Walmart Workers Continuing With Their Fight!
AMERICAN trade unions are claiming that the giant Walmart company is retaliating against its workers for the leading role they have played in the...
Bangladesh garment workers battling for their rights!
NEARLY two years after a preventable fire killed 112 garment workers in Bangladesh, the owner of the Tazreen Fashion factory is out of jail,...
Pflp Condemns Occupation ‘Onslaught’
THE Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, last Sunday issued a statement headlined ‘PFLP condemns occupation onslaught against our people in Nablus and...
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...
Nigeria Democracy Day protests demand Buhari Must Go
NIGERIANS on Saturday staged protests and rallies throughout the country to mark the second anniversary of the declaration of June 12 as ‘Democracy Day’...
Western Powers Warn Assad Not To Stand!
ELEVEN Western and Middle Eastern powers on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against holding elections, saying that the vote would have no credibility...
RCN RESPOND TO LABOUR PARTY CALL FOR A £500m NHS WINTER...
JANET DAVIES the Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has responded to the Labour Party call for a £500...
‘We will not stop until there is a permanent ceasefire!’
First speaker at the rally at the end of the march in Whitehall was Malik Mohammed from the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said:...
Palestinian Premier Hamdallah is to visit Gaza Strip
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said on Thursday that no mechanisms had been put in place to ensure the implementation of the reconciliation agreement...
Unilever Workers Defending Their Pension
Last Tuesday Unilever workers from all over the country descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the companies ending of their final salary pension...
‘THE ERA OF THE PEACE PROCESS IS BEHIND US!’ – writes...
RAMZY Baroud, an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com, has written about his thoughts in an article called ‘The Paris Peace...
Trade Unionists Being Murdered In The Philippines!
THE International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is bringing a complaint against the Philippines over the murder of trade unionists. The ITF is joining forces with...
Israel is ‘deliberately’ destroying Gaza’s health-care infrastructure!
AN American surgeon volunteer at a Gaza hospital has condemned the Israeli regime’s heavy toll on Palestinian medical facilities since October 7th, 2023, asserting...
Hanan Ashrawi meets Swedish Consul – both stress the need for...
MEMBER of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Hanan Ashrawi has met the Swedish Consul-General to Palestine, Jessica Olausson, in Ramallah. The two...
MAY MUST GO! say Grenfell marchers
OVER 300 people marched from Shepherd’s Bush to Parliament Wednesday lunchtime following last week’s Grenfell Tower fire disaster. ‘We know the government is guilty,’ declared...
300,000 March To Get Rid Of Tories!
WORKERS, trade unionists and youth on the more than 300,000-strong march from the BBC Broadcasting House to Parliament Square on Saturday demanded that...
Palestinian prisoners mobilise against Israeli repressions!
Palestinian political prisoners currently being held in Israeli detention have declared a state of general mobilisation against a new series of repressive measures by...
WHOLE GAZA NEIGHBOURHOODS TURNED INTO RUBBLE – by Israel’s 3-week war
Six months after Israel launched its three-week military operation in Gaza on December 27 2008, Gazans still cannot rebuild their lives, a new...
National strike to defeat ‘fire and rehire’ – call from Manchester...
DRIVERS employed by the bus privateer Go North West, marked five weeks on indefinite strike against £2,500 per annum pay cuts with a powerful...
‘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...
NO TO TROIKA-DICTATED AUSTERITY MEASURES! – says the International Trade Union...
THE ITUC global union federation has urged the IMF not to let the EC-ECB-IMF troika dictate destructive austerity policies. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the...
‘This Occupation Is Hugely Inspiring To Staff’ Says Sussex Professor
Over 500 students, lecturers and other academic staff, and privatisation-threatened support workers, held a vibrant march and rally on Tuesday afternoon, in support of...
Mirror Journalists Fight – 200 ‘neanderthal Sackings’
By Save the Mirror Campaign Group TRINITY Mirror’s Chief Executive Sly Bailey is planning to axe a further 200 editorial staff from The Mirror, Sunday...
ENTRANCES TO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA ARE BLOCKED! – after five...
Entrances leading up to the Unisa (University of South Africa) main campus in Muckleneuk, Pretoria are cordoned off with trees and vehicles this week,...
50,000 MARCH IN ATHENS! – as part of one-day general strike
SOME 50,000 workers took part in two separated marches through the Athens city centre last Tuesday afternoon as part of the one-day general strike...
Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amid deepening food insecurity and...
North Korea has no intention of attacking South Korea or of...
North Korea has no intention of attacking South Korea, nor does it have any interest in a forceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula, the...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘We are witnessing the...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 6. On the eve of Revolution This essay appeared in the New York Daily paper...
Gadaffi Rejects ‘Med Union’ As ‘Crusaders Containment’
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...
‘UK MUST HAND OVER TORTURE EVIDENCE’ – says Amnesty
Amnesty International has called on the British government to hand over to Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohammed’s lawyers, vital information it holds on him. Binyam...
Massive London marches call to kick out the Tories – Three...
NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...
Irish Pensioners Protest Outside The Dail Against Dublin Government Cuts
SIPTU members and officials took part in a protest rally outside the Dáil on Tuesday organised by the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament and other...
93 Gazans Vist Relatives Jailed In Israel
A GROUP of 93 Palestinians from Gaza visited relatives jailed in Israel on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Spokesperson Suhair Zaqqut...
DELAY RATIFICATION OF FISCAL TREATY –urges ICTU leader Begg
Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) General Secretary David Begg has said that the Dublin government could delay ratification of the Fiscal Compact Treaty,...
Uprising In Tunisian Capital Against Kais Saied Coup
Protesters clashed with police in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Saturday, October 15, for the second night running. Riot police fired tear gas to...
Unison Promotes Divisive Pensions Deal
Heather Wakefield, UNISON National Secretary, Local Government Service Group, last Wednesday rushed a circular out to branches. This contained campaign materials to demand the same...
Workers hit by global gas hike – Unison warns of big...
An unprecedented rise in the price of gas has sent shock waves through the UK energy market, forcing energy suppliers out of business, threatening...
OUTSOURCING DESTROYS WORKERS CONDITIONS – study confirms
THE John Smith Institute have produced a series of damaging case studies on the impact of outsourcing on employees’ terms and conditions. Outsourcing leads to: •...
Female doctors take on extra work to fight Covid – RCN...
Female doctors say they have ‘felt compelled to step up’ during the pandemic, even though they knew they were at risk, as BMA research shows that they...
Greek teachers strike against mass school closures
GREEK secondary school teachers, in a fighting and determined mood, began a national indefinite strike on Monday against mass school closures and sackings. A rally...
BA pensioners fury at Ascot meeting
TWO THOUSAND furious Airways Pension Scheme (APS) members attended meetings at Ascot Racecourse on Monday, where they tore into the BA-appointed trustees who have...
Californian social workers strike!
MORE than 1,100 California social workers and eligibility workers conducted a three-day strike in Contra Costa County, then voted on Wednesday to extend their...
Russian workers smash counter-revolutionary coup attempt!
PRESENTLY, world imperialism is attempting to enforce its presence and its influence in the different parts of the globe. The bloody aggression against Libya...
New Zealand junior doctors strike!
Thousands of New Zealand junior doctors walked off the job for a record five days from Monday in the fifth and longest strike for...
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,...