Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally told that Iraq had no...
THE US Think-Progress website has published the text of the ‘60 Minutes’ TV interview with former CIA official Tyler Drumheller who revealed that in...
Split PLO votes to support proximity talks
IN a controversial vote, the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) Executive Committee gave its support on Sunday to proposed indirect peace negotiations with Israel. ‘In...
1.4 million on zero-hours slave labour!
NEW figures released on Wednesday show that at least 1.4 million workers in Britain are enduring the modern day form of slave labour exploitation...
30 Canadian ports hit by dock strike
SUPPORT has been pouring in from Canadian and international unions for striking dockers on Canada’s West Coast. About 7,400 members of the ILWU Canada employed...
FORWARD WITH THE WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION – –News Line Anniversary Rally...
MORE than 200 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through Whitechapel to Bethnal Green in central London on Saturday to the News Line...
‘Venezuelan people will triumph over US’ – SAYS SYRIA
SYRIA’S Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali AbdulKarim, has affirmed that the Venezuelan people will ‘triumph’ over the US conspiracy. Meeting the Venezuelan Ambassador to Lebanon, Jesus...
‘TOWARDS FREEDOM – TOWARDS JERUSALEM!’ – Palestinans march on Naksa Day
Israeli gunfire killed 11 people and wounded about 220 others on Sunday as demonstrators on the Syrian side tried to cross the ceasefire line...
‘Israel cannot confiscate our dignity’ – says Issa Qaraqe
‘Israel may be able to confiscate our money, but it cannot confiscate our dignity.’ So says Issa Qaraqe, Head of the Commission of Detainees...
PULL-BACK FROM IRAQ MUST START WITHIN 30 DAYS – say US...
THE Democratic-led House of Representatives defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and inserted timelines for an immediate troop withdrawal, in a 50...
Scottish NHS leaders discuss ‘two-tier’ health system
NHS leaders in Scotland have discussed abandoning the founding principles of the health service by having the wealthy pay for treatment, setting up a...
US Rabbis oppose Israel’s right wing government – Russia and Iran...
HUNDREDS of US rabbis have signed an open letter protesting against Israel’s new far-right administration and pledging to block the extremist members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s...
Turkish air raids break peace deal with Kurds
‘THE truce has no meaning any more after these intense air strikes by the occupant Turkish army,’ the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said on...
ITN JOURNALIST WAS KILLED BY US FORCES – witness tells inquest
Witnesses giving evidence to the continuing inquest into the death in Iraq of veteran ITN war reporter Terry Lloyd in March 2003 have said...
2,500 US troops have already left Iraq says Iraqi Premier
THE Iraqi prime minister says as many as 2,500 US troops have left the country as part of agreements reached with Washington to enable...
89 Young People Took Their Own Lives In Prison From April...
THE Howard League for Penal Reform has responded to the Prison and Probation Ombudsman’s learning lessons bulletin on young adult prisoners who died by...
40,000 Greek workers & youth march to commemorate Athens Polytechnic Uprising
OVER 40,000 students, youth and workers took part in the Athens Polytechnic Uprising commemoration march in Athens last Monday evening from the city centre...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION AND KILLINGS HAVE SCUPPERED NEGOTIATIONS – says...
RECENT Israeli actions against the Palestinian people indicate that Israel has given priority to settlement expansion and the demands of settlers over peace and...
SCRAP SATS AND LEAGUE TABLES – demand teachers unions
The National Union of Teachers (NUT), Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) have produced a joint...
NHS squandering billions on privateers – warns the RCN
THE NHS has squandered billions on agencies that could have been used to hire over 31,000 nurses, says the Royal College of Nursing. New analysis...
IRAQ ‘DAY OF REGRET’ – Mass demonstration this Friday
Iraqi puppet prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki warned his cabinet on Sunday to shape up within 100 days or face ‘changes’, as protest organisers called...
‘Take immediate action to stop the genocide!’
‘The attack by the terrorist enemy army on the city of Rafah is a compounded crime, a deepening of genocide and forced displacement attempts...
Hunger Striker Hattab Demands To Be Recognised As A Prisoner Of...
PALESTINIAN prisoner Kifah Hattab, 53, entered the eighth day of a hunger strike on Wednesday in the latest of a series of hunger strikes...
WORKERS CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE EVERY FRIDAY – to drive...
Over 100,000 workers and youth marched through Dublin last Friday as Ireland was shut down in support of Irish Ferries SIPTU trade union members...
Israeli Airstrikes On Gaza Kill 13
ISRAELI WARPLANES struck multiple sites across Gaza early Tuesday, killing three Islamic Jihad military leaders along with several others, with an initial total of 12 fatalities. Unnamed...
Netanyahu Pledges Never To Remove West Bank Settlements!
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...
Iran And Syria Sign Defence Pact
‘The Iranian nation and government will always stand by the resistance and the oppressed Palestinian people,’ Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has reiterated. Ahmadinejad met with...
Abolish water charges! demands Dublin conference
THE right to decent work, an end to the banks’ veto on mortgage resolutions and the abolition of water charges are among the measures...
Israel Assassinates Palestinian Childhood
THE ISRAELI occupation authorities have transformed the images of joy, play and education that should be the norm for Palestinian children into a shocking...
The deal is Trump’s attempts to impose an extremist Israeli agenda
THE UNVEILING of the so called ‘Deal of the Century’ is yet another disgraceful act by the Trump Administration, today, said the US Palestinian...
US farm workers’ lives are being put in jeopardy says UFW
‘THE United Farm Workers (UFW) commends the efforts by Senators Udall, Gillibrand, Booker, Blumenthal, Harris and Markey to protect farm workers and their families...
‘THIS IS JUST THE START OF THE BIG FUEL REVOLT’ –...
Lorry Drivers and small hauliers rallied hundreds strong at Marble Arch in London yesterday to demand a government fuel subsidy or fuel tax relief...
Over 300 United Families and Friends march on Downing Street
‘Who ARE the murderers? Police are the murderers!’ shouted a demonstration of over 300 on the annual United Families and Friends march from Trafalgar...
US Tripoli Embassy Seized By Militias
The United States embassy compound in the Libyan capital of Tripoli has been raided by militiamen, but no Americans were present as the embassy...
BMA leaders collaborate with NHS privatisation plans
The Chairman of the doctors union, the BMA, wrote a letter to the medical profession on 30th July regarding the new health White Paper...
BASRA ASSASSINATIONS WARNING – police out of control, says chief
‘Basra Police Chief Abd-al-Jalil Khalaf revealed that there is a conspiracy to assassinate religious figures in Basra Governorate during the holy month of Ramadan,’...
CHARRED CORPSES ‘PART OF THE PATTERN’ – of deaths and abuses...
AMNESTY International said yesterday that recent revelations about deaths in custody and abuses by US troops in Afghanistan are further evidence of a culture...
‘Gaza stands for the majority in the world’
The Community Camp4Palestine hosted a panel discussion on Wednesday evening on Zionism and US militarism. The event was well attended on the site of the...
‘They have crashed into a mountain of granite!’
THE Libyan leader has vowed not to surrender and to fight till the end. He urged the ‘masses’ to march on the rebel-held areas...
Yemeni Police Open Fire On Taiz Protesters
YEMENI police killed at least one person and injured scores of other protesters when they opened fire in the city of Taiz on Sunday,...
‘Turkey Is The Main Destination For Isis Oil!’
THE Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov has given a briefing called ‘Russian Federation Armed Forces fighting against international terrorist. New data’. He said:...
‘Free Mahmoud Khalil’ – Camp4Palestine US embassy protest
‘FREE Mahmoud Khalil!’ demanded a lively demonstration organised by the Camp4Palestine outside the US Embassy in South London on Wednesday night. Addressing a rally outside...
‘Let us fight together to transform workers’ lives across the world!’...
COSATU President Zingiswa Losi addressed Day One of the South African trade union movement Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday: ‘Comrades! Brothers and Sisters!...
US unions take action on Martin Luther King Day
Teamsters union sanitation worker members in the US capital are launching a campaign against Waste Management on Martin Luther King Day, today. Nearly 100 Washington,...
BIG BUSINESS FRAUD BOOMING! – as workers fight for their rights
WHERE crime ends and business starts and vice versa has always been seen as a blurred grey area which always remains, whatever the scandals...
Miners dig in at Chile’s Collahuasi strike
THE copper-mining strike by 1,551 members of Sindicato de los Trabajadores de Collahuasi in Chile enters its second week today, with miners emboldened by...