ILWU Longshore workers fight lock-out – and remember Bloody Thursday
LONGSHORE workers in Oregon and Washington are continuing their round-the-clock fight for a fair contract at grain terminals owned by some of the world’s...
‘POVERTY, HUNGER, DISEASE AND UNEMPLOYMENT HAVE RISEN TO ALARMING LEVELS’ Palestinian...
Palestinian Ambassador and Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Dr Riyad Mansour, has addressed an emergency session of the Security Council on the...
15,000 MARCH THROUGH LEWISHAM! – determined to stop the closure of...
LEWISHAM reverberated, last Saturday to a 15,000 strong demonstration of opposition to the closure of the Accident and Emergency, and Maternity Services at Lewisham...
Haniya Hails ‘Historic And Strategic Victory’
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on Sunday hailed an ‘historic and strategic victory’ in Gaza. In his televised speech, he said: ‘We achieved...
France Determined To Arm The ‘Syrian National Coalition’
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that the composition of a UN group to be assembled to investigate the alleged use of...
Chicago erupts against Trump
MORE than a week after Donald Trump’s election as next US president, protesters continue to take to the streets in the US and elsewhere...
Striking parallels between US police brutality and Israeli violence against Palestinians
IN A world of depleting resources and contracting economies, states are preparing for future uprisings by a growing underclass. It is hard to ignore the...
SYRIAN VILLAGERS DRIVE OUT US MILITARY VEHICLES – as US planes...
SYRIANS in the villages of al-Qahira and al-Dushaisha – in Tal Tamir in Hasaka northern countryside – have intercepted US occupation force vehicles and...
Ireland ‘will soon recognise Palestinian state’
THE Israeli Ambassador to Ireland relayed a warning to the Israeli government on Tuesday that the Irish parliament would soon move to recognise the...
New York taxi drivers strike against Trump travel ban – Uber...
THE Uber CEO retreated from the White House Business Advisory Group after organised immigrant drivers protested at the ‘Muslim ban’ and #DeleteUber went viral. New...
‘TOGETHER WE WILL ACHIEVE IRISH UNITY,INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY’ – declares...
BY JOHN COULTER, Irish political journalist Irish republicans need to build a mass movement capable of attracting a wide range of people, one of Sinn...
BMA condemns Coalition’s local pay drive
THE BMA ARM has condemned the Tory-led drive to impose local pay deals on the public sector – which would mean the end of...
PETER CHAPPELL (EtchellS) 1 Dec 1940–30 April 2018 A LIFELONG FIGHTER...
Peter was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party for nearly 40 years. He was out in front in every campaign and even in...
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...
Huge Cairo Protests!
CAIRO witnessed its biggest protests in months this week, when employees from the tax and customs authorities gathered in front of the Press Syndicate...
NO TO NHS PRIVATISATION – BMA consultants vote to defend District...
The British Medical Association (BMA) Consultants Conference in London on Wednesday voted to reject NHS privatisation and to call on the BMA to...
LONDON FIREFIGHTERS READY TO STRIKE AGAINST DISMISSAL THREAT – ‘This is...
LONDON’S firefighters are ready to strike, unless a threat by the capital’s fire service bosses to sack them all is withdrawn. More than 2,500 firefighters...
HAMAS WILL NOT RECOGNISE ISRAEL – Khaled Mishaal confirms
HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal has reiterated that all Palestinian factions agree on a state ‘within the 1967 borders’ and that Hamas agrees to the...
TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMME OUR GUIDE FOR TODAY – Part one: Socialist Revolution...
A revolutionary wave is sweeping the planet, driven by the world economic and political crisis of capitalism and the undefeated nature of the working...
Iran And Syria Sign Defence Pact
‘The Iranian nation and government will always stand by the resistance and the oppressed Palestinian people,’ Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has reiterated. Ahmadinejad met with...
Overthrow the government, the troika and the Greek austerity accords
STATEMENT of the Ergatiki Antistasi (Workers Resistance), newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League (RML), Greek Section of the International Committee of the Fourth International. FOR...
RUSSIA COULD NOT ALLOW CIVILIANS IN SOUTH OSSETIA TO BE ATTACKED...
THE UN Security Council held a third emergency meeting on August 10th on the situation in South Ossetia, where the conflict is expanding in...
1.4 million on zero-hours slave labour!
NEW figures released on Wednesday show that at least 1.4 million workers in Britain are enduring the modern day form of slave labour exploitation...
ST Helier’s ‘Picnic with a Purpose!’ – DETERMINED THAT THE HOSPITAL...
SOME 2,000 local residents, trade unionists, youth and their families turned out on Saturday for a ‘Picnic with a Purpose’ outside St Helier Hospital...
Mining Gold For $1.50 Hourly Wages!
LEADERS of Indonesian FSP-KEP (SPSI), the trade union of Chemical, Energy, and Mine Workers (CEMWU), have officially extended a 30-day strike at the world’s...
Court ruling shows government disregard for families – CPAG
The High Court of Justice on Thursday passed down judgment in favour of the government in a Judicial Review brought by Child Poverty Action...
‘WE WILL LIBERATE JERUSALEM AGAIN’ – says Hamas leader Mishaal
HAMAS Political Bureau Head Khaled Mishaal last weekend pledged that Jerusalem will be liberated again during a speech rally in Damascus to mark the...
Iuf Demands Trade Union Rights For Pearl Continental Workers
Not fit for print? On May 1st 2008, the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) sought to publish an open letter to the...
Unison and EU public sector unions form ‘historic alliance’
UNISON and other EU public sector unions have formed an ‘historic alliance’. UNISON declared yesterday: ‘The fight back has begun. And UNISON is...
‘END GUANTANAMO TORMENT’ – Amnesty repeats call to close prison camp
AMNESTY International has renewed its call for the United States to close its Guantanamo Bay concentration camp and try or release the prisoners held...
Parliament & Peterloo Exhibition
‘Parliament & Peterloo’ Exhibition in Westminster Hall between 4th July and 26th September 2019 THE Parliamentary Archives invites people to visit the ‘Parliament & Peterloo’ exhibition...
‘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...
‘Common issues between Palestine and the peoples of the African continent’...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the 30th Ordinary Session of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa on Sunday that resuming the peace efforts requires...
‘PALESTINIAN BLOOD SHOULD NOT BE SPILLED’ – Haniya urges unity
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, on Tuesday, called on Palestinians to ‘remain united’ in a common cause after days of clashes between Haniya’s Hamas...
‘BREAK THE INTERNATIONAL SILENCE ON TAMIL GENOCIDE’ – urges British Tamils...
THE Colombo High Court allowed on Wednesday an application by the accused Sarath Fonseka, retired Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), to reconsider...
OPEN THE RAFA CROSSING – Palestinians’ patience is wearing thin, says...
With Israel’s two-week military offensive in Gaza showing no signs of abating, patience is running thin among those waiting to get into the Strip...
Post-Election Crisis As Haiti Erupts
Haiti’s post-election crisis deepened on Sunday after opposition presidential candidates prolonged the political uncertainty by refusing to participate in a proposed recount. President Rene Préval’s...
2.3 million children in the UK are in poverty!
AROUND 2.3 million children in the UK are in child poverty, with that figure rising by a further 400,000 Labour said. The Tory coalition government...
Hamas Rejects Jordan Provocation
Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas denied on Wednesday accusations by Jordan that the movement had stored weapons on Jordanian territory. Hamas added that it regretted Amman’s...
Heavy Christmas Eve Fighting In Ki’Linochchi
THERE is very heavy fighting around the Tamil Tigers’ stronghold of Ki’linochchi on the eve of Christmas as the Tamil Tigers are defending the...
Fonseka arrest deepens crisis of Sri Lankan ruling class
THE split in the Sri Lankan ruling class has deepened with the arrest of General Fonseka who led the military campaign which killed tens...
DETAINEES KILLED DURING INTERROGATION– American Civil Liberties Union accuses US military
US Operatives killed detainees during interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq, says the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU has just published an analysis of...
ISRAEL STILL SEEKS REVENGE FOR UNPRECEDENTED DEFEAT – warns Hezbollah
‘Three years have passed since the Israeli enemy launched its devastating war against Lebanon,’ said Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV on Sunday. It continued that this...
SAS sent to Iraq to help evacuate stranded Britons
EARLY on Sunday 5th January, about 50 members of the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) were sent to Iraq ‘to help’ with the potential...
WE WILL TAKE INDUSTRIAL ACTION – if EU services directive is...
AS well as the Gate Gourmet workers’ struggle, this year’s TUC will be a battleground over pensions and privatisation. TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber at...