Canadian unions condemn Trump’s trade war
HOW long will Canadian and American workers be pawns in Trump’s trade war? asks the IAM (Machinists) Canada union. Just three days after threatening to...
Israeli settlers stone Palestinian family, steal olive harvest and destroy trees
Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian family with stones as they were picking olives on their own land near the village of Rujib, to the...
Migrant workers face forced labour and Exploitation in uk!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has carried out a comprehensive investigation into migrant workers’ experiences of forced labour and exploitation in the UK food industry...
Israeli army veteran Avigail Abarbanel opposes the occupation of Palestine!
THE plight of the Palestinian people under the military occupation is so painful that even sometimes the citizens of Israel recount it in heartwrenching...
Single shots to head or chest reveal deliberate targeting of children,...
Foreign doctors in Gaza describe a pattern of children killed by a single gunshot to the head or chest as showing that Israel is...
600,000 Cambodian garment workers taking strike action!
HALF of Cambodia’s garment workers, roughly 600,000, began a nationwide four-day ‘stay at home’ strike yesterday, called by eight trade unions demanding a higher...
Significant increase in Gaza malnutrition cases – UNRWA warns
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has issued a warning about a significant increase in malnutrition cases as Israel’s total blockade of the...
Take Strike Action Against Royal Mail’s Draconian Plans!
Central to the Royal Mail ‘Pay Offer and Modernisation Agreement 2007/09’ are the sections on ‘flexible working’. These put the workforce at the minute-to-minute disposal...
‘CLOSE DOWN CAMPSFIELD! – 12 years too long’
‘Close Down Campsfield – 12 years Too Long!’, declared campaigners yesterday. They were announcing a national demonstration outside the Immigration Removal Centre’s main gates on...
‘Murder with impunity’ Stop appeasing Saudi regime says International Federation of...
AS MORE and more evidence emerges about the gruesome nature of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called...
Secret Police State Helped Bosses Draw Up Blacklist And Used Women...
CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has exposed how the union was infiltrated by the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The revelation creates fresh questions about the...
TWO SICK PALESTINIAN PRISONERS ATTEMPT SUICIDE! – hunger strikers in danger...
Two sick Palestinian prisoners have attempted to commit suicide, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s ministry of prisoners affairs said on Tuesday. Hanan al-Khatib said...
Appeal Against Fox’s Refusal To Hold Public Inquiry Into Torture Of...
THE Court of Appeal will on Monday 18th July 2011 commence a three-day hearing to consider the lawfulness of the refusal by Liam Fox,...
Lebanese condemn Israeli aggression
Lebanon’s president, prime minister and Parliamentary Speaker slammed Israel’s ‘aggression’ against the country on Tuesday, as Lebanese and Israeli occupation troops exchanged fire...
SAVE LEWISHAM BRIDGE SCHOOL! demand parents, teachers and pupils
MORE than 300 parents, teachers, students and schoolchildren marched through the centre of Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday to save Lewisham Bridge Primary School. The...
Israel Prepares New Attacks On Gaza
Israel’s security cabinet warned on Wednesday that it will hold Hamas responsible for any attacks from Gaza, and it will also keep the crippling...
SAFTU demonstration for a 1,500 Rand Basic Income Grant
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is opposing plans by the South African ANC government to replace the Social Relief of Distress...
Sodexo Oppressing Workers In The US And Colombia
Sodexo laundry workers in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday delivered a petition to management calling for greater safety standards. The petition included hundreds of signatures from...
ABBAS-OLMERT TALKS ‘WILL LEAD THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE NOWHERE’ – warns Haniya
Ezzet Al-Resheq, political bureau member of the Hamas Movement, on Monday castigated Palestinian National Authority (PNA) president Mahmud Abbas for insisting on meeting with...
‘THE ERA OF THE PEACE PROCESS IS BEHIND US!’ – writes...
RAMZY Baroud, an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com, has written about his thoughts in an article called ‘The Paris Peace...
Israeli police storm funeral tent of Palestinian prisoner hero Walid Daqqa!
ISRAELI police stormed the funeral tent of Palestinian hero, writer and prisoner Walid Daqqa in the West Bank city of Baqa al-Gharbiya in Occupied...
Heart patients hit by pandemic
THE overwhelming of NHS hospitals by Covid patients in successive waves has led to a large reduction in care for heart patients, with consequent...
Syrian army discovers underground terrorist headquarters in Idlib
DURING sweeping operations in the newly-liberated city of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, Syrian Arab Army units have discovered a fortified Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist...
IRAN MUST ATTEND ANY GENEVA CONFERENCE – insists Russia
SPEAKING in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said said on Thursday that the ‘international community’ has to decide with whom it will...
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...
END THE OCCUPATION! VICTORY TO PALESTINE! 120,000 march through central London
OVER 120,000 marched and rallied in central London on Saturday against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza as the Palestinian death toll reached over 1,000. Workers and...
Labour Pressing Ahead With Heygate Estate Demolition!
ANGER IS growing at the attack on council housing and in particular because the drive to destroy big estates like the Heygate Estate in...
Palestine erupts against Trump visit and occupation
AT LEAST 13 Palestinians were shot and injured – at least one seriously – during clashes with Israeli forces in Ramallah in the occupied...
TURIN STUDENTS DEMAND FREE PALESTINE! – French CGT workers national mobilisation...
STUDENTS protested against the genocide in Gaza clashed with Italian police last Friday. The students reject ‘the war economy’ imposed by Giorgia Meloni’s ‘reactionary and...
FBU is battling to defend the service & defend jobs
‘DON’T think of this as your own personal job – you’re only looking after it for the next person. This is one of the...
CIA having nightmares about US failure in war on Syria
THE war in Syria poses the greatest threat to US security because of the risk of the government falling and the country becoming a...
Oakland longshoremen march against Trump!
ON the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested....
‘Liberating The NHS’ – Bma Responds To Coalition Privatisation Plan
‘THIS response details the BMA’s position on the specific areas for reform contained in the consultation Liberating the NHS: Greater choice and control, building...
TURKISH ARMY SHELLS AFRIN AS TERRORISTS SHELL DAMASCUS – US bombing...
ON WEDNESDAY more civilians were killed or injured and material damage caused to the citizens’ houses and public facilities in Afrin city and its...
‘Convene our own people’s parliament to unite against poverty’ – SAFTU...
ZWELINZIMA VAVI, SAFTU general secretary, addressed the THOR Congress at the Plaza hotel, Durban 24-25 Feb 2018. He said: ‘THOR (Transport Action Retail...
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...
Huge Support For Delphi Workers
Huge support is building up for US Delphi workers confronting a massive attack on their wages, healthcare and pensions. The former General Motors subsidiary,...
BRINGING DOWN TORIES IS THE KEY says striking Uber driver
‘BRINGING down the Tory government is the key thing,’ striking Uber driver Liban Yussuf told News Line at the lunchtime rally outside Uber HQ...
TULKAREM ASSASSINATIONS – undercover Israeli troops kill Islamic Jihad leader
An undercover unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) backed by 15 military vehicles stormed into and imposed curfew on the northern West Bank...
Immigrant workers face ‘an epidemic of workplace injury and death’ says...
‘TODAY immigrant workers in this country face an epidemic of workplace injury and death,’ stated the Afl-Cio trade union federation yesterday. In fact, immigrant...
Nigerian unions will strike against oil company intimidation!
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN said that...
NO WORKER CAN BE JAILED FOR GOING ON STRIKE! – say...
AN Alexandria misdemeanors court on Sunday overturned jail sentences for five workers from the Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Company. The court had sentenced the...
Argentinian students and teachers pepper-sprayed during protests!
ARGENTINIAN universities began a 24-hour strike on Thursday. The National Interuniversity Council (CIN), professors’ and workers’ unions, and student organisations held the 24-hour strike in...
GAZA PALESTINIANS SUFFERING UNDER THE BLOCKADE –industries have stopped, –ambulances without...
A GROUP of British and Irish activists have arrived in the Gaza Strip to show their solidarity with Palestinians living under siege in the...
‘WE WILL LIBERATE JERUSALEM AGAIN’ – says Hamas leader Mishaal
HAMAS Political Bureau Head Khaled Mishaal last weekend pledged that Jerusalem will be liberated again during a speech rally in Damascus to mark the...