‘Threats to health workers of the world’ – WHO
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is urging healthcare leaders and governments to address all persistent threats to both the health and safety of all...
People Still Missing After Attack On Freedom Flotilla
THE Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said on Thursday 3 June that there were still missing people from the convoy that was detained by Israel...
War Crimes Dossier Launched At A Packed News Conference
A DOSSIER relating to a complaint delivered last Friday to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding the responsibility of...
SAFTU celebrates the International Day of the Nurse – condemns government...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), on this day when the world celebrates the International Day of the Nurse and the 200th...
Israeli Forces Storm Al-Aqsa Compound
THE Israeli occupation forces have stormed the historic Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, injuring 12 Palestinian worshippers. The Palestinians suffered the effects of tear-gas inhalation...
Colombia the most dangerous place in the world to be a...
THE life expectancy of Colombians has been reduced by at least two years as a result of the country’s armed conflict and violence related...
‘Eviction, homelessness and hunger’ facing US families – Indivar Dutta-Gupta advisor...
AN ECONOMIC adviser to the campaign of US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has warned of ‘evictions, homelessness, and food insecurity’ by the end...
TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMME OUR GUIDE FOR TODAY – Part three: The Transitional...
Military disaster stares Bush and Blair in the face in Iraq, where the toppling of the puppet regime in the Green Zone will result...
‘WE WON’T BE ROBBED OF OUR HOSPITAL! – residents and staff...
THE NORTH EAST London Council of Action won big support yesterday at the picket of Chase Farm Hospital with its demand that the...
Brighton hotel blaze: ‘Firefighters stretched to near breaking point’
As the demolition last week of the fire-ravaged Albion hotel in Brighton was underway, following an initial earlier blaze, a second fire broke out...
Israeli authorities raze land and demolish housing!
ISRAELI authorities on Thursday razed land and demolished a greenhouse and water well in Beit Ula, a village located northwest of Hebron, according to...
Unions in US major cities back Minneapolis strike against ICE
There is a growing strike movement across the United States against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s clampdown on Minneapolis as millions of workers...
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...
‘WE WILL PROTECT OUR FIRE SERVICE’ –pledges FBU general secretary Matt...
UP TO 800 firefighters and their supporters on Saturday marched and rallied against the closure of fire stations in London. One march set off from...
‘Snoopers Charter’ – sweeping state powers!
‘IT beggars belief that the government is blundering on with its snooping power-grab completely disregarding the concerns being raised from all sides,’ said Kate...
School Funding In Crisis! Unions Lobby Against School Cuts On October...
UNISON is working together with other education unions to hold a Parliamentary Lobby Against School Cuts on 24th October, to show MPs that school...
Black And African Capitalists In The Liberation Movement Were Let Win...
THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...
Young People Face ‘Surging Housing Prices, Stagnating Wages And Rising Student...
‘YOUNG PEOPLE have been ignored by the government,’ Cat Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Young People said reacting to the new Institute For...
Israel’s mass arrests ‘a systematic campaign of persecution targeting Palestinians’
ISRAELI police arrested 561 Palestinian workers throughout the 1948 occupied territories last week under the pretext of entering ‘without permits’. Human rights groups have condemned...
‘Deafening Silence’ Over Sri Lankan Massacres Condemned
THE ‘Elders’, an independent group of eminent global leaders, cautioned on Friday that ‘the international response to Sri Lanka’s worrying approach to human rights,...
‘Arrest war criminals Netanyahu and Gallant now’ – says the Palestinian...
At the end of Saturday’s London March the first speaker at the rally in Whitehall was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK,...
Missile defence talks between Russia and NATO reach another impasse
MISSILE defence talks between Russian and NATO military officials in the past 10 days have reached another impasse, Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov said...
‘Take remote sign-on off the table or we ballot for strike’...
Unite announced on Tuesday that ‘if remote sign-on is not taken entirely off the table for all bus operators then Unite, which represents over...
21 miners killed in Balochistan in the 1st half of January
The Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (PCMLF) and the All-Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (APLF) jointly held a manifestation on January 13 at the...
Preparations underway for Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections says Mahmoud Abbas!
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said during his speech last Friday before the General Debate of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly that...
REMOVE FLAMMABLE CLADDING IMMEDIATELY – demand Fuel Poverty Action campaigners
At a demonstration outside the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government on Wednesday, Fuel Poverty Action handed in a letter to the Secretary...
Afl-Cio Supports Wage Act!
ON THURSDAY, members of Congress, led by Senator Patty Murray (Democrat-Washington) and Representative Bobby Scott (Democrat-Virginia), proposed the Workplace Action for a Growing Economy...
Hezbollah condemns USA for seeking to trigger Lebanese ‘social explosion’
A TOP official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has slammed the United States for its seditious schemes in Lebanon, warning that Washington is...
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...
‘Privatisation gravy train must end’ says GMB
‘The gravy train needs to end – public services should be just that; public,’ said the GMB union on Tuesday, in response to a...
‘It Will Have To Go To A Strike By The Whole...
FIREFIGHTERS marched out on a six-hour strike at 6.30pm throughout England and Wales on New Year’s Eve, seeing the New Year in on the...
Garment workers linked to M&S ‘underpaid’
WORKERS manufacturing clothes for Marks & Spencer (M&S) employed in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India continue to be underpaid, a report by Labour Behind...
‘IRAN HAS PROVEN THAT IT IS HIGHLY CAPABLE OF RESISTING AGGRESSION’...
THE ex-Iranian president and current chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has spoken up about the crisis that the US is seeking...
Ford Motor Company is investigating accident that killed employee
FORD Motor Company is investigating an accident on Monday at one of its transmission plants that killed an employee. First responders were called around 9.45am...
US Civil Liberties Groups Seeking To Prosecute Rumsfeld For War...
Donald Rumsfeld, who was forced to resign as US defence secretary last Wednesday, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo...
Private company driven out of NHS
A HEALTHCARE ‘procurement’ process that named a private provider as the preferred bidder for contracts worth £25m has been abandoned after NHS trusts threatened...
THREE-YEAR BENEFIT BAN –Tory attack on unemployed condemned
Trade unions on Thursday gave their reaction to Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith’s announcement of a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ ‘claimant contract’,...
Politicians have been ‘too squeamish’ to take action on immigration –...
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman has come under fire for her speech to the party conference viciously attacking refugees. She told the Tory faithful that...
400,000 Stop Work In Massive Pensions Strike!
THE government’s claims about numbers of civil servants on strike over pensions are wildly inaccurate, the Public and Commercial Services union has insisted. Nearly...
Tens Of Thousands Demand An End To Egyptian Military Rule
About 300 people are being held after violent clashes outside the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday which left one soldier dead and hundreds...
Israel seeks to increase Gaza occupation to 70% and escalates its...
THE fears of residents and displaced people in the Gaza Strip are escalating as Israeli raids continue at the same time as their statements...
SA power workers demand 15% wage increase 0% pay offer rejected...
THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) have both officially rejected Eskom’s 0% wage offer, saying...
‘UN Must Condemn Assassination Of Fakhrizadeh!’ Says Iran
IRAN has called on the United Nations and its Human Rights Council to stop their ‘selective’ approach and condemn the recent assassination of the...
”NEGOTIATE A FAIR CONTRACT!” – demands UFCW and its supporters
LABOUR activists, community allies and family members came out in force to support UFCW Local 1400 members at Saskatoon Co-op on December 20. They...
‘THE ADVERSARY IS EXTREMELY STRONG – HOWEVER WE HAVE BEEN ABLE...
Cuban President Fidel Castro on Monday delivered the following message announcing his resignation from the presidency. It said: ‘Message from the Commander in Chief ‘Dear compatriots: ‘Last...