SA President Ramaphosa forced to flee on May Day!
IN A HIGHLY significant development, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced to abandon his May Day speech and flee for his life in...
Sri Lanka Air Force Bombs Refugee Settlement
TAMILNET reports that two civilians were killed on the spot last Sunday morning when the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed a civilian settlement...
‘Re-colonisation of Africa will never be allowed’ – says ANC Youth...
NATO has blatantly overstepped its UN resolution mandate in Libya by engaging in offensive military support to the Libyan rebels beyond the UN mandate,...
Defy US Threats Over Palestinian State!
MEMBERS of Palestine’s original communist party are urging the Palestinian National Authority to withstand intimidation from the US over a plan to seek...
Greek Workers Besiege High Court
GREEK health centre workers and doctors, on indefinite strike for over a month, demonstrated once again last Thursday in Athens against a government Bill...
Unite Calls For A Full Public Inquiry Into Blacklisting!
‘THERE still needs to be a full public inquiry into blacklisting and the activities of major construction employers who still to this day restrict...
Putin Visits Palestine And Meets Abbas
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Palestine and meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas dominated the front page headlines in Friday’s issue of...
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 Vautrey demands ‘properly funded NHS’ on the ‘bedrock of a...
SPEAKING in London last week to the British Medical Association’s conference of English Local Medical Committees (LMCs) in London, Dr Richard Vautrey, BMA GP...
FRANCE HAS RISEN – Part two
THE CRS and gendarmerie have remained on the streets of Paris since the uprising sparked by the violent state attack on demonstrators at Place...
Leon Trotsky On The Easter Rising
Written: 11 May 1916 First Published: Nashe Slovo, 11 May 1916 Source: Trotsky’s Writings on Britain New Park Publications Ltd, London 1974 THE Irish rising has...
AIR STRIKES MASSACRE CIVILIANS IN AFGHANISTAN – 92 killed in one...
THE number of civilian deaths admitted to by US and NATO forces as a result of airstrikes in Afghanistan is just the tip...
Numsa Fighting For A Fair Deal For Workers Hit By...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is demanding a fair deal for the 1,500 strong workforce after General Motors announced its...
Youth workers being sacked–centres being closed
GOVERMENT cuts plunge youth work into crisis, warns a Unison report. More than 2000 youth workers have been axed and 350 youth centres closed since...
South African miners strike for 12.5%
Workers from the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) started strike action at the Annesley Andalusite Mine located in Penge, outside Burgersfort...
Ramaphosa signs into law bill for land seizure with no compensation!
Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African President has signed into law a bill allowing land seizures by the state without compensation – a move that...
Palestinian Students Shot And Wounded With Rubber-Coated Steel Bullets!
TWO PALESTINIAN university students were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets and dozens of others suffocated during clashes that broke out with...
7,000 NY nurses strike against ‘dangerous understaffing’
A STRIKE by more than 7,000 nurses at two major New York City hospitals began at 6.00am on Monday after talks aimed at averting...
NHS ‘safe staffing forum’ demands minimum legal safe staffing level!
SIXTY Unison nursing delegates gathered in Warwick last week for the ‘safe staffing forum’ in which the worforce crisis in the NHS was discussed....
No pay rise! A slap in face for NHS staff
‘ENOUGH is Enough,’ chanted a rally of 500 angry NHS workers outside Downing Street on Wednesday night. They are angry that they have been excluded...
COALITION’S POLICIES ARE CAUSING THE NHS CRISIS! – insist health trade...
THE Department of Health has published an 80-page response to the Francis report into the failings at Mid Staffs Hospital. This is called ‘Patients...
US communication workers Labour Day fightback
‘ON this Labour Day, CWA members aren’t taking it easy. Across our union, we’ve been mobilising for fair contracts, organising new members, fighting back...
Israeli army West Bank killing spree – 3 shot dead yesterday
The Israeli occupation forces shot and killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday (Tuesday) morning, one in Beit Ummar in the south...
Palestinians Block New Israeli ‘Apartheid’ Road
PALESTINIAN activists along with Israeli and international supporters shut down on Wednesday the recently opened Eastern Ring Road near Jerusalem, which features separate lanes...
Shortages, food scandals and rising prices put French workers on front...
SHORTAGES, food scandals and rising prices put low-income families on the front line, says the CGT French trade union federation. While food scandals accumulate (Kinder...
Iran, Russia And China Begin Military Drills In Indian Ocean
IRAN, Russia, and China have kicked off joint military drills in the north of the Indian Ocean, with vessels from the three countries hitting...
Probe drugging of Palestinian prisoners – demands Hamas
THE Hamas Movement has appealed to the Palestinian authority and the international groups in the occupied Palestinian lands to investigate news reports saying that...
400 under-18s disappear from the UK’s government-supervised hotels!
WHEN young Jay (name changed), an Iranian teenager, set foot on UK shores, a myriad of emotions swirled within him: relief, uncertainty, hope, and...
THE KILLING OF JULIANO MER-KHAMIS ‘A heinous crime’ – SAYS PALESTINIAN...
JULIANO Mer-Khamis, an Israeli film director and founder of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp, was shot dead on Monday April 4th after...
Iran exposed myth of Israeli invincibility in April 13 operation!
A senior Iranian military commander has disclosed new details about Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israeli-occupied territories last month, and that 240 fighter jets from...
Ferry Crews Back Greek Farmers
Greek armed riot police repeatedly attacked with tear-gas and stun bombs 1,500 protesting farmers from Crete in the port of Piraeus...
Lecturers Strike Escalating
AFTER defeating attempts by their own union leadership to call off the strikes by forcing their leaders to throw out an unacceptable deal, lecturers...
New Art For A New World
‘LENIN started out from a position that Art is the most powerful means of political propaganda for the triumph of the Socialist cause,’ Margy...
‘There is revolutionary determination to smash capitalism’ –WRP General Secretary tells...
OVER 100 workers, trade unionists and youth attended the rally at the Indian YMCA in Fitzroy Square, central London on Sunday to mark...
Fatah’s Abu Ammar Brigades refuses to disarm
THE official spokesperson of the Fatah-affiliated Martyr Abu Ammar Brigades, Abu Muhammad, has affirmed the brigades’ loyalty to political leaders and Fatah decisions, but...
Sacked Greek Cleaning Ladies Stand Firm For Nearly A Year
595 women cleaners of the Greek Ministry of Finance in Athens were sacked on 17 September 2013 and their jobs given to private contractors....
‘Forming Unity government with Assad is delusional!’ – says Syrian opposition...
THE Syrian opposition’s chief negotiator in peace talks in Geneva said on Wednesday he was ‘not optimistic’ about strained efforts to end the nearly...
NUMSA shock over GM quitting SA!
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has said the union is ‘shocked at the news’ that General Motors (GM) intends to...
Mining companies dispossess communities in South Africa ‘in conduct reminiscent of...
‘A CHINESE mining company is taking over plots of land in South Africa, paying residents small lump sums to give over mining rights to...
Zimbabwe Trade Unions Are To Call A General Strike Against...
THE MOTHER of all strikes is imminent – as Zimbabwe’s massive union, ZCTU (the Zimbabwe Confederation of Trade Unions), mobilises other unions to avert...
Israeli police raid Jerusalem
ISRAELI police arrested two Palestinians early on Sunday during a police raid on the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya, while the Israeli army arrested...
‘ACTIONS AGAINST GAZA SIEGE WILL CONTINUE’ – declares Anonymous
The Israeli army and intelligence agencies’ websites were offline on Sunday, two days after hacker group Anonymous warned it would ‘strike back’ in retaliation...
Greek Workers Stage Biggest Ever General Strike
Greek workers staged last Wednesday the biggest general strike in history against the proposed ‘reforms’ on pensions planned by the right-wing government of prime...
‘ALL OPTIONS NOW OPEN TO HAMAS’ – following Gaza beach massacre
HAMAS has issued a statement saying that the Gaza beach massacre, when an Israeli gunboat shelled a Gaza beach murdering 15 mainly women...
Ontario ‘Rally for Rights and Democracy’
ONTARIO trade unionists and their families rallied in Toronto on Saturday to demand good jobs, public services, workers’ rights and the recall of the...