Five Years Since The Murder Of Gadaffi!
FIVE years after Libya’s long time leader Muammar Gadaffi was cold-bloodedly murdered right in front of mobile phone cameras and with the full backing...
South African trade unions battle inflation as food prices rise by...
SAFTU – the South African Federation of Trade Unions – notes the stubborn inflation which remains high above 7%, and averaged 7,2% in December...
ANC leaders influenced by ‘liars and rogues’
THE ANC leadership is influenced by ‘liars and rogues,’ anti-apartheid activist and retired Constitutional Court judge Zak Yacoob said. Reflecting on his judicial work which...
US trade unions condemn racist rally in Charlottesville
AMERICA’S nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), has condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday which resulted in the death of a...
Lecturers Strike Escalating
AFTER defeating attempts by their own union leadership to call off the strikes by forcing their leaders to throw out an unacceptable deal, lecturers...
NO CUTS TO CLEANERS’ PAY! – ‘We want the Living Wage’
‘NO CUTS to Cleaners Pay! Our cleaners deserve a living wage, not poverty pay!’ demanded angry cleaners at the College of Haringey, Enfield and...
French Trade Unions March And Denounce Israel’s Atrocities Against The Palestinians...
AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...
Bush Threatens War Throughout The Middle East
In his Utah speech to army veterans last Thursday, US President Bush threatened Iran with ‘consequences’, adding that the US will step up its...
University asbestos killer scandal
ALMOST two-thirds of universities in England have ‘potentially harmful’ asbestos in their campus buildings, a survey of top-ranking English universities has claimed. It also judged...
Iran & Syria will respond to Israel’s threats and aggression!
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, have reiterated their countries’ absolute determination to resolve the problems in the region,...
Gadaffi Rejects ‘Med Union’ As ‘Crusaders Containment’
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...
US ‘deal of century’ opposed!
SOME are being misled to believe that the soon-to-be-announced ‘deal of the century’ is a US-sponsored peace initiative aimed at resolving the so-called Palestinian-Israeli...
CGT calls Day of Action on June 6th!
FRENCH trade union federation, the CGT, says a new day of action is scheduled for June 6 at the call of the inter-union, which...
UN Condemns ‘Israeli Practice Of Collective Punishment’
The 6th Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council ‘on human rights violations emanating from Israeli military incursions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,...
Damascus reserves the right to take back Golan Heights!
SYRIA has censured Israel’s land theft and repressive measures against Syrians in the occupied side of the Golan Heights as a flagrant violation of...
WRP candidates defending health and education
A LIVELY North East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital won big support yesterday for its determination to keep the...
Lecturers & Students Must Unite And Fight
‘EVERYONE, all of the country, must get organised to take rent strike action, we have shown that rent strikes work,’ Angus O’Brien, the student...
Walmart strike wave in USA
This week has seen the biggest strike wave of low-paid retail workers at Walmart in the US – the first-ever strike in the 50-year...
SAFTU demonstration for a 1,500 Rand Basic Income Grant
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is opposing plans by the South African ANC government to replace the Social Relief of Distress...
10 Killed When Terrorists Mortar Damascus University
TEN students were killed and others were injured by a mortar shell fired by terrorists which fell inside the cafeteria of the Faculty of...
Grangemouth Workers Issue Appeal
Striking Grangemouth workers have issued a direct appeal to the people of Scotland. They took out a series of adverts in the Scottish media yesterday...
Mass Street Protests Throughout Morocco
A NEW revolutionary uprising has erupted in Morocco, with mass street protests spreading around the whole country. The uprising began in ‘The Rif,’ a...
Airport workers strike in Argentina – while Milei pursued for arrest...
Airport workers carried out an 11-hour strike at 27 airports in Argentina on Thursday. The action took place in two slots, between 6am and 12...
NO SICK PAY FOR 3.3m AUSTRALIAN WORKERS
Casual workers and those in insecure jobs have been left cruelly exposed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, says the...
250 million strong India strike!
OVER 250 million workers staged a day-long general strike in India last Wednesday, and demonstrated their opposition to the government of Narendra Modi. Banking and...
Nakba commemoration–In the centenary year of the Balfour Declaration: It’s time...
NAKBA Commemoration in the Balfour Declaration Centenary Year: It’s time to go home! It’s time to make it right for Palestine. The Right of...
Bennett tour of US universities an aggressive defence of genocide!
‘I’ve killed many Arabs in my life, and there’s no problem with that.’ In the United States, such a statement grants you the privilege of...
UK-Sudan Youth Coalition march from the US Embassy to Parliament Square
OVER 200 mostly young people assembled outside the US embassy in London before marching to Parliament Square on Saturday, in a demonstration organised by...
UN condemns Saudi air strikes on the Yemen
THE United Nations has strongly condemned the latest Saudi airstrikes against Yemen in which at least 12 civilians, including children, were killed, stressing that...
Saint-Gobain Crystals in India sacks worker after exposing him to hazardous...
A FORMER Saint-Gobain Crystals and Detectors worker in Bangalore, India, Jayaraj Mathangi, was fired for absenteeism after developing severe health problems due to hazards...
‘WE WILL COME OUT OF THIS FIGHT AS THE WINNERS!’ –...
TENS of thousands of Greek university and higher education college students from all over the country demonstrated last Saturday in the northern city of...
Trades Unions Condemn Turkish Repressions
BELOW is a declaration issued on Tuesday by the international commission of the central council of Russia’s University Solidarity trade union, on the repression...
ANC government intends to slaughter thousands of workers’ jobs – SAFTU...
IT HAS become clear that the ANC government is intending to slaughter thousands of workers’ jobs, said the South African Federation of Trade Unions...
Only Half Of GP Practice Buildings Are Fit For Purpose!
Only half of GP practice buildings in England are fit for purpose, with surgeries too small to meet the demands of growing populations, a...
NO TO TROIKA-DICTATED AUSTERITY MEASURES! – says the International Trade Union...
THE ITUC global union federation has urged the IMF not to let the EC-ECB-IMF troika dictate destructive austerity policies. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the...
New York taxi drivers strike against Trump travel ban – Uber...
THE Uber CEO retreated from the White House Business Advisory Group after organised immigrant drivers protested at the ‘Muslim ban’ and #DeleteUber went viral. New...
White House is worried that Netanyahu will use US Congress speech...
THE WHITE House is reportedly worried that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could use his upcoming speech to the US Congress to publicly criticise...
US drone used to wreck Ecuadorian fishing boat
A drone registered to the American defence contractor Shield AI was hovering 500 metres from the burning wreck of an Ecuadorian fishing boat within...
Palestinian teenagers seized in overnight raids
ISRAELI occupation forces arrested 13 Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids on Wednesday night – one of the arrests was south of Nablus,...
Zero-Hours Contracts Being Used To Cut Wages And Avoid Holiday Pay...
UNITE, Britain’s biggest union, says urgent action is needed to stop the growth of the zero-hours culture as new figures show the use of...
Fatah and Hamas unite to fight Israeli annexation plans
SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, said on Sunday that the State of Palestine has been mobilising...
US Actors Strike Against Video Games Industry
THE 11-day-old actors’ strike against video game industry will not end until the companies compromise on their refusal to offer some type of residuals...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreading across Gaza Strip – warns The Lancet
A NEW British medical study has warned of a dangerous spread of diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria across the Gaza Strip, as the ongoing...
Hamas Rejects Direct Negotiations
GAZA Premier Ismail Haniya said Sunday that the Palestinian Authority’s decision to resume direct negotiations reflects a failed policy, and will not succeed. Speaking at...
Birri Proposes Solution To Lebanese Political Crisis
ON Friday August 31, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Birri, delivered a speech outlining his proposals for the current political crisis...