Migrant workers cheated of wages & deported from US!
GERADO Santiago-Hernandez was a worker at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Michigan. A lawsuit filed in June 2020, on behalf of him and other...
Saftu Urges Full Support For Bus Workers
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has come out in full support of the rejection of the latest offer from the employers...
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...
GREECE GENERAL ELECTION JULY 7th –after 4 years of EU-imposed austerity...
A GENERAL election is to be held in Greece on Sunday 7th July with the right-wing New Democracy party seemingly heading for a comfortable...
New Left Front Leader Beaten Up At Colombo Airport
TAMILNET has reported on the ensuing crisis following the cancellation of the speech due to be given at the Oxford Union by the Sri...
Finance workers in Paris strike against job cuts
PARISIAN finance and tax workers held a one-day strike in defence of jobs and services last Friday, July 9th, accompanied by a rally which...
UN failing to restart Syrian peace talks – Lavrov slams UN’s...
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday lambasted the UN envoy for Syria for failing to restart peace talks aimed at ending the brutal...
Huge increase in leukaemia and birth defects in Iraq
THE use of depleted uranium in Iraq by the US and UK military has led to a huge increase in Leukemia and birth defects...
‘Ultimate victory belongs to the resistance’ declares Tehran rally
The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has confirmed the assassination of its secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in massive Israeli airstrikes targeting residential buildings in southern...
BRITAIN MUST STOP ARMING ISRAEL NOW! – demands London rally
THE first speaker at the rally in Battersea outside the American embassy was University and College Union General Secretary Jo Grady, who said: ‘There...
PNA and Hamas condemn Israeli ‘meddling’
Israel’s military escalation is ‘an attempt by Israel to meddle in our internal Palestinian life,’ Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned in a press...
Nakba commemoration–In the centenary year of the Balfour Declaration: It’s time...
NAKBA Commemoration in the Balfour Declaration Centenary Year: It’s time to go home! It’s time to make it right for Palestine. The Right of...
‘There has been a shift in the balance of power in...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcast on Thursday. We are very pleased to publish it in two parts PART TWO Al-MANAR: Mr...
Turkey Sends Over 4,500 Terrorists To Intervene In Libya!
THE SYRIAN Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says Turkey has so far sent more than 4,500 allied Takfiri terrorists from Syria to Libya, after...
SAFTU calls general strike to highlight that ANC policies are responsible...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers across South Africa downed tools on Wednesday, February 24, as a part of a general strike called by the...
Harare Council Workers Demand 4 Months’ Salary Arrears
THOUSANDS of Zimbabwe capital Harare City Council (HCC) workers have threatened to go on strike to force their employer to settle salary arrears stretching...
‘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...
Saftu Set To Call National Shut-Down
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – applied pressure to companies employing their members last Thursday,...
Javid’s vicious anti-immigrant policies
‘It’s Sajid Javid’s first anniversary as Home Secretary, so we’ve taken a look at his track record,’ Gracie Bradley, Liberty Policy and Campaigns Manager...
Disabled angry at Grenfell ‘safety advisor’ appointment – ‘legitimised a discriminatory...
DISABLED Grenfell campaigners are shocked and outraged at the reappointment of the very same firm that wrote fire safety guidance before the Grenfell Tower...
Pflp Condemns Occupation ‘Onslaught’
THE Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, last Sunday issued a statement headlined ‘PFLP condemns occupation onslaught against our people in Nablus and...
Nationalise Reserve Bank to protect workers – NUMSA
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has demanded the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank under workers’ control in a strongly worded...
CWU members challenge Hayes – at London meeting
‘This is an important fight, it will define the future of our members, whether we stay full or part time, or even employed at...
FORCED MIGRATION USED TO DEFLECT SOCIAL REVOLT – says Philippines health...
‘Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is like a poster girl promoting migration of Filipinos in the name of dollar remittances, at the expense of the poor’, the...
‘Summer Of Dissent’ Against Police Bill
A mass petition with over 600,000 signatures was delivered to the Government on Monday, demonstrating the strength of public opposition to the Police, Crime,...
‘HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITALS!’ – demand campaigners marching on Downing Street
‘JEREMY Hunt hear us say, NHS is here to stay!’ and ‘One fight – we are all united!’ chanted campaigners fighting to save A&Es...
SHUT DOWN WEST COAST PORTS! says Occupy Oakland
A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...
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...
Iran to target Israeli nuclear centres if it is attacked!
An IRGC official has issued a stern warning that Israel will face immediate reciprocal attacks on its nuclear centres if it targets Iran’s nuclear...
‘SIGNS OF TORTURE’ ON MAHDI ARMY COMMANDER – after arrest by...
THE Basra office of militant Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has said a former Basra commander of the Al-Sadr movement’s Mahdi Army showed ‘signs of...
Scottish teachers demand full 10% pay rise
SCOTTISH teachers in the EIS union rejected a pay offer of 9%, demanding the full 10% pay rise that they are calling for. Teachers in...
Verizon strike enters second month
‘ONE DAY longer, one day stronger,’ striking Verizon workers chant on their picket lines as their fight proceeds into its second month. More than 40,000...
MEDICARE, MEDICAID, SOCIAL SECURITY MUST BE DEFENDED! – says SEIU...
Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement after both Republicans and Democrats last Thursday announced their...
Doctors, nurses, patients support occupation of Chase Farm
LAST Tuesday a mass picket of Chase Farm hospital was organised by the North East London Council of Action. The pickets won support from doctors,...
Sub-Continent In Turmoil As Imran Khan Is Sentenced To A...
FORMER Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to a decade in prison by a special court in what is being termed as...
170,000 Teachers Take One-Day Strike Action
By Sanath Rathnaweera COLOMBO – 170,000 out of Sri Lanka’s 200,000 teachers took part in a one day strike action on September 13th,...
OPEN THE RAFA CROSSING – Palestinians’ patience is wearing thin, says...
With Israel’s two-week military offensive in Gaza showing no signs of abating, patience is running thin among those waiting to get into the Strip...
US Graduate Students Launching Union Building Drive With The Seiu
FOLLOWING a decision from the US National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) to restore their rights, graduate student employees at private universities across America are...
ABBAS-OLMERT TALKS ‘WILL LEAD THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE NOWHERE’ – warns Haniya
Ezzet Al-Resheq, political bureau member of the Hamas Movement, on Monday castigated Palestinian National Authority (PNA) president Mahmud Abbas for insisting on meeting with...
‘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’,...
Amnesty Condemns Egyptian Military
THE Egyptian military authorities expansion of the emergency law is the greatest erosion of human rights since the revolution forced the resignation of...
UCU slams call for higher tuition fees
The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday (Thursday) that forcing students to pick up the bill for higher education was an astonishingly weak,...
Occupy St Pauls Defiance Grows
No matter how cold it gets through rain or snow, the anti-capitalist occupiers outside St Paul’s Cathedral are more determined than ever to stick...
Sanders Launches ‘Our Revolution’
SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS recently spoke at the Free Library of Philadelphia about the current US crisis and his new book ‘Our Revolution’. He said: ‘No:...
Nigeria nurses and midwives have confirmed their strike is on and...
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has denied reports that its members have suspended the nationwide strike. The NANNM leadership met with...