Palestinians defy Israeli clampdown!
AT least four Israeli soldiers have been injured after an improvised explosive device was hurled at a military post in the central part of...
150,000 Workers March Through Athens
Trade unionists estimated that some 150,000 workers and youth participated in the two separate marches in Athens on Thursday. The GSEE (Greek TUC) stated that...
Gaza Has Been Made Unfit For Human Life!
THE UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine issued a report late last Monday accusing Israel of a systematic campaign of forced displacement, destruction and acts...
Sheffield Jobcentre Workers Launch Their Two-Week Strike!
JOBCENTRE workers in Sheffield launch their two-week strike this morning, stepping up their action against the planned closure which the Public and Commercial Services...
Syrian solidarity with 2 Turkish hunger strikers – RELEASE GULMAN &...
A SIT-IN was held in al-Umawyeen Square in Damascus on Thursday to express solidarity with the two detainees who are on hunger strike in...
Changes to contacting your GP have negatively affected patient care
General Practitioners (GP) contract changes that dictate how patients are able to contact their practice have negatively impacted patient care and practice staff, an...
Israel ‘getting a taste of its own medicine’
BY AVIGAIL ARBANEL THE damage on the ground in Israel is far more extensive than people realise. The Israeli population is less interested in the...
Egyptian lawyers to strike over police ‘kidnapping’
SAMEH Ashour, the head of Egypt’s Lawyers Syndicate, has called a lawyers strike against the Ministry of Interior after the disappearance of lawyer Ibrahim...
Sanders wins support from teachers and nurses to stand for presidency!
USA SENATOR Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 presidential election, is gaining the support of nurses, teachers and...
‘Mistreatment, abuse, and deliberate extortion’ at the Rafah crossing!
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned the treatment of Palestinians by Israeli forces at the Rafah border crossing, calling it collective punishment and a...
Leon Trotsky’s CLASS AND ART – PART TWO Raskalnikov and the...
THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...
‘DEVASTATING SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF GREEK AUSTERITY’ says The Lancet
A PAPER published in today’s Lancet draws attention to the plight of many of Greece’s most vulnerable groups who are faced with cuts in...
‘LIFT SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA’ – UN Human Rights Commissioner
Since 2017, the United States has imposed numerous sanctions on Venezuela, targeting its oil industry, financial sector, and political leaders. These sanctions have severely damaged...
Iran Will Continue To Support Syria Against Terrorist Groups
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has insisted that the Islamic Republic will continue to support Syria in its fight against terrorist groups. Zarif made...
Palestinian Flag Raised On Mount Everest
RAISING the flag for Palestine 5,400 metres above sea level, following six days and 100 kilometres of walking and climbing mountains, 27 Palestinian men...
OPPOSITION LEADERS ARRESTED IN BAHRAIN CRACKDOWN – as Tunisians protest against...
THE Bahraini ruling class has arrested opposition leaders on charges including contact with foreign states and calling for the fall of the regime, said...
‘ONE DAY LONGER–ONE DAY STRONGER!’ say striking US steelworkers
‘ONE day longer, one day stronger,’ chanted about 150 members and supporters of the United Steelworkers union last Sunday. They were holding a rally to...
Hunger Striker Hattab Demands To Be Recognised As A Prisoner Of...
PALESTINIAN prisoner Kifah Hattab, 53, entered the eighth day of a hunger strike on Wednesday in the latest of a series of hunger strikes...
Fierce Fighting Taking Place In Gaza
AS it has vowed, the Palestinian resistance was waiting for the Israeli occupation soldiers to foil their aggression, killing nine of them and wounding...
US trade unions condemn racist rally in Charlottesville
AMERICA’S nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), has condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday which resulted in the death of a...
Refugees’ Suffering Worse Under ‘War On Terror’
The Bush/Blair ‘war on terror’ has made conditions for asylum-seekers tougher in many countries, the UN refugee agency has warned. Speaking on World Refugee...
‘Never threaten the Iranians’ Zarif warns Trump
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned US President Donald Trump to avoid threatening the Iranians, advising him to ‘try respect’ as the...
‘Liberating The NHS’ – Bma Responds To Coalition Privatisation Plan
‘THIS response details the BMA’s position on the specific areas for reform contained in the consultation Liberating the NHS: Greater choice and control, building...
Shut G-Bay down! 17 years of ‘Temple of Torture’
SEVENTEEN years since it opened, Guantánamo Bay remains as significant and problematic as ever, says Reprieve. The notion that the men in Guantánamo Bay...
US Tripoli Embassy Seized By Militias
The United States embassy compound in the Libyan capital of Tripoli has been raided by militiamen, but no Americans were present as the embassy...
US unions take action on Martin Luther King Day
Teamsters union sanitation worker members in the US capital are launching a campaign against Waste Management on Martin Luther King Day, today. Nearly 100 Washington,...
Disabled angry at Grenfell ‘safety advisor’ appointment – ‘legitimised a discriminatory...
DISABLED Grenfell campaigners are shocked and outraged at the reappointment of the very same firm that wrote fire safety guidance before the Grenfell Tower...
Seven unions fighting pensions rip-ofF
SEVEN unions held a joint demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday against the government’s imposed changes in the way they calculate...
Some big issues for the London-wide LMCs Annual Conference
A NEW CONTRACT for GPs was signed by Dr Vautrey, the chair of the BMA’s GP committee (GPC), on 31st January 2019. Its full title...
Hyundai workers vote for strike action!
Korean workers are rising up in militant struggles, with unions at the motoring giant Hyundai voting overwhelmingly to strike for a 5.3% pay increase....
ISRAEL HAS ‘SHOT DOWN THE PEACE PROCESS’ says Abbas over Gaza...
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said on Sunday that the latest Israeli military escalation has ‘shot down the efforts to advance the peace process’ after...
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...
Job Stability Is The Key Issue In Toronto
JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...
1,857 empty homes in Kensington & Chelsea – while Grenfell Tower...
THERE are thousands of empty homes in the area of the Grenfell Tower fire which could potentially be used by the victims. Some homes...
‘May Must Go!’–‘Justice For Grenfell’ – Demand 2,000 Marchers
AN ANGRY demonstration of 2,000 demanding ‘Justice for Grenfell’ marched through central London on Friday night. The protest began at the Department for Communities and...
‘We are united, stronger together – We cannot and will not...
‘NONE of us want to strike, but we’ve been forced to by the government,’ Dr Kevin O’Kane, Chair, BMA London Regional Council, told a...
Army Is Sole Authority For Lebanon’s Security – Hezbollah!
HUSAYN al-Khalil, the political aide to Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on 12 May held a Beirut press conference where he insisted that the...
Israel systematically squeezing Palestinians out of Jordan Valley – says PMC
Without fanfare, but with determination, Israel is systematically, militarily and economically squeezing Palestinians out of the Jordan Valley, expanding colonial Jewish settlement in the...
Writers, doctors and former political prisoners demand immediate release of pro-Palestine...
Authors Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney and China Mieville, philosopher Judith Butler, and activist Angela Davis, have joined global scholars in a declaration of solidarity...
Iran proud that the US opposes its role in fighting IS
IRAN is proud of the fact that the USA opposes its involvement in the coalition against the Islamic State, a senior Iranian MP has...
‘Deal of the Century’ LEAKED! – DEAL HAS BEEN STRONGLY REJECTED...
THE main points of the United States’ anticipated Middle East peace plan, the so-called ‘Deal of the Century’, were revealed by a Hebrew-language news...
Argentina’s President Milei to sack 7,000 public sector workers – police...
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has accused the Argentinian President Javier Milei of ‘eliminating all the rights of the Argentine people’ and ‘ending the economic...
Bilal Kayed’s hunger strike enters 50th day –against Israeli administrative detention
PALESTINIAN prisoner of Israel’s jails, Bilal Kayed, today, Wednesday 3rd August, enters his 50th day of hunger strike for his freedom. Kayed, a member of...
‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE’ says CWU Eastern Region Secretary
‘THIS conflict could be resolved very easily. Lift the sackings and we can all go back to work,’ declared Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general...
PCS strikes across the UK against ‘pathetic’ pay increases
PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union members on Tuesday began a series of strikes across England, Scotland and Wales which the Tory government intends...