Israeli Raids And Evictions Continuing In The Occupied Territories
ISRAELI forces detained at least 14 Palestinians during raids in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem before dawn on Wednesday, with one family...
Numsa Set To Call National Strike!
140,000 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members are on the verge of a national strike, which will bring the engineering sector...
NUMSA to march on President Ramaphosa’s office
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will march on Wednesday, April 19th to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office to protest against security...
Pro-Palestine rallies round the world
THOUSANDS of people in countries across the world have held pro-Palestinian rallies condemning the Israeli regime’s savagery against Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza...
Damning Report On Deaths In Police Custody
INQUEST has launched a damning new report exposing the fact that after an inquest into a death in police custody, there is no mechanism...
STRIKE DOWN ANTI-WORKER LAWS – Demand American trade unions
THE battles against anti-worker laws across the United States have turned to the ballot boxes and courtrooms, says the AFL-CIO union federation. As voters go...
‘Starmer has a legal duty to stop the Gaza genocide’ says...
Greta Thunberg has said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is legally obliged to stop the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. ‘Starmer has...
Union leaders are shocked by jobless figures!
Trade union leaders have been shocked by the latest jobless figures which saw a leap in part-time working and female and youth unemployment. Commenting on...
Over 100 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2022
A Palestinian human rights group says Israeli military forces have killed more than one hundred Palestinians, and wounded hundreds more during raids and various...
CEASEFIRE NOW! – Halt the massacre of the Palestinian and Lebanese...
‘MY TOWN has been demolished. Children are still under rubble. Families are still under rubble,’ said Najid Faqih, from Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, as...
One Day Under The US/UK Occupation
BETWEEN 1300 and 2000 gmt on Sunday 14 May, Baghdad Al-Sharqiyah Television in Arabic reported on ‘a new setback’ in the security situation...
‘This strike will persist until justice is served!’ 2,000 Kenya postal...
The Communication Workers Union (COWU) in Kenya has held a national strike, on Monday 27 October, stopping all operations at the Postal Corporation of...
No forced academies – demand teachers unions
THE National Union of teachers (NUT) is utterly opposed to the government’s plan to convert all schools to academies, ending democratic accountability in England’s...
Washington Fears ‘Ukraine Fatigue’ While Nato Chief Calls It A ‘War...
THE US administration of Joe Biden is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal...
Vote ‘NO!’ to NHS pay offer! – 6.5% increase over 3...
A CONSULTATION of NHS workers was launched at the Unison health conference in Brighton on Monday on the new ‘pay deal’. Unison members...
Specialist nurse numbers drop by 40%!
‘The nursing shortage in England is harming some of the most vulnerable members of society,’ a senior nurse and Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...
Bush Threatens War Throughout The Middle East
In his Utah speech to army veterans last Thursday, US President Bush threatened Iran with ‘consequences’, adding that the US will step up its...
Haniya Meets Euro-Med Human Rights Commission
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya met a delegation from the Euro-Med Human Rights Committee at his office in Gaza last Saturday....
Fourth week of South African miners pay strike
THE Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (Amcu) yesterday served notice of its intention to strike from Wednesday at the facilities of Sibanye Gold...
An inflation-busting pay rise is needed to keep key NHS staff...
FOUR out of five NHS staff say pay is the main reason they would quit their jobs. An exclusive poll of NHS staff yesterday revealed...
Myanmar Miners – 5 Months On Strike!
Since MYANMAR’S military coup in February this year, 4,800 miners have been on strike in Monywa township in a solid five-month action which has...
‘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...
‘KIDNAPPING, DETENTION TORTURE AND EXECUTIONS’ –by Syrian opposition groups, reports Human...
‘Armed opposition elements have carried out serious human rights abuses,’ Human Rights Watch said last week in a little-publicised public letter to the Syrian...
30,000 in Trafalgar Square demand ‘Palestine Ceasefire Now!’
THE ‘National Day of Action Ceasefire NOW’ organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) on Saturday saw powerful rallies in towns and cities across...
US Supreme Court Victory for ‘Dreamers’
A US FEDERAL judge has rejected the limitations imposed by the Trump administration on a programme protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants – often...
20,000 Tamil Civilians Massacred
TAMILNET reports that evidence gathered by The Times newspaper has revealed that at least 20,000 Tamil people were killed on the Mullaitivu beach by...
UCU To Ballot For Nationwide Industrial Action
UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU has warned of ‘chaos on campus’ as a nationwide strike is looming in response to a full frontal attack on...
KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN – as an acute District General Hospital
THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) has endorsed proposals to close Chase Farm Hospital as an acute District General Hospital (DGH). This is in order that...
Only 400 Attend Rajapakse’s Jaffna Rally
PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapakse was displeased with the tiny crowd that was assembled to ‘greet the leader’ at his election rally in Jaffna on Wednesday,...
Trump denounced as ‘traitor’ by far-right extremists in US
FAR-RIGHT extremists are reportedly furious with Donald Trump, calling him a ‘traitor’ and a ‘coward’, after the outgoing president pleaded for calm following his...
1.4 million on zero-hours slave labour!
NEW figures released on Wednesday show that at least 1.4 million workers in Britain are enduring the modern day form of slave labour exploitation...
Wal-Mart’s ‘Vicious Anti-Union Activities’ Exposed
THE AFL-CIO American trade union confederation has congratulated Human Rights Watch for its May Day report exposing the ‘vicious anti-union’ activities of retailing giant...
14,000 Uber And Lyft Drivers Join The Atu Trade Union In...
NEARLY 14,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in New York have signed up to join the local branch of the Amalgamated Transit Union, according to...
Carter Warns Against War With Iran
EX-US President Carter has decried his nation’s involvement in unjust conflicts and wishes the US could be seen as a champion of peace. Former US...
US and EU prepare for direct armed conflict with Russia
US REPRESENTATIVES have launched a campaign in the Philippines to recruit local citizens to fight on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces, Russian...
‘WE ARE TREATED LIKE PIECES OF COAL’ – Colombian miners tell...
On an AFL-CIO Solidarity Center-sponsored exchange visit, Florida AFL-CIO Vice-President Mike Williams learned about Colombian workers’ constant struggle for social and economic justice – and...
64 Palestinians wounded protesting against the desecration of Joseph’s Tomb!
HAMAS, the resistance movement, says Palestinians should keep up the ‘armed resistance’ against Israeli occupation in the West Bank, after one of the regime’s...
LOW WAGES WILL LEAD TO SOCIAL AND RACIAL TENSIONS – Irish...
THE Irish trade union movement has been discussing the dangers that a low rate minimum wage, if not corrected, will lead to it being...
CWU pickets demand the TUC calls a general strike – as...
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) took strike action on Friday and Saturday and explained the reasons for doing so. In a letter to all its...
Myanmar Issues 360 Arrest Warrants For Health Workers
The military regime in Myanmar has issued 360 arrest warrants for health workers and charged them under Section 505 of the Penal Code, sentencing...
‘HISTORY WILL JUDGE BRITAIN FOR ITS FAILURE TO SUPPORT THE...
‘BRITAIN will be judged by history for its failure to support the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday. ‘For how...
US seeking to strangle Cuba
CUBA has directed international airlines to suspend refueling operations on the island for one month following US measures that have disrupted essential oil supplies,...
‘I WILL NOT END MY LIFE WITH A BETRAYAL’ President Abbas...
IN A speech last Wednesday to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Palestinian President Abbas declared: ‘I want to achieve something for my country and I...
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...
‘WE NEED TO UNITE WITH OTHER PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS’ – hundreds...
Up to a quarter of a million civil servants were out on strike on Wednesday, expressing their anger at the threat to thousands of...