NHS BACKLOG ‘Dangerously close to crippling services’ – BMA
THE NHS BACKLOG is ‘dangerously close’ to crippling our health service as waiting times hit a record high, doctors’ union the BMA has warned. Responding...
Rail unions demand permanent renationalisation of the whole rail network!
LAST WEEK Tory minority government Transport Secretary Grayling announced that the privately-run East Coast Mainline has collapsed again and will be ‘temporarily renationalised’ –...
20,000 Workers & Youth March To ‘Make It Right’ For Palestine!
OVER 20,000 workers and youth along with Palestinians living in the UK, marched through the streets of London on Saturday to ‘Make it Right...
500% Increase In Bankruptcies In Ireland In 2014!
THERE has been a 500% increase in the number of people in Ireland who declared bankruptcy in 2014. More than one person was declared bankrupt...
‘Iran Will Continue To Support Syria!’
SYRIAN Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Mu’allim discussed with Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council Ali Larijani bilateral relations between Syria...
Arab Leaders Meet With Rice And Gates
EGYPTIAN presidential spokesman Sulayman Awwad said yesterday that President Husni Mubarak’s talks last Tuesday 31 July with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and...
Unison Motion To Boycott Israel
MOVES towards a trade union boycott of Israel are gaining momentum, with UNISON announcing this week that it is to debate a boycott at...
‘Israel must eliminate its stockpile of nuclear weapons’ – says...
A SENIOR Iranian diplomat has condemned the lack of progress in the implementation of the UN 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) resolution and the...
Palestinians condemn Israeli air attack on Hezbollah
DIFFERENT Palestinian factions have denounced the Israeli raid on a Hezbollah convoy which killed six of the Lebanese resistance movement’s fighters. The...
100,000 march through Dublin
OVER 100,000 workers in their unions, with students and youth marched on Saturday through the centre of Dublin, furious at the 64 billion euros...
‘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...
‘Today’s strike is going to be the spark for something a...
‘The capitalist system is in its death agony. It’s coming to an end, although some people don’t believe it will ever end, but I...
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...
Ontario Nurses Under Attack!
THE firing of the head nurse at London Health Sciences Centre illustrates a larger systemic problem of hospital bosses trying to muzzle their staff,...
Tunisians march on fourth anniversary of revolution!
TUNISIANS on Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the revolution that toppled strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and sparked a mass wave of protests...
FREE THE FILTON 24 NOW! – demands the 500-strong Pentonville prison...
There was a powerful 500-strong picket of Pentonville Prison on Caledonian Road in north London on New Year’s Eve in support of the Filton...
15,000NURSES JOBS CUT – RCN submits its evidence to Health Committee
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on Tuesday submitted its evidence, highlighting the impact on patient services of Trust actions to manage their budgets,...
National strike to defeat ‘fire and rehire’ – call from Manchester...
DRIVERS employed by the bus privateer Go North West, marked five weeks on indefinite strike against £2,500 per annum pay cuts with a powerful...
CUT OIL PRODUCTION – Iran urges OPEC
Iran’s oil minister has called for today’s meeting of the OPEC oil cartel to cut production in order to raise prices above 60 dollars...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION – PLO says UN must act
THE Palestinian leadership agreed on Saturday to call on the UN Security Council for an urgent meeting on Israel’s settlement expansion on Palestinian land. The...
Cost Of Being A Junior Doctor Goes Up By 80%
The cost of being a junior doctor has increased by 80 per cent over the last seven years, figures published by the British Medical...
PNA slams ‘collective punishment’
The Palestinian leadership on Sunday condemned the ‘unjustified’ extra-judicial execution of a Palestinian activist and slammed Israel’s tightening of the closure it imposed on...
Croke Park Divisions Sharpen
THE INMO, IMO, Unite, ASTI and the Civil Public and Services Union have recommended a ‘No’ vote to extending the Croke Park Agreement. The new...
Brutal US ‘Security’ Operations In Baghdad
A LONDON-BASED Arab newspaper is warning of the danger of a ‘new Fallujah’ by American occupation forces and their puppets in the Iraqi capital...
RMT strike action to defend guards safety role
A FURTHER two days of strike action will take place on South Western Railway next week after RMT Guard members voted for industrial action...
Long Live The Revolutionary Peoples Of Indochina!
THE People’s Democratic Republic of Laos (LPD) is the most bombed country in history, with 600,000 tonnes of Un-Exploded Ordinance (UXO) – bombs which...
Greek hospital workers blockade against austerity! – as thousands of refugees...
GREEK hospital workers on Monday morning blocked the entrance to the Finance Ministry on Nikis Street near Syntagma Square in an angry protest against...
700 airport workers on strike in Canada ‘Swissport willing to sacrifice...
OVER 700 ground crew workers at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada’s busiest airport, have been on strike since 9.30pm last Thursday evening, after their...
Equity Phoenix victory after Leeds demonstration
FOLLOWING performers’ union Equity’s demonstration outside the Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds on Monday morning to demand that the contemporary dance company reverse their decision to lay...
Stop the closure of Ealing maternity!
‘ONCE we know we are ready it will take just six weeks to close the maternity at Ealing,’ Pippa Nightingale, Head of Midwifery, Imperial...
Massive nationwide industrial action in Germany!
Massive nationwide industrial action paralysed air and rail travel across Germany yesterday and Thursday as striking workers walked off the job to demand better...
Huge Polytechnic Uprising anniversary march on Sunday – General strike across...
Greek students, youth and workers delivered a significant blow to the Mitsotakis government, the US-NATO imperialists, EU and Israel on Sunday. They staged a most...
Release Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed
On International Day Against Torture last Thursday, legal charity Reprieve renewed its call for the release of torture victim Binyam Mohamed from US concentration...
Major Strike Action Erupting In Usa
SOME major strike actions are taking place in the USA. In Tucson, Arizona the collective bargaining agreement covering more than 530 Teamster represented employees of...
Prosecute Gorbachev For Ussr Break-Up!
WITH a view to possible action against former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of MPs representing both majority and opposition parties have asked...
Nursing Shortage Putting Patient Safety In Danger
The shortage of nursing staff in England is putting patient safety in danger, the Royal College of Nursing warned yesterday as it launched a...
‘Outrage’ At Remploy Closures
Hundreds of disabled workers demonstrated yesterday against the closure of Remploy factories outside the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) offices in London and...
‘RESISTANCE IS OUR PEOPLE’S LEGITIMATE RIGHT’ – decides Palestinian National Dialogue...
THE Palestinian National Dialogue Conference (NDC) held on the 25th and 26th of May to try to end the armed conflicts between Hamas...
BDS has hit back after Pompeo’s ‘anti-Semitic’ slander
THE PALESTINIAN-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has criticised and firmly rejected US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s labelling of its movement as...
‘DEMOCRACY’ AND POVERTY ARE INCOMPATIBLE – Venezuela Foreign Minister tells OAS
Latin America has 240 million people living in poverty, 100 million of them in extreme poverty, said Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque in...
Ufcw Fighting For Permanent Jobs At Phillips Seafood
THE United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) returned to leaflet customers of US Phillips Seafood restaurants in support of The International Union of...
Solano County workers win a two year contract after two strikes
ON WEDNESDAY evening, Solano County, California workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021 overwhelmingly ratified a two-year contract with the...
US considers sending banned cluster bombs to Ukraine
Laura Cooper, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia at the US Defence Department, has said that despite a global...
5,000 Deaths A Year Linked To Asbestos Exposure!
FIVE thousand deaths every year in Britain are linked to past asbestos exposure, but people are still being exposed to it today, warns the...
‘Opposition must be Syrian opposition,’ says Assad
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given an extensive interview with Australian TV channel SBS. In the interview, he covered such topics as Brexit, the hypocrisy...