US releases frozen aid to Colombia – Rights groups slam ‘blatantly...
Three days before Colombian President Uribe was scheduled to meet with President Bush on August 4th at his Crawford, Texas ranch, the State Department...
‘Systematic abuse in Qatar’ – says Amnesty
MIGRANT workers building Khalifa International Stadium in Doha for the 2022 World Cup have suffered systematic abuses, in some cases forced labour, Amnesty International...
‘TOGETHER WE WILL ACHIEVE IRISH UNITY,INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY’ – declares...
BY JOHN COULTER, Irish political journalist Irish republicans need to build a mass movement capable of attracting a wide range of people, one of Sinn...
Israel Intensifies Its Deadly Raids Into The Occupied West Bank
Two Palestinians died on Tuesday, including a teenager, in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank as Israel’s new far-right government intensified its deadly...
Saudis acting to advance US ‘grand bargain’ to sell out Palestinians...
FORMER US officials say Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked the administration of former US President Barack Obama in late 2014 to consider a...
SCRAPPING THE EMA WILL LEAVE YOUTH DESTITUTE! – £400 million being...
TEACHERS’, Lecturers’ and Students’ Union leaders have warned that Education Secretary Gove’s announcement on Monday of a ‘bursary scheme’ to replace the Education Maintenance...
FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF GREEK, SPANISH AND EGYPTIAN WORKERS – say...
IN the international debate on Wednesday afternoon, delegates at the Unison National Delegate conference in Manchester said the best way to show solidarity with...
Three million at risk of starvation in Yemen – UN report...
FOOD insecurity across Yemen is set to rise from two million to over three million in just six months, report UN agencies – who...
LETTER – ‘Venezuelan social property cannot be converted to property for...
From Venezuelan journalist Carolina Graterol ‘WHEN I first arrived to London, in the early 90s, I noticed something unusual: mangos and beef from Venezuela being...
‘We Are Determined To Keep Chase Farm Hospital Open’
‘WE’RE having a very good picket today, enjoying the sunshine,’ North-East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers told News Line on Tuesday. He continued:...
Teamsters Mobilising Against ‘Flawed Pensions Bill’
The US Senate could take up the so-called Pension Protection Act, H.R. 4, by today, warns the Teamsters union. A Teamsters statement said: ‘This bad...
Iranian masses mobilise against US-Israeli aggression
FRESH from his failure to grab Greenland US President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the Iranian Revolution and issued his warning to...
Syria: ‘festivities turning into funerals’ after crimes by ‘moderate opposition’
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed on Sunday that Syria is keen to keep working to push forward Russia’s efforts for holding a second round of...
PUBLISH YOUR EVIDENCE! – Students want Russell Group’s fees report made...
STUDENT leaders went to the Russell Group’s headquarters next to Trafalgar Square on Monday, to demand the Group makes public its evidence to the...
TUC VOTES FOR CO0RDINATED STRIKE ACTION TO DEFEND BASIC SERVICES, WAGES...
TUC delegates at their Congress 2012 in Brighton on Monday voted unanimously for motions calling for coordinated strike action against cuts in jobs and...
West Bank General Strike after al-Mawasi massacre
WEST BANK Palestinians held a general strike yesterday in solidarity with people in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli attack on a ‘safe...
Mass migrant workers’ hunger strike
NEARLY three hundred migrant workers, almost all of north African origin, have been on a mass hunger strike in Greece since Tuesday demanding: ‘the...
In Defence of the Palestinian Right Of Return
The Damascus International Declaration In Defence Of The Palestinian Right Of Return, proclaimed at the Conferences Palace, Damascus, was published in the UK yesterday. It...
Child labour, sexual abuse and cruelty Working class children treated as...
THE ‘Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on report into the Child Migration Programmes’ criticises UK governments over their cruel policy that was continued...
Greek teachers strike against mass school closures
GREEK secondary school teachers, in a fighting and determined mood, began a national indefinite strike on Monday against mass school closures and sackings. A rally...
ZIMBABWE TEACHERS ON INDEFINITE STRIKE! – as ZCTU condemns power sharing...
SCHOOL exams in Zimbabwe should be cancelled because strike action by teachers has left pupils unprepared, a teaching union said on Tuesday. ‘For the record,...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART THREE: ‘Now we are...
THE brutal police riot at the Orgreave coke depot was not the only state attack launched against the NUM and striking miners in June...
US Supreme Court Victory for ‘Dreamers’
A US FEDERAL judge has rejected the limitations imposed by the Trump administration on a programme protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants – often...
NHS ‘RECONFIGURATION’ IS CLOSING HOSPITALS! – GP role being changed from...
THE NHS was a key issue in the general election. US-HMO-style (Health Maintenance Organisations) integrated care systems are being set up all over England. Provided largely...
Give Fed workers right to strike–get rid of ‘right-to-work’ anti-union laws...
THE VERMONT US Senator Bernie Sanders wants to give federal workers the right to strike, to eliminate so-called ‘right-to-work’ laws, and at the same...
‘ALL LEVELS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS’ FAILED NEW ORLEANS – says CAW...
On a special trip to New Orleans on Tuesday, August 29, one year after Hurricane Katrina, Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove said Canadian...
French trade union federations are deciding on their next major mobilisation!
THE FRENCH trade union federations were meeting on Thursday to decide their next mobilisations after MPs in the National Assemby on June 8 failed...
Israeli Prisons Are Graves For The Living!
NEWLY released Palestinian abductees have stated that Israeli prisons subject prisoners to horrific conditions, describing the detention centres as ‘graves for the living’. Their testimonies...
‘The situation in Yarl’s Wood is not human at all’ –...
ASSAULTS are commonplace in Immigration Removal Centres, which should not be responsible for the health care of their detainees. That is what is being said...
Finance workers in Paris strike against job cuts
PARISIAN finance and tax workers held a one-day strike in defence of jobs and services last Friday, July 9th, accompanied by a rally which...
NHS Bed Crisis–A Threat To Patient Safety
THE NHS Bed crisis is a threat to patient safety, doctors have warned as the latest figures were released showing hospitals working at full...
Bolivian unions mobilise against ‘right-wing coup plotters’
FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her...
French student unions challenge Macron over huge rises in the cost...
WITH inflation and the increase in the cost of living, the French student unions are challenging the government on the eve of the start...
The attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was act of...
SOME 23 people have been injured as a result of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant’s dam collapsing and the flooding of the Kherson Region,...
AFL-CIO MAY NOT ENDORSE THE DEMOCRATS – says AFL-CIO leader Trumka
WASHINGTON — The nation’s most powerful labour leader, vowing to defeat President Obama’s key trade legislation in the House next month, warned Hillary Clinton...
There will be no peace without a Palestinian state – says...
ISRAEL is up to its old tricks, which does not make anyone optimistic about seeing an end to the Middle East conflict, says an...
The Gap Between The Richest Americans And The Rest Is Growing...
THE gap between the richest Americans and the rest of the nation has widened after the recession, highlighting the worsening income inequality in the...
170,000 workers & youth march in London for ‘Victory for Palestine’
OVER 150,000 workers, students and youth joined the National March for Palestine from the BBC in Portland Place, central London to Downing Street on...
‘I MADE MY CHOICE’ AND STAND BY IT – Straw tells...
In a 25-page memorandum submitted to the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, said: ‘My decision to support military action in...
Northern journalists fight sackings
THE NUJ is fighting compulsory redundancies following a merger of journalist roles at the Manchester Evening News (MEN) and Huddersfield Daily Examiner, as part...
BRING THE ZIONIST WAR CRIMINALS TO TRIAL – urges Hamas
HAMAS has issued a statement headed: ‘Open letter to legal and international organisations: Let all efforts and energies unite to bring the Zionist war...
‘We Demand Apology For Balfour Declaration’ And Recognition Of Palestinian State!
– Rally 10 Downing St November 4 ‘WE DEMAND an apology for the Balfour Declaration and we demand repatriation and recognition of the Palestinian state,’...
US Nurses Demand Their Rights
More than 50 nurses from several AFL-CIO unions packed a House of Representatives hearing room on Tuesday to demand their rights be protected. They were...
Guaido One was defeated and Guaido Two will be crushed! –...
VENEZUELAN Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has rejected a European Union statement which calls for ‘further independent verification of the electoral records, if possible by...
Athens Students March Attacked By Police
Over 30,000 university students from all the main Greek cities, along with delegations of school students and some 3,000 secondary school teachers and university...