100,000 NHS staff vacancies!
‘THESE figures reflect the stark reality facing NHS trusts resulting from the combination of relentless increases in patient demand, 100,000 staff vacancies and the...
Families of the disappeared to file Habeas Corpus applications
TamilNet has reported that families of key members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – missing after arrest by the Sri Lanka...
‘Shirleymander’ selling off council houses to get votes
‘I DID nothing wrong,’ claims ‘the Leader’ in a rehearsed reading of ‘Shirleymander’. The sharply witty play by Gregory Evans was presented at the Playground...
95% of RCM members in north of Ireland vote for strike...
ALMOST 95% of RCM members in Northern Ireland who responded to a consultation about industrial action, including strike action, over pay conditions have voted...
Thousands Of Tamil Families Are Denied The Right To Return
CIVILIANS uprooted from Valikaamam in Vadamaraadchi 20 years ago by the occupying Sri Lanka Army (SLA), who converted their lands into a High Security...
‘Marikana’ Evictions Took Place On May 1!
ON Workers Day May 1 the ‘Marikana’ Evictions took place. These residents of Philippi East, a growing township sandwiched between Nyanga, Mitchell’s...
South African unions reject ANC budget and IMF; ‘Divorced from...
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Wednesday rejected the budget of the ANC led coalition for a second time. SAFTU stated: ‘SAFTU...
Gaza Women’s Committees Sit In For Equal Pay!
A GROUP OF women’s committees in the besieged Gaza Strip organised a sit-in on Thursday to demand equal pay between men and women in...
Yemen Boosts Its Defences Against Saudi-Led Aggression
emeni Armed Forces have unveiled new domestically-built military hardware, including ballistic and winged missiles in addition to unmanned aerial vehicles, which they say will...
Privateers paid £2.3m to draw up massive cuts plan for...
PRIVATE firms have been paid a ‘shocking’ £2.3m to draw up controversial plans which will cut health and social care spending by more than...
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...
SIXTY YEARS SINCE THE DEIR YASSIN MASSACRE – Palestinians demand right...
Last Wednesday marked sixty years since the Deir Yassin massacre. On April 9, 1948 the Zionist paramilitary troops and terrorist gangs committed a massacre at...
FAR RIGHT ISRAELI MINISTER BENNETT HAILS TRUMP! – says ‘Palestinian flag has...
FOLLOWING a controversial meeting held last Wednesday between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian and Israeli leaders reacted...
US Admits To Holding Talks With Insurgents
The outgoing US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has admitted for first time to holding talks with insurgent leaders. Meanwhile bomb attacks killed five...
Ukrainian military is recruiting in the United States and in Britain...
The Ukrainian army is violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by soliciting foreign citizens to join the International Legion of the Ukrainian Territorial...
Menezes Family sidelined by Metropolitan Police Authority
MEMBERS of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) were today made aware of a complaint by The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign about...
Union leaders address UCU strike rally
UCU MEMBERS were out on strike on Wednesday with historic numbers this week over stagnant pay, miserable working conditions and casualisation of academic work. In...
The widening wealth gap hitting UK workers and youth
A comprehensive study conducted by Ben Tippet and Rafael Wildauer from the University of Greenwich has utilised data from The ‘Sunday Times Rich List’...
‘Rice cannot impose a buffer zone or a security zone on...
HASAN Fadlallah, the Lebanese MP for Bint Jubayl, which has been completely destroyed by Israeli bombing, and a leader of the Hezbollah...
Seven US Soldiers Killed Near Haditha
Seven US marines have been killed in western Iraq, the US military said yesterday. The soldiers were killed on Monday near Haditha, a town...
International Paramedics Day at Camp4Palestine
INTERNATIONAL Paramedics Day 2025 is being marked at the Camp4Palestine opposite the US Embassy in London tonight at 6.30pm and will be featuring a...
Qurei Rejects Gaza ‘State’
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei, also known as Abu-Ala, last Saturday said that an independent and sovereign Palestinian state will inevitably be established on...
Gmb Protests At M&s ‘Modern Day Slavery’
GMB members are demonstrating outside Marks & Spencer store in Regent Street, Swindon from 11am today, 11th February, ‘in protest against modern day slavery...
Give Fed workers right to strike–get rid of ‘right-to-work’ anti-union laws...
THE VERMONT US Senator Bernie Sanders wants to give federal workers the right to strike, to eliminate so-called ‘right-to-work’ laws, and at the same...
Barnet families denounce mass evictions
TENANTS facing eviction from their homes in Sweets Way Estate in Barnet, north London, were joined by their recently evicted former neighbours on Sunday...
Honda Strike Victory Has Led To Chinese Strike Wave
IN May and early June 2010, a two-week-long strike involving more than a thousand workers at the Honda transmission plant in Foshan triggered a...
US pro-Palestinian protesters rock Biden’s campaign and condemn him for...
PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters have disrupted president Joe Biden’s campaign speech in North Carolina by chanting slogans and protesting against his support for the crimes of...
Countries that comply with US sanctions against Iran will ‘certainly face...
Iran has submitted its official reply to the latest United States proposal for a deal that allows a permanent end to the US-Israeli war...
Putin Declines To Call Assad An Ally!
IN his recent interview with the German newspaper Bild Vladimir Putin was asked a number of questions about Syria. Question: Now let’s turn to Syria,...
Free Palestine – End The Occupation
OVER 20,000 youth, trade unionists and solidarity activists marched through central London on Saturday demanding ‘End the occupation – free Palestine!’ on the...
48 SOUTH AFRICAN FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS ARE SUSPENDED! – after working...
THE SOUTH African City of Ekurhuleni on Monday suspended 48 female firefighters after they protested about their working conditions and the non-payment of shift...
END THE PROSECUTION OF JULIAN ASSANGE! – Demand the Presidents of...
THE PRESIDENTS of Venezuela and Argentina have demanded an end to the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently fighting extradition to...
Privateers awarded one third of contracts since 2012 Health Act!
A THIRD of NHS contracts have been awarded to private sector providers since the Health and Social Care Act came into force, finds an...
‘The forecourt was full of bodies and body parts’ – British-Palestinian...
BRITISH-Palestinian surgeon Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta has recounted harrowing health-related ordeals Palestinian civilians went through during Israel’s onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip. The brutal...
Athens Vouli Square Popular Assembly calls for – AN INDEFINITE, POLITICAL...
SOME 10,000 youth and workers congregated last Wednesday evening at the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens demanding for the seventh consecutive night the overthrow...
Iran Assures Syria Of Continuing Support!
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Wednesday received the Chairman of the Iranian Shura Council’s Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security Alaeddin Boroujerdi...
Honduras threatens to expel US troops in retaliation for Trump’s mass...
Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum...
UK CONTINUED TO ERODE HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2005 – says Amnesty...
In 2005, the UK ‘government continued to erode fundamental human rights, the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, including by persisting...
‘NO ONE BUT SERBIA MAY LAY CLAIM TO THE TERRITORY OF...
VLADIMIR CHIZHOV, The Russian ambassador to the EU, has warned that Moscow will react negatively to countries which recognise Kosovo independence. ‘This, above all, refers...
25 years since chris hanI assassination
NUMSA leader Irvin Jim commemorates 25 years since anti-apartheid campaigner Chris Hani’s death in the following article: ON 10 April 1993, Chris Hani was assassinated...
Russian battlegroups are continuing to destroy Ukrainian formations!
The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 300 servicemen in the Kursk area between last Thursday and Friday, and 21,900 since the start of...
‘FRY CRIMINALS’ – demand Orangefest leaders
Orangefest’s family fun dissolved into political Orange fury as demonstration speakers blasted homosexuals, the Irish language and even called for volunteers to execute criminals...
Capita GP services ‘shambolic’ – BMA GP committee chair Richard Vautrey
‘THIS NEWS is extremely concerning, but not altogether surprising considering the continued warnings the BMA has given over Capita’s shambolic running of backroom services...
Netanyahu ends peace talks – Demands an end to Fatah-Hamas unity
ISRAEL has called on Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to rip up the unity deal struck between the PLO and Hamas. Israel earlier suspended peace talks...
REJECT PUPPET IRAQ ‘CONSTITUTION’ – amendments ‘took a lot and gave...
The latest amendments to the Iraqi ‘constitution’ approved by the puppet Iraqi parliament ‘offer nothing’, says the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS). The...