‘Change the Record’ launches ‘Walk to Jerusalem’
CHANGE THE RECORD, put on an afternoon celebrating Palestinian culture, on Saturday to launch ‘Just Walk to Jerusalem’. Both were organised by the rights...
‘All non-Syrian fighters must leave Syria says Assad
SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad, speaking in Damascus on Monday, said: ‘The Geneva Conference should produce clear results with regard to the fight against terrorism...
END GAZA SANCTIONS! – Palestinian Return Centre steps up campaigns
The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) has stepped up the international campaign to get the sanctions and siege of Gaza lifted. In its latest ‘update on...
Lobbying Act will have a devastating effect on unions
TRADE union leaders were silent on proposing any action on Thursday despite a vote taken in the House of Lords on Tuesday being a...
Gaza’s Power Plant Shut Down
The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant shut down due to a lack of fuel on Saturday, Kan’an ’Ubaid, the deputy chair of the Palestinian...
‘When companies are exempted the whole process is a circus’ says...
WORKERS in Zimbabwe have expressed dismay at the lack of seriousness on the government’s part, after it exempted more companies to operate during the...
RATP bus drivers strike against wage cutting!
BUS drivers in London have launched a fresh wave of strikes as their union Unite announced further strike action involving bus drivers employed by...
POLICE RAID 119 KOREAN TRADE UNION OFFICES – South Korean civil...
The Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) has issued an urgent appeal ‘Solidarity needed! 119 of KGEU local offices forcefully closed down!’ A KGEU statement...
Kazakh oil workers rock Stalinist bureaucracy
ALMATY – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said that striking oil workers are not to blame for the riots that took place in the...
PROBE SRI LANKA WAR CRIMES demands TNA MP
TAMIL National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran has called for an international investigation into the state of Prisoners of War (POW) in Sri Lanka,...
Israeli demolitions of Palestinians’ homes up 42% in 2011 – and...
RASMIYA Hamande has lived in a cave in the West Bank for most of her life, which may have been a blessing in...
Child defendant at risk of death penalty in Saudi Arabia
A SAUDI court has proceeded with a case against a child defendant at risk of the death penalty, contradicting the Saudi government’s claim it...
OBAMA RECOGNISES SYRIAN PUPPETS AS ‘LEGITIMATE’ – while US forces mass...
PRESIDENT Barack Obama proclaimed Syria’s newly reorganised opposition as the ‘legitimate’ representative of the nation’s people on Tuesday, in the most significant...
Unions Must Take Action To Remove The Coalition To Defend The...
The Health and Social Care Bill aims to end the NHS as a public service. It legislates for private companies to do NHS clinical...
Karzai Officials And Advisors ‘Implicated In Major War Crimes’
Numerous high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan’s US-backed puppet government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses that took place in...
‘What is happening in Syria is the opposite of what the...
THE 50th extraordinary conference of Federation of Arab Communities in Latin America (FEARAB America) began on Monday at Damascus University Amphitheatre. Speaking at the conference,...
Iraq calls for Syrian membership of the Arab League to be...
A NUMBER of Arab parliament speakers and senior legislators have arrived in Damascus amid attempts by certain countries, above all Iraq, to restore Syria’s...
Hezbollah Urges Unity Among Resistance Groups Until Final Victory Is Achieved!
The secretary General Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has underscored the significance of unity among resistance groups until achieving final victory in Operation al-Aqsa Storm,...
Palestinian People Fiercely Resisting The Israeli Occupiers
THE Palestinians of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are surrounded by barriers, as a desperate Israel tries to turn Occupied Palestine...
US hostile to Ireland’s ‘Occupied territories Bill’ becoming law!
IRELAND’S elected representatives are coming under pressure from corporate lobbyists to drop a proposed ban on goods from Israel’s settlements in the occupied West...
Now it’s time to criminalise the genocide! – demands Covenant for...
Participants in the ‘Covenant for Jerusalem’ conference held in Istanbul on Saturday and Sunday, announced the launch of a popular document titled ‘The Covenant...
Israel Has Arrested 16,500 Palestinian Children Since The Second Intifada
ISRAEL has arrested some 16,500 Palestinian children since the outbreak of the Second Intifada (uprising) in late-2000, a study says. Abdul-Naser Farwana, a Palestinian ex-prisoner...
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...
Russian battlegroups are continuing to destroy Ukrainian formations!
The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 300 servicemen in the Kursk area between last Thursday and Friday, and 21,900 since the start of...
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK – Working Lives & Trade Unions...
All in a Day’s Work Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945-1995 Published by the Britain at Work Project £12.80 with p&p ALL in a Day’s...
‘Wage Theft In Australia’–Bosses Exploiting Students
THE NATIONAL Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has demanded that Australia’s government takes ‘urgent and immediate action to stop unconscionable employers ripping off international students...
Germany refuses to follow UK over Hezbollah!
THE United Arab Emirates has denied Lebanon’s embassy officials the right to meet with eleven Lebanese citizens arrested in the Persian Gulf state over...
‘TONY BLAIR SAID HE WOULD SEE ME ONLY IF I GAVE...
OVER 100 bereaved relatives whose loved ones have been killed in the illegal war and occupation of Iraq were joined by MPs, peace campaigners...
Tuc Forms A Common Front With The Bosses
The TUC has joined forces with the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), EEF the manufacturers’ organisation, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and The...
Northern journalists fight sackings
THE NUJ is fighting compulsory redundancies following a merger of journalist roles at the Manchester Evening News (MEN) and Huddersfield Daily Examiner, as part...
‘Total support for junior doctors’ – 102 CONSULTANTS WRITE TO SIR...
102 CONSULTANTS have written an open letter to Bruce Keogh, Medical Director of NHS England, in support of the junior doctors. It reads: ‘OPEN letter...
‘MASSIVE FIGHTS AHEAD AS POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TURMOIL RAGES’ says RMT
‘THERE are massive fights ahead as political and economic turmoil rages,’ the leader of the RMT railway workers’ union Mick Cash warned his union’s...
Embers May Flare Up!
May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...
Russia builds new military bases in oil-rich Arctic
SET on restoring the once-formidable Soviet military presence in the highly contested and resource-rich Arctic, the Russian military has begun building new military bases...
Israel Seeking The Widest Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestinians
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly condemned the Israeli forces’ dismantling of two educational caravans in Ibziq village, in the northern...
‘MI5 ordered assassination of former Irish PM’ – Records from Charles...
FORMER Irish prime minister Charles Haughey was told by loyalist paramilitaries 30 years ago that MI5 had ordered his assassination, declassified state papers show. Records...
Cost Of Being A Junior Doctor Goes Up By 80%
The cost of being a junior doctor has increased by 80 per cent over the last seven years, figures published by the British Medical...
WEST ‘HAS RUN OUT OF AMMO’ says Ahmadinejad
PRESIDENT Ahmadinejad has said that the West has ‘run out of ammo’ against Iran. He added that Iran will never accept commitments from Western countries...
Unions fighting for jobs, pay and services – time for a...
Birmingham bin strikers fighting race to the bottom Striking Birmingham bin workers have rejected a one off non-consolidated cash offer from Birmingham council but only if they accept a brutal...
‘Rise up– be steadfast!’ – urges Ayshah al Gadaffi
THE Damascus-based pro-Al-Gadaffi Al-Ra’y TV has broadcast a four-minute audio message to the Libyan people by Colonel Gadaffi’s daughter, Ayshah...
Palestinian Prisoners’ Day worldwide action!
ON April 17th, Palestinians and their supporters across the world came together on what is designated Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, a day of international solidarity...
Palestinians have the ‘Right to Resist’ The occupying Israeli regime says...
THE head of Hamas resistance movement in the occupied West Bank says Palestinians have the right to resist the occupying Israeli regime, and are...
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...
NAHT head teachers union set to join NEU in national action...
On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...
US Unions Gear Up To Elect Obama Into The White House
THE US trade unions are gearing up for the battle to get Barack Obama elected as the president of the United States, believing that...