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GAZA WORKERS RALLY TO HAMAS – as Haniya calls to renew...

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THOUSANDS of Palestinian professional workers have demonstrated their unequivocal support for the legitimate PNA government under Premier Ismail Haniya, and denounced PNA chief Mahmud...

‘There has been a shift in the balance of power in...

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcast on Thursday. We are very pleased to publish it in two parts PART TWO Al-MANAR: Mr...

UK must ban all goods in whole or in part from...

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A group of 62 MPs and peers across parties have written to trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds to demand the government takes measures to ban...

4th Anniversary of the murder of Colonel Gadaffi

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Libyan Free Press – EDITORIAL STATEMENT – OCTOBER (2015), marks the four-year anniversary of the disappearance of Libya’s leader, Muammar Gadaffi, and...

US-led NATO foreign ministers meet to discuss Ukraine joining NATO!

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FOREIGN ministers of the US-led NATO military alliance have met to discuss offering future security guarantees to Ukraine amid Kiev’s push to join the...

‘West will pay a heavy price for supporting Al-Qaeda’ – says...

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday that the West will pay a heavy price for its support of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Assad, whose regime has...

Hundreds respond in London to Palestinian call for Global Action for...

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A VERY lively protest in response to the call from the Palestine Republic for a Global Day for Gaza to besiege US Embassies, the...

76th anniversary of Nakba Day – 15th May 1948!

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TODAY, May 15th, marks the 76th anniversary of Nakba, ‘the Catastrophe’, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land to...

SINN FEIN CALLS FOR ENDING OF THE GAZA BLOCKADE –at the...

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BY JOHN COULTER, IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST SINN FEIN has called for the immediate ending of the Israeli blockade of Gaza. In a major speech, one of...

Egypt & Israel Strangling Gaza

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THE shift of power in Egypt over the past few months has led not just to border closures for those wanting to cross into...

Global strike condemned Israel’s genocidal warfare on the Gaza Strip

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A GLOBAL strike prevailed in several Arab and Muslim cities around the world on Monday in condemnation of the Israeli genocidal war on the...

‘The fragile peace is hanging by its fingertips!’ – says Fra...

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TROUBLE erupted on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday the 7th of April 2021. We can only ask if we are witnessing a return...

Row Growing Over Future Of 17,000-Plus Detainees

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A proposed US-Iraq security pact states that anyone detained by the Americans must be handed over to the Iraqis within 24 hours, says UN...

HUNDREDS OF NEW ORLEANS DEATHS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED – findings...

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the deaths of a hundreds of New Orleans residents and the suffering of so many thousands more people could have been avoided, an inquiry...

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...

OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘Revolutionary anniversaries are days...

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Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 5. Revolutionary anniversaries REVOLUTIONARY anniversaries are not only days for reminiscence, they are days for...

FRANCE CONSIDERED PROTECTING TARIQ AZIZ – intelligence chief’s notes reveal

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Three months before the US invasion of Iraq, France was considering protecting senior figures from President Saddam Hussein’s government, according to a senior intelligence...

Syria warns terrorists prepared to launch chemical weapons in Idlib

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AN OFFICIAL at Syria’s Foreign and Expatriates Ministry affirmed at the weekend that all shouting and untrue, fabricated news about the use of chemical...

Paramilitaries Abduct Tamil Girls

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TAMILNET reports that fatigue uniform clad armed men who came in a white van abducted a 16-year-old girl student last Monday night around 11.30...

EXPAND SCO TO CONFRONT US POLICIES – urges Iran

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‘The SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organisation) countries face common threats in the form of America and NATO’, says the Iranian newspaper Resalat. Full members of...

ACCESS MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR ALL STUDENTS – UCU and NUS...

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The University and College Union (UCU) said on Wednesday that for widening participation to really succeed, potential students must have access to the courses...

Liverpool Hope University Lecturers Fight Job Cuts

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LECTURERS who are members of UCU at Liverpool Hope University have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their ongoing row with the...

‘I WILL NOT END MY LIFE WITH A BETRAYAL’ President Abbas...

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IN A speech last Wednesday to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Palestinian President Abbas declared: ‘I want to achieve something for my country and I...

Unite’s Response To Health Select Committee Inquiry!

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‘THESE changes can not be separated from the problems A&E is facing. Unite believes that at the heart of this issue is...

Tahrir Square won’t accept El-Ganzouri

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The sit-in at Cairo’s Tahrir Square was continuing on Sunday with hundreds of protesters still occupying tents in the square while others continued chants...

‘My brother was treated in an appalling and inhumane way’ –...

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THE inquest into the death of 25-year-old Godfrey Moyo, whilst on remand at HMP Belmarsh, concluded yesterday with the jury deciding that the...

Mishaal Calls For Palestinian Talks Without Conditions

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KHALID MISHAAL, head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, has called for an all-inclusive dialogue among all political Palestinian forces, particularly Fatah and Hamas, which would...

‘KEEP OUR LOCAL SURGERY OPEN’ –demand Camden Road patients

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PATIENTS faced with the closure of their local Camden Road GP surgery overcame bureaucratic attempts to bar them from attending an invitation-only meeting with...

‘Trump’s plan to drive the Palestinian people out of Gaza will...

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‘TODAY, we march not just against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but also to stand up for our right to demonstrate on the streets...

AIRSTRIKES ON GAZA! – Palestinian woman killed

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ISRAELI forces on Sunday morning opened fire on Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza Strip, local officials said yesterday. Local residents added that Israeli forces...

Mexican Workers Defend Union Jobs

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MEMBERS of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) are vowing to fight as long as it takes to defeat the government’s heavy-handed, anti-union moves...

Huge increase in leukaemia and birth defects in Iraq

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THE use of depleted uranium in Iraq by the US and UK military has led to a huge increase in Leukemia and birth defects...

Champoor Tamils Call For Resettlement In Their Homes

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TamilNet reports that uprooted Tamils in Champoor, whose lands were taken away by the Sri Lankan government for India’s thermal power project, depopulating the...

TORTURE CONTINUES AFTER GEORGIA’S ‘ROSE REVOLUTION’ says Amnesty

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‘Torture by the authorities, including with electric shocks and cigarette burns, continues in Georgia’, said Amnesty International today in a new report released on...

Doctors warn of worst-ever winter crisis!

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THE President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Katherine Henderson, has urged hospital boards to ‘take immediate action’ to reduce crowding in...

Israel targeting of journalists is a war crime – says Human...

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An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians...

‘A HISTORIC VICTORY FOR ALL JOURNALISTS’ – NUJ welcomes court judgement...

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THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed last Friday’s High Court in Belfast’s full written judgement on the quashing of arrest warrants for...

ISRAEL ISSUES STOP WORK ORDERS –to Palestinian wind and solar power

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There is an underground bunker in the South Hebron Hills, camouflaged by bracken and heavy sacks, where a tiny Palestinian village is sheltering a...

Irish bus drivers vote for strike action!

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SIPTU Bus Drivers in Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann have voted by over 90%, in both companies, in favour of industrial action and strike...

Palestinian teachers strike enters third week

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AN emergency meeting between Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members, teachers, and the Palestinian teachers’ union ended on Sunday without reaching a solution to end...

Female doctors take on extra work to fight Covid – RCN...

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Female doctors say they have ‘felt compelled to step up’ during the pandemic, even though they knew they were at risk, as BMA research shows that they...

SUDAN CONFLICT ENTERS FIFTH MONTH ‘The most vulnerable and innocent are...

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VIOLENCE is threatening Al Nao hospital, a vital lifeline for people in Omdurman, to the north west of Khartoum, as the conflict in Sudan...

British Trained Forces Run Amock In Basra

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WHILE British troops are sheltering in their heavily protected barracks, the puppet army and police forces that they have trained in Basra are running...

Settlers Attack Kifl Hares Village

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Extremist Israeli settlers set up a big tent at a roundabout leading to the village of Kifl Hares, north of the occupied West Bank...

US union to vote on Israel boycott

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By Tithi Bhattacharya – a professor of South Asian History at Purdue University, and a long time activist for Palestinian justice THIS week UAW 2865,...