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...
WOODLEY INSULTS SACKED GATE GOURMET WORKERS – says they are ‘vulnerable’...
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were accused by TGWU General Secretary Tony Woodley in his speech to delegates on the opening day of their union’s...
G15 service charge strike after 500% hike
RESIDENTS of G15 housing association are going ‘on strike’ and refusing to pay service charge bill increases in response to their monthly payments having...
‘A real blow is being prepared’ for public services in France...
‘BUDGET 2025: an austerity plan that doesn’t say its name!’ declared French trade union federation Force Ouvrière (FO) on Tuesday. A FO press statement said:...
60 per cent of gig economy workers injured at work get...
THE MAJORITY of gig economy workers are injured at work and suffer from sprains, cuts that require stitches, and even fractures and broken bones. According...
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...
Sri Lanka Artillery Barrage Halts Mannaar City
TAMILNET reports that ‘Normalcy has been disturbed in Mannaar city Tuesday from 8:10 am as the Sri Lanka Army mounted an artillery barrage simultaneously...
NUJ addresses May Day in Ramallah
THE HEAD of the National Union of Journalists in the UK, Michelle Stanistreet, visited Ramallah in Palestine on May Day, reinforcing the unity between...
‘Thousands of Bangladesh factories are still unsafe’ says TUC – as...
‘IT IS important that those responsible for the terrible loss of life at Rana Plaza face justice. But thousands of factories in Bangladesh are still...
Special Unit Set Up By Netanyahu To Force Feed Palestinians
PALESTINIAN hunger striker Mohammad Allan was forcibly removed from Soroka hospital in Beersheba and taken to the Barzilai Medical Centre in Ashdod, by Israeli...
Haringey Home Care Workers Battle Low Wages And Zero-Hours Contracts
SEVENTEEN home care workers, Unison members employed across the London Borough of Haringey, are taking care company Sevacare and the council to court in...
‘We will never forget and we will never let those responsible...
A 400 strong packed meeting at Lambeth Town Hall on Tuesday night commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Sean Rigg in Brixton...
Release Tamil POWs and political prisoners! – Tamil politicians call for...
TAMILNET reports that Tamil politicians all over the world are urging global action to gain the release of POWs, and political prisoners. Addressing a...
‘ASSASSINATING THE LEADER WILL ONLY STRENGTHEN THE WILL OF THE BA’ATH...
Saddam’s deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, issued a statement on 1 January, mourning his ‘brother’ and calling for unity. ‘The criminal evil hands of the...
Zero-Hours Workers Earn £300 A Week Less!
ZERO-HOURS workers earn nearly £300 a week less, on average, than permanent employees, according to a new report published on Monday to mark the...
Hezbollah Is In A State Of War With Israel
A high-ranking official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the popular resistance movement is in a state of war with Israel, calling on the Muslim world...
US DISBANDS TIKRIT FORCES – for joining protesters
The puppet Iraqi Oil Ministry announced Saturday that fire had erupted in the oil tanks of Al-Dawrah Refinery, southern Baghdad, last night. A ministry spokesman...
GREEK FASCIST PARTY LEADERS ARRESTED – workers determined to destroy them
THE leader and four parliamentary deputies of the fascist Golden Dawn party, along with 13 party cadres and two policemen, were arrested on...
O’Connor Looks For ‘social Dividend’ From The Crisis
SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has called for a Social Dividend to tackle the lack of adequate occupational pension coverage in return for trade...
CWA condemns the Obama proposal for immigration raids and deportations!
THE CWA trade union has issued a statement on the Obama administration’s planned Immigration Raids and proposed mass deportations. It reads: ‘We have seen...
Russia rejects Ukraine ‘invasion’ allegations
RUSSIA has ruled out any further talks with the United States and NATO over the situation around Ukraine unless the West responds properly to...
‘ISRAELI FORCES MUST END THE UNLAWFUL KILLINGS OF PALESTINIANS!’ says Amnesty...
AMNESTY International said Israeli forces – using intentional lethal force without justification – must end the pattern of unlawful killings carried out against Palestinians. Based...
South African court bans Johannesburg bus strike
SOUTH Africa bus service Rea Vaya operator, PioTrans, last Thursday secured an interdict banning 179 employees from embarking on an unprotected strike and continuing...
Coalition ‘slashing Health and Safety budgets!’ – Lord Young’s Review condemned
Trade unions have reacted angrily to Tory peer Lord Young’s review of health and safety. The RMT transport union said that his report ‘is...
Systematic destruction of Khan Younis continues despite ceasefire!
The Israeli military launched a ‘fire belt’ attack on the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, killing two Palestinians, including a child, in its latest...
‘IRAQI AUTHORITIES NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE BASIC PROTECTION’ – says UNCHR...
The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) yesterday highlighted the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) latest report for the benefit of Iraqi asylum...
‘We are here for our city, we won’t let you down,...
OVER 3,000 striking Birmingham binworkers and their supporters marched from the Unite office to Birmingham City Hall on Saturday, fighting against massive £8,000 pay...
‘THE AMERICANS HAVE FALLEN INTO A SWAMP WORSE THAN VIETNAM’ –...
THE commander of Iran’s Revolution Guards, Brig-Gen Rahim-Safavi, has told Iranian TV that Tehran now possesses modern missile systems, and that Iran is ready...
Hands off our ticket offices! – RMT leads march to 10...
Over one thousand angry RMT rail union members and their supporters marched from the Department of Transport offices to Downing Street on Thursday evening...
Syrian Army Establishes Control In Areas South Of Palmyra City!
SYRIAN army units have established control over large areas to the south of Palmyra City in their continued operations against ISIS terrorists in the...
Russian support welcomed in Africa – as colonialists overthrown in Niger
RUSSIA has the capability to assist with the economic development of Africa and could be a superior replacement to Western countries that are currently...
REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE! – 10,000 March against racism in London
‘REFUGEES are welcome here!’ shouted over 10,000 protesters on a March Against Racism through central London on Saturday. Labour’s shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott,...
‘One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Places For Trade Unionists’
A SHAM paramilitary demobilisation process, combined with thousands of cases of threats and killings and a chronic lack of investigations and prosecutions, makes Colombia...
Hezbollah Is Determined To Fight In Support Of Palestinians In The...
A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of...
NUMSA to march on President Ramaphosa’s office
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will march on Wednesday, April 19th to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office to protest against security...
Director of Al-Shifa Hospital – held by Israel for seven months...
THE director of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, who had been detained by Israeli forces for more than seven months, says he was put through ‘severe...
KILL THE BILL! – Michigan workers fight anti-union legislation
THOUSANDS of Michigan citizens descended on the state Capitol last Tuesday, January 8, to show their outrage over efforts by corporate-driven legislators to pass...
One Day Under The US/UK Occupation
BETWEEN 1300 and 2000 gmt on Sunday 14 May, Baghdad Al-Sharqiyah Television in Arabic reported on ‘a new setback’ in the security situation...
Israel Plans New Settlements on a UNESCO Heritage Site!
When a group of more than 100 Israeli settlers, masked and armed with pistols and automatic rifles, killed a Palestinian, injured others and burned...
NEXT SLASHES WAGE BILL – employs hundreds of cheap labour apprentices
MONDAY night’s Channel 4 Dispatches programme claimed the Next shopping chain has slashed £2.5m off its wage bill by employing hundreds of low-earning apprentices,...
Irish TUC calls for new taxes on the wealthy
Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) General Secretary David Begg said on Wednesday that the Dublin government must now ‘choose between continued deference to...
‘Labour brokers are bloodsuckers’ – Irvin Jim at SRWP election rally
THE SOCIALIST Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) of South Africa was founded in March this year as a communist, Marxist-Leninist party, after a pre-launch convention...
Hanan Ashrawi warns against separating Gaza from rest of the occupied...
HANAN Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), warned on Wednesday against attempts to impose an economic or humanitarian...
‘Despite the heroic efforts of staff, waits for hospital care are...
A NEW report published last Thursday, 22 August, by the Health Foundation found that the UK’s performance on hospital-based care is consistently languishing near...
MILITARY MIGHT CANNOT END TAMIL INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE – says Tamil National...
HISTORY has shown that there is not a military solution to the struggle taking place in Sri Lanka, says a Tamil politician, in an...