Colombia the most dangerous place in the world to be a...
THE life expectancy of Colombians has been reduced by at least two years as a result of the country’s armed conflict and violence related...
‘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...
One Year Since The Rana Plaza Disaster!
TODAY, 24th April 2014, marks the first anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, when 1,138 people lost their lives and 2,000...
‘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...
Investigate undercover police role in blacklisting – GMB calls for home...
THE GMB union has called for a just-announced Home Office inquiry into undercover police to cover blacklisting. This came during a protest outside Parkside police...
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...
Visteon Occupiers Launch Irish Film Festival
A DELEGATION of workers who have been occupying the Visteon auto parts plant in Belfast for the last month have been invited to help...
‘We Are 100% Behind The Unions To Win This Fight
‘It’s going well, union members are not coming in. Obviously, we want to protect our pensions,’ Camden UNISON housing department shop steward Lesley Amber...
Swazi Nurses & Teachers Taking Action!
IT seems an official nurses’ strike is looming in Swaziland after the union called a special urgent meeting scheduled for today. The meeting is...
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...
Israel Violating Gaza Border Agreement
Using the individual bombing attack in Netanya on Monday as a pretext, Israel is violating the Gaza borders agreement with the Palestinian National Authority...
ISRAELIS PLAN WEST BANK GRAB – as Rice gives Sharon the...
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) says it got no answers about Israel’s intentions from the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, during Rice’s latest...
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...
Cairo Students March On Anniversary Of Mohamed Mahmoud Street Clashes
EGYPTIAN university students marched from Cairo University to Tahrir Square in mid-afternoon Monday, to mark the anniversary of the last year’s Mohamed Mahmoud Street...
Inquest Into The Death Of Jean Charles de Menezes Starts Monday
The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will begin next Monday 22nd September at 10am at the Oval Cricket Ground, The...
‘THE HUMAN COST OF DETENTION’ –Refugee Council welcomes Amnesty report
The Refugee Council has welcomed today’s publication of a new Amnesty International UK report on detention of asylum seekers ‘The Human Cost of Detention’....
‘FULL CLEARANCE OF DALE FARM IS NOT ENFORCEABLE’ – say campaigners...
MONDAY saw the conclusion of one of the two legal processes challenging Basildon Council’s planned eviction of the Dale Farm community. ‘The case, which halted...
Workers & youth determined to smash the Greek government
250,000 workers, youth and professionals demonstrated outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in central Athens last Wednesday evening against the Austerities Measures Bill. They were demanding...
Reinstate Ricky Matthews Demand 2,000 Striking Firefighters In Aylesbury March
OVER 2,000 striking firefighters marched through Aylesbury on Tuesday chanting ‘Reinstate Ricky Matthews!’ The national demonstration took place during the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) national...
‘NOTHING BUT EVIL COMES FROM RICE’ says Islamic Jihad
A HAMAS leader Khalil Abu-Layla said on Saturday that the Palestinians are not pinning any hopes on a visit by US Secretary of State...
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...
PNA slams ‘collective punishment’
The Palestinian leadership on Sunday condemned the ‘unjustified’ extra-judicial execution of a Palestinian activist and slammed Israel’s tightening of the closure it imposed on...
‘Murdering trade unionists does not violate labour standards’
A MAJOR row has broken out in the US over statements made last week by the United States Trade Representative (USTR), who claimed that...
Brutal US ‘Security’ Operations In Baghdad
A LONDON-BASED Arab newspaper is warning of the danger of a ‘new Fallujah’ by American occupation forces and their puppets in the Iraqi capital...
Iraqis Accuse UK Of Torture And Murder At Camp Abu Naji...
A former British Army officer has denied that he or his troops were ‘deliberately uncooperative’ with the Al-Sweady investigation into allegations of systematic torture...
Tens Of Thousands Demand An End To Egyptian Military Rule
About 300 people are being held after violent clashes outside the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday which left one soldier dead and hundreds...
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...
‘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...
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...
18 YEARS SINCE THE KINGS CROSS FIRE RMT, ASLEF and the...
EXACTLY 18 years after the King’s Cross fire, Britain’s rail and firefighting unions on Friday launched a joint campaign to keep in place essential...
Release Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed
On International Day Against Torture last Thursday, legal charity Reprieve renewed its call for the release of torture victim Binyam Mohamed from US concentration...
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK – Working Lives & Trade Unions...
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...
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...
A Wave Of Occupations Hits The London College Of Communication
ANGRY students have occupied the London College of Communication (LCC) this week, against a wave of redundancies and course closures. The occupation, which began at...
US Steel Workers Strike At 9 Oil Refineries
STEEL workers in the US are engaged in an indefinite strike which began on Sunday at nine large oil refineries. Shell fears that the strike...
DOOR CLOSING ON 2 MILLION IRAQI REFUGEES – Human Rights Watch...
‘Now that the international community is finally beginning to pay attention to the existence of an estimated two million Iraqi refugees in the Middle...
Ealing Midwives Condemn Maternity Closure Plans
NINETY Ealing Hospital midwives have written a shocking open letter condemning the threatened closure of their Maternity Unit, warning that the ‘rotting away’ of...
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...
Stafford Hospital Camp Is Fighting Downgrading And Closure!
SUPPORT Stafford Hospital campaigners fighting the closure of the West Midlands hospital’s A&E, maternity, and paediatrics departments have set up camp in the...
Ongoing Strikes And Sit-Ins Throughout Egypt
The ITUC on Monday expressed deep concern over statements attributed to the new Minister of Manpower in Egypt, Ismail Fahmy, that ‘the issue of...
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...
‘ . . . I Heard Baha Mousa Screaming ‘oh My...
Statement by RABINDER SINGH QC to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry RABINDER Singh QC has delivered his opening statement to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry,...
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...
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...