Palestinian forced to demolish his own home by the Israeli occupation!
A PALESTINIAN on Wednesday morning was forced to demolish his own house in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, reported WAFA’s correspondent. Following an Israeli court...
‘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:...
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...
Sri Lankan Army Steps Up Its Attacks On Tamil Civilians
TAMILNET reports that yesterday, at 6.50am the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intensified its offensive aimed at dividing the so-called Safety Zone into two. With fire...
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...
Arab summit agrees to form Arab joint military force to fight...
EGYPTIAN President Abd-al-Fattah al-Sisi has hailed Arab state leaders for ‘agreeing on the principle of forming a joint Arab military force’ to face...
‘All non-Syrian fighters must leave Syria says Assad
SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad, speaking in Damascus on Monday, said: ‘The Geneva Conference should produce clear results with regard to the fight against terrorism...
UCU slams call for higher tuition fees
The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday (Thursday) that forcing students to pick up the bill for higher education was an astonishingly weak,...
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...
400 Houston Janitors Continuing Their Strike Action!
400 Houston janitors are continuing their strike against contractors for whom they clean the offices of some the wealthiest corporations in the...
A Decisive Week For Lebanon
Lebanon has entered a decisive week during which its parliament is due to elect a new president. With tanks and troops deployed on the streets,...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘The revolution will make...
Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN 7. Internal Forces of the Russian Revolution (Appeared in the New York daily paper...
Hamas And Fatah Leaders Call For National Unity
LAST Thursday two leaders from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, underlined the need to strengthen national...
‘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’...
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...
Sharon Dying – Palestinian Revolution Lives!
ARIEL Sharon, the arch Zionist Israeli prime minister, who has spent his whole life killing Arabs, is fighting for his life in a Jerusalem...
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up Victoria&Albert Museum, Cromwell Road,London SW7 2RL 16 June – 4 November 2018 Admission £15 (concessions available). SOLD out to the end of...
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...
‘We will negotiate with EC’ says Tsipras
THE Greek leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras in an interview with the Athens left daily Avgi on Sunday...
Bangladesh Tea Workers Threaten Indefinite Strike Over Pay
WORKERS in 23 tea gardens in Habiganj, Bangladesh will go on indefinite strike and block the highways if their demands are not met by...
French ‘yellow vest’ protest today!
LES GILETS JAUNES, France’s nationwide ‘yellow vest’ protest movement, has organised to unite and descend on Paris today Saturday 24 November, in an attempt...
Fatah leader Barghouthi – hunger strike leader’s condition is deteriorating
IMPRISONED Palestinian parliamentarian and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, who has been leading a large-scale hunger strike in Israeli prisons, has suffered a serious deterioration...
People Still Missing After Attack On Freedom Flotilla
THE Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said on Thursday 3 June that there were still missing people from the convoy that was detained by Israel...
Junior Doctors Slam ‘Shambolic And Deeply Destructive’ Changes
Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...
‘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...
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...
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...
PCS/war On Want Rally Supports Palestinians And Chagos Islanders
THE PCS civil servants union held a 70-strong international rally at its annual conference in Brighton last Wednesday evening where it launched a joint...
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...
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...
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...
Students Call For Nationwide Rent Strikes!
NATIONWIDE student rent strikes have been called for by more than 25 universities who gathered in London over the weekend of the 16th-18th September. Activists...
‘Lebanon cannot be a soft spot for harming Syria’ – nor...
‘Lebanon cannot be a soft spot for harming Syria and the latter cannot be a conduit for harming Lebanon,’ said Hezbollah’s Sheikh Na’im...
TREAT MIGRANT WORKERS FAIRLY demands UNISON
UNISON has welcomed new research showing the value of trade unions to migrant workers. The report by social policy charity the Rowntree Foundation was launched...
5 Million Syrian Refugees Since 2011
MORE than 90,000 Syrian refugee children in Jordan weren’t able to attend school last year, along with hundreds of thousands in neighbouring refugee host...
South African Unions To Strike In Defence Of 7,000 Eskom Jobs
SOUTH African unions say they will resist power utility Eskom’s intention to cut 7,000 jobs through natural attrition with strike action. ‘Eskom intends to reduce...
END THE EXPLOITATION OF BRITAI’S MOST VULNERABLE WORKERS – Brendan Barber...
SPEAKING at a press conference in Brighton on the eve of the TUC Congress, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today I launch a...
Israel Declares The Gaza Strip A ‘Hostile Entity’
HAMAS has condemned the latest Zionist decision on Wednesday to declare the Gaza Strip a ‘hostile entity’ and to cut off vital fuel and...
NHS ‘RECONFIGURATION’ IS CLOSING HOSPITALS! – GP role being changed from...
THE NHS was a key issue in the general election. US-HMO-style (Health Maintenance Organisations) integrated care systems are being set up all over England. Provided largely...
‘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...
‘Without doubt we are experiencing tough and serious conditions’ – Palestinian...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei has touched on a number of foreign and domestic policy issues, such as the relations with the USA, the...
PUBLISH YOUR EVIDENCE! – Students want Russell Group’s fees report made...
STUDENT leaders went to the Russell Group’s headquarters next to Trafalgar Square on Monday, to demand the Group makes public its evidence to the...
Greek Phone-Tapping Storm
A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...
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...
STRUGGLE FOR UNION RIGHTS ESCALATES IN THE UNITED STATES –Oklahoma senate...
A bill that would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees in Oklahoma’s largest cities is on its way to Republican Governor Mary Fallin’s...