TUC backs September 20 global school strike – workers vote to...
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) has backed the global school strike on 20 September and pledged to support the efforts of school youth striking...
NHS: all-year-round crisis!
THE NHS is in ‘all-year-round crisis’, Dr Rob Harwood, BMA consultants committee chair, said on Thursday. He was responding to new figures A&E attendances...
Greek Farmers Join The Revolutionary Masses
Over 8,000 tractors and tens of thousands of small farmers have occupied sections of motorways and national roads in central and northern Greece, setting...
United Autoworkers Union strike authorisation vote this week!
The UAW (United Autoworkers Union) which represents over 48,000 graduate student workers in the University of California system, will hold a strike authorisation vote...
EXILED LEADERS RETURN TO TUNISIA – following the overthrow of Ben...
After more than 20 years in exile, Tunisian Ennahda movement leader Rached Ghannouchi returned from London on Sunday, with thousands of supporters greeting him. Ghannouchi...
Eu ‘Harbours Serious Concerns’ Over Sri Lanka’s Rights Abuses
The European Union (EU) has expressed serious concern over Sri Lanka’s rights abuses, TamilNet reported yesterday. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the EU...
Striking South African social workers barricade
STRIKING South African social workers have barricaded the entrances to care centres and are vowing not to leave until their demands – an immediate...
ISRAEL-PALESTINE TALKS TO BEGIN WITHIN ‘A WEEK OR SO’ says...
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry said on Friday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet in Washington within ‘the next week or so’...
‘WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAY HERE FOR OUR PEOPLE’ –Thousands of...
‘Gordon Brown is supporting Rajapakse and his genocide and murder of the Tamil people’, Loganathan said outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday, where...
CGT calls for ‘day of mobilisation’
FRENCH trade union federation CGT has called for September 29 to be a ‘day of mobilisation and interprofessional strikes’ over unemployment. The CGT stated that...
Thousands Pay Last Respects To Prabhakaran’s Father
THOUSANDS of people, including men, women and children paid their last respects on Saturday to the remains of the late Thiruvengadam Vellupillai, father...
‘Compel Israel to comply with ceasefire agreement’ – Hamas call
PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has called on international mediators to take effective and concrete steps to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under...
US Teachers Defy Strike Ban
US school teachers are on strike in Washington state, defying a strike ban. Pasco Association of Educators have been on strike for two weeks. The...
Brutally beaten Palestinian-American teen under house arrest!
AN Israeli court on Sunday placed under house arrest a Palestinian-American teenager who was filmed being brutally beaten by police during clashes in Jerusalem. Tarek...
‘NATO Expansionism Left Putin No Option But To Launch Military Action...
A Moscow-based American political analyst says NATO’s expansionist policy and its disregard for Russia’s security concerns left President Vladimir Putin with no option but...
FORWARD TO A SOCIALIST REPUBLIC! – urge French youth
OVER half a million high school youth, unemployed youth, university students and workers demonstrated across France on Thursday, March 16. Millions of workers...
Stop US Drone Strikes On Yemen
A YEMENI family whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike have appealed to a German court to ensure that a US base...
LEGAL AID BEING DESTROYED – Lawyers rally to defend ‘vital pillar...
LAWYERS have vowed to fight government plans that they warn will destroy the legal aid system. Hundreds of lawyers staged a mass lobby outside...
Gaza siege ‘creates an atmosphere of escalation and explosion’ says...
THE PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas says the Israeli regime must be held fully accountable for any consequences of tightening the years-long all-out siege on...
200,000 PALESTINIANS RALLY FOR HAMAS 21st ANNIVERSARY
Over 200,000 flag-waving Palestinians attended a mass rally in Gaza on Sunday marking the 21st anniversary of the founding of the Hamas movement. Addressing the...
Cosatu Gives Its Fullest Support To Numsa Strikers
ZWELINZIMA Vavi, General Secretary of COSATU, addressed the FAWU (Food and Allied Workers Union) Eastern Cape Regional Congress last Friday. He said: ‘We meet at...
‘I Can’t Breathe’: Race, Death and British Policing
BLACK men are seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism is not being addressed, the charity Inquest has found. Families of...
JORDAN PROTESTS AGAINST RISING PRICES – cooking gas up...
JORDAN announced on Tuesday it would raise fuel prices, including a 53 per cent hike on cooking gas, sparking nationwide protests in which two...
Thousands join Cuba’s ‘March of the Fighting People’
On Friday, thousands of Cubans joined the ‘March of the Fighting People’ to honour 32 Cuban soldiers who were killed during a US military...
Israel’s ‘nightmare of collapse’ coming to life – says Iranian ...
CHIEF of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, says the ‘glorious’ Palestinian military operation in the occupied territories has made...
NHS White Paper – ‘No Democratic Mandate!’ Says Unison!
The NHS white paper, which heralds the rapid privatisation of the health service, has no democratic mandate from the public, Unite said on Monday. Unite...
‘Syria owned by the Syrians’ insists President Assad – Part two
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed in Damascus that Syria is owned by the Syrians and that the peace is two things. First, fighting terrorists...
End the brutal blockade of Cuba! – UN votes 65-7 in favour!
On Friday, China urged the United States to ‘heed the call of the international community’, by lifting its blockade and sanctions against Cuba ‘immediately’,...
‘We will continue to fight Macron by all means’ – Force...
FRENCH trade unions are continuing their fight against the Macron government’s increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 which was forced through...
Palestinian Prisoners Day protests in the West Bank and Gaza
THE Israeli army announced Saturday that the West Bank will be sealed off from midnight until Tuesday, ahead of Israeli Independence Day. A statement from...
Essex FBU strike ballot launched
Ballot papers are going out to Essex fire crews this week in a strike vote over unnecessary frontline cuts and changes imposed without agreement. The...
Palestinian prisoners mobilise against Israeli repressions!
Palestinian political prisoners currently being held in Israeli detention have declared a state of general mobilisation against a new series of repressive measures by...
France Telecom ‘Modernisation’ Led To 19 Suicides
‘A LONG-AWAITED trial began on Monday in Paris, accusing telecom giant Orange and seven former or current managers of moral harassment and related charges,’...
Refugees’ Suffering Worse Under ‘War On Terror’
The Bush/Blair ‘war on terror’ has made conditions for asylum-seekers tougher in many countries, the UN refugee agency has warned. Speaking on World Refugee...
‘HUGELY CONCERNING’ CARE HOMES CRISIS – RCN and GMB issue dire...
Care homes are increasingly struggling to provide high quality care for residents with complex medical conditions, amid a backdrop of a severe lack of...
GM Latin American workers meet in Sao Paulo!
WORKERS from General Motors plants across Latin America met in São Paulo, Brazil, last week to discuss and take action against workforce casualisation within...
South African unions reject ANC budget and IMF; ‘Divorced from...
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Wednesday rejected the budget of the ANC led coalition for a second time. SAFTU stated: ‘SAFTU...
Cardiff University intends to slash and burn 400 full-time jobs and...
CARDIFF University has announced that it intends to cut 400 full-time jobs, along with whole course closures and department mergers; with nursing, music and...
Break The Siege Of Gaza Now!
ISRAELI authorities on Sunday morning opened the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing in the southeastern Gaza Strip after it was closed for three days over...
Dunnes young anti-apartheid strikers honoured
A PLAQUE in honour of those who took part in the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike was laid on Henry Street in Dublin on Monday,...
Israel steps up detentions of Palestinians and bulldozing of land
THE Israeli army detained 340 Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip during the month of May, including 25 minors...
Chronic understaffing in the health service!
ALMOST half of NHS workers on the front line of patient care say there are not enough staff on their shift to ensure patients...
MASSIVE UCU ACTION! – in defence of pensions
TONY Brown, University and College Union (UCU) president at University College London (UCL), told News Line on the Gower Street picket line yesterday morning:...
‘THIS RESISTANCE HAS MADE THE OCCUPIERS TASTE BITTER DEFEAT’ – Statement...
THE Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) has addressed an open message to the Iraqi people on the fourth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq,...
‘There was no lawful justification for my son’s killing by the...
THE report of the inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney was published on Friday. Azelle Rodney was 24 when he died on 30 April...