ABBAS REJECTS KERRY’S SECURITY PLAN – while US ex-CIA chief says...
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas has rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along its border with Jordan, a Palestinian...
‘COUNCILS WILL HAVE TO MAKE FURTHER SAVINGS’ – warn Town Hall...
Councils will have to make further savings as the economic slowdown bites, local government bosses warned on Friday. The economic slowdown has left town halls...
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is ready to confront Israel – while...
THE commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warns the Islamic Republic will harshly confront the Israeli regime wherever...
Universal Credit–a weapon for attacking the disabled and their families
UP TO half a million (450,000) disabled people and their families – including children and disabled adults living on their own – will be...
‘We will defeat TPP’ says Trumka
‘THE hardworking families of the AFL-CIO will join with our allies to defeat the TPP,’ says Trumka. After the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Doreen Lawrence demands new inquiry at ‘Resistance -the Best Olympic Spirit’...
THE MOTHER of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence has revealed that she has asked Home Secretary Theresa May for a new inquiry ...
South Korean unions angry at the death of a young worker!
THE KPTU (Korean Federation of Public Services and Transportation Workers’ Unions) has issued the following statement on the measures announced by the South Korean...
Syria Condemns ‘Decades Of Violating The Rights Of Palestinians And Golan...
SYRIA’S Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Hussam Eddin Ala, affirmed on Monday that the Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and...
GPs stopped from working due to Capita delays
NEWLY qualified GPs have been stopped from working for six months due to delays by the privateer Capita’s management of the National Performers List...
FBU win victory against cuts in North Wales!
‘VICTORY’ the FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has proclaimed, after the North Wales fire authority announced on Monday that plans to downgrade two fire stations...
‘An appalling situation!’ – BMA Council Chair Professor Philip Banfield condemns...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the use of physician associates warning of serious risks to patients. Responding to revelations from Channel 4 News...
More workers being forced to take strike action!
THE NUMBER of UK strike actions is growing! A Public and Commercial Services union representative sacked by the National Gallery was likely to have been...
Egyptian class struggle continues
While Egypt’s presidential election has dominated the headlines, the class struggle continues unabated with workers determined to defend their rights and improve living standards. Egypt’s...
IndustriALL demonstrates at mine owners Glencore HQ
IN RESPONSE to mine owners Glencore and Xstrata’s arrogant refusal to meet with a delegation of IndustriALL global union affiliates to discuss labour issues...
ETUC Day of Action against Austerity tomorrow
THE TUC has sent letters to the Spanish and Greek governments urging them to abandon their austerity programmes and to ‘change course now’. The letters...
World Crisis Splits Iran’s Islamic Revolution
AT least 10 people were killed in the latest clashes to shake Tehran, state television said on Sunday, as Iranian leaders took aim at...
Workers and youth say vote Athow in Hornsey and Wood Green!
WORKERS and youth signed up to join the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) and Young Socialists on Saturday, saying they will vote for Hornsey and...
Massive Hospital Cuts And More Privatisation Planned
NHS London has ordered PCTs and NHS trusts to draw up plans for cuts worth billions. NHS London (London’s Strategic Health Authority) produced a...
Kenyan strikers will not return until union leaders are freed
STRIKING Kenyan airport workers have declared that they will not return to work until their union leaders are released from jail. On Friday morning, the...
4,500 arm and leg amputations during the Gaza genocide
THE Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced that 4,500 cases of amputation in upper and lower limbs have been registered in the Gaza...
Israeli Pm Netanyahu Delighted To Restore Ties With Turkey
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lauded last Sunday’s deal to restore ties with Turkey, six years after a deadly raid on an...
UCU slams Manchester Met Uni – after security staff forcibly evict...
MANCHESTER Metropolitan University (MMU) is under fire after its security forcibly evicted staff members from picket lines across the university’s buildings on Thursday...
SAFTU demands an end to vaccine profiteering – West snapping up...
‘AS WE struggle to stay alive, and literally fight for our lives as peoples of the Global South, we believe it is time for...
‘We support the call for a general strike’ – the RMT’s...
10,000 WORKERS, trade unionists and youth were on the London May Day March on Thursday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. The march was led...
‘Governments are negotiating trade deal in secret!’ – exposed by WikiLeaks
A WikiLeaks exposé has revealed the true intent behind secret 50-country negotiations on a new ‘financial services’ chapter of the Trade in Services Agreement...
Medical Aid Reaches Gaza Following Mass Protests Against The Egyptian Government
MEDICAL aid and 518 international activists finally entered Gaza on Wednesday night, following protests against the Egyptian government’s refusal to let them in led...
Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced...
Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced quality of patient care and increased rates of deaths from treatable causes, according...
300 garment factories shut down in Bangladesh!
BANGLADESH garment bosses have indefinitely shut down all operations in over 300 factories at a key industrial hub after five days of violent protests...
In Defence of the Palestinian Right Of Return
The Damascus International Declaration In Defence Of The Palestinian Right Of Return, proclaimed at the Conferences Palace, Damascus, was published in the UK yesterday. It...
DELAY RATIFICATION OF FISCAL TREATY –urges ICTU leader Begg
Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) General Secretary David Begg has said that the Dublin government could delay ratification of the Fiscal Compact Treaty,...
‘The West supports the terrorists and does not have the will...
IN an interview given to Russia’s RIA Novosti and Sputnik news agencies, Syria’s President al-Assad said that we always announce that we are ready...
Renewed genocide, continued military aggression, record settlement expansion!
THE Palestinian Government Communication Centre has issued its weekly Situation Report covering the key recent developments across occupied Palestine. This week’s report highlights Israel’s renewed...
Russia focussing on the liberation of the Donbass
RUSSIAN Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow has completed the main objectives of the first phase of the special military operation in Ukraine and...
White House is worried that Netanyahu will use US Congress speech...
THE WHITE House is reportedly worried that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could use his upcoming speech to the US Congress to publicly criticise...
Investment firms and asset managers of UK arms industry making massive...
THE British state is subsidising the UK arms industry to the tune of billions of pounds to the benefit of its wealthy private owners...
Russia and China condemn US-Israel aggression against Iran – and seeks...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping jointly condemned the recent US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran on Wednesday, calling for...
Junior doctor pay has ‘fallen off a cliff since 2008’ –...
THE DIRE state of junior doctors’ finances has been revealed in a British Medical Association survey. Junior doctors are cutting back on buying food and...
73 Years Since The Deir Yassin Massacre!
DEIR Yassin is a Palestinian village situated on a hilltop, a short distance from the west of Jerusalem. If you try to find it...
MAY RETURNING TO CHILDREN BEING FAILURES AT ELEVEN! – as NUS...
DOES the PM really want to return to labelling children failures at the age of 11, the ATL asked yesterday. Answering the question the...
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...
Three unions reps sacked at the Brixton Ritzy cinema!
THREE union representatives at the Ritzy cinema in Brixton have been dismissed by Picturehouse in a move described by their trade union BECTU as...
Palestinians demand the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!
ONGOING protests in the occupied Palestinian territory and around the world are demanding the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese militant for Palestinian...
Weapons supplied by the UK and USA have killed 839 civilians...
WEAPONS supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States to the Saudi-led coalition in war-torn Yemen killed at least 839 civilians and wounded 1,775...
Greek workers say ‘No’ to 13-hour day
The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the Greek TUC, responded on Thursday with an angry statement to the government Labour Ministry’s intention to...
Global Silence And Abandonment As Kamal Adwan Hospital In Gaza Is...
The sound of tanks rumbling through the streets outside of Kamal Adwan Hospital woke everyone up. They were already on edge after enduring months...