WE ARE DETERMINED TO OVERCOME THE CURRENT CHALLENGES! – says LTTE...
TAMILNET reports that the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) have stated that, with the people’s support, they will surmount all difficulties. In an interview with Tamilnet, the...
COSATU demands: End PPPs, Ban ‘labour brokers’ (gangmasters) and expand state...
COSATU’s 1st Deputy President, Tyotyo James addressed South Africa’s Public Sector Summit on March 12 2010. He said: ‘COSATU is pleased to have been...
The Iranian revolution will continue to defeat all plots!
‘the Islamic Revolution will go on to defeat all US plots in the coming years just as it has done over the past four...
‘WE WILL COME OUT OF THIS FIGHT AS THE WINNERS!’ –...
TENS of thousands of Greek university and higher education college students from all over the country demonstrated last Saturday in the northern city of...
Egyptian Workers Strikes Spread
EGYPTIAN workers are striking to improve their poverty-stricken living standards. Postal workers, textile workers, port workers in Suez and hospital doctors have most recently...
THE PEOPLE OF GAZA MUST NOT BE LEFT TO THEIR FATE...
THE Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah issued a strong warning to Israel in his Ashura Day address in Beirut, last Saturday. Speaking on this...
The Nehawu trade union is battling against South African Parliament!
A DISPUTE between workers in the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the South African Parliament is building. The workers are employees...
Torture Inquiry – secret services to inquire into themselves
REPRIEVE, the legal action charity which uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay is...
Afl-Cio Forms Partnership With National Day Labourers!
A NEW national partnership agreement signed yesterday by the AFL-CIO and the largest network of worker centres serving low-wage, often immigrant workers will help...
‘Armed gangs are the tools of imperialism and Israel’ says Syrian...
THE Syrian defence minister, General Fahd Jasim al-Furayj, gave an interview in Damascus on February 4th explaining the Israeli air raid, the ‘armed gangs’...
RAJAPAKSE GIVEN ‘A LICENCE TO KILL’ –by the International Community
THE British Tamil Forum has condemned the statement by the Co-Chairs (US, EU, Japan and Norway) of the international community demanding that...
Factory Blast Probe Condemns ‘Dangerous And Dysfunctional’ Safety Culture
An independent report into the ICL Glasgow plastics factory fire disaster in which nine workers died in May 2004 has exposed a health and...
AN ISRAELI INVASION OF THE GAZA STRIP ‘IS JUST A STONE’S...
HAMAS’ Yahya Musa, a deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council declared yesterday that an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip was discussed behind the...
WEST ‘HAS RUN OUT OF AMMO’ says Ahmadinejad
PRESIDENT Ahmadinejad has said that the West has ‘run out of ammo’ against Iran. He added that Iran will never accept commitments from Western countries...
ONE BIG TEACHERS UNION! – demands Professional Unity Conference!
OVER 100 teachers from around the UK attended a Professional Unity conference last Saturday, organised by their trade unions. Speakers were Mary Bousted, Association of...
PEACE CAMP DETERMINED TO STAY –as London Mayor Johnson seeks their...
The Peace Camp in Parliament Square was brutally raided by armed police at 8am on Tuesday morning and its leaders were arrested and dragged...
Sa Municipal Workers Ready For Strike Action
THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) says about 250,000 workers from 300 areas around the country will go on strike if last-ditch negotiations...
‘Resist Israeli Pressure Tactics’
PALESTINIAN leaders called on factions responsible for capturing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to resist ‘Israeli pressure tactics’ aimed at forcing them to drop their...
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...
Gadaffi Rejects ‘Med Union’ As ‘Crusaders Containment’
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...
Numsa Leads Skychefs Strike In Sa!
WORKERS in the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the National Transport Movement and the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union, on...
‘Teachers Are Exhausted By Ofsted And Hours Of Pointless Paperwork!’
TEACHERS are suffering from ‘ludicrous levels of workload pressure’ teachers unions have warned. They were responding to a ‘bitterly disapointing’ new Tory government ‘Workload Challenge...
‘Drone Attacks Are International Law Crimes’
An Islamabad-based human rights charity called on Wednesday on Pakistan’s Government to demand the adoption of a UN resolution requiring that the USA stops...
‘Outrage’ At Remploy Closures
Hundreds of disabled workers demonstrated yesterday against the closure of Remploy factories outside the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) offices in London and...
THE IRAQI RESISTANCE IS STILL DIRECTING POWERFUL STRIKES AT THE OCCUPIERS...
‘The Iraqis today do not have control over their political, security or social situation – control is in the hands of the occupation, those...
RESISTANCE IS A LEGITIMATE RIGHT – affirms Haniya
‘I welcome you all on this great day’, said Ismail Haniya last Saturday, just before he was sworn in as Prime Minister of the...
‘A Budget for the City slaps the poor and the unemployed...
GEORGE Osborne’s ‘rich man’s’ budget has failed to address the fundamental economic problems blighting Britain, said the Unite trade union. Unite hit out at...
Rafah crossing shut for 6 months
Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Wednesday that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) will close the international Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip...
US billionaire brothers are financing anti-union drive
BILLIONAIRE brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are dumping hundreds of millions of...
Bilal Kayed’s hunger strike enters 50th day –against Israeli administrative detention
PALESTINIAN prisoner of Israel’s jails, Bilal Kayed, today, Wednesday 3rd August, enters his 50th day of hunger strike for his freedom. Kayed, a member of...
Tens Of Thousands March For Mousavi
TENS of thousands of supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi staged a ‘silent’ protest rally in Tehran on Wednesday against the...
No Tory Dictatorship Smash Anti-Union Laws!
THE publication of the newly proposed Tory strike-ban laws have brought a response from all trade unions. Some union leaders call for action but the...
‘WE’RE HERE TO GET FREE EDUCATION BACK’ say students
Students on a 1,000-strong march through London on Wednesday called on the trade unions to act to restore free education. Students marched from University of...
‘THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING – WE HAVE TO CARRY ON...
OVER 300, mainly youth, shouting No Justice! No Peace!, marched through Tottenham on Monday evening to Ferry Lane, the place where Mark Duggan...
REGULARISE MIGRANT WORKERS say MPs
Labour deputy leader contender Jon Cruddas is leading a private members debate in Westminster Hall at the House of Commons, on, ‘Regularisation of Migrant...
43 million forcibly displaced worldwide says UNHCR report
‘At the end of 2009, some 43.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution, the highest number since the mid-1990s,’...
NUMSA begins indefinite strike action!
OVER 220,00 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will begin an indefinite strike tomorrow to win pay increases and...
‘Free Palestine–Free Al-Aqsa’ Demands 1,000-Strong Lobby Of Israeli Embassy
‘FREE, FREE, Palestine! Free Al-Aqsa!’ shouted participants in an over 1,000-strong lobby of the Israeli embassy in West London on Saturday evening. They also shouted...
Police Chief Knew Marikana Operation ‘Would Involve Bloodshed’
THE Inquiry into the police massacre of 34 Marikana miners at the Lonmin pit and the wounding of hundreds more is continuing. On Monday, the...
Wilko Imposes Draconian Cuts!
GMB UNION members working for Wilko are furious over a threat that the company is to turn on them and impose draconian cuts. It...
Lift The Siege! Break The Blockade!
HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal held a news conference in Cairo last Friday. He began by saying: ‘We are now in Cairo on the first leg...
‘WE ARE ONE PEOPLE OUR CAUSE IS ONE!’ – Hamas...
Hamas Political Bureau chief Khaled Mishaal in an extensive interview last Tuesday reflected on the Mecca agreement between the Hamas and Fatah movements. Mishaal said:...
‘EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE, TORTURE AND DETENTIONS’ – Amnesty reports allegations...
A report published on Monday, March 30 by Amnesty International reveals a pattern of serious human rights violations by Greek police and other...
FORWARD TO A SOCIALIST REPUBLIC! – urge French youth
OVER half a million high school youth, unemployed youth, university students and workers demonstrated across France on Thursday, March 16. Millions of workers...
‘WE HAVE TO PROTECT SOCIAL HOUSING!’ say ‘Our West Hendon’ marchers
OVER 400 West Hendon tenants, leaseholders and supporters marched on Thursday evening from West Hendon to Hendon Town Hall for a lobby of a...