‘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...
Palestinian teachers strike enters third week
AN emergency meeting between Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members, teachers, and the Palestinian teachers’ union ended on Sunday without reaching a solution to end...
Sri Lankan Workers Rising Up Against The Rajapakse Regime
THE Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) yesterday said that a decision has been made to continue their current trade union action in whatever...
East Jerusalem ‘Must Be Placed Under International Protection’
THE Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Palestine Martina Anderson has called for East Jerusalem to be placed under immediate international...
Oppose all cuts to ticket office hours at LNER – demand...
A coalition of organisations joined together on Monday to oppose train operator LNER’s proposed cuts to ticket office opening hours at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Darlington; Doncaster;...
‘We teach our children hunger is more bearable than humiliation’ ...
‘I feed my children sugar and water … but if they opened a corridor for us to leave in exchange for raising a white...
Trade unions demand a united Ireland Call for new all Ireland...
MORE than 150 trade unionists have signed a declaration calling on the labour movement to advocate for a united Ireland and a new all-Ireland...
200 years since the birth of Frederick Engels
TODAY is the 200th anniversary of the birth, on 28th November, 1820, of Frederick Engels, the closest collaborator, benefactor, friend and comrade of Karl...
Kerry Returns To Middle East, Desperate For A Peace Deal
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry is to return to the Middle East later this week to resume efforts to draw Israel and the...
Fatah Is Working To Develop Popular Resistance
FATAH Central Committee Member Muhammad al-Alul has said that the Palestinian leadership is currently working on developing the popular resistance against the Israeli occupation...
‘It is not ok to drop a one ton bomb on...
AMERICAN jurist Mary Davis, who headed the independent United Nations probe into the events of 2014 aggression on the Gaza Strip, said that Israel...
Gulf Feudalists Rally To Oppose Revolution And Syria
THE annual summit of Arab monarchs in the Gulf opened in Manama last Monday with a call for closer economic integration and unity in...
Iran will give a decisive response to Trump’s ‘delirious attacks’
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran will give a decisive response to the ‘delirious threats’ made against it on the battlefield. Pezeshkian made the remark...
The people behind Gaza’s statistics
Sarah Algherbawi The Electronic Intifada IN JIHAD ABU Jamous’ family, he was seen as the lucky one. The 31-year-old, who gathered gravel to sell...
Join us on 27th August at 5.30pm opposite 10 Downing Street...
‘THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) London Freelance Branch calls on journalists and media workers to join us on Wednesday 27 August at 17:30 opposite Downing Street, where...
Carnage And Despair: Iraq Five Years On
Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is in disarray, the human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity prevails,...
Acute Food Shortages In Jaffna!
TamilNet reports that residents of Jaffna peninsula are experiencing an acute shortage of essential food commodities including wheat flour and sugar, sources in Jaffna...
Australian Unions Accuse Aldi Of Attacking Workers Free Speech!
THE Australian Transport Workers’ Union has accused Aldi of attacking free speech by pursuing a Federal Court case to stop truck drivers from protesting...
‘We stand united to defend pensions’ -says NUT leader CHristine Blower
School teachers, further education college and post-92 university lecturers in London are taking part in a one-day strike and demonstration today as the next...
‘The corporate structure of care homes … hides profits, avoids tax...
SOME of the Big 26 care home providers make use of ‘complex company structures’ is the finding of a report from the Centre for...
Over 5,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza by World Children’s...
IT WAS World Children’s Day on Monday, when it emerged that at least 5,500 children have been killed in Gaza since October 7th. According to...
NHS pay deal ‘will mean a pay cut for the most...
THE GMB, which represents many of the lowest paid NHS workers, is recommending that its members reject the new pay deal proposed by the...
Heavy fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Rwanda,...
HEAVY battles between M23 fighters and Congolese government forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Goma have left many...
King’s unions & management disengage
KING’S College Hospital Foundation Trust (KCHFT) management has been accused by the Unite union of ‘racism, discrimination and bullying’ as staff-side joint partnership meetings...
‘ARE THEY ALIVE?’ – Tamils demand on so-called Sri Lanka Independence...
‘I WISH all Sri Lankans around the world a happy celebration and continued peace and prosperity in the coming year,’ said a statement harping...
SETTLERS ATTACK PALESTINIAN CAMP –as Israel on brink of ‘civil war’...
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers on Friday stormed Ein el-Sultan camp to the northwest of Jericho city, leading to clashes. Witnesses said that...
‘WE WILL NOT RENEW THE TRUCE’ say Hamas and Islamic Jihad
The ongoing Israeli violations and extra-judicial killings have put the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the anti-occupation groups on opposite sides of the argument...
US State Department falsifies report to cover up sabotage of ‘humanitarian...
The US State Department falsified a report earlier this month to exonerate Israel from blame for obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, contradicting its own...
‘UK should examine its own destructive past actions in the Middle...
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the United Kingdom needs to take a retrospective look at its past destructive actions in the Middle...
SAFTU’s verdict on 100 days of Ramaphosa
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is not joining in the euphoria over President Ramaphosa’s completion of 100 days as President of...
‘Turkey Is The Main Destination For Isis Oil!’
THE Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov has given a briefing called ‘Russian Federation Armed Forces fighting against international terrorist. New data’. He said:...
‘HISTORY WILL JUDGE BRITAIN FOR ITS FAILURE TO SUPPORT THE...
‘BRITAIN will be judged by history for its failure to support the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday. ‘For how...
‘THERE IS HUGE, MASSIVE DEEP-SEATED DISCONTENT AMONG TRANSIT WORKERS’ – TWU...
‘We were engaged in Civil Disobedience’, said New York Transit workers union President Toussaint at State Supreme Court on April 10, 2006, before he...
Embers May Flare Up!
May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...
‘Israel Is Encircled By The Resistance Front’ Says Iran
A TOP Iranian official says Israel has been caught off guard and is encircled by the resistance front, adding that normalisation of ties between...
‘Nursing staff need to have full confidence they are protected!’
THE TORIES ‘indecision’ means nursing staff are facing a postcode lottery in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), leaving some more protected than others, the Royal...
BA Gatwick strike threat – GMB Stansted workers strike over pay
MORE than 300 senior British Airways cabin crew at Gatwick Airport have been threatened with the sack if they refuse to accept a pay...
Moayad Shaaban – ‘Since the beginning of the year the Israeli...
THE HEAD of the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission, Moayad Shaaban, said that since the beginning of this year, the Israeli occupation authorities have...
Labour movement rises up in Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe
Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, on Thursday, called on the leadership of the...
Joint Justice4Grenfell-FBU demonstration
‘THERESA May we don’t trust you, We trust the FBU,’ shouted over 3,000 marchers from Downing Street in London on Saturday. The joint...
‘We are leading the world’s revolution against Imperialism and tyranny’ –...
THE Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gadaffi gave a televised address, live from his Tripoli’s compound of Bab al-Aziziyah on Tuesday night. The compound has already been...
GREECE GENERAL ELECTION JULY 7th –after 4 years of EU-imposed austerity...
A GENERAL election is to be held in Greece on Sunday 7th July with the right-wing New Democracy party seemingly heading for a comfortable...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY –‘An open conflict between the...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 8. The growing conflict This essay was published In the Novy Mir daily paper in...
US workers welcome Sanders’ decision to stand
TWO RECENT articles in the US socialist magazine Jacobin celebrate the announcement of Bernie Sanders, the Democratic senator for Vermont, that he will be...
The number of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel is...
THE NUMBER of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Government figures show the...