Israeli presence in US Persian Gulf force ‘a threat to Iran’s...
IRAN says it considers possible Israeli presence in a US-led coalition in the Persian Gulf as a clear threat to its national security, and...
TROUBLES BILL: ‘Provides a blueprint for letting state forces and other...
MPs WERE urged to reject the UK government’s ‘cruel and contemptuous’ Northern Ireland legacy bill as it returned to the House of Commons for...
Turkish FM Cavusoglu says Turkish troops will prevent Libya falling into...
TURKISH Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is preparing for troop deployment to Libya, says the prolongation of the Libyan conflict could plunge the...
Israeli forces killed 78 Palestinian children in the West Bank and...
ISRAELI military forces killed 78 Palestinian children under 18 years in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip in 2021, the Palestinian...
‘Never before has the apartheid regime been dealt such a blow...
‘WE have to admit with pain and with a bowed head – we failed.’ These are the words of Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich...
NHS staff from overseas paying extortionate visa fees
PUBLIC sector union Unison says the UK immigration system has never been smooth to navigate. The Home Office is infamous for its extortionate fees...
‘We will not stand down!’ – says Divine Rescue Homeless Charity
‘WE will not stand down! We are here with our “street friends”,’ Sister Catherine, lead organiser for Divine Rescue Charity said inside the occupied...
‘RECOVERY’ HAS LITTLE MEANING WHEN MILLIONS ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS –...
THREE global trade union federations – representing 55 million industrial workers – have issued a call to the G20 summit, taking place in Pittsburgh,...
HAMAS-ISRAEL AGREE TO SIX-MONTHS CEASEFIRE – ‘We don’t trust them but...
Hamas and Israel on Tuesday agreed to an Egyptian-brokered deal to cease fire for six months in and around the Gaza Strip. It was effective...
‘CLOSE DOWN CAMPSFIELD! – 12 years too long’
‘Close Down Campsfield – 12 years Too Long!’, declared campaigners yesterday. They were announcing a national demonstration outside the Immigration Removal Centre’s main gates on...
Muslim Brotherhood has failed forever – says Syria’s Information Minister Omran...
SPEAKING in Damascus on Monday, Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, reiterated that the political leadership in Syria is still committed to the political solution which...
‘No education cuts’ chant 11,000 striking Teachers! – as NUT takes...
‘NO education cuts!’ chanted over 11,000 striking teachers, parents and supporters from London and the south east as they marched through central London to...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Three
TOP British medical journal The Lancet has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
180 arrested during clashes in France after police shooting of 17-year-old!
‘AS MANY as 180 people were detained in France last night (Wednesday) for participation in unrest, sparked by the police shooting a 17-year-old driver...
Fire Service Cuts And Station Closures Threatening Public Safety
Humberside fire crews are warning that cuts and station closures will compromise public and firefighter safety. The warning came as local fire crews launch their...
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...
‘Defeating terrorists in Idlib key to ending the eight-year war’
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has described the defeat of the Takfiri terrorists holed up in Idlib as the key to ending the eight-year...
Goldsmiths Students March In Support Of Council Workers
MORE than 200 students marched from Goldsmiths College to Lewisham Town Hall on Tuesday evening in solidarity with council workers facing mass sackings and...
‘Western countries preparing for direct conflict with Russia’ – warns Serbian...
WESTERN countries are actively preparing for a direct conflict with Russia, says Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Vucic told the Pink TV channel: ‘The West would...
AMAZON EXPLOITS ITS STAFF AND DODGES PAYING TAXES – alleges GMB
The high-tech way Amazon processes orders and tracks inventory disguises the fact that it is also a traditional labour-intensive mail order retail business that...
SAFTU plans mass actions for 2019
‘THE poor of our country are suffering! A human calamity is unfolding! The difference is that this is not making headlines because the poor...
‘MODERATE OPPOSITION IS A MYTH’ says President Assad
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad affirmed that the United States doesn’t have the will to reach any agreement about Syria, and that Syria knew in advance...
UN to cut aid to Rohingya in the world’s largest refugee...
n a development that has sparked widespread concern, the United Nations has announced plans to reduce the food supplies it provides to the Rohingya...
‘I AGAIN PROMISE YOU THAT WE WILL WIN’ – Hasan Nasrallah...
THE Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah, promised victory in an address to the Lebanese and the Arabs on Friday 14th July after a failed...
GP Surgeries Under Threat
GP SURGERIES are under threat of closure or will be forced to reduce services this winter as pressure mounts, Local Medical Committees (LMCs) have...
‘BELARUS WILL NOT JOIN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’ – says Lukashenka
‘ABSOLUTELY nothing depends on Belarus’ in the construction of the union state with Russia, said Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Minsk on 29 May...
Greek Workers Fight Moves To New Stage
TENS of thousands of Greek workers, students and youth took part in strike rallies last Friday throughout Greece against the ‘socialist’ government’s austerity measures....
South African union NUMSA wins right to organise workers, while bosses...
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, NUMSA, and mining company, SASM, have vowed to fight it out in court as the company intends...
600 Kansas workers are on strike against low pay and...
AROUND 600 Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike for over three weeks, since Monday 5th July, against low pay and forced...
‘THE DOG IS DEAD, BUT THE RABIES PERSISTS’ – union says...
THE International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) posted a statement on its website following the December...
THE COST OF ‘DARING TO DISSENT’ – death threats and detention...
TamilNet reports that Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has condemned an anonymous death threat and his detension in the airport by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID)...
Silent March Marks Six Months Since Grenfell Inferno
AHEAD of tonight’s Silent March to mark the six-month anniversary of the Grenfell Tower inferno, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has condemned the inclusion...
ZIMBABWE POLICE ‘CONTINUE BEATINGS AND TORTURE’ – says Amnesty
In Zimbabwe the police still torture while a political solution to the country’s crisis is being sought, says Amnesty International. The Zimbabwean government continues to...
Collective punishment of Palestinians–thrown into prison without charge or trial!
COLLECTIVE punishment has reached new outrageous levels, with the father of a young Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces being arrested and thrown...
Israel’s Systematic Crime Against Education In Gaza
The Israeli occupation continues to commit a systematic crime against the education sector in the Gaza Strip, as part of a comprehensive war against...
80% of doctors at very high – BMA report
BOTH junior doctors and seniors are facing serious burn out because of lack of staff, overwork and stress, and this has created a serious...
ISRAELI FORCES SHOT PALESTINIANS OFF GAZA COAST!
ISRAELI forces shot and injured at least three Palestinian protesters with live ammunition, while others suffered tear-gas suffocation as they suppressed naval protests off...
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...
Red Army liberation of Auschwitz–an enormous victory! –Kremlin chief slams attempts...
THE Kremlin chief of staff, Sergey Ivanov has been interviewed on World War II history, and Ukraine by the website of pro-government Russian tabloid...
President-elect Trump launches attack on US trade unions
AN Indianapolis trade union leader has been receiving threats after US president-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack him on Wednesday night. Trump twice...
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...
Palestinians condemn Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip!
PALESTINIAN political factions have denounced Sunday’s Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli army fired missiles into the northern Gaza Strip town...
‘Murdering trade unionists does not violate labour standards’
A MAJOR row has broken out in the US over statements made last week by the United States Trade Representative (USTR), who claimed that...
90 YEARS OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION – Forward to the World...
IN OCTOBER 1917 workers took power in Russia. This is the 90th anniversary of the victorious October Revolution, the first time in history that the...
Ukrainian drones used against cities in Russia – and HIMARS attack...
AIR defences downed a Ukrainian drone approaching the Russian city of Voronezh, the regional government said in a statement on Monday. ‘Last night, air defences...