Turkey strike ban is ‘a violation of constitution’
TURKEY’S Constitutional Court has ruled that the cabinet decree banning IndustriALL’s affiliate United Metalworkers’ Union (Birleflik Metal-Is) decision to strike in 2015 is a...
TONY BLAIR AND GORDON BROWN SHOULD BE TRIED AS WAR CRIMINALS...
‘Tony Blair and Gordon Brown should be tried as war criminals,’ Peter Brierley, whose son Shaun was killed in Iraq in 2003, told a...
US military to be a more ‘lethal, adaptive and resilient force’...
US SECRETARY of Defence Lloyd Austin says his country is committed to protecting its Southeast Asian allies against what he called China’s aggression. ‘Beijing’s claim...
Abbas looking forward to meeting with Trump
RAMALLAH – March 16, 2017 President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday welcomed current international and Arab efforts to advance a comprehensive and just peace...
NHS CONSULTATION SHAM – as Eastbourne condemns decision to close consultant-led...
THERE was widespread condemnation following East Sussex PCTs’ decision last Thursday to transfer consultant-led Maternity services from Eastbourne District General Hospital to a single...
Over A Decade Of Tory NHS Cuts Have Put Patients And...
OVER A decade of Tory NHS cuts have put patients and staff at risk, as hospitals have been left in such a state of...
Palestinians are resisting Trump’s ‘deal of the century!’
A SENIOR Hamas official has told Press TV that Palestinians will resist the so-called deal of the century proposed by the administration of US...
A victory for protection of freedom of the press
EVERY JOURNALIST welcomes the judgement of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal published Monday December 17, which ruled that the former PSNI (Police Service of Northern...
US WAR CRIMES REVEALED – as ACLU wins release of thousands...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has just released thousands of pages of documents related to Navy investigations of civilians killed by Coalition Forces...
100% SUPPORT FOR AN OCCUPATION – to save Chase Farm Hospital
OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...
INCLUDE HEALTHCARE IN ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE urges SEIU
‘Today, Congress took a first and important step to rebuilding the American Dream,’ said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Thursday as Senators from...
Thirty Palestinian Prisoners Join Shalabi Hunger Strike
The head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society announced last Monday that thirty Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike of Palestinian heroine Hana Shalabi. Palestinian...
Paris protest against ‘racial profiling’ – and state control of every...
HUNDREDS of people have taken to the streets in central Paris against continuing police brutality and racial profiling across France, despite a ‘shocking’ ban...
‘No choice but victory – defeat not an option against this...
THE UNITED States has no option but to abandon its excessive demands and fully respect the rights of the Iranian people – diplomacy is...
Las Vegas Casino Workers ‘Tentative Deal!’
CASINO workers’ Culinary Union Local 226 and Caesars Entertainment, one of the largest resort operators in Las Vegas, reached a tentative labour agreement on...
Red Cross Condemns Sri Lanka Shelling Of Wounded And Sick
TamilNet reports the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), in a statement issued from Colombo on Sunday, expressed shock at the shelling...
OPEN THE RAFA CROSSING – Palestinians’ patience is wearing thin, says...
With Israel’s two-week military offensive in Gaza showing no signs of abating, patience is running thin among those waiting to get into the Strip...
Ramaphosa & ANC are our ‘class opponents’
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has responded to the State of the Nation Address delivered by newly elected South African President,...
‘WE ARE WINNING THIS FIGHT!’ – USW leader tells Mexico union
USW CANADIAN National Director Ken Neumann addressed the 37th Ordinary General Convention of the National Union of Mine, Metal, Steel and Allied Workers of...
Arts being forced out of the schools!
THE Warwick Commission’s final report, Enriching Britain: Culture, Creativity and Growth, launched on Tuesday, warns that the arts are being squeezed out of schools. Commission...
Companies at London Arms Fair supplying countries accused of committing ‘war...
THE WORLD’S biggest arms companies have set up shop at Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI), one of the world’s largest arms fairs, taking...
BOYCOTT ISRAEL TO BREAK GAZA SIEGE – says film director Ken...
‘We must campaign for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel, and to also boycott goods and services to break the Israeli siege of...
Israel exacting a deliberate policy of starvation
Amnesty International has accused Israel of enacting a ‘deliberate policy’ of starvation in Gaza as the UN and aid groups warn of famine in...
Russia Uses Hypersonic Missile For The First Time
THE conflict in Ukraine has seen Russia use its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles close to the border with NATO member Romania, while Kiev says...
Israeli Strikes Target Resistance
Palestinian fighters killed two Israeli settlers near the West Bank city of Hebron last Friday morning. Palestinians in a speeding car opened fire at three...
ISRAEL BLOCKADES GAZA – and steps up assaults in the West...
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) last Saturday condemned as ‘unacceptable’ Israel’s threat to turn the ‘economic siege’ it is imposing on the Gaza Strip...
Ontario childcare workers locked out over Christmas!
THE local MP, France Gelinas, is today, Wednesday 4th January, visiting the Ontario picket line of 140 childcare workers who have been locked out...
Tamil People Celebrate Heroes Day!
THE Tamil people commemorated Heroes Day on November 27, in remembrance of all the thousands who fought and gave their lives in the struggle...
STOP BOMBING TAMIL CIVILIANS! – demand 125,000 demonstrators
A huge mass of Tamil people gathered on the north side of the Thames at Pimlico on Saturday lunchtime calling for an immediate ceasefire...
Cuts In Child Poverty Reversed By Coalition!
Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...
Obama Warns Israel Against A Surprise Military Attack On Iran
US President Barack Obama has warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against surprising the US with a military attack on Iran. A senior US official...
‘WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA’ – Chagos Islanders picket the...
over 150 Chagos Islanders, British trade unionists and youth held a mass picket outside the House of Lords on Monday. The picket was called to...
800,000 workers and youth demonstrate across France
PROTESTERS clashed with police in Paris and other French cities on Saturday as over 800,000 people took to the streets, including students and trade...
Sri Lankan students battle against privatisation of the universities – Report...
UDARA Sandaruwan, Acting Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation has issued an appeal to trade unions and human rights organisations of the world to...
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...
Hamas demands immediate release of Palestinian detainees in Saudi Arabia
A Hamas spokes-man has condemned the continued detention and prosecution of Palestinian figures in Saudi Arabia over their support for the Palestinian resistance movement, and...
Prosecute The Bankers Responsible For The Global Financial Crisis
Delegates to the 28th International Brotherhood of Teamsters Convention in Las Vegas last week unanimously approved a resolution to prosecute chief executives and other...
Free the Filton 24! demands 100,000-strong London march
The first speaker in Whitehall was Faris Amer of the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘This government thinks when they clamp down on...
MARIKANA MASSACRE SECOND ANNIVERSARY RALLY – ANC and local government officials...
CONSPICUOUSLY absent at a rally last Saturday to commemorate slain miners on the second anniversary of the Marikana massacre were the African National Congress...
200,000 March On Israeli Embassy
OVER 200,000 people joined the largest-ever demonstration in Britain in support of the Palestinian people, when they marched in London on Saturday. About 10,000 people...
SAFTU condemns interest rates hike as postal workers strike for 15%...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Friday condemned the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiking of the...
OBAMA’S ‘CHANGE’ IS NOT REAL – warn Iranian clerics
AN IRANIAN cleric has criticised the letter written by the country’s president, Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, to the newly-elected American president, Barack Obama. ‘It appears that our...
21 million trapped in forced labour – including six million children...
IN HER foreword to the US Department of Labor’s findings on the worst forms of child labour in 2011, Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of...
MASSIVE SHORTAGE OF MIDWIVES! –service in crisis – 5,000 more needed...
THE latest State of Maternity Services report from the Royal College of Midwives shows the baby boom in UK continuing and maternity services at...
‘RETURN IS A RIGHT, NO CONSENT, NO CONCESSION’ – 10,000 Palestinians...
Titled ‘The Milan Declaration’, the final communiqué of the Seventh Palestinians in Europe Conference, convened under the theme ‘Return is a right, no Consent...