Huber Ballesteros, Freed Colombian Trade Union Leader Addresses Tuc!
COLOMBIAN trade union leader, Huber Ballesteros, was finally able to address the TUC Congress in Brighton on Wednesday. Weeks before he was due to fly...
FRANCE: Biggest rallies in living memory
FRANCE’S small and mid-size towns have been at the forefront of the battle against President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform – in some places...
Riot Police Attack Huge Athens Demonstration
A HUGE march of over 100,000 workers and students held in Athens last Wednesday afternoon, as part of a 24-hour general strike, was viciously...
‘People need to realise what’s happening before it’s too late’ –...
‘PEOPLE need to realise what’s happening before it’s too late, we need a strike ballot now, straightaway!’ Bill Pulley, Unite member and professional electrician, was...
Defend the National Health Service! Stop Privatisation Bring down the...
By Anna Athow, Consultant Surgeon ‘WE HAVE reached crunch point, where the process of transition from one system to another is taking place.’ So said...
STRIKES, SIT-INS AND OCCUPATIONS IN EGYPT –as workers fight to scrap...
Between 1st January 2011 and 31 December 2011 there were 335 labour protests in Egypt, said a report issued by the Egyptian Ministry of...
Hezbollah Is Determined To Fight In Support Of Palestinians In The...
A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of...
Harvard University 3 weeks strike
CLASS struggle has erupted on the campus of one of the top universities in the United States of America, Harvard. Four hundred US students gathered...
Significant increase in Gaza malnutrition cases – UNRWA warns
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has issued a warning about a significant increase in malnutrition cases as Israel’s total blockade of the...
Thousands Of NHS Staff Being Transferred Into Outsourcing Firms Despite Carillion...
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....
Only 3,300 people released from Sri Lanka’s internment camps not 10,000!
Andrew Stroehlein, International Crisis Group’s Communications Director, has slammed the Sri Lankan regime’s ‘duplicity’ over the 240,000 Tamils being held in desperate conditions in...
AMERICA IS NO LONGER THE POWER IT WAS! says defiant Hezbollah...
EUROPEAN Union governments agreed on Monday to put the military wing of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on the EU terror list in a major...
Greek Seafarers Call 24-Hour Strike
The Federation of Greek Seafarers Trades Union PNO have called a 24-hour strike for 16 April on all ferries, passenger and cargo ships, against...
General Practice is already ‘stretched close to breaking point’ – ...
‘WE cannot continue to meet rising demand with falling investment, general practice is already stretched close to breaking point so we need to address...
150,000 Workers March Through Athens
Trade unionists estimated that some 150,000 workers and youth participated in the two separate marches in Athens on Thursday. The GSEE (Greek TUC) stated that...
Community Camp 4Palestine celebrates 2nd anniversary
A WELL attended 200-strong pro-Palestine Festival was held on Sunday to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal) opposite the...
IRAQ WAR: GOLDSMITH WARNED BLAIR HE EXPECTED ‘the government to be...
The Iraq Inquiry on Wednesday released details of former Attorney General Goldsmith’s legal advice, given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq,...
Special needs children are not getting the support they need!
CHILDREN and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need, according to eight-in-ten (83%) education staff. In...
‘NURSES ARE THE WORST PAID PUBLIC SECTOR PROFESSIONALS’ – RCN rejects...
Nurses are the worst paid professional group working in the public sector, according to new evidence from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) released...
Inquest Into The Death Of Jean Charles de Menezes Starts Monday
The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will begin next Monday 22nd September at 10am at the Oval Cricket Ground, The...
‘Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians is a cruel system of domination and...
‘ISRAELI authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians,’ Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a damning new report. The...
‘SYRIA IS OWNED BY THE SYRIANS’ –INSISTS PRESIDENT ASSAD –...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed in Damascus that Syria is owned by the Syrians and that the peace is two things. First, fighting terrorists...
‘GAZA IS OPEN FOR ALL’ – Hamas’ Haniya welcomes Fatah’s Sha’ath
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya welcomed Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Sha’ath into his home in the Ash-Shati Refugee Camp on Thursday, along with...
‘Deafening Silence’ Over Sri Lankan Massacres Condemned
THE ‘Elders’, an independent group of eminent global leaders, cautioned on Friday that ‘the international response to Sri Lanka’s worrying approach to human rights,...
Irish Nurses strike
IRISH nurses and midwives are taking strike action from next week, with two-hour rolling stoppages commencing on Thursday, 14th January. Members of the Irish Nurses...
Massive Arts Council Cuts Must Be Defeated!
MASSIVE Arts Council cuts were announced on Tuesday, hitting many superb professional theatre companies, opera companies, galleries and other arts bodies for six. But in...
A new aid flotilla to sail to Gaza – four years...
FOUR years after the Israeli military assault on the Mavi Marmara, Turkish relatives of victims express their willingness to join the new aid flotilla...
Palestinian women prisoners launch action in support of hunger strikers
MANY HUNDREDS of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners entered the third day of the ‘Freedom and Dignity’ hunger strike on Wednesday, with imprisoned Palestinian women launching...
‘SAVE THE MAUDSLEY!’ – demand hundreds of angry demonstrators at Peckham...
OVER 200 local residents, hospital workers, pensioners, community workers, trade unionists and others opposed to the closure of the Maudsley Hospital Emergency Clinic staged...
President Assad visits ‘tunnel of death’
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma have visited one of the ‘tunnels of death’ which were dug by terrorists in Jobar neighbourhood, but...
General strike to support Junior Doctors and save NHS!
JUNIOR Doctors start their continuous four-day 96-hour strike at 06.59 today, Tuesday 11 April, and end it at 06.59 on Saturday 15 April. Backed by...
GOVE MUST GO! – call a general strike! say angry teachers
‘GOVE must go!’ shouted angry striking teachers on a 15,000-strong march through central London to rally in Westminster on Thursday. They were taking part in...
SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT ‘GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES’ – says Dublin tribunal
TAMILNET reports that the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University together with the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka are...
‘British workers should take action in support of Bani Walid!’
OVER a hundred Libyans living in Britain demonstrated outside Downing Street on Wednesday demanding that the bloody assault on Bani Walid be stopped. One of...
June 6–fourteenth national pension strike in France – as German food...
TUESDAY June 6 is scheduled, at the call of the national inter-union, which will be the fourteenth day of national strike in France against...
Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails are suffering unbearable imprisonment conditions...
THE Palestinian Authority’s Detained and Ex-Detainees Commission has said that the Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison of Etzion, near Bethlehem city in...
‘WE WILL DEFEAT THE ENEMIES’ – Gadaffi call to arms
TRIPOLI – Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi on Thursday evening appealed to people in Tripoli to capture and kill the ‘rats, street by street, house...
Yemen Tanks shell protesters
Yemeni protesters kept up the heat on President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday as fresh clashes raged in the flashpoint city of Taiz, and...
Egyptian Media Workers Strike!
WORKERS on 12 Egyptian newspapers and five TV channels have gone on strike for a day this week against the recently issued constitutional declaration...
Israel used ‘assassination tactic’ against 3 Palestinian youth
A NEW investigation has revealed that Israel used an assassination tactic, not seen in the occupied West Bank for more than 15 years, in...
‘A scar on the conscience of Britain’
THE fact that 40 per cent of disabled children are living in poverty is ‘a scar on the conscience of Britain’, says Unite, the...
AN ISRAELI INVASION OF THE GAZA STRIP ‘IS JUST A STONE’S...
HAMAS’ Yahya Musa, a deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council declared yesterday that an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip was discussed behind the...
Dubai Police Seek The Arrest Of Netanyahu
Israeli officials remained silent in the wake of a Dubai police decision to seek the arrest of the Israeli prime minister and the head...
‘Israelis opened fire and assaulted the Freedom Flotilla!’ say freed humanitarian...
Knesset Member Hanin Zoabi, who was on board the Marmara ship when it was raided by Navy fighters, held a press conference in Nazareth...
Syrian People Stand Fast Against Western-Backed Terrorists
SYRIAN authorities on Monday clashed with an armed terrorist group in al-Zyara area in Idleb, state news agency SANA reported. A source at the Province...