Nationwide public sector strike in France! – as school students blockade...
A NATIONWIDE strike by public sector workers took place in France on Tuesday with over 170 demonstrations and rallies taking place across the country. Alongside...
US Aiding Terrorists In Iraq And Syria
SECURITY experts believe the United States is targeting Iraq’s anti-terror Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) in order to resuscitate the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group that...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – over 100,000 workers march in Athens
OVER 100,000 workers flooded the entire Athens city centre on Thursday March 11th, in a magnificent demonstration on the day of a 24-hour general...
The world’s nine nuclear-armed countries spent $82.4 bn upgrading their atomic...
THE world’s nine nuclear-armed countries – led by the US – spent $82.4 billion upgrading their atomic arsenal in 2021, eight per cent more...
This BMA ARM must decide on action to defend NHS! –...
THE health services in England and Wales and Northern Ireland are in massive crisis. In February, The Francis report on Mid Staffordshire hospital (MSH)...
‘My daughter has been been branded a terrorist – she is...
At the rally at Downing Street the first speaker was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, who said: ‘Friends of justice, friends...
Lecturers Unprecedented 14 Days Of Strike Action
LECTURERS in over 60 universities have in the past fortnight taken nine days of strike action throughout Britain over cuts to their pensions. With...
Tens Of Thousands Demand An End To Egyptian Military Rule
About 300 people are being held after violent clashes outside the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday which left one soldier dead and hundreds...
Job Stability Is The Key Issue In Toronto
JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...
REVIEW SECRETIVE ACADEMY SCHOOLS – TUC report
The TUC on Monday called on the government to ‘step back’ and initiate an ‘independent review’ of privately-sponsored academy schools. Before leaving office, Blair...
OCCUPATIONS AND NATIONAL ACTION TO SAVE NHS – calls Enfield conference
‘NATIONAL Action is needed to defend the NHS & stop hospital closures!’ was the title of the resolution that was carried unanimously at a...
French CGT union members step up pensions fight – storming Paris...
ANTI-PENSION reform protesters in France stormed the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics in a posh north Paris neighbourhood last Tuesday, leading to pitched...
‘We will not rest until we get justice’ – says family...
‘WE will not rest until we get justice for her and for the many other lives lost as a result of this crime,’ says...
US union leaders released after mass rallies across the US
DAVID Huerta, the 58-year-old president of Service Employees International Union California, was released from federal custody on Monday on a $50,000 bond after a...
‘No To Slavery – We Are Workers’
OVER 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters rallied at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords, from 11am to 1pm on Sunday. The...
Syrian army inflicts heavy losses on the terrorists
THE Syrian army’s units and air force continue targeting the positions and hideouts of the terrorist organisations, inflicting heavy losses upon them. An army unit...
Global strike condemned Israel’s genocidal warfare on the Gaza Strip
A GLOBAL strike prevailed in several Arab and Muslim cities around the world on Monday in condemnation of the Israeli genocidal war on the...
French refinery workers extend strike for 10% increase
FRENCH refinery workers have continued their strikes as a petrol crisis drags on across the country, with authorities threatening to resort to force to...
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...
Israel’s aggressive blockade pushes over two million Palestinians to the brink...
AS ISRAEL'S second total blockade stretches into its second month, more than two million Palestinians are being pushed to the brink of famine. Hunger is...
Usw Steps Up Global Campaign For Vale Miners’ Strike
The United Steelworkers’ (USW) global campaign to prevent Brazilian mining giant Vale S.A. from eroding working conditions and denying basic labour rights at its operations worldwide...
Kenyan doctors & nurses continue strike and defy threats
STRIKING Kenyan doctors and nurses have made it clear that no threat will force them back to hospitals. Nurses and clinical officers stood their ground...
Abbas meets Biden who rules out talks to set up Palestinian...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, welcomed the official visit of the President of the United States of America, President Joseph...
TENS OF THOUSANDS CELEBRATE – after Palestinian membership bid is submitted...
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas waved to the crowd of tens of thousands during a celebration in Ramallah, upon his return from the UN General Assembly...
GP Surgeries Under Threat
GP SURGERIES are under threat of closure or will be forced to reduce services this winter as pressure mounts, Local Medical Committees (LMCs) have...
Barnado’s! Quit The Child Detention Business!
By Alida Alisis BACK in March, almost a year after the government had promised to end what Nick Clegg called the ‘shameful practice’ of locking...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – PART 8: Lenin studies the...
WHEN Lenin saw, on his return to Russia in April 1917, that the ‘democracy’ in Russia proved even less capable of assuming the power...
Over 100 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2022
A Palestinian human rights group says Israeli military forces have killed more than one hundred Palestinians, and wounded hundreds more during raids and various...
Israeli police raid Jerusalem
ISRAELI police arrested two Palestinians early on Sunday during a police raid on the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya, while the Israeli army arrested...
‘When companies are exempted the whole process is a circus’ says...
WORKERS in Zimbabwe have expressed dismay at the lack of seriousness on the government’s part, after it exempted more companies to operate during the...
Canadian trade unions fighting new anti-union legislation
Last week, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government of Jason Kenney introduced Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act, which constitutes ‘an attack...
‘The solution is uprising’– say 120,000 Athens workers!
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...
200,000 STUDENTS TO BE SHUT OUT OF UNIVERSITY –‘it is just...
OFQUAL, the exams regulator, has given an ‘unprecedented glimpse’ into this year’s A-level results. In a letter, Ofqual’s chief executive Isabel Nisbet took the unprecedented...
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Visits North Western Iraq As Syrian Troops...
THE COMMANDER of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Qassem Soleimani has been pictured with the pro-government...
Sri Lankan Military Intelligence Threaten Protesting Tamil Fishermen
While hundreds of fishermen from Maathakal were staging a silent protest on Monday morning in front of the Indian consulate in Jaffna, Sri Lankan...
5,000 Deaths A Year Linked To Asbestos Exposure!
FIVE thousand deaths every year in Britain are linked to past asbestos exposure, but people are still being exposed to it today, warns the...
Lecturers strike to defend jobs, pay and pensions
UNIVERSITY and college lecturers are taking action in defence of their jobs, pay and pensions. They will be taking part in strike action next Tuesday...
Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails are suffering unbearable imprisonment conditions...
THE Palestinian Authority’s Detained and Ex-Detainees Commission has said that the Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison of Etzion, near Bethlehem city in...
Forced Academies – ‘This Is A Huge Government Climbdown!’ Says Nut
‘THIS is a huge government climb-down and is a testament to the campaigning of teachers and parents,’ Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the...
Iran wins legal battle against US attempt to seize bank funds!
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as Bank Markazi, says the country has won a legal battle in Europe...
NUMSA’s international tour to investigate forming a workers’ party
THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) has kicked off its year with study tours overseas to investigate the feasibility of forming a...
Torture & Force Feeding In G-Bay And Bagram Prison!
GLOBAL youth media company ‘Vice’ on Monday launched a week-long special edition of their website Vice.com about Guantanamo Bay, featuring testimony from clients represented...
THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET– October 4 1936 – ‘They shall...
On 4th October 1936 the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney, in the Battle...
Some of the biggest US banks have underwritten billions of dollars...
Some of the United States’ biggest banks have underwritten billions of dollars in Israel bonds, including a substantial amount of $8 billion (£6.4 billion) in March...
Judge denies US attempt to extradite Assange
Jubilant scenes greeted Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges at London’s Old...