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‘HEZBOLLAH ARE RIGHT TO DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY’ – 100,000 march through...

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‘Bush, Blair terrorists!’ shouted workers and youth last Saturday as they passed the American embassy in central London on a 100,000-strong demonstration against the...

United In Support Of Fellow Prisoners On Hunger Strike

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Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi said on Sunday that Palestinian prisoners would remain united in their support for fellow prisoners on hunger-strike. Prisoners affiliated to...

Ecuador general strike defies state of emergency

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FOR over a week now, farmers, students, workers, and transporters continue to join the national strike called by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of...

West Bank General Strike after al-Mawasi massacre

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WEST BANK Palestinians held a general strike yesterday in solidarity with people in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli attack on a ‘safe...

FREE GAZA NOW! FREE GAZA NOW! – shout 5,000 demonstrators on...

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‘FREE Gaza now! Free Gaza now!’ was the cry of 5,000 mainly young people who swelled a mass picket opposite Downing Street on Saturday,...

Gaza’s annual report on Israel’s devastating war since October 7th 2023

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THE Gaza Strip Government Media Office (GMO) has published its annual report about Israel’s devastating war on Gaza since October 7th, 2023. According to the...

LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE’ TODAY – 1. European capitalism gripped by...

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A REVOLUTIONARY situation exists in Europe today as a result of the world capitalist crisis. Social Democratic/Labour and Stalinist reformists, and revisionists, may scoff at...

Labour plans to transform the NHS into ‘Neighbourhood Health Service’ –...

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THE NHS trade union leaders have given a muted response to Monday’s Declaration of War on the NHS by the Labour government. PM Starmer and...

‘WE ARE GOING TO OCCUPY ON NOVEMBER 14th COME AND JOIN...

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A THOUSAND local residents, health and other workers, trade unionists and youth participated in a very powerful North East London Council of Action march...

‘The Ugly Faces Of Occupation’

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Dear friends, THE ugly faces of occupation from two houses demolished in Silwan, Jerusalem last week. Two other houses were destroyed the same day in Jerusalem....

Huge increase in leukaemia and birth defects in Iraq

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THE use of depleted uranium in Iraq by the US and UK military has led to a huge increase in Leukemia and birth defects...

£8.3bn wasted on expanding Academies – says MPs Public Accounts Committee

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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have been shocked by the £8.3 billion wasted on the expansion of privately-run Academy schools at the expense...

11,000 US airline catering workers vote for strike

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THOUSANDS of airline food workers have voted to authorise a strike across the US. The strike will be enormous as more than 11,000 workers who...

IMF-OECD demand even more wage cuts in Greece

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In his Annual Report published last Tuesday, the Bank of Greece governor Yiorghos Provopoulos spelled out clearly what is demanded by the European Commission...

US desperate to defuse tensions between Israel and Hezbollah!

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Amos Hochstein, a senior United States diplomat, has met Israeli leaders and has also visited Lebanon as part of a push by Washington to...

Palestinians are resisting Trump’s ‘deal of the century!’

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A SENIOR Hamas official has told Press TV that Palestinians will resist the so-called deal of the century proposed by the administration of US...

‘HUGELY CONCERNING’ CARE HOMES CRISIS – RCN and GMB issue dire...

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Care homes are increasingly struggling to provide high quality care for residents with complex medical conditions, amid a backdrop of a severe lack of...

PCS demands 5% pay rise

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CIVIL servants’ union PCS has called for urgent talks with the Cabinet Office over its 2018 pay claim which calls for a fully-funded 5%...

‘We had expected presidential statements to be supportive of the government’...

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PALESTINIAN government spokesman Ghazi Hamad has insisted that his government is not just a Hamas government but is the government of the entire Palestinian...

Bolivia Coup Leaders Jailed For 10 Years

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BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE – Bartolina Sisa Resistance ON JUNE 15, 2022, in the Coup d’etat II case, the 1st Court of Anti-corruption read the...

No forced academies – demand teachers unions

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THE National Union of teachers (NUT) is utterly opposed to the government’s plan to convert all schools to academies, ending democratic accountability in England’s...

South Korean Strike Wave

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A STRIKE wave is spreading across South Korea as workers in various industries fight in defence of their pay and conditions, while union membership...

APOLOGISE! – demands GMB union after sick worker’s sacking ends in...

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The GMB trade union Tuesday called upon DHL management to publicly apologise to the family of one of its employees, whom it ‘callously sacked...

Palestine decries Balfour Declaration on 104th anniversary

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PALESTINE, the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have denounced the infamous Balfour Declaration issued by Britain in 1917, which set...

ALL IN A DAY’S WORK – Working Lives & Trade Unions...

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All in a Day’s Work Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945-1995 Published by the Britain at Work Project £12.80 with p&p ALL in a Day’s...

‘Mr Madni was minding his own business when he was picked...

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‘MR MADNI was not originally in Afghanistan, he was minding his own business in Indonesia when he was picked up and taken to Afghanistan,'...

THE ‘CALM’ WITH ISRAEL IS OVER –Zakariya al-Zubaydi, commander of the...

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ZAKARIYA al-Zubaydi, commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said last Sunday, that ‘Israel’s escalation of the situation, assassinations and aggression against our people and...

‘A Revolution In Britain Will Be A Decisive Step In The...

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‘THIS ISN’T a general election, it’s a general strike building up,’ News Line editor Jonty Leff told Sunday’s powerful over 100-strong News Line Anniversary...

1,500 Greek Hospital Workers March In Athens

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SOME 1,500 hospital workers and doctors, along with delegations from public and private sector trade unions and university students, staged a militant rally and...

May Day Message From The Iraqi Trade Unions

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ON this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and...

IRAN CONDEMNS NEW SANCTIONS BY USA ‘Against the spirit of the...

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IRAN’S First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri has said that the new sanctions imposed on his country are against the spirit of the Geneva agreement. ‘The new...

AMERICAN DREAM IS DESTROYED workers being pushed forward into revolutionary struggle

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The US Economic Policy Institute (EPI) last week published three reports showing the extent to which America’s workers are losing ground this Labour Day,...

Free The Miami Five Now Demands Rally Of 500 Trade Unionists

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Over 500 trade unionists, youth and supporters rallied outside the US Embassy in central London on Wednesday evening to demand the release of the...

Hamas leader urges Palestinians to ‘stand together in a single front’

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THE POLITBURO chief of Palestine’s Hamas resistance movement says the Israeli regime will not be able to change the reality on the ground across...

PALESTINIAN FURY OVER SLAUGHTER OF AL-RAYAN AND HIS FAMILY – Hamas...

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Israeli warplanes continued to pound targets including a mosque in Gaza yesterday as Hamas ordered a ‘day of wrath’ against Israel over the killing...

1,383 US medics demand deportations stop!

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1,383 MEDICAL professionals last Friday demanded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) end the Title 42 border expulsions order that has...

Hundreds of Palestinians march in funeral processions as PM Shtayyeh condemns...

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HUNDREDS of people marched in the funeral processions of two of the Palestinians, out of three killed by the Israeli forces in the occupied...

Israeli military deliberately targeting Gaza’s IT experts and computer engineers

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The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says the Israeli military has systematically targeted dozens of information technology experts in the Gaza Strip, as part of...

Life Comes To A Standstill On The Gaza Strip

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As Israel steps up its human rights violations and systematic breaches of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip, all the basic functions of...

Tamil Youth Picket Lord’s Test Match

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TAMIL youth activists in Britain took their ‘Boycott Sri Lanka Cricket’ campaign to the Lords cricket grounds on Saturday, the third day of the...

‘West will pay a heavy price for supporting Al-Qaeda’ – says...

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday that the West will pay a heavy price for its support of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Assad, whose regime has...

Unilever Workers Defending Their Pension

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Last Tuesday Unilever workers from all over the country descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the companies ending of their final salary pension...

GPs angry at cuts and NHS privatisation

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GPs meeting in London on Thursday reacted angrily to the government’s cuts and drive to privatise, and press and government propaganda blaming GPs for...

‘Blair Should Face The Consequences’

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‘Blair lied, thousands died’, chanted over seven hundred, mainly young, protesters outside the Iraq Inquiry last Friday, the day that the former prime minister...

Palestinians Demonstrate Against Gaza Siege And Starvation

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Hundreds of Palestinians from lands occupied in 1948 and international activists demonstrated at the Beit Hanoun (Eretz) crossing linking the Gaza Strip with 1948...