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...
‘HEZBOLLAH ARE RIGHT TO DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY’ – 100,000 march through...
‘Bush, Blair terrorists!’ shouted workers and youth last Saturday as they passed the American embassy in central London on a 100,000-strong demonstration against the...
GREEK FASCIST PARTY LEADERS ARRESTED – workers determined to destroy them
THE leader and four parliamentary deputies of the fascist Golden Dawn party, along with 13 party cadres and two policemen, were arrested on...
‘Iran Does Not Want Peace’ Says Pompeo
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that Iran is behind the latest bout of violence triggered by Israel’s assassination of a top...
British banks’ role in the dirty money ‘global laundromat’ – Chancellor...
ON TUESDAY 21 March Labour shadow Chancellor John McDonnell asked an urgent question of the Chancellor, Hammond, who did not attend the session of...
PA Cabinet will not allow ‘a return to violence’ – but...
DURING its weekly cabinet meeting on Monday, the Palestinian government in Ramallah condemned the killing of four Palestinians in Nablus in less than 24...
JAPANESE CALL FOR A ‘COMPLETE, UNVARNISHED INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION’ – into war...
THE civilian casualty list in Sri Lanka’s offensive against the Tamil Tigers ‘is long and growing’ TamilNet, reported on Monday. And the Japan Times,...
MILITARY ATTEMPT NEW EGYPTIAN COUP – Will not be able to...
FOLLOWING Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that the just-elected parliament is illegitimate, workers are vowing that they will not allow the return to a...
WORLD HAS PAID A HEAVY PRICE FOR ‘WAR ON TERROR’ says...
The world’s poor and disadvantaged pay the price of war on terror, says Amnesty International in its annual report 2006 published on Tuesday. Introducing the...
Tory 2-3% pay offer ‘an insult’ – civil servants’ ‘outrage has...
THE government pay policy to limit civil service pay rises to two to three per cent, announced on Thursday, is an insult to PCS...
Tens Of Thousands March Against Greek Government In 11 Cities
Tens of thousands of youth, students and workers participated last Friday evening in fiercely anti-government marches and rallies, held in Athens and ten other...
THE ‘CALM’ WITH ISRAEL IS OVER –Zakariya al-Zubaydi, commander of the...
ZAKARIYA al-Zubaydi, commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said last Sunday, that ‘Israel’s escalation of the situation, assassinations and aggression against our people and...
‘IF TRUMP IS GOING TO FIGHT THE TERRORISTS – WE WILL...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to RTP TV channel on 16 November 2016. Question 1: Mr. President, let’s start with Aleppo if you don’t...
BMA demands ‘an end to PA postcode lottery after review concludes...
A NEW rapid systematic review published last Friday 7th March by researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford,...
Canadian Rail Workers Strike Ban!
CANADA'S federal government was expected to introduce back-to-work legislation on Monday aimed at forcing striking Canadian Pacific (CP) railway employees to return to their...
‘A savage and ruthless bully!’ – South Africa’s NUMSA union denounces...
‘DONALD Trump is a creature of the US. NUMSA calls upon its brothers, sisters and comrades in the United States to deal with Donald...
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...
‘Ten firearms police officers aimed their rifles at me’ – says...
‘MAJOR questions will need to be answered by the Metropolitan Police as to how this everyday event escalated into an armed raid, during which...
Trump steps up war on people of South America
MILES of barbed wire has been installed by US troops on the US/Mexico Border, while over the weekend camps opened to hold thousands of...
US trade unions condemn racist rally in Charlottesville
AMERICA’S nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), has condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday which resulted in the death of a...
Bahrain ruler condemned for conference supporting Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century!’
THE main Shia opposition group in Bahrain has warned that the ruling Al Khalifah regime there is ‘contributing to the liquidation of the Palestinian...
Lebanon is facing a historic turning point! – it must preserve...
Sheikh Naim Qassem, the Hezbollah Secretary-General, says Lebanon is facing a ‘historic turning point,’ where it must choose between yielding to ‘US-Israeli domination’ or...
Barghouthi Writes To Fatah’s Sixth General Congress
ON 4th August, Al-Hayat al-Jadidah daily carried a report saying that ‘Marwan al-Barghouthi, Fatah secretary and Legislative Council member, has sent a letter to...
Irish Courts Rule Siptu Strike Illegal!
THE Irish courts have ruled that a four-hour strike action at airports due to take place today is illegal. The SIPTU trade union which...
Stop Coalition Steamrolling Pension Cuts!
The Unite union has called for the rejection of the government’s final public sector pensions package. ‘The government is steamrolling through its final offer on...
Gm Boss Refuses To Say Which European Plants Will Be Closed
GENERAL Motor’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Fritz Henderson, took questions at a Detroit press conference on Thursday, November 5th concerning the Magna...
‘A HISTORIC VICTORY FOR ALL JOURNALISTS’ – NUJ welcomes court judgement...
THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed last Friday’s High Court in Belfast’s full written judgement on the quashing of arrest warrants for...
THE NEW YORK BUS STRIKE GOES ON says ATU leader
‘AS I HAVE said from the beginning, the best way for this strike to end is with Local 1181, Mayor Bloomberg and the city’s...
SAFTU plans mass actions for 2019
‘THE poor of our country are suffering! A human calamity is unfolding! The difference is that this is not making headlines because the poor...
WAKE UP AMERICA! – ‘Corporate greed is on the march as...
Teamsters’ leader James Hoffa junior tells 27th Teamsters Convention ‘Welcome to the 27th International Teamsters Convention. It is an honor to address you as your...
TURIN STUDENTS DEMAND FREE PALESTINE! – French CGT workers national mobilisation...
STUDENTS protested against the genocide in Gaza clashed with Italian police last Friday. The students reject ‘the war economy’ imposed by Giorgia Meloni’s ‘reactionary and...
Metrorail strike against neglect and overcrowding
COSATU has announced it is to strike on 1st December 2011 for better train service in Western Cape. In a statement the Confederation of South...
NUJ Condemns Home Office Call For ‘Increased Maximum Sentences’ For ‘Unauthorised...
THE UK HOME OFFICE has called for comment on proposed new laws with greater reach and harsher penalties to ‘counter state threats’. These are intended...
Israeli Settlers Are Attacking Palestinian Homes
ISRAELI settlers last Tuesday night attacked Palestinian homes with stones as they provocatively approached the outskirts of Silat ad-Daher, some 20 kilometres to the...
Powerful 5,000-strong Al Quds Day demonstration backs Iran and Palestine
AROUND 5,000 people attended Sunday’s Al Quds rally for Palestine on Albert Embankment on the south side of the River Thames London. Metropolitan Police ranks...
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...
GMB and Unite slam the Grenfell Report
THE GMB union has slammed the failure of the Grenfell Report to tell the full story. The roots of this disaster lay not with the...
A Decisive Week For Lebanon
Lebanon has entered a decisive week during which its parliament is due to elect a new president. With tanks and troops deployed on the streets,...
New Nigerian loan scheme ‘will perpetually enslave the workers’
One of Nigeria’s university based unions, National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), has opposed the federal government’s offer to float a loan scheme, known...
‘Silent wave of death’ deliberately enforced in Gaza – says Euro-Mediterranean...
THE Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said yesterday that Gaza is experiencing a ‘silent wave of death’ of increasing numbers of elderly and children due...
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...
Coalition spy chaperoned UK schoolgirls to ISIS in Syria
THE Turkish authorities have captured a person working for the intelligence agency of a coalition country in connection with the journey of three teenaged...
Britain’s Toxic Secret
By KYE GBANGBOLA ACROSS this country there are families suffering from living in proximity to contaminated land and polluted water.
The suffering varies, from birth defects,...
The entire population of Gaza at risk of dying in Israel’s...
THE entire population of the Gaza Strip is at risk of dying in Israel’s genocide, says special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. The United Nations expert on...
Nurses union demands the immediate abolition of ICE
THE UNITED STATES has erupted in fury after a second person in the span of a month was fatally shot by federal immigration authorities...