Iraq Faces Country Division
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that Syria’s moderate opposition could play a role in fighting against and pushing back jihadists...
Sri Lankan government bringing in a ‘slave labour bill’
TRADE unions worldwide have condemned the latest attack on workers in Sri Lanka. Different Global Union Federations (GUF), including the Building and Wood Workers’ International...
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...
‘The forecourt was full of bodies and body parts’ – British-Palestinian...
BRITISH-Palestinian surgeon Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta has recounted harrowing health-related ordeals Palestinian civilians went through during Israel’s onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip. The brutal...
MURSI ‘IS A TOTAL FAILURE’ – millions sign Tamarod ‘Rebellion’ petition
HUNDREDS of thousands rallied in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in response to a call by several Egyptian political forces for a series of...
Hands off our ticket offices! – RMT leads march to 10...
Over one thousand angry RMT rail union members and their supporters marched from the Department of Transport offices to Downing Street on Thursday evening...
VOTE WRP ON DECEMBER 12! BREAK WITH THE EU! FORWARD TO...
THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...
‘WORSE THAN THE VICTORIAN ERA’ –T UC exposes conditions of up...
‘UP to 11 million UK workers could face serious health problems from prolonged standing at work, and they are offered less protection than employees...
‘Syria will not negotiate with terrorists’ says Syrian President Assad
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to the Spanish EFE news agency in which he stressed that Syria will not negotiate with terrorists. We reproduce...
‘MY UNCLE WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD AT POINT-BLANK RANGE’ ...
‘MY uncle was shot in the head, at point blank range,’ the nephew of one of the victims of Israel’s massacre on the Gaza...
Iraq & Iran Deplore Trump’s Travel Ban
POWERFUL Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Spokesman of Hashd al-Sha’abi (the Iraqi popular forces) Ahmad al-Assadi, deplored US President Donald Trump’s decision to...
‘ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF OCCUPATION IS RESISTANCE’ – say...
Palestinians on Sunday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the First Intifada, the popular uprising that rocked the Israeli regime to its foundations. The Intifada uprising...
Attack on workers rights in West Virginia
PROPPED up by out-of-state interests, extremists in West Virginia are pushing ‘right to work’ legislation that takes away rights from hardworking people trying to...
Palestinian left to bleed to death
A PALESTINIAN was shot and left to bleed to death by the Israeli army at Beit Anoun junction to the east of Hebron on...
Take Action To Stop All Evictions
‘WE are not going to leave, we will fight them to the end and this only ends when we are given a permanent home!’ This...
Israel Prepares New Attacks On Gaza
Israel’s security cabinet warned on Wednesday that it will hold Hamas responsible for any attacks from Gaza, and it will also keep the crippling...
50 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN MODERN SLAVERY says the Arthur Svensson...
FIFTY million people live in modern slavery, says the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight and...
Palestinians Determined To Declare Their State
Palestinian leaders, determined to proclaim their state during the coming year, are readying an arsenal of diplomatic alternatives to negotiations with Israel, which are...
BA pensioners fury at Ascot meeting
TWO THOUSAND furious Airways Pension Scheme (APS) members attended meetings at Ascot Racecourse on Monday, where they tore into the BA-appointed trustees who have...
Rail unions demand permanent renationalisation of the whole rail network!
LAST WEEK Tory minority government Transport Secretary Grayling announced that the privately-run East Coast Mainline has collapsed again and will be ‘temporarily renationalised’ –...
‘Gadaffi Is In Good Health And In Libya!’
DAMASCUS – Musa Ibrahim, the Libyan government spokesman, gave a telephone interview last Monday with Iraqi businessman and owner of Damascus-based and pro-Al-Gadaffi Al-Ra’y...
Unite will support strikes, work-ins and occupations to defend NHS –...
OVER 5,000 trade unionists, youth and families from across north London marched on Saturday from Highbury and Islington Station to the Whittington Hospital, Archway,...
Striking SA council workers face sackings & pay cuts
THE Independent Municipal & Allied Trade Union (IMATU) has reacted angrily after it was informed that its striking members in local government in Tshwane...
Doctors are suffering ‘emotional and psychological distress–since they cannot give...
BMA research finds doctors are suffering ‘emotional’ and ‘psychological’ distress because they cannot give patients the treatment and care that they need. New research by...
Greek schoolchildren and students rally against education cuts
SCHOOLCHILDREN and students across Greece protested on Monday against cutbacks to the education sector, and the ‘intensification of performance evaluation’ which is part of...
Unions denounce violent arrest of SEIU California President David Huerta –...
THE INTERNATIONAL federation UNI Global Union has strongly condemned the arrest of David Huerta, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California, who...
US considers sending banned cluster bombs to Ukraine
Laura Cooper, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia at the US Defence Department, has said that despite a global...
Aussie MEAA opposes Assange extradition
AUSTRALIA’S MEAA (Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance) union has written to the British and Australian governments to oppose the extradition to the United States...
US stealing Syria’s oil!
IN HASAKA earlier this week, the US occupation forces brought out a convoy loaded with stolen Syrian oil via the illegitimate al-Walid border crossing...
Palestinian Prisoners Day protests in the West Bank and Gaza
THE Israeli army announced Saturday that the West Bank will be sealed off from midnight until Tuesday, ahead of Israeli Independence Day. A statement from...
Government Won’t Talk To Firefighters!
WEST Midlands Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Phil Loach has written to members of parliament in the West Midlands urging a negotiated settlement be found...
NO GUARANTEES GIVEN ON CAPABILITY DISMISSALS – FBU leader Wrack reveals
FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack wrote a letter on Wednesday to all FBU members about pensions. He wrote: ‘There have been a number of developments...
DON’T RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE say unions
GMB trade union yesterday said it rejects the Turner report proposal to extend the pension age. Turner recommends extending the retirement age to ‘between 67...
US capitalist economy heading for disaster!
FOR years now the capitalist class internationally through their mouthpieces in government and the bourgeois press have been peddling, often contradictory, statistics to show...
COWEN INVITES ICTU TO TALKS – as massive strike action approaches
With the March 30 general strike fast approaching Irish Prime Minister Cowen has invited the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to attend talks....
Palestinian reconciliation means PA ending security collaboration with Israel– says deputy...
THE first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has said that Palestinian national reconciliation could not be achieved amid the continued security...
BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION TO STOP HOSPITAL CLOSURES WITH OCCUPATIONS...
ON 31st July 2008 the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) produced their report on the future of health services in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. In it...
Death Toll Rising Fast In Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic
The United Nations and its partners have finalised the Cholera Inter-Sector Response Strategy for Haiti, a plan to support the Government of Haiti’s response...
BP under siege over oil spills and cover-ups
IT is reprehensible that neither the contractors nor BP seem to give a toss about these 430 workers who have been locked out but...
Erdogan used coup to escalate crackdown on rights – says IndustriALL
GLOBAL union federation IndustriALL has repeated its call for full democracy in Turkey as a crackdown on fundamental rights escalates. It said: ‘In the wake...
Cuts threaten lives of Gaza cystic fibrosis children
TENS of Palestinian children being treated at a Gaza City hospital for cystic fibrosis are facing possible imminent death, relatives and medical sources have...
Nationwide general strike in India Wed January 8th ‘DOWN WITH MODI!’
A GENERAL strike is set to take place in India on January 8 against the ‘anti-worker, anti-people, anti-national policies’ of the country’s Narendra Modi...
‘If you bomb Beirut the Islamic Resistance will bomb Tel Aviv’...
THE Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaking on military operations, and political developments over Al Manar TV on August 3 noted that the fourth...
Settlers attack West Bank farmers on eve of peace talks
As Palestinian leaders were preparing for direct talks with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu in Washington today, the village mayor in the West Bank town...
Morrison government looks to bring back its union-busting legislation!
AUSTRALIA’S Industrial Relations Minister has accused the construction union CFMMEU of an ‘extraordinarily high standard of unlawful activity’ as the Morrison government moves to...