HEAT OR EAT! – the choice Blair gives to pensioners
HUNDREDS of angry pensioners from all over Britain descended on parliament on Wednesday to demand an immediate increase in the basic state pension to...
‘15 MILLION AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING’ – Machinists call for jobs...
THE president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) cited the unemployment numbers for the month of July as hard evidence...
Israel Planning 73,300 Illegal Housing Units On The West Bank
Peace Now an Israeli left-wing Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) reported on Monday that the Israeli government is planning to build more than 73,300 new...
Syrian solidarity with 2 Turkish hunger strikers – RELEASE GULMAN &...
A SIT-IN was held in al-Umawyeen Square in Damascus on Thursday to express solidarity with the two detainees who are on hunger strike in...
As Zuma goes–‘SAFTU has no confidence that multi-billionaire Ramaphosa will be...
JACOB Zuma resigned as president of South Africa on Wednesday ahead of a vote of no confidence over uncontainable corruption scandals, and has been...
AFL-CIO warns the Democrats not to cut Social Security, Medicare or...
The AFL-CIO unions have issued a warning to the Democrats about proposed Medicare cuts, telling them, ‘Don’t try it ... we will never forget.’ As...
Medicine company workers fury over Iraq police attack
The Iraqi resistance is dealing daily blows against the US-UK led occupiers as it steps up its attacks. Last Tuesday fighters attacked with three mortars a...
Construction industry blacklist ‘ruined lives’! – says Scottish Affairs MPs Committee
The major construction firms that established and funded a systematic blacklist of construction industry workers appear to be continuing to avoid taking full responsibility...
Fatah and Hamas unite to fight Israeli annexation plans
SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, said on Sunday that the State of Palestine has been mobilising...
Cosatu plans October 7 ‘national shutdown’
THE CONFEDERATION of South African trade unions (Cosatu) is planning a nationwide shutdown next week, and has announced that its affiliated workers will not...
Uaw Calls For Police Union To Be Expelled From Afl-Cio!
‘HISTORICALLY and contemporarily, police unions serve the interests of police forces as an arm of the state, and not the interests of police as...
Nationalise Reserve Bank to protect workers – NUMSA
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has demanded the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank under workers’ control in a strongly worded...
Stop Manchester Patient Transport Privatisation
UNISON has launched a campaign to save patient transport services in Greater Manchester and stop them from being sold off to a private company....
Massive Arts Council Cuts Must Be Defeated!
MASSIVE Arts Council cuts were announced on Tuesday, hitting many superb professional theatre companies, opera companies, galleries and other arts bodies for six. But in...
Huge increase in settlement expansion
The West Bank is witnessing an increasing acceleration in the pace of Israeli settlements, with the expansion of infrastructure projects and the construction of...
Shelling of Donetsk school ‘a blatant violation of international law’
MOSCOW authorities have said that they view Kiev’s shelling of a school in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk as a blatant violation of...
Doctors Pensions Victory – Presumption Of Guilt Proposal Is Outlawed By...
THE BMA doctors’ union secured a high court victory on Friday over controversial changes made by the Tory secretary of state for health and...
Egyptian Workers Demand The Legal Right To Form Free Trade Unions
EGYPTIAN labour activists are keenly anticipating a new law on labour syndicates, a draft of which has apparently been completed and which could be...
A Thousand Workers Rally To Support Billboard Strikers
OVER a thousand workers in the Massachusetts labour movement rallied for 27 striking Clear Channel Billboard Workers on April 19th. Present at the rally...
END SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY – ‘I don’t want any other mother to...
‘AS Jean’s mother I have felt immense pain,’ Maria Otone de Menezes told a packed public meeting in London on Monday night. The meeting was...
Iran’s impounding of oil tanker is ‘serious’ says South Korean First...
A SENIOR South Korean official said the situation surrounding a Korean-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran for repeated environmental violations is ‘serious,’ as he...
No Room For The Chagos Islanders At ‘Let Them Return’ Launch
THE UP-to 2,000 Chagossians who live in Crawley have been shocked to hear that their representatives have been barred from attending the launch of...
Palestinian Prime Minister looking forward to elections
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh announced on Monday that his government is preparing for new national and presidential elections in Palestine. ‘The Cabinet looks forward...
Desperate Tories Turn To Fracking
IN ITS first acts of desperation, the new government of Prime Minister Liz Truss has decided to announce that the moratorium on fracking has...
Biden’s aid letter ignored by Israel – yet US weapons supply...
On October 13, the Biden administration issued a forceful letter to Israel with a clear directive: Within 30 days, permit increased humanitarian aid into...
Mass migrant workers’ hunger strike
NEARLY three hundred migrant workers, almost all of north African origin, have been on a mass hunger strike in Greece since Tuesday demanding: ‘the...
Parades in Iran to mark ‘Sacred Defence Week’
FIGHTER jets of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have taken part in joint aerial...
Bma Opposes ‘Deliberate Targetting Of Civilians In Gaza And Sri Lanka
Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Liverpool on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for Motion 247 on ‘humanitarian crises in...
Defend pensions against Labour renegade Hutton
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow has called for joint action to defend pensions against the proposals of Labour renegade Lord Hutton. Crow said: ‘It is...
13,000 ‘Disappeared’ From Sri Lankan Prison Camps
TAMILNET reports that according to reports of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, last week over 13,000 internally displaced people have...
‘The region is being recreated from scratch!’ – Hezbollah leader Nasrallah...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered on Monday a speech commemorating the Resistance Martyrs, in which he tackled various internal and regional titles. As...
Save Our NHS! Down with STPs – No cuts! No privatisation!...
ON 6th June 2017 at the height of general election fever, senior NHS managers at NHS England (NHSE) and NHS Improvement (NHSI) were secretly...
HOME CARE CRISIS! Vulnerable and elderly are being left to...
A NEW report has exposed the growing homecare crisis where shorter and shorter visits mean that homecare workers cannot provide proper care, leaving the...
US-led Black Sea drills a ‘provocation’ – Russia’s Embassy in Washington
RUSSIA is warning Western allies that nothing good will come out of provocations in the Black Sea as any attempts to test Moscow’s willingness...
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...
Coalition Privateers To ‘Liberate NHS’: Part Two
THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government’s White Paper on the NHS contains plans for sweeping changes. NHS Commissioning Board The sole commissioners for the NHS will...
OCCUPATIONS AND NATIONAL ACTION TO SAVE NHS – calls Enfield conference
‘NATIONAL Action is needed to defend the NHS & stop hospital closures!’ was the title of the resolution that was carried unanimously at a...
STAY AWAY FROM BUSH CONFERENCE – Hamas urges Arab states
The democratically elected Hamas government has called on Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries on Wednesday to stay away from a US-sponsored Middle East...
250,000 Public Sector Sackings Since Election
UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, on Monday welcomed a report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) calling on the...
Libya Proving Too Hot To Handle For Divided Nato Powers
THE Libyan people and their armed forces are more than giving NATO a run for its money. In fact they are bringing the ‘mighty...
Student Occupations Are Spreading!
STUDENT occupations are spreading! Students have occupied the London School of Economics on March since Tuesday March 17 demanding free university education for all. By Thursday...
‘Trump plan to kill Iran deal has failed’
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says the administration of US President Donald Trump has failed in its attempts to kill the 2015 multilateral...
IMMIGRATION REPORTING CENTRE IS BLOCKADED – campaigners fight to end dawn...
THE Glasgow Reporting Centre at Brand Street was shut down on Tuesday morning as ‘No Borders’ activists and others opposed to the forced removal...
Steady rise in hospitalised Covid patients!
THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic has taken a back seat in the news recently. Most public health restrictions in relation to the pandemic were lifted on 19...
IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT RUBBISH, TO BE USED AND THROWN OUT –...
OVER 25,000 refugees, workers and youth marched through the centre of Paris on Saturday, demanding, ‘Withdraw the CESEDA’! and ‘Immigrants are not disposable like...