Thousands Of NHS Staff Being Transferred Into Outsourcing Firms Despite Carillion...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff are being transferred by their own trusts into outsourcing firms, risking ‘dozens of Carillion-style meltdowns’ the union Unite has warned....
Al-Sadr Movement Says It Will Withdraw From The Iraqi Government
THE political bloc of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says it is quitting the Iraqi government, as a wave of bombings left another 43 people...
Israel’s mass arrests ‘a systematic campaign of persecution targeting Palestinians’
ISRAELI police arrested 561 Palestinian workers throughout the 1948 occupied territories last week under the pretext of entering ‘without permits’. Human rights groups have condemned...
Palestinian Child Victims Of Israeli Torture
I want to continue my education. I want to be a lawyer when I grow up to defend Palestinian children against the injustice that...
Nigeria Democracy Day protests demand Buhari Must Go
NIGERIANS on Saturday staged protests and rallies throughout the country to mark the second anniversary of the declaration of June 12 as ‘Democracy Day’...
NUMSA hails reinstatement as a victory for all workers!
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says last Thursday’s Constitutional Court ruling reinstating nine employees who were dismissed for singing struggle...
‘Everyone Should Strike To Support This Action – Not Just The...
NHS! NHS! NHS! chanted 20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters as they marched in central London on Saturday. ‘The BMA is balloting...
Bangladesh workers and students ‘lay siege to Dhaka!’
At least 76 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and dozens more injured in a new round of violence in Bangladesh over the...
UK ‘Practising Deliberate Policy Of Destitution’ Of Asylum Seekers
‘The government has indeed been practising a deliberate policy of destitution’ of vulnerable asylum seekers, say MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee...
New Zealand Unions Defend Health And Safety
TODAY a widow and a mother sit together in the High Court in Wellington fighting for justice for the men that were killed at...
‘The deliberate inaction of countries … aims at legitimising Tel...
THE IRANIAN Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights says ambiguous positions adopted by international bodies, including the United Nations, over the ongoing massacre of...
MALIKI RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FALL OF MOSUL – says Iraqi Parliamentary...
TOP Iraqi officials ignored ample warnings of an impending attack on second city Mosul and grossly mismanaged the ensuing crisis that saw it seized...
Terrorists Fire Toxic Gas Shells Into Aleppo Neighbourhoods!
TERRORIST organisations positioned in Aleppo countryside have fired shells containing toxic gases on the neighbourhoods of al-Khalidyia, al-Neel Street and Jam’ayat al-Zahra in Aleppo...
Russia focussing on the liberation of the Donbass
RUSSIAN Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow has completed the main objectives of the first phase of the special military operation in Ukraine and...
UK government ‘balancing the books on the backs of the starving...
THE BRITISH government has decided to ‘balance the books on the backs of the starving people of Yemen,’ in an act that will see...
Tory Budget: war on NHS, education & pay
IN REFUSING to lift the 1% public sector pay cap, chancellor Philip Hammond is condemning ‘just managing’ civil servants to wage cuts of up...
SCRAP ABCC ‘STAR CHAMBER’ NOW OR WE’LL BREAK WITH YOU –Australian...
union leaders in Australia have threatened to withdraw support for the country’s Labour government, if it does not give in to their demands to...
The West using ‘dirtiest tricks’ against Moscow and Beijing says Russian...
THE COLLECTIVE West is using the dirtiest of tricks against Moscow and Beijing in a bid to maintain its hegemony, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey...
Workers must overthrow the Syriza government and capitalism!
STATEMENT BY THE REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST LEAGUE GREEK SECTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WITH fast-track procedures that ridicule all democratic and constitutional statutes,...
‘Syria owned by the Syrians’ insists President Assad – Part two
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed in Damascus that Syria is owned by the Syrians and that the peace is two things. First, fighting terrorists...
Israeli forces raid Bethlehem arresting Hamas lawmakers!
ISRAELI state forces raided Bethlehem on Tuesday night, detaining Hamas members and Palestinian lawmakers, locals said on Wednesday. Witnesses said that Israeli forces arrested Khalid...
Tens of thousands of Bangladesh garment workers walk out
THE PAST two weeks have seen mass walkouts and wildcat strikes by thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh. After five years the industry’s minimum...
Powerful march demands ‘Stop closure of children’s services in Ealing’
‘SAVE the Charlie Chaplin Ward, stop the closure of Children’s Services!’ demanded yesterday morning’s 7am-9am Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital. The picket was called by...
IMF presides over historic crisis of Capitalism!
NEXT week Washington will host the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. At this gathering, the world’s economic policymakers will...
67th Nakba anniversary!
PALESTINIANS marked the 67th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ or ‘the great disaster’ on May 12 with a festival through the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Thousands...
Palestinian teenagers seized in overnight raids
ISRAELI occupation forces arrested 13 Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids on Wednesday night – one of the arrests was south of Nablus,...
Defeat Israeli plan to ‘manage starvation’ & drive Palestinians out of...
Two days after the limited entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian voices are rising to emphasise the ineffectiveness of the aid provided. They...
Palestinian Premier Hamdallah is to visit Gaza Strip
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said on Thursday that no mechanisms had been put in place to ensure the implementation of the reconciliation agreement...
‘Refugees–let them in!’ – 100,000-strong march through central London
MORE than 100,000 people marched through central London from Hyde Park to Parliament Square on the REFUGEES WELCOME HERE! march on Saturday. The march was...
Israeli Fighter Planes Attack Gaza
Fresh Israeli strikes bombed several sites in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, leaving at least 16 people injured – two in a critical condition,...
Teamsters vote 85% for national strike at Costco for a fair...
Teamsters members at the supermarket Costco across the United States voted by an overwhelming 85 per cent margin on Thursday to authorise a national...
ONE YEAR SINCE THE HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE …and reconstruction has still not...
One year after the Haitian earthquake which killed 230,000 people and injured 300,000 on 11 January 2010, more than one million people still live...
Turkish Leaders Meet With Pkk Leader Ocalan!
TURKEY’S spy chief has assured the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during a secret meeting last week that the...
Greek Teachers And Doctors Strike Against Closures
Some 4,000 primary and secondary school teachers, from both state and private schools, plus state hospital doctors, short-contract workers of the Athens municipality, university...
Greek Crisis General Election Next Sunday
VOTING takes place this Sunday in Greece for the snap general election the current right-wing government of the New Democracy party called to avoid...
Three Former Blackwater Employees Get 30 Years For The Nisour Square...
LAST Monday, three former employees of Blackwater, the notorious US military contractor, were sentenced to thirty years in jail for carrying out a massacre...
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...
Swazi Nurses & Teachers Taking Action!
IT seems an official nurses’ strike is looming in Swaziland after the union called a special urgent meeting scheduled for today. The meeting is...
‘We will never let imperialist powers destroy Syria’ – say Syrian...
‘We’re here, the Syrian community, at this protest organised by Syrian Youth in Britain,’ Danny Makki, one of over 60 mainly young people outside...
Olmert reveals the US agreed to ‘absorb’ 100,000 Palestinians – only...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that during his tenure as Premier he had reached an agreement with the United States for...
‘NO MORE GAMES WITH NHS’ – says BMA as RCM members...
MIDWIVES and doctors unions have responded to Labour leader Miliband’s pledge to find ways to increase NHS funding. Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair said:...
Iranian tanker ‘Fortune’ arrives in Venezuela
VENEZUELA’S permanent representative to the UN has welcomed the arrival of Iranian tankers loaded with gasoline to the South American country’s waters, urging US...
Specialist Health Services sell-off!
IN a historic crime a new report paves the way for the sell-off of England’s Specialist Health Services. Since the passage of the Health...
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...
Children’s rights have ‘regressed in many areas’ of the UK
NINETY children’s charities have warned the United Nations that children’s rights have deteriorated in England and ‘regressed in many areas’ since 2016. On Wednesday 9th December, the Children’s...