Cosatu Gives Its Fullest Support To Numsa Strikers
ZWELINZIMA Vavi, General Secretary of COSATU, addressed the FAWU (Food and Allied Workers Union) Eastern Cape Regional Congress last Friday. He said: ‘We meet at...
Cardiff UCU staff vote 83% for strike action against huge job...
CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...
Hamas And Fatah Leaders Call For National Unity
LAST Thursday two leaders from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, underlined the need to strengthen national...
SRI LANKA: WORKERS FIGHT BRUTAL EXPLOITATION – Part 3:Working on the...
IN Sri Lanka over 75,000 workers are employed on the rubber plantations and are viciously exploited. There are at least 200 plantations, we visited...
Lift The Siege! Break The Blockade!
HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal held a news conference in Cairo last Friday. He began by saying: ‘We are now in Cairo on the first leg...
Teamsters begin largest ever strike against Amazon in US history!
The Teamsters union started the largest strike against Amazon in United States history on Thursday morning. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow...
ATHENS: 40,000 MARCH – on 37th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising
OVER 40,000 students and workers demonstrated in Athens last Wednesday on the 37th anniversary of the Polytechnic students’ Uprising of November 17, 1973, which...
NASSIM NISR’S RELEASE PART OF PRISON SWAP – says Hezbollah
The Lebanese detainee in Israeli jails for the past six years was released Sunday morning from the Nitzan (Ramle) Prison in Ramallah, in the...
Minimum Wage Violations Cost Workers In California Nearly $2 Billion Annually
EACH year, minimum-wage violations by California employers sap the state’s workforce of nearly $2 billion in earnings, according to a report released this month...
‘Deal of the Century belongs in the garbage can of history’...
SAEB EREKAT, the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), has called on Israeli authorities to immediately and unconditionally release...
‘IF WE DON’T WIN THIS BATTLE THERE WILL BE NO MORE...
AT A PACKED ‘Saving Vauxhall Jobs’ TUC Congress fringe meeting on Tuesday evening, Unite leaders Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson attacked the German government...
CWU proposes ‘not for dividend company’ – instead of organising...
THE CWU leadership is seeking to make a deal with the coalition over the terms and conditions of the privatisation of Royal Mail, when...
‘WE WANT A FREE GOVERNMENT’ – Beirut demonstrations continue
Demonstrators remained camped near central Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square and on streets leading to the government’s headquarters on Saturday following Friday’s million-strong opposition protest, led by...
Vote no to imposition of Driver Only Operation – urges RMT’s...
SCOTRAIL employees are set to vote on strike action against the introduction of Driver Only Operation (DOO) trains, the RMT has announced. The management of...
Massive support for GMB strike call at ASDA
GMB shop stewards met in Manchester yesterday to plan strike action after members of the union at 20 Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots voted decisively...
Abductions, illegal detentions, extra-judicial executions and torture ‘routine in Sri lanka’
‘HUNDREDS of people languish in arbitrary, illegal and often incommunicado detention in Sri Lanka, vulnerable to torture and extrajudicial execution, despite the end of...
AN ISRAELI INVASION OF THE GAZA STRIP ‘IS JUST A STONE’S...
HAMAS’ Yahya Musa, a deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council declared yesterday that an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip was discussed behind the...
Palestinian prisoner kept in solitary confinement for eight years!
A PALESTINIAN prisoner who has been in solitary confinement for eight years in Israeli jails has recently been suffering a psychological and neurological disorder,...
5,000 march in Cheltenham as TUC refuses to call a general...
FIVE thousand trade unionists descended on Cheltenham on Saturday, 40 years after 14 workers were sacked at GCHQ for refusing to sign away their...
South Africa–Massive State Fraud Exposed!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has released a full statement saying it is ‘outraged’ by accusations that Public Protector Thuli...
Israeli missile attack on Homs thwarted by Syria’s air defence!
SYRIA’S air defences have thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a military airbase in the country’s central province of Homs, shooting most of the...
Military Reinstates Executions In Myanmar
TWO MEN will be executed in Myanmar after the military junta rejected their death sentence appeals last Saturday, in what will be the first...
Israel applying Gaza genocide tactics on West Bank – says UNRWA
Israel is applying many of the tactics used in its war on Gaza to seize and control territory across the occupied West Bank during...
Seven Years Since The Marikana Mine Massacre!
‘THEY say in this country we’re free, but only some are free, others are not. A policeman has the power to kill and it’s...
Glencore Locks Out Australian Workers
ON THE same day the global Paradise Papers scandal exposed the offshore tax havens and tax avoidance strategies of companies including multinational mining giant,...
TAKE ACTION TO OPPOSE DARZI CARNAGE – call to BMA London...
Hospital doctors and GPs on Wednesday condemned health minister Lord Darzi’s plan for London as ‘a disaster waiting to happen’ whose effect on NHS...
NUMSA to march on President Ramaphosa’s office
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will march on Wednesday, April 19th to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office to protest against security...
NO WORKER CAN BE JAILED FOR GOING ON STRIKE! – say...
AN Alexandria misdemeanors court on Sunday overturned jail sentences for five workers from the Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Company. The court had sentenced the...
US COMBAT FORCES OUT BY 2010 – says Obama
SPEAKING after talks in Baghdad on Monday, US presidential candidate Barack Obama said the puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had expressed support for...
SHUT DOWN WEST COAST PORTS! says Occupy Oakland
A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...
Egypt Arrests Gaza Fishermen
EGYPTIAN naval forces detained nine Palestinian fishermen off the coast of southern Gaza on Friday, a local union official said. Nizar Ayash, head of Gaza’s...
Bush Rails As Pelosi Visits Damascus
US President George W Bush on Tuesday warned that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria sent ‘mixed signals’ that undermined US-led efforts...
‘No return to robber baron capitalism’ – says TEEU leader Devoy
THE Irish State may need to contemplate becoming an employer of last resort to tackle unemployment, says the ICTU General Secretary David Begg. Addressing the...
‘Freedom Flotilla’ Heading For Gaza
THE second ship to join the Freedom Flotilla en route to Gaza left Istanbul Saturday afternoon, joining eight other boats from three countries carrying...
‘A WORRYING AND DISTURBING PICTURE’ – RCM highlights shortage of midwives
Alone & lost in LABOUR, a survey by the Royal College Midwives and ‘Netmums’, highlights a shortage of midwives and lack of postnatal and...
‘SECRET FLIGHTS TO TORTURE AND DISAPPEARANCE’ – Amnesty
¸??ternational has released a new report which exposes a covert operation whereby people have been arrested or abducted, transferred and held in secret or...
Public sector decimated by Tory austerity agenda says TUC
TUC delegates at their annual Congress in Brighton on Tuesday voted unanimously to defend public services and pay. Composite Motion 06 Campaigning for public services...
Social housing projects cancelled after costs to make buildings fire safe...
MORE than one in ten ‘affordable’ new homes planned by housing associations can no longer be built due to the costs of making buildings...
Palestinians want vote on statehood by end of year
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry left early Sunday for a series of meetings in Europe seeking to head off an end-of-year UN...
$40 billion to be invested in Iran’s oil and gas fields
IRAN’S Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi has announced that 40bn dollars will be invested in the country’s joint oil and gas fields. Explaining his...
‘A million calls an hour’: inside Israel’s Microsoft-powered Digital War...
ISRAEL’S military intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has been using Microsoft’s European cloud infrastructure to store and analyse a vast archive of intercepted Palestinian phone...
Fire rips through Greek refugee camp
A FIRE has ripped through one of Greece’s largest refugee camps after the death of an Iraqi woman sparked an uprising. The blaze late on...
Letter to News Line: SHREWSBURY – a lesson for the working...
THE article in the News Line last Wednesday brought back not just memories of my personal involvement in the campaign led by the Young...
Bush Will Return In May To Celebrate The Founding Of Israel
ARAB states are demanding that the United States clarify the purpose of a planned return trip by US President George W Bush to Israel...
Junior doctor pay has ‘fallen off a cliff since 2008’ –...
THE DIRE state of junior doctors’ finances has been revealed in a British Medical Association survey. Junior doctors are cutting back on buying food and...