South African Clothing And Textile Workers Defend Their Rights
The Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) has hit back at media reporting on last week’s Pietermaritz High Court judgment on the...
Senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustains multiple rib fractures after...
SENIOR Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustained multiple rib fractures after being violently assaulted by Israeli prison guards, it was revealed on Wednesday. Barghouti was attacked...
St Paul’s occupiers support Chase Farm NHS occupation
Anti-capitalist occupiers camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral yesterday made it crystal clear that not only are they determined to stay indefinitely but will also...
Putin Visits Palestine And Meets Abbas
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Palestine and meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas dominated the front page headlines in Friday’s issue of...
‘Freedom Flotilla’ Heading For Gaza
THE second ship to join the Freedom Flotilla en route to Gaza left Istanbul Saturday afternoon, joining eight other boats from three countries carrying...
General Strike call by protesters outside Parliament
‘Ceasefire Now!’ demanded 5,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Parliament on Wednesday night as MPs were voting on amendments to the King’s Speech over Israel’s genocide...
Terrorists must not be allowed to use the ceasefire to reinforce
IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic welcomes Syria’s nationwide ceasefire, but warned against the strengthening of terrorists during the truce time...
Australian Seafarers Defy Anti-Union Laws!
The crew of an Australian tanker docked in Hobart could face fines under the Howard government’s Industrial Relations laws for protesting against the operator’s...
‘STOP THE COALTION DESTROYING OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM’ says NASUWT leader
TEACHING unions on Thursday slammed the government’s Education Bill. The NASUWT said it was a Bill that ‘has all the hallmarks of being conceived by...
NEW ZEALAND WORKERS END ZERO-HOUR CONTRACTS AT McDONALD’S
NEW ZEALAND’S Unite Union reached an agreement with McDonald’s last week over ending zero hour contracts and other issues in dispute with the company. ‘This...
Brazilian meat and poultry workers defeat government attempt to cut safety...
AN IUF global union statement last Friday reminded that a determined campaign by IUF affiliates and allies has beaten back a government attempt to...
Cape Town firefighters take to the streets to protect jobs
SCORES of South African firefighters facing possible dismissal and or disciplinary action marched on the City of Cape Town offices on Saturday in support...
ISRAEL DETAINS PALESTINIAN MPs
Israeli forces on Monday detained two Palestinian MPs during a raid on the Jerusalem headquarters of the International Red Cross. Mohammad Tawtah and former Jerusalem...
75% Yemeni children are ‘chronically malnourished’
THE WHO warns: 75% of Yemeni kids are ‘chronically malnourished’, with the Yemeni population engulfed in food insecurity. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned...
Israel Pushing Settlement Expansion
ISRAEL is pushing forward with its plans to construct over 100 new settler units in southern West Bank! This is in grave contravention of...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – Part 7 Trotsky deepens his...
EXILED once again in 1929, but this time banished from the entire USSR by the Stalin-led counter-revolution which followed Lenin’s death, Trotsky in his...
123 Colombian ‘Social Leaders’ Killed Between Jan 1 And July 4!
THE MURDER of teacher José Domingo Ulcué Collazos in the Colombian department of Cauca on 22nd October has been condemned by teachers’ union FECODE,...
‘End The Midwife Shortage’ And Cancel Plans To Remove Bursaries!
CATHY WARWICK, the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives has issued a ‘wish list’ of her hopes for maternity services in 2016. She...
Prison privateer’s pay offer ‘a farcical lucky dip’
TRADE union Unite, the UK and Ireland’s biggest union, has branded a pay ‘offer’ to its 500 members employed by the company Amey undertaking...
‘THE BRITISH ARMY IS NOT OUR ARMY’ – says Sinn Fein...
By Irish politcal journalist JOHN COULTER THE war of words between Unionists and Republicans over the British Army’s presence in the North hotted up as...
Tunisia Revolts Against Unemployment And Mass Poverty!
FRESH protests over unemployment and poverty in central Tunisia on Thursday raised fears of growing social unrest five years after the country’s revolution was...
90% Of The Bedouins Were Expelled By Israel
THE killing of two Bedouin youths in southern Israel by police over the last fortnight has shocked the nation’s Palestinian community and has brought...
UK’s Afghan Detention Policy Is Declared Illegal!
In a landmark judgment on Friday in the High Court in London, the UK’s detention policy in Afghanistan was declared unlawful. Since November 2009, the...
Low paid Apex care workers ‘gagged & searched’
UNISON on Monday condemned a range of draconian measures imposed on low-paid homecare workers by Apex Care, which include a gagging order, refusals to...
Unions getting ready for November 30 strike
Strike day leaflets and posters will be landing in Unison branch offices during this week, Unison has announced. The materials being posted directly to branches...
Cuts Plunging Education Into Massive Crisis
GOVERNMENT education cuts are depriving many young people and adults of the chance to contribute fully to society, Unison has warned. A new freedom of...
Bahrain’s Welcome To Israeli Foreign Minister ‘Despicable’
IRAN says Bahrain’s ‘despicable’ welcoming of Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid to Manama is at odds with the will of the Bahraini people, stressing...
‘Arrest war criminals Netanyahu and Gallant now’ – says the Palestinian...
At the end of Saturday’s London March the first speaker at the rally in Whitehall was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK,...
Prime Minister Hamdallah And Egyptian Delegation Arrive In Gaza!
THE arrival of Prime Minister Ram Hamdallah and an Egyptian delegation as part of a fresh attempt to restore Palestinian national unity dominated the...
Dozens Of Palestinians Wounded In Clashes With Israeli Troops
DOZENS of Palestinian worshipers were wounded and dozens were detained after clashes broke in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning with Israeli forces...
‘No return to robber baron capitalism’ – says TEEU leader Devoy
THE Irish State may need to contemplate becoming an employer of last resort to tackle unemployment, says the ICTU General Secretary David Begg. Addressing the...
UK grants immunity to Israeli army chief
THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) on Tuesday condemned a decision by the United Kingdom to grant immunity to Israel’s army chief while...
Middlesex University strikers defending their jobs and pensions!
STRIKE action took place on Tuesday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of...
BARBAROSSA How Hitler lost the war – By Jonathan Dimbleby Published...
OPERATION BARBAROSSA was the codename given by Adolph Hitler to the invasion of the Soviet Union launched on Sunday 22 June 1941. In the preface...
70 Palestinian Homes In Jerusalem To Be Demolished
ON JULY 9th, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an Advisory Opinion on the wall Israel had started building in the occupied...
A ‘PERMANENT WINTER NHS CRISIS LOOMS’ – warns BMA over Tory...
‘THE GOVERNMENT must resolve the long-term funding, capacity and recruitment issues’ if it is going to avoid a ‘winter crisis’ all year round, doctors...
‘Sunak wants to break our resolve – instead he has united...
Thousands of junior doctors are manning picket lines outside hospitals around the country again today as they continue their four days of strike action...
Community Camp 4 Palestine support for hunger strikers
THE Community Camp 4 Palestine, opposite the US Embassy in south London, hosted a meeting to support the hunger strikers from Filton 24 on...
‘WE DEMAND A FULL INVESTIGATION!’ – says Ian Tomlinson’s widow
‘we are holding this special vigil because it has been a long eight months,’ Julia Tomlinson, the widow of Ian Tomlinson told over 200...
‘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...
3.7 MILLION IRAQI REFUGEES – The product of Bush and Blair’s...
‘The current exodus is the largest population movement in the Middle East since Palestinians were displaced following the creation of the State of Israel...
BA Gatwick strike threat – GMB Stansted workers strike over pay
MORE than 300 senior British Airways cabin crew at Gatwick Airport have been threatened with the sack if they refuse to accept a pay...
Anti-war protest at US embassy – Syrians not allowed a speaker
A rally of over 300 people was organised outside the US embassy in London on Saturday, against Western intervention in Iran and Syria. The protest...
Greek Trotskyists Call For Indefinite General Strike
THE Greek working class delivered a most powerful notice to all concerned last Tuesday with a militant 24-hour general strike called by the GSEE...
Mirror Journalists Fight – 200 ‘neanderthal Sackings’
By Save the Mirror Campaign Group TRINITY Mirror’s Chief Executive Sly Bailey is planning to axe a further 200 editorial staff from The Mirror, Sunday...