ACADEMIES HAVE FAILED! – take them back under local authority control...
THE Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) says the failure of academy chains requires the government to consider taking schools back into local authority...
FIGHT ‘RE-CONFIGURATION’ – Labour’s plans for hospital closures • PART TWO
Commenting on the government’s NHS ‘reforms’, Professor Ham, a former Director of Strategy at the Department of Health said: ‘The foundations have been laid...
DETAINEES KILLED DURING INTERROGATION– American Civil Liberties Union accuses US military
US Operatives killed detainees during interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq, says the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU has just published an analysis of...
The Palestinian Struggle For Freedom From Occupation!
BY WESAM BAHRANI IT IS unrealistic to observe the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza without understanding its strategic dimension, in particular the current phase of...
‘REJECT NORMALISATION AGREEMENT’ – Palestinian Minister tells Arab League
PALESTINIAN Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Malki, called on the Arab League to reject the United Arab Emirates-Israel normalisation agreement. ‘Otherwise, our meeting...
Palestinian workers and youth are on the march
DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...
‘Stand up against the South West Pay Cartel’ –and stop pay...
UNISON is calling on MPs from the South West of England to give their backing to local health workers including nurses, therapists, porters, and...
Australian Esso workers 1 year on strike!
MORE THAN 500 Australian trade unionists marked the first anniversary of strike action by 230 workers employed by energy giant Exxon Mobil’s maintenance contractor...
20,000 STUDENTS AND WORKERS MARCH IN ATHENS! – on the 36th...
Over 20,000 students, youth and workers took part in a militant anti-imperialist demonstration in Athens on Tuesday to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the...
French Workers Fight Wage Cuts, Sackings And Privatisation!
Bagneres de Bigorre, a small town near Tarbes has been hit by a wave of redundancies and short-time working in the local factories. Over 500...
JESSE JACKSON ATTENDS WORLD TAMIL CONFERENCE – as Sri Lankan army...
THE world renowned American civil rights leader and peace campaigner Jesse Jackson attended the World Tamils Forum in central London on Thursday, as the...
‘ARMED CHAOS’ WILL NO LONGER BE TOLERATED – says President Abbas
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said on Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was ready to ‘engage immediately in negotiations on the final status’...
US Crisis Deepens
MORE than 150,000 people in the United States died in 2017 due to suicide, alcohol and drugs, an all-time high, according to a new...
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....
NEU Harrogate conference welcomes 98% strike vote – condemns 9% cut...
THE NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) consultative ballot on the government’s pay offer has been rejected by an overwhelming 98% of members in England on...
‘IT’S A DISGRACE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS REFUSING TO CONDEMN THE...
Tens of thousands of people across the UK took part last Saturday in demonstrations against the murderous Israeli bombardment of Lebanon. Eleven rallies...
Black And African Capitalists In The Liberation Movement Were Let Win...
THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...
Modi’s government freezes main opposition party’s funds before elections
The Congress party, India’s principal opposition force, has levelled serious accusations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration, alleging that the government has deliberately undermined...
‘ALL-OUT AND UNCONTROLLABLE WAR’ – if West attacks Syria, warns...
A SENIOR Iranian lawmaker has warned the West against a military attack on Syria, saying such aggression will threaten the security of the entire...
Post Office franchising ‘a deeply damaging strategy’ warns CWU
TERRIBLE recent news of retail closures and job cuts across Britain’s high streets prove the truth of the dire warnings that the CWU (Communications...
Shop Stewards Barred By Unite
‘I REFUSE to be bribed and blackmailed into silence. My struggle for justice continues’ Gordon McNeill declared last Wednesday. Discussions between the sacked Belfast airport...
Asylum seekers housed in cramped and filthy conditions!
ASYLUM seekers are housed in cramped and filthy conditions at two military barracks, with a number of residents feeling suicidal, inspectors have said. Key findings...
Australian teachers to strike over pay & workload
AUSTRALIAN school teachers and principals in New South Wales (NSW) are taking part in a pay strike next Tuesday, December 7th. The 67,000-member union said...
Vetoing The Palestinian State ‘Would Be A Deadly Mistake’ – Barghouthi...
FATAH leader Marwan Barghouthi, jailed in Israel during the Second Intifada, has warned Washington that vetoing a Palestinian state at the United Nations would...
Colombian trade unionists take campaign to US – meanwhile 4 more...
During two months when trade unionists from Colombia were visiting America to take part in trade union training – four of their colleagues were...
RELEASE NAZMUL HUDA! – first journalist to report on the Rana...
REPORTERS Without Borders (RSF) call for the immediate release of Nazmul Huda, a reporter who was arrested on 24 December 2016 because of his...
Iran-Iraq historic talks
IN A HISTORIC meeting, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has held talks with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the Iraqi holy...
Stormont ‘On The Brink Of Collapse’
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER STORMONT stands on the brink of collapse – a political dilemma the North has not faced since 2002 when...
‘USA must stop funding Netanyahu’s war machine’ says Senator Bernie...
INDEPENDENT Senator Bernie Sanders has said that the United States cannot continue funding Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war machine as it presses ahead...
Call For A Third ‘Independence’ Intifada
An adviser to the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has urged Palestinian youth to begin a third intifada and popular strike to force the...
Doreen Lawrence demands new inquiry at ‘Resistance -the Best Olympic Spirit’...
THE MOTHER of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence has revealed that she has asked Home Secretary Theresa May for a new inquiry ...
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...
‘WE WILL PROTECT OUR FIRE SERVICE’ –pledges FBU general secretary Matt...
UP TO 800 firefighters and their supporters on Saturday marched and rallied against the closure of fire stations in London. One march set off from...
AMCU accuses mining company of ‘underhand tactics’ to end strike!
THE ASSOCIATION of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) have blamed bosses at Sibanye-Stillwater of trying to interdict its protected strike, insisting the company has...
GUPTA FAMILY ‘AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO STRUGGLING SA WORKING CLASS’ ...
‘THE GUPTA family is the immediate threat to South Africa’s struggling working class,’ South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi...
ISRAEL IS PREPARING MILITARY STRIKE – insists French Foreign Minister Kouchner
FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner dismisses the idea that even one nuclear bomb makes the Iranians immune to attack, he told Ha’aretz in an...
Royal Mail Plans For Only One Mail Centre In London
PLANS by royal mail management to close all but one of London’s Mail Centres is set to put them on a collision course with...
GM Latin American workers meet in Sao Paulo!
WORKERS from General Motors plants across Latin America met in São Paulo, Brazil, last week to discuss and take action against workforce casualisation within...
‘THERE WILL BE ‘BIG CHANGES’ IN EGYPT’S GAZA POLICY– Ambassador Yasser...
Egypt’s ambassador to the Palestinian territories Yasser Othman on Tuesday said there will be ‘big changes’ in Egypt’s policies towards the Gaza Strip. Othman told...
Palestine is a top priority for the unions! – Andrea Egan,...
Tariq Othman from the Palestinian Forum in Britain told the rally: ‘Colonial occupation has many ugly faces. We have to focus on the mass...
‘We will never stop fighting for Detroit and its workers’ –...
AMERICAN Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees union (AFSCME) leaders have pledged to ‘continue the fight for Detroit and its workers.’ In Detroit last...
Barghouthi Writes To Fatah’s Sixth General Congress
ON 4th August, Al-Hayat al-Jadidah daily carried a report saying that ‘Marwan al-Barghouthi, Fatah secretary and Legislative Council member, has sent a letter to...
Birri Proposes Solution To Lebanese Political Crisis
ON Friday August 31, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Birri, delivered a speech outlining his proposals for the current political crisis...
‘Free Julian Assange’ demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival
Campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, attended a ‘Night Carnival’ in London on Saturday. Approximately 2,000 people gathered at...
Russian Right Wing Works To Split Medvedev From Putin
Putin’s attack on a mining company has given Medvedev a chance to show who’s boss, Russian Gazeta.ru news website said last weekend, looking to...