COSATU cost-of-living protest in Gauteng
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members in Gauteng last Friday marched to the department of trade and industry to hand in a...
‘Continue The March To Raise The Palestinian Flag Over Jerusalem’
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last Friday pledged to continue Yasser Arafat’s struggle to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, as thousands...
US Workers Take Action
JUST one day before Democrats and Republicans were set to forge a trillion dollar debt deal that would impose savage cuts on the American...
‘REOPEN CHASE FARM A&E–NO MORE TRAGEDIES!’ –demand Enfield marchers
A POWERFUL march of more than 150 local residents, trade unionists, workers, students and youth drew enormous support from the busy Enfield shopping centre...
Israel’s mass arrests ‘a systematic campaign of persecution targeting Palestinians’
ISRAELI police arrested 561 Palestinian workers throughout the 1948 occupied territories last week under the pretext of entering ‘without permits’. Human rights groups have condemned...
NEHAWU prepares for September 3 national strike
MEMBERS of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in Kimberley picketed outside the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital on Monday, in preparation...
European strike wave against austerity
WORKERS throughout Europe are taking strike actions against austerity measures in defence of their jobs, pay, pensions and public services. Following last month’s rail,...
‘ . . . I Heard Baha Mousa Screaming ‘oh My...
Statement by RABINDER SINGH QC to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry RABINDER Singh QC has delivered his opening statement to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry,...
Report puts Britain at centre of Gaza genocide
A damning report published on 16 March 2026, following a tribunal into British government conduct since the outbreak of Israel’s assault on Gaza in...
Sodexo Oppressing Workers In The US And Colombia
Sodexo laundry workers in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday delivered a petition to management calling for greater safety standards. The petition included hundreds of signatures from...
‘GET READY TO OCCUPY CHASE FARM’ – Enfield residents declare
‘We’ve had a lively picket today,’ North East London Council of Action secretary Bill Rogers told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield,...
‘FRY CRIMINALS’ – demand Orangefest leaders
Orangefest’s family fun dissolved into political Orange fury as demonstration speakers blasted homosexuals, the Irish language and even called for volunteers to execute criminals...
Houthi leader slams Saudi Arabia for doing bidding of the United...
THE LEADER of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has slammed Saudi Arabia for doing the bidding of the United States, saying the Riyadh regime has...
Government Wants To ‘Rid North-East Of Any Witnesses Of The Carnage’
COLOMBO has abrogated the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) to remove the presence of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) which was instrumental in exposing...
Trade unions welcome pledges in Labour’s election manifesto!
THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) welcomed pledges made in Labour’s election manifesto. Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: ‘Labour’s pledges to end the...
Sri Lanka doctors strike against privatisation
A STRIKE by doctors over private medical universities gripped Sri Lanka on Friday. The country-wide strike action was launched by the Government Medical Officers Association...
London And Cambridge Strike Action!
ROYAL Mail staff walked out on strike in London and other parts of the country again yesterday, as a national ballot by the Communication...
Syria Puts Fighting Terrorism Onto The Geneva Agenda!
SYRIA’S official delegation has managed to put counter-terrorism on the agenda as stated by the Geneva Communiqué during a joint session concluded on Wednesday...
STOP RACIST ATTACKS IN GREECE says Amnesty
THE Greek authorities must act immediately to curb the growing spate of xenophobic and racist attacks, Amnesty International says. It follows a brutal knife attack...
‘CUTS AND LACK OF TRAINING LED TO TWO FIREFIGHTERS DEATHS’ says...
Cuts and lack of training led to the deaths of two firefighters in Hertfordshire, the Fire Brigades Union says in its comment following...
‘Gaza is suffering from industrial scale savagery!’ says Palestinian Ambassador
The first speaker at the Downing Street rally, Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, said: ‘Thank you for showing you will not relent...
Genocidal Rajapaksa Regime ‘Snatching Away’ Tamil Children
The occupying Sri Lanka military governor in Jaffna, Major General Chandrasri now schemes to bring more than 1000 nursery schools functioning in Jaffna under...
SA government says that ‘austerity is a necessary pain for the...
IN THE much-anticipated medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will, like his counterparts at the South African Reserve...
Prosecute Vale over mine deaths – demands USW
If anyone needs further proof to Vale’s global social neglect, it comes in a pair of dirty deeds committed by the Brazilian mining company...
GREEK FASCIST PARTY LEADERS ARRESTED – workers determined to destroy them
THE leader and four parliamentary deputies of the fascist Golden Dawn party, along with 13 party cadres and two policemen, were arrested on...
400,000 strike against Labour pay cuts
Over 400,000 teachers, college lecturers and public and civil servants held a magnificent one-day national strike on Thursday, with a militant turnout on marches...
ONE YEAR SINCE THE HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE …and reconstruction has still not...
One year after the Haitian earthquake which killed 230,000 people and injured 300,000 on 11 January 2010, more than one million people still live...
‘May Must Go!’–‘Justice For Grenfell’ – Demand 2,000 Marchers
AN ANGRY demonstration of 2,000 demanding ‘Justice for Grenfell’ marched through central London on Friday night. The protest began at the Department for Communities and...
OPPOSITION LEADERS ARRESTED IN BAHRAIN CRACKDOWN – as Tunisians protest against...
THE Bahraini ruling class has arrested opposition leaders on charges including contact with foreign states and calling for the fall of the regime, said...
80% of doctors at very high – BMA report
BOTH junior doctors and seniors are facing serious burn out because of lack of staff, overwork and stress, and this has created a serious...
Free Palestine – End The Occupation
OVER 20,000 youth, trade unionists and solidarity activists marched through central London on Saturday demanding ‘End the occupation – free Palestine!’ on the...
Afl-Cio Condemns Bush Trade Deal With Colombia
US trade union federation AFL-CIO last Saturday condemned the Bush administration for seeking a free trade deal with Colombia, the most dangerous country in...
President Ahmadinezhad Speaks To The Arabs Of Khuzestan
IRANIAN President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad spoke to a gathering of the people of Ramshir in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, which has a large Arab population...
SADDAM WAS ASSAULTED AT THE COURT HEARING – insists his defence...
ABD-AL HAQ-AL ANI, counsellor for the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s defence panel, has revealed that an assault took place on the Iraqi leader at...
French Trade Unions March And Denounce Israel’s Atrocities Against The Palestinians...
AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...
The Iranian revolution will continue to defeat all plots!
‘the Islamic Revolution will go on to defeat all US plots in the coming years just as it has done over the past four...
Irish Teachers Set For Strike Action
SCHOOLTEACHERS in Ireland are set to strike over a number of issues, including the 10% pay cut that has affected as many as...
Merseyrail scabbing operation will ‘rip up the rule book’
THE RMT has issued a warning that the privateer Merseyrail’s planned Grand National scabbing operation will ‘rip up the safety rule book’. Rail union...
SAMA concerned over bed shortages and a dire shortage of medical...
SAMA the South African Medical Association has expressed concerns over KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) hospital bed shortages, and medical staff fatigue. The South African Medical Association believes...
‘No National Elections Without A Unity Agreement And The Release Of...
No national elections will be held without a unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah and the release of political prisoners from West Bank jails,...
Iraq National Resistance leaders in talks with US administration
Ali al-Juburi, secretary general of the Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance, recently gave an interview on ‘negotiations’ with the US. Iraqi newspaper Al-Bayyinah al-Jadidah...
‘WE WILL NOT RENEW THE TRUCE’ say Hamas and Islamic Jihad
The ongoing Israeli violations and extra-judicial killings have put the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the anti-occupation groups on opposite sides of the argument...
Karzai Officials And Advisors ‘Implicated In Major War Crimes’
Numerous high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan’s US-backed puppet government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses that took place in...
‘ISRAEL MAY START WAR IN THE REGION’ – Nasrallah
HEZBOLLAH leader, Sayyed Nasrallah, has said that Israel may start a war in the region and that Hezbollah is fully prepared for it. In an...
1,000 March In Norwich Against Arts Cuts
On Saturday, Norwich saw an impressively large, cheerful and determined demonstration as a thousand arts workers marched against the funding cuts imposed without consultation...