‘I WANT NO ONE TO SLEEP AT NIGHT’ – Olmert tells...
USING the release of the Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit as pretext, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed his occupation forces to reoccupy the...
Irish Teachers Set For Strike Action
SCHOOLTEACHERS in Ireland are set to strike over a number of issues, including the 10% pay cut that has affected as many as...
‘Sunak’s refusal to lift the pay cap on civil servants and...
RESPONDING to Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget speech last Wednesday, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka commented: ‘Rishi Sunak has today failed to vaccinate the...
Academies are ‘managing out’ pupils!
THE ‘MANAGING out’ of pupils in order to ‘game’ government league tables is rife among academies, Education DataLab revealed on Wednesday. ‘The NUT has long...
Nigerian hospital workers indefinite strike – in Zimbabwe 16,000 striking nurses...
NIGERIA’S nurses, pharmacists, and other medical professionals on Sunday declared an indefinite strike at federal hospitals under the auspices of the Joint Health...
‘TO GET JUSTICE WE NEED TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM’ says Family...
‘WHO are the killers? Police are the killers! IPCC, not fit for purpose! Scrap the IPCC!’ shouted workers and youth at a rally opposite...
STUDENTS PRICED OUT OF ‘POSH’ UNIVERSITIES – says Push survey
Responding to the latest Push survey of students’ cost of living, Wes Streeting, NUS Vice President (Education), said on Thursday: ‘This survey shows how...
Defend Trent Park Campus–Defend Chase Farm say Middlesex University students
STUDENTS from Middlesex University declared yesterday that the only way to defend their threatened Trent Park Campus and their neighbouring local hospital, Chase Farm,...
Milltown Massacre ‘Could Have Been Prevented’
THIS year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations on Monday, March 17 were overshadowed by the 20th anniversaries of two of the most televised bloody massacres...
COUNCIL TAX HITS THE POOR THE HARDEST – 3 million summonses...
Over two million households are estimated to be struggling to pay Council Tax, according to a new report by the Warwick Institute for Employment...
Hundreds of thousands of young workers are on zero-hours contracts –...
ZERO-HOUR contracts have risen sharply in recent years, hundreds of thousands of zero-hour contract workers, the majority being young, are on minimum wage whilst...
Four million children growing up in poverty! – ‘Heart-breaking & wrong’...
‘IT’S HEART-breaking and wrong’ that a million children under 4 are growing up in poverty, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) charity. Almost 3 in...
Millions around the world march on May Day!
Millions of workers gathered in cities around the world to mark International Workers Day, on Friday with some demonstrations, such as those in Istanbul,...
Israel’s ‘nightmare of collapse’ coming to life – says Iranian ...
CHIEF of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, says the ‘glorious’ Palestinian military operation in the occupied territories has made...
Palestinians march in support of President Maduro
HUNDREDS of Palestinians marched through Gaza City on Monday in a show of support for Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro. The solidarity march, which...
Tory Cuts Produce ‘Chronic Shortage Of Teachers’
AS schools prepare to break up for the Christmas holidays, new analysis by the Labour Party reveals the impact of the chronic shortage of...
Folk singer Mohammad Barghouti is arrested over his songs!
PERHAPS the Palestinian folk singer Mohammad Barghouti, 23, did not know that he is going to end up in an Israeli jail because of...
Free Palestine! Israel Is A Terror State! – Thousands Picket Israeli...
‘FREE, free Palestine! Israel is a terror state!’, over 2,000 protesters chanted at a picket of the Israeli embassy in west London on Thursday...
‘Summer Of Dissent’ Against Police Bill
A mass petition with over 600,000 signatures was delivered to the Government on Monday, demonstrating the strength of public opposition to the Police, Crime,...
‘Scandalous and incompetent’ GMB SLAMS LACK OF SICK PAY!
THE GMB union has slammed as both ‘scandalous and incompetent’ reports that the government sought, at the start of the Covid pandemic, to make...
Over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners launch open-ended hunger strike
MORE THAN 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike on Monday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned...
‘OUR CALL IS FOR THE PEOPLE TO UNITE IN THE YEAR...
NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has released the declaration from the Preparatory Assembly convened to discuss the forming of a mass...
‘BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS!’ – protesters condemn MPs who backed invasion...
‘BLOOD on your hands!’, ‘Shame on you!’ shouted demonstrators opposite parliament on Tuesday night, as MPs left the House of Commons after a debate...
Hamas Rejects Arab Forces In Gaza
The Palestinian government and the Hamas movement have rejected the admittance of any Arab or international military forces to the Gaza Strip, or to...
Sri Lanka Has ‘Set A Precedent For Internationally Accepted Genocide’
Sri Lanka has been accused of setting a ‘precedent for an internationally acceptable genocide model’, TamilNet reports. Kolathur T S Mani, president of Periyar Dravidar...
‘We’Ll Strike To Keep Royal Mail Public’
‘ROYAL Mail not for sale!’ shouted over 200 postal workers and their supporters as they marched through Corby last Friday. They were applauded as they...
‘£5BILLION WASTED’ ON PRIVATE TREATMENT CENTRES – NHS left to pick...
There is no good evidence that independent sector treatment centres have provided additional capacity, value for money, or high quality care, argue researchers in...
US ‘Humiliated’ Over Afghanistan Withdrawal
FORMER US President Donald Trump has attacked President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as the ‘greatest embarrassment’ in the history of the United States. In...
Greek Riot Police Attack Ship Repair Workers
GREEK armed riot police viciously attacked with clubs, smoke and lightning bombs and toxic tear gas grenades about 800 protesting ship repair workers last...
World Crisis Splits Iran’s Islamic Revolution
AT least 10 people were killed in the latest clashes to shake Tehran, state television said on Sunday, as Iranian leaders took aim at...
Irish Teachers Strikes Loom
Research carried out by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) indicates that second-level schools will lose an average of 2.6 temporary and part-time...
Strike Wave Spreading In South Africa
A STRIKE wave is spreading throughout South Africa as concrete workers, Telecom workers and miners are locked into escalating struggles against ruthless employers that...
Greek hospital workers blockade against austerity! – as thousands of refugees...
GREEK hospital workers on Monday morning blocked the entrance to the Finance Ministry on Nikis Street near Syntagma Square in an angry protest against...
‘The workers are with us and that’s why we are going...
‘A GENERAL STRIKE to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!’ was the main demand on the 100,000-strong TUC march from the...
NAKBA: THEN AND NOW –15th May marks 68th Anniversary of Nakba
ON the occasion of the commemoration of the anniversary of the Nakba, Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said: ‘The Nakba is ongoing as long as the occupation...
GM Latin American workers meet in Sao Paulo!
WORKERS from General Motors plants across Latin America met in São Paulo, Brazil, last week to discuss and take action against workforce casualisation within...
Football fans united to defend communities!
Far-right violence erupted across the UK in early August, prompting an alliance of football fans to rally in defence of threatened communities. In Liverpool, supporters...
Press TV campaigns against attack on Iranian satellite TV!
PRESS TV has launched a Facebook petition to save the news channel across Europe after European satellite provider Eutelsat SA stopped the broadcast of...
REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE! – 10,000 March against racism in London
‘REFUGEES are welcome here!’ shouted over 10,000 protesters on a March Against Racism through central London on Saturday. Labour’s shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott,...
Myanmar Miners – 5 Months On Strike!
Since MYANMAR’S military coup in February this year, 4,800 miners have been on strike in Monywa township in a solid five-month action which has...
Trump Condemns Iran And Embraces Israel & Egypt!
DONALD Trump’s White House signalled a tougher stance toward Iran on Wednesday, condemning a recent missile test and declaring America was putting the Islamic...
FRENCH UNIONS REFUSE TO TALK WITH GOVERNMENT – until CPE is...
LEADERS of France’s main trade union federations have refused to talk to the government until it withdraws the CPE (first job contract) that removes...
London Mayor Accused Of Gambling With Tube Safety
TUBE unions have reacted angrily to the announcement that all London Underground ticket offices will be shut by 2015 with the loss of nearly...
Medical Students Face £70,000 Of Debt
Medical students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...
Labour movement rises up in Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe
Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, on Thursday, called on the leadership of the...