes For Chase Farm Occupation!
A NORTH East London Council of Action conference of over 150 workers, pensioners and youth on Saturday voted unanimously for an occupation of...
Go North West negotiations collapse – Manchester bus strikes to...
GO NORTH West negotiations have collapsed without agreement as Manchester bus strikes are set to continue. Protracted peace talks between management at Go North West...
Trade Unionists Being Murdered In The Philippines!
THE International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is bringing a complaint against the Philippines over the murder of trade unionists. The ITF is joining forces with...
Labour has armed Israel more than the Tories!
An explosive revelation came from the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) on Tuesday, declaring that arms sales to Israel under Labour in the past...
Defend the National Health Service! Stop Privatisation Bring down the...
By Anna Athow, Consultant Surgeon ‘WE HAVE reached crunch point, where the process of transition from one system to another is taking place.’ So said...
‘IT WAS COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF CHILDREN’ – Gaza father told Goldstone...
Testimony given to South African jurist Richard Goldstone’s UN Fact Finding Mission on the winter 2008/2009 war on Gaza, illustrates vividly one of the...
Facebook Drivers Vote To Join Teamsters
DRIVERS who shuttle Facebook employees to and from the company headquarters in Menlo Park., Calif., have voted in favour of representation by Teamsters Local...
Medical Students Face £70,000 Of Debt
Medical students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...
Catholic Church under attack by Israeli forces
AN Israeli attack on the only Catholic Church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday has left two people dead and several others injured. Two women...
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 Untold Hostage Story
On Thursday morning, 29th December 2005, I received a short SMS from Muntasser Abdel Rahim, 26, Medical Relief Society Ambulance driver in Jenin. ...
FBI attacks Scottish government over Megrahi release
THE Scottish Nationalist government has defended its decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi amid a mounting and frenzied counter-attack directed...
END PRIVATISATION AND DE-REGULATION – renationalise Bus Sevices
PRIOR to the deregulation of the buses in 1985-86 many important decisions concerning our bus services were decided by the Traffic Commissioners and local...