Deadly attacks on Colombian teachers & trade unions are condemned by...
Education International supports its affiliate, the Federación Colombiana de Educadores, in denouncing and firmly condemning assassinations and threats targeting Colombian educators, trade unionists, and...
‘THE MOST CRUEL AND RACIST REGIME’ – Ahmadinezhad indicts Israel
DOZENS of delegates walked out of a United Nations conference on racism after Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Iran's president, correctly described the Israeli cabinet as a...
Meet Tory preparations to fight it out with working class by...
30 MILLION people in Britain will be unable to afford a decent standard of living in the coming year according to a study published...
Sinn Fein – Modernisers V Traditionalists
BY JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist The battle of the sexes will engulf the republican movement as women will seek to break male-run Sinn Fein...
Draft Lebanon Statement Supports The Right To Resistance
Lebanese Information Minister Tariq Mitri has announced that the committee tasked with the job of preparing the draft policy statement that will guide the...
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...
Delay in payments means no new patients at Palestinian hospital
THE AUGUSTA Victoria Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem announced on Sunday that it would no longer accept new patients, owing to a ‘crisis level’...
‘We’re ready to take on the government and the employers’ –...
Prof Philip Banfield, Chairman of BMA Council had opened the rally. He said: ‘Every day I am 100% committed to restoring your pay and...
Workers & youth determined to smash the Greek government
250,000 workers, youth and professionals demonstrated outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in central Athens last Wednesday evening against the Austerities Measures Bill. They were demanding...
Teachers shortage crisis in schools!
SCHOOLS across England are at risk of teacher shortages in key subject areas, according to government figures released last Thursday. The figures show that there...
Thousands March To Defend Rio Tinto Alcan Jobs!
THOUSANDS of people marched through the streets of Alma in Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec province on Saturday to demand an end to the...
Eu ‘Harbours Serious Concerns’ Over Sri Lanka’s Rights Abuses
The European Union (EU) has expressed serious concern over Sri Lanka’s rights abuses, TamilNet reported yesterday. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the EU...
‘Shoot to kill first and ask questions later’–if the target is...
IN THE span of less than 25 hours, two shooting incidents took place in two areas in the occupied West Bank. In both incidents,...
‘Israel is committing genocide across the whole of Palestine’ – says...
THE US-based Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued an ‘active genocide alert’ over the situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. ‘Israel is...
‘NATO directly participating in Ukraine’ says Lavrov
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of becoming directly involved in the Ukraine war by supplying the country with weapons and...
NO TO NHS SELL-OFF! – say angry workers and patients
Unison on Monday sent a file of hundreds of testimonies from health workers, patients and members of the public who care about the NHS,...
‘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...
US beats a retreat
Mark Grossman, Washington’s chief envoy to Afghanistan, met Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of US efforts to bring the insurgents to the negotiating...
Court Of Appeal To Hear Case For Torture Inquiry
A court hearing on a case about the torture of 142 Iraqis in UK detention opens this Friday, November 5th. Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) are...
TREAT MIGRANT WORKERS FAIRLY demands UNISON
UNISON has welcomed new research showing the value of trade unions to migrant workers. The report by social policy charity the Rowntree Foundation was launched...
US airstrikes on Iraq are ‘a clear example of terrorism’ –...
THE United States’ latest military aggression against Iraq’s popular Hashd al-Sha’abi forces that left dozens of casualties continues to draw widespread condemnation from officials...
Kick Tories Out–To Defend NHS! Demand 20,000 Marchers!
MORE than 20,000 nurses, health workers, trade unionists, workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday afternoon to demand TUC action to...
HSC bows to Brown’s ‘enforcement-lite’ demand
‘The Health and Safety Commission says it is seeking “the right balance of enforcement and advice”, in line with the “enforcement-lite” approach sought by...
‘The Zionist Project Is Coming To An End – We Are...
‘The Zionist project is coming to an end; we are freeing Palestine inch by inch, foot by foot,’ a defiant Hamas representative told a...
Investigation Into Israeli War Crimes To Begin
AT LONG last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that ‘all the statutory criteria...
‘WE WILL PROTECT YOUR PENSION BY ALL MEANS’ – pledges PCS
in a notice to members, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) explains why the government’s pensions offer is bad news for all members. The...
Unison and EU public sector unions form ‘historic alliance’
UNISON and other EU public sector unions have formed an ‘historic alliance’. UNISON declared yesterday: ‘The fight back has begun. And UNISON is...
STRIKE DOWN ANTI-WORKER LAWS – Demand American trade unions
THE battles against anti-worker laws across the United States have turned to the ballot boxes and courtrooms, says the AFL-CIO union federation. As voters go...
Republicans throw pro-Palestinian Congresswoman off Foreign Affairs Committee
NEWLY empowered Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted to oust Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee, because of her...
Report Alleges Orange Participates In Violations Of Palestinian Rights!
THE global telecom company Orange participates in systematic violations of Palestinian rights, according to an investigation published this week by a coalition of French...
BMA’s Annual Conference calls for restoring pay to 2008 levels!
THE BMA’s annual conference has called for restoring pay to 2008 levels and for GPCEngland to organise the withdrawal of GP practices from Primary...
BRINGING DOWN TORIES IS THE KEY says striking Uber driver
‘BRINGING down the Tory government is the key thing,’ striking Uber driver Liban Yussuf told News Line at the lunchtime rally outside Uber HQ...
US-led NATO foreign ministers meet to discuss Ukraine joining NATO!
FOREIGN ministers of the US-led NATO military alliance have met to discuss offering future security guarantees to Ukraine amid Kiev’s push to join the...
‘I MADE MY CHOICE’ AND STAND BY IT – Straw tells...
In a 25-page memorandum submitted to the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, said: ‘My decision to support military action in...
Remain strong in opposition to the US and Israel – says...
IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called on Islamic and regional countries, especially Iran and Turkey, to unite and remain strong in opposition...
EGYPT ATTEMPTS TO RESUME FRONTIER CONTROL – as Israeli forces invade...
Egyptian security forces attempting to resume control of the Egyptian frontier with the Gaza Strip began using barbed wire to close gaps in the...
‘UK must stop funding the Israeli terrorist state’ – Hyde Park...
The first speaker at the rally in Hyde Park was Lujain Abdullah from the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘It’s the 29th week...
Doctors Hit By £200,000 Pension Changes
Changes to public sector pensions could mean doctors paying over £200,000 more over the course of their careers for a worse deal on retirement,...
Iran shuts down all flights to Kurdish region of Iraq
IRAN has closed its airspace to all flights to and from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq at the request of the country’s federal...
Over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners launch open-ended hunger strike
MORE THAN 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike on Monday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned...
‘Europe’s leaders consider people drowning as an acceptable price to pay...
MALTESE authorities on Monday refused the Ocean Viking rescue ship permission to refuel in their harbours while on its search and rescue mission off...
CUTS WILL PUT THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE AT RISK...
Public sector union Unison on Tuesday published a dossier of cuts hitting social work departments, warning that, together with existing shortages, cuts will put...
‘CLOSE TO ONE BILLION PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HAD ACCESS TO...
The Global Campaign for Education on Tuesday launched its Global School Report. The report, looking at 178 countries – from Haiti to Norway found the...
ABBAS REJECTS KERRY’S SECURITY PLAN – while US ex-CIA chief says...
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas has rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along its border with Jordan, a Palestinian...
Algeria has no intention of intervening in Libya – says PM...
PRIME Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has reaffirmed Algeria’s firm intention not to intervene militarily in Libya, citing the Algerian Constitution ‘which prohibits our troops from...