‘STICK TOGETHER AND WE WILL BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA’ –...
SURVIVORS told a packed central London meeting on Wednesday evening of the violent Israel attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the unconcern of...
‘Left, right or centre, all Zionists believe in colonising Palestine!’ –...
AMERICAN journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen has argued that there is no difference between the so-called left, centrist and right parties in Israel, as...
‘MAY MUST GO!’ say 15,000 students and lecturers
OVER 15,000 students, lecturers and supporters marched through central London on Saturday to demand free education for all. The largest education demonstration in years was...
San Francisco teachers hold their first strike in 47 years!
‘Thousands of public school teachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public (state) school teachers strike in the city in...
Union-buster Trump violated the law – US court hears
United States federal judge, James Donato, last Thursday granted an injunction after ruling that the administration of US President Donald Trump is ‘likely to...
NUMSA’s international tour to investigate forming a workers’ party
THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) has kicked off its year with study tours overseas to investigate the feasibility of forming a...
Prisons Inspector Condemns Global Solutions ‘Failures’ At Oakington Removal Centre
Privateer Global Solutions Ltd (GSL) has been criticised again for its management of Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers published today...
560,000 have fled the sudan conflict
BORDERing countries must give people fleeing the Sudan conflict immediate access for asylum, says Amnesty International UK. More than 560,000 have fled the ongoing crisis...
ABBAS ‘DROWNING IN PEACE ILLUSIONS’ – warns Hamas
Hamas has said it considers the invitation extended to Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmud Abbas to visit Washington as ‘political bribery in return...
NHS trade unions ‘strongly oppose local pay’
On Thursday, NHS trade unions declared they ‘strongly oppose’ local pay. NHS trade unions warned that a move to local pay for NHS staff would...
Italy’s broadcaster RAI holds 24-hour strike against the ‘stifling control’ exercised...
JOURNALISTS at Italy’s public broadcaster RAI held a 24-hour national strike on Monday to protest against the ‘stifling control’ exercised over their work by...
RELEASE HUBER BALLESTEROS! – and all Colombian political prisoners
JUST as preparations were being made for the launch of a campaign to call for the release of Huber Ballesteros and the other several...
On International Day of the Midwife the RCN calls for a...
THE ROYAL College of Nurses (RCN) has taken the occasion of the International Day of the Midwife to demand a pay increase for all...
Saudi Arabian anger at government gas price hikes!
SAUDI Arabians have taken to the social networking services, venting their anger at the government for hiking domestic gas prices and introducing value added...
‘The mindset behind the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings remains present...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has condemned the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying the mindset behind such attacks remains present in Washington...
TWU urges halt to 5,000 Qantas sackings!
AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers Union (TWU) National Secretary Tony Sheldon, at talks in Sydney on Thursday afternoon, said he would urge Qantas CEO Alan Joyce...
NUMSA CALLS MASSIVE STRIKE ACTION ON SEPTEMBER 30th AGAINST CORRUPTION...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has served notice on behalf of a growing number of unions and their...
TUC’s weak response to Osborne’s attacks in his Autumn Statement!
TRADE union leaders responded weakly, without any call to action, to Chancellor Osborne’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday, in which he announced a massive extension...
‘FULL CLEARANCE OF DALE FARM IS NOT ENFORCEABLE’ – say campaigners...
MONDAY saw the conclusion of one of the two legal processes challenging Basildon Council’s planned eviction of the Dale Farm community. ‘The case, which halted...
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...
Massive Support For Care UK Strikers
UP to six hundred Care UK workers and their supporters got fantastic support as they marched round Doncaster on Saturday afternoon. The workers have been...
Shipbreakers Organising Against Super-Exploitation
WORKERS breaking down old ships on the coast of India have been forced to go without drinking water, a press conference in London has...
Huge Polytechnic Uprising anniversary march on Sunday – General strike across...
Greek students, youth and workers delivered a significant blow to the Mitsotakis government, the US-NATO imperialists, EU and Israel on Sunday. They staged a most...
Israel Planning 73,300 Illegal Housing Units On The West Bank
Peace Now an Israeli left-wing Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) reported on Monday that the Israeli government is planning to build more than 73,300 new...
Handsworth GPs praised for helping bus crash victims
GPs at Handsworth Medical Practice have been praised for their efforts helping victims of a bus crash at Highams Park in North East London...
Swiss Clothing Giant Signs Bangladesh Accord–But Migros And Coop Still Refuse
TALLY Weijl, the Swiss clothing giant, has signed the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, piling further pressure on supermarkets Migros and Coop...
Syrian civilians bar the way to US military convoys
LOCAL residents of several villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah have in coordination with government forces prevented a number of US military convoys...
US warns India of ‘consequences’ of evading sanctions on Russia!
A TOP US national security official has called on India to scale back its economic and military ties with Russia, warning of ‘consequences’ for...
Abolition of EMA ‘will lead to a devastating drop in young...
NINETY-THREE per cent of college principals are concerned that the abolition of the education maintenance allowance (EMA) will lead to a devastating drop in...
Israel plans ten new settlements in the Negev region
ISRAELI officials plan to rubber-stamp the construction of ten new settlements in the Negev desert region at a cabinet meeting next Sunday. The decision...
76.5 million children are living in poverty in the ‘developed’ world!
THE number of UK children living in poverty has increased to more than a quarter as a result of austerity measures introduced following the...
‘TAMIL PEOPLE DEMAND VISIBLE PRESSURE ON COLOMBO’ – urge Norwegian Tamils
‘The defining moment for the International Community (IC) is right now, if it really wishes to establish its commitment to a principled approach towards...
‘Palestinian political prisoners, a crucial part of our national struggle’ –...
AS Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip prepare to vote in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections on May 22,...
‘We need the TUC to organise a general strike’
CIVIL servants called for more action during their national Budget Day strike on Wednesday. PCS members at a lively picket outside the National Portrait...
17-year-old Palestinian Eiman–free at last!
AN Israeli court in Jerusalem made a decision on Sunday to release the teenage daughter of Misbah Abu Sbeih, who was killed by Israeli...
Ahmadinejad urges Obama to embrace ‘justice’ internationally before it’s too late
¡ADDRESSING the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference on May 3rd, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said: ‘having nuclear bombs is not an honour. It...
Massive Gaza funeral march
JERUSALEM – Thousands marched in the funeral procession on Sunday afternoon of 24-year-old Palestinian, Habib al-Masri, who was killed during night protests in the...
HISTORIC VICTORY! – Nasrallah salutes ‘men of resistance’
‘Without exaggeration we stand before a strategic and historical victory for Lebanon – all of Lebanon, for the resistance, and for the whole nation’,...
Billions Of Dollars Of Aid For Gaza Is Being Blocked Say...
SIX months after donors pledged billions of dollars for devastated Gaza, most of the money remains blocked, and reconstruction efforts are painfully slow, a...
‘THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE NHS’ – Junior doctors...
ANGRY Junior Doctors and their supporters held a vigil on Thursday outside a meeting of the House of Commons health committee which is...
Yale Employees Demand Union Recognition!
HUNDREDS of people gathered on the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, on Saturday morning to call for good jobs. They are waiting in frustration for...
Unions call for civil rights marches across US for jobs, housing...
‘TODAY, as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and working families all over the country are coming together in marches for civil...
Picturehouse Strike For A Living Wage
‘WHAT do we want – the living wage!’ ‘When do we want it – now!’ shouted over a hundred striking BECTU members and supporters...
‘KEEP OUR LOCAL SURGERY OPEN’ –demand Camden Road patients
PATIENTS faced with the closure of their local Camden Road GP surgery overcame bureaucratic attempts to bar them from attending an invitation-only meeting with...
NUMSA condemns xenophobic attacks – calls for the unity of the...
SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma visited a refugee camp in the port city of Durban on Saturday after a fresh outbreak of anti-foreigner violence. Several...