Eu ‘Harbours Serious Concerns’ Over Sri Lanka’s Rights Abuses
The European Union (EU) has expressed serious concern over Sri Lanka’s rights abuses, TamilNet reported yesterday. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the EU...
2,500 US troops have already left Iraq says Iraqi Premier
THE Iraqi prime minister says as many as 2,500 US troops have left the country as part of agreements reached with Washington to enable...
Palestinian University Workers Into Third Day Of Strike Action
Employees in public universities and colleges in the West Bank and Gaza Strip entered the third day of a strike on Wednesday. Head of the...
FUTURE OF MEDICAL WORKFORCE IS AT RISK – says BMA
THE British Medical Association (BMA) is warning that the future of the medical workforce is at risk. This comes as a new survey of medical...
Demonstrations in NE Syria against US-backed militants
US-sponsored and Kurdish-led militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have opened fire for the second straight day at people protesting against their...
Plans To Privatise ‘La Poste’ Are A ‘Declaration Of War’
The French post office union federations, CGT, SUD-PTT, CFDT, FO, CFTC and CGC, have called on postal workers nationally to strike and demonstrate on...
‘Budget does nothing to ease biggest squeeze ever!’ – unions slam...
TODAY’S Budget is far from the ‘game-changer’ the country needs and will do little to ease the biggest squeeze in living standards the country...
Syrian army destroys terrorist hideouts in Idlib – as Russia accuses...
SYRIAN military forces are continuing to target terrorist hideouts in northwestern Syria where the government has been restraining its offensives based on a de-escalation...
Garment workers denounce wage structure in Dhaka and clash with police
GARMENT workers have flooded the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, this week, clashing with police and denouncing the new wages structure introduced on...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
‘Israel will pay a high price for its brazen acts of...
THE spokesman for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's administration has slammed Israel’s recent attacks against a number of regional countries, warning Tel Aviv will pay...
GAZA HUNGER CRISIS! – Bakeries running out of bread as Al...
THE newspaper Filastin has posted a feature on its website titled ‘Through Their Worst Phase of the Israeli Siege on Gaza’ exposing the...
Ramaphosa will unleash ‘a jobs bloodbath’ – WARNS AMCU TRADE UNION
LONMIN billionaire Cyril Ramaphosa could favour mining bosses’ agenda of restructuring to revive profits and unleash a renewed jobs bloodbath, the Association of Mining...
‘DANGEROUS AND UNREGULATED’ – Doctor slams privately run walk-in centres
DR Anila Reddy has resigned from his post as the lead GP at an NHS ‘walk-in centre’ run by the private sector, at London’s...
MIGRANTS IN TEXAS CAMP TOLD TO ‘DRINK OUT OF THE...
A REPORT by US President Donald Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security says conditions in border patrol accommodation for migrants in southern Texas is worse...
Resistance Launches ‘Autumn Of Gaza’ Campaign
Chief PLO Negotiator Saeb Erekat met with US Assistant Secretary of State David Walsh and American Consul General Jake Wallacey on Sunday. The meeting took...
STOP WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL CLOSING! – – we must all defend our...
WHITTINGTON Hospital is threatened with being reduced to a ‘local hospital’ through having its Accident and Emergency and other vital Departments closed, and...
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...
‘TIME FOR ACTION’ – ON JOBS, WELFARE AND PENSIONS – as...
US TRADE union leaders’ were yesterday demanding that the Democrats take action on workers’ issues in the Houses of Congress, in return for the...
British destroyer on an ‘epic fiasco of provocation’ says Russia’s Major...
LAST Wednesday, a Russian patrol ship and fighter jet fired warning shots and dropped bombs along the path of a British destroyer that had...
SOUTH AFRICAN CP ‘AVOIDS THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS FACING WORKERS’ says...
PART ONE THE National Union of Metalworkers South Africa, Numsa, has released a full statement responding to Jeremy Cronin, of the South African Communist Party...
END GAZA SANCTIONS! – Palestinian Return Centre steps up campaigns
The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) has stepped up the international campaign to get the sanctions and siege of Gaza lifted. In its latest ‘update on...
‘Ofsted driving unnecessary workload at unacceptable levels for teachers!’
TEACHERS have expressed their rising anger at their excessive workload by sending a letter to Tory Coalition Secretary of State and the Deputy Prime...
SIX YEARS OF GUANTANAMO – the detainees speak
On January 11, 2008 it will be six years since the US authorities first transported ‘war on terror’ detainees to the military prison at the naval camp...
SAVE OUR SURGERIES! –say 3,000 east London marchers
THREE thousand doctors, NHS staff, patients and supporters last Saturday marched from Aldgate to London Fields in east London. The march was organised to protest...
ADDRESS GP WORKFORCE – BMA Extreme concern over five...
Responding to latest GP workforce data for January 2022, the BMA doctors’ union says the declining number of GPs shows no signs of abating...
Hamas Delegation Meets President Assad
A Hamas delegation headed by the Islamist movement’s senior most leader Khaled Mishaal met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday to...
‘We need to push them to repeal Health Act!’
THERE was a lively fringe meeting on the first evening of the BMA Conference in Bournemouth on Monday, organised by the All Trades Unions...
India general strike brings country to a halt!
Workers across India stopped work on Thursday as part of the Bharat Bandh (general strike). They were protesting against labour reforms and economic cuts being...
Israel Demolishes Homes And Schools In Occupied West Bank
ISRAELI authorities delivered demolition notices and halt of construction orders to several homes and schools in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank...
RESISTANCE, REBIRTH AND REVOLUTION – the fifth Congress of the United...
THE FIFTH Congress of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), is taking place in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Delegates filled the largest theatre...
DONALDSON SUBSTITUTES ‘BIG BROTHER’ FOR THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL – Part...
A DEPARTMENT of Health (DoH) report from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Sir Liam Donaldson, 202 pages long was published this July called ‘Good...
‘KILL THE HEALTH BILL’ say ‘Bevan’s Run’ consultants
Over two hundred doctors, medical staff and health campaigners on Sunday welcomed two NHS consultants at the end of their ‘Bevan’s Run’ against the...
Los Angeles farm workers in epic pay battle
HUNDREDS of labour activists, farmworkers and their allies marched on Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday demanding that a Fresno fruit grower recognise...
MPs condemn dangerous ‘restraint techniques’ – INQUEST calls for government action
Legal charity INQUEST has welcomed Friday’s publication of a highly critical report from the Home Affairs Select Committee on the rules governing enforced removals...
1,000 Teachers, Parents And Supporters March On Department For Education
ONE thousand teachers, parents and supporters marched through Westminster in the cold and rain, led by the National Education Union, (NEU) to demand that...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘We are witnessing the...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 6. On the eve of Revolution This essay appeared in the New York Daily paper...
‘Capitalism is a system which has to go!’
‘IT IS CAPITALISM as a system which has to go,’ artist Harlow Welldon said on the 35,000 strong protest last Wednesday in Hyde Park,...
‘Israel is committing genocide across the whole of Palestine’ – says...
THE US-based Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued an ‘active genocide alert’ over the situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. ‘Israel is...
Haitian workers will decide their own future!
A SOLIDARITY gathering with Haitian unions has reinforced the need to respect the right of the Haitian people to decide their own future, and...
‘Renew the Intifada in West Bank’ – says Haniya
IN A speech in Gaza to mark on the second anniversary of the prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya,...
‘WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NATIONAL STRIKE’ – say CWU pickets
Postmen and women were out in force on picket lines at 5.30am on Saturday all over London discussing the progress of their dispute against...
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)...
Join us on 27th August at 5.30pm opposite 10 Downing Street...
‘THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) London Freelance Branch calls on journalists and media workers to join us on Wednesday 27 August at 17:30 opposite Downing Street, where...
‘THE SYRIAN PEOPLE ALONE DECIDE WHO RULES THEM’ – message from...
‘WHAT Are the Real Reasons of the Western Positions Vis-A-Vis President Al-Assad? Or Why Has President Al-Assad Become an Obsession for the United States?’...