Stop Treating University Staff As Second-Class Citizens
AUT general secretary Sally Hunt is launching a manifesto for academic-related staff in Manchester on 12 May calling for more pay, reduced hours and...
A victory for protection of freedom of the press
EVERY JOURNALIST welcomes the judgement of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal published Monday December 17, which ruled that the former PSNI (Police Service of Northern...
‘Syrian people alone can determine their future’
DEPUTY Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem said Syria is ready to go for a Syrian-Syrian dialogue without any preconditions and will...
NO DEAL ON IRAN –France accused of blocking agreement on behalf...
IRAN and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, failed to clinch a long-sought deal on Sunday...
In Gaza a day without electricity is no longer an exception,...
Across the length and breadth of the Gaza Strip, from food distribution points to water filling stations and basic services, the scene of long...
Junior doctors are ready to walk out for 72 hours in...
JUNIOR doctors in England WILL walk out for 72 hours in March if the ballot for industrial action is successful, says the BMA. The BMA...
China warns Japan against increased militarisation
CHINA has announced fresh export controls targeting dozens of Japanese companies, as Beijing steps up pressure on Tokyo over its growing military activities and...
‘100 ROUNDS FIRED ON SLEEPING FAMILY’ – ACLU releases files on...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...
Call a general strike to overthrow Samaras! – demand Greek TV...
TENS of thousands of workers and youth mass day and night in the grounds around the occupied Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) building...
Unions demanding the reinstatement of 78 sacked workers in the Philippines
THE ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) are demanding the reinstatement of 78 unfairly...
No sackings! Pay the London living wage!
‘PAY all at least he London Living Wage! No sackings! No cuts to hours! Affordable cinema tickets for working class families! Save our community...
US nurses condemn Obama’s wage freeze
America’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses has condemned the Obama Administration’s decision to impose a two-year wage freeze on Veterans Affairs...
Fast food revolt in New Zealand!
RESTAURANT Brands which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr and Starbucks chains has committed to end zero-hour contracts by July this year in...
‘The US administration is subsuming Palestine under Israel’ warns Ashrawi
ON THE eve of the US moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi said:...
36% of ‘Right to Buy’ council homes snapped up by private...
‘RIGHT TO BUY ‘is nothing short of Whitehall-sanctioned robbery of the taxpayer,’ Tom Copley, London Assembly Labour Housing spokesperson, said yesterday. Copley added that the...
OPCW chemical watchdog report ‘full of discrepancies’
‘THE Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) could not come up with an unbiased report on the alleged 2018 chemical attack in...
‘South African CP avoids the most fundamental questions facing workers,’ says...
PART TWO THE National Union of Metalworkers South Africa’s (NUMSA) response to an attack by Jeremy Cronin of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)...
Saudi Arabian anger at government gas price hikes!
SAUDI Arabians have taken to the social networking services, venting their anger at the government for hiking domestic gas prices and introducing value added...
‘Palestinian State Must Have Jerusalem As Its Capital!’
‘A PALESTINIAN state without Jerusalem as its capital will not be accepted,’ Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokes-man for President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Tuesday. He...
Irish Trade Unions Split Over Croke Park
THE Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Civil, Public and Services Union have decided they will urge members to reject the Croke Park...
Croatian Serbs fight court battle to get homes back
The European Court of Human Rights is considering an important case for returning Croatian Serb refugees, says Amnesty International. The Grand Chamber of the...
Striking Egyptian Doctors Demand Action!
ABDEL-Moneim Abul-Fotouh, a physician and a former 2012 presidential candidate, has called on Eyptian president Mohamed Mursi to heed the demands of medical doctors. The...
SMASH ALL FEES, RESTORE GRANTS –demand students
‘ONE, two, three, four – education, not war!’ ‘Five, six, seven, eight – occupy and demonstrate!’ shouted large contingents of students on Sunday’s national...
Dozens of doctors, nurses and paramedics killed in relentless Israeli bombing...
Amid relentless Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, paramedics, medical centres and ambulances have once again come under fire from Zionist fighter jets, echoing the pattern of Israeli...
‘Discriminatory’ Schools Admissions Code Criticised
Campaigners have expressed concern that a new admissions code requires state schools in England to prioritise children from Armed Forces families, as well as...
Two Israeli drone attacks on Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla
An Israeli drone attacked the largest vessel in the Global Sumud Flotilla, bound for the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Wednesday morning,...
Global Youth Unemployment A ‘social Time-Bomb’
THE ITUC international trade union has described the high and rising levels of youth unemployment globally as a ‘social time-bomb’, which risks damaging the...
US calls for investigation into Sri Lankan war crimes
US Congressman Steve Driehaus (Democrat-Ohio), a senior member of the United States National Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, in a letter to US Secretary...
Half a million people forced out of their homes by Turkish...
TENS of thousands of residents of the UNESCO world heritage site of Sur are among an estimated half a million people forced out of...
‘With our blood we will elect Bashar al-Assad’
CAMPAIGNING began on Sunday for Syria’s June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar al-Assad to power, as the regime marked a ...
‘There must not be any cooperation between Volkswagon and yellow unions’...
THE head of the German union (IG Metall) representing automotive workers has spoken out against Volkswagen working with anti-labour groups at its plant in...
ONLY ONE WAY OUT – sanctions-busting boat gets doctor out of...
OVer the past year, Muhanad Omar al-Helo has twice petitioned the Israeli government to leave Gaza in order to study in Europe for a...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
‘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...
Palestinians demand the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!
ONGOING protests in the occupied Palestinian territory and around the world are demanding the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese militant for Palestinian...
Free the Filton 24! demands 100,000-strong London march
The first speaker in Whitehall was Faris Amer of the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘This government thinks when they clamp down on...
Iran considering participation in nuclear talks in spite of US ‘unreasonable...
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran is considering whether to participate in the next round of indirect nuclear negotiations with the US. Araghchi said on...
Bnp To Contest Northern Ireland Council Elections
By Irish political journalist John Coulter THE racist British National Party has confirmed it will contest the next Northern Irish council elections. Mid Ulster, Upper Bann,...
Greek Minister Resigns!
On the eve of a crucial vote set for Sunday midnight in the Vouli (Greek parliament) over a new Austerity Measures Bill, the Greek Development...
‘Action must be taken against the officers responsible for my...
THE Justice4Jean Campaign said on Friday that Coroner Michael White ‘has presided over a complete whitewash’, following the conclusion of the inquest into the...
‘PUT MORE MONEY INTO ORDINARY PEOPLE’S POCKETS’ – TUC urges Brown
‘The newly unemployed face a bigger cut in their living standards in this recession than those who lost their jobs under the previous government’,...
Eskom ‘declaration of war will be met head-on’ says NUM while...
A NATIONAL pay strike is looming at Eskom, after management at South Africa’s massive national power utility issued a ‘declaration of war’ to the...
Abbas Condemns Settler Violence
Israeli police used force to break up a demonstration in East Jerusalem on Friday against the eviction of a Palestinian family from their home. Twenty-one...
US prohibited Ukraine from negotiating peace with Russia – says former...
THE UNITED STATES prohibited Ukraine from conducting peace negotiations with Russia in March 2022, Germany’s former chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder has claimed. Schroeder said in an...
Countries that comply with US sanctions against Iran will ‘certainly face...
Iran has submitted its official reply to the latest United States proposal for a deal that allows a permanent end to the US-Israeli war...