END THE SIEGE OF GAZA – Hamas condemns Blair-Israel manoeuvre
ISRAEL’S move to relax its four-year blockade of the Gaza Strip is simple propaganda, Hamas said Thursday. The Islamic movement ‘considers Israel’s decision to increase...
Unison Motion To Boycott Israel
MOVES towards a trade union boycott of Israel are gaining momentum, with UNISON announcing this week that it is to debate a boycott at...
GREEK BANK WORKERS TO CONTINUE THEIR NATIONAL STRIKE -while armed police...
GREEK bank workers at the ATE Bank (Agrarian bank) decided last Monday in a mass meeting to continue their national strike against the sell...
NAHT head teachers union set to join NEU in national action...
On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...
Ahern Attacks Irish Unions
IRISH Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has told the trade unions it would be ‘reckless’ of them to seek a 10 per cent pay...
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...
St Mungo’s strike going from strength to strength
FIVE-HUNDRED St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers – now into the second week of their month-long strike – are going from strength to strength in...
Germany gives 80% fuel subsidy to businesses – extensive ‘preventive arrests’...
The German economy ministry plans to subsidise 80 per cent of the electricity cost for energy-intensive companies, in a proposal likely to fuel divisions...
Ban Pay ‘Gagging Clauses’ Says TUC
NEARLY a fifth (18%) of workers have been told they’re not allowed to discuss their pay with co-workers, according to new TUC/GQR polling published...
Mubarak Wants Early ‘peace Deal’
Egyptian President Husni Mubarak said on Monday that a longer term truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip...
‘KILLING KELLY’ A documentary by George Galloway
REVIEW BY FRA HUGHES THE strange death of Dr. David Kelly was exposed on celluloid at the premiere of the Killing Kelly documentary screened at...
‘HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITALS!’ – demand campaigners marching on Downing Street
‘JEREMY Hunt hear us say, NHS is here to stay!’ and ‘One fight – we are all united!’ chanted campaigners fighting to save A&Es...
‘WE WON’T WORK UNTIL 68!’ – say striking teachers and lecturers
‘We won’t work till 68!’ chanted striking teachers and lecturers on an 8,000-strong march through central London on Wednesday. The National Union of Teachers (NUT)...
10,000 march in London demanding ‘Kill the Bill’ – as protests...
OVER 10,000 youth and workers demanding ‘Kill the Bill’ marched from Speakers Corner Hyde Park and rallied in Parliament Square, central London, on Saturday. Protests...
Israel ‘getting a taste of its own medicine’
BY AVIGAIL ARBANEL THE damage on the ground in Israel is far more extensive than people realise. The Israeli population is less interested in the...
‘Socialism the only way forward – build the revolutionary leadership’
v‘We are meeting under the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system,’ Chair of Chingford ASLEF Bill Rogers told 150 workers and youth at...
Gadaffi – Swinging To The Right
THE swing to the right by the Libyan regime, led by Colonel Gadaffi, is now taking place at breakneck speed. The man who once...
Fatah leader Rjoub stresses the need for agreement with Hamas!
THE RULING Fatah party is going to run in the coming Palestinian legislative elections planned for May 22 in one list, today said Jibril...
Teamsters Mobilising Against ‘Flawed Pensions Bill’
The US Senate could take up the so-called Pension Protection Act, H.R. 4, by today, warns the Teamsters union. A Teamsters statement said: ‘This bad...
Thousands March To Defend Rio Tinto Alcan Jobs!
THOUSANDS of people marched through the streets of Alma in Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec province on Saturday to demand an end to the...
Defend District General Hospitals! Kick Out The Multinationals! Stop NHS Privatisations!
DISTRICT General Hospitals are being destroyed. Bruised and battered from every direction with reforms, £900m direct cuts are the knock out blow with which to...
Israel ‘intends to impose full sovereignty over Jerusalem’ – warns Hamas
Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, exchanging a volley of tear gas and rocks. Israeli troops entered the Haram...
‘End Occupation: Israel Is A Terror State!’
‘OCCUPATION no more!’ ‘Israel is a terror state!’ ‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 200 workers and youth at a picket of the Israeli embassy...
Over 500 on 26th annual United Families and Friends march
THERE were 500 demonstrators on Saturday’s annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street, where a petition was...
Life Comes To A Standstill On The Gaza Strip
As Israel steps up its human rights violations and systematic breaches of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip, all the basic functions of...
MINIMUM WAGE–CONDEMNS MILLIONS OF WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO POVERTY says...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has not welcomed the Poverty National Minimum Wage Act, which was signed into law last Friday...
Nasrallah celebrates Israel’s defeat in 2006!
AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...
Safe routes needed for refugees to reach UK
THE UK government ‘needs to pay much more attention to establishing safe and regular routes for people to reach safety and their loved ones...
Remembering the Hillingdon struggle
IT’S a shame that the All in a Day’s Work book of interviews, recording lives and the struggles of west London workers from 1945-1995,...
Palestine Action’s ‘Elbit Eight’ acquitted!
IN a significant development, a group of Palestine Action activists, known as the ‘Elbit Eight’, have been acquitted for their role in shutting down...
Stonethrowers Charged With Attempted Murder By Israeli Police
SUNDAY marked two years since five boys from the northern West Bank village of Hares were arrested over an alleged stone-throwing incident that saw...
SRI LANKA’S ‘RECONCILIATION COMISSION’ IS NOT CREDIBLE – human rights groups...
THE International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, the three premier human rights watchdogs, yesterday slammed Sri Lanka’s reconciliation commission (LLRC). They accused...
Microsoft backs down from Israeli investment
AFTER eight months of campaigning to demand that Microsoft drop their investment in the Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision, the hi-tech giant finally announced...
Israeli Forces Raid On Nablus!
ISRAELI forces raided Nablus overnight on Wednesday without coordinating with Palestinian Authority security services, say Palestinian officials. According to security coordination protocol which is part...
France Hit By Massive Strike Actions
WORKERS at Sanofi, which is France’s largest pharmaceutical company, went on strike on Tuesday following the announcement of 1,000 sackings as part of a...
ISRAELI ASSAULTS ON GAZA CIVILIANS ARE WAR CRIMES – says Amnesty
DELIBERATE attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip violate international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes, Amnesty...
Sunak statement: ‘Ordinary people bear the broadest burden’ – Unite
TRADE unions have highlighted the acute crisis facing millions of families facing steep rises in the cost-of-living, declaring that measures outlined in Tory Chancellor...
Junior Doctors Must Reject Hunt’s New Contract!
ON 18th May the doctors union, the BMA, announced that it had agreed a new contract for junior doctors. The BMA had completed eight days...
Privateers awarded one third of contracts since 2012 Health Act!
A THIRD of NHS contracts have been awarded to private sector providers since the Health and Social Care Act came into force, finds an...
EU Rejects Proposals To Halt Arms Sales To Israel
LAST month, foreign ministers representing the European Union categorically dismissed proposals to halt the sale of arms to Israel, despite a rapidly growing body...
Syria rebuilds Aleppo Eye Surgery Hospital – and completes preparations for...
SYRIA’S Minister of Health, Dr Hassan al-Ghobash, inaugurated the rebuilt General Authority of Aleppo Eye Surgery Hospital on Monday. The hospital, which was destroyed by...
Lebanon Condemns ‘Blatant Violation’ Of Cease-Fire Resolution
Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad al-Siniora condemned an Israeli commando raid early Saturday morning against a position held by Hezbollah in the Al-Biqa as ‘a...
Hundreds of thousands mobilise against Macron’s dictatorial health law
FRENCH President Macron’s dictatorial new health law and its passage through parliament has angered a vast swathe of workers, youth and the middle class. On...
New Zealand Junior Doctors On 48-Hour Strike
JUST over 3,200 of New Zealand’s 3,500 junior doctors began 48-hour strike action at 7.00am yesterday morning. The New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) members...
Egyptian Media Workers Strike!
WORKERS on 12 Egyptian newspapers and five TV channels have gone on strike for a day this week against the recently issued constitutional declaration...