MARWAN FILM SHOWN IN LONDON – Zionist ban is defeated
AS the Federation of Palestinian Communities in Europe and the Fatah movement in London prepare to screen the film ‘Marwan,’ a biopic telling the...
Release Amnesty’s Turkish leader
THE DECISION to renew the detention of Amnesty International’s Turkey Chair just hours after a court ordered his release must be immediately reversed and...
Ahmadinejad urges Obama to embrace ‘justice’ internationally before it’s too late
¡ADDRESSING the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference on May 3rd, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said: ‘having nuclear bombs is not an honour. It...
There could be a repeat of the Rana Plaza disaster! –...
THE President of the Bangladeshi National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) on Saturday warned eight leading UK retailers that there could be a repeat of...
South African joblessness rises to 27.6%
SOUTH Africa’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since the third quarter of 2017 to 27.6% at the end of the first...
‘END COMPLICITY WITH ISRAELI APARTHEID’ –Palestinians urge South Africa
Palestinian civil society has called on democratic South Africa to end complicity with Israeli apartheid. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) has released...
UCU slams call for higher tuition fees
The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday (Thursday) that forcing students to pick up the bill for higher education was an astonishingly weak,...
Over 500 on 26th annual United Families and Friends march
THERE were 500 demonstrators on Saturday’s annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street, where a petition was...
Labour’s Social Care ‘Failing Older People’
‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman, said on Wednesday. He...
90 arrested at New York anti-war protest as opposition to US...
POLICE in New York City arrested around 90 anti-war protesters on Monday, including whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, as demonstrators gathered near the offices of Senate...
Leon Trotsky On The Easter Rising
Written: 11 May 1916 First Published: Nashe Slovo, 11 May 1916 Source: Trotsky’s Writings on Britain New Park Publications Ltd, London 1974 THE Irish rising has...
Khalih Awawdeh – 171 days on hunger strike against Israel’s illegal...
Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike today, Tuesday 30th August, 171 days into the protest against his detention without charge or trial...
Shop Stewards Barred By Unite
‘I REFUSE to be bribed and blackmailed into silence. My struggle for justice continues’ Gordon McNeill declared last Wednesday. Discussions between the sacked Belfast airport...
‘KIDNAPPING, DETENTION TORTURE AND EXECUTIONS’ –by Syrian opposition groups, reports Human...
‘Armed opposition elements have carried out serious human rights abuses,’ Human Rights Watch said last week in a little-publicised public letter to the Syrian...
SADDAM WAS ASSAULTED AT THE COURT HEARING – insists his defence...
ABD-AL HAQ-AL ANI, counsellor for the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s defence panel, has revealed that an assault took place on the Iraqi leader at...
Saudi accuses Hezbollah of ‘hijacking Lebanese banks’
SAUDI Arabia’s foreign minister last Friday accused Hezbollah, which Riyadh blames for the shock resignation of Lebanese premier Saad Hariri, of holding Lebanon hostage...
Unite and PCS join forces to fight ‘coalition savagery’
TWO million workers in the UK are joining together to fend off savage attacks on working people and their families. That was the message from...
90,000 Sa Miners Jobs Threatened By Electricity Price Increase!
THE JOBS of 90,000 gold and platinum mineworkers’ are at risk as Eskom (the state-owned South African electricity public utility, established in 1923 as...
Public Sector Workers Storm Rio Assembly
THOUSANDS of public workers have stormed the Rio de Janeiro assembly, occupying the building in protest at the right wing Brazilian government’s savage cuts...
Nasrallah Hails Chavez For Expelling The Israeli Ambassador
AFTER taking part in the Ashura procession in Beirut’s southern suburb to mark the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, hundreds of thousands gathered to listen...
Amnesty Shocked At Mosul Civilian Casualties
THE scale of civilian deaths in Mosul raises questions over rules of engagement being used by US-led coalition and Iraqi forces, says Amnesty International. Commenting...
‘Total support for junior doctors’ – 102 CONSULTANTS WRITE TO SIR...
102 CONSULTANTS have written an open letter to Bruce Keogh, Medical Director of NHS England, in support of the junior doctors. It reads: ‘OPEN letter...
Bush Refuses To Aid Victims Of Alabama And Georgia Tornadoes
THE AFL-CIO US trade union federation has condemned President Bush for his lack of any action in support of the victims of the recent...
SOUTH CAROLINA AFL-CIO SUPPORTS SANDERS –while the UERMW convention votes to...
THE South Carolina AFL-CIO executive board passed a resolution supporting US Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and recommending...
Healthworkers pay tribute to Gaza medics
THE COMMUNITY Camp4Palestine opposite the US embassy in Battersea on Tuesday night hosted an event to honour paramedics in Gaza. Opening the proceedings, Elina, a...
Iran wins legal battle against US attempt to seize bank funds!
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as Bank Markazi, says the country has won a legal battle in Europe...
High levels of homelessness and destitution among refugees!
A NEW SURVEY, Refugees without refuge, published by the Refugee Council on Friday, has found high levels of homelessness and destitution among refugees shortly...
Reopen Ealing Maternity – demands 500 strong march
‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital! Don’t let it close!’ rang out through the streets of Southall on Wednesday afternoon, as up to 500 workers and youth...
‘WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NATIONAL STRIKE’ – say CWU pickets
Postmen and women were out in force on picket lines at 5.30am on Saturday all over London discussing the progress of their dispute against...
Austerity driving up infant mortality
THE GAP in infant mortality rates between English local authorities narrowed between 1999-2010, but that trend has been reversed since 2011 as a result of...
Turning a blind eye is ‘collaborating with abuses’ – Amnesty warning...
HUMAN rights group Amnesty International has welcomed the call for European governments to cooperate fully with an investigation into ‘extraordinary rendition’ and secret...
South African workers fear a lack of health cover
COSATU – The Confederation of South African Trade Unions – has held a Central Executive Committee workshop to discuss a number of pertinent issues...
Over 20 killed in double strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital!
THE Israeli military killed at least 20 people on Monday morning, including four journalists serving international outlets, during back-to-back strikes against an overstretched hospital...
‘GOVERNMENT REFORMS HAVE CREATED A MARKET IN HEALTHCARE’ – BMA launches...
The British Medical Association (BMA) on Monday launched a public campaign against the privatisation of the NHS. The BMA press statement said it is stepping...
Britain must stop arming Israel and recognise Palestine!
‘BRITAIN must impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and recognise the state of Palestine. We demand Israel gets out of Rafah, Gaza,...
Russia concerned about the USA’s militarisation of Space!
RUSSIA has stressed its concern about the growing ‘militarisation of space’ by the United States and its allies, and urged that such hostile measures...
76.5 million children are living in poverty in the ‘developed’ world!
THE number of UK children living in poverty has increased to more than a quarter as a result of austerity measures introduced following the...
UNIONS BACK ISLANDERS’ STRUGGLE – hundreds march through Crawley
MORE than 400 Chagos Islanders and their supporters marched through Crawley town centre on Saturday, shouting: ‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s...
Nationalise all bus networks – demands TUC
The TUC responded on Thursday to cuts to bus routes by privateers set to be implemented across the country calling for all bus networks...
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,...
800 TORTURE FLIGHTS IN EUROPEAN AIRSPACE – says Amnesty
Amnesty International revealed on Monday that six planes used by the CIA for renditions have made some 800 flights in European airspace including 50...
Children are doing hazardous work in tobacco farming!
THE United States government and tobacco companies are failing to protect teenage children from hazardous work in tobacco farming, says a new report by...
Dozens of Bangladesh workers’ leaders are facing fabricated criminal charges!
DOZENS of garment workers and labour leaders are facing unfair or apparently fabricated criminal cases in Bangladesh after wage strikes in December 2016, Human...
SOUTH AFRICA: ‘electricity crisis worsens with every day that passes’
THE ‘Civil Society Conference on the Electricity Crisis’ took place last week in Johannesburg, South Africa and declared: ‘The electricity crisis calls for de-corporatisation...
‘Rice cannot impose a buffer zone or a security zone on...
HASAN Fadlallah, the Lebanese MP for Bint Jubayl, which has been completely destroyed by Israeli bombing, and a leader of the Hezbollah...