South African municipal workers demand 15% increase
South Africa’s largest local government trade union the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), is set to table numerous demands for its members –...
British Government Seeks To Hide Its ‘Torture Policy’
‘AFTER a full year, the British Government still refuses to reveal its “Torture Policy’’ – reneging on assurances that it would be published before...
PNA slams ‘collective punishment’
The Palestinian leadership on Sunday condemned the ‘unjustified’ extra-judicial execution of a Palestinian activist and slammed Israel’s tightening of the closure it imposed on...
Swazi Nurses & Teachers Taking Action!
IT seems an official nurses’ strike is looming in Swaziland after the union called a special urgent meeting scheduled for today. The meeting is...
‘WE ARE GOING TO OCCUPY ON NOVEMBER 14th COME AND JOIN...
A THOUSAND local residents, health and other workers, trade unionists and youth participated in a very powerful North East London Council of Action march...
ATI threatens US workers health insurance coverage
ATI management recently mailed a letter to the homes of all of locked-out Steelworkers who are currently covered under the company’s programme of insurance...
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – ‘a dangerous political sham’
LEADING aid and human rights organisations have condemned the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ as ‘a dangerous, politicised sham’. Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding) is among 11...
Israeli Military Attacking Gaza With Air Strikes And Artillery
THE Israeli military has carried out airstrikes and artillery attacks on various sites across the besieged Gaza Strip over what it cited as a...
In 3 years NHS learning disability nurse numbers increase by only...
In 3 years NHS learning disability nurse numbers increase by only 22! ‘Lives are being put at risk’ – RCN warns The lives of learning...
‘The Palestinian people were the victims of horrendous war crimes’ says...
HANAN Ashrawi, member of the PLO Executive Committee on Thursday night described the Nakba, or catastrophe, when 800,000 Palestinians were expelled by Zionist militias...
Hezbollah Rejects Israeli War Threats
Hezbollah TV on Sunday commented on contradictory statements coming out of Israel on a possible new war against Lebanon. The TV said: ‘Israel is heading...
100 Palestinians killed & 147 children arrested since October
ISRAELI forces shot dead a Palestinian man on Sunday after he allegedly stabbed and injured an Israeli police officer near Damascus Gate in occupied...
Essex FBU Fighting Imposed Unworkable Shifts
CONTROL staff with the Essex fire service, 95% of whom are women, held a one-day strike on Tuesday (25 August 2015) as part of...
Kenya’s Nurses Strike Over Their Right To Collective Bargaining
KENYA’S Nurses have vowed to continue with their strike until the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) they signed with the Council of Governors is honoured. The...
‘LIFT THE BLOCKADE!’ – Abbas addresses Fatah rally in Gaza
HUNDREDS of thousands of supporters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party on Friday held their first mass rally in Gaza since Hamas took...
‘WE WILL SHUT DOWN SOUTH AFRICA!’ – COSATU warns ANC
‘The entire economy of South Africa will be shut down’, warns the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), if the government fails to...
‘The corporate structure of care homes … hides profits, avoids tax...
SOME of the Big 26 care home providers make use of ‘complex company structures’ is the finding of a report from the Centre for...
Permanent roles not agency! says Unison Renfrewshire
SOCIAL WORK managers in Renfrewshire in Scotland have spent almost £4 million on agency care staff in just five years, figures reveal. Renfrewshire Health and...
Put Iran First Says Iranian Newspaper
A FOREIGN Ministry spokesman said in Tehran last Sunday that the allegations being made by US General David Petraeus were baseless. Petraeus said...
RUSSIA-INDIA ‘A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP’ says President Putin
FOLLOWING Russian-Indian talks on 11 December 2014 in New Delhi, President Putin made the following statement. ‘Mr Prime Minister has mentioned that in 2000...
PENTONVILLE SPIRIT REQUIRED TO FIGHT THE ANTI-UNION LAWS –but precious little...
JULY 31 marked the 40th anniversary of a great working class victory, the release of the jailed Pentonville Five dockers in 1972. The TUC was...
Israeli forces raid Bethlehem arresting Hamas lawmakers!
ISRAELI state forces raided Bethlehem on Tuesday night, detaining Hamas members and Palestinian lawmakers, locals said on Wednesday. Witnesses said that Israeli forces arrested Khalid...
Luton Airport staff 7-day strike
BAGGAGE handlers and check-in staff employed by GH London Ground Handling Services at Luton Airport have voted for strike action over the company’s decision...
PALESTINIAN YOUTH SHOT DEAD IN JENIN – during wide-scale Israeli forces...
THE Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on Sunday the news about the Palestinian youth who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in Jenin...
The Israeli army carried out a horrific massacre during its military...
THE Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific massacre during its military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City recently over the...
Israel focussing attacks on most influential journalists
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate confirmed on Thursday that in 2025, the Israeli occupation authorities continued their systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists through arbitrary detention,...
‘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...
The coup d’etat in Bolivia! – Statement by the Bartolina Sisa...
‘FOR many years the extreme right in Bolivia, based in the oil and gas rich east of the country and very much controlled by...
TUC CONCERNED ABOUT MASSIVE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT – but has no...
SAVAGE ‘austerity’ cuts to prop up bankrupt capitalism and its banks are being met with a revolutionary response from workers and youth throughout Europe. In...
NHS White Paper means ‘rapid and drastic removal of care!’
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has failed the first test of his promise to let GPs lead NHS reforms, doctors say. Lansley has backed plans to...
Israel Planning 73,300 Illegal Housing Units On The West Bank
Peace Now an Israeli left-wing Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) reported on Monday that the Israeli government is planning to build more than 73,300 new...
‘BUSH IS ELIMINATING THE GAINS OF ORGANISED LABOUR’ – warns Hoffa
In a Labor Day statement last Saturday the US Teamsters Union President Jim Hoffa stressed that workers have to rely on themselves and their...
South African teachers endorse Israeli Apartheid Week
THE South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) endorses the Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) taking place from 6th-12th March, 2017. The week focuses on Palestinian political...
Eu Workers Demanding No Ttip And Ceta Trade Deals
THOUSANDS of European citizens took to the streets in dozens of European cities on October 11 to show their rejection of the proposed trade...
Gaza ceasefire framework agreed
HAMAS and other Palestinian factions agreed on Thursday to a framework for a Gaza ceasefire after months of mediation by Qatar and Egypt. ‘From our...
‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP UNTIL WE WIN!’ –Lakhinder Saran tells...
TWO HUNDRED youth and workers took part in a rally and celebration of five years of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers’ struggle in...
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...
‘400,000 people could be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts’
THE CHILD Poverty Action Group and dozens of other charities have called for a 7% hike in benefits in a demand made to coincide...
Murdoch University in Perth: Unprecedented 80% cut to staff pay!
MURDOCH University in Perth, Western Australia, is attempting to force ‘safety-net award conditions’ onto staff – slashing their pay by up to 80 per...
GET THE TROOPS OUT NOW! – hundreds of thousands march in...
MORE than 50,000 people marched from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday to demand the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Iraq. At the...
‘From The River To The Sea – Palestine Will Be Free!’
‘FROM the river to the sea Palestine will be free,’ 1,000 people shouted outside Downing Street in Whitehall in central London on Wednesday evening. It...
Assad and Medvedev discuss Syria developing nuclear energy
PRESIDENT ASSAD welcomed President Medvedev of Russia to Syria at a press conference last Tuesday. He said: ‘I welcome our friend President...
Amazon workers at Hebron, Kentucky celebrate a victory!
Workers at an Amazon air hub in Hebron, Kentucky celebrated a victory on Thursday after the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) found that Amazon...
1,700 GPs quit in six years
THE NHS’ latest GP workforce data for England has shown a drop of more than 1,700 full-time GPs – in the last six years. And...
ABBAS HAD ‘BAD ADVICE’ OVER GOLDSTONE REPORT – says Sha’ath
Those who advised Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to defer the Goldstone report into war crimes in Gaza gave him bad advice, Fatah Central Committee...