Israel Launches A Wave Of Strikes On Gaza
The death toll in an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip on Thursday rose to nine after Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at a...
Brighton Refuse Workers Are Striking Against Massive £4,000 A Head Pay...
OVER 200 striking refuse workers, who have already endured three years of pay freezes, defiantly marched with their supporters through Brighton and Hove on...
‘Servest Out!’– King’s College Cleaners Battle Privateers’ Wage & Job Cuts!
‘SERVEST OUT!’ shouted striking cleaners and supporters at King’s College London during a lunchtime rally on Friday. The cleaners, members of Unison who work for...
DON’T USE FORCE AGAINST IRAN – Lavrov warns US and Israel
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there was no proof it was trying to...
Quash convictions of 25 Cambodian factory workers! – demands Human Rights...
THE Cambodian government should quash the convictions of 25 human rights activists, factory workers, and others for lack of evidence, Human Rights Watch has...
‘T-Mobile – Do not violate our human rights!’ – demand US...
AT LAST Friday’s annual meeting of T-Mobile US Inc. in Bellevue, Washington, east of Seattle, shareholders voted on a proposal urging the T-Mobile board...
SAFTU fights to end two-tier health regime
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions stands fully in support of the long-overdue introduction of a national health insurance (NHI) system, and welcomes...
Bma Reps Battle Leaders To Defend NHS At Annual Meeting
THE British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting (BMA’s ARM), June 2006 turned into a struggle between the leadership, which supports the government’s privatisation reforms,...
Universal Credit–a weapon for attacking the disabled and their families
UP TO half a million (450,000) disabled people and their families – including children and disabled adults living on their own – will be...
London Bus Privateers Must Stop ‘Race To The Bottom’ Or Face...
UNLESS London bus privateers stop the ‘race to the bottom’ and cease their onslaught on working conditions all-out strike action will swiftly ensue, Unite...
Three year smoke & mirrors pay deal means real financial hardship...
‘THE CURRENT 3 year deal,’ says Gary Palmer GMB Regional Organiser, ‘fails to deliver a real terms pay increase for the majority of NHS...
‘Few believe in two-state solution’ – says Palestinian leader Saeb Erekat
SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, said in a statement on the occasion of Palestine’s Independence Day on Sunday, that only...
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...
US Union Leaders Speak Up In Favour Of Employee Free Choice...
JOHN SWEENEY the president of the AFL-CIO US trade union federation has spoken out in favour of the Employee Free Choice Act. He said...
£372 billion–the lifetime cost of govt measures to combat Covid-19 pandemic...
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Commons, has produced two reports on ‘significant financial risks for decades to come’ for taxpayers,...
BMA recommends dangerous GP contract changes – Paramedics to be substituted...
THE British Medical Association’s (BMA) GP England (GPCE) committee has voted to accept a dangerous package of changes to the GP contract for 2020-21. On...
5 arrested on South African MyCiTi bus strike
FIVE arrested striking MyCiTi bus drivers were charged with public violence and released on R1,000 bail each on Wednesday at the Cape Town Magistrate’s...
‘TAMIL PEOPLE DEMAND VISIBLE PRESSURE ON COLOMBO’ – urge Norwegian Tamils
‘The defining moment for the International Community (IC) is right now, if it really wishes to establish its commitment to a principled approach towards...
Syria rebuilds Aleppo Eye Surgery Hospital – and completes preparations for...
SYRIA’S Minister of Health, Dr Hassan al-Ghobash, inaugurated the rebuilt General Authority of Aleppo Eye Surgery Hospital on Monday. The hospital, which was destroyed by...
‘RENATIONALISE OUR RAIL’ says RMT
‘THIS IS nothing short of a scandal and reinforces the demand for nationalisation of our rail,’ the RMT union said on Monday. The train union...
Global condemnation of Israel’s onslaught on Lebanon
Israeli strikes killed 558 people in Lebanon on Monday, including 50 children and 94 women, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad told a press conference...
Teachers and lecturers fighting mass sackings across the UK
STRIKING Shaftesbury School teachers are drawing increasing public support in their dispute over restructuring, as the Sherborne Area Schools Trust (SAST) refuses to come...
RMT calls for disinvestment from Semperian PPP
REPRESENTATIVES of the tube union RMT on the London Transport pension fund have called for disinvestment from Semperian PPP after it emerged that one...
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE IS OCCUPIED – ‘Education is being turned into a...
GOLDSMITHS College students began an occupation of Deptford Old Town Hall, (now part of the university), on Wednesday afternoon – after the Tory-LibDem coalition...
Winning The Battle Of Empty Stomachs
BY LINAH ALSAAFIN PALESTINIAN hunger striker Bilal Diab went without food in an Israeli prison for 77 days incarcerated without charge. Diab won his struggle...
STRIKES, SIT-INS AND OCCUPATIONS IN EGYPT –as workers fight to scrap...
Between 1st January 2011 and 31 December 2011 there were 335 labour protests in Egypt, said a report issued by the Egyptian Ministry of...
SAFTU calls for President Ramaphosa’s immediate resignation
AGAINST a background of rolling blackouts, rising poverty and an out-of-control cost of living crisis, the South African government of Cyril Ramaphosa now faces...
Israeli Troops Are Using Live Rounds Against Youth
ISRAELI troops who shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank last week, used live bullets against innocent youth without warning, an...
‘Any attempt to use force against Manus Island refugees could lead...
RESPONDING to a notice issued by Papua New Guinea (PNG) authorities on Thursday morning at the Lombrum refugee detention centre on Manus Island stating...
Californian social workers strike!
MORE than 1,100 California social workers and eligibility workers conducted a three-day strike in Contra Costa County, then voted on Wednesday to extend their...
Nasrallah Hails The Palestinian Fighters
‘THE Palestinian Resistance’s victory in Gaza is a clear sign of the weakness of the Zionist regime and a prelude to final victory of...
Israel is condemned for storming the Madleen!
Global condemnations have poured in after Israel stormed the humanitarian vessel Madleen in international waters, which was en route toward the besieged Gaza Strip...
Israelis Mount Attacks On Gaza And The West Bank
Palestinian Ma’an news agency’s reports on developments in the occupied territories last Friday, August 3rd, illustrate the heroic daily resistance of the Palestinian people. At...
Destruction of Palestinian homes is intensifying!
The destruction of Palestinian residences by Israel in the West Bank is intensifying at an alarming rate. In the period following 7 October, Israeli forces...
‘TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION WITH THE POSTAL WORKERS TO DEFEND...
THE trade unions must take joint action with the postal workers to defend their members’ jobs and basic rights. They must go forward to bring...
Australia’s working poor – ‘Workers’ share in the national income...
THE AUSTRALIAN Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has released a new report that shows Australia is at risk of becoming an ‘Americanised society’ of...
Yemeni Police Open Fire On Taiz Protesters
YEMENI police killed at least one person and injured scores of other protesters when they opened fire in the city of Taiz on Sunday,...
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....
‘When companies are exempted the whole process is a circus’ says...
WORKERS in Zimbabwe have expressed dismay at the lack of seriousness on the government’s part, after it exempted more companies to operate during the...
The Secret Courts Bill places government ‘above the law’
MINISTERS are attempting to overturn concessions won by members of the House of Lords to the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government’s repressive Secret Courts Bill, warns...
South African universities strike looms
STRIKE action is looming for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology after talks with workers over salary and service conditions deadlocked last weekend. The declaration...
Washington Fears ‘Ukraine Fatigue’ While Nato Chief Calls It A ‘War...
THE US administration of Joe Biden is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal...
Iran calls for meeting of OIC member states on ending Gaza...
IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called for an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Committee on Palestine at the Parliamentary Union of the...
Belfast Confronts Legacy Of Colonialism!
By Fra Hughes IRISH Republican Socialist group Lasair Dhearg has joined the street battles ranging from Minneapolis to Bristol to Belfast in confronting the legacy...
Iran cements strategic relations with Russia!
THE speaker of the Iranian Parliament is on his first official foreign visit to Moscow with the goal of further cementing the two countries’...