1.4 million on zero-hours slave labour!
NEW figures released on Wednesday show that at least 1.4 million workers in Britain are enduring the modern day form of slave labour exploitation...
‘Collective Punishment Is Never Permissible!’
‘COLLECTIVE punishment is never permissible under any circumstances,’ human rights charity Amnesty International said, in response to Israeli forces demolishing yet another family home. ties...
Israel Dawn Raids On The West Bank
Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Monday rounded up twelve Palestinians from the West bank districts of Al-Khalil, Bethlehem and Qalqilia, the Israeli military...
Mexican Teachers Condemn Trump’s Military Threats!
MEXICO’S main teachers’ union has defended Venezuela against US President Trump’s threats of military action. In a formal statement, the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican...
Powerful international reaction to ICJ ruling that Israeli occupation is illegal!
International reaction has poured in since last Friday’s ruling by the top United Nations court that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory...
Google has unionised!
‘DON’T let this get around, but professionals are forming unions like crazy these days. And, just yesterday, a union unveiled itself at Google …...
Thousands Of NHS Staff Being Transferred Into Outsourcing Firms Despite Carillion...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff are being transferred by their own trusts into outsourcing firms, risking ‘dozens of Carillion-style meltdowns’ the union Unite has warned....
Repeal Bangladesh Digital Security Act – demands Amnesty
Bangladeshi authorities must end the crackdown on right to freedom of expression online and urgently repeal or amend the draconian Digital Security Act (DSA),...
MILIBAND SUPPORTS BOYCOTT OF COMMONWEALTH HEADS SUMMIT says BTF
MORE than 2,000 Tamils and their supporters marched from Embankment to Downing Street on Saturday afternoon. They demanded the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference planned...
Ontario nurses win 11.5% wage increase
THE Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) in Canada has welcomed the arbitration decision that includes the most significant wage increase for registered nurses (RNs) and...
A Decisive Week For Lebanon
Lebanon has entered a decisive week during which its parliament is due to elect a new president. With tanks and troops deployed on the streets,...
Russia thwarting aerial and underwater drone attacks – NATO using Ukraine...
RUSSIAN forces have repelled a ‘terrorist attack’ by Ukraine on the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol in Crimea, destroying several aerial and underwater...
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...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part one: ‘A people...
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million...
‘Gadaffi Is In Good Health And In Libya!’
DAMASCUS – Musa Ibrahim, the Libyan government spokesman, gave a telephone interview last Monday with Iraqi businessman and owner of Damascus-based and pro-Al-Gadaffi Al-Ra’y...
UK leading the way in privatisation of modern war – as...
BRITAIN is set to designate Russia’s private security company Wagner Group as a ‘terrorist organisation’, according to a report in The Times of London...
Changes to contacting your GP have negatively affected patient care
General Practitioners (GP) contract changes that dictate how patients are able to contact their practice have negatively impacted patient care and practice staff, an...
Escalating looting of South Africa’s resources – SAFTU statement
‘THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) founding congress in April 2017 warned our members, and the entire country, that both of the...
CREW AND EQUIPMENT CUTS COSTS LIVES – FBU sounds alarm
Cuts in fire cover provision have been taking place all over the country, even after the Newquay fire disaster. The Fire brigades Union (FBU)...
END THE MASSACRE OF TAMIL CIVILIANS – urges TNA
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), in an urgent press statement, has called upon the international community to use all its influence with the Sri...
UN Condemns ‘Israeli Practice Of Collective Punishment’
The 6th Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council ‘on human rights violations emanating from Israeli military incursions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,...
Israeli persecution of Palestinian human rights groups condemned in Australia!
The Australian government is being urged to condemn Israel’s ‘dangerous attack’ on six prominent Palestinian human rights groups after Israeli authorities declared them terrorist...
Nationwide general strike in India Wed January 8th ‘DOWN WITH MODI!’
A GENERAL strike is set to take place in India on January 8 against the ‘anti-worker, anti-people, anti-national policies’ of the country’s Narendra Modi...
Settlers Launch Pogrom On Palestinian Village
OUTGOING Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the dream of a ‘greater Israel’ was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of...
CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE DETAINED IN TINSLEY – says Owers
A damning report, the second in seven days on the British government’s practice of incarcerating children in UK removal centres was published yesterday. Excerpts follow...
Amazon strike on Spain’s Three Kings gift-giving day
WORKERS at Amazon’s biggest warehouse in Spain began a two-day strike in Madrid last week – just ahead of a popular feast day –...
Student Leader Is Attacked In Jaffna
A STUDENT leader was attacked and seriously wounded in Jaffna on Sunday, reports TamilNet. Suspected Sri Lanka Army intelligence personnel armed with sharp iron rods...
Benefit sanctions are a ‘truly shocking nightmare’
CIVIL servants union PCS has slammed the increase in benefit sanctions on the unemployed, that average at 64,307 per month, as ‘truly shocking’. PCS added...
NUM & ANC boycott Marikana Commemoration
AS MINEWORKERS in Marikana prepared yesterday to commemorate the deaths of 34 of their colleagues at the hands of police a year ago, hopes...
‘May Must Go!’–‘Justice For Grenfell’ – Demand 2,000 Marchers
AN ANGRY demonstration of 2,000 demanding ‘Justice for Grenfell’ marched through central London on Friday night. The protest began at the Department for Communities and...
Ban Ki-moon calls for ‘full investigation’ into Israeli war crimes
United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon called on Tuesday for those responsible for the bombing of UN-run buildings and schools in Gaza to be...
700 Haitian Families Evicted From Makeshift Camps
Haitian authorities forcibly evicted nearly 700 families from two make-shift camps in the last two weeks, reported Amnesty International. Hundreds of families were left...
Malema blames ANC leaders for massacre
EXPELLED ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema last Saturday blamed the ANC leaders for the massacre of 34 miners and the...
NASSIM NISR’S RELEASE PART OF PRISON SWAP – says Hezbollah
The Lebanese detainee in Israeli jails for the past six years was released Sunday morning from the Nitzan (Ramle) Prison in Ramallah, in the...
Wits University Students Strike Against Debt
STUDENTS at Wits University in South Africa are embarking on a strike, warning that returning students may be unable to continue with their studies...
Benefit for International Youth Conference is a huge success
A great night was had by all at the Young Socialists Benefit Concert in North Kensington, west London on Saturday night. It was held at...
‘Stop Cop City’ protests by students in Atlanta Universities – after...
Students from several Atlanta-area colleges, including Emory University, Georgia State University, and Morehouse College, staged a demonstration on Monday to halt the construction of...
‘Ceasefire Today, Liberation Tomorrow!’
WORKERS, students and youth who came from across the country to rally for Palestine in Whitehall, central London on Saturday, were subject to a...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – over 100,000 workers march in Athens
OVER 100,000 workers flooded the entire Athens city centre on Thursday March 11th, in a magnificent demonstration on the day of a 24-hour general...
Labour Conference resolves to sanction Israel’s illegal occupation
THE LABOUR Party Conference in Brighton overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Israel for perpetrating an ‘ongoing Nakba’ in the occupied Palestinian territories. The motion, brought by...
Gaza City Power Plant Closes Again!
The only power plant in Gaza city in Palestine has been forced to shut down for the second time in two weeks due to...
Tshwane bus workers strike gridlocks city centre
SOUTH Africa’s administrative capital Tshwane (Pretoria) was gridlocked for a second day on Tuesday as bus drivers disabled their vehicles and the City insisted...
Athens Vouli Square Popular Assembly calls for – AN INDEFINITE, POLITICAL...
SOME 10,000 youth and workers congregated last Wednesday evening at the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens demanding for the seventh consecutive night the overthrow...
Palestine will march towards an independent state – Erekat
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee member and chief negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat issued a defiant statement on Monday in response to the halting...
Power Cuts Hit Greek Cities
GREEK workers of the State Electricity Corporation staged a solid-rock 48-hour national strike on Tuesday and Wednesday and occupied several power plants as well...