Government appeal against Bedroom Tax ruling is condemned
LAST week, after the Court of Appeal ruled that the Bedroom Tax is discriminatory and unlawful, Paul Rutherford, one of the appellants, described himself...
Boeing strikers ‘standing firm’ in fight to save 17,000 jobs
BOEING strikers are standing firm despite the announcement last Friday that Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs, 10% of its global workforce, delay first deliveries...
‘Stop the starvation, stop arming Israel, end the genocide’
continued from lead article British/Australian doctor who had worked in Gaza, Mohammed Mustafa spoke wearing the scrubs that he wore in Gaza, saying: ‘These...
Russian ‘Caliber’ missiles destroy US & European weapons in Ukraine
THE RUSSIAN army struck at warehouses in the Zhytomyr region in the west of Ukraine on Saturday. High-precision long-range sea-based ‘Caliber’ missiles reached the...
President Assad wins the struggle for Syria
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad headed to the Saudi city of Jeddah on Thursday to participate in the activities of the 32nd session of the meeting...
Drive Needed To End Pensioner Poverty!
A drive to end the shame of pensioner poverty is needed‚ after a new report has shown that the UK has the fourth highest...
Greek general strike October 1st! – No to 13-hour shifts bill
Greece’s largest trade union congress the GSEE has announced a 24-hour general strike on 1st October against a government bill allowing 13-hour daily shifts. They...
SAFTU condemns interest rates hike as postal workers strike for 15%...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Friday condemned the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiking of the...
UN releases database of companies supporting illegal Israeli settlements
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has welcomed this week’s release of the United Nations database of companies involved in supporting Israeli settlements. ‘We welcome the...
US unions fight against the voter identification laws
THE US’ largest labour federation plans to mount an aggressive campaign against voter identification laws in a half-dozen battleground states that will be key...
‘No justice, no peace’ chant marchers after Ohio police shooting of...
ANGRY demonstrators marched through the northwest city of Columbus in Ohio last Friday to demand justice and transparency in investigations into the police killing...
South Lebanon Citizens Demand Shelter
The first cries by citizens were heard yesterday coming from the southern Lebanese town of Al-Taybah to express their indignation at the fact that...
US General Milley visits illegal occupation forces in Syria US General...
TOP US military officer General Mark Milley has visited American occupation forces in northern Syria just one day after he’d met with the Israeli...
Refugees Fleeing ‘Hell’ Of Libya
LAST Saturday evening, November 6th, the Italian Coast Guard informed the bridge of the German charity rescue ship SEA-EYE 4 that the Italian authorities...
890 arrested on Palestine Action demonstration!
MORE than 890 people were arrested on Saturday at a demonstration against the government’s ban of campaign group Palestine Action. An estimated 1,500 gathered in...
‘stiff Resistance And Bombs Everywhere’ In Marjah
DESPITE the military claims of US and NATO-led occupation troops, progress remains slow because of the stiff resistance and homemade bombs ‘everywhere’. However, the...
‘We as Syrians will never accept that Syria become a western...
‘SYRIA won’t be a puppet state for the West,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview with ‘Paris Match’ Magazine. The interviewer began by...
Pirapaharan Pays Tribute To Tna Mp Sivanesan
TAMILNET reports that the leader of the Liberation Tigers, Velupillai Pirapaharan, on Saturday, paid tribute to the slain Jaffna District Tamil National Alliance MP...
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...
US trade unions condemn racist rally in Charlottesville
AMERICA’S nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), has condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday which resulted in the death of a...
Teachers Demand 10% Pay Rise
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference on Monday voted to demand a pay rise of ten per cent or at least £3,000,...
Two Media Workers Killed Every Week Says IFJ
NUJ comment on an International Federation of Journalists report TWO MEDIA workers die every week, according to an International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) report.
The UK’s...
Give youth the opportunity to lead the Palestinian struggle!
PRESIDENT Abbas has said that the holding the seventh congress of Fatah will be at the end of this year. He added ‘Get...
STOP DETAINING THE CHILDREN OF ASYLUM SEEKERS – urges independent commission
The Independent Asylum Commission on Thursday recommended that the UK conducts a ‘root and branch review’ of its detention policies, and that it should...
Blinken’s Role in Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis
From the start of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was deeply involved. Just after 7th October, Blinken...
‘Release database of businesses engaged in Israel’s illegal settlements –Palestinians demand...
The Ramallah-based Al-Haq human rights organisation on Tuesday called on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to release the long-overdue...
NUMSA to march on President Ramaphosa’s office
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will march on Wednesday, April 19th to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office to protest against security...
Palestinian Food Aid cut while Israeli onslaught continues!
AT LEAST 27 Palestinians were injured, including 14 with Israeli forces’ live fire, while others sustained rubber-coated steel bullets and suffered tear-gas suffocation as...
Lear Corporation workers confront shareholders!
WORKERS from Lear plants across the country entered the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday morning (28th May) and spoke directly to Lear Corp....
Walmart Workers Win Raise As Oil Workers Strike & West Coast...
AMERICA’S largest private employer, retail giant Walmart has announced plans to raise wages for more than 500,000 hourly employees at its US stores. Walmart said...
Dhaka workers plunge to their death!
A Lack of safety measures once again led to a tragic accident in the capital’s Siddheshwari area, where three construction workers died after they...
Settlers Launch Pogrom On Palestinian Village
OUTGOING Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the dream of a ‘greater Israel’ was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of...
‘Julian’s treatment … is a sordid treachery from top to bottom’...
OVER 200 supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held a lively rally and a march on Saturday to the gates outside Belmarsh high...
Grenfell campaigners step up fight! – cladding protests at Ipswich and...
ON TUESDAY 14th December exactly four years and six months since the Grenfell Tower inferno campaigners stepped up their demand for justice. Grenfell Community Campaigners...
Tunisian President Saied carries out ‘coup’
LEADING Tunisian judges on Sunday rejected President Kais Saied’s moves to disband the Supreme Judicial Council that oversees them, a move they see as...
‘We will negotiate with EC’ says Tsipras
THE Greek leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras in an interview with the Athens left daily Avgi on Sunday...
Mining Gold For $1.50 Hourly Wages!
LEADERS of Indonesian FSP-KEP (SPSI), the trade union of Chemical, Energy, and Mine Workers (CEMWU), have officially extended a 30-day strike at the world’s...
Carillion at centre of blacklisting scandal
THE GMB has found that the senior Carillion HR manager involved in the Swindon dispute was the same HR manager for Carillion that dealt...
PPPs are looting the planet – says Public Services International
A NEW report released by the UK-based Jubilee Debt Campaign provides a scathing critique of the failure of PPPs across a range of sectors...
‘I AGAIN PROMISE YOU THAT WE WILL WIN’ – Hasan Nasrallah...
THE Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah, promised victory in an address to the Lebanese and the Arabs on Friday 14th July after a failed...
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...
Cuts Harming Children!
AUSTERITY is being exploited to drive through budget cuts and reforms which are denying children their basic human rights, according to a major new...
Grammar schools segregate children by class warn teachers
‘THERESA May’s plans for new grammar schools are a regressive move and a distraction from the real problems facing schools and education,’ Kevin Courtney,...
Staffing crisis! Patients waiting for operations! STOP TORY NHS CUTS!
IN RESPONSE to the most recent NHS performance statistics and the political situation in which they are occurring, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) director...
Washington DC parents keep children home as ICE raids intensify
Immigrant families across the United States capital are facing the new school year under the shadow of aggressive federal immigration enforcement, with raids and...