Irish Teachers Set For Strike Action
SCHOOLTEACHERS in Ireland are set to strike over a number of issues, including the 10% pay cut that has affected as many as...
Reverse NW London hospital closure plan – RE-OPEN MATERNITY AT EALING...
THE ‘deeply flawed’ decision to downgrade North West London hospitals must be halted, according to a report by Michael Mansfield QC. It warns that the...
1.2 million French workers take to the streets
‘DESPITE the measures taken by the government to try to support the idea that ‘the page on retirement’ is turned, over 1.2 million workers...
Washington’s behaviour risks ‘direct conflict’ – warns Russian embassy in US
THE Russian embassy in the United States has warned that Washington’s behaviour on the world stage risks direct conflict between the nuclear states. This comes...
Major Syrian clean-up op – US and Israeli weapons found
SYRIAN government forces have carried out a major mopping-up operation in the country’s southwestern province of Rif Dimashq, and have discovered a considerable amount...
‘WE DO NOT OBJECT TO A LONG-TERM TRUCE WITH YOU’– ...
‘My message to you is about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the way to end it. I had not intended to speak...
Pro-US Haftar Mobilising Against Libyan Islamists
PREPARATION is underway for a ‘decisive’ battle, to storm the city of Benghazi and expel the Islamist militias, by pro-US forces led by Major-General...
Israeli forces raid Bethlehem arresting Hamas lawmakers!
ISRAELI state forces raided Bethlehem on Tuesday night, detaining Hamas members and Palestinian lawmakers, locals said on Wednesday. Witnesses said that Israeli forces arrested Khalid...
Israel imposing illegal collective punishments in West Bank
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) escalated their policy of collective punishment last Friday, issuing demolition orders in al-Khalil and forcing a Palestinian resident in occupied...
Greek Teachers And Doctors Strike Against Closures
Some 4,000 primary and secondary school teachers, from both state and private schools, plus state hospital doctors, short-contract workers of the Athens municipality, university...
Lebanese Camps Exact Toll On Over 400,000 Palestinians
NEW research published in The Lancet has uncovered the hidden health toll that refugee life in Lebanon has taken on more than 400,000 Palestinians. The...
Iran calls for emergency meeting over Israel’s planned attack on Rafah
IRAN has called for an emergency meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) amid the dire humanitarian...
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...
Palestinians Condemn Israeli ‘State Terrorism’ And War Crimes
President Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday condemned the ongoing Israeli air strikes in Palestinian civilian areas as ‘state terrorism’. The attacks claimed the lives of three...
Ramaphosa ‘enemy of working class’ – NUMSA
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has rejected and expressed disgust at the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions’ (COSATU) endorsement...
‘If you bomb Beirut the Islamic Resistance will bomb Tel Aviv’...
THE Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaking on military operations, and political developments over Al Manar TV on August 3 noted that the fourth...
Presidents back US trade unionists
Three presidents – Lula da Silva of Brazil, Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain and Nestor Kirchner of Argentina – cancelled an appearance scheduled for...
May Day meeting ‘Forward to the World October!’
‘WE WERE marching with our banner “100 years of the Russian Revolution, for the World October”,’ WRP candidate for Hackney South Jonty Leff told...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘The aim of the...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction by MOISSAYE J OLGIN THIS is an essay of triumph. Written on January 20, 1905,...
Put Iran First Says Iranian Newspaper
A FOREIGN Ministry spokesman said in Tehran last Sunday that the allegations being made by US General David Petraeus were baseless. Petraeus said...
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...
New South African Trade Union Federation formed!
THE LEADERS of a new trade union federation as an alternative to the Congress for South African Trade Unions (COSATU) have targeted the last...
Amazon ‘illegally interfered in Alabama’s union vote’ alleges RWDSU
THE UNITED States’ Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is to file charges against Amazon on the grounds that they illegally interfered in...
MEDICAL STUDENTS WILL BE FACING £100,000 DEBTS says BMA
Doctors’ leaders on Tuesday warned the government that increasing tuition fees could result in medical students facing a debt bill of potentially £100,000 –...
‘FULL CLEARANCE OF DALE FARM IS NOT ENFORCEABLE’ – say campaigners...
MONDAY saw the conclusion of one of the two legal processes challenging Basildon Council’s planned eviction of the Dale Farm community. ‘The case, which halted...
70,000-strong App Drivers Union wins recognition in Massachusetts
The App Drivers Union (ADU) said on Monday that they have been recognised by the US state of Massachusetts, making it the first certified...
Dr Marwan al Sultan targeted & killed by Israeli air strike
Dr Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, was killed on Wednesday when an Israeli airstrike targeted his home near the...
Deaths and injuries continue in Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards
WORKERS’ lives continue to be in danger due to the unsafe working conditions at Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards. Two accidents occurred on 12 January in two...
Ukrainian miners from Donetsk, Lviv Lugansk and Volyn protest in Kiev
ON TUESDAY, 10 July, miners from Donetsk, Lugansk, Volyn, and Lviv regions held a protest in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. Since 6th July miners...
‘ACT QUICKLY TO BUILD MORE COUNCIL HOMES’ – MPs urge Beckett
A delegation of members of the Council Housing group of MPs at Westminster met with Housing Minister Margaret Beckett last Wednesday, February 4th, to...
‘Aggression will be confronted with the strongest and most crushing...
A SPOKESMAN for Iran’s armed forces has threatened a ‘crushing response’ against any US aggression and allies who host American troops. ‘Any place and any...
NHS & MATERNITY SERVICES HEADING FOR CRISIS – says Royal College...
‘WE have an NHS and maternity service that is heading for a crisis and the government’s policies are clearly failing,’ the leader of the...
Safety in custody – prisons in chaos – urgent intervention...
PRISON Officers’ Association (POA) has again this week urged Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland MP, ‘urgently to intervene in order to protect...
The Lfb Is Failing To Meet Response Targets After 10 Fire...
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is failing to meet response time targets to more than half of all emergencies in the areas where ten...
NEU is to carry out national strike ballots of 300,000 teachers...
‘TODAY the National Education Union is writing to employers with notification of our intention to carry out national ballots of around 300,000 teacher and...
Labour authorises export of over 8,600 munitions to Israel for use...
DESPITE public commitments to halt arms shipments that could be used in Gaza, the Labour government has authorised the export of over 8,600 munitions...
Israel defeated and can’t restore its ‘myth of invincibility through acts...
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran has declared that Israel has been defeated in its ‘genocidal war’ on the Gaza Strip and cannot restore its...
‘We are ready to starve but will not be ready… to...
MAHMOUD Aloul, deputy chairman of Fatah movement, said on Tuesday that the Palestinian people will not allow the humanitarian situation in Gaza to override...
Secondary teacher recruitment crisis Teacher trainee census 2018-19
‘WE are at a crisis in secondary teacher recruitment,’ said Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, commenting on the...
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance slams Saudi refusal to renew ceasefire
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has slammed the Saudi-led coalition for failing to renew the UN-brokered truce deal and deteriorating the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART FOUR ‘Trying to reconcile...
THE TUC National Congress held in Brighton during the first week of September 1984 was dominated by the miners’ strike. Miners from the Cortenwood pit...
‘UN ‘deeply Concerned’ About Gaza Healthcare
THE United Nations on Wednesday said it was ‘deeply concerned’ about the deterioration of the health care system in the Gaza Strip due to...
Palestinian fishermen attacked by Israeli naval troops off Gaza coast!
A PALESTINIAN fisherman was injured and detained along with four others by Israeli naval troops who attacked them on Tuesday off the coast of...
‘Brutal impact of Covid-19 on our healthcare services has been laid...
NHS STATISTICS highlight the ‘brutal impact’ of Covid-19 on healthcare services and patient care, doctor’s union the BMA said. Responding to the latest NHS performance...
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...