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US police committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter...

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Police forces across the USA have committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter protesters, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, as it launched...

73 Years Since The Deir Yassin Massacre!

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DEIR Yassin is a Palestinian village situated on a hilltop, a short distance from the west of Jerusalem. If you try to find it...

Government Failed In Its Duty Of Care!

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The UK government ‘failed in its duty of care’ to doctors and the healthcare workforce in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, says the...

‘WE WILL DEFEAT THE ENEMIES’ – Gadaffi call to arms

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TRIPOLI – Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi on Thursday evening appealed to people in Tripoli to capture and kill the ‘rats, street by street, house...

INFLATION AND PAY CUTS ‘A PERFECT STORM’ – says ATL teachers...

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An overwhelming majority of teachers, lecturers and support staff have noticed a change for the worse to their living standards since the 2008 financial...

Recognise The State Of Palestine Now!

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Continued from lead story The first speaker at the London Rally for Palestine in Whitehall opposite Downing Street at the end of last...

Yemen Houthis Ready For US Invasion

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THE leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has warned that the US military is preparing the ground for an act of aggression against the...

Iran declares it knows where Netanyahu holds his meetings!

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A FORMER commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran knows where Benjamin Netanyahu convenes his meetings, a clear sign that the...

The Trade Unions Slam Tory Plans To Ban Strike Action And...

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THE TUC on Tuesday rubbished Cameron’s claim of good news in the economy and slammed Tory plans to outlaw strikes. It was commenting on the...

Thousands Of NHS Staff Being Transferred Into Outsourcing Firms Despite Carillion...

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THOUSANDS of NHS staff are being transferred by their own trusts into outsourcing firms, risking ‘dozens of Carillion-style meltdowns’ the union Unite has warned....

NHS White Paper means ‘rapid and drastic removal of care!’

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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has failed the first test of his promise to let GPs lead NHS reforms, doctors say. Lansley has backed plans to...

Russell Group’s ‘nightmare scenario’ will leave students with mortgage-style debt –warns...

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The University and College Union (UCU) on Monday warned that lifting the cap on tuition fees would be ‘the most regressive piece of...

Massive London marches call to kick out the Tories – Three...

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NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...

Lack of schools funding ‘is nothing short of scandalous’ says...

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A DEBATE was held in Westminster Hall on Monday, attended by MPs, teachers, headteachers, support staff and members of the public to discuss the...

Labour’s Social Care ‘Failing Older People’

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‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman, said on Wednesday. He...

IOPC reviewing destruction of Malkinson evidence

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THE IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct) has begun an investigation as a result of its review into the way Greater Manchester Police handled...

Six white Mississippi cops admit torturing two black men

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SIX white Mississippi police officers have pleaded guilty to state charges for torturing two black men in a racist assault in the United States. All...

MIGRANT WORKERS HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES – but is forced to move...

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THE 250 migrant workers, on hunger strike since last Tuesday in Athens, have been forced to abandon the University of Athens Law School hall...

US moving to dump Zelensky – says Russian intelligence chief

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‘SERIOUS people’ in high places in the West are now discussing options for replacing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with someone else, Russian Foreign Intelligence...

Seiu Launches Campaign For Healthcare And Trade Union Rights

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THE two-million-strong Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will today launch an ‘intensive’ campaign for healthcare and trade union rights for all workers in the...

‘IRAN SANCTIONS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION AGAINST ALL WORLD NATIONS’ says...

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The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivered a defiant speech in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Monday, 22nd April...

400 Birmingham binmen on all-out strike against £8,000 pay cut!

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BIRMINGHAM binworkers began indefinite strike action yesterday, Tuesday 11 March, determined to defeat the ‘commissioners’, who were handed control of the council by the...

PALESTINIAN YOUTH SHOT DEAD IN JENIN – during wide-scale Israeli forces...

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THE Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on Sunday the news about the Palestinian youth who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in Jenin...

Greek Phone-Tapping Storm

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A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...

Armed intruders infiltrate mines in South Africa AMCU demands

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THE SOUTH African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) says it is ‘wary of armed intruders accessing mines where its members work.’ AMCU has...

Croke Park Divisions Sharpen

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THE INMO, IMO, Unite, ASTI and the Civil Public and Services Union have recommended a ‘No’ vote to extending the Croke Park Agreement. The new...

‘WE WILL NOT LET CHASE FARM HOSPITAL CLOSE’ – message from...

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The North East London Council of Action held another successful picket of the Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, with passing cars tooting...

Consultants are fighting for the NHS – the working class must...

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YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...

‘This story involving chemical weapons is a pretext for direct military...

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ACCORDING to the Syrian president, Syria destroyed all its stocks of chemical weapons back in 2013, but the West was still using ‘fairy tales’...

Public sector pay rise will cost thousands of jobs!

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''OUT OF TOUCH’ Theresa May has left one million people ‘in limbo’, said the GMB on Tuesday, in response to the Tory announcement that...

‘OUR TIME HAS COME’ – Israel to double Golan settlements

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‘OUR TIME has come’ said Israeli Premier Naftali Bennett on Sunday adding that the Tel Aviv regime intends to double the number of illegal...

HUNGARY OPENS TRADE OFFICE IN JERUSALEM – Israeli troops teargas school...

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HUNGARY’S Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto last Tuesday opened a trade office in Jerusalem City, in the central occupied West Bank, that will have an...

Firm tied to notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation preparing up to fifteen...

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UG Solutions, a major United States military subcontractor that helped provide security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is intensifying recruitment amid indications that several...

RECRUITMENT CRISIS GRIPS GENERAL PRACTICE says BMA survey

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ALMOST nine out of ten GP (general practitioner) practices struggle to find locum cover, as the doctor shortage worsens across England. A new BMA (British...

70th anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre ‘There are no innocent people...

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ISRAELI Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday there were ‘no innocent people’ in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after ten days of protests and clashes...

Drop the extradition case! Free Assange! – answers demanded over destruction...

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From an article by Di Stefania Maurizi FOR the last six years, the Crown Prosecution Service have rejected all of our attempts to shed light...

Leon Trotsky’s CLASS AND ART – PART ONE Culture under the...

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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...

Israeli prisons aimed at torturing Palestinian detainees!

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Israeli prisons and detention centres, by their very design and structure, constitute a systematic framework inherently aimed at torturing and mistreating Palestinian prisoners and...

Israeli War Left Gaza Children Traumatised

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Young Palestinian chldren are still severely traumatised six months after the Israeli war on the impoverished Gaza Strip, charities warn. Fourteen-year-old Ghasan Matar won’t talk...

Japanese Foreign Minister Visits Al-Quds University!

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JAPANESE Foreign Minister Taro Kono pledged during a visit to Al-Quds University on Wednesday to work to strengthen the working relationship between the Palestinian...

Pflp Condemns Occupation ‘Onslaught’

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THE Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, last Sunday issued a statement headlined ‘PFLP condemns occupation onslaught against our people in Nablus and...

‘The solution is uprising’– say 120,000 Athens workers!

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CHANTING ‘It’s their crisis – the solution is uprising!’; ‘Down with the government and the troika of the EC-IMF-ECB. The time has come...

Numsa To ‘Swamp’ The Streets Of Durban In A Massive May...

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal (KzN) working closely with other like-minded and class orientated COSATU affiliates, will swamp the...

8 US SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ – while Britain is sending...

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EIGHT US soldiers have been killed across Iraq in the past four days, including three in roadside bombings Wednesday morning, the US military said. Two...

‘Stay put’ failed as soon as flammable cladding was installed FBU’S...

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FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack has issued the following statement, commenting on the testimony given to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry by...