Prosecute The Bankers Responsible For The Global Financial Crisis
Delegates to the 28th International Brotherhood of Teamsters Convention in Las Vegas last week unanimously approved a resolution to prosecute chief executives and other...
Lieberman likely to face money-laundering charges
THE corruption investigation into Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is likely to produce charges of money laundering, fraud and breach of trust, Israeli police...
Prawer Protesters Are Beaten And Threatened With Rape By Israeli Police
BY SAWSAN KHALIFE – FIRST PUBLISHED IN ELECTRONIC INTIFADA THE Israeli government’s announcement last week that it has withdrawn proposed legislation to forcibly displace tens...
‘IRAN WILL CONTINUE ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAMME’ – says Khamenei
Supreme spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran will press on with its nuclear work. State television quoted Khamenei as saying:...
Workers Lobby Tuc – To Defend Jobs And Oppose Cuts!
A NUMBER of workers have been lobbying the TUC to demand support and action in defence of jobs and against cuts. Amicus members were lobbying...
One-In-Four University Staff ‘bullied At Work’
The University and College Union (UCU) published a report yesterday warning that one in four university staff say they have been bullied at work...
Half a million people forced out of their homes by Turkish...
TENS of thousands of residents of the UNESCO world heritage site of Sur are among an estimated half a million people forced out of...
SYRIA DOES NOT POSSESS CHEMICAL WEAPONS says UN representative Bashar al-Jaafari
SYRIA’S permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr Bashar al-Jaafari, reiterated that Syria has not and will not use chemical weapons and does not...
‘145 Trade Unionists Killed Last Year’ – Icftu
Being a trade unionist is becoming more dangerous with a total of 145 people worldwide killed due to their trade union activities in 2004,...
AMERICAN DREAM IS DESTROYED workers being pushed forward into revolutionary struggle
The US Economic Policy Institute (EPI) last week published three reports showing the extent to which America’s workers are losing ground this Labour Day,...
GAZA VICTORY BRINGS PALESTINIAN UNITY MUCH CLOSER says Hamas deputy
HAMAS Political Bureau Deputy Chief Musa Abu-Marzuq has said that the resistance’s victory in Gaza has brought unity and reconciliation between Palestinian factions much...
‘Hamas will stand firm against Israeli Occupation’ – statement on 42nd...
On the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Hamas Movement in Lebanon said that the Palestinian people would continue to stand...
Iranian oil minister Owji says oil & petro-chemical exports are continuing...
IRANIAN Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji says Iran’s crude oil and petrochemical exports continue without disruption after the Biden administration announced a new round...
PENTAGON IS BUILDING MISSILE DEFENCE RADAR STATIONS IN QATAR – in...
THE Pentagon is building a missile defence radar station at a covert location in Qatar, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The site will...
Stop this wholesale closure of NHS hospitals and GP surgeries
THE government is activating a mass hospital closure programme. 30 to 40 ‘failing’ NHS trusts could be handed over to new management, which could...
Israel Demolishes Homes And Schools In Occupied West Bank
ISRAELI authorities delivered demolition notices and halt of construction orders to several homes and schools in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank...
The world’s nine nuclear-armed countries spent $82.4 bn upgrading their atomic...
THE world’s nine nuclear-armed countries – led by the US – spent $82.4 billion upgrading their atomic arsenal in 2021, eight per cent more...
ABBAS ‘DROWNING IN PEACE ILLUSIONS’ – warns Hamas
Hamas has said it considers the invitation extended to Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmud Abbas to visit Washington as ‘political bribery in return...
Canadian schools – not safe to reopen – say union leaders
‘The current back-to-school plan does not provide the adequate level of safety required to protect students and their families from Covid-19,’ say union leaders...
US Waging Economic Terrorism Against Iran!
IRAN’S foreign minister says the US is waging ‘economic terrorism’ against the Islamic Republic by employing restrictive measures that are troubling the relief efforts...
‘END COMPLICITY WITH ISRAELI APARTHEID’ –Palestinians urge South Africa
Palestinian civil society has called on democratic South Africa to end complicity with Israeli apartheid. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) has released...
FIFTY-SEVEN TURKISH SOLDIERS KILLED IN IDLIB –‘Erdogan using terrorism to achieve...
THE TURKISH military has announced the death of at least one of its soldiers and the injury of nine others in an attack in...
Hague judges order Israel to guarantee the food supplies for Palestinians...
In a landmark ruling at The Hague, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have unanimously ordered Israel to take immediate and effective...
600 March To Stop New Era Evictions!
A 600 strong demonstration marched to Downing street to stop the eviction of 92 families from the New Era housing estate in Hoxton, Hackney. The...
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...
French workers strike against 44bn euro budget cuts!
FACED with the social emergency of PM Bayrou’s planned 44bn euros budget cuts, French trade unions have called a national strike on Wednesday 10th...
GAZA IS A BIG PRISON – says a former detainee
THE Palestinian Authority civil affairs minister said late Tuesday that Israel will return the bodies of 91 Palestinians buried in an Israeli cemetery on...
National Bus And Rail Strike Is Looming In Ireland!
A NATIONAL bus and rail strike by SIPTU and NBRU drivers is looming in Ireland. SIPTU announced on Tuesday it is to ballot its members...
”DEFEND WALSALL YOUTH CENTRES’ – says Unite
PLANS to shut nearly every Walsall youth centre will leave thousands of the town’s young people with nowhere to go, Unite has warned in...
UCU warns on University privatisation
The University and College Union (UCU) has warned universities and colleges to think very carefully before entering into partnerships with private firms. This is after...
‘End all arms sales to Israel’ say Healthworkers4Palestine
‘FROM the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!’, chanted over 50 protesters at an emergency demonstration outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...
BLACKLISTING SCANDAL HEARING–CULLUM McALPINE REFUSES TO GIVE EVIDENCE
THE alleged architect of the construction ‘blacklisting’ scandal, Cullum McAlpine, has declined to give evidence in the High Court case, due to start next...
‘It Will Have To Go To A Strike By The Whole...
FIREFIGHTERS marched out on a six-hour strike at 6.30pm throughout England and Wales on New Year’s Eve, seeing the New Year in on the...
Open letter to chairs of BMA and BMAGPC
Dear Dr Meldrum, Dr Buckman and all members of the BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC) Following the publication of the health White Paper earlier this...
STOP THE CLOSURE! – get ready to occupy Chase Farm Hospital
MORE than 400 people joined Saturday’s march through Enfield by the North-East London Council of Action to keep Chase Farm Hospital open. The march was...
OAXACA TEACHERS BLOCK ‘REFORMS’ – ‘a mechanism for privatisation’
TEACHERS in Oaxaca, Mexico, have taken their fight against their government’s punitive ‘education reform’ to a new level this month, with highly visible actions...
20,000 STUDENTS AND WORKERS MARCH IN ATHENS! – on the 36th...
Over 20,000 students, youth and workers took part in a militant anti-imperialist demonstration in Athens on Tuesday to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the...
Israel Pursuing Its Cry-Wolf Policy
ISRAEL has been pursuing its cry-wolf policy since its inception. Successive Israeli regimes have followed the same tactic of presenting their own nation as...
”WE HAD NINE VOTES BUT NIGERIA CHANGED ITS MIND AT THE...
PALESTINIAN Authority chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said during an interview last Friday, that Palestine would become a member of the International Criminal Court by...
May’s ‘Hostile Environment’ alive & kicking – Stop Unison member Grahame...
TORY PM May’s ‘Hostile Environment’ is alive and kicking, with trade union Unison highlighting the case of a married couple who face being split...
The US Senior Representative For Zabul Province Resigns!
THE following is a dramatic letter of resignation from senior US diplomat – America’s Senior Civilian Representative for Zabul Province in Afghanistan – addressed...
ANC drops VAT increase to save coalition – as SAFTU celebrates...
South Africa’s finance minister dropped plans on Thursday to increase value-added tax (VAT), in a major climbdown to prevent the collapse of the coalition...
Sheltered Housing In Danger
THE future of Sheltered Housing Schemes is in danger, unless the government acts to stop their funding being cut, the UK Pensioners Strategy Committee...
‘Iran will eliminate the enemy’s abuse of the Persian Gulf and...
THE Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has reported an increased rate of cargo transit via the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf,...
ISRAELI MEDICAL NEGLECT KILLED HAMDIYEH! – Palestinian prisoners begin three-day hunger...
THE death of a cancer-stricken detainee on Tuesday has raised tensions in Israeli jails as Palestinian prisoners announced a three-day hunger strike. Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh,...