Irish TUC calls for new taxes on the wealthy
Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) General Secretary David Begg said on Wednesday that the Dublin government must now ‘choose between continued deference to...
Supreme Court rejects Chagos Islanders’ Right to Return
CHAGOS Islanders were left disappointed and angry on Wednesday when the Supreme Court rejected their legal challenge to be allowed to return to their...
‘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...
Stop the closure of Ealing maternity!
‘ONCE we know we are ready it will take just six weeks to close the maternity at Ealing,’ Pippa Nightingale, Head of Midwifery, Imperial...
China will send medical experts & equipment to Serbia – and...
CHINA will provide Serbia with assistance in protective equipment and medical instruments, and send a group of medical experts to help it better contain...
SSANGYONG WORKERS APPEAL FOR SUPPORT –under massive paramilitary attack
STOP Brutal Raid against the Ssangyong Motor Workers! Our Union Members’ Lives are at Stake! TODAY company goons ripped apart the shelters of solidarity supporters encamped...
Terrorist attacks in northern Syria
THREE civilians were injured with shells in a terrorist attack on Qana al-Assi in Syria’s northern countryside of Homs on Thursday. SANA’s reporter in...
Hezbollah condemns USA for seeking to trigger Lebanese ‘social explosion’
A TOP official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has slammed the United States for its seditious schemes in Lebanon, warning that Washington is...
‘We call on Israel to lift the inhumane and deadly siege...
AS ISRAELI forces resume and expand their military offensive by air, ground and sea on the Gaza Strip, Palestine, forcibly displacing people and deliberately...
Hands off Medicare and Social Security! – Demand US workers at...
SENATOR Warren, and the Koch Sisters led the rally to protect Social Security, and Medicare organised by AFSCME members at the ‘Hands Off’ rally...
WEMBLEY OCCUPATION GROWING – students and teachers show support at Saturday’s...
THERE was a great turnout of over 300 trade unionists, local residents and youth at the Wembley Park anti-academy occupation Jamboree in north-west London...
Hamas Hails ‘Our People In Jerusalem’ And Warns Israel That Attacks...
ON the Israeli violations in al-Aqsa Mosque – statement from the Hamas movement. The leadership of Hamas held an urgent meeting on the ongoing dangerous...
DELAY BOOTS TAKEOVER IN WAKE OF IMF CRASH WARNING – GMB...
THE GMB has called on the government to delay the private equity take-over of Boots in the wake of the IMF warning of the...
No forced academies – demand teachers unions
THE National Union of teachers (NUT) is utterly opposed to the government’s plan to convert all schools to academies, ending democratic accountability in England’s...
Starbucks unionisation war hotting up – 360 US stores now unionised!
THE AMERICAN National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) ruled on Friday that the Starbucks coffee chain had unlawfully threatened to withhold benefits if employees in...
SAFTU SAYS R20 PER HOUR NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE IS NOT A...
General Secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) Zwelinzima Vavi said on Tuesday that Saftu does not agree with the Congress...
No Agreement In Make-Or-Break Amcu Talks!
ON Thursday, make or break talks to end the three-month platinum mining strike collapsed once again. The third face-to-face meeting between the Association of Mineworkers...
Bin anti-union Commission report say Aussie unions
THE Royal Commission report into Trade Unions should be relegated to the dustbin of 2015, along with Abbott and Co,’ said Australian Construction, Forestry,...
NUMSA describes post 1994 South Africa as a ‘racist colonial economy...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) 10th National Congress, held on 12th to 15th December in Cape Town issued a...
‘WE WILL REBUILD’ – Bedouin villagers defy Israeli bulldozers and demolition
Israel’s Civil Administration on Tuesday demolished a Bedouin village for the fourth time. The Al-Araqib village was razed two weeks ago for the third time,...
Chicago erupts against Trump
MORE than a week after Donald Trump’s election as next US president, protesters continue to take to the streets in the US and elsewhere...
Sudan marchers demand an end to ‘counter-revolutionary war’
ON SATURDAY, over 500 people marched for Sudan from the BBC in Portland Place to Downing Street to demand an end to the war...
‘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...
White House is worried that Netanyahu will use US Congress speech...
THE WHITE House is reportedly worried that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could use his upcoming speech to the US Congress to publicly criticise...
US Brown University To Divest From Companies That Are ‘Complicit In...
IN A HISTORIC move, Brown University in Rhode Island has become the first US Ivy League institution to pass a student referendum supporting divestment...
YOU MUST ACCEPT SEPARATION WALL AS THE BORDER OF YOUR STATE...
Israel has told the Palestinians to forget the 1967 boarders and accept the Separation Wall that cuts through West Bank as the border ...
Hundreds of striking Uber drivers rally in Indonesia!
HUNDREDS of Uber drivers have been on strike in Indonesia in a dispute over what they describe as ‘modern slavery’ practices by the firm. Around...
‘Syria never obeyed any threat’
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad has said he agrees with the plan, brokered by the US and the Russian governments, to secure and to eventually destroy...
Hanan Ashrawi meets Swedish Consul – both stress the need for...
MEMBER of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Hanan Ashrawi has met the Swedish Consul-General to Palestine, Jessica Olausson, in Ramallah. The two...
Israeli troops stole $28m in cash from homes in Gaza!
THE Israeli military’s ‘Loot Unit’ has seized massive amounts of cash, gold and weaponry, among other items, since the start of the war on...
Mass Surveillance In UK!
UK intelligence has been forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use, says Amnesty International. Amnesty is one of...
‘Marikana’ Evictions Took Place On May 1!
ON Workers Day May 1 the ‘Marikana’ Evictions took place. These residents of Philippi East, a growing township sandwiched between Nyanga, Mitchell’s...
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...
Russia launches a new 10-year space programme
The Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) is about to start its Kliper launch vehicle project, the head of the agency told a Moscow press conference...
RMT launches fight against mass Greater Anglia ticket office closures
RAIL union RMT has launched a campaign to fight a planned programme of ticket office closures the length and breadth of the Greater Anglia...
ELECTIONS MUST GO AHEAD – insist Hamas
Palestinian Islamic liberation movement Hamas has declared: ‘No to killing, banditry, and the policy of kidnapping foreigners’. In a statement posted on the Palestinian Information...
‘A TERRIBLE LOSS OF FIRE COVER’ – 10,000 firefighters’ jobs threatened
‘Firefighters wages make up over three-quarters of fire and rescue service budgets, so cuts to fire service funding invariably mean cuts to firefighters jobs’,...
Russian battlegroups are continuing to destroy Ukrainian formations!
The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 300 servicemen in the Kursk area between last Thursday and Friday, and 21,900 since the start of...
Tunisians march on fourth anniversary of revolution!
TUNISIANS on Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the revolution that toppled strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and sparked a mass wave of protests...
UCU To Ballot For Nationwide Industrial Action
UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU has warned of ‘chaos on campus’ as a nationwide strike is looming in response to a full frontal attack on...
HOPE OF GAZA WAR CRIMES VICTIMS DASHED – says Palestinian...
‘AS we send this press release, Palestinian civilians across the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, are encountering extremely violent waves of state-sponsored oppression along...
‘Opening schools at this stage would be committing genocide’ – Educators...
‘THERE is no way schools can be opened at this stage because that would be committing genocide,’ Educators Union of South Africa (EUSA) Secretary...
TRADE UNIONS CONDEMN TORY COALITION’S £6.25bn CUTS –but have no plan...
THE INITIAL £6.25 billion spending cuts announced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government on Monday, that will lead to thousands of sackings and closures...
More Than 100,000 Mexicans Have Been Killed Since 2010 In ‘The...
THE Attorney General of Mexico has failed to properly investigate all lines of inquiry into allegations of complicity by armed forces and others in...
Act against unbridled Israeli regime and end its horrible crimes –...
IRAN has urged the international community to act against the ‘unbridled’ Israeli regime and stop its ‘horrible crimes’ committed with impunity against the oppressed...