120,000 March In Dublin To Defend Jobs, Wages And Pensions
Around 120,000 trade unionists and their supporters marched through Dublin on Saturday in defence of their jobs, wages, pensions and public services. The massive national...
CHEMICAL WEAPONS MASSACRE ‘THE LAST STRAW’ –Tamils blockade Westminster Bridge
‘Thousands of our people have been murdered with chemical weapons just an hour ago’, Tamil protester Shiva said on Monday evening. He was speaking from...
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...
Tamil Youth Picket Lord’s Test Match
TAMIL youth activists in Britain took their ‘Boycott Sri Lanka Cricket’ campaign to the Lords cricket grounds on Saturday, the third day of the...
Libya Disintegrates As Unknown Planes Bomb Tripoli
NATIONAL Libyan TV on Monday carried an on-screen ticker reading: ‘The Al-Qa’qa and Al-Sawa’iq militias have targeted Jami’ al-Arusi in Hay al Andalus with...
‘INSTITUTIONAL MURDER’ – says Mubarek family
‘We make no bones about the death of Zahid Mubarek. He died because of institutional murder,’ said the young Asian’s uncle, Imtiaz Amin. In response...
END GAZA SIEGE! – demands 400-strong Downing Street vigil
‘Free, Free Palestine! Palestine will be free from the river to the sea!’ shouted demonstrators at a 400-strong picket and vigil opposite Downing Street...
CIA having nightmares about US failure in war on Syria
THE war in Syria poses the greatest threat to US security because of the risk of the government falling and the country becoming a...
Jail corporate killers – demand bereaved families
‘STOP the employers getting away with murder,’ angry bereaved relatives said on their Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) lobby of Parliament on Tuesday. Hilda Palmer...
Slave Labour & Serious Exploitation In Qatar
QATAR'S construction sector is rife with abuse, with workers employed on multi-million dollar projects suffering serious exploitation in conditions akin to slave labour, Amnesty...
Russia’s Victory Upsets Imperialist Applecart
RUSSIA’s victory over the US supported Georgian blitzkrieg on South Ossetia, has driven the US ruling class into a frenzy. The Georgian offensive seems to...
‘WE WILL NOT LET CHASE FARM HOSPITAL CLOSE’ – message from...
The North East London Council of Action held another successful picket of the Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, with passing cars tooting...
Liverpool Hope University Lecturers Fight Job Cuts
LECTURERS who are members of UCU at Liverpool Hope University have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their ongoing row with the...
Royal Mail Moves To Slash Pensions And Mail Centres
Communication Workers Union members are angry that Royal Mail Group has taken Executive Action to replace postal workers’ final salary scheme with an inferior...
Two Million Strike To Defend Pensions!
MORE than 4,000 striking council workers, NHS staff, teachers, lecturers, civil servants and students marched through Norwich on Wednesday, during the national strike in...
Millions of US workers to be barred from trade unions
THE Republican-dominated National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) voting along party lines to slash long-time federal labour laws protecting workers’ freedom to form unions has opened...
US Workers Take Action
JUST one day before Democrats and Republicans were set to forge a trillion dollar debt deal that would impose savage cuts on the American...
Torture, flogging and killings! AT ISLAMIC SECRET PRISONS SAYS AMNESTY
TORTURE, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that...
Palestinians demand the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!
ONGOING protests in the occupied Palestinian territory and around the world are demanding the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese militant for Palestinian...
‘Continue action until we win’ – say striking uni staff
THOUSANDS of striking university and college lecturers, along with other workers in higher education, were solidly on 24-hour strike on Tuesday. Four unions – University...
ALL TOGETHER FOR THE NHS! – Unison staging rallies against the...
UNISON is holding a lunchtime demonstration outside the main entrance of Chase Farm Hospital between 12noon and 2pm today, as part of its All...
Grangemouth Workers Issue Appeal
Striking Grangemouth workers have issued a direct appeal to the people of Scotland. They took out a series of adverts in the Scottish media yesterday...
HUGE WAGE AND PENSION CUTS – hundreds of thousands to lose...
IN a press conference on Sunday afternoon, May 2nd the Greek Finance Minister Yiorghos Papakonstantinou announced yet another set of austerity measures verified later...
CHAGOS ISLANDERS MAY WIN BACK THE RIGHT TO RETURN says Royal...
The Foreign Secretary was asked to consider alternative options when deciding the best strategy for the protection of the Chagos Archipelago, and the return...
The US Senior Representative For Zabul Province Resigns!
THE following is a dramatic letter of resignation from senior US diplomat – America’s Senior Civilian Representative for Zabul Province in Afghanistan – addressed...
May Day – Trade Unionists Demand A General Strike!
UP TO 10,000 workers trade unionists, students and youth were on the London May Day march from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on Wednesday. There...
‘WE’RE HERE TO STAY – say Vestas occupiers
‘We’re here to stay,’ was the message from the 25 Vestas workers occupying the wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight on Friday. It...
US Collapse Shocks Afl-Cio Leaders
‘One day after George W Bush asserted that the ‘fundamentals’ of the US economy are strong, the Dow Jones stock index plummeted by 387,...
EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION CONTINUES! – with second ‘Day of Rage’
EGYPTIANS were out Friday for nationwide rallies to protest against the ruling military council’s attempt to halt the revolution, in a call that has...
Syrian People Stand Fast Against Western-Backed Terrorists
SYRIAN authorities on Monday clashed with an armed terrorist group in al-Zyara area in Idleb, state news agency SANA reported. A source at the Province...
Acute Food Shortages In Jaffna!
TamilNet reports that residents of Jaffna peninsula are experiencing an acute shortage of essential food commodities including wheat flour and sugar, sources in Jaffna...
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...
Shrewsbury trial and jailing ‘a conspiracy at the very heart...
THE government has rejected calls to release confidential files relating to the Shrewsbury 24, who were charged with various offences after the first national...
US Homeless Are Being Criminalised
‘To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty.’ This is the viewpoint...
‘RAGING RESISTANCE IS GROWING’ –says Iraqi Ba’athist official
Dr Khudayr al-Murshidi, official representative of the Iraqi Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, has warned that the United States is seeking to divide the resistance...
‘Abbas’ Government Constitutes A Crime Against The Palestinian Political Order’
YAHYA Musa, a deputy from the Hamas movement, has said that the decree issued by President Abbas that stipulates the suspension of articles...
‘SERIOUS ATTACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS’ – Ammesty condemns Blair’s measures
Amnesty International has expressed considerable alarm over the onslaught on basic rights announced by Prime Minister Blair on Friday 5th August to deal with...
Obama government keeping Haitians out of US
THE US government allows foreign citizens into the US in significant numbers ‘for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit’. In the past, the beneficiaries...
‘WORKERS ARE BEING THROWN TO THE WOLVES’ – ICTU national demonstration...
THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has called a national demonstration on February 21 at 2pm in Dublin to mobilise workers against...
OCCUPATION IS THE PROBLEM – troops out of Iraq, demands 50,000-strong...
50,000 workers and youth marched through London last Saturday, as part of the many demonstrations worldwide to mark the third anniversary of the war...
‘APPALLING HEALTH CARE’ FOR DETENTION CHILDREN – says Lancet
‘The appalling failures in the health care of children in detention centres, which are the ultimate responsibility of the UK Home Office’, are condemned...
Scientific progress should serve a nation’s welfare – says Iran’s President...
President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad in Tehran on Wednesday voiced Iran’s readiness to share its nuclear achievements with other nations within the framework and under the...
Medicine company workers fury over Iraq police attack
The Iraqi resistance is dealing daily blows against the US-UK led occupiers as it steps up its attacks. Last Tuesday fighters attacked with three mortars a...
‘HOME SECRETARY ACTED ILLEGALLY’ – when she deprived Al Jedda of...
ON WEDNESDAY, Public Interest Lawyers won an important decision when the Supreme Court brought to an end a six-year legal battle by Mr Al...
Private treatment centres grab NHS funds
PRIVATE Treatment Centres have become a key element in the Labour Government’s plans to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). They are being used in...