‘We’re heading for a general strike’ say UCLH nurses
THE HUGE picket of around 400 nurses on the steps of University College Hospital (UCH) on the Euston Road in central London was featured...
Gaza Valley ‘safe corridor’ a killing trap! – Horrifying testimonies of...
THE ISRAELI regime has turned a supposedly safe corridor through which the people of Gaza can travel south into a trap to kill displaced Palestinians,...
END GAZA SIEGE! – demands 400-strong Downing Street vigil
‘Free, Free Palestine! Palestine will be free from the river to the sea!’ shouted demonstrators at a 400-strong picket and vigil opposite Downing Street...
Human Rights Civil Servants Are On Strike Today
CIVIL servants working for the government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are on strike today over crippling cuts to their service: a quarter...
500 Turkish organisations representing tens of millions pledge support for Gaza-bound...
More than 500 Turkish organisations have pledged support for a new international maritime initiative aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade on Gaza, according to...
Starbucks Baristas Battling For First Contracts
Starbucks baristas from 21 stores around the United States told the company on Tuesday that they plan to organise, potentially adding hundreds of new...
Trump’s Budget The Most Significant Betrayal Yet Of Working People
US PRESIDENT Trump’s Budget betrays working people, says a statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Trump’s Financial Year 2018 budget proposal. The US union...
‘A TERRIBLE LOSS OF FIRE COVER’ – 10,000 firefighters’ jobs threatened
‘Firefighters wages make up over three-quarters of fire and rescue service budgets, so cuts to fire service funding invariably mean cuts to firefighters jobs’,...
Abbas Urges ‘Popular And Peaceful Resistance’
Amid mounting Israeli restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement, President Mahmud Abbas on Saturday sponsored the swearing in of the new Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative...
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...
Ulm 5 tried behind bulletproof glass for action against Elbit!
FIVE pro-Palestinian activists who damaged a factory belonging to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in the southern city of Ulm are being tried behind...
Furious Workers Force Bell Town Officials To Resign
Furious workers in the town of Bell in California have forced their city manager and police chief to resign over a scandal in which...
NATIONALISE THE BUSES! – demand London bus strikers
‘THE BUSES should be renationalised. They should put the companies under one name then everybody will have the same rights,’ Unite member Michael Wood...
Palestinian women prisoners launch action in support of hunger strikers
MANY HUNDREDS of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners entered the third day of the ‘Freedom and Dignity’ hunger strike on Wednesday, with imprisoned Palestinian women launching...
Aussie Journalist Oakes Will Not Be Prosecuted!
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP have confirmed that ABC journalist Dan Oakes will not be prosecuted over his reporting on alleged war crimes carried out...
Fatah Calls General Strike!
Fatah’s top leadership called for a general strike throughout the nation for yesterday, in protest against the ‘fierce and planned Israeli attacks’ that have...
YOU MUST ACCEPT SEPARATION WALL AS THE BORDER OF YOUR STATE...
Israel has told the Palestinians to forget the 1967 boarders and accept the Separation Wall that cuts through West Bank as the border ...
Edl Fascists Chased Out Of Norwich!
OVER 2,000 workers and youth marched to city hall Norwich in opposition to the English Defence League on Saturday. This is the first time that...
‘Down with the IMF Accord! Down with the euro! Bring down...
Tens of thousands of workers, students and youth in Greece participated in the May Day rallies and marches held last Sunday in all Greek...
Genocidal Rajapaksa Regime ‘Snatching Away’ Tamil Children
The occupying Sri Lanka military governor in Jaffna, Major General Chandrasri now schemes to bring more than 1000 nursery schools functioning in Jaffna under...
HUNDREDS OF NEW ORLEANS DEATHS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED – findings...
the deaths of a hundreds of New Orleans residents and the suffering of so many thousands more people could have been avoided, an inquiry...
Debt bondage, sub-poverty wages and appalling health and safety in Brazil’s...
A NEW INVESTIGATION into the Brazilian coffee industry has uncovered debt bondage, sub-poverty wages, sub-standard housing, water and sanitation facilities and appalling health and...
Terrorist attacks in northern Syria
THREE civilians were injured with shells in a terrorist attack on Qana al-Assi in Syria’s northern countryside of Homs on Thursday. SANA’s reporter in...
‘Stop Cop City’ protests by students in Atlanta Universities – after...
Students from several Atlanta-area colleges, including Emory University, Georgia State University, and Morehouse College, staged a demonstration on Monday to halt the construction of...
NO TO NHS SELL-OFF! – say angry workers and patients
Unison on Monday sent a file of hundreds of testimonies from health workers, patients and members of the public who care about the NHS,...
NHS staff from overseas paying extortionate visa fees
PUBLIC sector union Unison says the UK immigration system has never been smooth to navigate. The Home Office is infamous for its extortionate fees...
STOP ISRAELI GENOCIDE! FREE PALESTINE! – demand 2,000 protesters
‘STOP the killing, stop the crime! Free, free Palestine! Israel is a terror state!’, over 2,000 protesters shouted at a picket of...
THE ISRAELIS ARE EXPLODING MINES UNDER THE PROXIMITY TALKS says Fatah
THE Palestinian Presidency spokesperson, Nabil Abu-Rudaynah said yesterday, the decision of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on continuing settlement activity in East Jerusalem, proves...
Migrant workers face forced labour and Exploitation in uk!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has carried out a comprehensive investigation into migrant workers’ experiences of forced labour and exploitation in the UK food industry...
‘Trump plan to kill Iran deal has failed’
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says the administration of US President Donald Trump has failed in its attempts to kill the 2015 multilateral...
SHAME ON YOU BBC – BROADCAST THE GAZA APPEAL! –demands 7,000-strong...
‘Free, Free Palestine!’ ‘Shame on you BBC!’ shouted 7,000 protesters at a rally for Gaza outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House at Portland Place in...
Scrap Work Capability Assessments say disabled! –while Lewisham residents insist their...
DISABLED people and supporters demonstrated outside the Norwich offices of ATOS last Friday, 11 January, to demand an end to the Work Capability Assessments...
RENATIONALISE RAILWAYS! – demands ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan
TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan on Monday called for the railways to be taken back into public ownership. Whelan welcomed news that...
‘Designed to place security services above law!’ – Reprieve condemns Justice...
The Justice and Security Bill published on Tuesday ‘is designed to place our Security Services above the law and keep torture and rendition out...
Greece On Road To Revolution!
Workers participated in their millions last Wednesday in the biggest one-day general strike in Greece. It was called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against the...
‘20-50 NHS TRUSTS AT RISK’ – BMA ARM warned
THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Bournemouth on Thursday passed, almost unanimously, Emergency Motions calling to halt the take-over...
Moscow Remembers The Liberation Of Auschwitz
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2015, Moscow ON International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp...
Norwegian TUC leads charge against Israeli Apartheid
IN a challenge to Israeli impunity, Norway has recently emerged as one of the first Western states to implement a cohesive and escalating campaign...
179 UK MEDICS HOLD LONDON PROTEST FOR GAZA – to highlight...
HEALTHWORKERS 4 Palestine and Amnesty International UK staged a mass solidarity protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Friday night. The protest was to...
HAMAS-ISRAEL AGREE TO SIX-MONTHS CEASEFIRE – ‘We don’t trust them but...
Hamas and Israel on Tuesday agreed to an Egyptian-brokered deal to cease fire for six months in and around the Gaza Strip. It was effective...
Syria rebuilds 52 Hospitals & health centres in Aleppo
N A VICTORY against the foreign backed terrorists, the Syrian government under President Assad have announced that they have managed to get 52 health...
25,000 War Widows In Batticaloa
‘Estimates reveal that there are more than 89,000 war widows in the North and Eastern provinces and more than 25,000 of these widows are...
END THE MASSACRE OF TAMIL CIVILIANS – urges TNA
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), in an urgent press statement, has called upon the international community to use all its influence with the Sri...
US Homeless Are Being Criminalised
‘To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty.’ This is the viewpoint...
Sa Plastics Workers Win Right To Strike
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) said it will escalate the strike by plastics sector workers after the Labour Court in Johannesburg...