‘DEVELOP YOUR TANKS THE WAY YOU WANT … THESE WILL BE...

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HASSAN Nasrallah, secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, has spoken at a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the July 2006 war with Israel. Speaking in...

West Bank General Strike after al-Mawasi massacre

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WEST BANK Palestinians held a general strike yesterday in solidarity with people in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli attack on a ‘safe...

‘A DANGEROUS SPREAD OF THE KENYAN VIRUS’ – COSATU questions Zimbabwe...

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SOUTH Africa’s trade union federation COSATU has said the deal signed on Monday by Zimbabwe’s political rivals ‘marks a dangerous spread of the Kenyan...

Fatah’s Abu Ammar Brigades refuses to disarm

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THE official spokesperson of the Fatah-affiliated Martyr Abu Ammar Brigades, Abu Muhammad, has affirmed the brigades’ loyalty to political leaders and Fatah decisions, but...

Only 400 Attend Rajapakse’s Jaffna Rally

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PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapakse was displeased with the tiny crowd that was assembled to ‘greet the leader’ at his election rally in Jaffna on Wednesday,...

Syrian Victory Over Terrorism Will Advance The World – Assad

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday the victory of the Syrian people and their allies in the war against terrorism would contribute to...

Belfast raid on journalists is being challenged!

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A POLICE raid of the Belfast homes and office of two investigative journalists will be challenged as part of a judicial review that started...

AN ISRAELI INVASION OF THE GAZA STRIP ‘IS JUST A STONE’S...

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HAMAS’ Yahya Musa, a deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council declared yesterday that an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip was discussed behind the...

Offshore workers North Sea strike

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OFFSHORE union RMT along with Unite and GMB on Tuesday issued notice of strike action by offshore members employed with North Sea contractors Ponticelli...

Netanyahu Pledges Never To Remove West Bank Settlements!

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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...

‘The Palestinian resistance will repulse Israeli aggression’ says Hamas Political Bureau

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THE PALESTINIAN resistance is ready to repulse any Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, member of Hamas Political Bureau Khalil al-Hayya has said. Speaking at...

UN ISSUES HAITI RED ALERT –over cholera epidemic and tropical storm...

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The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) said on Monday that Haitian authorities (the Direction de la Protection Civile – DPC) issued a...

Government Wants To ‘Rid North-East Of Any Witnesses Of The Carnage’

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COLOMBO has abrogated the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) to remove the presence of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) which was instrumental in exposing...

KILL THE BILL! – Michigan workers fight anti-union legislation

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THOUSANDS of Michigan citizens descended on the state Capitol last Tuesday, January 8, to show their outrage over efforts by corporate-driven legislators to pass...

Brown’s Planned ‘Reforms’ A Recipe For Ending The NHS

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On January 7th 2008, prime minister Gordon Brown made a key policy speech on the NHS, in which he called for ‘continued reform’ and...

Russian roulette – the rouble rises as European economies...

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FROM FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST HAS Biden bitten off more than he and NATO can swallow? Is it really one year already? Did anyone say it...

‘We are sure we will emerge victorious out of this war!’...

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A SENIOR Hamas official says the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement has worked out a major defensive plan in the face of the Israeli onslaught,...

Iran Will Continue To Support Syria Against Terrorist Groups

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IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has insisted that the Islamic Republic will continue to support Syria in its fight against terrorist groups. Zarif made...

Ice agents seize immigrants! Openly flout two judicial orders!

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FEDERAL immigration agents arrested three men at New York City immigration courts over the past week, in the first serious breaches of two court...

Cork youth rally for locked-out workers

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THE Cork Young Workers’ Network is holding a protest in solidarity with the locked-out Greyhound workers outside The Peace Park, Grand Parade, Cork, at...

‘DETAINEES WERE HELD IN FLOODED CELLS WHILE FIRES BURNED’ – Liberty...

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As evidence is revealed of vulnerable detainees being imprisoned in overcrowded and flooded cells while fires burned, Liberty last Monday called on the Home...

‘ISRAEL MUST END VIOLATIONS’ – Hesbollah tells Annan

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UN Secretary-General Kofi   Annan has stressed that the Lebanon cease-fire UN Security Council Resolution 1701 has to be implemented in full. He has made it...

Israel attempting to whitewash its crimes against Lebanon

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ISRAEL is once again trying to whitewash its crimes against Lebanon by offering the country ‘humanitarian aid’. Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz said Israel was...

NAKBA DAY OF RAGE – over 1948 Catastrophe

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Thousands marched in Gaza to mark the 65th Nakba anniversary demanding faction leaders in Gaza call for unifying the Palestinian political leadership as a...

‘I WANT THE OFFICERS CHARGED FOR THE MURDER OF SEAN RIGG’...

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THE family of Sean Rigg marked the fifth anniversary of his tragic death by holding a peaceful candlelit vigil on Wednesday night, the 21st...

‘SIGNS OF TORTURE’ ON MAHDI ARMY COMMANDER – after arrest by...

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THE Basra office of militant Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has said a former Basra commander of the Al-Sadr movement’s Mahdi Army showed ‘signs of...

Anti-Olympics Campaign Launched

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THE Counter Olympics Network (CON) has announced a march and rally in London’s East End on Saturday 28 July, assembling in Mile End Park...

IG Metall demands 6% rise & 28-hour week for parental leave!

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HUNDREDS of thousands members of IG Metall union, Germany’s largest trade union, are engaged in short-term ‘warning strikes’ against 80 companies, for the right...

Bethlehem Schoolgirls Teargassed

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SEVERAL girl students suffered from exposure to tear gas on Tuesday morning when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked their school in al-Khader town,...

MASSIVE SHORTAGE OF MIDWIVES! –service in crisis – 5,000 more needed...

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THE latest State of Maternity Services report from the Royal College of Midwives shows the baby boom in UK continuing and maternity services at...

‘TAMIL PEOPLE DEMAND VISIBLE PRESSURE ON COLOMBO’ – urge Norwegian Tamils

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‘The defining moment for the International Community (IC) is right now, if it really wishes to establish its commitment to a principled approach towards...

UN Envoy de Mistura Says ‘President Assad Is Part Of The...

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‘ANY peaceful solution to the fighting in Syria must involve President Bashar al-Assad,’ the United Nations envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said Friday. ‘President...

WE ARE DETERMINED TO OVERCOME THE CURRENT CHALLENGES! – says LTTE...

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TAMILNET reports that the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) have stated that, with the people’s support, they will surmount all difficulties. In an interview with Tamilnet, the...

THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART THREE: ‘Now we are...

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THE brutal police riot at the Orgreave coke depot was not the only state attack launched against the NUM and striking miners in June...

‘The ANC/SACP is trying to destroy us!’ says NUMSA

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‘THE ANC/SACP (African National Congress/South African Communist Party) is trying to weaken, isolate and destroy us,’ NUMSA KZN (National Union of Metalworkers of South...

OVER 1,000 IRAQIS FACE EXECUTION – Amnesty reports

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More than 1,000 people face execution in Iraq, said Amnesty International on Tuesday, as it published a new report on the extensive imposition of...

French PM resigns after just 3 weeks! – hundreds of thousands...

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FRANCE’S Prime Minister Sébastian Lecornu was summoned back to the Élysée presidential palace in Paris on Monday afternoon just hours after his shock resignation...

‘Solid grounds’ for charging Biden, Trump, Blinken and Austin with war...

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A United States-based human rights organisation has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former US president Joe Biden for ‘aiding and...

Release Tamil POWs and political prisoners! – Tamil politicians call for...

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TAMILNET reports that Tamil politicians all over the world are urging global action to gain the release of POWs, and political prisoners. Addressing a...

Argentina – year-on-year inflation reaches 102.5% in February

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ARGENTINA’S National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) said on Tuesday that inflation in February was 6.6 per cent, while the cumulative year-on-year figure...

Dr No Becomes Dr Go

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BY JOHN COULTER IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST WITH the former Dr No of Unionism ‘Rev Ian Paisley’ now becoming the self-confessed Dr Go, Irish political commentator...

Drop the charges against Gambian journalists

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CHARGES against two journalists detained after they applied for permission to hold a peaceful protest over the executions of nine death row inmates must...

Stonethrowers Charged With Attempted Murder By Israeli Police

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SUNDAY marked two years since five boys from the northern West Bank village of Hares were arrested over an alleged stone-throwing incident that saw...

Bernie Sanders addresses packed ‘Save London Transport’ rally at the TUC

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BERNIE SANDERS, US Senator for Vermont, addressed a packed ‘Save London’s Transport’ rally organised by the RMT railway workers union, at London’s TUC building...

IRAN MUST ATTEND ANY GENEVA CONFERENCE – insists Russia

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SPEAKING in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said said on Thursday that the ‘international community’ has to decide with whom it will...