Musicians back Bob Vylan and Kneecap!
ARTISTS have spoken out in support of hip-hop groups Bob Vylan and Kneecap, both of which provoked the fury of Zionism and imperialism for...
Reverse NW London hospital closure plan – RE-OPEN MATERNITY AT EALING...
THE ‘deeply flawed’ decision to downgrade North West London hospitals must be halted, according to a report by Michael Mansfield QC. It warns that the...
Replace Tamil civil service in the North – orders Rajapaksa
ORDERS have been issued by Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa and by his sibling Basil Rajapaksa to colonial governor Maj-Gen Chandrasri for immediate and...
Pharmacists and air traffic controllers on strike for pay in Italy
On Thursday, more than 60,000 private pharmacy workers in Italy stage a 24-hour national strike to demand higher wages and the renewal of the...
MPs condemn dangerous ‘restraint techniques’ – INQUEST calls for government action
Legal charity INQUEST has welcomed Friday’s publication of a highly critical report from the Home Affairs Select Committee on the rules governing enforced removals...
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,...
Pakistan condemns US attack on Iran as a ‘war crime’
Condemnations poured in against Saturday night’s US aggression on Iran’s nuclear sites, with many countries describing it as an illegal act that threatens regional...
‘IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE THERE ARE TWO AMERICAS’ – UAW...
UAW auto workers trade union President Ron Gettelfinger addressed the Detroit Economic Club last Thursday and attempted to deal...
‘Capitalism is a system which has to go!’
‘IT IS CAPITALISM as a system which has to go,’ artist Harlow Welldon said on the 35,000 strong protest last Wednesday in Hyde Park,...
MI5 ‘unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years’ says Liberty
THE British security and snoop service MI5 has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years,’ alleged rights organisation Liberty. ‘It has also failed,’ Liberty...
Defend the NHS and the Welfare State!
YESTERDAY key Blairite cabinet ministers, Blunkett and Hewitt, launched a massive attack on the Welfare State. Hewitt promised to use the NHS budget to...
OPCW chemical watchdog report ‘full of discrepancies’
‘THE Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) could not come up with an unbiased report on the alleged 2018 chemical attack in...
Gaza siege ‘creates an atmosphere of escalation and explosion’ says...
THE PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas says the Israeli regime must be held fully accountable for any consequences of tightening the years-long all-out siege on...
Call a general strike to overthrow Samaras! – demand Greek TV...
TENS of thousands of workers and youth mass day and night in the grounds around the occupied Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) building...
Haringey Home Care Workers Battle Low Wages And Zero-Hours Contracts
SEVENTEEN home care workers, Unison members employed across the London Borough of Haringey, are taking care company Sevacare and the council to court in...
FINANCIAL CRISIS HITS GAZA! – as the deadly siege is tightened
The Gaza government is facing a financial crisis in light of a ban imposed on bank transfers to the Hamas-led government by Egypt and...
US teachers, farmers and health workers fighting for pay, jobs and...
Educators in Dublin, California were on strike on Tuesday after no deal was made between the teachers union and the school district on Monday...
‘THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE COME HERE IN PEACE!’ –...
‘THIS is the last time we come here in peace, when we come here again we will vandalise,’ the leader of hundreds Community Work...
Deadly attacks on Colombian teachers & trade unions are condemned by...
Education International supports its affiliate, the Federación Colombiana de Educadores, in denouncing and firmly condemning assassinations and threats targeting Colombian educators, trade unionists, and...
President Sisi ‘played pivotal role’ in helping Fatah & Hamas overcoming...
EGYPTIAN President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi played a pivotal role in helping Fatah and Hamas overcome their differences to form a National Consensus Government in...
‘THIS RESOLUTION OPENS THE DOOR OF WAR FOREVER’ –says Nabih Birri,...
LEBANESE Al-Manar Television on 6 August carried a live news conference given by Nabih Birri, Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies...
COSATU president celebrates Workers Day on May 1st
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi delivered a Workers Day Speech on May 1st. ‘My fellow South Africans, President Cyril...
Netanyahu does not care about the fate of the Israeli captives!
The armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades says most of the Israeli captives held in northern Gaza have gone missing, holding...
‘I WILL NOT END MY LIFE WITH A BETRAYAL’ President Abbas...
IN A speech last Wednesday to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Palestinian President Abbas declared: ‘I want to achieve something for my country and I...
GUERNSEY RCN NURSES VOTE FOR STRIKE OVER PAY – for only...
NURSES in Guernsey have voted to go on strike as part of an ongoing battle for better pay, however a date will not yet...
Yale Employees Demand Union Recognition!
HUNDREDS of people gathered on the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, on Saturday morning to call for good jobs. They are waiting in frustration for...
Israeli Forces Bulldoze West Bank Villages
ISRAELI occupation forces demolished four houses, razed land and arrested Palestinians in the West Bank last Wednesday. They demolished one house that was still under...
SA union wins victory against labour brokering
THE Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, has ruled that an employer cannot employ a worker for more than three months without...
Child defendant at risk of death penalty in Saudi Arabia
A SAUDI court has proceeded with a case against a child defendant at risk of the death penalty, contradicting the Saudi government’s claim it...
Missing: The Hundreds Of Ltte Fighters Who Surrendered!
TAMIL NET reports that Ananthi Sasitharan, wife of Elilan, former Trincomalee political head of the LTTE, has told BBC Tamil service that she and...
US seeking to strangle Cuba
CUBA has directed international airlines to suspend refueling operations on the island for one month following US measures that have disrupted essential oil supplies,...
‘THEY WERE ALL INNOCENT!’ – families welcome Saville Report
Families of the victims of Bloody Sunday on Tuesday addressed a crowd of thousands outside the Guildhall, Derry, and gave their reaction to the...
Fast-food strike in 150 US cities
FAST-food workers in more than 150 US cities walked off their jobs on Thursday, the latest in a series of strike protests demanding a...
Struggle over General Strike at 20,000-strong Dublin rally
20,000 people took part in last Saturday’s march in Dublin organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. The aim of the protest was to...
‘Free Palestine–Free Al-Aqsa’ Demands 1,000-Strong Lobby Of Israeli Embassy
‘FREE, FREE, Palestine! Free Al-Aqsa!’ shouted participants in an over 1,000-strong lobby of the Israeli embassy in West London on Saturday evening. They also shouted...
Tuc Forms A Common Front With The Bosses
The TUC has joined forces with the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), EEF the manufacturers’ organisation, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and The...
IHRA seeks to ‘silence criticism of Israel’
PALESTINIAN civil society groups issued a statement on Wednesday urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject the ‘biased, anti-Palestinian’ International...
National Bus And Rail Strike Is Looming In Ireland!
A NATIONAL bus and rail strike by SIPTU and NBRU drivers is looming in Ireland. SIPTU announced on Tuesday it is to ballot its members...
Powerful start to month-long St Mungo strike!
Workers at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s began four weeks of strike action on Tuesday May 30, fighting to win a backdated pay rise...
£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,...
BA ultimatum: accept 20% pay cut or lose your job
British Airways has told cabin crew they must take a 20% cut in basic pay if they want to keep their jobs, – but...
Embers May Flare Up!
May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...
Huge Support For Delphi Workers
Huge support is building up for US Delphi workers confronting a massive attack on their wages, healthcare and pensions. The former General Motors subsidiary,...
Defiant pickets & rallies by striking Junior Doctors & Consultants!
THERE were defiant pickets and rallies of striking Junior Doctors and Consultants on Monday, the first day of the current three-day joint British Medical...
Capitalism and democracy may well be parting company says SIPTU president...
THIS IS the text of a speech by SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, at the centenary commemoration of the founding of the Irish Neutrality League...