‘We fought hard and we won’ – says CWA leader after...
NEARLY 40,000 Verizon workers, who have been on strike since April 13, are celebrating big gains after reaching a tentative agreement with the company...
Occupy Wall Street calls for hundreds of thousands to march on...
AN open letter from the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (OWS) movement that began in New York and spread world wide, calls for all workers...
US aircraft carrier group to enter South China Sea!
THE US has dispatched an aircraft carrier group to the South China Sea, in a move that is set to escalate tensions after China...
‘Unceasing Fatalities’ In Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry
‘UNCEASING fatalities’ continue in the Bangladesh shipbreaking industry, as two more workers were killed and thirteen injured in yet another incident at the Ziri...
Saudis Will Be Dealt A Historic Blow In Yemen Says Hezbollah!
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said on Friday that Saudi Arabia will be dealt a severe, historic blow in Yemen, stressing that victory...
Repeal Bangladesh Digital Security Act – demands Amnesty
Bangladeshi authorities must end the crackdown on right to freedom of expression online and urgently repeal or amend the draconian Digital Security Act (DSA),...
Peretz Boasts Of Killings On Eve Of Nakba Day
On the eve of the 58th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe day), Israeli ‘Defence’ Minister Amir Peretz bragged on Sunday of the success...
Universal Child Day – Israel Steps Up Attacks On Palestinian Children!
THE Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), on the eve of the UN’s Universal Child Day, maintained that Palestinian children remain victims of...
The Drone Attacks In Pakistan Are Murder!
LEGAL action charity Reprieve and Islamabad human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar on Monday announced the publication of the first large array of photographs depicting...
‘Our fight goes on!’ say Vestas workers
‘What do we want – nationalisation, now! Organise, occupy, fight for the right to work!’ shouted over three hundred sacked Vestas workers and their...
A ‘PERMANENT WINTER NHS CRISIS LOOMS’ – warns BMA over Tory...
‘THE GOVERNMENT must resolve the long-term funding, capacity and recruitment issues’ if it is going to avoid a ‘winter crisis’ all year round, doctors...
Reverse NW London hospital closure plan – RE-OPEN MATERNITY AT EALING...
THE ‘deeply flawed’ decision to downgrade North West London hospitals must be halted, according to a report by Michael Mansfield QC. It warns that the...
‘WE SHALL NOT REMAIN QUIET ABOUT UGLY CRIMES!’ – Abbas condemns...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has said that ‘We shall be taking the case of the martyrdom of the youth Muhammad Abu-Khudayr to all international...
‘ISRAEL OUT OF LEBANON’ – demands Downing Street picket
‘Victory to Hezbollah! Israel out of Lebanon! Freedom for Palestine! Cease-fire now!’ chanted over 800 demonstrators opposite Downing Street last Friday night. The two-hour evening...
Stop Manchester Patient Transport Privatisation
UNISON has launched a campaign to save patient transport services in Greater Manchester and stop them from being sold off to a private company....
‘Release Julian Assange now!’ demands defence as extradition hearing is delayed
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing in London has been delayed, potentially to November, due to the coronavirus pandemic. A hearing, held by video...
‘Today we are unionising the United States Congress’ says the Congressional...
STAFF members of the US House of Representatives in Washington filed a petition for representation on Monday to form a union for the first...
‘Inquests Behind Closed Doors Unacceptable’
Human rights organisations said yesterday that legislation enabling inquests into those who have died in police custody or been killed at the hands of...
Trump’s Special Envoy Meets Netanyahu To Discuss Settlements!
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy on Monday discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT). Israeli newspaper...
Iraq Security Plan ‘Has Allowed Genocide’
THE Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars has issued a statement on the US’ Baghdad security plan. It said that under the plan: ‘First, most...
EU 3 call emergency meeting of the IAEA– while Putin warns...
BRITAIN, France and Germany are to call an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, (the IAEA) early next month to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme, the...
UK COMPLICIT ‘IN THE MOST SERIOUS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ –...
THE Chagos islanders were thrown out of their Indian Ocean home in the mid 1960s by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson in...
Health & Safety Fit for workers 2019 manifesto
‘EVIDENCE shows’, says a just-released statement by the Hazards Campaign, ‘that the three factors that make work “safer and healthier” are – strong laws,...
Irish Bus Drivers Vote 94% Yes To Take Strike Action!
1,300 IRISH bus drivers working for Bus Éireann have returned a massive 94% ‘YES’ vote for strike action to defend their pay and conditions,...
AFL-CIO leadership attempting to block resolution on boycotting Israel
The national leadership of the largest labour federation in the USA is trying to stop one of its affiliates from debating and voting on...
CHARRED CORPSES ‘PART OF THE PATTERN’ – of deaths and abuses...
AMNESTY International said yesterday that recent revelations about deaths in custody and abuses by US troops in Afghanistan are further evidence of a culture...
IAM Aerospace workers in the US demand a 40% pay rise...
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM) leaders at Boeing the aircraft manufacturers are demanding a 40 per cent pay rise over...
3.1 MILLION NEW HOMES NEEDED – Shelter’s vision for social housing
A LANDMARK report by Shelter’s social housing commission published today calls for an ambitious 3.1 million new homes, extending the offer of social housing...
Stop Ealing Maternity closure–Occupy!
‘OCCUPY Ealing Maternity Department to stop its closure on 1st July,’ Ealing Hospital nurse, Claire, a Unison member, told News Line on Monday. A demonstration...
FRENCH UNIONS REFUSE TO TALK WITH GOVERNMENT – until CPE is...
LEADERS of France’s main trade union federations have refused to talk to the government until it withdraws the CPE (first job contract) that removes...
‘Monopoly capitalism causing job loss bloodbath’ –warns South Africa’s NUMSA union
‘MONOPOLY capitalism is plunging the country into a catastrophic crisis, which will inflict misery upon millions of workers and the poor,’ the National Union...
‘THIS IS JUST THE START OF THE BIG FUEL REVOLT’ –...
Lorry Drivers and small hauliers rallied hundreds strong at Marble Arch in London yesterday to demand a government fuel subsidy or fuel tax relief...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION AND KILLINGS HAVE SCUPPERED NEGOTIATIONS – says...
RECENT Israeli actions against the Palestinian people indicate that Israel has given priority to settlement expansion and the demands of settlers over peace and...
Tsipras Says ‘No’ To Mass Sackings Of Civil Servants
LEFTIST SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras addressed a crowd of party supporters in Sparti, in the Peloponnese, on Thursday night. Tsipras said that his party would...
20,000 Workers & Youth March To ‘Make It Right’ For Palestine!
OVER 20,000 workers and youth along with Palestinians living in the UK, marched through the streets of London on Saturday to ‘Make it Right...
Turkey, do not violate our sovereignty–warns Syria
DEPUTY Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr Faysal Miqdad said on Friday that the Syrian people, who are confronting terrorism with epic steadfastness, have the...
Seven young men facing execution in Saudi Arabia –Amnesty International demands...
SEVEN young men who were juveniles at the time of their alleged offences are facing imminent execution in Saudi Arabia despite the country having...
NO DEBATE ON ‘ACTION’ MOTION – at London Region Equity AGM
THE ACTORS’ union Equity is angry as Arts Council and local authority funding cuts lay waste to theatres and arts organisations across Britain and...
Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...
‘We Demand Apology For Balfour Declaration’ And Recognition Of Palestinian State!
– Rally 10 Downing St November 4 ‘WE DEMAND an apology for the Balfour Declaration and we demand repatriation and recognition of the Palestinian state,’...
Aussie Food Workers Third Week On Strike
United Workers Union (UWU) members at the McCormick Foods manufacturing site in Clayton, south-east Melbourne, Australia, have just started their third week out on...
NATO Patriot missiles–‘harbingers of a war on Syria’
THE Turkish privately-owned, mass-circulation daily Hurriyet, on 23 November, discussed the issue ‘Are the Patriots Harbingers of a War in Syria?’ It stated: ‘Turkey first...
Post-Election Crisis As Haiti Erupts
Haiti’s post-election crisis deepened on Sunday after opposition presidential candidates prolonged the political uncertainty by refusing to participate in a proposed recount. President Rene Préval’s...
An inflation-busting pay rise is needed to keep key NHS staff...
FOUR out of five NHS staff say pay is the main reason they would quit their jobs. An exclusive poll of NHS staff yesterday revealed...
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...