SOUTH EAST LONDON HOSPITALS ‘SERVICE RECONFIGURATION’ – a closure and privatisation...
A ‘service reconfiguration’ for Outer South East London Service is being proposed. Outer South East London comprises the boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley....
UCU strike ballot against vicious assault on members pensions
‘UCU (University and College Union) will be calling sustained strike action aimed at massively disrupting lectures, classes and the administrative life of your institution...
‘Re-colonisation of Africa will never be allowed’ – says ANC Youth...
NATO has blatantly overstepped its UN resolution mandate in Libya by engaging in offensive military support to the Libyan rebels beyond the UN mandate,...
Deadly Israeli air strikes – a cowardly crime!
A fighter from the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was killed on Sunday, and another critically injured, as...
Nablus Hunger Strike Against Demolitions
Residents of a Nablus village announced on Sunday they would start a hunger strike to protest against Israeli demolition orders and confiscation of their...
One in four women prisoners self-harm in a year!
AS MANY as one in four women prisoners in England and Wales self-harm every year, and female prisoners are four times more likely to...
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...
‘From day-one our revolution has been under siege’ – Grassroots leader...
On the spot report from Carolina Graterol EARLY last week on arrival in Caracas, I managed to join a meeting of grassroot movements connected to...
‘All The Lebanese Will Lose If They Get Engaged In A...
HEZBOLLAH leader Hasan Nasrallah said last Thursday that anti-government protesters would ‘never surrender’ and would continue their street demonstrations until they achieved...
Palestinian Flag Raised On Mount Everest
RAISING the flag for Palestine 5,400 metres above sea level, following six days and 100 kilometres of walking and climbing mountains, 27 Palestinian men...
Hundreds respond in London to Palestinian call for Global Action for...
A VERY lively protest in response to the call from the Palestine Republic for a Global Day for Gaza to besiege US Embassies, the...
END ISRAELI OCCUPATION – demands 2,000-strong al-Quds Day London march
TWO THOUSAND people marched through the centre of London on Sunday demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine as part of the...
‘It’s a nightmare – patients and dead bodies arriving in overwhelming...
Two Australian doctors, Dr Nada Abu Alrub and Dr Saya Aziz, recounted the harrowing details of their work under constant Israeli bombardment and severe...
NUM & AMCU oppose reopening of mines in South Africa
THE South African mining sector’s two union rivals – the NUM and AMCU – have a common cause: Strident opposition to the reopening of...
Migrant workers cheated of wages & deported from US!
GERADO Santiago-Hernandez was a worker at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Michigan. A lawsuit filed in June 2020, on behalf of him and other...
SAFTU demands resignation after attempts to derigister municipal workers union
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions has called on Labour Registrar Advocate Lehlohonolo Molefe to ‘resign’ – after the labour court suspended as...
GREEK BANK WORKERS TO CONTINUE THEIR NATIONAL STRIKE -while armed police...
GREEK bank workers at the ATE Bank (Agrarian bank) decided last Monday in a mass meeting to continue their national strike against the sell...
70th anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre ‘There are no innocent people...
ISRAELI Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday there were ‘no innocent people’ in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after ten days of protests and clashes...
Settlers attack West Bank farmers on eve of peace talks
As Palestinian leaders were preparing for direct talks with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu in Washington today, the village mayor in the West Bank town...
Bangladesh garment workers battling for their rights!
NEARLY two years after a preventable fire killed 112 garment workers in Bangladesh, the owner of the Tazreen Fashion factory is out of jail,...
THE GREAT MINERS’ STRIKE 1984-85 PART ONE: No miner has the...
TODAY marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the beginning of the year-long miners’ strike, a strike that saw the full force of the capitalist...
Labour Conference resolves to sanction Israel’s illegal occupation
THE LABOUR Party Conference in Brighton overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Israel for perpetrating an ‘ongoing Nakba’ in the occupied Palestinian territories. The motion, brought by...
‘UNIVERSITIES UNDER PRESSURE OF MARKET FORCES’ – warns NUS
The National Union of Students (NUS) yesterday published a ‘groundbreaking’ report which highlights the faults of the university funding system in unprecedented detail. In ‘Broke...
Sri Lanka Artillery Barrage Halts Mannaar City
TAMILNET reports that ‘Normalcy has been disturbed in Mannaar city Tuesday from 8:10 am as the Sri Lanka Army mounted an artillery barrage simultaneously...
RCN launch ‘Nursing Workplace Standards’ – as nursing vacancies rise to...
The RCN’s Nursing Workforce Standards have been created to explicitly set out what must happen within workplaces to ensure the delivery of safe and...
NHS staff from overseas paying extortionate visa fees
PUBLIC sector union Unison says the UK immigration system has never been smooth to navigate. The Home Office is infamous for its extortionate fees...
‘Don’t Bomb Iraq–Don’t Attack Syria’
‘DON’T bomb Iraq! Don’t attack Syria! – How can we fund a war when we can’t feed the poor!’ Shouted marchers in the pouring...
‘THE FUTURE OF THE NHS IS AT STAKE!’ – say ‘Mums...
OVER 400 doctors, furious at government ‘reforms’ which threaten their profession – making a staggering 14,000 hospital doctors redundant from August – descended on...
‘JIHAD ONLY WAY OF LIBERATING PALESTINE’ – Hamas marks 3rd anniversary...
The Hamas Movement on Tuesday affirmed that blood of Palestinian martyrs has mapped out the route of liberation for the next Palestinian generations to follow...
PRIVATE EQUITY THREATENS PENSION FUNDS – GMB ive evidence to MPs
THE GMB general workers union yesterday called on parliament to halt ‘tax privileges’ to venture capitalists and establish the amount of unfunded pension...
Stonethrowers Charged With Attempted Murder By Israeli Police
SUNDAY marked two years since five boys from the northern West Bank village of Hares were arrested over an alleged stone-throwing incident that saw...
THE AMERICANS HAVE HELD TALKS WITH THE BA’ATHISTS says former...
IYAD Allawi, the former Iraqi puppet prime minister at the time of the US assault on Fallujah, and the leader of the Iraqi List,...
Overseas Trained Teachers Face Unemployment
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) will be lobbying the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DfCSF) on Wednesday, 11 July 2007 to publicise...
Privateers paid £2.3m to draw up massive cuts plan for...
PRIVATE firms have been paid a ‘shocking’ £2.3m to draw up controversial plans which will cut health and social care spending by more than...
‘WE WANT FREE MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE GAZA STRIP AND WEST...
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Minister of Civil Affairs, Mohammad Dahlan has revealed a plan regarding the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Dahlan, who also heads the...
‘All public hospitals and public schools must be exempt from power...
NUMSA (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa) has welcomed the High Court judgment, ordering the Energy minister, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, to take all reasonable steps,...
US trying to destabilise Venezuela before July election!
VLADIMIR Padrino López, the Venezuelan Defence Minister, has denounced what he has called a new US-backed attempt to destabilise the country before the Presidential...
Israeli troops impose collective punishment onto Palestinians
ISRAELI police forces violently dispersed a Palestinian protest in the occupied East Jerusalem village of al-Tur on Wednesday, amid complaints that authorities’ closure...
Khader Adnan hunger striking for over 70 days – – Islamic...
ISLAMIC Jihad, the Palestinian resistance movement has held the Israeli regime fully responsible for any harm to its high-profile official Sheikh Khader Adnan, who...
Kerry Returns To Middle East, Desperate For A Peace Deal
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry is to return to the Middle East later this week to resume efforts to draw Israel and the...
Israeli War Left Gaza Children Traumatised
Young Palestinian chldren are still severely traumatised six months after the Israeli war on the impoverished Gaza Strip, charities warn. Fourteen-year-old Ghasan Matar won’t talk...
Save Local Papers!
THE National Union of Journalists’ (NUJ) campaign to support vital local news media, as hundreds of local papers are going to the wall, is...
Verizon strike enters second month
‘ONE DAY longer, one day stronger,’ striking Verizon workers chant on their picket lines as their fight proceeds into its second month. More than 40,000...
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...
Israeli Settlers Set Fire To Farmlands
Israeli settlers set fire to hundreds of dunums of farmland in the northern West Bank village of Beit Furik, locals said on Friday. High temperatures,...