Three Israeli warships intercepted the Al-Awda!
YESTERDAY the Palestinian Mission hosted a press conference for Dr Swee Ang, the first female orthopaedic and trauma consultant surgeon at St Bartholomew and...
EXPOSING WAR CRIMES IS NO CRIME – Free Julian Assange!
‘EXPOSING war crimes is no crime! – Free Julian Assange!’ shouted over 100 demonstrators opposite Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, demanding his immediate release...
Frontline workers demand ‘scrap Policing Bill’
Over 660 frontline healthcare, community, social and education workers have called for the Policing Bill to be scrapped ahead of a key debate in...
Greek hospital workers blockade against austerity! – as thousands of refugees...
GREEK hospital workers on Monday morning blocked the entrance to the Finance Ministry on Nikis Street near Syntagma Square in an angry protest against...
NICARAGUANS VOTING IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ‘US rulers and their terrorist...
PRESIDENT Daniel Ortega, as he went to vote in the municipal elections on Sunday, emphasised that people were voting for Nicaragua and by doing...
Ireland ‘will soon recognise Palestinian state’
THE Israeli Ambassador to Ireland relayed a warning to the Israeli government on Tuesday that the Irish parliament would soon move to recognise the...
‘WALSH IS OUT TO SMASH THE UNION’ –it must now use...
‘THIS is like the 1980s with the miners, even though this is meant to be a democracy and we’ve got the right to withdraw...
Join The Political Revolution–Sanders Urges US Workers!
US Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders called on US trade unions to rise up and join his political revolution to defeat the Koch brothers...
Irish government ‘must prioritise services to children and families’
IMPACT trade union’s civil service conference has passed an emergency motion on the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse –...
US union leaders released after mass rallies across the US
DAVID Huerta, the 58-year-old president of Service Employees International Union California, was released from federal custody on Monday on a $50,000 bond after a...
Worldwide demand to break the siege of Gaza!
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared three days mourning, while in Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya declared a general strike in response...
26,000 Chicago public teachers & 8,000 support staff strike
TWENTY-SIX thousand Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers and 8,000 support staff workers including custodians, special education assistants and bus aides walked out on strike...
Hamas prisoner begins hunger strike
Palestinian detainee Abdullah al-Barghouthi announced on Thursday that he will begin a hunger-strike in protest against solitary confinement. Al-Barghouti, former head of Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades...
Sustained Campaign Of Industrial Action! – In 67 Unis To Start...
A SUSTAINED campaign of industrial action by members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 67 of the UK’s best-known universities will start...
Amazon dominates on-line market – while workers suffer an epidemic of...
AS AMAZON dominates online marketplaces and positions itself to become the largest retailer in the US, more and more people are finding out the...
STATES MUST REAFFIRM EVERYONE’S RIGHT TO ASYLUM – urges Amnesty International
In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International called on states to...
Children ‘rediscovering how to smile’ in bomb battered Mosul!
ON a classroom whiteboard in the battered city of Mosul the words ‘rediscovering how to smile’ outline the heartbreaking task of Iraqi teachers striving...
DEATHS IN POLICE CUSTODY MUST STOP! – says Smiley Culture march
‘Today is a momentous day. It is time to let the people know we are not going to accept this,’ Merlin Emmanuel told a...
‘Don’t use Marikana victims for political gain’ says AMCU
The victims of the Marikana massacre should not be used to mend relations between the ANC and the Economic freedom Fighters (EFF), Association...
Iran Battling Against US Imposed Sanctions!
FRENCH vehicle maker the PSA Group says it is pushing ahead with a plan to invest in Iran’s auto industry despite an increased anti-Iran...
2.3m workers and youth marched all over France on May Day
FRENCH union federation Force Ouvriere congratulated workers for their May Day action. It said: ‘2.3 million young people, employees and retirees marched all over France,...
Athens Students March Attacked By Police
Over 30,000 university students from all the main Greek cities, along with delegations of school students and some 3,000 secondary school teachers and university...
Israel exacting a deliberate policy of starvation
Amnesty International has accused Israel of enacting a ‘deliberate policy’ of starvation in Gaza as the UN and aid groups warn of famine in...
Trade union-led occupations and a general strike to remove the Tories...
‘THIS Conference must give a lead in the struggle to defend the NHS and stop it being destroyed by this Tory government... Trade union...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION – PLO says UN must act
THE Palestinian leadership agreed on Saturday to call on the UN Security Council for an urgent meeting on Israel’s settlement expansion on Palestinian land. The...
‘An appalling situation!’ – BMA Council Chair Professor Philip Banfield condemns...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the use of physician associates warning of serious risks to patients. Responding to revelations from Channel 4 News...
The Gaza Siege – Punishing Some Of The Poorest Of The...
‘If the aim of the blockade policy was to weaken the Hamas administration, the public employment numbers suggest this has failed’ a UN Relief...
REJECT ROYAL MAIL PAY AND MODERNISATION AGREEMENT – Defend pay, pensions...
POSTAL WORKERS fighting the Crozier/Leighton onslaught on their jobs will treat the ‘Final Agreement’, backed by the CWU executive on Monday by nine votes...
Tory Asylum Bill will see refugee children locked up!
THE TORY government’s new asylum bill will allow thousands of refugee children who are separated from their parents to be locked up, according to...
SOS NHS Actions Today
SOS NHS are demanding emergency investment in a publicly provided NHS. The immediate measures needed are highlighted in a statement for the NHS Day of...
Egyptian Army Demolitions Creating A Gaza Buffer Zone
AL-AQSA TV on Sunday morning carried the following ‘urgent’ screen caption: ‘Residents on the Egyptian side of Rafah are angry because the Egyptian army...
CHASE FARM OCCUPATION ‘IMMINENT’ – says North East London Council of...
Workers, patients and visitors at Chase Farm Hospital on Thursday made it clear they are determined to fight any attempt to close their hospital. There...
TUC holds Palestine Day of Action!
There was a lively protest on Thursday afternoon of around 60 people outside Stratford Town Hall in support of the ‘Day of Action for...
Abolish proposed water charges immediately – demands Irish electrical union
DELEGATES to the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) biennial conference in Kilkenny on Sunday called on the Irish government to abolish the proposed...
TWO MILLION BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS SACKED – 53.64 million face extreme...
MORE than two million garment workers have been sacked in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of fewer orders from the United...
Hands off Medicare and Social Security! – Demand US workers at...
SENATOR Warren, and the Koch Sisters led the rally to protect Social Security, and Medicare organised by AFSCME members at the ‘Hands Off’ rally...
Abbas Condemns Settler Violence
Israeli police used force to break up a demonstration in East Jerusalem on Friday against the eviction of a Palestinian family from their home. Twenty-one...
OVER 1,000 IRAQIS FACE EXECUTION – Amnesty reports
More than 1,000 people face execution in Iraq, said Amnesty International on Tuesday, as it published a new report on the extensive imposition of...
‘Up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributed to...
‘IT IS NOT implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza,’ declares...
Hotel workers unionising and striking across the USA – 2,000 on...
Hundreds more UNITE HERE hotel workers have walked off the job, as another wave of strikes hits the US hotel industry last Thursday. Nearly 2,000...
Education spending cuts ‘without precedent’ in post-war UK history – Institute...
‘The cuts to education spending over the last decade are effectively without precedent in post-war UK history, including a 9% real-terms fall in school...
Settlement with Vale–but no final accord!
WITH a 75% ratification vote announced late on 7 July, Canadian nickel mining and processing workers represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Locals 6500 and...
Palestinian Hunger Strikers Hospitalised
ISRAELI authorities have hospitalised three Palestinians on hunger strike, an Israeli prison services spokeswoman said last Friday. Ayman Sharawna, Jaafar Azzidine and Tareq Qaadan were...
‘WORK TOGETHER TO FIGHT GLOBAL CAPITAL’ – Teamsters President tells ICTU
THE Teamsters General President James Hoffa gave the fraternal address from the AFL-CIO US trade union federation to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions...
Australian Unions Support Korean Rail Workers
THE AUSTRALIAN Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) has rallied with other Australian unions to increase worldwide pressure on the South Korean government to cease its...