HAMAS-ISRAEL AGREE TO SIX-MONTHS CEASEFIRE – ‘We don’t trust them but...
Hamas and Israel on Tuesday agreed to an Egyptian-brokered deal to cease fire for six months in and around the Gaza Strip. It was effective...
‘We call for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction’...
THE Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinezhad has said that Iran wishes to have talks with the West on a whole range of issues. He was speaking...
Dahlan accused of complicity in Arafat’s murder!
Fatah has accused ousted party security chief Muhammad Dahlan of ‘having a hand’ in poisoning the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Arafat died in...
GMB BA workers to fight transfer of IT jobs to Tata...
GMB British Airways workers will hold a public meeting and rally from 12.30pm on Monday 29th February at the Thistle Hotel, Heathrow, against proposals to...
A new aid flotilla to sail to Gaza – four years...
FOUR years after the Israeli military assault on the Mavi Marmara, Turkish relatives of victims express their willingness to join the new aid flotilla...
21 Dead 150 Trapped In Gadani Disaster
THE death toll from a fire in Pakistan’s Gadani shipbreaking yard rose to 21 last Thursday, with as many as 150 still trapped in...
Palestinian chief negotiator Erekat resigns
THE chief PLO negotiator has presented his resignation to the Palestinian president and PLO leadership, officials in Ramallah announced Saturday. Saeb Erekat resigned because of...
FREE HANA SHALABI NOW! – joint statement by rights groups and...
A JOINT Statement by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al-Haq begins with a statement by Hana Shalabi. ‘To...
Numsa To ‘Swamp’ The Streets Of Durban In A Massive May...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal (KzN) working closely with other like-minded and class orientated COSATU affiliates, will swamp the...
Philanthropy Is Promoting The Privatisation Of Education
‘Philanthropy and the privatisation of the democratic state: who needs a Ministry of Education?’ ironically ask the authors of a new report which sheds...
WRP’s ANNA ATHOW GETS BIG SUPPORT ON WOOD GREEN HIGH STREET
WOOD Green and Hornsey Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team won big support on Wood Green High Street on...
THE UK IS A FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY WITH THIRD-WORLD EDUCATION – UCU...
The UK has dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables, the University and College Union stressed today. In the past twelve years it...
Red Cross Condemns Sri Lanka Shelling Of Wounded And Sick
TamilNet reports the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), in a statement issued from Colombo on Sunday, expressed shock at the shelling...
‘OUR PEOPLE ARE ONE AND OUR LAND IS ONE’ – extend...
A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was holding on Monday for a second day, despite continued violence in the occupied West Bank where two...
Thousand across US join ‘Strike for Black Lives’
Tens of thousands of US workers walked out of their jobs on Monday in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement and other minority groups...
Cosatu Will Defend Collective Bargaining Agreements!
THE Cosatu trade union federation has issued a special statement on the attack being launched in South Africa on free collective bargaining. ‘THE Congress of...
‘IRANIANS AGREE TO FORM SECURITY COMMITTEE WITH USA’ –and call...
WITHIN its 1700 gmt newscast on 24 July, at the end of the day’s talks between the US and Iranian governments in Baghdad, Al-Iraqiyah...
Israeli violations caught on film
AN ISRAELI police officer physically assaulted and injured several Palestinians in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi Joz on Thursday morning, a video...
Settlers Launch Pogrom On Palestinian Village
OUTGOING Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the dream of a ‘greater Israel’ was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of...
Settlers attack West Bank farmers on eve of peace talks
As Palestinian leaders were preparing for direct talks with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu in Washington today, the village mayor in the West Bank town...
Siege Is Creating Starvation In Gaza
AN United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) spokesman, said yesterday that the UN organisation is stopping food supplies to the Gaza Strip...
‘Syria never obeyed any threat’
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad has said he agrees with the plan, brokered by the US and the Russian governments, to secure and to eventually destroy...
PUERTO RICO GOVERNOR RESIGNS! – after one million-strong march and general...
PUERTO RICO’s Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned on Thursday – just three days after a million demonstrators marched down Puerto Rico’s Las Americas highway insisting...
Eu Workers Demanding No Ttip And Ceta Trade Deals
THOUSANDS of European citizens took to the streets in dozens of European cities on October 11 to show their rejection of the proposed trade...
Protests Erupt In Bethlehem
Israel detained eleven Palestinians in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, amid protests over restrictions preventing Christians from performing religious rites in...
RMT DEFENDS TUBE WORKERS – and supports justice for Shrewsbury pickets
THE RMT tube union has slammed a plan unveiled by Transport for London which would replace nearly a thousand safety-critical tube station staff jobs...
‘Rice cannot impose a buffer zone or a security zone on...
HASAN Fadlallah, the Lebanese MP for Bint Jubayl, which has been completely destroyed by Israeli bombing, and a leader of the Hezbollah...
PROBE ISRAELI ASSAULT ON LEBANON CIVILIANS –urges Amnesty
Amnesty International on Tuesday renewed its call for a comprehensive and independent UN-led inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law committed during this year’s...
German bosses want Greece to be a giant Economic Zone –as...
THE President of the German bosses association ASSON has called for Greece to be turned into a huge ‘Special Economic Zone’. Hans-Peter Keitel, President...
BBC journalists and technicians set to strike Thursday – over job...
BBC journalists and technicians are set to strike for 12 hours on from midday to midnight this Thursday, 28 March. BBC Easter programmes will be...
Sri Lanka Artillery Barrage Halts Mannaar City
TAMILNET reports that ‘Normalcy has been disturbed in Mannaar city Tuesday from 8:10 am as the Sri Lanka Army mounted an artillery barrage simultaneously...
‘The first time that workers from all over Egypt have come...
WORKERS from electricity companies from around the country went on strike in Egypt on Sunday. Workers Media Coordinator at the Egyptian Centre for Economic and...
‘We are fighting for our brother in the US George Floyd...
IN THE WAKE of last week’s mass Black Lives Matter protests against police racism and brutality in France, the Macron government has announced a...
‘Incoherent and dangerous!’ – Stop the War slams Cameron’s statement
‘INCOHERENT and dangerous’ – Stop the War responds to David Cameron’s case for bombing Stop the War believes that David Cameron’s incoherent proposals for action...
‘THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE FOR ME AND OTHERS CONTINUES’ –...
head of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange avoided immediate extradition to Sweden on Monday after the High Court ruled that he has the right to appeal...
UK CONTINUED TO ERODE HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2005 – says Amnesty...
In 2005, the UK ‘government continued to erode fundamental human rights, the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, including by persisting...
Israel collective punishment ‘vicious, vindictive & ugly’
THE ISRAELI public prosecutor for the Jerusalem district has filed ‘a precedent-setting’ civil lawsuit against the widow and young children of Fadi al-Qunbar –...
FAILED ISRAELI GENERALS FAILED IN GEORGIA AS WELL says Hezbollah leader...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has spoken on the second anniversary of the end of the war of July-August 2006, or what Hezbollah...
Thousands march in support of the Venezuelan government
VENEZUELA’s President Nicolas Maduro has urged the United States to discuss ‘peace and sovereignty’ in a high level commission mediated by the Union of...
Nasrallah celebrates Israel’s defeat in 2006!
AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...
‘The government is helping senior civil servants to avoid paying tax’
Civil servants’ union, PCS has slammed ‘the unfairness of the government paying huge salaries and bonuses to senior civil servants, sometimes even helping them...
Teachers Demand 10% Pay Rise
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference on Monday voted to demand a pay rise of ten per cent or at least £3,000,...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION – PLO says UN must act
THE Palestinian leadership agreed on Saturday to call on the UN Security Council for an urgent meeting on Israel’s settlement expansion on Palestinian land. The...
‘THERE’S GOT TO BE DIRECT ACTION TO SAVE OUR HOSPITALS’ –...
UP TO 5,000 workers and local residents marched in west London against the closures of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals on Saturday. The angry demonstration...
Striking Sa Parliamentary Staff Demand Removal Of Parliament Secretary
STRIKING South African parliamentary staff on Friday said they would no longer negotiate with the unpopular secretary of the legislature Gengezi Mgidlana and demanded...