King’s unions & management disengage
KING’S College Hospital Foundation Trust (KCHFT) management has been accused by the Unite union of ‘racism, discrimination and bullying’ as staff-side joint partnership meetings...
‘Stand up against the South West Pay Cartel’ –and stop pay...
UNISON is calling on MPs from the South West of England to give their backing to local health workers including nurses, therapists, porters, and...
Israel plans settlement in heart of occupied Jerusalem
ISRAEL plans to build a new settlement in the central area of the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds, despite international condemnation, a new report says. Israeli newspaper Calcalist...
Shocking homelessness & mass evictions this Xmas
SHOCKING new figures show housing charity Shelter received a call for help every 22 seconds in the run up to Christmas last year, and...
Abbas Predicts ‘Hamas Digging Its Own Grave’
THE Palestinian Information Centre, the website of Hamas, last Friday posted a statement by Hamas denouncing PNA President Mahmud Abbas’s speech...
Greek workers refuse to accept austerity plan!
LAST Wednesday and Thursday saw the biggest general strike of all workers, public and private sector, shopkeepers, and transport workers, which brought the whole...
Vote Wrp! Vote For Socialism!
The WRP is standing seven candidates in the May 6 parliamentary elections and below is the party’s election manifesto. VOTE WRP ON MAY 6th! VOTE FOR...
MED UNION ‘ATTEMPT TO LET ISRAEL IN THROUGH THE WINDOW’ –...
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has praised the position of the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, who refused to attend the Paris summit to...
‘THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ’S OIL’ – ‘our aim is for the...
A PACKED public meeting of more than 300 British trade unionists and anti-war campaigners has heard an Iraqi trade union leader speak out against...
Colombian electors are hungry for a big change in their crisis-hit...
BY YONATAN MOSQUERA NEXT Sunday 19th of June the final round of presidential elections will take place in Colombia. After having defeated the establishment candidates...
US must prove that Manning knowingly helped Al-Qaeda – rules US...
THE US government must prove that army private Bradley Manning knowingly helped Al-Qaeda and other ‘American foes’ by handing over secret documents to WikiLeaks,...
Sheffield lecturers vote for strike action!
SHEFFIELD College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in defence of jobs and quality of education. 86% of University College Union (UCU)...
Egyptian Army Demolitions Creating A Gaza Buffer Zone
AL-AQSA TV on Sunday morning carried the following ‘urgent’ screen caption: ‘Residents on the Egyptian side of Rafah are angry because the Egyptian army...
Amcu Ready To Serve 48-Hour Strike Notice On Lonmin!
LONMIN Plc (LMI) is waiting to be served with a strike notice by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) if the...
Sack Lansley! –say Junior Doctors
Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors conference on Saturday, against the advice of their leaders, voted overwhelmingly to demand health secretary...
BASIC OPERATIONS BEING REFUSED TO SAVE MONEY –leading surgeons accuse PCTs
NHS patients are being refused basic operations because primary care trusts want to save money, six leading surgeons revealed in a devastating letter that...
‘OFFICERS WERE DRIVEN TO KILL’ –Marikana police tell City Press newspaper
CONSTABLE Itumeleng Ntsileng from the police’s K9 Unit and two of his fellow officers have told South Africa’s City Press newspaper how at least...
Belarus holding Victory Day march today!
‘WE invite other heads of state to come to Minsk for the Victory Parade,’ Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked to the...
Greek Riot Police Continue Vicious Attacks On Cleaners!
GREEK armed riot police squads once again viciously attacked the women cleaners outside the Finance Ministry in central Athens last Thursday afternoon. Four women cleaners...
Occupation authorities are waging a relentless war against the Palestinian youth...
ISRAELI occupation forces on Tuesday and Monday night detained at least 14 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, six of them from East...
BRUTAL CRACKDOWN ON GARMENT UNION – 4 years after the Rana...
FOUR years after the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,100 textile workers were killed when the garment factory they were...
Thirty Palestinian Prisoners Join Shalabi Hunger Strike
The head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society announced last Monday that thirty Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike of Palestinian heroine Hana Shalabi. Palestinian...
Palestinians condemn Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip!
PALESTINIAN political factions have denounced Sunday’s Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli army fired missiles into the northern Gaza Strip town...
Junior doctors are ready to walk out for 72 hours in...
JUNIOR doctors in England WILL walk out for 72 hours in March if the ballot for industrial action is successful, says the BMA. The BMA...
Tens Of Thousands Of Aerospace Jobs At Risk
THROUGHOUT Britain, the Unite union is reporting, the aerospace industry and job futures for many thousands of workers are ‘at five to midnight’ –...
‘WALL STREET BANKERS LOOTED BILLIONS – I DID NOT HEAR ANY...
THE United Nations Special Rapporteur, Maina Kiai, on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association made a visit to the United...
COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA
MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...
25 Years Since Clapham Crash!
TODAY, Thursday 12 December 2013, will mark 25 years since the Clapham Junction Rail Crash that left 35 people dead and hundreds injured. The accident...
‘Abbas’ Government Constitutes A Crime Against The Palestinian Political Order’
YAHYA Musa, a deputy from the Hamas movement, has said that the decree issued by President Abbas that stipulates the suspension of articles...
Cease the scrapping of BTec demands the Sixth Form Colleges Association
A KEY education union campaign to stop BTec vocational qualifications being scrapped within two years has won backing from both MPs and even lords...
Hanan Ashrawi meets Swedish Consul – both stress the need for...
MEMBER of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Hanan Ashrawi has met the Swedish Consul-General to Palestine, Jessica Olausson, in Ramallah. The two...
Maliki Signs ‘Memorandum Of Understanding’ With Turkey
A MEMORANDUM of Understanding was signed by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Iraqi puppet Prime Minister Nuri...
Israeli Strikes Target Resistance
Palestinian fighters killed two Israeli settlers near the West Bank city of Hebron last Friday morning. Palestinians in a speeding car opened fire at three...
Sodexo Oppressing Workers In The US And Colombia
Sodexo laundry workers in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday delivered a petition to management calling for greater safety standards. The petition included hundreds of signatures from...
‘We Are Not Going To Let Them Close Qeii Hospital!’
WELWYN and Hatfield Keep NHS Public campaign called a picket to stop the imminent closure of the A&E and the Maternity services at the...
OPEN THE RAFA CROSSING – Palestinians’ patience is wearing thin, says...
With Israel’s two-week military offensive in Gaza showing no signs of abating, patience is running thin among those waiting to get into the Strip...
‘The Ltte Is Ready To Implement Every Clause Of The Cease-Fire...
TAMILNET has reported that the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Major General Lars Johan Solvberg, met Liberation Tigers (LTTE)2 political chief B...
Half a million people forced out of their homes by Turkish...
TENS of thousands of residents of the UNESCO world heritage site of Sur are among an estimated half a million people forced out of...
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...
G7 condemns Myanmar Junta’s war on the people while the general...
THE G7 (Group of Seven) countries have ‘firmly’ condemned the heavy-handed crackdown, including the use of live ammunition, committed by Myanmar’s junta against the...
Parents criminalised for taking their children on holiday – says NUT
THE NUT (National Union of Teachers) and the CFHF (Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund) have condemned the fining of parents for taking their children out...
‘THERE IS HUGE, MASSIVE DEEP-SEATED DISCONTENT AMONG TRANSIT WORKERS’ – TWU...
‘We were engaged in Civil Disobedience’, said New York Transit workers union President Toussaint at State Supreme Court on April 10, 2006, before he...
Venezuela warns of imminent US military attack!
THE GOVERNMENT of Venezuela has warned of an imminent military attack by the United States, which has stepped up deployment of naval and air...
QATAR ACTING LIKE 21ST CENTURY SLAVE STATE –TUC demands re-run vote...
‘Qatar is acting like a 21st century slave state’, delegates attending the UEFA Congress in London heard. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)...
Rouhani Ready For ‘Serious And Substantive Talks’ With The West
NEW Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed his country’s readiness to engage in ‘serious and substantive talks’ with the West over Iran’s nuclear issue. Rouhani...