‘More Of A Victorian Workhouse Than A Warehouse!’
THE denigration of workers, wage payment systems of dubious legality and a disregard for health and safety law are among the catalogue of abuses...
Hundreds of thousands take to the streets in the USA in...
By Shabbir Rizvi SINCE the onset of the Al Aqsa Storm Operation more than a month ago, the US has seen an unprecedented level of...
WRP GENERAL ELECTION MANIFESTO – vote WRP in the five constituencies...
THE working class must kick out the Tories on June 8th and return Labour to government to set the scene for the struggle for...
Fourth week of South African miners pay strike
THE Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (Amcu) yesterday served notice of its intention to strike from Wednesday at the facilities of Sibanye Gold...
Consultants are fighting for the NHS – the working class must...
YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...
GADAFFI TELLS SIRTE: ‘NATO will be defeated’
LIBYAN leader Mu’ammar al-Gadaffi rejected any dialogue with his enemies in a speech broadcast by Libyan TV, captioned as a ‘live’ audio address, at...
‘ALL CLOSURE THREATENED HOSPITALS, FIRE STATIONS AND FACTORIES SHOULD BE OCCUPIED’...
‘CHASE FARM Hospital is occupied,’ Bill Rogers, Secretary of the North East London Council of Action, told News Line, speaking inside the hospital at...
‘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...
NO GUARANTEES GIVEN ON CAPABILITY DISMISSALS – FBU leader Wrack reveals
FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack wrote a letter on Wednesday to all FBU members about pensions. He wrote: ‘There have been a number of developments...
AUSTRALIAN UNIONS DEMAND A PLAN FOR JOBS! • Plus an end...
THE federal government must deliver a plan for jobs to avoid Australia developing long-term structural unemployment, warns the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Thursday’s...
RMT And Tssa Rail Unions Are Demanding Renationalisation!
RAILWAY unions TSSA and RMT have demanded renationalisation of railways – and slammed the privateer rail companies – in the wake of valuable...
Hit Squad Takes Over Se London Healthcare
PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were revealed at a south London press conference on Monday. The government-appointed Trust...
Wilko Imposes Draconian Cuts!
GMB UNION members working for Wilko are furious over a threat that the company is to turn on them and impose draconian cuts. It...
Power cuts and 43% unemployment dominate SA State of the Nation...
THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...
Abysmal conditions for thousands of refugees in ‘Moria 2.0’ camp
THOUSANDS of people are living in abysmal conditions in a new camp, which was built to replace Moria camp on the Greek island of...
BMA new Year message surveys the battleground – on the eve...
‘WHAT is the NHS? To those who run it, a vast endeavour employing 1.4m people, consuming one pound in every six of public spending....
Occupy Movements At High Court
Anti-capitalist occupiers camped outside St Paul’s cathedral went down to the High Court on Monday in support of the Parliament Square occupiers who are...
Russia and China hold joint military drills
RUSSIA and China have wrapped up their five-day joint strategic military drills in Northwest China which involved over 10,000 troops and advanced weaponry. Top officials...
Nablus Hunger Strike Against Demolitions
Residents of a Nablus village announced on Sunday they would start a hunger strike to protest against Israeli demolition orders and confiscation of their...
DAYS OF PUTTING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS INTO PRIVATE HEALTH RECRUITMENT AGENCIES...
SIPTU is demanding that the Irish government immediately lift the recruitment embargo in the health service and phase out excessive payments to private ‘for...
Siptu Ready To Strike Over Public Sector Pay!
PUBLIC sector workers union SIPTU has declared that it will authorise strike ballots unless the Irish Government opens talks on public service pay. SIPTU General...
Republican leaders working on plans to cut healthcare for millions of...
REPUBLICAN leaders in Congress are working on plans to cut health benefits for tens of millions of people. The harms from these cuts are...
Bangladesh garment workers and ship breakers demand safety at work and...
GARMENT workers on Monday (January 14) marched in Dhaka city demanding assurances for a safe workplace and trade union rights in ...
‘WALSH IS OUT TO SMASH THE UNION’ –it must now use...
‘THIS is like the 1980s with the miners, even though this is meant to be a democracy and we’ve got the right to withdraw...
Netanyahu’s crisis deepens! – remains Premier but relinquishes positions
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to relinquish the four ministerial positions he currently holds in the face of his indictment on charges...
LIBYAN PREMIER ZEIDAN FLEES TO GERMANY as militias fight over ‘ownership’...
THE ousted Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has fled to Germany despite a travel ban slapped on him by Libya’s top prosecutor for his suspected...
Ahmadinejad urges Obama to embrace ‘justice’ internationally before it’s too late
¡ADDRESSING the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference on May 3rd, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said: ‘having nuclear bombs is not an honour. It...
Israel is conducting violent raids in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm
THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...
Miliband Does Nothing To Stop Genocide Against The Tamils
TamilNet reports that Professor Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, has said Britain is obliged to...
Nasrallah Urges ‘stay Alert’ In Face Of Massive Israeli Manouevres
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah last Monday, speaking in a live address broadcast on Al-Manar TV, discussed the implications of the current Israeli...
Unison Promotes Divisive Pensions Deal
Heather Wakefield, UNISON National Secretary, Local Government Service Group, last Wednesday rushed a circular out to branches. This contained campaign materials to demand the same...
‘We want a system that is accountable and meets the needs...
THE TALIBAN ‘seeks to build a political system and government in Afghanistan that would be approved by its people and accountable to people once...
‘Movement To Free Political Prisoners Pickets Colombo High Court’
THE Sri Lankan military intelligence unit took into custody twenty five young men in the country’s western province, (Colombo, Gampaha) on February 5 2005...
Iraq Security Plan ‘Has Allowed Genocide’
THE Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars has issued a statement on the US’ Baghdad security plan. It said that under the plan: ‘First, most...
500 Turkish organisations representing tens of millions pledge support for Gaza-bound...
More than 500 Turkish organisations have pledged support for a new international maritime initiative aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade on Gaza, according to...
Sub-Continent In Turmoil As Imran Khan Is Sentenced To A...
FORMER Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to a decade in prison by a special court in what is being termed as...
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%...
Lesson from US election is don’t ‘buy security from psychopaths’ says...
RAN says the United States’ presidential election that toppled Donald Trump bears a message for all those Middle East countries which take the risk of...
Obama Warns Israel Against A Surprise Military Attack On Iran
US President Barack Obama has warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against surprising the US with a military attack on Iran. A senior US official...
USW ready for ExxonMobil strike or lock-out
A lockout or strike is set to occur June 15 at ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, refinery, chemical plant and laboratory if company management continues...
Strikes & Suicides Continue At The Foxconn Factory
FOXCONN'S promise of facilitating a democratic trade union is only for their marketing image, says a research team based in several universities in the...
‘OVERWORKED, UNDERVALUED AND UNDERPAID!’ – Angry lecturers strike over pay
UNIVERSITY teachers yesterday launched an assessment boycott – after staging a national 24-hour strike against being ‘overworked, undervalued and underpaid’. Tuesday’s strike at 140 institutions...
Russian forces build bridge under fire across the Euphrates River!
THE Russian Defence Ministry have released footage showing military forces building a bridge across the Euphrates River close to Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province. ‘A...
TAKE ACTION AGAINST NHS CUTS! – call from delegates at BMA...
Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Cardiff expressed their serious concerns at the impact of cuts on healthcare. They...
Arab writers appeal to world
ARAB writers convening at the First Palestine Forum for the Arab Novel appealed on Wednesday to world governments to intervene to end the suffering...