BIG BUSINESS FRAUD BOOMING! – as workers fight for their rights
WHERE crime ends and business starts and vice versa has always been seen as a blurred grey area which always remains, whatever the scandals...
SA police in court over Marikana
SOUTH Africa’s former North West deputy police commissioner William Mpembe is one of nine people who appeared in the Rustenburg Magistrates Court on Thursday...
‘We’Ll Strike To Keep Royal Mail Public’
‘ROYAL Mail not for sale!’ shouted over 200 postal workers and their supporters as they marched through Corby last Friday. They were applauded as they...
Israeli raids on Palestinian civil society groups condemned worldwide
THE UNITED Nations and other international organisations have condemned Israel’s military raids on the offices of Palestinian civil society and rights groups in the...
Free the hunger strikers! – demands Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey
OVER 200 people stood in a minute’s silence for those who died in Palestinian and UK jails at the beginning of an Irish solidarity...
Stormont ‘On The Brink Of Collapse’
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER STORMONT stands on the brink of collapse – a political dilemma the North has not faced since 2002 when...
The US will repeat the mistakes of Afghanistan!
AN inspector general appointed by the US Congress to examine the war in Afghanistan has listed Washington’s failures in the 20 years of war...
Construction industry blacklist ‘ruined lives’! – says Scottish Affairs MPs Committee
The major construction firms that established and funded a systematic blacklist of construction industry workers appear to be continuing to avoid taking full responsibility...
Israel to demolish 15 Palestinian homes in West Bank
ISRAEL yesterday notified Palestinians in the town of Yatma, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, of its intention to demolish their...
Macron Pledges To Keep French Forces In Syria
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron says France will keep its forces in Syria and remain ‘militarily engaged’ in the Middle East despite US plans to withdraw...
Public sector decimated by Tory austerity agenda says TUC
TUC delegates at their annual Congress in Brighton on Tuesday voted unanimously to defend public services and pay. Composite Motion 06 Campaigning for public services...
Netanyahu insisted on permanent Israeli military presence in occupied West Bank...
FORMER secretary of state John Kerry has revealed the Obama administration’s frustrations with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a new book slated for...
Nigeria nurses and midwives have confirmed their strike is on and...
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has denied reports that its members have suspended the nationwide strike. The NANNM leadership met with...
‘White Paper Like Floating NHS On The Stock Exchange’
THE future of the NHS is at stake, delegates to the TUC conference in Manchester were warned in a debate on Tuesday. However, the TUC...
Labour movement rises up in Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe
Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, on Thursday, called on the leadership of the...
Return to public sector all services outsourced under PFI! says Public...
VITAL public services such as schools and hospitals face serious disruptions should government fail to prepare for the expiry of its 700 PFI contracts,...
‘It is not ok to drop a one ton bomb on...
AMERICAN jurist Mary Davis, who headed the independent United Nations probe into the events of 2014 aggression on the Gaza Strip, said that Israel...
US ‘dismayed’ at the ‘humiliating defeats’ of terrorists by Syrian army...
SYRIA says the US is ‘dismayed’ to see the return of normal life to Aleppo province because of the ‘humiliating defeats’ of the Washington-sponsored...
Prestigious universities using ‘gig economy’ practices
University and College Union (UCU) has released a report today, (Wednesday 31), which finds that around two-thirds (66 per cent) of research staff are...
How the Israeli army murdered 29 members of the Samouni family
IN one corner of Salah Samouni’s modest living room hangs a ‘martyr poster’ – a customary honor printed for those killed in all Israeli...
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...
UK must ban all goods in whole or in part from...
A group of 62 MPs and peers across parties have written to trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds to demand the government takes measures to ban...
82% of Palestinian children under the age of one affected by...
Dr Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has revealed an unprecedented spread of anaemia among children in the Gaza...
NO PAY FREEZE! demands national college strike
UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) members were taking strike action against massive Tory attacks on their pay yesterday. Pickets declared themselves angry that the employers’...
Moreno Flees Ahead Of Ecuadorian Mass Demonstrations!
ECUADORIAN President Lenin Moreno abandoned the capital, Quito, on Monday and fled to the coast ahead of mass demonstrations which were held yesterday. A mass...
Sri Lanka: Crisis Of An Island
SRI LANKA is undergoing a turbulent period, with the introduction of an executive presidential system, along with an open economic policy (Laissez Faire) exposing...
Midwives rally across UK to highlight maternity crisis
THOUSANDS of midwives and their supporters protested in towns and cities across the UK at 2.00pm on Sunday to highlight the crisis in maternity...
Split PLO votes to support proximity talks
IN a controversial vote, the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) Executive Committee gave its support on Sunday to proposed indirect peace negotiations with Israel. ‘In...
Healthworkers pay tribute to Gaza medics
THE COMMUNITY Camp4Palestine opposite the US embassy in Battersea on Tuesday night hosted an event to honour paramedics in Gaza. Opening the proceedings, Elina, a...
Sheffield lecturers vote for strike action!
SHEFFIELD College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in defence of jobs and quality of education. 86% of University College Union (UCU)...
STOP ARMING ISRAELI TERRORISTS! – Arab Organisation for Human Rights urges...
THE Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) on Wednesday called on Britain to stop arming the Israeli terror state after Israel resumed its attacks...
Compel Israel to fully implement ceasefire obligations!
THE Hamas Movement said on Tuesday that Israel must be compelled to fully implement its obligations under phase one of the ceasefire agreement before...
‘Strong measures required to stop crimes of Zionist regime’ Hamas leader...
A HIGH-RANKING member of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has called on the ‘Muslim world to take up a firm stance in support...
Bombardier Workers Fight Jobs Massacre
BOMBARDIER has upped its jobs massacre programme in Belfast, with an even greater number of sackings to take place this year. The aerospace company said...
‘Return bodies of our martyrs’
‘SINCE 1967, Israel has applied an inconsistent policy of refusing to deliver the mortal remains of hundreds of Palestinian combatants to their families,’ an...
Australia Fining Nurses For Going On Strike!
AUSTRALIA is now threatening to fine health workers and their unions for coming out on strike, in a move which is set to be...
Defeat The Health And Social Care Bill!
BY ANNA ATHOW, BMA COUNCIL, IN A PERSONAL CAPACITY THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government is determined to push through the Health and Social Care Bill...
Scottish NHS leaders discuss ‘two-tier’ health system
NHS leaders in Scotland have discussed abandoning the founding principles of the health service by having the wealthy pay for treatment, setting up a...
Palestinian Children Being Held In Solitary Confinement
BY ADRI NIEUWHOF ISRAEL has held six Palestinian boys from Nablus in solitary confinement in al-Jalame detention centre near Haifa, writes Defence for Children...
UCU pay and pensions strike set to escalate
UNIVERSITY staff completed their first two days of strike action yesterday at 74 universities across the country and their strike was solid, winning 100%...
Israeli warplanes target Lebanese health facilities!
AT DAWN on Sunday, Israeli warplanes launched over 30 raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the ‘most violent attack’ on Lebanon since...
Low paid Apex care workers ‘gagged & searched’
UNISON on Monday condemned a range of draconian measures imposed on low-paid homecare workers by Apex Care, which include a gagging order, refusals to...
Zionist witch-hunt costs Octavia Nasr her CNN job
CNN’s decision to fire a veteran Mideast editor over a Twitter message mourning the death of the Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is...
Bernie Sanders addresses packed ‘Save London Transport’ rally at the TUC
BERNIE SANDERS, US Senator for Vermont, addressed a packed ‘Save London’s Transport’ rally organised by the RMT railway workers union, at London’s TUC building...
‘We saved the A&E – Now reopen the Maternity’ says Ealing...
THE FIFTY-strong mass picket of Ealing Hospital in west London last Friday shouted: ‘Victory for the A&E! We saved the A&E now re-open maternity!’ The...