Assad Denounces Imperialist Wars For ‘Redrawing The Map Of The World!’
President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday received Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Yong-ho and the accompanying delegation. Talks during...
As Zuma goes–‘SAFTU has no confidence that multi-billionaire Ramaphosa will be...
JACOB Zuma resigned as president of South Africa on Wednesday ahead of a vote of no confidence over uncontainable corruption scandals, and has been...
HUNDREDS OF TAMIL YOUTH TORTURED –as Rajapakse strengthens his dictatorship
TAMILNET reports that the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lankan government continues to torture hundreds of Tamil youths arrested and detained under...
Turkish Airlines Workers Continue Their Struggle
305 THY (Turkish Airlines) workers who were sacked because they rose against the banning of their strike action in the aviation industry by law,...
‘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...
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...
‘Wheels on the verge of falling off’ the ambulance service say...
Unite, which has over 100,000 workers in the NHS, including thousands of paramedics, is warning that unprecedented demand is resulting in the ‘wheels being...
LEGAL AID CHANGES ARE UNLAWFUL –finds leading QC Michael Fordham
A legal opinion by a leading QC has found that the Government’s proposed changes to legal aid – for which the consultation closed this...
Fatah and Hamas resolving issues over passports and detainees
FATAH and Hamas are close to resolving the issues of political detainees and passports for Gaza residents, senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath said Wednesday. Shaath...
Yemen Houthis Ready For US Invasion
THE leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has warned that the US military is preparing the ground for an act of aggression against the...
SA police clear 87 officers of Marikana miners massacre
SOUTH African Police have investigated and cleared 87 of their own officers in relation to the August 2012 police killings of 34 Marikana miners. South...
‘The Palestinian cause is for the whole world’ – says Hamas
A SENIOR official of the Hamas resistance movement has described Israel as a threat to humanity, saying Palestine’s anti-occupation struggle is a humanitarian cause...
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...
London protest and vigil in solidarity with Sudan on one year...
OVER a hundred Sudanese and their supporters held a vigil in Trafalgar Square on Monday night. Organised by London for Sudan and the Madiniya organisation...
‘VICTORY IS CLOSE!’ – say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
‘VICTORY is close now,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a meeting of more than 200 trade unionists and youth on Sunday in...
PNA CLOSES GAZA/EGYPT BORDER – Abbas wants international agreement
THE Gaza Strip-Egypt border will reopen only as part of an international agreement, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said, after Palestinian security forces sealed...
Israel in crisis as government loses majority and Hamas issues warning...
srael’s ruling coalition government has become a minority in parliament after an Arab lawmaker stepped down in protest at ongoing Israeli forces’ aggression against...
MIGRANT WORKERS HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES – but is forced to move...
THE 250 migrant workers, on hunger strike since last Tuesday in Athens, have been forced to abandon the University of Athens Law School hall...
London Bus Privateers Must Stop ‘Race To The Bottom’ Or Face...
UNLESS London bus privateers stop the ‘race to the bottom’ and cease their onslaught on working conditions all-out strike action will swiftly ensue, Unite...
Tuc Supports Strikes By Writers Guild Of America
British trade unionists on Wednesday demonstrated their support for America’s striking screenwriters as part of an international day of solidarity called by the Writers...
‘A LABOUR REVOLUTION NEEDED’ – to save Haiti, says ILO leader
‘The decent work agenda is a primary need when we talk about reconstruction,’ Anthony Jones, the resident representative of the ITUC and the Trade...
DEATHS IN POLICE CUSTODY MUST STOP! – says Smiley Culture march
‘Today is a momentous day. It is time to let the people know we are not going to accept this,’ Merlin Emmanuel told a...
Over 60 million refugees worldwide
‘INDICATIONS from the first half of the year suggest 2015 is on track to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first...
Germany to send 2,000 additional anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to...
GERMANY will send 2,000 additional anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to replenish the country’s depleting arsenal and bolster its defences against the Russian military operation. The...
Quash convictions of 25 Cambodian factory workers! – demands Human Rights...
THE Cambodian government should quash the convictions of 25 human rights activists, factory workers, and others for lack of evidence, Human Rights Watch has...
Put Iran First Says Iranian Newspaper
A FOREIGN Ministry spokesman said in Tehran last Sunday that the allegations being made by US General David Petraeus were baseless. Petraeus said...
Time For Britain To Hold Israel To Account
BRITISH Middle East policy in the human rights arena has long been suspect. It is time for Britain to hold Israel to account Evidence of this...
GADAFFI REMAINS DEFIANT, STRONG AND WILLING TO NEGOTIATE’ says chess master
KIRSAN Ilyumzhinov, president of the World Chess Federation, has spoken about his recent meeting with Colonel Gadaffi in Tripoli. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, head of the...
UK leading the way in privatisation of modern war – as...
BRITAIN is set to designate Russia’s private security company Wagner Group as a ‘terrorist organisation’, according to a report in The Times of London...
Secondary teacher recruitment crisis Teacher trainee census 2018-19
‘WE are at a crisis in secondary teacher recruitment,’ said Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, commenting on the...
‘The Israeli army is implementing a US decision to build a...
HASAN Fadlallah, Hezbollah member of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies for the Bint Jubayl constituency, said on Monday morning that ‘the Israeli Army...
‘JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE!’ –President Abbas addresses 54th anniversary of...
‘JERUSALEM is not for sale. Palestine will never let the US sell occupied al-Quds to Israel,’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said adding that the...
ANC dismisses call for its leadership to resign
SOUTH Africa’s ruling ANC has dismissed a call by its chief whip, Jackson Mthembu, for the party’s NEC to resign in the wake of...
Black Friday Wal-Mart strike! – in unity with Ferguson campaigners
THIS year’s Black Friday anti-Wal-Mart protests in the US were the widest-reaching ever, with pickets and strikes at 1,600 stores in 49 states to...
Huge Athens Strike Rally Demands The Resignation Of The ‘Murderers Government’
A huge Athens strike rally on Wednesday demanded the resignation of the ‘murderers’ government’ of Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Under glorious sunshine tens of...
US military to be a more ‘lethal, adaptive and resilient force’...
US SECRETARY of Defence Lloyd Austin says his country is committed to protecting its Southeast Asian allies against what he called China’s aggression. ‘Beijing’s claim...
IAM Aerospace workers in the US demand a 40% pay rise...
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM) leaders at Boeing the aircraft manufacturers are demanding a 40 per cent pay rise over...
Netanyahu ends peace talks – Demands an end to Fatah-Hamas unity
ISRAEL has called on Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to rip up the unity deal struck between the PLO and Hamas. Israel earlier suspended peace talks...
Numsa Fighting For A Fair Deal For Workers Hit By...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is demanding a fair deal for the 1,500 strong workforce after General Motors announced its...
More Than 100 Covid Cases At Napier Camp
ACTIVISTS threw fake blood at the gates of Napier Barracks last Thursday – in protest against the conditions in which hundreds of asylum seekers...
‘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...
US Congress bans rail strike ‘in the national interest’!
US RAILWAY workers, Amazon Workers Union, Pilots union and NY State Communist Party among others, gathered outside of New York’s Grand Central Station at...
Australian mass marches against low pay!
MORE THAN 170,000 workers marched through Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, while tens of thousands of others marched through Sydney, Wollongong, Gladstone, Cairns, Mackay, Darwin,...
Biden trip seeks to obliterate Palestinian cause
THE Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has condemned US President Joe Biden’s forthcoming visit to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, as being...
While bills & rents soar US to spend $838.8bn on arms
THE devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout continue to take a toll on the world and provide ample reason to...