TRUMP SLASHES MORE THAN $200 MILLION IN AID FROM THE OCCUPIED...
THE TRUMP administration has decided to cut more than $200 million in bilateral assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip,...
25 Years Since The Sabra And Shatila Massacres
PALESTINIANS are remembering 25 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre in the Lebanese capital Beirut – in which over 2,000 defenceless Palestinian refugees...
GREECE: THOUSANDS SAY NO TO AUSTERITY – workers demand an indefinite...
OVER 30,000 workers, unemployed, youth and students, lawyers, small shop keepers and poor farmers filled up the large square in front of the Vouli...
World leaders spectacularly failing 21 million refugees says Amnesty
WORLD leaders are spectacularly failing refugees, says Amnesty International UK in its latest report Tackling Global World Refugee Crisis – from Shirking to Shared...
Indefinite Mexican teachers strike – Clashes leave 100 injured and nine...
THOUSANDS of teachers are on strike throughout Mexico against the education ‘reforms’ of the Nieto government, which has met their demonstrattions and barricades with...
RANA PLAZA DONORS TRUST FUND HITS $30m TARGET
‘WE WON!!! Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is delighted to announce a major campaign victory with the confirmation that the Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund...
3,000 Boston University workers begin indefinite strike for pay, healthcare and...
The SEIU union that represents over 3,000 Boston University (BU) graduate student workers started an indefinite strike on Monday. The decision came a week after...
‘Israel is committing genocide across the whole of Palestine’ – says...
THE US-based Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued an ‘active genocide alert’ over the situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. ‘Israel is...
Tamils Flee Villages In Northern Mannaar
TAMILNET reports that internally displaced families (IDPs) in Moon’raampiddi and Ve’l’laangku’lam villages, located in the northern part of Mannaar district, were fleeing their villages...
END PPP DISASTER – RETURN TUBE TO LONDON UNDERGROUND’ – says...
FOUR YEARS after the first Tube assets were handed to the private sector, London Underground’s biggest union has called for the disastrous ‘Public-Private Partnership’...
‘Israel trying to take advantage of gas forum’ says Palestinian leadership
NOT PARTICIPATING in the signing ceremony of the agreement to launch the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) on Tuesday does not mean withdrawing from...
Day 16 of strike action against academisation
TEACHERS and pupils at The John Roan School in Greenwich took their 16th day of strike action to stop its privatisation. The school is being...
Ussr: A New Stage Of Confrontation
THE DEEPENING world economic imperialist crisis is leading to a much worsening of working class conditions in all parts of the...
‘The Ltte Is Ready To Implement Every Clause Of The Cease-Fire...
TAMILNET has reported that the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Major General Lars Johan Solvberg, met Liberation Tigers (LTTE)2 political chief B...
President Diaz-Canel condemns Trump’s ‘suffocate’ Cuba plan
Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel has denounced an attempt by United States President Donald Trump to ‘suffocate’ the sanctions-hit country’s economy. Trump signed an executive order...
Delphi postpones ‘motion for rejection of collective bargaining agreements’
US autoworkers union (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker, who directs the union’s General Motors and Delphi departments, yesterday issued...
Russia and China condemn US-Israel aggression against Iran – and seeks...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping jointly condemned the recent US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran on Wednesday, calling for...
‘Repressive legislation from a repressive government’ – Mental Health Bill condemned!
‘This is further repressive legislation from a very repressive government – attacking the most vulnerable,’ mental health service worker and user Jo Squires said...
President Sisi ‘played pivotal role’ in helping Fatah & Hamas overcoming...
EGYPTIAN President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi played a pivotal role in helping Fatah and Hamas overcome their differences to form a National Consensus Government in...
‘DON’T GO BREAKING MY ARTS’ – eight unions launch campaign to...
OVER 200 people attended a ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Arts’ rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday night. The rally was organised...
Release the Filton 24 Prisoners for Palestine!
JORDAN DEVLIN, one of six ‘Filton 24’ activists, retried by the Labour government for damaging a weapons factory run by Israeli company Elbit Systems,...
AFL-CIO warns the Democrats not to cut Social Security, Medicare or...
The AFL-CIO unions have issued a warning to the Democrats about proposed Medicare cuts, telling them, ‘Don’t try it ... we will never forget.’ As...
‘Clear evidence’ that the killing of Hind Rajab and Ambulance...
IN THE final hours of her life on January 29, 2024, Hind Rajab’s feeble voice could be heard desperately pleading with her mother and...
The Gaza Siege – Punishing Some Of The Poorest Of The...
‘If the aim of the blockade policy was to weaken the Hamas administration, the public employment numbers suggest this has failed’ a UN Relief...
Trump tried to break us, he couldn’t, and he came back
BY CLARA SANCHEZ GUEVARA TRUMP stopped buying oil from Venezuela to break it. He couldn’t and he came back; and it cannot be said with...
French Trade Unions March And Denounce Israel’s Atrocities Against The Palestinians...
AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...
Wal-Mart Plans To Slash Health Benefits
America’s campaign to change supermarket giant Wal-Mart, WakeUpWalMart.com, has released copies of Wal-Mart’s new health care benefits plan for current part-time employees and full-time...
FIGHT ‘MONSTROUS POWERS’ – Lawyers warn against Blair’s Internment Bill
THE Blair government’s plans to extend the terrorism laws and allow the police to detain people without charge for 90 days are ‘completely monstrous...
‘HUNDREDS KILLED BY ISRAELI-BACKED DEATH SQUADS’ – A review of Sabra...
‘We commemorate the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in honour of the hundreds of men, women and children killed by death squads...
Israel kills 14 Palestinians, injures 1,434 on Gaza border, including four...
LATEST figures show that 14 Palestinians, including four children, were killed and 1,434 injured by the Israeli forces during the demonstrations between September...
HUNGRY PUPILS = RETURN TO THE VICTORIAN ERA says ATL
‘HUNGRY pupils mean we risk returning to a Victorian era rife with inequality,’ a survey by teachers union ATL has found. Almost four in ten...
Occupy Chase Farm And All Closure Threatened Hospitals
THE daily picket to stop of Chase Farm Hospital will be marking its 150th day by mid-August. Organised by the North East London Council of...
‘WHO KILLED OUR LOVED ONES – THE POLICE’ –declares Families and...
‘WE want justice now!’ shouted over six hundred taking part in the United Friends and Families annual procession from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street...
MUSHARRAF IS DOING BUSH’S JOB! – say 8,000 Pakistani demonstrators outside...
UP TO 8,000 demonstrators took part in a mass picket of Downing Street on Monday, to protest against the visit of Pakistan’s military ruler...
Children were killed in their homes as they slept! – demand...
THE Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip during July and August 2014 claimed the lives of 501 Palestinian children. Defence for Children International –...
Britain Has No Sovereignty Over The Chagos Islands
THE maritime law tribunal of the United Nations has ruled that Britain has no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. It criticised London for its failure...
‘There must be a strategic dialogue at the highest level between...
MARWAN al Barghouthi, the Fatah leader is currently serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail. In an interview with the Lebanese...
Israeli torturers and war criminals driven out of Netzarim Corridor!
A Palestinian abductee who was among prisoners released on Saturday by Israel as part of the ceasefire deal has recounted the tragic ordeal and...
‘SUSPEND EU-ISRAEL TRADE AGREEMENT!’ – demands Labour MP at Downing Street...
OVER 800 people attended the latest fortnightly picket outside Downing Street on Saturday to demand: ‘End the siege on Gaza!’ Thousands have taken part in...
Private treatment centres grab NHS funds
PRIVATE Treatment Centres have become a key element in the Labour Government’s plans to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). They are being used in...
END THE OCCUPATION! VICTORY TO PALESTINE! 120,000 march through central London
OVER 120,000 marched and rallied in central London on Saturday against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza as the Palestinian death toll reached over 1,000. Workers and...
Child poverty & food bank use rises!
A SURVEY of UK social workers by the Child Poverty Action Group, Child Welfare Inequalities Project and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services,...
Greek Public Sector Workers Strike! – Against Mass Sackings
GREEK public sector workers staged a one-day national strike last Tuesday against the government’s workers’ ‘evaluation’ schemes which are designed to lead to mass...
PNA and Hamas condemn Israeli ‘meddling’
Israel’s military escalation is ‘an attempt by Israel to meddle in our internal Palestinian life,’ Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned in a press...
Almost the entire population of Gaza live below the poverty line...
IN the Gaza Strip, unemployment is no longer a chronic economic issue; it has become an all-encompassing reality that haunts an entire generation of...