‘The situation in Yarl’s Wood is not human at all’ –...
ASSAULTS are commonplace in Immigration Removal Centres, which should not be responsible for the health care of their detainees. That is what is being said...
‘THE GOVERNMENT HAS ‘SET THE STAGEFOR MASS HOSPITAL CLOSURES’ says surgeon
IN MARCH, the Healthcare Commission reported that emergency care at Mid Staffordshire Hospital was ‘appalling’. It’s in-depth investigation discovered excess patient deaths of 400...
GREECE: 50bn Euros sell-off to repay loans
At a press conference last Friday the Greek Finance Minister Yiorghos Papakonstantinou announced the main points of the revised IMF-EC Accord that calls for...
Egyptian Workers Demand The Legal Right To Form Free Trade Unions
EGYPTIAN labour activists are keenly anticipating a new law on labour syndicates, a draft of which has apparently been completed and which could be...
Defend the National Health Service! Stop Privatisation Bring down the...
By Anna Athow, Consultant Surgeon ‘WE HAVE reached crunch point, where the process of transition from one system to another is taking place.’ So said...
McGUINNESS PLEDGES WAR ON RACISM
By JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist THE sectarian war in Ireland is over, but the war on racism has begun. That was the pledge from Sinn...
‘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...
Greek Workers Fight Moves To New Stage
TENS of thousands of Greek workers, students and youth took part in strike rallies last Friday throughout Greece against the ‘socialist’ government’s austerity measures....
President Assad meets the Iranian Foreign Minister
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad received Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and an accompanying delegation on Monday. At the start of the meeting, President al-Assad...
Immigrant workers face ‘an epidemic of workplace injury and death’ says...
‘TODAY immigrant workers in this country face an epidemic of workplace injury and death,’ stated the Afl-Cio trade union federation yesterday. In fact, immigrant...
Miliband Does Nothing To Stop Genocide Against The Tamils
TamilNet reports that Professor Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, has said Britain is obliged to...
Hezbollah Will Not Give In To Israeli Provocations
Hezbollah on Wednesday held a memorial service in the township of Majdal Silm in south Lebanon. During the service, Shaykh Nabil Qawuq, Hezbollah’s official in...
‘A HUMAN RIGHTS CATASTROPHE CONFRONTS TAMILS IN SRI LANKA’ – warn...
TamilNet reported on Wednesday a press conference of Canadian Academics for Tamil Rights in Toronto. The academics stressed recognition of the self-determination of Tamils as...
Fonseka arrest deepens crisis of Sri Lankan ruling class
THE split in the Sri Lankan ruling class has deepened with the arrest of General Fonseka who led the military campaign which killed tens...
Renault Workers March Against Thousands Of Sackings
Angry, striking carworkers from Sandouville (Seine-Maritime) Renault plant demonstrated in the streets of Le Havre on Thursday, September 25. The French motor manufacturing giant recently...
100,000 workers & youth march in Athens
THE Greek working class has once again demonstrated its strength and determination with a powerful one day general strike last Wednesday, called by the...
ST Helier’s ‘Picnic with a Purpose!’ – DETERMINED THAT THE HOSPITAL...
SOME 2,000 local residents, trade unionists, youth and their families turned out on Saturday for a ‘Picnic with a Purpose’ outside St Helier Hospital...
END SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY – ‘I don’t want any other mother to...
‘AS Jean’s mother I have felt immense pain,’ Maria Otone de Menezes told a packed public meeting in London on Monday night. The meeting was...
‘REFORM’ ATTACK ON UNIONS ‘EXPOSES ACADEMIES’ REAL AGENDA’ – says NUT
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has said a report from the right-wing think tank Reform, has exposed the academy schools programme’s ‘real agenda’,...
ADVANCE NUMSA! – expelled South African union leader Vavi says
THE AFTERMATH of the COSATU special national conference, held in Johannesburg on the 13th and 14th of July, has split the labour movement in...
NATO offensive turns thousands of families into refugees
THE number of those displaced by the US/NATO military surge against the Taleban resistance in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, has more...
Restore free accommodation for junior doctors
Around 300 medical students from across the country held a rally on Friday before holding an overnight protest against the removal of hospital accommodation...
‘UK MUST HAND OVER TORTURE EVIDENCE’ – says Amnesty
Amnesty International has called on the British government to hand over to Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohammed’s lawyers, vital information it holds on him. Binyam...
Palestinian People Fiercely Resisting The Israeli Occupiers
THE Palestinians of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are surrounded by barriers, as a desperate Israel tries to turn Occupied Palestine...
EGYPT ERUPTS! – Millions call for the revolution to continue
HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth have re-occupied Tahrir Square in disgust at the light sentencing of ex-president Mubarak and at...
Fire crews ‘sickened’ by politicians’ silence over fire cuts
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) says fire crews are ‘sickened’ by the silence of politicians over fire service cuts. Politicians have been queuing up to...
£20 billion of health service cuts means talk of ringfencing NHS...
AN All Trades Unions Alliance fringe meeting held in the evening of the first day of the British Medical Association’s Annual General Meeting was...
France Determined To Arm The ‘Syrian National Coalition’
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that the composition of a UN group to be assembled to investigate the alleged use of...
Gadaffi fighters still holding Sirte
Fighters loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi mounted a fierce counter-attack in the city of Sirte on Saturday, forcing back the NATO-backed NTC counter-revolutionaries...
PNA illusions in Sharon move
THE Palestinian National Authority (PNA) immediately reacted to the latest Israeli political upheaval on Monday, describing it sceptically but hopefully as a ‘volcano’ that...
Stop Bombing Syria! 10,000 March In Central London!
‘STOP bombing Syria! Welfare not warfare! David Cameron shame on you! Hilary Benn shame on you!’ shouted crowds at the end of a 10,000-strong...
CONSULTANTS OPPOSE NHS PRIVATISATION! –and call for the defence of District...
The British Medical Association (BMA) Consultants Conference on Wednesday voted to oppose government targets, NHS privatisation and to promote district general hospitals. Delegates at the...
‘WE WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE’ says Jean Charles de...
THE Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign has vowed to continue fighting until they get justice over the police killing of the Brazilian man...
‘We have jumped from the frying pan into the fire’ say...
ALTHOUGH Zimbabwe’s main opposition group, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), called off anti-government protests in the capital Harare at the last minute last...
TAKE ACTION AGAINST NHS CUTS! – call from delegates at BMA...
Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Cardiff expressed their serious concerns at the impact of cuts on healthcare. They...
Pna Being Bullied To Prevent Hamas Standing
The Palestinian National Authority is being bullied into choosing between democracy or empty coffers, the Palestine Media Center (PMC) says. The PMC said on Tuesday:...
BMA condemns Coalition’s local pay drive
THE BMA ARM has condemned the Tory-led drive to impose local pay deals on the public sector – which would mean the end of...
Hamas Rejects Jordan Provocation
Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas denied on Wednesday accusations by Jordan that the movement had stored weapons on Jordanian territory. Hamas added that it regretted Amman’s...
TWO MILLION BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS SACKED – 53.64 million face extreme...
MORE than two million garment workers have been sacked in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of fewer orders from the United...
Iran And Syria Sign Defence Pact
‘The Iranian nation and government will always stand by the resistance and the oppressed Palestinian people,’ Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has reiterated. Ahmadinejad met with...
SCRAPPING THE EMA WILL LEAVE YOUTH DESTITUTE! – £400 million being...
TEACHERS’, Lecturers’ and Students’ Union leaders have warned that Education Secretary Gove’s announcement on Monday of a ‘bursary scheme’ to replace the Education Maintenance...
Daily Picket Starts At Chase Farm
The daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital to stop its closure kicked off last Monday with an extremely lively mass picket. From the moment the...
Life Comes To A Standstill On The Gaza Strip
As Israel steps up its human rights violations and systematic breaches of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip, all the basic functions of...
US unions campaign for jobs
‘ACROSS the US, at town halls, fundraisers, and forums in over 150 congressional districts, jobless Americans are uniting with workers, students, and other citizens...
RUSSIA COULD NOT ALLOW CIVILIANS IN SOUTH OSSETIA TO BE ATTACKED...
THE UN Security Council held a third emergency meeting on August 10th on the situation in South Ossetia, where the conflict is expanding in...