SA trade unions occupy council offices in Northern Cape demanding proper...
THE SOUTH African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Workers Union (IMATU) occupied the Sol Plaatje council chambers last...
Doctors, nurses, patients support occupation of Chase Farm
LAST Tuesday a mass picket of Chase Farm hospital was organised by the North East London Council of Action. The pickets won support from doctors,...
Iran rebuffs US false allegations of drone attacks
IRAN has rebuffed US accusations that it launched the drone attack that cut Saudi Arabia’s oil output in half, as a senior Islamic Revolutionary...
Eu Urged To Suspend Association Agreements With Israel!
MEMBERS of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Palestine (DPAL) Friday urged the European Union to suspend association agreements with Israel due to...
CONFUSE AND CONCEAL! – the NHS and the independent sector treatment...
THIS book shows that Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) have been introduced to give contracts to private companies to provide care for NHS patients,...
Kerry Says Washington And Moscow Have Found Common Ground Over Syria...
RUSSIA and the US have agreed on a number of ‘critical’ issues, particularly with regard to Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry and...
The 20 Faces Of Bertie Ahern
BERTIE Ahern quit as the Irish Republic’s Taioseach and Fianna Fail leader on May 6th. Political Journalist JOHN COULTER analyses how he will be...
Nursing on a ‘knife-edge’ RCN warn of intensifying staffing crisis
NURSES’ unions have declared that World Patient Safety Day 2021 must be a ‘wake-up call’ to ministers to tackle – ‘urgently’ – the nursing...
10,000-Strong May Day March Demands ‘Defend The NHS!’
WORKERS and youth on the 10,000-strong May Day march in London on Sunday expressed their determination to defend the NHS and the Welfare State. Many...
Heygate tenants refuse to be driven from their homes
TENANTS on the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle are furious at the way they are being treated ‘like cattle’ to be driven off...
Bus Workers March Through Johannesburg
DESPITE the urging of the Cosatu trade union federation to end their bus strike, thousands of striking bus drivers marched...
Khalih Awawdeh – 171 days on hunger strike against Israel’s illegal...
Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike today, Tuesday 30th August, 171 days into the protest against his detention without charge or trial...
‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE’ says CWU Eastern Region Secretary
‘THIS conflict could be resolved very easily. Lift the sackings and we can all go back to work,’ declared Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general...
Nursing Shortage Putting Patient Safety In Danger
The shortage of nursing staff in England is putting patient safety in danger, the Royal College of Nursing warned yesterday as it launched a...
1,000 days in Belmarsh–Free Assange now!
JULIAN Assange supporters held a lively protest outside the Australian High Commission in London on Wednesday, the 1,000th day of his imprisonment in Belmarsh...
NATO’s collusion with Japan causes concern in SE Asia
MORE than 90 per cent of respondents in a global survey strongly oppose NATO’s involvement in the Asia-Pacific region, describing the US-led Western military...
ROYAL MAIL IS NOT FOR SALE! – say 1,000 marchers
‘If Royal Mail managers don’t back off we are going to have to ask our members again to take strike action,’ Communication Workers Union...
‘A DANGEROUS SPREAD OF THE KENYAN VIRUS’ – COSATU questions Zimbabwe...
SOUTH Africa’s trade union federation COSATU has said the deal signed on Monday by Zimbabwe’s political rivals ‘marks a dangerous spread of the Kenyan...
‘IRAN HAS PROVEN THAT IT IS HIGHLY CAPABLE OF RESISTING AGGRESSION’...
THE ex-Iranian president and current chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has spoken up about the crisis that the US is seeking...
‘Urgent and decisive action’ needed to tackle South Africa’s 43.7% unemployment...
The Congress of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (COSATU) on Tuesday demanded that the ANC-led government takes action to tackle the growing...
Safety must be mandatory! – Australian maritime workers step up action...
ON Wednesday, 18 June, Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) members will take action in Sydney to draw attention to the safety crisis in stevedoring. The...
Israel-Gaza Border Crossings Reopened
ISRAEL has reopened two vital border crossings between the occupied territories and the blockaded Gaza Strip, about a week after it closed them amid...
New York nurses win after 41 days of strike action! Postal...
The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended at the weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labour action overwhelmingly voted...
Sparks Step Up Campaign To Defend Their Pay And Conditions!
CONSTRUCTION site electricians stepped up their campaign on Wednesday to defend pay and conditions against a brutal onslaught by a ‘cartel’ of contractors to...
Israeli troops fire on Palestinian farmers
Israeli forces fired on Palestinian farmers as they were working on their lands east of Khan Younis on Monday morning. Khan Younis is a...
51 attacks on healthcare facilities in Gaza since October 7!
Around 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday, a devastating air strike killed 500 Palestinians receiving treatment in Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza city. Following the...
Wal-Mart Plans To Slash Health Benefits
America’s campaign to change supermarket giant Wal-Mart, WakeUpWalMart.com, has released copies of Wal-Mart’s new health care benefits plan for current part-time employees and full-time...
Bloody Sunday Commemorative March, Derry, forced off the road!
By Fra Hughes in West Belfast FOR the first time in 49 years, the Bloody Sunday Commemorative March has been forced off the road, as...
Turkey And Iran Being Driven Into Conflict Over Syria!
A Turkish newspaper discussing the conflict emerging with Syria has urged restraint to avoid confrontation with Iran. Yeni Safak said: ‘Have you realised that Tehran’s...
‘I dream of hanging a huge map of the world on...
THE new Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmud al-Zahhar urged the international community last Saturday to respect the Palestinian people’s choice in electing...
‘NURSES ARE THE WORST PAID PUBLIC SECTOR PROFESSIONALS’ – RCN rejects...
Nurses are the worst paid professional group working in the public sector, according to new evidence from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) released...
‘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...
French Delegation Condemns Macron’s Hostile Attitude To Syria While Hezbollah Warns...
A FRENCH delegation, headed by former transport minister Thierry Mariani, has met with Syrian government officials in Damascus and condemned France’s hostile policies...
May Day Marchers Demand ‘Kick The Tories Out!’
THE LONDON May Day Rally of over 5,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London...
Desperate Tories Turn To Fracking
IN ITS first acts of desperation, the new government of Prime Minister Liz Truss has decided to announce that the moratorium on fracking has...
The truth about sexual abuse in a British detention centre
By: Clare Sambrook First published in Our Kingdom WHAT is the government really doing to protect immigration detainees from their guards? In Parliament on Tuesday 15...
NEXT SLASHES WAGE BILL – employs hundreds of cheap labour apprentices
MONDAY night’s Channel 4 Dispatches programme claimed the Next shopping chain has slashed £2.5m off its wage bill by employing hundreds of low-earning apprentices,...
US and Canada cut off aid to new Hamas government
TRYING to divide the Palestinian leadership, the United States and Canada on Wednesday suspended contacts with and aid to the new Palestinian 24-member Hamas-formed...
Hamas denounces Arab countries’ normalisation deals with Israel
HAMAS has denounced the ‘normalisation deals’ with Israel, because they are aimed at legitimatising the regime in the Middle East and forging an alliance...
Thousands rise up against the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Paul Yarl
Thousands of protesters took to the streets again on Tuesday to demand justice for a black teenager, who was shot twice by a white man...
Boycott Biochemical Congress in Jerusalem – demand 89 scholars
PALESTINIAN, Israeli and international academics are urging colleagues to boycott the 2017 congress of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies in Jerusalem next month. ‘Some...
STOP RAISING EXCESSIVE DEMANDS – Iran warns P5+1 group
A SENIOR Iranian official says a final deal with the P5+1 group of countries over Tehran’s nuclear programme will be achieved should the six...
France Determined To Arm The ‘Syrian National Coalition’
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that the composition of a UN group to be assembled to investigate the alleged use of...
AFL-CIO launches ‘Make Wall St Pay’ campaign
THE American trade union federation, the AFL-CIO, is this week launching a ‘Make Wall Street Pay’ national campaign in protest at soaring unemployment in...
Ukraine’s Zelensky censures Biden administration for creating panic
UKRAINE and Germany have pushed back against assumptions by Washington about Russian intentions to invade the former Soviet state as tensions further escalated after...