‘A WORRYING AND DISTURBING PICTURE’ – RCM highlights shortage of midwives
Alone & lost in LABOUR, a survey by the Royal College Midwives and ‘Netmums’, highlights a shortage of midwives and lack of postnatal and...
Scottish strike wave during COP26 summit
Council workers in more than half of Scotland’s local authorities are striking during next month’s COP26 climate summit as part of a rapidly escalating...
‘WE WILL NOT BEND TO AMERICA’S WILL’ – says Palestinian Prime...
THE Hamas-led Palestinian government spokesman Dr Ghazi Hamad confirmed on Monday that the current freeze of the negotiations, regarding forming a Palestinian national...
Saftu Salutes French Workers!
‘THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) salutes the workers of France who have been protesting in their hundreds of thousands ...
Investigate Crimes Committed Against Binyam Mohamed
Legal charity Reprieve has released its report, ‘Human Cargo’, which details the rendition and torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident in Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve...
31 die in Dhaka factory fire!
‘PROMISES and apologies always follow these disasters, but there is no real commitment to fix the problem. It’s about greed, plain and simple,’ Larry...
Health workers march in France! ‘Our public hospitals are dying...
HEALTH workers demonstrated in cities across France on Tuesday to demand higher pay and more staff for services stretched to breaking point, just days...
Israeli army attacks Syrian army positions near Golan Heights! –while Japan...
THE Government of Japan has signed a contribution agreement worth $22.4 million with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees...
PCS Calls For Universal Credit To Be Smashed!
‘THROUGH our Universal Credit Fact Versus Fiction campaign, PCS is exposing the massive problems with a system that we say needs to be scrapped...
Afghan Refugees Claim Their Boat Was Rammed By Greek Coastguard!
THREE Afghan refugees who survived last Monday’s wreckage of their boat off the Greek island of Farmakonisi in the eastern Aegean, emphatically and repeatedly...
GAZA PALESTINIANS SUFFERING UNDER THE BLOCKADE –industries have stopped, –ambulances without...
A GROUP of British and Irish activists have arrived in the Gaza Strip to show their solidarity with Palestinians living under siege in the...
Civil servant visits Calais refugee camp
‘NO ONE should have to experience the conditions that the refugees are living in,’ civil servants union PCS member Wayne Harrison said yesterday after...
‘They have crashed into a mountain of granite!’
THE Libyan leader has vowed not to surrender and to fight till the end. He urged the ‘masses’ to march on the rebel-held areas...
Tory welfare cuts driving up poverty
A NEW study shows poverty in the UK is on the rise due to welfare cuts introduced by the coalition government during the last...
POLICE RAID 119 KOREAN TRADE UNION OFFICES – South Korean civil...
The Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) has issued an urgent appeal ‘Solidarity needed! 119 of KGEU local offices forcefully closed down!’ A KGEU statement...
New York nurses win after 41 days of strike action! Postal...
The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended at the weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labour action overwhelmingly voted...
BOYCOTT ISRAEL TO BREAK GAZA SIEGE – says film director Ken...
‘We must campaign for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel, and to also boycott goods and services to break the Israeli siege of...
4th Anniversary of the murder of Colonel Gadaffi
Libyan Free Press – EDITORIAL STATEMENT – OCTOBER (2015), marks the four-year anniversary of the disappearance of Libya’s leader, Muammar Gadaffi, and...
Strength of Palestinian resistance causes Kerry/Zionist fall out
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday blamed approval of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem for derailing peace talks with Palestinians, a charge...
Welsh landlords refusing housing benefit tenants!
a fifth of lettings advertised in Wales explicitly exclude people in receipt of housing benefit, a practice the homelessness charity Shelter Cymru has labelled...
Saudis In Same Camp As Israel, Says General Jafari
THE commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards accused Saudi Arabia of treachery on Monday, saying the bombing of Yemen had put the kingdom in...
‘Who will slay the Elbit Beast?’
TODAY at Woolwich Crown Court the jury is due to deliver the verdict on six of the Filton 24, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema...
IRAQ WAR: GOLDSMITH WARNED BLAIR HE EXPECTED ‘the government to be...
The Iraq Inquiry on Wednesday released details of former Attorney General Goldsmith’s legal advice, given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq,...
STOP STEEL INDUSTRY BLOODBATH! – demand South African trade unions
STOP the jobs bloodbath in the steel industry, South African trade union leaders are demanding after meetings with the government and business failed on...
Nasrallah Hails The Palestinian Fighters
‘THE Palestinian Resistance’s victory in Gaza is a clear sign of the weakness of the Zionist regime and a prelude to final victory of...
Israel Approves 942 Settlement Units On The Eve Of Peace Talks
ISRAEL has approved 942 new settlement units for occupied East Jerusalem, a local official said Tuesday, on the eve of the scheduled resumption of...
Forced Academies – ‘This Is A Huge Government Climbdown!’ Says Nut
‘THIS is a huge government climb-down and is a testament to the campaigning of teachers and parents,’ Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the...
Australian Government Forced To Back Down Over Baby Asha!
AUSTRALIAN unions have applauded the community #LetThemStay alliance that forced the Turnbull government to back down on Sunday from sending baby Asha and her...
NO BREAKTHROUGH IN HAMAS-FATAH TALKS – Abbas appeals to Mubarak
Hamas and Fatah failed to reach a breakthrough in reconciliation talks held in Senegal, a top Hamas official said on Sunday. Representatives from the two...
40 years since the UK drove the Chagos Islanders from their...
BY DAVID VINE AURELIE Lisette Talate died last year at 70 of what members of her community call, in their creole language, sagren — profound...
CHILDREN’S HEALTH GIVEN LOW PRIORITY – as paediatric training recruitment worst...
THE low priority given to children and young people’s health threatens prosperity, argues an expert writing in The BMJ Today. Professor Russell Viner at University...
Cuts Harming Children!
AUSTERITY is being exploited to drive through budget cuts and reforms which are denying children their basic human rights, according to a major new...
‘AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO ALL OF THE CUTS!’ – Theatre workers...
CLOSURE-THREATENED theatre companies are lobbying today’s meeting of the Arts Council in the Roundhouse in Camden, North West London today at 1.30pm, demanding a...
Executed victims of Daesh found in Raqqah mass graves!
SYRIAN officials have discovered mass graves containing the bodies of people executed by members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group near the country’s northwestern...
The Hague rules two top Israeli commanders cannot be sued for...
FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA DUTCH judges ruled on Tuesday that two top Israeli military commanders cannot be sued for killing a Palestinian family in the...
‘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...
‘NO EDUCATION CUTS’ – demand Tower Hamlets strikers
TOWER Hamlets College staff and students will demonstrate tomorrow, Tuesday July 7, outside the Board of Governors meeting, demanding: ‘No education cuts!’ The east London...
MINIMUM WAGE–CONDEMNS MILLIONS OF WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO POVERTY says...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has not welcomed the Poverty National Minimum Wage Act, which was signed into law last Friday...
Myanmar military mass murder of workers and youth continues
THE NUMBER of protesters killed in Myanmar since February’s military coup has surpassed 320, according to the country’s Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which...
Hezbollah Urges Unity Among Resistance Groups Until Final Victory Is Achieved!
The secretary General Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has underscored the significance of unity among resistance groups until achieving final victory in Operation al-Aqsa Storm,...
Vote no to imposition of Driver Only Operation – urges RMT’s...
SCOTRAIL employees are set to vote on strike action against the introduction of Driver Only Operation (DOO) trains, the RMT has announced. The management of...
‘’ISRAEL IS DRAGGING ITS FEET’ – says Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora
‘Lebanon is implementing (UN) Resolution 1701 while Israel is dragging its feet and is showing intransigence’, Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad al-Siniora told a joint...
EGYPT SHOULD LEGALISE INDEPENDENT TRADE UNIONS! – urges Human Rights Watch
THE Egyptian government should legalise independent trade unions, Human Rights Watch said last Sunday, May 1st, International Workers’ Day. What has emerged is that police...
NATO’S LIBYA POST-GADAFFI – MURDER, TORTURE AND ILLEGAL DETENTIONS – says...
TORTURE continues to be widespread in Libya’s detention centres, according to a United Nations (UN) report released today. The report, ‘Torture and Deaths in Detention...
Reinstatement of Amazon union leader is a win says union
‘JENNIFER Bates, BAmazon workers leader’s reinstatement by Amazon, is a win for workers,’ says the UNI Global Union. Last week, Jennifer Bates, the lead worker...