China hosts Shanghai Cooperation Summit
China and Russia are the key victors of World War II, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin...
20,000 children killed in Gaza since October 2023! – one child...
THE Save The Children organisation has confirmed that the number of children killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel’s genocidal war...
NUMSA commemorates the mass murder of Marikana striking miners
LAST Friday, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) commemorated the mass murder of striking miners in Marikana, who were gunned down for...
‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free’
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ shouted Palestinians and their supporters demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy, west London, on Saturday...
Hamas movement wounds 3 Israeli settlers in shooting operation! – ‘a...
THE Hamas Movement said on Tuesday that the heroic shooting operation, that took place east of Tulkarem that morning and led to the injury...
‘100 ROUNDS FIRED ON SLEEPING FAMILY’ – ACLU releases files on...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...
‘PERPETRATORS OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES!’ – Human Rights Watch condemns Sri Lankan...
The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and ‘disappearances’ that are a national crisis, New York based rights group Human Rights Watch...
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...
Save Charing Cross A&E – anger over NHS cuts
THOUSANDS are marching through west London against hospital closures today, determined that Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing hospitals will not close. Today’s march...
THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN! – –US version is a...
THE US was aided by Pakistan in the killing of Osama bin Laden, Seymour Hersh, an American investigative journalist and author has sensationally alleged. The...
Ukrainian drones used against cities in Russia – and HIMARS attack...
AIR defences downed a Ukrainian drone approaching the Russian city of Voronezh, the regional government said in a statement on Monday. ‘Last night, air defences...
INFLATION AND PAY CUTS ‘A PERFECT STORM’ – says ATL teachers...
An overwhelming majority of teachers, lecturers and support staff have noticed a change for the worse to their living standards since the 2008 financial...
Francis Inquiry demands hospital closures
THE Francis Inquiry – which took three years and cost £13 million – was presented to the public on Wednesday 6th February. Apparently finished last...
Only 10% of Gaza population has access to safe drinking water!
PEOPLE will need water, already scarce in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), even more desperately if temperatures rise because of climate change,...
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...
Russian car workers win union recognition
Benteler car workers in Kaluga, Russia, to the south west of Moscow, have won their strike over recognition of their union. On April 2...
Strikes, fires and fuel hikes in South Africa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape notes recent developments affecting the Taxi Industry in Cape Town and the...
‘To strike is not a crime: we will will not be...
THOUSANDS of Spanish workers took part in a rally in Madrid on 5 July, to protest at the arrest and possible imprisonment of several...
Teachers In Ontario Strike Against Education Bill
Public school teachers in Ontario in Canada are set to go on strike against the state government for imposing new contracts under a controversial...
‘ALL CLOSURE THREATENED HOSPITALS, FIRE STATIONS AND FACTORIES SHOULD BE OCCUPIED’...
‘CHASE FARM Hospital is occupied,’ Bill Rogers, Secretary of the North East London Council of Action, told News Line, speaking inside the hospital at...
90 YEARS OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION – Forward to the World...
IN OCTOBER 1917 workers took power in Russia. This is the 90th anniversary of the victorious October Revolution, the first time in history that the...
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...
75% Yemeni children are ‘chronically malnourished’
THE WHO warns: 75% of Yemeni kids are ‘chronically malnourished’, with the Yemeni population engulfed in food insecurity. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned...
Egypt’s Transport Workers Sit-In At Cabinet Office!
EGYPT'S Public Transport Authority workers on Saturday announced the beginning of an open-ended sit-in outside cabinet headquarters on Cairo’s Qasr al-Ainy Street, following a...
Angry transport workers lobby TfL today
TRANSPORT workers in three unions descend on the Tory Mayor Boris Johnson’s Office this morning to fight the ‘all-out savage attack’ on their pay...
RCN RESPOND TO LABOUR PARTY CALL FOR A £500m NHS WINTER...
JANET DAVIES the Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has responded to the Labour Party call for a £500...
Iran, Russia & Syria defence chiefs meet
THE DEFENCE chiefs of Iran, Russia and Syria have called for closer trilateral co-operation in the battle against terrorism, emphasising the need to keep...
Australian Unions Support Korean Rail Workers
THE AUSTRALIAN Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) has rallied with other Australian unions to increase worldwide pressure on the South Korean government to cease its...
Thousands rally in Gaza on 31st anniversary of the founding of...
TENS of thousands of Palestinians have attended a huge rally in the besieged Gaza Strip to mark the 31st anniversary of the establishment...
‘Stay put’ failed as soon as flammable cladding was installed FBU’S...
FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack has issued the following statement, commenting on the testimony given to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry by...
Lifting all US sanctions will create ‘a new atmosphere’ – Rouhani...
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says the lifting of all US sanctions will create ‘a new atmosphere’ for the Islamic Republic’s economic cooperation with the...
Murderous US airstrike on Shayrat air base crossed red lines –...
THE MURDEROUS US strike on the Shayrat Syrian air base last Friday crossed ‘red lines’ and any new aggression will be met by a...
Abbas Urges ‘Popular And Peaceful Resistance’
Amid mounting Israeli restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement, President Mahmud Abbas on Saturday sponsored the swearing in of the new Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative...
Special Unit Set Up By Netanyahu To Force Feed Palestinians
PALESTINIAN hunger striker Mohammad Allan was forcibly removed from Soroka hospital in Beersheba and taken to the Barzilai Medical Centre in Ashdod, by Israeli...
NAHT and NUT boycott of SATs to go ahead
Following a successful ballot of both unions’ leadership members, the NUT and NAHT executives have decided that the boycott of this year’s SATs will...
Uni treating workers like slaves! – NUMSA mass picket
AT THE end of last week, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) staged a mass picket at the University...
South Korean workers defy protest ban
SOUTH Korea’s umbrella labour unions are defying a government ban and have pledged to push ahead with organising another massive rally on December 5th,...
Trade unions condemn Colombian state murder
THE TRADE Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) adopted a resolution on the dire situation in Colombia, condemning the violence against trade unionists and calling on...
End The Ppp On The London Underground
TUBE passengers and taxpayers remain exposed to an unacceptable level of financial risk and could face another ten-figure bill if the Tubelines consortium were...
UN condemns US’ mass expulsions of Haitian migrants
THE United Nations has condemned the US’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants who have been camped in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del...
Bangladesh garment workers and ship breakers demand safety at work and...
GARMENT workers on Monday (January 14) marched in Dhaka city demanding assurances for a safe workplace and trade union rights in ...
‘SYRIA MUST REGAIN CONTROL OVER ITS ENTIRE TERRITORY!’ – ‘The only...
RUSSIA’S Foreign Ministry has said that the only way to guarantee security in Syria is for the Syrian state to regain control over its...
‘There is revolutionary determination to smash capitalism’ –WRP General Secretary tells...
OVER 100 workers, trade unionists and youth attended the rally at the Indian YMCA in Fitzroy Square, central London on Sunday to mark...
Slave Labour & Serious Exploitation In Qatar
QATAR'S construction sector is rife with abuse, with workers employed on multi-million dollar projects suffering serious exploitation in conditions akin to slave labour, Amnesty...
‘IT’S TIME FOR SOCIALISM’ says Venezuelan President Maduro
Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) passed a new law last week aimed at empowering the organised working class. The Constitutional Law of Workers’ Productive Councils...