International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people
PALESTINE President Mahmoud Abbas received a telegram from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday to mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian...
‘Lessons of the successful All-India General Strike!’
‘WORKERS Resistance and the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) congratulates the working class of the country for making the all-India strike...
No sackings! Pay the London living wage!
‘PAY all at least he London Living Wage! No sackings! No cuts to hours! Affordable cinema tickets for working class families! Save our community...
Starbucks workers in New York State are joining the union
NEW YORK State baristas and other workers at the Starbucks coffee shop in Syracuse’s Armory Square, are seeking to join a union as part...
USA public service workers fight anti-union attack
IN ITS 5-4 decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Supreme Court ended the practice of requiring...
WORLD HAS PAID A HEAVY PRICE FOR ‘WAR ON TERROR’ says...
The world’s poor and disadvantaged pay the price of war on terror, says Amnesty International in its annual report 2006 published on Tuesday. Introducing the...
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...
Argentine government steps up attack on migrant workers
ARGENTINA'S government ended free medical care for non-resident foreigners in national public hospitals and approved the expulsion of migrants who incite hate messages, expanding...
Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...
‘ISRAELI FORCES MUST END THE UNLAWFUL KILLINGS OF PALESTINIANS!’ says Amnesty...
AMNESTY International said Israeli forces – using intentional lethal force without justification – must end the pattern of unlawful killings carried out against Palestinians. Based...
1,383 US medics demand deportations stop!
1,383 MEDICAL professionals last Friday demanded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) end the Title 42 border expulsions order that has...
‘The corporate structure of care homes … hides profits, avoids tax...
SOME of the Big 26 care home providers make use of ‘complex company structures’ is the finding of a report from the Centre for...
‘A LABOUR REVOLUTION NEEDED’ – to save Haiti, says ILO leader
‘The decent work agenda is a primary need when we talk about reconstruction,’ Anthony Jones, the resident representative of the ITUC and the Trade...
Tens of thousands of VW workers strike across Germany
66,000 VW employees went on a ‘warning strike’ on Monday, said their union IG Metall on Tuesday. A union statement continued: ‘The employees are making...
Ukrainian military is recruiting in the United States and in Britain...
The Ukrainian army is violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by soliciting foreign citizens to join the International Legion of the Ukrainian Territorial...
Syrian Masses Take To The Streets Against Israeli State Terrorism
Syrian governorates on Monday witnessed huge mass demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance in the face of continued savage Israeli aggressions...
‘DISGUSTING HYPOCRISY’ –Buncefield firefighters invited to Downing Street are facing the...
‘HYPOCRISY!’ That was the reaction of angry firefighters picketing Downing Street on Wednesday night – disgusted that crews who fought the giant Buncefield oil...
COALITION’S POLICIES ARE CAUSING THE NHS CRISIS! – insist health trade...
THE Department of Health has published an 80-page response to the Francis report into the failings at Mid Staffs Hospital. This is called ‘Patients...
‘PATIENT DEATHS DO NOT INCREASE DURING DOCTOR STRIKES!’ says Harvard Medical...
‘PATIENT deaths do not increase during doctor strikes,’ research has shown, as junior doctors prepare for their three days of action. The junior doctors are...
COUNCIL TAX HITS THE POOR THE HARDEST – 3 million summonses...
Over two million households are estimated to be struggling to pay Council Tax, according to a new report by the Warwick Institute for Employment...
Political Messiah Quits!
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER Rev Ian Paisley, a political messiah to Protestant Unionism, has shockingly quit as both Stormont First Minister and leader...
706 family members of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel
ISRAEL has killed at least 706 family members of Palestinian journalists since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, according...
3,200 Boeing workers vote to extend indefinite strike
Boeing workers in the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union at three midwest plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed...
SYRIAN VILLAGERS DRIVE OUT US MILITARY VEHICLES – as US planes...
SYRIANS in the villages of al-Qahira and al-Dushaisha – in Tal Tamir in Hasaka northern countryside – have intercepted US occupation force vehicles and...
471 Days of israeli Crimes Gives Way to Ceasefire
Amidst an atmosphere filled with anticipation and hope, the residents of the Gaza Strip spent their first night after the ceasefire took effect on...
Detention of Palestinian TV crew condemned as a violation of international...
JERUSALEM – Several Palestinian officials and experts condemned the detention of a Palestine TV crew in Jerusalem on Friday, describing it as a violation...
Aussie student nurses: funding frozen
AUSTRALIA’S Federal Government has quietly decided to freeze university funding for regional nursing and other students, warns Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union (QNMU). In a...
Menezes Family sidelined by Metropolitan Police Authority
MEMBERS of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) were today made aware of a complaint by The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign about...
US urges Russia to back UN Security Council over Syria
THE United States on Tuesday urged Russia to back UN Security Council action on Syria, after UN officials said the death toll in the...
890 arrested on Palestine Action demonstration!
MORE than 890 people were arrested on Saturday at a demonstration against the government’s ban of campaign group Palestine Action. An estimated 1,500 gathered in...
‘PAUSE’ A COVER FOR DESTRUCTION OF HOSPITAL CARE! – Part 4:...
THE South East London Cluster combines the PCTs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation trust is a large...
South African miners strike for 12.5%
Workers from the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) started strike action at the Annesley Andalusite Mine located in Penge, outside Burgersfort...
UK MUST SUPPORT INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTO KILLING OF PROTESTERS IN...
A DEMONSTRATION on Saturday of over 2,000 people shouted their support for Palestine in solidarity with the ‘Great March of Return’ in Gaza and...
Fatah and Hamas unite to fight Israeli annexation plans
SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, said on Sunday that the State of Palestine has been mobilising...
‘Rice cannot impose a buffer zone or a security zone on...
HASAN Fadlallah, the Lebanese MP for Bint Jubayl, which has been completely destroyed by Israeli bombing, and a leader of the Hezbollah...
Teamsters Question Self-Driving Technology As Sanders Wants ‘Medicare For All’
TEAMSTERS General Secretary Treasurer, Ken Hall, has testified at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on self-driving technology, urging for the exemption of commercial...
Prince Charles visiting Saudi Arabia where 17 people have been executed...
CONCERNS about human rights in Saudi Arabia were raised in a briefing by Amnesty International and released ahead of Monday’s visit to the feudal...
Israeli troops shoot dead 3 Palestinians in a car in Nablus
THREE Palestinians were killed on Tuesday after Israeli forces opened fire at their vehicle in al-Tur area in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus,...
US Federal Employees Fight Pay And Benefits Onslaught
Situation Facing US Federal Employees Today – by the AFGE (American Federation of Government Employees) trade union. ‘THE current political climate for all public employees,...
‘TAKE OUT A WRIT AGAINST FORD’ –demand 500 ex-Visteon workers
500 sacked Visteon workers demonstrated outside the Unite London headquarters on Wednesday to demand the union immediately takes out a writ against Ford motor...
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...
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...
‘Gaza still patient and steadfast against massacres, slaughters, starvation and displacement,...
The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haneyya, made a televised speech on Sunday evening, to mark the beginning of Ramadan. ‘Ramadan is peace upon...
Syria Offers Coalition To Combat Isis!
DAMASCUS – Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, said in Damascus that Syria is prepared to cooperate and coordinate on...
TRADE UNIONS CONDEMN TORY COALITION’S £6.25bn CUTS –but have no plan...
THE INITIAL £6.25 billion spending cuts announced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government on Monday, that will lead to thousands of sackings and closures...