SPANISH BANK BAILOUT WILL NOT HELP IRELAND says Finance Minister Noonan
THE Eurozone has agreed to lend the Spanish banks up to 100bn euros without demanding any austerity measures after Spanish Economy Minister...
Hamas Deals With The Recognition Issue
ABD-AL-AZIZ ALl-DUWAYK, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), said in Amman yesterday that Hamas’s recognition of Israel’s final borders is linked to Israel’s...
Free The Filton 24 Now!
The ‘Filton 24’ are facing serious charges after engaging in a direct action protest at an Elbit Systems weapons manufacturing facility in Filton, near...
Palestinian family killed by NATO in Tripoli!
A PALESTINIAN family of four was killed in a NATO airstrike on Monday in the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to the Palestinian...
‘A WHOLESALE SELL-OUT TO PRIVATE OPERATORS’ – RMT warns over Tory...
THE RMT warned on Tuesday that the long-awaited Government Rail Review – set up on the watch of serial failure Chris Grayling – is...
Blair’s colonial plan for Gaza: – legitimising occupation, undermining self-determination
As Israel continues its war of extermination in Gaza with the death toll surpassing 65,000, more than 168,000 wounded, and thousands missing, another battle...
US Presidential candidates appear before AFL-CIO Executive!
THE AFL-CIO’s executive council meeting is this week, which means visits from presidential candidates: Martin O''Malley, Bernie Sanders, Jim Webb, and, of course, Hillary...
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...
Forced Academies – ‘This Is A Huge Government Climbdown!’ Says Nut
‘THIS is a huge government climb-down and is a testament to the campaigning of teachers and parents,’ Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the...
‘A wrecking ball Australian Budget smashing jobs and services’ – CPSU
‘The Abbott Government’s assault on welfare, Medicare, education and the public sector represents the end of the fair go and the biggest attack on...
‘The US is working to serve Israel’s interest – destroying all...
DEPRIVING Palestinian refugees of their basic rights is a recipe for trouble, says PLO official Hanan Ashrawi. Depriving 5.3 million Palestinian refugees of...
If Necessary ‘I And All Hezbollah Members Will Go To Syria’...
‘AFTER the first bombing, the situation was brought under control. After yesterday’s massacre, the situation was brought under control. ‘However, we cannot make predictions....
TRADE UNIONISTS MURDERED FOR DEFENDING WORKERS’ RIGHTS – ICFTU report
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEEN trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested,...
Fast Food Workers Demand $15 An Hour!
FAST food workers backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York, St Louis and Kansas City, Missouri have launched strikes demanding...
Russia destroys military equipment and Ukrainian command posts
RUSSIAN forces have destroyed 183 Ukrainian combat aircraft, 1,064 unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), and 128 helicopters since the beginning of their special military operation...
MILITARY MIGHT CANNOT END TAMIL INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE – says Tamil National...
HISTORY has shown that there is not a military solution to the struggle taking place in Sri Lanka, says a Tamil politician, in an...
Death Toll Rising Fast In Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic
The United Nations and its partners have finalised the Cholera Inter-Sector Response Strategy for Haiti, a plan to support the Government of Haiti’s response...
Teachers Will Fight Schools Closures
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) declared yesterday that the Brown government’s threat to close 638 schools for not reaching arbitrary targets ‘will be...
‘FREE PALESTINE! ISRAEL IS A TERRORIST STATE’ – chant 3,000 outside...
‘FREE, free Palestine! Israel is a terror state!’ chanted over 3,000 protesters at a rally and vigil outside the Israeli embassy on Tuesday evening. The...
Congress gives green light to abuses – warn Amnesty
‘BY passing the Military Commissions Act, the United States Congress has, in effect, given its stamp of approval to human rights violations committed by...
Hamas says all resistance factions will support Sheikh Jarrah residents battling...
THE HEAD of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh says all the Palestinian resistance factions firmly support the families of the East al-Quds neighbourhood of...
Greek Students And Teachers Are Determined To Win
TENS of thousands of students took part in two days of action in Greece last Wednesday and Thursday against the government’s proposed Higher Education...
Iran Ready To Defend Missile Programme!
IRAN has rejected any foreign meddling in its domestic affairs, and says it is ready to defend its missile programme ‘with full strength’ in...
SAVE LEWISHAM BRIDGE SCHOOL! demand parents, teachers and pupils
MORE than 300 parents, teachers, students and schoolchildren marched through the centre of Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday to save Lewisham Bridge Primary School. The...
Cuts Plunging Education Into Massive Crisis
GOVERNMENT education cuts are depriving many young people and adults of the chance to contribute fully to society, Unison has warned. A new freedom of...
US unions report exposes the Amazon ‘injury machine’ – an injury...
THE Strategic Organising Centre (SOC) has recently released a report called: The Injury Machine: How Amazon’s Production System Hurts Workers. The SOC is a coalition...
US targets Hezbollah with new sanctions
THE US Treasury Department has announced new sanctions targeting seven individuals and entities linked to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. The new sanctions target Hezbollah’s...
Congresswoman sleeps out against evictions
CONGRESSWOMAN Cori Bush has spent a night on the steps of the US Capitol to protest against the end of a Covid-related moratorium on...
Onslaught Planned On South East London Hospitals
All District General Hospitals in the South East London area are to be ‘radically overhauled’ with their Accident & Emergency facilities closed, according to...
Netanyahu tries to justify genocide to the US Congress
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of the United States Congress last Wednesday, as his government carries out a genocide...
Canadian schools – not safe to reopen – say union leaders
‘The current back-to-school plan does not provide the adequate level of safety required to protect students and their families from Covid-19,’ say union leaders...
Syrians reject plunder of resources by Turkish and US occupations
LOCAL inhabitants of Jarmaz village in Syria’s Qamishli area on Wednesday declared a national stand in rejection of both the US and the Turkish...
‘Save Ealing Hospital – Defend The Children’s Services!’
‘SAVE Charlie Chaplin ward – Don’t let it close! Save Ealing Hospital – Trade unions must act! Defend children’s services – Occupy now!’ demanded...
‘What we are seeing is a naked, brutal form of capitalism’...
‘WHAT WE’RE seeing is really a naked brutal form of capitalism where people’s lives are expendable,’ says University of Western Cape Professor Ruth Hall...
Boycott Israel Lift Gaza Siege
ISRAEL has turned Gaza into a ‘concentration camp’, demonstrators warned on Thursday night, at an emergency picket opposite Downing Street attended by over 50...
Britain’s secret work on Bahrain’s death row
BRITAIN’S secretive work at a death-row jail in Bahrain is being challenged by international human rights group Reprieve. The UK Foreign Office paid almost a...
French Foreign Minister Gets A Hostile Reception In Gaza
ANGRY Palestinians demonstrated against French Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie as she visited Gaza on Friday over a ‘war crimes’ quote attributed to her by...
‘Zionists are moving towards downfall and collapse’ says Hezbollah’s Nasrallah
The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says unfolding developments in the occupied territories suggest that annihilation of the Israeli regime is...
Top World Health Organisation Official Is Extremely Worried About Polio &...
A TOP World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday that he’s ‘extremely worried’ about polio and other outbreaks of communicable diseases in Gaza...
Gmb Fighting For A £10 An Hour Living Wage For Workers
GMB members held nine protest demonstrations outside fast food outlets and M&S on Tuesday across England in solidarity with members of the SEIU working...
Chagossians Demand Right To Return!
OVER 400 people attended the Chagos Islands Community Association rally in central London on Saturday evening, to demand the Chagossians’ right to return to...
The US will repeat the mistakes of Afghanistan!
AN inspector general appointed by the US Congress to examine the war in Afghanistan has listed Washington’s failures in the 20 years of war...
15,000-strong nurses’ strike in New York City
New York City’s largest nurses’ strike in history entered its 24th day on Wednesday. In a statement, the New York State Nurses Association said recent...
BIG BUSINESS FRAUD BOOMING! – as workers fight for their rights
WHERE crime ends and business starts and vice versa has always been seen as a blurred grey area which always remains, whatever the scandals...
Senior Sri Lankan commander has war crimes evidence
Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a US-based activist group, claimed in a press release issued last Saturday, that it has obtained a 100-page long sworn...