Extreme Crackdown In Issawiyeh In East Jerusalem
THE occupied East Jerusalem suburb of Issawiyeh has long been a flashpoint for confrontations between Israeli soldiers and its Palestinian residents. But even by Israel’s...
‘SAVE OUR UNIVERSITY’ – 500 lobby London Met governors
OVER five hundred students and staff of the London Metropolitan University gathered outside the building in Holloway road in north London yesterday to protest...
Napoleon Gomez returns!
INDUSTRIALL global union marked a historic moment as Mexican union leader, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, returned to his country after 12 years in exile to...
Sri Lanka Artillery Barrage Halts Mannaar City
TAMILNET reports that ‘Normalcy has been disturbed in Mannaar city Tuesday from 8:10 am as the Sri Lanka Army mounted an artillery barrage simultaneously...
‘TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION WITH THE POSTAL WORKERS TO DEFEND...
THE trade unions must take joint action with the postal workers to defend their members’ jobs and basic rights. They must go forward to bring...
Thousands attend Hezbollah leaders’ funeral – ‘We will continue Sayyed Nasrallah’s...
Hezbollah will continue supporting the Palestinian people and will not let US President Donald Trump implement his project for the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah Secretary-General...
HAYES AND WARD OUT! REJECT THIS SELL-OUT TO ROYAL MAIL! Letter...
Postal Workers are to be balloted soon on the new deal negotiated by their Union leaders. This Agreement called Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond, has...
ISRAEL MULLING OVER NEW WAR! – warns President Ahmadinejad
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Iran’s arch-foe Israel was mulling starting a war ‘next spring or summer’ but has yet to make...
Hamas Rejects Arab Forces In Gaza
The Palestinian government and the Hamas movement have rejected the admittance of any Arab or international military forces to the Gaza Strip, or to...
Bin anti-union Commission report say Aussie unions
THE Royal Commission report into Trade Unions should be relegated to the dustbin of 2015, along with Abbott and Co,’ said Australian Construction, Forestry,...
High Court Gives Go Ahead For Legal Challenge Over Iraq Civilians...
The High Court has given the go-ahead for a legal challenge over the torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of UK troops. Last Friday,...
AICCTU unions condemn Modi government lies!
THE MODI government’s ‘lies and myth-making’ at the National Labour Conference have been denounced by the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU). The...
Israel sentences teen to 10 years – Mohammed Sabbah imprisoned after...
AN ISRAELI court has handed down a ten-year prison sentence to a 17-year-old Palestinian boy after accusing him of attempting to carry out a stabbing...
TWO MILLION BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS SACKED – 53.64 million face extreme...
MORE than two million garment workers have been sacked in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of fewer orders from the United...
76th anniversary of Nakba Day – 15th May 1948!
TODAY, May 15th, marks the 76th anniversary of Nakba, ‘the Catastrophe’, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land to...
‘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...
California’s Health Staff 5-Day Strike
WORKERS at eight campuses of the Alameda Health System (AHS) in California’s East Bay – 3,200 members of the SEIU union local 1021 –...
‘WE WILL SAVE OUR NHS’ – Junior Doctors co-chair tells 1,000-strong...
Over 1,000 striking junior doctors, consultants and radiographers held an angry rally in St Peter's Square, Manchester outside the Tory party conference on Tuesday...
‘CALL NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CUTS’ – actors demand of Equity
FURIOUS actors demonstrated in Piccadilly Circus on Tuesday against swinging Arts Council cuts which threaten to close nearly 200 theatres and theatre companies around...
Israeli Election Preceded By Massive Attack On Gaza
‘JUST days away from its third General Election in less than a year, Israel launched another attack on the Gaza Strip which began with...
‘DEREGULATION OF FIRE SAFETY CREATED GRENFELL TOWER DEATH TRAP’ says FBU...
‘The deregulation of fire safety is essential in understanding how a death trap was created at Grenfell Tower,’ writes Matt Wrack, the General Secretary...
NHS White Paper – ‘No Democratic Mandate!’ Says Unison!
The NHS white paper, which heralds the rapid privatisation of the health service, has no democratic mandate from the public, Unite said on Monday. Unite...
‘STOP ARMING ISRAEL–LIFT THE SIEGE!’ – 2,000 workers and youth demand...
‘STOP arming Israel!’ ‘Free, free Palestine!’ ‘Lift the siege!’ ‘Boycott!’ shouted over 2,000 workers and youth at a lobby of Downing Street on Saturday. A...
‘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...
‘PALESTINIAN BLOOD SHOULD NOT BE SPILLED’ – Haniya urges unity
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, on Tuesday, called on Palestinians to ‘remain united’ in a common cause after days of clashes between Haniya’s Hamas...
NI housing workers’ strike in 23rd week!
STRIKING housing workers in the north of Ireland have voted 99.5 per cent on a 93.5 per cent turn-out to reject the inadequate NI...
UCU SLAMS PLANS TO AXE DEGREE FUNDING – adults and part-time...
Government plans to axe degree funding for certain students contradict its own lifelong learning agenda and will hit universities offering courses to adults and...
Issawi Called For ‘Rage And Solidarity’ For Prisoners Day!
HUNGER striker Samer Issawi called for ‘rage and solidarity’ from his prison cell on Palestinian Prisoners Day. Issawi wrote in a letter sent through his...
‘SYRIA IS OWNED BY THE SYRIANS’ –INSISTS PRESIDENT ASSAD –...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed in Damascus that Syria is owned by the Syrians and that the peace is two things. First, fighting terrorists...
Release Shrewsbury 24 papers demand MPs
MPs in the House of Commons on Thursday voted by 120 votes to three to demand that the government releases papers related to Shrewsbury...
‘400,000 people could be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts’
THE CHILD Poverty Action Group and dozens of other charities have called for a 7% hike in benefits in a demand made to coincide...
PLO slams Netanyahu’s slander against Hamas
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) said Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu blatantly manipulated the facts when he compared Hamas with the Islamic State group...
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...
Palestinian chief negotiator Erekat resigns
THE chief PLO negotiator has presented his resignation to the Palestinian president and PLO leadership, officials in Ramallah announced Saturday. Saeb Erekat resigned because of...
US-UK air attack on Syrian army ‘definitely intentional’ says Assad
SANA, the Syrian state news agency, is showing an interview with President Assad by Associated Press and the current ceasefire crisis. We are very...
Belarus holding Victory Day march today!
‘WE invite other heads of state to come to Minsk for the Victory Parade,’ Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked to the...
‘WE WILL PROTECT YOUR PENSION BY ALL MEANS’ – pledges PCS
in a notice to members, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) explains why the government’s pensions offer is bad news for all members. The...
Kitson And Counter-Revolution!
THIS week it emerged that retired British general Sir Frank Kitson is to be sued by the widow of a Catholic worker murdered by...
Teachers Condemning Tory Poverty Policies!
TEACHERS’ unions and charities joined the condemnation of the Tory policies that have driven over two million children into poverty. Office for National Statistics figures...
Unison Promotes Divisive Pensions Deal
Heather Wakefield, UNISON National Secretary, Local Government Service Group, last Wednesday rushed a circular out to branches. This contained campaign materials to demand the same...
TROOPS SURROUND FONSEKA RESIDENCE – after Rajapakse’s ‘democratic victory’
Heavily armed Sri Lankan forces have surrounded Wednesday Cinnamon Lake hotel in Colombo, where opposition presidential candidate and former Sri Lanka Army General (retd)...
Nato-Israeli-Backed Gang Assassinates An Iranian Commander
ASSAILANTS shot dead an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander in Syria while he was travelling by road from Damascus towards the Lebanese capital Beirut, the...
Israel committed war crimes during 2014 war on Gaza
A United Nations commission of inquiry has confirmed Israel committed ‘war crimes’ during the 2014 aggression against the Gaza Strip last summer. The United...
Unionisation drives are sweeping Starbucks & Amazon across the USA
UNIONISATION drives are sweeping Starbucks and Amazon workplaces across the United States from East to West, with strikes gaining powerful huge support from the...
Barbaric massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees – 34 years since...
MARKING 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon last Friday, Saeb Erekat, secretary...