‘We stand united to defend pensions’ -says NUT leader CHristine Blower
School teachers, further education college and post-92 university lecturers in London are taking part in a one-day strike and demonstration today as the next...
Bma Opposes ‘Deliberate Targetting Of Civilians In Gaza And Sri Lanka
Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Liverpool on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for Motion 247 on ‘humanitarian crises in...
Fast-food strike in 150 US cities
FAST-food workers in more than 150 US cities walked off their jobs on Thursday, the latest in a series of strike protests demanding a...
REPORT ON ISRAEL’S BLOCKADE OF GAZA . . . ‘Slow death...
THE EGYPTIAN Army, mimicking the brutal methods of the Zionist occupiers, have been bulldozing Palestinian homes on the Rafah border with Gaza, destroying smuggling...
Foreign Ministers from 10 countries condemn Israel’s attack on flotilla to...
TEN countries’ foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a peaceful civilian humanitarian mission attempting to break the Israeli...
Child defendant at risk of death penalty in Saudi Arabia
A SAUDI court has proceeded with a case against a child defendant at risk of the death penalty, contradicting the Saudi government’s claim it...
Hundreds of Gaza babies and infants at risk due to lack...
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has issued an urgent appeal to save the lives of hundreds of infants and premature babies who...
Striking NUT 6th form college teachers defy the Tories!
STRIKING 6th Form College National Union of Teachers (NUT) members from around England took part in a national demonstration on Tuesday to defend their...
‘UPROOT VIRUS OF OCCUPATION–SANCTIONS NOW!’ – urges the Palestinian Ambassador Husam...
‘IT IS TIME to get serious. It is time to go all the way and uproot the virus of occupation. We demand sanctions on...
‘Murder With Impunity In Puerto Quetzal’
An ITF/ITUC mission has just returned from Guatemala where it investigated the murder of trade union leader Pedro Zamora and the use of terror...
US-Made Cluster Bombs Found At Many Sites In Lebanon
The US State Department said last Friday it has launched an inquiry into whether Israel misused US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon during the US-backed...
Mass Hunger Strikes In Israeli Jails Planned
AFTER Fatah-affiliated Palestinians held in Israeli prisons organised a mass hunger strike to take place on Palestinian Prisoners Day later this month, scores of...
‘WE ARE DEFEATING THE TERRORISTS’ says Assad
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad has affirmed that the situation in Syria has improved dramatically because the terrorist groups, mainly ISIS, al-Nusra and like-minded groups who...
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...
Restore free accommodation for junior doctors
Around 300 medical students from across the country held a rally on Friday before holding an overnight protest against the removal of hospital accommodation...
STALINISTS AND REFORMERS BETRAY STEEL AND BANK WORKERS – Build the...
Statement by the Revolutionary Marxist League Greek Section of the International Committee of the Fourth International The only road for all workers is to build...
‘No extradition – free Julian Assange!’ – says Julian Assange Defence...
‘THERE is only one decision: No extradition! – free Julian Assange’ chanted a demonstration of over 50 supporters of the jailed Wikileaks founder Julian...
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...
‘ALL CLOSURE THREATENED HOSPITALS, FIRE STATIONS AND FACTORIES SHOULD BE OCCUPIED’...
‘CHASE FARM Hospital is occupied,’ Bill Rogers, Secretary of the North East London Council of Action, told News Line, speaking inside the hospital at...
Catastrophic fire cuts! Merseyside stations to be unmanned at night!
SAFETY has been compromised for the residents of Merseyside in Liverpool, as years of savage cuts to the fire services have left it unable...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – PART 3: The Class Dictatorship...
‘FEBRUARY 25, 1848, had granted the republic to France, June 25 thrust the revolution upon her. And revolution, after June, meant: overthrow of bourgeois...
‘OUR PEOPLE ARE ONE AND OUR LAND IS ONE’ – extend...
A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was holding on Monday for a second day, despite continued violence in the occupied West Bank where two...
‘Give deaf young people a fair chance!’
THE National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) is urging the government to halt the rollout of Personal Independence Payment (PIP – which replaces Disability Living...
Bush attacks the sick, the elderly and the workers
‘PRESIDENT George W Bush wants to make sure his tax cuts for the wealthy become permanent, at a cost of about $3...
US airstrikes on Iraq are ‘a clear example of terrorism’ –...
THE United States’ latest military aggression against Iraq’s popular Hashd al-Sha’abi forces that left dozens of casualties continues to draw widespread condemnation from officials...
Portland, Oregon unions are ready to strike over contract negotiations breakdown!
Two Portland, Oregon unions representing city employees are getting closer to walking off the job over a breakdown in contract negotiations. The American Federation of...
Senegal’s Diomaye Faye wins the Presidency 2 weeks after release from...
Senegal’s 44-year-old opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye was named the country’s next president on Tuesday morning, after winning the country’s presidential election on Sunday...
4.2 million Bangladesh garment workers issue demands to new government
UNI Global Union and IndustriALL are calling on international fashion brands to continue their long-term commitment to Bangladesh to help secure the country’s democratic...
FBU launch DECON campaign to protect against toxic fire contaminants
Fire contaminants are directly linked to and can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases. The FBU has launched its new trailblazing campaign...
END ‘INJUSTICE AND BIAS AGAINST ARAB NATION’ – urges Hamas
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, last Thursday condemned the London blasts, urging an end to the ‘injustice and bias against the Arab nation’. Commenting...
London Mayor Accused Of Gambling With Tube Safety
TUBE unions have reacted angrily to the announcement that all London Underground ticket offices will be shut by 2015 with the loss of nearly...
REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION DEVELOPING IN ITALY! – as Cossiga calls to put...
‘THE forces of law and order should massacre the demonstrators without pity’ was the ruling class response from former Italian Prime Minister and president...
‘NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PUNISH PARENTS’ – One Parent...
Now is not the time to introduce legislation that will punish those parents who fail to make their way in a tough jobs market,...
Athens Students March Attacked By Police
Over 30,000 university students from all the main Greek cities, along with delegations of school students and some 3,000 secondary school teachers and university...
ISRAEL RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY RETREAT FROM TRUCE DEAL – says Hamas
Osama Hamdan, the Hamas Movement’s representative in Lebanon, on Saturday condemned Israel as being fully responsible for any retreat from truce understandings. He also said...
‘Government policy is failing to deliver for a generation of children’...
‘THE implications for children’s life chances can’t be allowed to continue,’ said the National Education Union (NEU) on Wednesday, commenting on the Public Accounts...
Palestinians Confront Settlers At Beit Orot
Jerusalem residents and Fatah official Hatem Abdul Qader confronted a group of Israeli settlers as they attempted to claim lands on the Mount of...
‘We are ready to starve but will not be ready… to...
MAHMOUD Aloul, deputy chairman of Fatah movement, said on Tuesday that the Palestinian people will not allow the humanitarian situation in Gaza to override...
‘Fight for a general strike to bring down the government and...
The May Day Rally organised by the Young Socialists and the Workers Revolutionary Party, took place in Holborn on Monday 4th May at the end...
‘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...
Von der Leyen vows to transform the European Union into a...
URSULA von der Leyen who has been re-elected as European Commission (EC) President, has vowed to transform the EU into a defence bloc in...
‘No psychological or economic warfare will stop Venezuela moving forward’ ...
Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan President, said on Tuesday that ‘No psychological warfare will stop Venezuela’. Maduro added: ‘We defeated them in the psychological war and...
‘VICTORY IS CLOSE!’ – say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
‘VICTORY is close now,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a meeting of more than 200 trade unionists and youth on Sunday in...
Six white Mississippi cops admit torturing two black men
SIX white Mississippi police officers have pleaded guilty to state charges for torturing two black men in a racist assault in the United States. All...
Barnet families denounce mass evictions
TENANTS facing eviction from their homes in Sweets Way Estate in Barnet, north London, were joined by their recently evicted former neighbours on Sunday...