‘SYRIA IS A CIVIL STATE THAT SOME SITTING IN THIS ROOM...
Syrian Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, opened the Geneva 2 conference in Montreux on Wednesday by insisting on delivering the whole...
Murdoch Gang Face Charges
EX-DOWNING Street communications chief Andy Coulson and ex-News International executive Rebekah Brooks have been charged in connection with payments to police and public officials....
Greek Civil Servants Fight 15,000 Sackings
GREEK civil servants staged a one-day strike in the Athens area last Friday against the coalition government’s plan to sack some 15,000 ministries workers...
Ferry Crews Back Greek Farmers
Greek armed riot police repeatedly attacked with tear-gas and stun bombs 1,500 protesting farmers from Crete in the port of Piraeus...
‘Release database of businesses engaged in Israel’s illegal settlements –Palestinians demand...
The Ramallah-based Al-Haq human rights organisation on Tuesday called on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to release the long-overdue...
New Left Front Leader Beaten Up At Colombo Airport
TAMILNET has reported on the ensuing crisis following the cancellation of the speech due to be given at the Oxford Union by the Sri...
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY’S MANSION BUILDING IS OCCUPIED – to stop the closure...
OPEN letter to Middlesex staff, faculty, and students, 7th may 2010. ‘Dear Middlesex University staff, faculty, and students, We are writing to clarify our intentions...
Trade unions condemn Colombian state murder
THE TRADE Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) adopted a resolution on the dire situation in Colombia, condemning the violence against trade unionists and calling on...
Modi government blocks documentary, arrests journalists and raids newspapers and...
The offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in India have been raided and searched by the country’s income tax authorities on Tuesday, according...
Israel is ‘deliberately’ destroying Gaza’s health-care infrastructure!
AN American surgeon volunteer at a Gaza hospital has condemned the Israeli regime’s heavy toll on Palestinian medical facilities since October 7th, 2023, asserting...
Murderous US airstrike on Shayrat air base crossed red lines –...
THE MURDEROUS US strike on the Shayrat Syrian air base last Friday crossed ‘red lines’ and any new aggression will be met by a...
7-Day Working Proposed For Hospital Consultants!
BY A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT PROPOSALS are being made by clinical leaders to bring in 7-day working for hospital consultants. These proposals are laid out in a...
Russian ‘Caliber’ missiles destroy US & European weapons in Ukraine
THE RUSSIAN army struck at warehouses in the Zhytomyr region in the west of Ukraine on Saturday. High-precision long-range sea-based ‘Caliber’ missiles reached the...
Hands off our training budgets – say UCU
The University and College Union (UCU) on Wednesday called on the government to urgently protect healthcare education funding after MPs warned that delays in...
‘WE WON’T ALLOW REMPLOY CLOSURE PLAN’ – Remploy stewards tell News...
THE whole of the Remploy network of factories for disabled workers is under threat, because the government plans to limit the company’s funding to...
Garment workers linked to M&S ‘underpaid’
WORKERS manufacturing clothes for Marks & Spencer (M&S) employed in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India continue to be underpaid, a report by Labour Behind...
National Public Sector Strike Called In Greece
The Federation of Greek Public Sector Trade Unions (ADEDY), the Athens and Piraeus Trades Councils and dozens of trade unions have called a 24-hour...
French rail workers rolling strikes
FRENCH rail workers walked out on another day of strikes on Thursday June 7th. Rail unions have carried out a series of two-day rolling...
Palestinian workers and youth are on the march
DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...
The Canadian government calls for an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka
TAMILNET reports that the Canadian government has called for an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka. ‘We’ve asked the United Nations for an immediate ceasefire. ‘We’re very...
‘THE FUTURE OF THE NHS IS AT STAKE!’ – say ‘Mums...
OVER 400 doctors, furious at government ‘reforms’ which threaten their profession – making a staggering 14,000 hospital doctors redundant from August – descended on...
‘Carillion Has No Right To Bully And Harass US’
‘We are comrades! We have shown we are not just GMB but all of Swindon together!’ GMB shop steward Paulo Fernandes told a cheering...
76th anniversary of Nakba Day – 15th May 1948!
TODAY, May 15th, marks the 76th anniversary of Nakba, ‘the Catastrophe’, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land to...
Seven young men facing execution in Saudi Arabia –Amnesty International demands...
SEVEN young men who were juveniles at the time of their alleged offences are facing imminent execution in Saudi Arabia despite the country having...
Teamsters Mobilising Against ‘Flawed Pensions Bill’
The US Senate could take up the so-called Pension Protection Act, H.R. 4, by today, warns the Teamsters union. A Teamsters statement said: ‘This bad...
‘It will be hard for GPs to keep one eye on...
Nurses and Midwives have strongly criticised the Health and Social Care Bill published last week, calling it a toxic prescription for patients and a...
‘West will pay a heavy price for supporting Al-Qaeda’ – says...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday that the West will pay a heavy price for its support of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Assad, whose regime has...
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...
MUSHARRAF IS DOING BUSH’S JOB! – say 8,000 Pakistani demonstrators outside...
UP TO 8,000 demonstrators took part in a mass picket of Downing Street on Monday, to protest against the visit of Pakistan’s military ruler...
Teachers’ leader Courtney calls for General Strike for Palestine!
LABOUR MP for Hayes and Harlington John McDonnell said: ‘Netanyahu must be imprisoned for war crimes. The campaign for disinvestment in Israel must be...
NEU shines damning light on multi-academy trusts
Analysis by the National Education Union shines a damning light on the performance of large multi-academy trusts (MATs). New data from a Freedom of Information...
Kerry Visits Egypt On The Eve Of Mursi Trial
US Secretary of State, John Kerry says that there are indications Egypt generals intend to restore democracy. He says that the USA is committed...
Ireland A&E overcrowding causing ambulance chaos – SIPTU organises industrial action...
SIPTU has warned that the overcrowding crisis in hospital emergency departments is causing chaos for ambulance professionals across the Republic of Ireland. The union has...
1,000 days in Belmarsh–Free Assange now!
JULIAN Assange supporters held a lively protest outside the Australian High Commission in London on Wednesday, the 1,000th day of his imprisonment in Belmarsh...
‘RECOVERY’ HAS LITTLE MEANING WHEN MILLIONS ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS –...
THREE global trade union federations – representing 55 million industrial workers – have issued a call to the G20 summit, taking place in Pittsburgh,...
PAY THE ‘LIVING WAGE’! – GMB to demonstrate at NEXT’s AGM
THE GMB trade union will hold a public protest at the Annual General Meeting of NEXT in Leicester this Thursday, May15. They will call for...
2,500 US troops have already left Iraq says Iraqi Premier
THE Iraqi prime minister says as many as 2,500 US troops have left the country as part of agreements reached with Washington to enable...
Syria Hails Iran’s Support For The Struggle Against The UK...
CHIEF of the General Staff of the Syrian Army and Armed Forces, Lt. Gen. Ali Abdullah Ayoub on Tuesday held a session of talks...
‘Iran Will Continue To Support Syria!’
SYRIAN Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Mu’allim discussed with Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council Ali Larijani bilateral relations between Syria...
Turkish work-related fatalities highest in Europe–four a day!
A TOTAL of 21,800 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the country since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to...
Student Leader Is Attacked In Jaffna
A STUDENT leader was attacked and seriously wounded in Jaffna on Sunday, reports TamilNet. Suspected Sri Lanka Army intelligence personnel armed with sharp iron rods...
Orlando Disney unions battle against low wages
Disney unions in Orlando have filed a federal labour complaint against the theme park company for withholding $1,000 bonuses from unionised workers unless they...
500,000 march in Athens!
HALF a million Greek workers, students and youth marched through Athens on Wednesday. This was as part of a two-day general strike against a government...
‘WE ARE FIGHTING SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE FOR OUR...
‘WE made Marks and Spencer their profits!’ said an angry Fenland Food worker fighting the closure of her factory and the loss of hundreds...
Nationwide university strike looms
THE ONLY way to stop the nationwide shutdown of almost every university in the country, beginning on Thursday 22nd February, is for university management...