‘From day-one our revolution has been under siege’ – Grassroots leader...
On the spot report from Carolina Graterol EARLY last week on arrival in Caracas, I managed to join a meeting of grassroot movements connected to...
‘PALESTINIAN BLOOD SHOULD NOT BE SPILLED’ – Haniya urges unity
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, on Tuesday, called on Palestinians to ‘remain united’ in a common cause after days of clashes between Haniya’s Hamas...
‘WE MUST DEFEAT THEIR PLANS FOR BRUTAL BUTCHERY’ –Trade union lobbyists...
THERE was an angry and determined mood among the 10,000 trade unionists and youth who travelled from all over the country on Tuesday to...
Climate Change protesters besiege BAA
CAMP for Climate Action protesters yesterday morning were still besieging British Airports Authority (BAA) head office at Heathrow Airport. Protesters were camped out under...
Teamsters demand Sotherby’s end its five-month lock-out
The Teamsters Union, which represents art handlers at Sotheby’s Auction House, has created an online petition that asks Sotheby’s to end its five-month-long lock-out. Sotheby’s...
Syrian Masses Take To The Streets Against Israeli State Terrorism
Syrian governorates on Monday witnessed huge mass demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance in the face of continued savage Israeli aggressions...
Thousands picket Netanyahu’s office against attack on Bedouin rights
severaL thousand people demonstrated on Sunday outside Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem, protesting over a plan they say will displace tens...
Moreno Flees Ahead Of Ecuadorian Mass Demonstrations!
ECUADORIAN President Lenin Moreno abandoned the capital, Quito, on Monday and fled to the coast ahead of mass demonstrations which were held yesterday. A mass...
Moscow magistrates court fines Google three million roubles!
A MOSCOW magistrates court has fined US tech giant Google 3 million roubles ($31,800) for its failure to delete questionable information about the special...
‘We will shut down public service until government takes our demands...
SALARY negotiations between South Africa’s government and public servants for 2021 have gone awry. Trade unions representing public servants have tabled a wage increase...
‘The Invisible Prison Wall Around Palestinian Refugees From Iraq’
The following report was delivered by Nasim Ahmed to a Palestine Return Centre Workshop on Palestinian prisoners in London earlier this week. ‘I would...
Unions And Rights Groups Condemn Queen’s Speech
RESPONDING to the plans for ‘secret justice’ and closed courts set out in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday, Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said:...
TWO YEARS AFTER KATRINA . . . ‘Bush failed to keep...
‘In the two years since Hurricane Katrina came ashore on the Gulf Coast, the Bush administration has failed miserably to deliver on the president’s...
UK ‘PRACTISING DELIBERATE POLICY OF DESTITUTION’ OF ASYLUM SEEKERS – British...
In their scathing report on the treatment of asylum seekers, including enforced destitution, MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights,...
Erekat ‘Disappointed’ That Obama Ignored Palestine At UN Assembly
SECRETARY-General of the PLO’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat Monday expressed his disappointment in US President Barack Obama for ignoring the Palestinian question during his...
Minnesota Nurses To Strike From Labor Day!
THE Minnesota Nurses Association says that on Labor Day, September 5th, nearly 5,000 of its members will walk off their jobs in an open-ended...
100,000 workers & youth march in Athens
THE Greek working class has once again demonstrated its strength and determination with a powerful one day general strike last Wednesday, called by the...
‘No concessions’ over NATO expansion – insists Russia’s deputy foreign...
RUSSIA’S deputy foreign minister says Moscow is ‘disappointed’ by signals from Washington and Brussels demanding unilateral concessions from the Russian side ahead of talks...
New Hampshire SEIU endorses Bernie Sanders for President!
The New Hampshire chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president. In doing so, the Granite...
Arab World Condemns Iraq Partition Plan
The Egyptian People’s Assembly Arab Affairs Committee has denounced the US Congress resolution to divide Iraq into three states on religious and ethnic bases. The...
AUSTERITY–• eroding workers rights • driving up unemployment says ILO report
In light of the new International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) ‘World at Work’ report the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is holding the world’s first...
Leon Trotsky’s CLASS AND ART – PART TWO Raskalnikov and the...
THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...
Palestinian teenagers seized in overnight raids
ISRAELI occupation forces arrested 13 Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids on Wednesday night – one of the arrests was south of Nablus,...
THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN! – –US version is a...
THE US was aided by Pakistan in the killing of Osama bin Laden, Seymour Hersh, an American investigative journalist and author has sensationally alleged. The...
China will send medical experts & equipment to Serbia – and...
CHINA will provide Serbia with assistance in protective equipment and medical instruments, and send a group of medical experts to help it better contain...
History of NHS nursing NEW EXHIBITION AT RCN’S LONDON HQ
IN THE centenary year of nurse registration, a new exhibition is charting the history of the journey from the Nurses Registration Act in 1919...
‘STICK TOGETHER AND WE WILL BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA’ –...
SURVIVORS told a packed central London meeting on Wednesday evening of the violent Israel attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the unconcern of...
Elderly and disabled Gazans starving to death!
On a daily basis, the death toll among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly the elderly, is increasing due to hunger, malnutrition, and lack...
Protecting journalists must be a priority in Syria
JOURNALISTS’ protection must be a national priority in Syria, demands the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The IFJ, in coordination with one of its affiliates...
‘WE WON’T LET YOU SELL OUR JOBS’ – civil servants tell...
OVER 200 civil servants gave a standing ovation to colleague Sheila Coote at a lunchtime rally in Westminster last Friday, as she vowed to...
Anc Using ‘Freedom Charter Language’ To Bolster Domination Of Capitalism’ –...
THE latest ANC government budget entrenches the dominance of ‘white capital’ while intent on creating a ‘black capitalist’ class, says Irvin Jim, NUMSA...
Irish government ‘must prioritise services to children and families’
IMPACT trade union’s civil service conference has passed an emergency motion on the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse –...
The 20 Faces Of Bertie Ahern
BERTIE Ahern quit as the Irish Republic’s Taioseach and Fianna Fail leader on May 6th. Political Journalist JOHN COULTER analyses how he will be...
100,000 March In Dublin Against Water Charges
HUGE numbers of anti-water-charges demonstrators marched through Dublin city last Saturday, ending with a 100,000-strong rally at the Spire on O’Connell Street, with...
Families struggle to find loved ones beneath millions of tons...
FOR 200 days, Abu Ismail Hammad has been digging beneath his destroyed home in Gaza City, sifting through the sand to collect the remains...
‘VULNERABLE AND ABANDONED’ Oxfam report into the plight of refugees on...
HUNDREDS of pregnant women, unaccompanied children and survivors of torture are being abandoned in refugee camps on the Greek islands, an Oxfam report revealed...
South Africa’s Steel Workers Take Indefinite Strike Action!
SOUTH African workers – members of the Numsa trade union in the steel and engineering sectors have embarked on an indefinite strike – recalling...
Coalition Privateers To ‘Liberate NHS’: Part Two
THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government’s White Paper on the NHS contains plans for sweeping changes. NHS Commissioning Board The sole commissioners for the NHS will...
AMCU secures reinstatement of 579 sacked members!
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said on Thursday it had successfully secured the reinstatement of 579 of its members dismissed in...
US workers demand health care for all
RALLIES will take place across the United States on Tuesday, August 22, demanding action to tackle the country’s health care crisis. America has a system...
Maliki Shuts Down Iraq’s Electrical Trade Unions
THE International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions has expressed outrage at the banning last week of the Iraqi electrical trade...
‘Stop UK Bombs Fuelling Yemen Crisis’
STOP British bombs from fuelling the crisis in Yemen, demands Oxfam. The charity warns in a statement: ‘The war in Yemen has been brutal....
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...
NORTHERN GAZA FACING FAMINE – 2.3m ARE GOING HUNGRY!
Northern Gaza is likely to be hit by famine any time between mid-March and May, and more than 70 per cent of Gaza’s 2.3...
‘STOP COWBOY CLEANING CONTRACTS’ – –RMT and Unite members lobby Metronet...
MEMBERS of the RMT rail union and the Unite union’s Justice for Cleaners campaign staged a protest in central London on Wednesday, demanding: ‘Stop...