Asylum seekers housed in cramped and filthy conditions!
ASYLUM seekers are housed in cramped and filthy conditions at two military barracks, with a number of residents feeling suicidal, inspectors have said. Key findings...
AIRSTRIKES ON GAZA! – Palestinian woman killed
ISRAELI forces on Sunday morning opened fire on Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza Strip, local officials said yesterday. Local residents added that Israeli forces...
Haniya Hails ‘Historic And Strategic Victory’
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on Sunday hailed an ‘historic and strategic victory’ in Gaza. In his televised speech, he said: ‘We achieved...
‘A general strike for Palestine is what is needed!’ – as...
More than 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London on Saturday on the 30th National March since...
Sri Lankan Workers Rising Up Against The Rajapakse Regime
THE Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) yesterday said that a decision has been made to continue their current trade union action in whatever...
China’s economy grows by 5.4% each year
CHINA has the confidence and capability to mitigate the adverse impacts of external shocks on its economy and sustain sound economic development, a Chinese...
Stop ignoring Israel’s targeting of journalists – UN told
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been urged to address Israel’s attacks on press freedom and escalating military actions in Lebanon and Gaza, as...
‘Deal of the Century belongs in the garbage can of history’...
SAEB EREKAT, the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), has called on Israeli authorities to immediately and unconditionally release...
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...
Police violently attack Ecuadorian protesters
THOUSANDS of Indigenous people continue to demonstrate in the Ecuadorian capital, as their calls for social and economic reforms grow louder despite a crackdown...
PENTONVILLE 5 VICTORY – 40 years on
TODAY is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Pentonville 5 dockers when the TUC was forced to call a general strike and...
Call For A Third ‘Independence’ Intifada
An adviser to the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has urged Palestinian youth to begin a third intifada and popular strike to force the...
US moving to dump Zelensky – says Russian intelligence chief
‘SERIOUS people’ in high places in the West are now discussing options for replacing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with someone else, Russian Foreign Intelligence...
Finance workers in Paris strike against job cuts
PARISIAN finance and tax workers held a one-day strike in defence of jobs and services last Friday, July 9th, accompanied by a rally which...
Turkey Boasts Of US Support For Bombing Northern Iraq
TURKEY praised the United States on Wednesday for providing intelligence in support of attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, as it confirmed its...
Hundreds of thousands of council workers being balloted for action
HUNDREDS of thousands of council workers are to be balloted and urged to reject a ‘pitiful’ and ‘entirely inadequate’ pay offer during the next...
‘WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAY HERE FOR OUR PEOPLE’ –Thousands of...
‘Gordon Brown is supporting Rajapakse and his genocide and murder of the Tamil people’, Loganathan said outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday, where...
Numsa Battle To Halt Its Expulsion!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is going to court on Thursday to stop Cosatu (Confederation of South African Trade Unions)...
Egypt and Russia boost economic & military cooperation
BILATERAL talks between Vladimir Putin and Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi were followed by negotiations in expanded format with the participation of the two nations’ delegations. The...
‘BELARUS WILL NOT JOIN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’ – says Lukashenka
‘ABSOLUTELY nothing depends on Belarus’ in the construction of the union state with Russia, said Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Minsk on 29 May...
95% of RCM members in north of Ireland vote for strike...
ALMOST 95% of RCM members in Northern Ireland who responded to a consultation about industrial action, including strike action, over pay conditions have voted...
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,...
France Considers Further Sanctions Against Iran
France is considering further sanctions against ‘the members and support structures’ of the Iranian government over Iran’s nuclear programme, the French foreign ministry said...
Abductions, illegal detentions, extra-judicial executions and torture ‘routine in Sri lanka’
‘HUNDREDS of people languish in arbitrary, illegal and often incommunicado detention in Sri Lanka, vulnerable to torture and extrajudicial execution, despite the end of...
Greece applies for a ‘Third Austerity Accord’
Statement by the Revolutionary Marxist League Greek section of the International Committee of the 4th International TODAY, Wednesday 8 July, the Greek Finance Minister Efklides...
‘Detaining children is not a necessary evil’
THE announcement by the Coalition Government back in May 2010 that it would be ending the detention of children for immigration purposes was widely...
Israel ‘intends to impose full sovereignty over Jerusalem’ – warns Hamas
Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, exchanging a volley of tear gas and rocks. Israeli troops entered the Haram...
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution
UNITED NATIONS special rapporteur on torture, Professor Nils Melzer, held a Question and Answer session with the Foreign Press Association (FPA) last Friday, discussing...
One year of the Community Camp4Palestine
‘OUR Community Camp 4 Palestine (cc4pal), opposite the United States Embassy in London, is marking one year of non-stop peaceful protest on 31st August. Our...
Lecturers and staff strike over 1 per cent pay offer
UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff angry at the employers’ refusal to budge from a 1% pay offer, which represents a real-terms pay cut of 13%...
100,000 march to Parliament to defend NHS
UP TO 100,000 health workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through London to defend the NHS on Saturday. There were balloons from Unison, Unite,...
Gov. must end ‘two-child limit’ for payment of benefits!
UP to 600,000 children have now been affected by the Tory government’s two-child limit to ‘Universal Credit’ benefits, the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...
Sanders Launches ‘Our Revolution’
SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS recently spoke at the Free Library of Philadelphia about the current US crisis and his new book ‘Our Revolution’. He said: ‘No:...
Israeli persecution of Palestinian human rights groups condemned in Australia!
The Australian government is being urged to condemn Israel’s ‘dangerous attack’ on six prominent Palestinian human rights groups after Israeli authorities declared them terrorist...
‘A WORRYING AND DISTURBING PICTURE’ – RCM highlights shortage of midwives
Alone & lost in LABOUR, a survey by the Royal College Midwives and ‘Netmums’, highlights a shortage of midwives and lack of postnatal and...
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...
ISRAELIS PLAN WEST BANK GRAB – as Rice gives Sharon the...
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) says it got no answers about Israel’s intentions from the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, during Rice’s latest...
Mursi Acts To Try To Halt Strike Wave
EGYPT’S President Mursi has intervened to settle strikes across the textile sector and at the giant Cleopatra Ceramics in Ain Sokhna, where striking workers...
GADAFFI REMAINS DEFIANT, STRONG AND WILLING TO NEGOTIATE’ says chess master
KIRSAN Ilyumzhinov, president of the World Chess Federation, has spoken about his recent meeting with Colonel Gadaffi in Tripoli. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, head of the...
‘I want to meet bush face to face’ says Cindy Sheehan
‘I want to meet with Bush face-to-face’, says Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq. She vows to camp outside 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...
‘The fragile peace is hanging by its fingertips!’ – says Fra...
TROUBLE erupted on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday the 7th of April 2021. We can only ask if we are witnessing a return...
‘20-50 NHS TRUSTS AT RISK’ – BMA ARM warned
THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Bournemouth on Thursday passed, almost unanimously, Emergency Motions calling to halt the take-over...
IRISH WORKERS SHARE BURDEN OF ECONOMIC CRISIS – says Irish Congress...
THE one per cent economic crisis levy on the wages of every worker in the Irish Budget was described as ‘a crude instrument that...
Unions For Cuba Conference
ON Saturday 2 November, more than 200 trade unionists and activists attended CSC’s Unions for Cuba conference at the NEU headquarters in London. The largest...