‘Despite the heroic efforts of staff, waits for hospital care are...
A NEW report published last Thursday, 22 August, by the Health Foundation found that the UK’s performance on hospital-based care is consistently languishing near...
Yarl’s Wood indefinite hunger strike
The women from Avocet and Dove units, along with a few men on the family wing, are refusing food and are planning further protests....
Palestinian prisoner kept in solitary confinement for eight years!
A PALESTINIAN prisoner who has been in solitary confinement for eight years in Israeli jails has recently been suffering a psychological and neurological disorder,...
Cosatu Gives Its Fullest Support To Numsa Strikers
ZWELINZIMA Vavi, General Secretary of COSATU, addressed the FAWU (Food and Allied Workers Union) Eastern Cape Regional Congress last Friday. He said: ‘We meet at...
Youth Uprising In Bobigny Suburb Of Paris
''I''M NO HERO,’ insisted 16-year-old Emmanuel Toula after he rescued a child from a burning car set alight during last Saturday night’s...
The Easter Rising a powerful blow against ‘the power of the...
OUR theses were written before the outbreak of this rebellion, which must be the touchstone of our theoretical views. The views of the opponents...
TAMIL DETAINEES BEING LEFT OFF VOTERS’ LIST says Campaign for Free...
The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) in a statement has urged the Sri Lanka Department of Elections to implement a proper programme...
Guaido One was defeated and Guaido Two will be crushed! –...
VENEZUELAN Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has rejected a European Union statement which calls for ‘further independent verification of the electoral records, if possible by...
Israel Has Arrested 16,500 Palestinian Children Since The Second Intifada
ISRAEL has arrested some 16,500 Palestinian children since the outbreak of the Second Intifada (uprising) in late-2000, a study says. Abdul-Naser Farwana, a Palestinian ex-prisoner...
Gaza’s child casualties are ‘the result of precise, targeted shootings’
ON THE morning of 24 August 2024, four-year-old Mira Al-Darini stood outside her family’s makeshift tent in a cramped displacement camp in Khan Younis,...
NHS ‘safe staffing forum’ demands minimum legal safe staffing level!
SIXTY Unison nursing delegates gathered in Warwick last week for the ‘safe staffing forum’ in which the worforce crisis in the NHS was discussed....
Bush, Blair And Ahern Welcome Ira Statement
The IRA announced the end of the armed struggle against British imperialism in a statement issued on Thursday. The statement said: ‘The leadership of...
Unions angry over pay and progression cuts!
In his budget speech Chancellor Osborne announced that there would be a one per cent annual pay rise of the public sector up to...
AMERICA FACES ‘DEFINITE AND TERRIFYING DEFEAT’ – says Ba’ath party leader
THE Socialist Arab Ba’ath Party in Iraq has affirmed that the report presented by the two assistants to the American president in Iraq, Ambassador...
US-UK’s man in Uzbekistan ‘slaughtering protesters like rabbits’
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary Straw condemned the repressions by the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan. It has already killed 500 Uzbeks and is getting...
NUMSA to march on President Ramaphosa’s office
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will march on Wednesday, April 19th to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office to protest against security...
Afl-Cio Forms Partnership With National Day Labourers!
A NEW national partnership agreement signed yesterday by the AFL-CIO and the largest network of worker centres serving low-wage, often immigrant workers will help...
IRAQ – Attacks on US troops reached a peak in the...
THE US military has reported the deaths of three more troops, two in blasts and one hit by small arms fire in insurgent...
Israeli Guards Attack Palestinian Prisoners!
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has published a ‘A Communiqué from Arab Prisoners of War In An-Naqab Desert Prison. ‘Demanding to put the...
THE GRIM REALITY OF WATER PRIVATISATION – ‘A company swimming in...
‘THIS is the grim reality of water privatisation, a company swimming in debt while the rest of us are swimming in sewage,’ Unite General...
China ready to forge closer links with Russia – ...
CHINESE President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China is ready to work with Russia to forge a closer partnership in energy cooperation. Energy cooperation...
Israel has killed 1.8% of Gazans in the last 10 months
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported this week that the Israeli occupation forces have killed, in the ongoing genocide war on the Gaza...
Hamas Warns Israel Against Al-Aqsa Mosque Violations
THE Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israeli authorities against violations at al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds, emphasising...
‘LEGAL AID DESERTS’ half of councils have no legal aid for...
OVER 50% of local authorities in England and Wales cannot provide publicly funded legal advice on housing issues, the Law Society warned yesterday as...
Protracted strikes in Nigeria universities and South Africa platinum mine
WORKERS at seven state-run universities and colleges in Plateau State in Nigeria held the third day of a strike on Wednesday, disrupting academic and...
Australian companies spend millions spying on workers!
DISCLOSURES by New South Wales (NSW) Government-owned electricity network companies have revealed almost five million dollars was spent in just four years to hire...
Roger Waters performs for Assange – Defend freedom of speech! No...
OVER a thousand supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rallied outside the Home Office on Monday evening to hear Roger Waters perform ‘Wish...
‘The mindset behind the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings remains present...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has condemned the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying the mindset behind such attacks remains present in Washington...
Israel rocked by anti-Netanyahu protests – as police use water-cannons!
THOUSANDS of demonstrators have blocked traffic into the departures area at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, where Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin landed for...
‘Monopoly capitalism causing job loss bloodbath’ –warns South Africa’s NUMSA union
‘MONOPOLY capitalism is plunging the country into a catastrophic crisis, which will inflict misery upon millions of workers and the poor,’ the National Union...
Over 40 countries seeking to join BRICS nations – summit in...
JOHANNESBURG – A summit of the leaders of BRICS nations, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, with the bloc’s expansion being on...
UCU action to begin against Goldsmiths plan to bulldoze through brutal...
GOLDSMITHS University UCU (University and College Union) members, who have overwhelmingly voted to strike against the sacking of more than one-in-six academic staff at...
14-DAY LOCKDOWN IN PALESTINIAN WEST BANK –as Palestine confirms 59 coronavirus...
Life came to a standstill in all West Bank cities and towns on Monday as the curfew and strict lockdown Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad...
17,070 Disabled People Have Died Before Receiving One Penny In Benefits!
IT NOW takes so long for claims to be processed that 17,070 disabled people have died before receiving a penny because they were still...
51st birthday rally for Assange
OVER seventy campaigners demanding the release of Julian Assange attended a party outside Belmarsh prison on Sunday to celebrate his 51st birthday. Assange has been...
HEZBOLLAH UPHOLDS ARAB NATIONAL SECURITY says Sayyed Safieddine!
HEAD of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has lashed out at Saudi claims that the Lebanese Resistance movement ‘risks Arab national security’. Speaking at...
NUMSA battles for COSATU leadership and breaks with ANC
NUMSA National Executive Committee has issued a full statement on COSATU in response to calls for its expulsion from the federation. The National Union of...
Israel demolishing homes of accused Palestinians
ISRAELI authorities on Thursday handed the families of two Palestinian suspects – whom Israel accused of being involved in an attack against Israeli soldiers...
‘We’Ll Strike To Keep Royal Mail Public’
‘ROYAL Mail not for sale!’ shouted over 200 postal workers and their supporters as they marched through Corby last Friday. They were applauded as they...
Amnesty indicts Israel’s Gaza war crimes!
NEW evidence showing that Israeli forces carried out war crimes in retaliation for the capture of an Israeli soldier was released on Wednesday in...
Hezbollah Urges Unity Among Resistance Groups Until Final Victory Is Achieved!
The secretary General Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has underscored the significance of unity among resistance groups until achieving final victory in Operation al-Aqsa Storm,...
Egyptian Army Demolitions Creating A Gaza Buffer Zone
AL-AQSA TV on Sunday morning carried the following ‘urgent’ screen caption: ‘Residents on the Egyptian side of Rafah are angry because the Egyptian army...
Top World Health Organisation Official Is Extremely Worried About Polio &...
A TOP World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday that he’s ‘extremely worried’ about polio and other outbreaks of communicable diseases in Gaza...
COUNCIL OF ACTION LAUNCHED – to stop hospital closures!
TRADE unionists, youth and local NHS campaigners voted unanimously at a meeting on Thursday night ‘to establish the North East London Council of Action’. The...
Targeted political killing! – SAFTU condemns brutal assassination of Mokoena Letsie
SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) has condemned in the strongest possible terms the brutal assassination of community activist and organiser Mokoena Letsie,...