Isis Gangs Attacking Syrian Citizens In Hasaka Province!
SYRIA’S Foreign and Expatriates Ministry has addressed two identical letters to the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Security Council about the...
Tv Workers Exploited For 16 Hours A Day
WORKERS who are employed in the production of documentaries often are expected to work 14, 15 or 16 hours a day for several days...
‘If Pelosi cares so much for human rights she should apologise...
CHINA has called on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to express remorse and apologise for the atrocities committed by the Americans in Afghanistan, Iraq,...
Cost of living rising five times faster than wages!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF’s) Minimum Income Standard 2014 study has found that the amount a family need to enjoy even a ‘basic standard...
Unilever Workers Defending Their Pension
Last Tuesday Unilever workers from all over the country descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the companies ending of their final salary pension...
KERRY STEPS UP WAR ON SYRIA – as conflict spreads into...
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry expressed confidence on Tuesday that weapons being supplied by Gulf countries to the Syrian rebels were reaching...
Jerusalem Tensions Boiling Over
A PALESTINIAN man on Sunday succumbed to wounds he sustained in a car attack on a light rail station in East Jerusalem, his wife...
‘Daughter of Libya’ – Aisha Gaddafi’s personal exhibition
The Russian State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow is mounting an exhibition of artwork by Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of slain Libyan leader Muammar...
Anc Using ‘Freedom Charter Language’ To Bolster Domination Of Capitalism’ –...
THE latest ANC government budget entrenches the dominance of ‘white capital’ while intent on creating a ‘black capitalist’ class, says Irvin Jim, NUMSA...
‘South African mine companies exposing workers to risk of virus’ says...
THE KIMBERLEY Region of the NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has expressed its disappointment and concern following the decision by Gwede Mantashe, South Africa’s...
‘WE WILL KEEP ON FIGHTING TILL WE WIN’ say West Kensington...
WEST Kensington tenants were angry that a ‘drop-in session’ hosted by Hammersmith and Fulham council on Thursday night was closed down early. The premature closure...
NUMSA defends Vavi against Stalinist slanders
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has issued a response to the South African Communist Party (SACP) November 2014 Augmented Central...
Saftu Salutes French Workers!
‘THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) salutes the workers of France who have been protesting in their hundreds of thousands ...
‘OUR CALL IS FOR THE PEOPLE TO UNITE IN THE YEAR...
NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has released the declaration from the Preparatory Assembly convened to discuss the forming of a mass...
5th Anniversary of Trincomalee students’ execution
RELATIVES of the five Trincomalee students, who were shot dead execution-style by Sri Lanka soldiers on January 2nd 2006, are remembering the fifth anniversary...
NO TO NHS SELL-OFF! – say angry workers and patients
Unison on Monday sent a file of hundreds of testimonies from health workers, patients and members of the public who care about the NHS,...
Shrewsbury trial and jailing ‘a conspiracy at the very heart...
THE government has rejected calls to release confidential files relating to the Shrewsbury 24, who were charged with various offences after the first national...
Bus Workers March Through Johannesburg
DESPITE the urging of the Cosatu trade union federation to end their bus strike, thousands of striking bus drivers marched...
Sodexo Oppressing Workers In The US And Colombia
Sodexo laundry workers in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday delivered a petition to management calling for greater safety standards. The petition included hundreds of signatures from...
PNA CALLS FOR MEETING ON GOLDSTONE – Palestinian anger forces U-turn
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has executed a U-turn over action on the Goldstone report on the Israeli war on Gaza last December 2008/January...
IMPERIALISTS GUNNING FOR OIL-RICH REGIONS! – Lebanon and Venezuela prepared to...
The masses of the oil rich areas of the world are under attack by US imperialism. In the middle east the US and Israel are...
Australia Governor General meets President Abbas for the first time
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas received the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley, and his accompanying delegation at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah on Wednesday, during...
10 YEARS SINCE MARIKANA MASSACRE Ramaphosa … ‘the mastermind of a...
THE MARIKANA mine massacre of ten years ago has never curbed President Ramaphosa’s political ambitions, but he’s never been able to escape the fallout...
CHILDREN TAGGED, GIVEN CURFEWS AND SENT BACK TO PRISON – Howard...
CHILDREN who have been in trouble with the law are being put on electronic tags, given curfews and then sent back to prison because...
US ‘dismayed’ at the ‘humiliating defeats’ of terrorists by Syrian army...
SYRIA says the US is ‘dismayed’ to see the return of normal life to Aleppo province because of the ‘humiliating defeats’ of the Washington-sponsored...
South Africa National Day of Action
TENS of thousands took part in a National Day of Action organised by South Africa’s National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) against...
August 21 – Felixstowe Port is to come to a standstill...
THE most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout. This is after after pay talks broke...
‘FULL CLEARANCE OF DALE FARM IS NOT ENFORCEABLE’ – say campaigners...
MONDAY saw the conclusion of one of the two legal processes challenging Basildon Council’s planned eviction of the Dale Farm community. ‘The case, which halted...
‘HARDEST HIT’ demands stop benefit cuts for disabled people
‘Cuts Kill – Kill the Cuts!’ shouted an over 5,000-strong march of disabled people, their carers and friends as they approached parliament on Wednesday. The...
‘Resistance means freedom and independence’ says Iranian military advisor Rahim...
A TOP military adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has described the Muslim world as a future power that...
‘Force Uber to respect workers’ rights or get out of London!’–GMB...
GMB, the union for taxi and professional drivers, on Monday joined forces with global consumer group SumOfUs to hand in a 100,000-strong mass...
Greek hospital workers blockade against austerity! – as thousands of refugees...
GREEK hospital workers on Monday morning blocked the entrance to the Finance Ministry on Nikis Street near Syntagma Square in an angry protest against...
Trump Declares War On Public Sector Unions
LAST Wednesday night the Trump administration declared war on America’s public sector unions. In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice...
Murdoch Gang Face Charges
EX-DOWNING Street communications chief Andy Coulson and ex-News International executive Rebekah Brooks have been charged in connection with payments to police and public officials....
US, Turkish & Zionist Alliance Faces Defeat
OVER the past two decades, the United States, Turkey, and the Zionist regime of Israel have faced ultimate defeat in any sedition that they’ve...
Thousands Of Calais Refugees To Be Evicted By Police And Troops
THOUSANDS of refugees living in the southern part of the camp in the French port of Calais known as the Jungle have been ordered...
FATIGUE ENDANGERING CREWS AND THE ENVIRONMENT – warns the Maritime Union...
A NEW report from Cardiff University’s Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology has added to the portrait of a maritime industry where fatigue...
UNACCEPTABLE! Over 170,000 waiting for asylum claims decision
‘It’s unacceptable that there are now over 170,000 people stuck in limbo as they wait for a decision on their asylum claims – with...
ATI threatens US workers health insurance coverage
ATI management recently mailed a letter to the homes of all of locked-out Steelworkers who are currently covered under the company’s programme of insurance...
French aviation union calls four-day strike over low pay and bad...
FRENCH aviation union Syndicat National du Personnel Navigant Commercial (SNPNC-FO) cabin crew members (hostesses and stewards) are on strike from Wednesday July 13 to...
‘MUBARAK, MUBARAK THE PLANE AWAITS’ – Egyptian masses tell president to...
Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptians occupying Cairo’s Tahriri (Liberation) Square chanted ‘Mubarak, Mubarak, the plane awaits’ on the sixth day of their people’s...
US janitors announce historic contract victory!
SEIU Local 1 janitors in Detroit, Michigan, joined by supporters and elected officials, have announced their historic contract victory which includes raises to $15...
US Rabbis oppose Israel’s right wing government – Russia and Iran...
HUNDREDS of US rabbis have signed an open letter protesting against Israel’s new far-right administration and pledging to block the extremist members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s...
Palestinian prisoners at critical stage of hunger strike!
TWO Palestinian prisoners have entered the critical stages of hunger strikes undertaken in protest at how they have been detained without charge or trial. Hassan...
Folk singer Mohammad Barghouti is arrested over his songs!
PERHAPS the Palestinian folk singer Mohammad Barghouti, 23, did not know that he is going to end up in an Israeli jail because of...