Palestinian hunger strikers home raided!
ISRAELI authorities raided the house of Samer Issawi, a Palestinian prisoner who engaged in one of the longest hunger strikes in history, on Sunday. Authorities...
GET US TROOPS OUT – says mother of dead soldier, as...
Several hundred people joined an anti-Iraq war protest outside President George W Bush’s holiday ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Sunday, as the American...
RELEASE NAZMUL HUDA! – first journalist to report on the Rana...
REPORTERS Without Borders (RSF) call for the immediate release of Nazmul Huda, a reporter who was arrested on 24 December 2016 because of his...
Bectu Members At Picturehouse Begin Nine Days Of Strike Action!
BECTU members campaigning for the Living Wage at the Picturehouse circuit began nine days of strike action on Wednesday, 4th October, which coincided with...
‘NetHunter’ demands the release of 500 Palestinian prisoners!
HACKERS have managed to break into the Israeli regime’s ministry of military affairs, offering to sell stolen data unless the regime releases hundreds of...
‘THIS RESOLUTION OPENS THE DOOR OF WAR FOREVER’ –says Nabih Birri,...
LEBANESE Al-Manar Television on 6 August carried a live news conference given by Nabih Birri, Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies...
Victory to Iran! Smash imperialism now! – tens of thousands march...
TENS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched through central London from Millbank to the American Embassy in Vauxhall on Saturday afternoon in...
‘STOP EVICTIONS FROM THE HEYGATE ESTATE!’ – tenants anger grows
‘STOP evictions from Heygate estate!’ demanded a picket by Heygate tenants and the South-East London Council of Action, outside Southwark Town Hall last Wednesday...
‘You cannot have an improving school system whilst you are implementing...
‘YOU cannot have an improving school system whilst you are implementing austerity,’ said Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union on Monday. Commenting...
Israelis Destroy Al-Araqib Village
In the early hours of Tuesday morning Israeli Police demolished a whole Bedouin village in the Negev desert. Approximately 1,500 Israeli forces were involved including...
‘I’LL BE CALLING FOR MASS PICKETS WHEREVER SCABS COME AND TRY...
IN HIS speech to the GMB conference in Blackpool yesterday, the union’s general secretary Paul Kenny featured the union’s current dispute with Asda. He said:...
NO DEBATE ON ‘ACTION’ MOTION – at London Region Equity AGM
THE ACTORS’ union Equity is angry as Arts Council and local authority funding cuts lay waste to theatres and arts organisations across Britain and...
THOUSANDS LAY SIEGE TO THE CITY – and march against the...
SEVEN thousand mainly young people from London and across the country marched to demand the withdrawal of British and American troops from Iraq and...
Palestinians concerned over detainees and settler attacks
A CONCERNED Palestinian family has called on the Red Cross to obtain news of Hudhayfah Jarrar, 21, from Jenin, as Israeli occupation authorities have...
Hundreds demonstrate support for asylum seekers outside Britain’s first ‘refugee camp’!
LAST Saturday over 250 pro-asylum seekers protested outside a former military barracks housing asylum seekers near Folkestone, the first refugee camp in Britian, which...
Four Years Since Marikana Massacre!
LONMIN workers on Tuesday gathered at the Marikana koppie near Nkaneng informal settlement to pay tribute to their 34 colleagues who were gunned down...
Baghdad would have fallen without Iran’s Help – says Iranian ...
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that if it wasn’t for ‘Iran’s support (for Iraq) and presence’ in fighting the group calling...
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...
Children ‘rediscovering how to smile’ in bomb battered Mosul!
ON a classroom whiteboard in the battered city of Mosul the words ‘rediscovering how to smile’ outline the heartbreaking task of Iraqi teachers striving...
Fonseka To Be Court-Martialled
Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...
Israel Steps Up Jerusalem Demolitions
Israeli bulldozers demolished two Palestinian houses in the Ath-Thuri neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Al-Quds Centre for...
British Government Seeks To Hide Its ‘Torture Policy’
‘AFTER a full year, the British Government still refuses to reveal its “Torture Policy’’ – reneging on assurances that it would be published before...
Capitalism and democracy may well be parting company says SIPTU president...
THIS IS the text of a speech by SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, at the centenary commemoration of the founding of the Irish Neutrality League...
Defend Trent Park Campus–Defend Chase Farm say Middlesex University students
STUDENTS from Middlesex University declared yesterday that the only way to defend their threatened Trent Park Campus and their neighbouring local hospital, Chase Farm,...
Greek Civil Servants Fight 15,000 Sackings
GREEK civil servants staged a one-day strike in the Athens area last Friday against the coalition government’s plan to sack some 15,000 ministries workers...
Teachers Condemn Tory Sats Tests Debacle
TEACHERS’ unions united together this week in condemning the Tory SATs tests ‘debacle’, vividly reporting the harm they are doing to children and insisting...
Milltown Massacre ‘Could Have Been Prevented’
THIS year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations on Monday, March 17 were overshadowed by the 20th anniversaries of two of the most televised bloody massacres...
Freeze settlements – Abbas appeals to Bush
PALESTINIAN president Mahmud Abbas is set to meet US president George Bush in Washington this Thursday for an urgent summit. The Palestinians said this is...
2.3 million children in the UK are in poverty!
AROUND 2.3 million children in the UK are in child poverty, with that figure rising by a further 400,000 Labour said. The Tory coalition government...
Attacks on Iran’s civilian infrastructure are clear war crimes!
ATTACKS on civilian infrastructure and schools during the US military campaign against Iran constitute clear war crimes under the Geneva Conventions, an international law...
Hamas Warns Israel Against Al-Aqsa Mosque Violations
THE Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israeli authorities against violations at al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds, emphasising...
Coalition Privateers To ‘Liberate NHS’ Final Part
THE White Paper produced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government says that all NHS Trusts must become Foundation Trusts (FTs) within three years. There are...
Seven Unions Picket Cosatu House Against Numsa Expulsion!
THE leadership of seven Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) affiliates have congratulated their Gauteng branches for picketing outside Cosatu House last Friday...
Global strike for higher wages at McDonald’s
McDonald’s employees are planning a global strike next week. McDonald’s workers from New York, Chicago and Los Angeles will travel to eight countries on three...
35 years since Battle of Orgreave!
THOUSANDS of trade unionists and their families will today mark the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike 35th Anniversary at the Annual Orgreave Rally in Sheffield. June 18...
Algerian riot police invade court to attack judges!
Algerian riot police clashed with judges participating in a nationwide strike on Sunday in the north-western port city of Oran. The judges are pushing for...
1,000 at Parliament rally for Palestine
ON Monday night, a crowd of over a thousand gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to rally for Palestine and demand an end to...
‘Those who support Israeli aggression are partners in their crimes’ –...
Iranian armed forces have launched the tenth phase of Operation True Promise III by firing a barrage of missiles and drones toward the occupied...
‘TOGETHER WE WILL ACHIEVE IRISH UNITY,INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY’ – declares...
BY JOHN COULTER, Irish political journalist Irish republicans need to build a mass movement capable of attracting a wide range of people, one of Sinn...
Suspend Israeli football team! – AIAC
The Italian Football Coaches’ Association (AIAC) is pushing for Israel to be suspended from international competition over the war on Gaza. Ahead of Italy’s World...
Thousands march in Ontario for $15 minimum wage!
JUST nine days after the Ontario election, thousands flooded the streets outside the Ministry of Labour and marched to Queen’s Park on Saturday in...
G bay a ‘a US Gulag’ – Shaker Aamer tells ITV
As lawyers today present a motion to the US Federal Court demanding Shaker Aamer’s immediate release, he has given an exclusive interview to ITV...
COSATU cost-of-living protest in Gauteng
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members in Gauteng last Friday marched to the department of trade and industry to hand in a...
South African union NUMSA wins right to organise workers, while bosses...
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, NUMSA, and mining company, SASM, have vowed to fight it out in court as the company intends...
Orlando Disney unions battle against low wages
Disney unions in Orlando have filed a federal labour complaint against the theme park company for withholding $1,000 bonuses from unionised workers unless they...