PALESTINIANS SHOULD FOLLOW KOSOVO – says Abbas aide
A SENIOR aide to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that Palestinians should follow the example of Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence if Israeli-Palestinian...
JESSE JACKSON ATTENDS WORLD TAMIL CONFERENCE – as Sri Lankan army...
THE world renowned American civil rights leader and peace campaigner Jesse Jackson attended the World Tamils Forum in central London on Thursday, as the...
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – ‘a dangerous political sham’
LEADING aid and human rights organisations have condemned the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ as ‘a dangerous, politicised sham’. Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding) is among 11...
Turkish work-related fatalities highest in Europe–four a day!
A TOTAL of 21,800 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the country since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to...
‘This is the last May Day to be stolen’ – says...
‘THIS is the last May Day to be stolen. It has been used for electioneering and workers are being fed lies and given promises...
MIGRANT WORKERS HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES – but is forced to move...
THE 250 migrant workers, on hunger strike since last Tuesday in Athens, have been forced to abandon the University of Athens Law School hall...
‘ACTIONS AGAINST GAZA SIEGE WILL CONTINUE’ – declares Anonymous
The Israeli army and intelligence agencies’ websites were offline on Sunday, two days after hacker group Anonymous warned it would ‘strike back’ in retaliation...
Muslim Brotherhood has failed forever – says Syria’s Information Minister Omran...
SPEAKING in Damascus on Monday, Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, reiterated that the political leadership in Syria is still committed to the political solution which...
‘We are staring the death of justice in the face’ –Barristers...
OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...
Judge thwarts Trump’s federal mass sackings
A US federal judge has extended her freeze on President Donald Trump’s plan for mass job cuts and reorganisations at 22 federal agencies until...
Big protests in Latin America against the US military
There were large protests in the Dominican Republic on Sunday after the Caribbean Island’s government agreed to the United States setting up ‘temporary military...
Thousands Demand Right To Return On Gaza Border
AT LEAST thirteen Palestinian protesters were shot and injured with Israeli live ammunition, on Wednesday, during mass protests commemorating the 71st anniversary of Nakba...
College lecturers vote to condemn proscription of Hamas!
COLLEGE lecturers at the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (Conel) on Thursday 10th March voted to condemn the Tory government’s proscription...
Uni treating workers like slaves! – NUMSA mass picket
AT THE end of last week, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) staged a mass picket at the University...
Palestinians want vote on statehood by end of year
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry left early Sunday for a series of meetings in Europe seeking to head off an end-of-year UN...
‘WE WILL COME OUT OF THIS FIGHT AS THE WINNERS!’ –...
TENS of thousands of Greek university and higher education college students from all over the country demonstrated last Saturday in the northern city of...
Ten Palestinians Killed And 882 Injured By Israeli Forces In Gaza...
TEN Palestinians, including three children, were killed and 882 others have been injured by Israeli forces at the Gaza border during the past two...
Washington lawsuit against Trump attack on unions
A coalition of American unions has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation...
‘THE DAY OF ISRAELI MILITARY TOURISM ON THE LEBANESE BORDER AND...
HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking via a giant screen on Saturday, vowed to respond to attacks on Hezbollah. HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking...
Academics & Scientists Call For Boycott Of Israeli Conference In Occupied...
IN an Open Letter published on Friday in the Guardian newspaper, 15 academics and scientists from around the world expressed opposition to holding a...
Families of 44 Marikana miners killed by police give evidence
ON SEPTEMBER 12 at the Farlam Commission into the deaths at Marikana, the families of the 44 people who died were telling their stories. The...
‘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...
Greek Telecom Pensions Crisis
Greek Telecom’s OME-OTE trade union leadership succeeded last weekend in pushing through the union’s congress a most reactionary agreement which had been worked out...
EALING MATERNITY ENTRANCE OCCUPIED! – Stop work on July 1 and...
THE occupation of Ealing Hospital is in full swing, with shifts ensuring that the entrance to the closure-threatened maternity department is occupied 24...
Doctors and nurses warn cuts mean new winter crisis
DOCTORS and nurses slammed government cuts and warned of a new winter crisis in response to the latest NHS Digital performance figures released on...
Hezbollah condemns Israel’s occupation of additional Syrian territories
‘THE ISRAELI entity’s occupation of additional Syrian territories and targeting of military capabilities there constitutes a dangerous and strongly condemned act of aggression,’ Hezbollah...
BRING THE ZIONIST WAR CRIMINALS TO TRIAL – urges Hamas
HAMAS has issued a statement headed: ‘Open letter to legal and international organisations: Let all efforts and energies unite to bring the Zionist war...
SOUTH AFRICAN UNION NEHAWU CALLS TO ‘STAY AWAY’ ON AUGUST 28th...
THE NATIONAL Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has called on health staff to stay away from work on 28th August to protest...
President Abbas will meet with Netanyahu ‘If President Putin calls for...
THE SPOKESMAN for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said last Wednesday that the President ‘is ready for a three-way meeting with Israel...
Union leaders refuse to defend BA workers wages and jobs –...
BRITISH Airways workers are facing a huge fight to defend their jobs and conditions of employment against a vicious management onslaught. BA management have announced...
Investment firms and asset managers of UK arms industry making massive...
THE British state is subsidising the UK arms industry to the tune of billions of pounds to the benefit of its wealthy private owners...
A THIRD OF YOUTH THINK THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF GETTING...
UNEMPLOYED youngsters want to work, but a survey carried on behalf of the Univercity College Union (UCU) shows a third fear they never will. Nine...
THE COST OF ‘DARING TO DISSENT’ – death threats and detention...
TamilNet reports that Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has condemned an anonymous death threat and his detension in the airport by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID)...
Unions demand self-determination on International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has made a fervent call for the...
‘SUPPORT OUR CAMPAIGN!’ – call by NEU ahead of next week’s...
‘AFTER the regional days of strike action across the union, the next action will be 15 and 16 March, by teachers in all state...
150,000 public sector workers strike – manning 250 picket lines across...
WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...
Ramaphosa is under fire for sacking twenty-two farm workers!
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa might soon find himself embroiled in a Labour Court battle as Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) is set to take...
FBU Replies To The Coalition Diktat!
FBU (Fire Brigades Union) Leader Matt Wrack wrote on 6th August to Brandon Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local...
President elect Raeisi congratulated by world leaders
WORLD leaders have extended their congratulations to Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on his victory in Iran’s 2021 presidential election. Raeisi garnered almost 62 per cent of...
5th Anniversary of Trincomalee students’ execution
RELATIVES of the five Trincomalee students, who were shot dead execution-style by Sri Lanka soldiers on January 2nd 2006, are remembering the fifth anniversary...
Bangladesh government using court to put workers’ safety at risk say...
The Bangladesh government is using proceedings before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh to prevent the Accord on workers’ safety from operating, thereby putting safety...
STOP BOMBING TAMIL CIVILIANS! – demand 125,000 demonstrators
A huge mass of Tamil people gathered on the north side of the Thames at Pimlico on Saturday lunchtime calling for an immediate ceasefire...
Israeli Foreign Minister threatens Hamas leaders with assassination
ISRAELI foreign minister Eli Cohen’s threat of killing leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas exposes the regime’s frustration over its defeat against the...
Unions Warn – Increase Pay To Fill The 132,000 NHS Vacancies!
UNIONS representing more than a million staff working across the NHS met with Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Tuesday to discuss the growing workforce crisis...
AUSTRALIAN UNIONS DEMAND A PLAN FOR JOBS! • Plus an end...
THE federal government must deliver a plan for jobs to avoid Australia developing long-term structural unemployment, warns the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Thursday’s...