‘We call for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction’...
THE Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinezhad has said that Iran wishes to have talks with the West on a whole range of issues. He was speaking...
Israel refuses to apologise for Freedom Flotilla massacre
ISRAEL has rejected a US request to apologise to Turkey over its 2010 commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine Turkish...
‘We Have To Take The Fight To The Government – Bring...
AFTER the successful lobby of the TUC in Brighton on Sunday, the Young Socialists held a meeting at 5.00pm of 100 youth and workers...
Over 100 Iraqis Killed As The Masses Revolt Against Corrupt Government!
At least four protesters were killed and scores injured in clashes with security forces in Baghdad on Saturday as demonstrations seriously escalated. Three of the...
Tamil Nadu March Condemns Assassination Of S P Tamilchelvan
TAMIL NADU state police on the Indian mainland have swooped on Tamil nationalist leaders reports TamilNet. Tamil Nadu police arrested Pazha Nedumaaran,...
‘We are staring the death of justice in the face’ –Barristers...
OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...
Dozens Of Palestinians Wounded In Clashes With Israeli Troops
DOZENS of Palestinian worshipers were wounded and dozens were detained after clashes broke in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning with Israeli forces...
Major Strike Action Erupting In Usa
SOME major strike actions are taking place in the USA. In Tucson, Arizona the collective bargaining agreement covering more than 530 Teamster represented employees of...
48 SOUTH AFRICAN FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS ARE SUSPENDED! – after working...
THE SOUTH African City of Ekurhuleni on Monday suspended 48 female firefighters after they protested about their working conditions and the non-payment of shift...
Top World Health Organisation Official Is Extremely Worried About Polio &...
A TOP World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday that he’s ‘extremely worried’ about polio and other outbreaks of communicable diseases in Gaza...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lands in Australia
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange landed in Australia Wednesday morning, after walking free from a US court in Saipan. He hugged his wife and father at...
Visteon Occupiers Launch Irish Film Festival
A DELEGATION of workers who have been occupying the Visteon auto parts plant in Belfast for the last month have been invited to help...
Student nurse numbers declining! –10,000 off target by 2025! – says...
STUDENT nurse numbers are declining to the extent that the official NHS workforce plan for England will be over 10,000 off target by 2025,...
Afl-Cio Condemns Bush Trade Deal With Colombia
US trade union federation AFL-CIO last Saturday condemned the Bush administration for seeking a free trade deal with Colombia, the most dangerous country in...
Assange calls for US politicians like Palin to be prosecuted!
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has called for US politicians and commentators who engage in violent rhetoric to be prosecuted, after the attempted assassination of...
Trade union members beaten by thugs in Bangladesh confectionary factory
THUGS, allegedly supplied by a labour contractor at Netherlands-based global confectioner Perfetti Van Melle’s factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, launched an organised attack on union...
‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian victim that the Israeli...
EXECUTIVE Director of Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, Hagai El-Ad, has slammed the Israeli government’s record saying: ‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian...
Zionist witch-hunt costs Octavia Nasr her CNN job
CNN’s decision to fire a veteran Mideast editor over a Twitter message mourning the death of the Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is...
Forced Academies – ‘This Is A Huge Government Climbdown!’ Says Nut
‘THIS is a huge government climb-down and is a testament to the campaigning of teachers and parents,’ Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the...
Qatar Student Sues Rumsfeld Over Inhuman Detention
A lawsuit filed last Tuesday against US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges...
LEBANON AGREES NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT – ‘issue of Hezbollah weapons’ postponed
Qatar formally announced on Wednesday a deal between Lebanon’s opposition and ruling bloc to end an 18-month political crisis that will see Army commander...
Drive To Recover Stolen Syrian Antiquities!
SYRIA’S Head of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, Mahmoud Hamoud, said that the Directorate is filing a file for stolen antiquities to...
Islamic Jihad slams hostile US statements
THE statements by American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her visits to Tel Aviv and Ramallah are ‘aggressive and anti-Palestinian’, the Palestinian resistance...
Return to public sector all services outsourced under PFI! says Public...
VITAL public services such as schools and hospitals face serious disruptions should government fail to prepare for the expiry of its 700 PFI contracts,...
‘PEOPLE’S OIL IS NOT FOR THIEVES!’ says Committee for the Defence...
CHANTING ‘People’s oil for the people not for the thieves!’ hundreds of workers protested against the South Oil Company in Iraq on 19 February...
STRIKE IS SOLID! – ‘We need the rest of the public...
YESTERDAY’s 24 hour strike of CWU postal workers was 100 per cent, and massively powerful. Everywhere pickets told News Line that what they wanted...
OPPOSITION LEADERS ARRESTED IN BAHRAIN CRACKDOWN – as Tunisians protest against...
THE Bahraini ruling class has arrested opposition leaders on charges including contact with foreign states and calling for the fall of the regime, said...
‘No National Elections Without A Unity Agreement And The Release Of...
No national elections will be held without a unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah and the release of political prisoners from West Bank jails,...
Fe Lecturers Across Scotland To Begin A Series Of Strike Actions!
LECTURERS at further education colleges across Scotland are to begin an indefinite series of strikes, taking three days of strike action every single week...
‘A real blow is being prepared’ for public services in France...
‘BUDGET 2025: an austerity plan that doesn’t say its name!’ declared French trade union federation Force Ouvrière (FO) on Tuesday. A FO press statement said:...
Destruction of Palestinian homes is intensifying!
The destruction of Palestinian residences by Israel in the West Bank is intensifying at an alarming rate. In the period following 7 October, Israeli forces...
1,383 US medics demand deportations stop!
1,383 MEDICAL professionals last Friday demanded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) end the Title 42 border expulsions order that has...
Act against unbridled Israeli regime and end its horrible crimes –...
IRAN has urged the international community to act against the ‘unbridled’ Israeli regime and stop its ‘horrible crimes’ committed with impunity against the oppressed...
New Egyptian Protest Law Will Be Used To Ban Demonstrations And...
THE DRAFT Protest Law to regulate the right to peaceful assembly, issued by Egyptian Interim President Adly Mansour on Sunday, has been widely criticised...
US Department of Defence doctors concealed evidence of torture at Guantanamo...
DOCTORS, psychologists and behavioural consultants working with the US Department of Defence-CIA have concealed evidence of torture. Hippocratic or hypocritical oath? US Department of Defence doctors...
25 YEARS SINCE THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE – Part 1: Eddie Shah,...
‘THAT courage is required for a turnout, often indeed much loftier courage, much bolder, firmer determination than for an insurrection, is self-evident.’ ‘It is,...
NASUWT Teachers Conference – Pay and pensions high on agenda
TEACHERS from across the UK will be gathering in Birmingham at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT teachers’ union over the Easter weekend to...
Afl-Cio Leader Trumka Quits Trump’s Manufacturing Council
ON SUNDAY August 13th AFL–CIO leader Richard Trumka made his initial statement on the Charlottesville clashes between neo-Nazis supported by the Ku Klux Klan...
Amazon strike on Spain’s Three Kings gift-giving day
WORKERS at Amazon’s biggest warehouse in Spain began a two-day strike in Madrid last week – just ahead of a popular feast day –...
Unison Leadership Censured Over Pay Retreat
MOTIONS censuring the union’s leadership are being discussed at the Unison Health Care Service Group Annual Conference being held in Glasgow on 22 –...
London Bus Privateers Must Stop ‘Race To The Bottom’ Or Face...
UNLESS London bus privateers stop the ‘race to the bottom’ and cease their onslaught on working conditions all-out strike action will swiftly ensue, Unite...
20,000 Nursing Vacancies – A Serious Threat To The NHS!
The RCN has launched a report which reveals there are nearly 20,000 nursing vacancies currently unfilled in England; a ‘hidden workforce crisis’ that could...
Thirty Palestinian Prisoners Join Shalabi Hunger Strike
The head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society announced last Monday that thirty Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike of Palestinian heroine Hana Shalabi. Palestinian...
Anti-war protest at US embassy – Syrians not allowed a speaker
A rally of over 300 people was organised outside the US embassy in London on Saturday, against Western intervention in Iran and Syria. The protest...
Trumpcare ‘Sabotages Healthcare System’
AMERICAN Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s decision to end...