Bangladesh garment workers’ unions demand massive increase in minimum wage!
BANGLADESH garment workers’ organisations will picket the wage board office in Dhaka on August 5th to demand Tk 16,000 as the minimum monthly wage...
REGENERATION NIGHTMARE FOR HEYGATE TENANTS – Southwark accused of ‘Rachman’ tactics
TENANTS on the Heygate Estate in south-east London have alleged that ‘Rachman tactics’ are being used to try and drive them off the estate...
‘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 ONE AL-MANAR: In...
O’connor Calls For Sanctions On Israel To Stop The Genocide
THE IRISH Trade Union Congress Executive Council member and INTO Deputy General Secretary Deirdre O’Connor delivered a speech on behalf of the workers of...
RMT Tube Strike ‘Rock Solid’
THE WEEKEND strike action on London Underground (LU) on the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly & Victoria Tube lines was rock solid. The striking Tube driver...
BAN ASBESTOS IN WORKPLACES! – demand South African unions
UNIONS in South Africa are urging the government to join and back a global call against asbestos use – and for a total ban,...
Students Battle To Stop New Zealand Deportations!
AN estimated 150 Indian students are fighting being kicked out of New Zealand because their supporting visa documents were forged by agents in India. The...
Bethlehem Schoolgirls Teargassed
SEVERAL girl students suffered from exposure to tear gas on Tuesday morning when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked their school in al-Khader town,...
Israel has suffered an ‘irreparable’ defeat says Iran
THE chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says the Israeli regime has undoubtedly suffered an ‘unprecedented and irreparable’ defeat...
Agreement Between Hamas And Fatah To ‘Contain Tensions’
THE Egyptian security delegation’s efforts succeeded last Friday night in reaching a mutual agreement between Fatah and Hamas to contain the tensions and differences...
‘ALL WORK AND LOW PAY’ – TUC and NUS accept that...
UNIVERSITY students are working more and more – during holidays and during term-time – just to survive, says a joint report just published by...
£9,000 pinched from public sector pay packets since 2010 says Unison
‘FACING 10 years of pay cuts in real terms, our vital public sector workers – nurses, midwives and refuse collectors – have had an average of...
‘Pause’ A Cover For Destruction Of Hospital Care
BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER ON April 4th, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced ‘a pause’, a two month ‘listening exercise’, in implementing the...
No Oil For Those Supporting Price Cap
MOSCOW has condemned the so-called ‘price cap’ on Russian oil, insisting that it will continue to sell its oil in markets outside Europe. ‘Starting from...
US McDonald’s workers strike for $15 an hour
McDonald’s cooks and cashiers in 16 cities went on strike last Wednesday, the day before the company’s annual shareholders meeting, to demand the burger...
Gaza Divides Zionist Leaders
DIVISIONS among the Israeli political leaders have emerged over the way to handle the offensive on Gaza. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak is...
Consultants are fighting for the NHS – the working class must...
YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...
‘The right to return is not subject to any haggling process’...
HAMAS LEADER, Ismail Haniyeh warned the Palestinian resistance has many ‘powerful cards’ it can use in the fight to put an end to the...
A&Es IN MELTDOWN! – ‘TORIES TO BLAME!’ says A&E consultant Dr...
‘UP and down the country our A&E departments are in meltdown, our staff are at breaking point and we need your help,’ Rob Galloway,...
Only 10% of Gaza population has access to safe drinking water!
PEOPLE will need water, already scarce in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), even more desperately if temperatures rise because of climate change,...
‘100 ROUNDS FIRED ON SLEEPING FAMILY’ – ACLU releases files on...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...
Commute Iraq death sentences – urges Amnesty
THE IRAQI authorities executed 12 people last Sunday according to information received by Amnesty International, which has called for all death sentences to be...
DON’T USE FORCE AGAINST IRAN – Lavrov warns US and Israel
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there was no proof it was trying to...
‘Ceasefire Today, Liberation Tomorrow!’
WORKERS, students and youth who came from across the country to rally for Palestine in Whitehall, central London on Saturday, were subject to a...
HOLD PRESIDENTIAL AND LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS SAYS BARGHOUTHI – The peace process...
PRISONER and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has emphasised the need to accelerate the reform and development of the PLO; to hold the National Council...
Freeze settlements – Abbas appeals to Bush
PALESTINIAN president Mahmud Abbas is set to meet US president George Bush in Washington this Thursday for an urgent summit. The Palestinians said this is...
‘We will stop the closure at Chase Farm’ – states second...
‘We’re determined to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments, we will occupy if they move to close them,’...
BACCALAUREATE THREATENS ‘CULTURAL APARTHEID’ –says theatre director Richard Eyre
High profile figures from the arts have joined with the National Union of Teachers in condemning the Coalition’s planned secondary school Key Stage 4...
‘We teach our children hunger is more bearable than humiliation’ ...
‘I feed my children sugar and water … but if they opened a corridor for us to leave in exchange for raising a white...
‘We Have To Take The Fight To The Government – Bring...
AFTER the successful lobby of the TUC in Brighton on Sunday, the Young Socialists held a meeting at 5.00pm of 100 youth and workers...
‘The Land Belongs To The Palestinian People! The Occupation Will Vanish...
ISRAELI forces on Friday shot and killed 18 Palestinians as they assaulted rallies that set out to commemorate Land Day on many...
‘No place in the world for torturers, death squads and Nazis’...
‘Fellow Russian citizens, Dear veterans, Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers, Comrade officers, generals and admirals, I congratulate you on the Day of...
Kenya’s Nurses Strike Over Their Right To Collective Bargaining
KENYA’S Nurses have vowed to continue with their strike until the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) they signed with the Council of Governors is honoured. The...
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...
‘Nurses gave their all – only to be greeted with a...
MORE THAN 10,000 nurses, other NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters marched from St James’s Park to Parliament Square on Saturday on a demonstration...
Sri Lanka unions condemn violent army attacks
AT LEAST eight media workers were beaten and violently assaulted by security forces and police during live coverage of Saturdays anti-government protest outside Prime...
PNA CLOSES GAZA/EGYPT BORDER – Abbas wants international agreement
THE Gaza Strip-Egypt border will reopen only as part of an international agreement, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said, after Palestinian security forces sealed...
Irish Teachers Set For Strike Action
SCHOOLTEACHERS in Ireland are set to strike over a number of issues, including the 10% pay cut that has affected as many as...
PULL-BACK FROM IRAQ MUST START WITHIN 30 DAYS – say US...
THE Democratic-led House of Representatives defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and inserted timelines for an immediate troop withdrawal, in a 50...
Major Syrian clean-up op – US and Israeli weapons found
SYRIAN government forces have carried out a major mopping-up operation in the country’s southwestern province of Rif Dimashq, and have discovered a considerable amount...
Two Ukrainian generals and up to 50 officers plus foreign mercenaries...
Two Ukrainian generals and up to 50 officers along with about 20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers were eliminated in Russia’s strike on the...
NUMSA preparing to extend its action!
THE 220,000 Numsa (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa) members in the metals and engineering industry have now completed more than one week...
‘Unprecedented public admission of torture’ in Israeli prisons
AN Israeli journalist-turned-intelligence officer has exposed part of the regime’s physical and psychological torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons since Israel launched the...
Abbas Urges ‘Popular And Peaceful Resistance’
Amid mounting Israeli restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement, President Mahmud Abbas on Saturday sponsored the swearing in of the new Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative...
Two Israeli drone attacks on Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla
An Israeli drone attacked the largest vessel in the Global Sumud Flotilla, bound for the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Wednesday morning,...