Child labour, sexual abuse and cruelty Working class children treated as...
THE ‘Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on report into the Child Migration Programmes’ criticises UK governments over their cruel policy that was continued...
Contract and agency workers’ rights routinely violated
An ICEM global union federation report has found that the rights of workers in the cement industries of the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and...
‘THE US IS REORGANISING THE REGION TO FAVOUR ISRAEL’ – says...
THE Hamas movement issued a statement last Monday slamming the US for its ‘pro-Israeli bias’. It stated: ‘The new Middle East plan is...
Millions turn out for Tuesday’s pension strike in France
MILLIONS of workers and youth took part in the first of two new mass strikes and demonstrations in France on Tuesday in opposition to...
Hundreds of Palestinians march in funeral processions as PM Shtayyeh condemns...
HUNDREDS of people marched in the funeral processions of two of the Palestinians, out of three killed by the Israeli forces in the occupied...
‘We will not supply your gas for free!’ Russia warns EU
MOSCOW is handling the details of its gas delivery plans to unfriendly countries for payment in roubles, but it won’t engage in charity if...
Dire Staff Shortages At Cancer Centres Across The UK – Investment...
Annual workforce figures released on Tuesday by The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) reveal the ‘dire’ staff shortages at cancer centres across the UK. Clinical...
Health workers march in France! ‘Our public hospitals are dying...
HEALTH workers demonstrated in cities across France on Tuesday to demand higher pay and more staff for services stretched to breaking point, just days...
Iraq & Iran Deplore Trump’s Travel Ban
POWERFUL Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Spokesman of Hashd al-Sha’abi (the Iraqi popular forces) Ahmad al-Assadi, deplored US President Donald Trump’s decision to...
US unions demand action
THE AFL-CIO labour federation has released the following statement on the 16-day shutdown and threatened default by the US government: ‘Adults took over Washington, DC,...
15 US labour organisations join ‘Labour for Palestine!’
A LABOUR union in the US state of Vermont has declared its decision to join the alliance of ‘Labour for Palestine’, a trade union...
Continuing uprising in South Africa driven by poverty & mass...
SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) has acknowledged mass unemployment and poverty precipitated the continuing uprising in the country. In a statement last Friday,...
US beats a retreat
Mark Grossman, Washington’s chief envoy to Afghanistan, met Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of US efforts to bring the insurgents to the negotiating...
Israeli Bulldozers Demolish Bedouin Homes – As Khalida Jarrar Faces 12...
ISRAELI bulldozers demolished homes in the Bedouin village of al-Araqib village in the Negev for the 83rd time on Monday, in addition to a...
One year on . . . Remploy workers remain jobless!
A GMB union survey has found that the majority of Remploy workers did not get another job, one year on from the last of...
‘Continue The March To Raise The Palestinian Flag Over Jerusalem’
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last Friday pledged to continue Yasser Arafat’s struggle to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, as thousands...
Strike Wave Gripping South Africa
A STRIKE wave is gripping South Africa with fishermen, media workers and fuel industry and electricity workers taking action. In an eleventh hour decision ...
‘AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL NEARLY A CEMETERY’ says World Health Organisation ahead of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Tuesday that al-Shifa Hospital is ‘nearly a cemetery’ and unable to bury dead bodies as the facility is...
Unions angry over pay and progression cuts!
In his budget speech Chancellor Osborne announced that there would be a one per cent annual pay rise of the public sector up to...
‘Return retirement age to 60’ says French CGT union
‘WHILE more than 2 million of us took to the streets on January 19th, a new day of inter-union mobilisation is scheduled for Tuesday...
French Youth Demand – Withdraw The Hire And Fire Contract
FRENCH youth are in no mood to give up fighting for their employment rights. They are vowing to continue their blockade of universities and high...
Crs Riot Police Attack Weather Service Workers
CRS riot police were used against striking Meteo-France weather service workers who were picketing and blockading the organisation’s Toulouse site at 22.30 on...
‘Freedom Flotilla’ Heading For Gaza
THE second ship to join the Freedom Flotilla en route to Gaza left Istanbul Saturday afternoon, joining eight other boats from three countries carrying...
OCCUPATION IS THE PROBLEM – troops out of Iraq, demands 50,000-strong...
50,000 workers and youth marched through London last Saturday, as part of the many demonstrations worldwide to mark the third anniversary of the war...
Peru protesters demand resignation of President Boluarte
PROTESTS are continuing throughout Peru demanding the resignation of President-designate Dina Boluarte, the closing of the Congress, the advancement of elections in 2023, and...
Huge increase in homelessness in England – Joseph Rowntree Foundation
NEW independent research published by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Wednesday revealed the huge and increasing scale of homelessness in England. The Homelessness...
‘WE WANT FREE MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE GAZA STRIP AND WEST...
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Minister of Civil Affairs, Mohammad Dahlan has revealed a plan regarding the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Dahlan, who also heads the...
Swindon Day Of Action To Keep Honda Car Factory Open
ON SATURDAY thousands of Swindon football fans showed their determination to fight to keep the Honda car factory open, which is an absolute life...
93 Gazans Vist Relatives Jailed In Israel
A GROUP of 93 Palestinians from Gaza visited relatives jailed in Israel on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Spokesperson Suhair Zaqqut...
Preparations underway for Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections says Mahmoud Abbas!
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said during his speech last Friday before the General Debate of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly that...
BBC journalists and technicians set to strike Thursday – over job...
BBC journalists and technicians are set to strike for 12 hours on from midday to midnight this Thursday, 28 March. BBC Easter programmes will be...
Herts Firefighters Ready For Action
Firefighters in Hertfordshire are to vote on strike action against plans to axe job losses and close fire stations, Hertfordshire FBU has announced. The Fire...
Fonseka To Be Court-Martialled
Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...
Disney Set To Face The Biggest Strike In The USA This...
Disney are set to face the largest strike in the US this year after it was announced that thousands of theme park and hotel...
Israeli Military Admits To Killing Girl
ISRAEL’S military just after midnight on Friday admitted their responsibility for the death of a teenage girl in Gaza. The announcement came following its insistence...
‘Gaza is suffering from industrial scale savagery!’ says Palestinian Ambassador
The first speaker at the Downing Street rally, Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, said: ‘Thank you for showing you will not relent...
Hamas Delegation Meets President Assad
A Hamas delegation headed by the Islamist movement’s senior most leader Khaled Mishaal met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday to...
Teachers Slam Tory ”exam Factories!’
THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) on Saturday published: ‘Exam Factories? The impact of accountability measures on children and young people.’ This research demonstrates the...
GREECE ERUPTS! – Thousands march against police killing
SOME 15,000 students, youths, workers and trade unionists marched on Sunday afternoon from Athens Polytechnic to the Greek police HQ in protest against the...
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,...
HAMAS WILL NOT RECOGNISE ISRAEL – Khaled Mishaal confirms
HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal has reiterated that all Palestinian factions agree on a state ‘within the 1967 borders’ and that Hamas agrees to the...
Fatah Denies Request To Postpone Conference
A FATAH spokesperson denied on Sunday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) intends to ask Washington to postpone the US-sponsored conference on the Palestinian-Israeli...
Bush Will Return In May To Celebrate The Founding Of Israel
ARAB states are demanding that the United States clarify the purpose of a planned return trip by US President George W Bush to Israel...
UN ‘peacekeepers’ in Haiti ‘fathered hundreds of children and abandoned their...
UNITED Nations peacekeepers fathered hundreds of children while deployed in Haiti then abandoned their young mothers to lives of poverty, a damning new report...
1,857 empty homes in Kensington & Chelsea – while Grenfell Tower...
THERE are thousands of empty homes in the area of the Grenfell Tower fire which could potentially be used by the victims. Some homes...