Safety in custody – prisons in chaos – urgent intervention...
PRISON Officers’ Association (POA) has again this week urged Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland MP, ‘urgently to intervene in order to protect...
Stop NATO terrorism and the destruction of Sirte – Gadaffi urges...
COLONEL Gadaffi has sent a special appeal to the UN Security Council to halt the huge attacks on Sirte. In a message, attributed to the...
THOUSANDS RALLY AT ‘FIGHT FOR $15’ CONVENTION – as court workers...
THOUSANDS of workers gathered in Richmond, Virginia, on Friday and Saturday to push for a $15 per hour minimum wage. The first national Fight for...
British Troops Massacred Unarmed Malays At Batang Kali!
SUCCESSIVE British administrations have hidden the truth about the massacre of 24 unarmed Malaysian rubber plantation workers by UK troops in 1948, says...
‘Cliques Brought In By The Occupiers Are Assassinating Iraq’s Scientists’
‘stray cliques brought in by the occupation’ are assassinating Iraq’s scientists and intellectuals, Dr KhUdayir al-Murshidi, professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Baghdad...
More than half a million Ukrainian troops killed last year
Ukrainian forces lost 593,410 troops over the course of 2024, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry’s weekly briefings over the year indicate...
ISRAEL IS PREPARING MILITARY STRIKE – insists French Foreign Minister Kouchner
FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner dismisses the idea that even one nuclear bomb makes the Iranians immune to attack, he told Ha’aretz in an...
‘We are united, stronger together – We cannot and will not...
‘NONE of us want to strike, but we’ve been forced to by the government,’ Dr Kevin O’Kane, Chair, BMA London Regional Council, told a...
Egyptian Strike Wave
A STRIKE wave is continuing in Egypt as workers battle the El-Sisi regime, determined to improve their wages and conditions. Protests by workers at government-run...
Hamas Deals With The Recognition Issue
ABD-AL-AZIZ ALl-DUWAYK, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), said in Amman yesterday that Hamas’s recognition of Israel’s final borders is linked to Israel’s...
Indefinite Mexican teachers strike – Clashes leave 100 injured and nine...
THOUSANDS of teachers are on strike throughout Mexico against the education ‘reforms’ of the Nieto government, which has met their demonstrattions and barricades with...
82% of midwives work unpaid overtime – ‘We desperately need 5,000...
MIDWIVES have commented on the NHS Staff Survey and the impact of staff shortages and inadequate staffing levels on the health of midwives and...
‘systematic Exploitation Of Migrant Workers In Israel
Migrant workers in Israel’s agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to an October 28th report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning...
Global Youth Unemployment A ‘social Time-Bomb’
THE ITUC international trade union has described the high and rising levels of youth unemployment globally as a ‘social time-bomb’, which risks damaging the...
‘Get Ready For A Stayaway!’ Zimbabwe Trade Unions Instruct Their Members
‘Get Ready For A Stayaway,’ the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) General Council has instructed its member organisations. In a statement last Saturday, ZCTU...
‘We will win!’ says Families and Friends Campaign on march in...
‘WE believe that we will win! We believe that we will win!’ chanted one thousand marchers on the United Families and Friends March from...
Russia Behind the Camera: Archives, Art and Revolution
Film making in Russia – a masterclass by Margy Kinmonth at Pushkin House DOCUMENTARY film maker Margy Kinmonth gave a masterclass on the theme of...
‘CHARGE ISRAEL WITH WAR CRIMES’ – Abbas condemned for not doing...
THE fact that Acting Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has not filed any lawsuits charging Israel with war crimes is a condemnable act, said a...
US, UK AND FRANCE CHARGED WITH COMMITTING WAR CRIMES IN THE...
THE UNITED States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to the...
French workers battle to save hospitals and pensions
FRENCH workers are fighting attacks on their pensions and health service. French trade union federation CGT has raised the alarm over hospital closures. On Saturday March...
90,000 Sa Miners Jobs Threatened By Electricity Price Increase!
THE JOBS of 90,000 gold and platinum mineworkers’ are at risk as Eskom (the state-owned South African electricity public utility, established in 1923 as...
‘Whose NHS? Our NHS! 150 junior doctors rally in Hackney
‘WHOSE NHS? Our NHS!’ chanted over 150 junior doctors from east London hospitals at a lunchtime strike rally outside Hackney Town Hall on Thursday. One...
One-In-Four University Staff ‘bullied At Work’
The University and College Union (UCU) published a report yesterday warning that one in four university staff say they have been bullied at work...
AFL-CIO praises Canadian NAFTA negotiating team!
THE AFL-CIO, America’s trade union body, released a statement on September 20th giving its position on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and...
Union-buster Trump violated the law – US court hears
United States federal judge, James Donato, last Thursday granted an injunction after ruling that the administration of US President Donald Trump is ‘likely to...
20,000 Workers & Youth March To ‘Make It Right’ For Palestine!
OVER 20,000 workers and youth along with Palestinians living in the UK, marched through the streets of London on Saturday to ‘Make it Right...
Israeli Troops On The Rampage All Over The West Bank!
AN autopsy conducted on Sunday morning has shown that 30-year-old Muhammad Ismail Atallah Tarifi, who was found dead on the roof of a commercial...
GOLAN HEIGHTS SYRIAN TERRITORY – says UN Special Envoy for Syria!
UN SPECIAL Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen on Friday underlined Syria’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, rejecting a US congressional motion to recognise Israel’s...
‘OPENING SCHOOLS TO THE MARKETPLACE IS WRONG’ – NUT slams Barclays’...
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) on Thursday slammed the announcement by Michael Gove that Barclays Bank will be supporting Academies, Free Schools, University...
‘GAZA IS OPEN FOR ALL’ – Hamas’ Haniya welcomes Fatah’s Sha’ath
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya welcomed Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Sha’ath into his home in the Ash-Shati Refugee Camp on Thursday, along with...
RMT–27 Days Of Strike Action On Swr In Defence Of Guards...
THE RMT announced on Tuesday that its members on South Western Railway (SWR) will be holding a further 27 days of strike action in...
‘ATTACK ON IRANIAN TANKER WAS STATE SPONSORED!’ says Iran’s Foreign Minister...
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says the attack on the Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea last Friday was a ‘complicated action’ in...
The stark reality of growing up in poverty!
In June 2024, the charity Buttle UK concluded an extensive project to explore the lived experiences of children, young people, and families grappling with...
Tens Of Thousands March Against Greek Government In 11 Cities
Tens of thousands of youth, students and workers participated last Friday evening in fiercely anti-government marches and rallies, held in Athens and ten other...
Nurses Urge All Out With The Junior Doctors! Adding ‘It’s...
‘NURSES should come on a half day strike with the junior doctors,’ Jenny a student occupational therapist told a mass rally opposite Downing Street...
Argentina – right to strike targeted
The far-right government of President Javier Milei on Thursday imposed a significant restriction on the right to strike in Argentina across many sectors. This move...
‘The more Israeli forces destroy, the more nails they drive into...
THE chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said the more destruction the Israeli regime wreaks in Palestine, the more nails...
‘It Will Have To Go To A Strike By The Whole...
FIREFIGHTERS marched out on a six-hour strike at 6.30pm throughout England and Wales on New Year’s Eve, seeing the New Year in on the...
Fire bombs are thrown at migrant workers in Tel Aviv
Two firebombs were thrown at the Tel Aviv home of African residents on Saturday night, Israeli daily Haaretz reported. It is the second such attack...
INDIA GIVES GO-AHEAD TO ‘ELIMINATE LTTE’ – claims Sri Lankan Premier
IN his recent addres to the Oxford Union, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa tried to assert, very unconvincingly, that he did not believe...
Swiss Clothing Giant Signs Bangladesh Accord–But Migros And Coop Still Refuse
TALLY Weijl, the Swiss clothing giant, has signed the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, piling further pressure on supermarkets Migros and Coop...
2% Pay Offer ‘A Kick In The Teeth For Teachers!’
ANYTHING less than a 5% pay increase for teachers ‘is a kick in the teeth,’ Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School...
‘THE DAY OF ISRAELI MILITARY TOURISM ON THE LEBANESE BORDER AND...
HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking via a giant screen on Saturday, vowed to respond to attacks on Hezbollah. HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking...
‘End Occupation: Israel Is A Terror State!’
‘OCCUPATION no more!’ ‘Israel is a terror state!’ ‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 200 workers and youth at a picket of the Israeli embassy...
UN Condemns ‘Israeli Practice Of Collective Punishment’
The 6th Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council ‘on human rights violations emanating from Israeli military incursions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,...