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Greece goes to the polls as workers mobilise against austerity

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Workers and youth in Greece were looking to deliver a huge blow to the current right-wing government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in yesterday’s parliamentary elections. The...

ABBAS CELEBRATES 26th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PALESTINIAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE –and...

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ON Saturday 15th November, the 26th anniversary of the Palestinian ‘declaration of independence’, and 10th Anniversary of the death of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat,...

‘THE RESISTANCE WILL CHANGE THE FACE OF THE REGION!’ – Nasrallah...

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HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed a mass rally in the Lebanese capital Beirut last Saturday to mark ‘Martyrs’ Day’ celebrations. He spoke about the...

Palestinian children beaten and tortured by Israel

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TESTIMONIES by a number of Palestinian children to the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission show they were subjected to systematic beating and torture during and after...

US nurses National Day of Action for safe staffing

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NATIONAL Nurses United held a National Day of Action on January 13th to demand their employers, and the Biden administration protect registered nurses (RNs),...

West Bank settlement expansion ‘undermines Gaza gains’

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PLO Executive Committee member Yasser Abed Rabbo has called on the European Union to take a firm stand against moving the Zionist settlers evacuated...

‘SAVE OUR UNIVERSITY’ – 500 lobby London Met governors

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OVER five hundred students and staff of the London Metropolitan University gathered outside the building in Holloway road in north London yesterday to protest...

‘We will never let imperialist powers destroy Syria’ – say Syrian...

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‘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...

Wadi al-Hummus demolitions are ‘a heinous crime we will not accept’...

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THE PALESTINIAN Presidency on Monday ‘reiterated the firm position of the State of Palestine that supports the right of the People’s Republic of China...

NHS staff from overseas paying extortionate visa fees

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PUBLIC sector union Unison says the UK immigration system has never been smooth to navigate. The Home Office is infamous for its extortionate fees...

MESSAGES OF RESILIENCE! – symbols of perseverance, resistance and defiance

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‘WE promise we will rebuild them.’ These words were written by a Palestinian on the walls of a house demolished by Israeli airstrikes in...

‘Hezbollah Missiles Can Strike Any Position In Israel’

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HEZBOLLAH deputy secretary general says there is nowhere in Israel outside the range of the Lebanese resistance movement’s missiles. ‘There is not a single...

Sharon Aims For Zionist ‘Greater Jerusalem’

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THE PALESTINE Media Centre reports that ‘The Israeli Knesset on Monday approved a speech by the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that vindicated his “defense”...

Revolution – New Art For A New World

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REVOLUTION - NEW ART FOR A NEW WORLD A Margy Kinmonth Film Director: Margy Kinmonth Created with the support of Alisher Usmanov, Founder of the Art, Science...

THE WAY OUT! – Negotiate with the Resistance, Punish the criminals!

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The Brussels Tribunal and the International Anti-Occupation Network have issued the following statement on Iraq entitled ‘The Way Out’: ‘If the US military declare...

Thousands march in funeral procession of Al-kharroubi

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THOUSANDS of Palestinians in the city of al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank took part in the funeral of 19-year-old Ahmad Nashat Othman...

Britain Has No Sovereignty Over The Chagos Islands

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THE maritime law tribunal of the United Nations has ruled that Britain has no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. It criticised London for its failure...

Strike Wave Surge In The US

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THE US is experiencing a surge of strikes – 10,000 John Deere workers went on strike in October, and so did 1,400 Kellogg workers,...

AMCU secures reinstatement of 579 sacked members!

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THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said on Thursday it had successfully secured the reinstatement of 579 of its members dismissed in...

Nearly two million US citizens held behind bars – Lashawn Thompson...

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LASHAWN Thompson, a 28-years-old black inmate, was found dead in his cell in an Atlanta jail with more than one thousand insect bites all...

Canadian grocery workers strike

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THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...

Hamas supports call for general elections!

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THE ISLAMIC resistance movement Hamas has praised recent calls by the Palestinian Democratic Union (PDU) – a political party active in the Palestine Liberation...

‘Labour Must Stick To Its Guns In Championing Palestinian Rights For...

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By Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian ‘JEREMY Corbyn’s principled stance has been watched with bated breath by all Palestinians in occupied Palestine and the diaspora. After...

‘Down with Bolsonaro!’ – thousands of Brazilians take to the streets

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THOUSANDS of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October’s...

Lieberman likely to face money-laundering charges

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THE corruption investigation into Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is likely to produce charges of money laundering, fraud and breach of trust, Israeli police...

Huge Polytechnic Uprising anniversary march on Sunday – General strike across...

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Greek students, youth and workers delivered a significant blow to the Mitsotakis government, the US-NATO imperialists, EU and Israel on Sunday. They staged a most...

Nigerian TUC: lift petrol levy or we strike!

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The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) said on Wednesday that its has demanded that the federal government stop the plan to introduce a...

BOSTON NURSES TAKING STRIKE ACTION – Nissan workers organise for a...

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BOSTON’S first nurses’ strike in 30 years began on Wednesday after a last-ditch negotiating session failed to resolve the disagreements between the Massachusetts...

Massive Support For Nurses Picket Lines

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THE RCN picket outside St Thomas’ hospital opposite Parliament in central London on Tuesday was joined by hundreds of nurses, hospital staff, doctors, and...

N.U.T. TEACHERS VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – over pay, conditions and...

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DELEGATES at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Manchester have called for action over pay, privatisation and teachers’ workload. During...

REGULARISATION FOR ALL! – march and rally for migrants’ and refugees’...

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On the 7th of October 2006 a coalition of migrant groups, trade unions and social justice activists marched in London demanding equal rights for...

Croatian Serbs fight court battle to get homes back

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The European Court of Human Rights is considering an important case for returning Croatian Serb refugees, says Amnesty International. The Grand Chamber of the...

Australian Esso workers 1 year on strike!

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MORE THAN 500 Australian trade unionists marked the first anniversary of strike action by 230 workers employed by energy giant Exxon Mobil’s maintenance contractor...

Massive Kaiser Permanente strike action!

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OVER 75,000 workers from various unions at healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente, have initiated a strike, making it the most significant work stoppage by healthcare...

Tunisia Revolts Against Unemployment And Mass Poverty!

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FRESH protests over unemployment and poverty in central Tunisia on Thursday raised fears of growing social unrest five years after the country’s revolution was...

Jail corporate killers – demand bereaved families

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‘STOP the employers getting away with murder,’ angry bereaved relatives said on their Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) lobby of Parliament on Tuesday. Hilda Palmer...

24-hour London-wide bus strike solid!

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BUS workers called for the entire bus service to be taken back into public hands and renationalised, during Tuesday’s 24-hour London wide strike over...

STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA’ – says London rally

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‘Free, free Palestine!’ shouted crowds at a 10,000-strong rally for the women and children of Gaza on Saturday, called by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign...

Ferry Crews Back Greek Farmers

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Greek armed riot police repeatedly attacked with tear-gas and stun bombs 1,500 protesting farmers from Crete in the port of Piraeus...

Most Ukrainian troops ‘killed or captured’ says Russia

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TALKS between Russia and Ukraine should be held on conditions advanced publicly by the Russian side and take into account the actual situation, speaker...

‘The solution is uprising’– say 120,000 Athens workers!

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CHANTING ‘It’s their crisis – the solution is uprising!’; ‘Down with the government and the troika of the EC-IMF-ECB. The time has come...

‘COMPANY DIRECTORS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE’ – Corporate Manslaughter Bill ‘a...

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DRAFT CORPORATE-killing legislation to be debated in parliament today would have made no practical difference to the four major railway disasters since 1997 had...

1.8 MILLION WORKERS EXPECTED TO REPAY 35bn EUROS – GETTING NOTHING...

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IRISH Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Chief Economist Paul Sweeney has told a high level global economic summit involving the IMF, World Bank and...

OVER 1 MILLION DEMONSTRATE IN SOUTH KOREA –demanding resignation of President...

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The fourth mass anti-president rally in downtown Seoul last Saturday evening saw 600,000 workers, students and senior citizens, chanting slogans demanding scandal-hit President...

10 Israeli Negotiating Strategies

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Al-Zaytouna article BY DR MOHSEN SALAH ISRAEL has a negotiating strategy that is designed to prolong the negotiations allowing more time for the construction of facts...