FRENCH UNIONS REFUSE TO TALK WITH GOVERNMENT – until CPE is...
LEADERS of France’s main trade union federations have refused to talk to the government until it withdraws the CPE (first job contract) that removes...
Hamas Delegation Meets President Assad
A Hamas delegation headed by the Islamist movement’s senior most leader Khaled Mishaal met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday to...
‘Each Libyan is Muammar al-Gadaffi’, says Saif al-Islam
SAIF al-Islam al-Gadaffi said on Wednesday on Al-Ra’y TV, speaking from ‘the outskirts of Tripoli’: ‘I would like to reassure our brother Libyans everywhere...
300 garment factories shut down in Bangladesh!
BANGLADESH garment bosses have indefinitely shut down all operations in over 300 factories at a key industrial hub after five days of violent protests...
WE HAVE TO STRIKE AND OCCUPY! says 500-strong firefighters lobby
‘OCCUPYING fire stations to stop their closure is a tactic that should be considered,’ David Williams West Yorkshire Brigade Secretary told News Line at...
Russian car workers win union recognition
Benteler car workers in Kaluga, Russia, to the south west of Moscow, have won their strike over recognition of their union. On April 2...
NATO offensive turns thousands of families into refugees
THE number of those displaced by the US/NATO military surge against the Taleban resistance in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, has more...
Gm Boss Refuses To Say Which European Plants Will Be Closed
GENERAL Motor’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Fritz Henderson, took questions at a Detroit press conference on Thursday, November 5th concerning the Magna...
Police fire rubber bullets and teargas at Savar workers
At least 50 people were injured as garment workers clashed with police in Savar on the main road between Dhaka and Aricha in Bangladesh...
AIR STRIKES MASSACRE CIVILIANS IN AFGHANISTAN – 92 killed in one...
THE number of civilian deaths admitted to by US and NATO forces as a result of airstrikes in Afghanistan is just the tip...
‘Two-thirds of firefighters will face the sack in their late 50s!’
WEDNESDAY’S four-hour strike by firefighters in England and Wales was an enormous success, with pickets and demonstrations outside fire stations and in town and...
IndustriALL calls for end to persecution of Bangladesh Garment workers unions!
GLOBAL union IndustriALL is calling for an immediate end to the persecution of garment workers, trade union leaders and worker activists in Bangladesh in...
Irish Trade Unions Split Over Croke Park
THE Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Civil, Public and Services Union have decided they will urge members to reject the Croke Park...
UK 23rd as far as child ‘well being’ is concerned
UK children’s wellbeing lags behind many other European countries, including France, Germany, Slovenia and Estonia, Save the Children has found. The charity’s World’s Mothers Index,...
Down with the junta of the IMF!
• No to the destruction of the state pension system • Down with the junta of the IMF-European Commission-Papandreou! • For an indefinite Political General Strike! Statement...
Stop Evictions! Occupy Ealing Hospital! Demands May Day March!
‘WHEN they move to close the maternity and A&E at Ealing Hospital, staff, unions and the community must occupy. A General Strike is coming,...
SSANGYONG WORKERS APPEAL FOR SUPPORT –under massive paramilitary attack
STOP Brutal Raid against the Ssangyong Motor Workers! Our Union Members’ Lives are at Stake! TODAY company goons ripped apart the shelters of solidarity supporters encamped...
Greek seafarers & dockers in 24-hour national strike
GREEK seafarers along with dockers and all other ports workers staged a solid 24-hour national strike last Wednesday against two separate government Bills to...
‘DEVELOP YOUR TANKS THE WAY YOU WANT … THESE WILL BE...
HASSAN Nasrallah, secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, has spoken at a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the July 2006 war with Israel. Speaking in...
ZIMBABWE POLICE ‘CONTINUE BEATINGS AND TORTURE’ – says Amnesty
In Zimbabwe the police still torture while a political solution to the country’s crisis is being sought, says Amnesty International. The Zimbabwean government continues to...
PUNISH COMPANIES FOR ‘DAYLIGHT ROBBERY – Prentis tells Farepak meeting
‘Many thousands of low paid workers, including many UNISON members lost money and faced a bleak Christmas as a result of the despicable behaviour...
THOSE WHO KILLED MUGHNIYEH WILL BE PUNISHED’ – declares Hezbollah leader...
Thousands of Hezbollah supporters made their way to southern Beirut on Monday in order to take part in a rally in the honour of...
Bush Anti-Iran Campaign Hitting Difficulties
US President George W Bush was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his campaign to isolate arch foe Iran and for...
‘GO HOME . . . you will be destroyed!’ – Gadaffi...
THE Libyan leader on July 1 addressed many tens of thousands of people in Tripoli’s main square and in the sidestreets around it....
PNA CALLS FOR MEETING ON GOLDSTONE – Palestinian anger forces U-turn
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has executed a U-turn over action on the Goldstone report on the Israeli war on Gaza last December 2008/January...
Release Tamil POWs and political prisoners! – Tamil politicians call for...
TAMILNET reports that Tamil politicians all over the world are urging global action to gain the release of POWs, and political prisoners. Addressing a...
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...
Longshoremen Are Organising An International Conference To Stop The War
ILWU Locals 10 and 34 are organising an International Labour Conference to Stop the War, on October 20 from 9am-5 pm in San Francisco,...
‘CLEAR CUT EVIDENCE OF NATO’S BARBARISM!’ – Libyan government spokesman condemns...
‘THE murderous NATO child killers are continuing their terror raids on Libyan civilians’. Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim, speaking in the city of Surman, west...
Israeli Troops On The Rampage All Over The West Bank!
AN autopsy conducted on Sunday morning has shown that 30-year-old Muhammad Ismail Atallah Tarifi, who was found dead on the roof of a commercial...
Arab World Condemns Iraq Partition Plan
The Egyptian People’s Assembly Arab Affairs Committee has denounced the US Congress resolution to divide Iraq into three states on religious and ethnic bases. The...
Lecturers and staff strike over 1 per cent pay offer
UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff angry at the employers’ refusal to budge from a 1% pay offer, which represents a real-terms pay cut of 13%...
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...
‘We support the call for a general strike’ – the RMT’s...
10,000 WORKERS, trade unionists and youth were on the London May Day March on Thursday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. The march was led...
Bush Seeking To Legalise Unlawful Military Commissions
THE Bush administration is pushing legislation through Congress to legalise its unlawful military commissions and indefinite detention without charge or trial, says Amnesty...
‘RESURGENCE AFOOT IN THE AMERICAN LABOUR MOVEMENT’ says SEIU leader
‘There’s a resurgence afoot in the American labour movement,’ said Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in an article titled Celebrating Workers...
Gate Gourmet Has To Win For The Whole Working Class
MORE than 400 youth and trade unionists showed their solidarity with the Gate Gourmet sacked workers at a second anniversary benefit rally in Southall...
‘We are going to strike on Feb 6th alongside Unite &...
UNIVERSITY lecturers up and down the country came out on strike on Tuesday in the second of a series of two-hour strikes in an...
‘The Obama administration is afraid of the people’ – Snowden
EDWARD SNOWDEN the former National Security Agency worker who blew the whistle on the US’s spying activities has been denied asylum by a host...
‘All students in the UK should walk out’ – London Met...
ANGRY London Metropolitan University students are rallying outside the Home Office in Marsham Street in central London at 1.00pm today, determined to defeat the...
Zero-Hours Contracts Being Used To Cut Wages And Avoid Holiday Pay...
UNITE, Britain’s biggest union, says urgent action is needed to stop the growth of the zero-hours culture as new figures show the use of...
US AGENCIES HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF AFGHANISTAN – says Major-General Flynn
AMERICAN spy agencies need to make ‘sweeping’ changes to their work in Afghanistan, a report by Major-General Michael T Flynn and two other senior...
Gadaffi addresses one-million rally at Zlitan
AT 1636 gmt on 15 July, Libyan state TV Al-Jamahiriyah broadcast a ‘live’ audio address by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gadaffi directed at a ‘one-million’...
Keep St Helier A&E, Maternity and Children’s Hospital open!
HEALTH bosses have now confirmed that they are pushing forward with their plans to close three children’s wards in SW London including all of...
GREEK POLICE – ‘MURDERERS AND TORTURERS!’ –shout thousands of youth
OVER 15,000 Greek school and university students and secondary school teachers marched through the Athens city centre on Monday afternoon in commemoration of the...