SIEGE-BREAKING BOATS DEPART GAZA – a huge victory of people over...
After shattering the Israeli blockade of Gaza earlier this week, the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty victoriously departed Gaza for Cyprus at 2.00pm...
‘We don’t know the wickedness being done by our government’ –...
‘MY demonstration continues,’ said Brian Haw on Monday, after three Court of Appeal judges ruled in favour of the government and the chief of...
Barghouthi Calls For Partnership With Hamas
Campaigning in the Palestinian legislative elections ended at mid-night on Monday. 24 hours before about 80 per cent of eligible voters in the West...
The ‘Framework For Action’ Is A Blueprint For Privatising The NHS
THE ‘Framework for Action’ plan for London’s healthcare, fronted by Professor Sir Ara Darzi, proposes the destruction of a publicly-provided National Health Service (NHS)...
Britain’s secret work on Bahrain’s death row
BRITAIN’S secretive work at a death-row jail in Bahrain is being challenged by international human rights group Reprieve. The UK Foreign Office paid almost a...
MASSACRE IN BEIT HANOUN – Hamas vows revenge
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Friday evening condemned the Israeli Army for firing into a crowd and killing two Palestinian women during a...
GPs stopped from working due to Capita delays
NEWLY qualified GPs have been stopped from working for six months due to delays by the privateer Capita’s management of the National Performers List...
Israel refuses to apologise for Freedom Flotilla massacre
ISRAEL has rejected a US request to apologise to Turkey over its 2010 commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine Turkish...
Secret Police State Helped Bosses Draw Up Blacklist And Used Women...
CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has exposed how the union was infiltrated by the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The revelation creates fresh questions about the...
‘TIME FOR ACTION’ – ON JOBS, WELFARE AND PENSIONS – as...
US TRADE union leaders’ were yesterday demanding that the Democrats take action on workers’ issues in the Houses of Congress, in return for the...
‘WE ARE THE BEDROCK OF THE NHS’ – declares doctors’ conference
Over 400 family doctor delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) GPs conference on Thursday expressed their anger and voted no confidence in the...
‘This Occupation Is Hugely Inspiring To Staff’ Says Sussex Professor
Over 500 students, lecturers and other academic staff, and privatisation-threatened support workers, held a vibrant march and rally on Tuesday afternoon, in support of...
SRI LANKA: WORKERS FIGHT BRUTAL EXPLOITATION – Part 2; Appalling housing,...
THE living conditions of workers, the Tamils on the tea plantations and the Sinhalese on the rubber plantations, and their families, has...
‘BUSH IS ELIMINATING THE GAINS OF ORGANISED LABOUR’ – warns Hoffa
In a Labor Day statement last Saturday the US Teamsters Union President Jim Hoffa stressed that workers have to rely on themselves and their...
Israel declares war on Palestinian football!
THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) has expressed its ‘deep regret’ at the Israeli District Court’s approval – on a pretext of ‘security concerns’...
Barak Closes Gaza Border Crossings
ISRAELI Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday ordered Israeli forces to shut down the Gaza Strip’s borders again, turning away a truck convoy bearing...
The reality of the British Raj in India
A new academic study has shed light on the devastating impact of British colonialism on India, uncovering staggering death tolls and immense wealth extraction...
US postal workers and teachers under attack
POSTAL workers and teachers are coming under attack as a result of the drive to cut federal and state spending in the crisis-hit United...
‘We’Ll Fight Until We Win Our Jobs Back’
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to ‘fight until we win our jobs back’ and defeat attempts by their union leadership to sell-out their...
Bin Laden condemns ‘crusader war’ on Islam
THE Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has said in a new audio tape attributed to him that the siege imposed on the...
‘20-50 NHS TRUSTS AT RISK’ – BMA ARM warned
THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Bournemouth on Thursday passed, almost unanimously, Emergency Motions calling to halt the take-over...
VAST AND GROWING LEGION OF JOBLESS YOUTH – ILO says worldwide...
The number of people unemployed worldwide climbed to new heights in 2005, especially among the vast and growing legion of jobless youth, the International...
Saudis In Same Camp As Israel, Says General Jafari
THE commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards accused Saudi Arabia of treachery on Monday, saying the bombing of Yemen had put the kingdom in...
Three Former Blackwater Employees Get 30 Years For The Nisour Square...
LAST Monday, three former employees of Blackwater, the notorious US military contractor, were sentenced to thirty years in jail for carrying out a massacre...
ISRAELI FORCES BOARD THE ‘DIGNITE AL KARMA’ – passengers arrested, then...
FIFTEEN activists held after Israeli forces intercepted their boat as they attempted to sail to Gaza will be deported today, an Israeli official...
ELDERLY MADE ILL WITH POVERTY AND ANXIETY –finds Help the Aged...
One in four older people in the UK have become so worried about the future that they are making themselves ill, according to the...
Dale Farm Community Standing Firm And Defiant!
DESPITE conditions at Dale Farm being really harsh now, following Basildon Council’s brutal multi-million pound attempted eviction which began on October 19th, the community...
6,000 LECTURERS FACE THE AXE – UCU fears more to come
The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday it was furious at the response from the university employers’ organisation over the figures for job...
‘CAPITALISM HAS PROVEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT IT HAS NO...
COSATU President Sidumo Dlamini addressed the COSATU union federation’s 25th anniversary celebration last Sunday. He told his audience: ‘Comrades and friends, we are here today...
TORTURE AND SECRET DETENTION – Testimony of the ‘disappeared’ in war...
America is ‘complicit in torture’ carried out in secret detention centres around the world, accuses Amnesty International in its latest report. Torture and secret detention:...
Gmb & Unite Defend National Agreements
FULL-scale nhs privatisation under Section 75 of the Health & Social Care Act and cuts to terms and conditions of NHS Staff pose real...
M&s ‘Guarantee’ Just Seven Hours Of Work At Their Swindon Depot
WORSE then a zero-hour contact, supermarket giant Marks & Spencers will only guarantee their staff at the Swindon distribution depot seven hours of work...
Rajapakse regime condemned for harassment and deadly threats to opponents
TAMILNET reports that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York based media rights group, has slammed the Sri Lankan Government for its...
The Lfb Is Failing To Meet Response Targets After 10 Fire...
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is failing to meet response time targets to more than half of all emergencies in the areas where ten...
Trump Condemns Iran And Embraces Israel & Egypt!
DONALD Trump’s White House signalled a tougher stance toward Iran on Wednesday, condemning a recent missile test and declaring America was putting the Islamic...
‘Venezuelan people will triumph over US’ – SAYS SYRIA
SYRIA’S Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali AbdulKarim, has affirmed that the Venezuelan people will ‘triumph’ over the US conspiracy. Meeting the Venezuelan Ambassador to Lebanon, Jesus...
1.5 Million To Strike On March 28
One and a half million of the country’s most essential public sector workers will go on strike on 28 March to protest at unfair...
‘We are digging in for a big dispute’–Prentis
‘I’m ecstatic to see the people out on the picket line today, from different unions – TGWU, GMB, UNISON – it’s inspiring,’ east London...
MASSES REJECT MUBARAK ‘OFFER’ – ‘This is an opportunity for the...
‘THIS IS our revolution, Mubarak is a tyrant, not a president any more!’ said angry Egyptians demonstrating in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday. The chanting...
Cuts Harming Children!
AUSTERITY is being exploited to drive through budget cuts and reforms which are denying children their basic human rights, according to a major new...
Justice For Eric Garner Rally Demands Police Prosecutions!
ONE YEAR since unarmed American black man Eric Garner died at the hands of the police, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of...
Al Nusra Front – Under Orders Not To Attack West
THE head of Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, Abu Mohamed al-Jolani, has described the rival Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed caliphate as ‘illegitimate’...
RELEASE SHREWSBURY DOCUMENTS –10 more years of secrecy condemned
MPs and trade union leaders addressed a press conference at parliament on Wednesday organised by the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign. They demanded the release of documents...
100,000 March In Dublin Against Water Charges
HUGE numbers of anti-water-charges demonstrators marched through Dublin city last Saturday, ending with a 100,000-strong rally at the Spire on O’Connell Street, with...
NATFHE NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION ON JUNE 1st – after Northumbria suspends the...
Northumbria University has stepped back from its decision to make immediate deductions of 100 per cent of pay from hundreds of lecturers belonging to...