Gmb & Unite Defend National Agreements
FULL-scale nhs privatisation under Section 75 of the Health & Social Care Act and cuts to terms and conditions of NHS Staff pose real...
‘BUSH IS ELIMINATING THE GAINS OF ORGANISED LABOUR’ – warns Hoffa
In a Labor Day statement last Saturday the US Teamsters Union President Jim Hoffa stressed that workers have to rely on themselves and their...
President Assad greets children freed from ISIS captivity!
THE Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has greeted children, who were released from Daesh’s captivity in Suwayda Province, during a meeting in Damascus on November...
US-led coalition troops quit Afghanistan a beaten and defeated force!
TWENTY years after invading Afghanistan, US-led coalition troops have vacated the largest military base in the war-torn country, located in the ancient city of...
Amnesty Slams Rejection Of de Menezes Challenge
Amnesty International has condemned last Thursday’s High Court ruling to dismiss the legal challenge brought by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes against...
‘Murder With Impunity In Puerto Quetzal’
An ITF/ITUC mission has just returned from Guatemala where it investigated the murder of trade union leader Pedro Zamora and the use of terror...
Five copper miners killed in South Africa
FIVE South African miners have died after being trapped underground at the Palabora Copper mine in Phalaborwa, Limpopo province. Initially, six workers were...
‘Systemic, chronic understaffing’ endemic in elderly care say Australian nurses unions
‘Systemic, chronic understaffing’ endemic in elderly care say Australian nurses unions SYSTEMATIC, chronic understaffing leading to unacceptable instances of neglect, abuse, and too many preventable...
40-day UAW strike at GM ends in victory!
THE SIX-WEEK national strike by more than 48,000 United Auto Workers members against General Motors Co. has ended in victory. Thousands of UAW-GM employees nationally were returning...
Workers strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum throughout Europe!’ – says...
THROUGHOUT Europe, strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum, notes France’s CGT trade union federation. Faced with inflation and the energy crisis, demonstrators demand wage increases...
‘Ceasefire the pinnacle of humiliation imposed on the Zionist regime’
The commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has lauded the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas...
CHAGOS ISLANDERS MAY WIN BACK THE RIGHT TO RETURN says Royal...
The Foreign Secretary was asked to consider alternative options when deciding the best strategy for the protection of the Chagos Archipelago, and the return...
Parents criminalised for taking their children on holiday – says NUT
THE NUT (National Union of Teachers) and the CFHF (Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund) have condemned the fining of parents for taking their children out...
Alabama Amazon staff unionisation fight!
THE STRONGEST and most viable effort yet to create a union at technology giant Amazon in many years is underway at its warehouse in...
70th anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre ‘There are no innocent people...
ISRAELI Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday there were ‘no innocent people’ in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after ten days of protests and clashes...
Israel kills 190 in 24 hours while Iran sends Soraya satellite...
ISRAEL has killed at least 190 people in a time span of just 24 hours in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Gaza’s...
Break The Siege Of Gaza Now!
ISRAELI authorities on Sunday morning opened the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing in the southeastern Gaza Strip after it was closed for three days over...
‘A HISTORIC VICTORY FOR ALL JOURNALISTS’ – NUJ welcomes court judgement...
THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed last Friday’s High Court in Belfast’s full written judgement on the quashing of arrest warrants for...
Vetoing The Palestinian State ‘Would Be A Deadly Mistake’ – Barghouthi...
FATAH leader Marwan Barghouthi, jailed in Israel during the Second Intifada, has warned Washington that vetoing a Palestinian state at the United Nations would...
‘Snoopers Charter’ – sweeping state powers!
‘IT beggars belief that the government is blundering on with its snooping power-grab completely disregarding the concerns being raised from all sides,’ said Kate...
Five Years Since Yasser Arafat’s Murder
PALESTINIANS around the world marked the fifth anniversary of the death of President Yasser Arafat yesterday. In the West Bank, where Arafat’s Fatah movement...
Nasrallah reveals that the USA attempted to buy off Hezbollah
N A RARE interview recorded some 20 years ago and aired this week, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the resistance movement rejected...
Following Veto US Pledges To Act Outside The Security Council
RUSSIA and China on Thursday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that threatened sanctions against Syria and President Bashar al-Assad if he...
Egyptian lawyers to strike over police ‘kidnapping’
SAMEH Ashour, the head of Egypt’s Lawyers Syndicate, has called a lawyers strike against the Ministry of Interior after the disappearance of lawyer Ibrahim...
‘THE GOVERNMENT IS ENGINEERING THIS FIGHT NOW’ says Unite leader McCluskey
UNIONS have reacted angrily following the Tory-LibDem Coalition government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable’s threat to ban strikes. Cable accepted an invitation from GMB General Secretary...
Demonstrators call for work stoppages over Ferguson repression
DEMONSTRATORS have called for the US unions to take strike action, in united action with the mass uprisings against the police which have spread...
72 YEARS SINCE THE NAKBA CATASTROPHE! – Palestinian worldwide population now...
JERUSALEM – On the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the Palestinian dispersal and expulsion from their homes and land in Palestine on May...
VICTORY TO THE GATE GOURMET LOCKED-OUT WORKERS – reinstate their hardship...
ON August 10 2005 Gate Gourmet locked out and dismissed over 760 workers in a pre-planned operation designed to secure the introduction of their...
Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally told that Iraq had no...
THE US Think-Progress website has published the text of the ‘60 Minutes’ TV interview with former CIA official Tyler Drumheller who revealed that in...
Katrina Crisis Workers Were Abused And Exploited After Bush Suspended Labour...
WORKERS who headed to New Orleans in 2005 to help rebuild the Hurricane Katrina-devastated city were abused and exploited, according to a report by Interfaith Worker...
Leiberman Threatens ‘Wide-Scale & Painful’ Military Operation Against Gaza
THE Israeli Defence Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, threatened to initiate a ‘wide-scale and painful military operation’ against the besieged Gaza Strip due to the continued...
Class War In The NHS
2013 OPENS with Michael Farrar, the NHS confederation chairman, appealing for fewer hospitals and beds, and more care for elderly people in their own...
MI6 assumed power to break the law on UK soil
MI6 unilaterally assumed power to break the law on UK soil, a tribunal has found. At the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Wednesday, it was revealed...
Netanyahu seeking to undermine ceasefire
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim has emphasised that no new ceasefire agreement exists, accusing Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to undermine the current...
Syrian army destroys terrorist hideouts in Idlib – as Russia accuses...
SYRIAN military forces are continuing to target terrorist hideouts in northwestern Syria where the government has been restraining its offensives based on a de-escalation...
Cardiff UCU staff vote 83% for strike action against huge job...
CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...
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,...
EU – ‘a rich man’s club’ – Aslef
TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF’s general secretary, Mick Whelan, has written an article reasserting the union’s commitment to withdrawing from the European Union. It was written...
Palestinian Child Killed In Nablus
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas last Saturday condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the wake of a deadly attack in the...
‘Call general strike!’ WRP & YS TUC lobby demands • Break...
LARGE numbers of delegates stopped at the WRP and Young Socialists lobby of the opening day of the TUC Congress in Manchester on Sunday....
Middle East A Powder Keg West Risking Regional War!
SYRIAN leader Bashar al-Assad warned on Monday that Western military strikes risked igniting a ‘regional war’ in the ‘powder keg’ of the Middle East,...
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Storm’ was the turning point in the history of...
IRAN’S President Ebrahim Raeisi says Operation Al-Aqsa Storm was a turning point in the history of the Palestinian cause. The region and the wider world,...
TUC CONGRESS CALLS FOR AN ‘ALTERNATIVE TO AUSTERITY’ – but refuses...
THIS year’s TUC Congress next month is meeting at a time when all of the basic rights and gains of the working class are...
Syrian Army Making Considerable Gains
SYRIAN army forces have made considerable gains in their battle against foreign-backed militants around the capital, Damascus, retaking a key ‘rebel’-held town. The government forces...
‘We demand a Palestinian state’ says President Abbas
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas announced during a meeting in Cairo on Saturday that the focus of the Paris International Peace Conference would be centred...