‘We’Ll Fight Until We Win Our Jobs Back’
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to ‘fight until we win our jobs back’ and defeat attempts by their union leadership to sell-out their...
Another deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh!
THE BWI (Building and Wood Worker’s International) union federation has undertaken a fact finding mission on the deadly building collapse in Mongla Cement Factory...
Doctors raise the alarm over UK’s poor health care after ‘years...
DOCTORS have raised the alarm on the misery of the nation’s poor health caused by years of Tory government neglect and funding cuts! In a...
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...
ISRAEL PREPARING NEW ONSLAUGHT ON GAZA – US continues support for...
A SENIOR Israeli official has warned the leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas against a large-scale operation in the besieged Gaza Strip, asserting...
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...
STOP THE DEPORTATION! Southern Cameroon asylum seeker under threat
SCNCUK (Southern Cameroons National Council United Kingdom) is appealing to the Home Office to give Akuchu Maxwell the protection he requires and not deport...
Britain must stop arming Israel and recognise Palestine!
‘BRITAIN must impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and recognise the state of Palestine. We demand Israel gets out of Rafah, Gaza,...
End Cuba blockade now! – demands international Day of Action
A Day of action against the US blockade on Cuba has been held in several countries, with supporters of the Latin American nation determined...
Charter Flight Deportations ‘Forcing Families Apart’
A TOTAL of 17 people were deported on a chartered flight by the Johnson government to Jamaica early on Tuesday morning. The action was condemned...
WHO’s fast-track medical plan ‘is not realistic’ for South Africa
A new curriculum promising to ‘fast-track medical students into the workforce’, which has been launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for...
Saudi war brings Yemen to ‘brink of abyss’
YEMEN’S 20-month war has killed over 7,000 people and wounded nearly 37,000, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says, and a UN envoy has voiced...
Assad Refuses To Break With Iran And Hezbollah!
A LEBANESE lawmaker affiliated to Hezbollah says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has recently offered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad huge sums of money...
Massive Gaza funeral march
JERUSALEM – Thousands marched in the funeral procession on Sunday afternoon of 24-year-old Palestinian, Habib al-Masri, who was killed during night protests in the...
British Columbia dockers strike continues
THE MUA (Maritime Union of Australia) has thrown its support behind striking dockworkers in Canada this week. On Monday the MUA called on one of...
13 million children prevented from going to school!
SURGING conflict and political upheaval across the Middle East and North Africa are preventing more than 13 million children from going to school, according...
Massive Support For Nurses Picket Lines
THE RCN picket outside St Thomas’ hospital opposite Parliament in central London on Tuesday was joined by hundreds of nurses, hospital staff, doctors, and...
Syrian Army Making Considerable Gains
SYRIAN army forces have made considerable gains in their battle against foreign-backed militants around the capital, Damascus, retaking a key ‘rebel’-held town. The government forces...
Israel kills 190 in 24 hours while Iran sends Soraya satellite...
ISRAEL has killed at least 190 people in a time span of just 24 hours in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Gaza’s...
‘YOU WANT TO BRING IN AMERICA, AND WE WANT TO...
LEBANESE Christian politician General Michel Awn addressed a mass anti-government rally of over 200,000 people in Beirut on Sunday 10 December. He warned the government...
‘Turkey has no right to deny Syria and Iraq the right...
SYRIA’s Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi on Wednesday met Iraqi Water Resources Minister Mohsen al-Shummari, discussing with him means to expand cooperation and establish joint...
Palestinian journalist denied justice
A PALESTINIAN journalist shot in the leg by Israeli soldiers as he documented a demonstration in the West Bank in 2015 will not be...
HUNDREDS OF DISPLACED SYRIANS QUIT RUKBAN CAMP – as conference of...
HUNDREDS of displaced Syrians, who have now left al-Rukban camp, have just arrived at the crossing of Jleighem, in Homs eastern countryside. For the past...
‘Syrian Government Is Resolved To Restore Sovereignty Over The Whole National...
PRESIDENTIAL Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban asserted in Damascus yesterday that the Syrian Arab Army will strike wherever there is terrorism in...
Families preparing to launch legal action against Blair!
FOLLOWING publication of the Chilcot Report into the Iraq War, the families of British soldiers who were killed during the war are preparing to...
Public sector decimated by Tory austerity agenda says TUC
TUC delegates at their annual Congress in Brighton on Tuesday voted unanimously to defend public services and pay. Composite Motion 06 Campaigning for public services...
Australian teachers to strike over pay & workload
AUSTRALIAN school teachers and principals in New South Wales (NSW) are taking part in a pay strike next Tuesday, December 7th. The 67,000-member union said...
Intense Israeli Efforts To Expand Settlements
THE Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds in an editorial called ‘Settlements and Water Anew’, which appeared on October 1, exposes Israeli efforts to prevent the formation...
US Homeless Are Being Criminalised
‘To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty.’ This is the viewpoint...
Five copper miners killed in South Africa
FIVE South African miners have died after being trapped underground at the Palabora Copper mine in Phalaborwa, Limpopo province. Initially, six workers were...
50,000 Cubans rally for Venezuela against US aggression
LAST Friday, over 50,000 Cubans attended a rally in solidarity with Venezuela, a country facing the threat of US military aggression. The crowd was made...
French Trade Unions March And Denounce Israel’s Atrocities Against The Palestinians...
AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...
RCN RESPOND TO LABOUR PARTY CALL FOR A £500m NHS WINTER...
JANET DAVIES the Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has responded to the Labour Party call for a £500...
US fast food strikers demand $15 an hour!
FAST food workers walked out of their restaurants all around America last week for the seventh time in nearly two years – to demand...
Israelis Destroy Al-Araqib Village
In the early hours of Tuesday morning Israeli Police demolished a whole Bedouin village in the Negev desert. Approximately 1,500 Israeli forces were involved including...
Strike Wave Grips Egypt
EGYPT is gripped by a wave of strikes as the working class continues its revolutonary actions along with the country’s youth that have seen...
‘WE ARE TREATED LIKE PIECES OF COAL’ – Colombian miners tell...
On an AFL-CIO Solidarity Center-sponsored exchange visit, Florida AFL-CIO Vice-President Mike Williams learned about Colombian workers’ constant struggle for social and economic justice – and...
Bma Must Decide Action To Defend The NHS – Reject The...
The Health and Social care bill brings in the legislation to privatise the delivery and commissioning of healthcare in England. Coupled with the massive cuts,...
Slave Labour & Serious Exploitation In Qatar
QATAR'S construction sector is rife with abuse, with workers employed on multi-million dollar projects suffering serious exploitation in conditions akin to slave labour, Amnesty...
40,000 Boys And Girls Working In The Mines Of The Republic...
AMNESTY International has accused Apple, Samsung and Sony, among others, of failing to do basic checks to ensure minerals used in their products are...
O’LOAN REPORT CONFIRMS YARL’S WOOD ABUSE – ‘and the failure to...
‘THE O’Loan Report confirms Yarl’s Wood abuse and the failure to investigate it,’ says Public Interest Lawyers. Public Interest Lawyers said: ‘Today’s report by Baroness...
BMA condemns Coalition’s local pay drive
THE BMA ARM has condemned the Tory-led drive to impose local pay deals on the public sector – which would mean the end of...
Aslef Fundamentally Opposed To Tory Trade Union Bill!
ASLEF has submitted its evidence on the government’s Trade Union Bill to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee. Introducing its evidence Aslef leader Mick...
Palestinians urge EU to prevent new Israeli settlement
SAEB EREKAT, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), on Wednesday urged the European Union to intervene to prevent...
‘Queen Elizabeth – the heiress of the British Empire’s callous and...
BY ARVIN QAEMIAN Reprinted from Press TV QUEEN Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, was like an immortal icon, like Big Ben. Yet, as Shakespeare put...