‘WE SHALL NOT REMAIN QUIET ABOUT UGLY CRIMES!’ – Abbas condemns...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has said that ‘We shall be taking the case of the martyrdom of the youth Muhammad Abu-Khudayr to all international...
Stop arming Israel! Recognise Palestinian state now! – demands 100,000-strong London...
The march set off at 1pm and was led by the banners of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestine...
END LOW PAY – END POLICE OPPRESSION – demand US May...
THE unity of the struggles of workers and youth across the USA was expressed last Friday in May Day demonstrations and rallies across the...
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...
Academics & Scientists Call For Boycott Of Israeli Conference In Occupied...
IN an Open Letter published on Friday in the Guardian newspaper, 15 academics and scientists from around the world expressed opposition to holding a...
Mexican trade unions confronted by armed police
WORKERS attempting to hold a free and democratic unionisation vote at a Mexican silver mine owned by Canadian mining company Excellon Resources were confronted...
50,000 Cubans rally for Venezuela against US aggression
LAST Friday, over 50,000 Cubans attended a rally in solidarity with Venezuela, a country facing the threat of US military aggression. The crowd was made...
Hamas warns that Israel’s house demolitions will trigger ‘explosion’ of Palestinian...
PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad and Hamas resistance movement have warned that Israel’s house demolitions and its expansion of illegal settlements in al-Quds (Jerusalem) will trigger...
Mass Support In Enfield For Chase Farm Occupation!
UP TO 1,000 workers, trade unionists, local residents and youth electrified Enfield on Saturday afternoon, after hundreds joined the march through the town with...
Heygate tenants refuse to be driven from their homes
TENANTS on the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle are furious at the way they are being treated ‘like cattle’ to be driven off...
Kerry Says Washington And Moscow Have Found Common Ground Over Syria...
RUSSIA and the US have agreed on a number of ‘critical’ issues, particularly with regard to Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry and...
Liberty Steel Crisis Worsens! Unions Oppose Job Cuts!
LIBERTY Steel crisis worsens, unions oppose massive job cuts and de-industrialisation, says IndustriALL. In over just few days, news of massive job cuts, of bankruptcy...
Egyptian class struggle continues
While Egypt’s presidential election has dominated the headlines, the class struggle continues unabated with workers determined to defend their rights and improve living standards. Egypt’s...
Saint-Gobain Crystals in India sacks worker after exposing him to hazardous...
A FORMER Saint-Gobain Crystals and Detectors worker in Bangalore, India, Jayaraj Mathangi, was fired for absenteeism after developing severe health problems due to hazards...
EGYPTIAN PORT WORKERS REACH AGREEMENT TO RETURN TO WORK –...
AIN Sokhna Port workers and DP World have reached an agreement to resume work in the Egyptian port, which has been shut down for...
‘Thousands of seriously sick people are being put under pressure by...
On the eve of the new Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s announcement of plans to drive the unemployed and sick off...
Greek Government Assists In War Plans Against Libya
THE Greek prime minister Yiorghos Papandreou met with his government’s Defence and Foreign Ministers last Thursday to discuss Libya following talks last Wednesday...
GRENFELL – ‘Change the law so that those who are considered...
As the phase 2 of the public inquiry in the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the life of 72 residents draws to a close...
Bahrain Parliament pressing to reverse normalisation with Israel
THE DEPUTY speaker of Bahrain’s National Assembly Abdulnabi Salman said on Tuesday that members of the parliament are pressing to reverse the normalisation of...
CWA condemns the Obama proposal for immigration raids and deportations!
THE CWA trade union has issued a statement on the Obama administration’s planned Immigration Raids and proposed mass deportations. It reads: ‘We have seen...
‘WE WANT THE PERPETRATERS PUT AWAY’ – Janet Alder tells ‘No...
‘Tony Blair we want justice!’ shouted over seven hundred bereaved families and supporters outside Downing Street last Saturday. They had marched from Trafalgar Square on...
National Bus And Rail Strike Is Looming In Ireland!
A NATIONAL bus and rail strike by SIPTU and NBRU drivers is looming in Ireland. SIPTU announced on Tuesday it is to ballot its members...
‘Neither party addresses the real pain facing working people!’ ‘Neither party...
‘IT IS clear that the economic struggle working-class people are facing is causing real pain and neither party has sufficiently addressed it,’ says AFL-CIO...
AMNESTY CONDEMNS ‘MEMORANDUM’ WITH LEBANON – and the killing of Sudanese...
THE UK government has signed a ‘Memorandum of understanding’ with Lebanon over the treatment of people who may be deported from the UK to...
BARNET COUNCIL TO SCRAP ITS HOUSING REGISTER –Housing the homeless will...
TORY-controlled Barnet Council in north London has announced plans to scrap its housing register. At the Council’s Cabinet on June 21, the Cabinet Member for...
Families of the disappeared to file Habeas Corpus applications
TamilNet has reported that families of key members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – missing after arrest by the Sri Lanka...
Erdogan used coup to escalate crackdown on rights – says IndustriALL
GLOBAL union federation IndustriALL has repeated its call for full democracy in Turkey as a crackdown on fundamental rights escalates. It said: ‘In the wake...
Settlement with Vale–but no final accord!
WITH a 75% ratification vote announced late on 7 July, Canadian nickel mining and processing workers represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Locals 6500 and...
Norwegian TUC leads charge against Israeli Apartheid
IN a challenge to Israeli impunity, Norway has recently emerged as one of the first Western states to implement a cohesive and escalating campaign...
Spring Statement: ‘From a government that has run out of road’...
RESPONDING to the chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Statement yesterday, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘The chancellor’s Spring Statement offered nothing to put a...
General Soleimani’s Killers ‘Will Not Escape Punishment!’ Says Iran
IRAN will not let those behind the assassination of the country’s legendary anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani evade punishment. ‘We will not allow the martyr’s...
‘We as Syrians will never accept that Syria become a western...
‘SYRIA won’t be a puppet state for the West,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview with ‘Paris Match’ Magazine. The interviewer began by...
Occupation authorities are waging a relentless war against the Palestinian youth...
ISRAELI occupation forces on Tuesday and Monday night detained at least 14 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, six of them from East...
Palestinian firefighters train with Scotland FBU
SEVEN Palestinian firefighters have come over from Hebron in the occupied West Bank to train with the Fire Brigade Union (FBU) of Scotland to...
UN warns mass evictions of Palestinians a ‘war crime’
The United Nations (UN) has warned that the Israeli regime’s forcible mass eviction of over 1,200 Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta...
CWU proposes ‘not for dividend company’ – instead of organising...
THE CWU leadership is seeking to make a deal with the coalition over the terms and conditions of the privatisation of Royal Mail, when...
Open pipes turned Grenfell into a gas oven Shut-off valves hidden...
CRUCIAL valves to stop gas from fuelling the Grenfell Tower fire may have been built over during refurbishment, the ongoing inquiry into the fire...
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,...
‘WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA’ – Chagos Islanders picket the...
over 150 Chagos Islanders, British trade unionists and youth held a mass picket outside the House of Lords on Monday. The picket was called to...
48,000 University of California workers strike!
THE UAW (United Auto Workers) union has been leading a strike involving some 48,000 academic workers in ten University of California cities — including...
Sanctions on Russia adversely affect global economy
RUSSIA’S President, Vladimir Putin, has opined that the latest raft of unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and its allies over the...
Vetoing The Palestinian State ‘Would Be A Deadly Mistake’ – Barghouthi...
FATAH leader Marwan Barghouthi, jailed in Israel during the Second Intifada, has warned Washington that vetoing a Palestinian state at the United Nations would...
OCCUPATION IS THE PROBLEM – troops out of Iraq, demands 50,000-strong...
50,000 workers and youth marched through London last Saturday, as part of the many demonstrations worldwide to mark the third anniversary of the war...
‘POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES’ – East London Line privatisation warning
COMPLEX and fragmented arrangements for running the privatised ‘London Rail’ franchise will make it ‘more difficult to manage operationally and safely’, with potentially disastrous...
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...