Olmert reveals the US agreed to ‘absorb’ 100,000 Palestinians – only...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that during his tenure as Premier he had reached an agreement with the United States for...
THE GRIM REALITY OF WATER PRIVATISATION – ‘A company swimming in...
‘THIS is the grim reality of water privatisation, a company swimming in debt while the rest of us are swimming in sewage,’ Unite General...
Workers Are Furious Over Attacks On Pay Pensions And Services
TWO million teachers, education support workers, lecturers, local government workers, firefighters, civil servants and other public sector workers went on a 24-hour strike on...
An inflation-busting pay rise is needed to keep key NHS staff...
FOUR out of five NHS staff say pay is the main reason they would quit their jobs. An exclusive poll of NHS staff yesterday revealed...
Barghouthi Calls For Mass Mobilisation
Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi has called for large-scale peaceful protests in support of a Palestinian bid for United Nations membership in September. In a...
ONE-IN-THREE US WORKERS CAN’T AFFORD HEALTHCARE – AFL-CIO survey finds
One-in-three workers skip medical care because of the cost, a nationwide survey of more than 26,000 people carried out by the AFL-CIO union organisation...
‘MAY MUST GO!’ say 15,000 students and lecturers
OVER 15,000 students, lecturers and supporters marched through central London on Saturday to demand free education for all. The largest education demonstration in years was...
Palestinian academic killed in targeted Gaza airstrike
Dr Yasmeen Khamis Al-Bubu was not merely a new name added to the lists of war victims in the Gaza Strip, but a Palestinian...
AFL-CIO MAY NOT ENDORSE THE DEMOCRATS – says AFL-CIO leader Trumka
WASHINGTON — The nation’s most powerful labour leader, vowing to defeat President Obama’s key trade legislation in the House next month, warned Hillary Clinton...
Politics And Passion At Edinburgh Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world’s longest running film festival, showcasing the latest and best of world cinema, with something for everyone. This...
Cuts In Child Poverty Reversed By Coalition!
Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...
Vavi Addresses Russell Tribunal On Palestine
Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) made the following address to the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, District...
Hezbollah Slams Delay Of National Unity Government As ‘Sectarian Incitement’
HEZBOLLAH has slammed the delay in forming a new government in Lebanon, as ‘sectarian incitement’. Following a Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc meeting at the...
Wembley Campaigners Fighting For Sports Access
The fight to save local children’s access to a sports ground in the shadow of Wembley Stadium continued this week as protesters reoccupied the...
Palestinian forced to demolish his own home by the Israeli occupation!
A PALESTINIAN on Wednesday morning was forced to demolish his own house in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, reported WAFA’s correspondent. Following an Israeli court...
‘There has been a shift in the balance of power in...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcast on Thursday. We are very pleased to publish it in two parts PART ONE AL-MANAR: In...
‘TIME FOR ACTION’ – ON JOBS, WELFARE AND PENSIONS – as...
US TRADE union leaders’ were yesterday demanding that the Democrats take action on workers’ issues in the Houses of Congress, in return for the...
Take Action To Defend The NHS! Statement By The All...
THE government is cutting more than £1bn from NHS hospitals. All over the country, trusts are cutting staff, beds, operating theatres and services. The result...
World leaders spectacularly failing 21 million refugees says Amnesty
WORLD leaders are spectacularly failing refugees, says Amnesty International UK in its latest report Tackling Global World Refugee Crisis – from Shirking to Shared...
There could be a repeat of the Rana Plaza disaster! –...
THE President of the Bangladeshi National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) on Saturday warned eight leading UK retailers that there could be a repeat of...
‘It is not ok to drop a one ton bomb on...
AMERICAN jurist Mary Davis, who headed the independent United Nations probe into the events of 2014 aggression on the Gaza Strip, said that Israel...
Mass displacement in Lebanon – as Israel intensifies airstrikes
Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon this week after the Israeli military issued mass displacement orders and intensified airstrikes, forcing families onto...
‘Stay put’ failed as soon as flammable cladding was installed FBU’S...
FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack has issued the following statement, commenting on the testimony given to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry by...
BASIC OPERATIONS BEING REFUSED TO SAVE MONEY –leading surgeons accuse PCTs
NHS patients are being refused basic operations because primary care trusts want to save money, six leading surgeons revealed in a devastating letter that...
Police killings of unarmed black Americans impact on community!
Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on the mental health of black American adults in the general population, according to a...
Goldsmiths Students March In Support Of Council Workers
MORE than 200 students marched from Goldsmiths College to Lewisham Town Hall on Tuesday evening in solidarity with council workers facing mass sackings and...
‘A wrecking ball Australian Budget smashing jobs and services’ – CPSU
‘The Abbott Government’s assault on welfare, Medicare, education and the public sector represents the end of the fair go and the biggest attack on...
Tea Factory Workers Step Up The Fight For Permanent Jobs
Supported by the IUF-affiliated National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan, over 700 contract agency workers at Unilever’s last directly-owned and...
Occupations and strikes are sweeping through Canada!
OCCUPATIONS, strike votes and rallies by health and care workers are sweeping Canada as trade unionists fight against low pay, unequal pay and privatisation...
‘Israel will pay a high price for its brazen acts of...
THE spokesman for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's administration has slammed Israel’s recent attacks against a number of regional countries, warning Tel Aviv will pay...
Starmer’s National Security Bill to silence criticism of Israel and proscribe...
BY NILLY BROOK
THE National Security (State Threats) Bill was rushed through parliament on Wednesday, advancing authoritarianism at home and signalling greater violence abroad. Offences related...
UK MILITARY CHIEFS SCREAM FOR MORE MONEY – and plan to...
UK military chiefs are screaming for more money to be spent on defence, as a desperate imperialism is driven to launch more wars for...
EU Sanctions On Russian Oil Backfire
The European Union heavily sanctioned Russia and pledged to boycott its oil, yet continues to buy it, and at an even higher price, albeit...
If Necessary ‘I And All Hezbollah Members Will Go To Syria’...
‘AFTER the first bombing, the situation was brought under control. After yesterday’s massacre, the situation was brought under control. ‘However, we cannot make predictions....
Israeli Occupation Army Intensifies Acts Of Extermination!
AS the Israeli occupation army intensifies its acts of extermination and ethnic cleansing in the northern Gaza Strip, waves of displacement continue towards Gaza...
‘From day-one our revolution has been under siege’ – Grassroots leader...
On the spot report from Carolina Graterol EARLY last week on arrival in Caracas, I managed to join a meeting of grassroot movements connected to...
World Crisis Splits Iran’s Islamic Revolution
AT least 10 people were killed in the latest clashes to shake Tehran, state television said on Sunday, as Iranian leaders took aim at...
‘Syrian Government Is Resolved To Restore Sovereignty Over The Whole National...
PRESIDENTIAL Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban asserted in Damascus yesterday that the Syrian Arab Army will strike wherever there is terrorism in...
Cuts Plunging Education Into Massive Crisis
GOVERNMENT education cuts are depriving many young people and adults of the chance to contribute fully to society, Unison has warned. A new freedom of...
THE WAY OUT! – Negotiate with the Resistance, Punish the criminals!
The Brussels Tribunal and the International Anti-Occupation Network have issued the following statement on Iraq entitled ‘The Way Out’: ‘If the US military declare...
‘KEEP OUR LOCAL SURGERY OPEN’ –demand Camden Road patients
PATIENTS faced with the closure of their local Camden Road GP surgery overcame bureaucratic attempts to bar them from attending an invitation-only meeting with...
South African municipal workers sit-in to end outsourcing in Johannesburg!
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) in a statement released last Friday said it ‘condemns in the strongest possible terms the callous,...
ISRAEL BLOCKADES GAZA – and steps up assaults in the West...
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) last Saturday condemned as ‘unacceptable’ Israel’s threat to turn the ‘economic siege’ it is imposing on the Gaza Strip...
‘Fight for a general strike to bring down the government and...
The May Day Rally organised by the Young Socialists and the Workers Revolutionary Party, took place in Holborn on Monday 4th May at the end...
‘HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITALS!’ – demand campaigners marching on Downing Street
‘JEREMY Hunt hear us say, NHS is here to stay!’ and ‘One fight – we are all united!’ chanted campaigners fighting to save A&Es...