Doctors feeling ‘abandonded’ by Tories over PPE says BMA council chair...
SHORTAGES of PPE (personal protective equipment) during the early months of Covid-19 left doctors feeling ‘abandoned’ by the government, BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul...
‘No justice, no peace’ chant marchers after Ohio police shooting of...
ANGRY demonstrators marched through the northwest city of Columbus in Ohio last Friday to demand justice and transparency in investigations into the police killing...
Class Struggle Sharpening In South Africa!
THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU), as the majority union at the Clinix Health Group, is on strike today over substantive...
UK War Crimes In Iraq But Icc Declines To Prosecute
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court has said it will not take action against the UK, despite its finding of evidence British troops committed war crimes...
CGT unions in France defend temporary workers against government ‘provocation’
THE FRENCH CGT union federation has condemned as a ‘provocation’ a short term ‘alms’ payment that ignores many workers. It said: ‘The government announced on...
Children’s rights have ‘regressed in many areas’ of the UK
NINETY children’s charities have warned the United Nations that children’s rights have deteriorated in England and ‘regressed in many areas’ since 2016. On Wednesday 9th December, the Children’s...
‘Tearing up the Human Rights Act would be a giant leap...
‘TEARING up the Human Rights Act would be a giant leap backwards. It would be the single biggest reduction in rights in the history...
‘UN Must Condemn Assassination Of Fakhrizadeh!’ Says Iran
IRAN has called on the United Nations and its Human Rights Council to stop their ‘selective’ approach and condemn the recent assassination of the...
Syria’s rightful sovereignty over Golan recognised by UN
THE UN General Assembly has again voted by majority to recognise Syria’s rightful sovereignty over the occupied Golan, and on considering all the measures...
COSATU celebrates 35 years of struggle
THE CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is celebrating 35 years of existence – and relentless struggle – since it was formed on...
‘We Are Watching – We Are Waiting – We Demand...
BY Fra Hughes PAT FINUCANE was gunned down as he sat down to dinner with his family one Sunday evening in Belfast on February 12,...
International ‘Make Amazon Pay’ campaign
THE GMB trade union has called for a parliamentary inquiry into ‘dehumanising’ working conditions at Amazon warehouses, as the company enjoyed mammoth Black Friday sales. GMB...
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people
PALESTINE President Mahmoud Abbas received a telegram from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday to mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian...
Israeli forces have killed over 3,000 Palestinian children – since the...
ISRAELI forces have killed over three thousand Palestinian children since the beginning of the Second Intifada also known as the Aqsa Intifada in September...
200 years since the birth of Frederick Engels
TODAY is the 200th anniversary of the birth, on 28th November, 1820, of Frederick Engels, the closest collaborator, benefactor, friend and comrade of Karl...
National lockdown too late without test and trace – North hit...
THE GOVERNMENT’S announcement of a national lockdown on 31st October, after trying to stave off this ‘nuclear’ option for two months with tiered restrictions,...
800 Pennsylvania Nurses Are Taking Strike Action!
NEARLY 800 nurses at a Bucks County hospital in Pennsylvania went on strike last Tuesday and Wednesday over dangerously low staffing levels that prevent...
Demonstrations across France against law banning the filming of police
FRENCH riot police have been condemned over violently dispersing protesters in Paris demonstrating against a new security bill (the PPL Securite Globale) which bans...
NUJ hears of suicide fears for Julian Assange – PCS ‘outrage’...
JULIAN Assange will most likely take his own life if he is convicted, an online meeting for NUJ members has heard. Jen Robinson, lawyer to...
Ashrawi condemns Pompeo for visiting Israeli colonial settlement!
HANAN ASHRAWI, member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)’s Executive Committee, has condemned the US top diplomat’s visit to an Israeli colonial settlement in...
BDS has hit back after Pompeo’s ‘anti-Semitic’ slander
THE PALESTINIAN-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has criticised and firmly rejected US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s labelling of its movement as...
Kick the Tories out and stop the disaster of the second...
BECAUSE the government waited so long before imposing a national lockdown on 31 October, large numbers of people will continue to die of coronavirus...
THE SAFETY OF MATERNITY SERVICES UNDER SERIOUS THREAT says Royal College...
THE SAFETY of maternity services is under serious threat, according to a new survey released by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) on Tuesday. The...
1,400 University of Bristol students on rent strike
OVER 1,400 students at the University of Bristol are participating in an ongoing rent strike to protest against the University’s Covid-19 response. This constitutes...
US Supreme Court Victory for ‘Dreamers’
A US FEDERAL judge has rejected the limitations imposed by the Trump administration on a programme protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants – often...
President Assad blames US for stopping return of Syrian refugees!
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has blamed the United States for hampering the return of refugees to Syria. Assad was delivering a speech delivered via video...
INVESTIGATION INTO RAIL DEATHS ‘failure to protect staff over many years’
AN INVESTIGATION released last week into the deaths in July 2019 of two railworkers at Magram, a suburb of Port Talbot in Wales, has...
IRUSA gives aid boost to orphaned and disabled Palestinian children
AS COVID-19 continues to fuel increased hardship among the two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, thousands of vulnerable and orphaned refugee children living...
French Teaching Unions Nationwide Day Of Action
TEACHERS’ unions in France held a nationwide day of protests and strikes on Tuesday to call for stricter sanitary measures in schools as coronavirus...
Lesson from US election is don’t ‘buy security from psychopaths’ says...
RAN says the United States’ presidential election that toppled Donald Trump bears a message for all those Middle East countries which take the risk of...
4,000 Colombian miners enter third month of strike!
OVER 4,000 miners, members of the Sintracarbón union, have entered the third month of a bitter strike at the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The...
SYRIA DOES NOT POSSESS CHEMICAL WEAPONS says UN representative Bashar al-Jaafari
SYRIA’S permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr Bashar al-Jaafari, reiterated that Syria has not and will not use chemical weapons and does not...
North of Ireland health workers demand £2,000 wage rise
HEALTH staff in Unison across the north of Ireland – including nurses, paramedics, cleaners, domestics and porters – are urging the UK government to...
South African Public Works Programme workers demand permanent jobs
AROUND 80 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers protested outside the Port Elizabeth City Hall on Tuesday, demanding that the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality...
Venezuelan parliamentary elections are on December 6th!
ON TUESDAY, November 3, the electoral campaign for the parliamentary elections of December 6, 2020 begins based on the schedule set by the National...
Police Spies Infiltrated 1,000 Groups
The public inquiry into the actions of police spies over several decades got underway on Monday and is expected to last for three years. Members...
Maher Al-Akhras Hunger Strike Now Exceeds 90 Days!
‘CALLING for the freedom of one Palestinian political prisoner is what Israel expects from the international community. ‘The latest detainee to go on hunger strike...
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...
Strike threat at Manchester Met
A STRIKE threat has been issued at Manchester’s Metropolitan University – as students learned that in-person teaching was to resume in spite of the...
US & EU continuing economic terrorism against Syria
‘MEMBER countries at the UN Security Council are attempting to destabilise Syria and impose their own hostile agendas,’ Syria’s permanent representative to the UN,...
‘Black, Asian & minority ethnic people have been over-exposed and under-protected...
Covid-19 has ‘thrived’ among black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) communities because of structural race discrimination, a new Labour Party report from Baroness Doreen...
Youth from poor backgrounds hit hardest by coronavirus pandemic
YOUNG people, particularly those from deprived backgrounds, have had their earnings and job prospects hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, adding to fears...
Fourteen delivery drivers in South Korea dead from overwork this year
Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due...
Nearly 500 students still living in ‘fire-trap’!
NEARLY 500 students still remain living in a housing complex in west London while waiting for alternative accommodation despite it having been deemed a...
King’s unions & management disengage
KING’S College Hospital Foundation Trust (KCHFT) management has been accused by the Unite union of ‘racism, discrimination and bullying’ as staff-side joint partnership meetings...