Rescue and medical teams will remain in Venezuela for as long...
CUBAN President Miguel Díaz-Canel signed a book of condolences on Monday at the Venezuelan embassy in Havana for the victims of the June 24...
Lebanon Imports More Fuel From Iran
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Tehran is ready to sell more fuel to the Lebanese government and businessmen if need be, as an...
Return to public sector all services outsourced under PFI! says Public...
VITAL public services such as schools and hospitals face serious disruptions should government fail to prepare for the expiry of its 700 PFI contracts,...
British Troops Must Quit Iraq
BRITISH troops are no longer necessary for the security of Iraq and should go home, Prime Minister Maliki has declared. In his view the British...
Russia focussing on the liberation of the Donbass
RUSSIAN Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow has completed the main objectives of the first phase of the special military operation in Ukraine and...
Father of Yellow Vest whose hand blown off to sue
THE FATHER of the Yellow Vest protester who had his hand blown off by a gas grenade in Paris on Saturday says he plans...
‘TAKE OUT A WRIT AGAINST FORD’ –demand 500 ex-Visteon workers
500 sacked Visteon workers demonstrated outside the Unite London headquarters on Wednesday to demand the union immediately takes out a writ against Ford motor...
South African Unions Claim Big Eskom Pay Victory!
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers, the National Union of Mineworkers and the Solidarity union have won a ‘a strategic victory for workers’ after South...
Artists fight the Islamic State – while ‘Mosul Eye’ rebuilds the...
MUSTAFA al-Tha’i worked in secret at night, using his brushes and pencils to record the violence he saw during the day under the Islamic...
Excessive Workloads Driving Teachers Out!
TEACHERS are facing low morale, exhaustion, frustration and distress because of the impact of unsustainable workloads, which is driving teachers out of the profession,...
‘VOTE YES AND VOTE FOR NEGOTIATION!’ – CWU urges members
Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) South Eastern Divisional Committee is calling on all CWU members to ‘Vote yes and vote for negotiation’ in the union’s...
‘ISRAEL ON ITS WAY TO COLLAPSE’ says Iranian President
Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that Israel was on its way to collapse, as Iran’s military displayed a range of home-built drones...
US war games plan to intimidate North Korea
AN US aircraft carrier and warships from its strike group arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in nearly five years...
Washington DC parents keep children home as ICE raids intensify
Immigrant families across the United States capital are facing the new school year under the shadow of aggressive federal immigration enforcement, with raids and...
Youth workers being sacked–centres being closed
GOVERMENT cuts plunge youth work into crisis, warns a Unison report. More than 2000 youth workers have been axed and 350 youth centres closed since...
Fire bombs are thrown at migrant workers in Tel Aviv
Two firebombs were thrown at the Tel Aviv home of African residents on Saturday night, Israeli daily Haaretz reported. It is the second such attack...
Palestinian ambassador condemns Netanyahu’s UK intervention to attack Labour leader Corbyn!
‘BINYAMIN Netanyahu’s arrogant intervention into British politics is not surprising from someone who has always condoned Israeli state terror. Jeremy Corbyn, in contrast, has...
Israeli Occupiers Seal The West Bank And Gaza Strip!
ISRAELI authorities implemented a large-scale closure on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, adding to a long line of punitive measures...
Take Strike Action Against Royal Mail’s Draconian Plans!
Central to the Royal Mail ‘Pay Offer and Modernisation Agreement 2007/09’ are the sections on ‘flexible working’. These put the workforce at the minute-to-minute disposal...
Palestinian Prisoners Day: April 17
On April 17 each year, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is commemorated to remember the plight of thousands of men, women and children held in Israeli...
Russia rejects Ukraine ‘invasion’ allegations
RUSSIA has ruled out any further talks with the United States and NATO over the situation around Ukraine unless the West responds properly to...
Gold And Coal Sectors To Join Platinum Strike!
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) wants to expand the platinum sector strike. ‘We have filed an application with Nedlac (National Economic...
TRADE UNIONS CONDEMN TORY COALITION’S £6.25bn CUTS –but have no plan...
THE INITIAL £6.25 billion spending cuts announced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government on Monday, that will lead to thousands of sackings and closures...
Hanan Ashrawi meets Swedish Consul – both stress the need for...
MEMBER of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Hanan Ashrawi has met the Swedish Consul-General to Palestine, Jessica Olausson, in Ramallah. The two...
THE KILLING OF JULIANO MER-KHAMIS ‘A heinous crime’ – SAYS PALESTINIAN...
JULIANO Mer-Khamis, an Israeli film director and founder of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp, was shot dead on Monday April 4th after...
US arms manufacturers make record profits – while US labour disputes...
American arms dealers have gathered ‘record profits’ from Israel’s wars on the besieged Gaza Strip and Lebanon, according to a new report. In a report...
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...
‘Thousands of Bangladesh factories are still unsafe’ says TUC – as...
‘IT IS important that those responsible for the terrible loss of life at Rana Plaza face justice. But thousands of factories in Bangladesh are still...
PFI – PROFIT FOR PRIVATEERS AND RISK FOR NHS – MPs...
MPs on the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts in their report of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) refinancing have called for tougher regulation...
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,...
Nearly 500 students still living in ‘fire-trap’!
NEARLY 500 students still remain living in a housing complex in west London while waiting for alternative accommodation despite it having been deemed a...
END PRIVATISATION AND DE-REGULATION – renationalise Bus Sevices
PRIOR to the deregulation of the buses in 1985-86 many important decisions concerning our bus services were decided by the Traffic Commissioners and local...
CARILLION MUST COMPENSATE 224 BLACKLISTED WORKERS says GMB
THE GMB has called a meeting in Stafford on November 13th to mobilise opposition to the outsourcing of Staffordshire Education Support Services (ESS) and...
15,000-strong nurses’ strike in New York City
New York City’s largest nurses’ strike in history entered its 24th day on Wednesday. In a statement, the New York State Nurses Association said recent...
‘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...
China’s economy grows by 5.4% each year
CHINA has the confidence and capability to mitigate the adverse impacts of external shocks on its economy and sustain sound economic development, a Chinese...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘No better conditions could...
Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction by MOISSAYE J OLGIN THE essay, ‘The Proletariat and the Revolution’, was published at the close of...
Muslim Brotherhood has failed forever – says Syria’s Information Minister Omran...
SPEAKING in Damascus on Monday, Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, reiterated that the political leadership in Syria is still committed to the political solution which...
Letter to News Line – ‘NOW IS THE TIME TO SELECT...
CWU members have shown time and time again, their determination to defend their jobs, pay and conditions of service. The recent strikes that have taken...
100 days of genocide in Gaza!
As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 100 on Sunday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound neighbourhoods...
Strikes and unionisation campaigns sweep the USA
Members of the Teamsters union in the United States were joined by other members of the Labour Alliance for Public Transit last Thursday at...
Israel Approves 942 Settlement Units On The Eve Of Peace Talks
ISRAEL has approved 942 new settlement units for occupied East Jerusalem, a local official said Tuesday, on the eve of the scheduled resumption of...
100 nights of street rallies a key deterrent against US-Israel
The commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters has thanked Iranians for 100 consecutive nights of nationwide street rallies, describing the unprecedented mass gatherings...
53 years since the Chile coup
A Chile coup memorial march brought thousands of people to the streets of Santiago on Sunday, 6th September, as organisations commemorated the 53rd anniversary...
‘Syria will not negotiate with terrorists’ says Syrian President Assad
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to the Spanish EFE news agency in which he stressed that Syria will not negotiate with terrorists. We reproduce...