Gate Gourmet Move To Attack Dublin Workers
GATE GOURMET, owned by venture capitalists Texas Pacific, is at it again in its class war against workers and trade unions. In August 2005 it...
US teachers, farmers and health workers fighting for pay, jobs and...
Educators in Dublin, California were on strike on Tuesday after no deal was made between the teachers union and the school district on Monday...
Tolpuddle Martyrs festival weekend
THE TOLPUDDLE Martyrs annual festival where thousands of people come together to celebrate trade unionism and remember the role of the Tolpuddle Martyrs began...
FRANCE HAS RISEN – Part one
FRANCE has risen. After the brutal attack by the forces of the French capitalist state, led by the CRS, on demonstrators at the Place de...
Steel workers & student nurses rally while university lecturers and Rio...
‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...
Sudan’s civil war escalates – RSF leader bids for power!
WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...
Iraq & Iran Deplore Trump’s Travel Ban
POWERFUL Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Spokesman of Hashd al-Sha’abi (the Iraqi popular forces) Ahmad al-Assadi, deplored US President Donald Trump’s decision to...
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is ready to confront Israel – while...
THE commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warns the Islamic Republic will harshly confront the Israeli regime wherever...
IS enters Yarmouk refugee camp!
HUNDREDS of ISIS terrorists, aided by Al Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra, have entered Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said,...
Colombia Orders Israeli Ambassador To Leave Country!
Colombia said on Monday evening that Israel’s ambassador must leave the country after President Gustavo Petro criticised the regime for crimes against the Palestinians...
Islamic terrorists attack Libyan towns & oilfields
IN their boldest move so far, supporters of the Islamic State in Sirte appear to have extended their hold over the town, seizing its...
Israeli forces killed 78 Palestinian children in the West Bank and...
ISRAELI military forces killed 78 Palestinian children under 18 years in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip in 2021, the Palestinian...
GEORGIA’S ACTIONS ARE US-INSPIRED – to bring NATO peacekeepers into Ossetia...
GEORGIA’S latest actions are aimed at ousting Russian peacekeepers from South Ossetia and bringing a NATO police force there, Col-Gen Leonid Ivashov, former chief...
US Admits To Holding Talks With Insurgents
The outgoing US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has admitted for first time to holding talks with insurgent leaders. Meanwhile bomb attacks killed five...
Gaza transformed into ‘a Nazi concentration camp’ says Hamas official Osama...
SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has stated that the Israeli occupation has transformed Gaza into ‘a Nazi concentration camp,’ and the regime is practicing...
Syrian villagers battle Israeli occupation raids alone – as Damascus government...
SYRIAN President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday that Israel had carried out nearly 500 air and artillery...
‘THE BRITISH ARMY IS NOT OUR ARMY’ – says Sinn Fein...
By Irish politcal journalist JOHN COULTER THE war of words between Unionists and Republicans over the British Army’s presence in the North hotted up as...
DESPERATE STATE OF CARE PROVISION IN UK –a catalogue of unmet...
PEOPLE with care needs are having to turn down support packages because they cannot afford them. Backdated bills for care arrive without any explanation of...
Tamil Tigers Repulse Sri Lankan Ground Attack
LIBERATION Tigers repulsed a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) ground operation towards the Northern Forward Defence Line (FDL) positions between Ki’laali and Mukamaalai in...
Huwara Set Ablaze By Rampaging Zionist Settlers
HUWARA, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, was almost entirely set ablaze on Sunday night as extensive fires engulfed...
PPPs are looting the planet – says Public Services International
A NEW report released by the UK-based Jubilee Debt Campaign provides a scathing critique of the failure of PPPs across a range of sectors...
‘What is needed now is to grow the economy–pickpocketing the public...
‘WHAT is needed now is to grow the economy. That is the only sober and sustainable path to pay down our worrying debt trajectory....
Doctors raise the alarm over UK’s poor health care after ‘years...
DOCTORS have raised the alarm on the misery of the nation’s poor health caused by years of Tory government neglect and funding cuts! In a...
THOUSANDS LAY SIEGE TO THE CITY – and march against the...
SEVEN thousand mainly young people from London and across the country marched to demand the withdrawal of British and American troops from Iraq and...
HEZBOLLAH FIGHTS WITH HONOUR IN SYRIA – while Cameron seeks to...
HEZBOLLAH’S deputy leader Shaykh Na’im Qasim said last Wednesday that his group had fought ‘with honour’ in Syria and had helped in the...
Idle boasts and blatant lies: Trump’s Knesset speech
US President Donald Trump basked in adulation on Monday at the Israeli Knesset, where he was hailed as ‘the president of peace’, even as...
BRITISH COMPLICITY IN TORTURE – indicted by Human Rights Watch
The UK government should immediately order an independent judicial inquiry into the role and complicity of British security services in the torture of terrorism...
‘White Paper Like Floating NHS On The Stock Exchange’
THE future of the NHS is at stake, delegates to the TUC conference in Manchester were warned in a debate on Tuesday. However, the TUC...
‘Sunak wants to break our resolve – instead he has united...
Thousands of junior doctors are manning picket lines outside hospitals around the country again today as they continue their four days of strike action...
COWEN INVITES ICTU TO TALKS – as massive strike action approaches
With the March 30 general strike fast approaching Irish Prime Minister Cowen has invited the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to attend talks....
Coalition Privateers To ‘Liberate NHS’: Part Two
THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government’s White Paper on the NHS contains plans for sweeping changes. NHS Commissioning Board The sole commissioners for the NHS will...
11,000 Residents & Supporters Join Grenfell Silent Walk
MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...
United Association of South Africa demanding action over rising inflation
Trade union United Association of South Africa (UASA) who represent workers in financial services said on Thursday that the rise in Consumer Price Inflation...
Seven Unions Picket Cosatu House Against Numsa Expulsion!
THE leadership of seven Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) affiliates have congratulated their Gauteng branches for picketing outside Cosatu House last Friday...
Conference Votes For Chase Farm Occupation!
A NORTH East London Council of Action conference of over 150 workers, pensioners and youth on Saturday voted unanimously for an occupation of...
BARBAROSSA How Hitler lost the war – By Jonathan Dimbleby Published...
OPERATION BARBAROSSA was the codename given by Adolph Hitler to the invasion of the Soviet Union launched on Sunday 22 June 1941. In the preface...
US is constructing Egypt’s ‘Wall of Death’
A SENIOR Egyptian engineer working on the ‘steel wall’ which the Egyptian authorities are building along the borders with the Gaza Strip, has confirmed...
‘Don’t Bomb Iraq–Don’t Attack Syria’
‘DON’T bomb Iraq! Don’t attack Syria! – How can we fund a war when we can’t feed the poor!’ Shouted marchers in the pouring...
Senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustains multiple rib fractures after...
SENIOR Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustained multiple rib fractures after being violently assaulted by Israeli prison guards, it was revealed on Wednesday. Barghouti was attacked...
ITUC leader facing deportation from Zimbabwe
The General Secretary of the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Kwasi Adu-Amankwah was on Tuesday morning dragged from his...
HEZBOLLAH ‘JIHAD FOR CONSTRUCTION’ – dispenses £10,000 for each destroyed...
The Lebanese Hezbollah movement on Monday began paying compensation to the residents of buildings that were totally destroyed in the city of Baalbek by...
‘US and Canadian shale oil producers punished by rout in oil...
IRAN’S Minister of Petroleum, Bijan Zangeneh, says shale oil producers in the US and Canada are being punished by a historic rout in oil...
THREE FIRE STATIONS THAT RESCUED APOLLO THEATREGOERS ARE TO CLOSE IN...
THREE of the eight fire stations that sent engines to the Apollo Theatre last night are set to close in less than three weeks,...
Russia launches a new 10-year space programme
The Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) is about to start its Kliper launch vehicle project, the head of the agency told a Moscow press conference...
US Nurses Demand Their Rights
More than 50 nurses from several AFL-CIO unions packed a House of Representatives hearing room on Tuesday to demand their rights be protected. They were...