US unions fight against the voter identification laws
THE US’ largest labour federation plans to mount an aggressive campaign against voter identification laws in a half-dozen battleground states that will be key...
QATAR – ‘a crucible of exploitation and misery’
TWO COFFINS carrying bodies of migrant workers arrive every day in Kathmandu’s airport on average, and their deaths mean disaster for their families. Purna Bahadur...
‘We call on Israel to lift the inhumane and deadly siege...
AS ISRAELI forces resume and expand their military offensive by air, ground and sea on the Gaza Strip, Palestine, forcibly displacing people and deliberately...
New illegal Israeli settlement outposts in Hebron
ISRAELI settlers on Sunday began levelling a large tract of land in central Hebron in preparation for the construction of a new Jewish settlement...
‘THE MOST CRUEL AND RACIST REGIME’ – Ahmadinezhad indicts Israel
DOZENS of delegates walked out of a United Nations conference on racism after Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Iran's president, correctly described the Israeli cabinet as a...
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...
Benefit cuts are criminalising the old and the low paid
‘FAMILIES are being forced to choose between staying on the right side of the law or feeding themselves,’ warned Labour’s Shadow communities secretary Hilary...
HONOUR COURTS’ DECISION TO FREE GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES – Reprieve urges...
AN OPEN letter to US President Obama reveals how one juvenile and 19 other prisoners remain dangerously brutalised in Guantánamo Bay, despite federal courts...
South African Workers Taking Action Over Jobs & Wages
WORKERS at South African Airways (SAA) are threatening to go on strike if their salary increase demands are not met. The workers are calling for...
Wal-Mart’s ‘Vicious Anti-Union Activities’ Exposed
THE AFL-CIO American trade union confederation has congratulated Human Rights Watch for its May Day report exposing the ‘vicious anti-union’ activities of retailing giant...
Israel’s killings of resistance commanders accelerating its own demise, says Mohsen...
MOHSEN Rezaei, a former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has warned that the Israeli regime’s targeted killings of resistance commanders...
‘systematic Exploitation Of Migrant Workers In Israel
Migrant workers in Israel’s agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to an October 28th report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning...
COSATU calls a National Day of Action for July 6th –...
COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) is ‘appalled to learn that many municipalities across the North West are still failing to pay...
Museum Staff Fight ‘Derisory Pay Offer’
REVOLUTION is brewing, in the most unlikely of places, as staff walked out last Friday from the British Museum’s cultured halls to strike....
Quash convictions of 25 Cambodian factory workers! – demands Human Rights...
THE Cambodian government should quash the convictions of 25 human rights activists, factory workers, and others for lack of evidence, Human Rights Watch has...
US military to be a more ‘lethal, adaptive and resilient force’...
US SECRETARY of Defence Lloyd Austin says his country is committed to protecting its Southeast Asian allies against what he called China’s aggression. ‘Beijing’s claim...
The Untold Hostage Story
On Thursday morning, 29th December 2005, I received a short SMS from Muntasser Abdel Rahim, 26, Medical Relief Society Ambulance driver in Jenin. ...
Greek Hospital Workers & Dockers 24-Hour Strike
GREEK hospital workers and dockers went on a 24-hour national strike last Thursday against the government’s plans of wage cuts, ‘flexible’ labour contracts and...
Staffing crisis! Patients waiting for operations! STOP TORY NHS CUTS!
IN RESPONSE to the most recent NHS performance statistics and the political situation in which they are occurring, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) director...
Port Truck Drivers Take Their Fight For Justice To Capitol...
PORT truck drivers from Los Angeles, Long Beach and New Jersey took their fight for justice on the job to Capitol Hill last Thursday. The...
‘Structural racism’ in the US affecting healthcare of black and hispanic...
The medical journal, the Lancet, has released two papers called Lancet Child & Adolescent Health in which it shows that paediatric care for non-white...
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...
SOUTH CAROLINA AFL-CIO SUPPORTS SANDERS –while the UERMW convention votes to...
THE South Carolina AFL-CIO executive board passed a resolution supporting US Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and recommending...
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...
Gaza’s children freezing to death in makeshift tents
After enduring sniper attacks, fires, bombings, and all forms of violence, the displaced residents of Gaza now face the deadly threat of freezing temperatures...
Israelis Mount Attacks On Gaza And The West Bank
Palestinian Ma’an news agency’s reports on developments in the occupied territories last Friday, August 3rd, illustrate the heroic daily resistance of the Palestinian people. At...
Israeli troops killed aid workers ‘execution style’
ISRAELI soldiers fired more than 900 bullets at a convoy of clearly marked Palestinian emergency vehicles in Gaza before advancing to kill the surviving...
Anger Over UN Refusal To Publish Tamil Genocide Report
ANGER has greeted the United Nations announcement that it will not report on its investigation into the genocide in Sri Lanka next month after...
Thousands Of Calais Refugees To Be Evicted By Police And Troops
THOUSANDS of refugees living in the southern part of the camp in the French port of Calais known as the Jungle have been ordered...
Syrian Masses Take To The Streets Against Israeli State Terrorism
Syrian governorates on Monday witnessed huge mass demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance in the face of continued savage Israeli aggressions...
NO JOBS FOR NEWLY QUALIFIED MIDWIVES – as Tory coalition refuses...
A survey of 803 students and newly qualified midwives by the RCM found that more than a half (52 per cent) of students ‘strongly...
‘My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment’
Adults in the Room MY BATTLE WITH EUROPE’S DEEP ESTABLISHMENT Yanis Varoufakis Publisher: The Bodley head Price £20 Varoufakis was the professor of economics and expert at ‘game theory’ who...
Only World Revolution Can Solve Africa’s Health Crisis
THERE is a universal shortage of 4.3 million healthcare workers, but the crisis is most severe in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation’s...
NO PAY FREEZE! demands national college strike
UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) members were taking strike action against massive Tory attacks on their pay yesterday. Pickets declared themselves angry that the employers’...
SETTLERS ATTACK PALESTINIAN CAMP –as Israel on brink of ‘civil war’...
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers on Friday stormed Ein el-Sultan camp to the northwest of Jericho city, leading to clashes. Witnesses said that...
‘Our battle is against US dominance and the Israeli project’ – Nasrallah
ON 3 November Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah spoke in Beirut’s Southern Suburb to mark the occasion of Ashura – a major Shi’i festival...
Palestinians rise up against ‘Israeli collective punishment’
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has responded to being forced to close its offices in Gaza City last week as protesters blockaded its...
‘Iran Does Not Want Peace’ Says Pompeo
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that Iran is behind the latest bout of violence triggered by Israel’s assassination of a top...
University job massacre! – national strike needed to save 10,000 jobs
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has called for immediate transparency from Coventry University after its recently published Annual Report and Financial Statements revealed...
Palestinian hunger strikers home raided!
ISRAELI authorities raided the house of Samer Issawi, a Palestinian prisoner who engaged in one of the longest hunger strikes in history, on Sunday. Authorities...
1,700 US manufacturing workers mass strike
UP to 1,700 workers at a GE Transportation plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, walked out on strike last Tuesday, marking the first large-scale work stoppage...
Bedouins rally against Negev expulsions
PALESTINIAN Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev announced Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal to be put before the...
Syrian Democratic Council Sends Delegation To Damascus To Talk To Assad!
US BACKED militants in Syria have sent a delegation to the Syrian capital for talks with Syrian government officials. The so-called Syrian Democratic Council...
‘Two-Faced Ed’ Reinstates Blairism At Cbi Conference
HE pledged to ditch Blairism when elected as the new Labour Party leader, but Ed Miliband made it clear on Monday that he...
NUT Conference votes to fight Coalition cuts on the disabled
A militant National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay on Monday voted to defend disabled people against the attacks of the coalition...