SHUT DOWN WEST COAST PORTS! says Occupy Oakland
A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...
‘ALL WORK AND LOW PAY’ – TUC and NUS accept that...
UNIVERSITY students are working more and more – during holidays and during term-time – just to survive, says a joint report just published by...
UK refugee plan an ‘ugly and illegal arrangement’ says Medecins Sans...
MEDECINS Sans Frontieres (MSF – Doctors Without Borders) has ‘strongly condemned’ the UK plan to use gunboats to force would-be refugees back to Libya. Last...
ILO urged to take action to protect the rights of ...
OVER 60 signatories comprising Palestinian human rights groups and non-governmental organisations have sent a joint open letter from Ramallah to the International Labour Organisation...
Missile defence talks between Russia and NATO reach another impasse
MISSILE defence talks between Russian and NATO military officials in the past 10 days have reached another impasse, Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov said...
TUC silent over the massive crisis of the EU
THE TUC’s head of European Union and International Relations Department, Owen Tudor, has recently given a lengthy interview to the internet EurActiv which specialises...
‘Iran Will Give A Crushing Response To Any Military Assault
Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pour-Dastan said on Monday that if its enemies dare to commit any mistake and...
Mirror Journalists Fight – 200 ‘neanderthal Sackings’
By Save the Mirror Campaign Group TRINITY Mirror’s Chief Executive Sly Bailey is planning to axe a further 200 editorial staff from The Mirror, Sunday...
Met Gangs Matrix database is ‘racially discriminatory’ – says Amnesty
THE METROPOLITAN Police is using a ‘racially discriminatory’ Gangs Matrix database, says Amnesty International in its new report. Amnesty International UK’s Director, Kate Allen,...
Turkish Bombardment Kills Dozens In Northern Syria
DOZENS of people have been killed in Turkish bombardments in Syria since Sunday, as Ankara ramps up its unprecedented offensive against Kurdish fighters and...
Stop east London GP surgery closures!
EAST London GPs, patients and supporters on Thursday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen...
Medical Aid Reaches Gaza Following Mass Protests Against The Egyptian Government
MEDICAL aid and 518 international activists finally entered Gaza on Wednesday night, following protests against the Egyptian government’s refusal to let them in led...
Hunger Striker Hattab Demands To Be Recognised As A Prisoner Of...
PALESTINIAN prisoner Kifah Hattab, 53, entered the eighth day of a hunger strike on Wednesday in the latest of a series of hunger strikes...
‘IMPERIALIST STATES WILL NEVER FIGHT TERRORISM’ – says President Assad
DAMASCUS – President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday that any political idea for resolving the crisis in Syria that isn’t based on eliminating terrorism...
Clinton Accuses Bashir Of Undermining South Sudan!
AFTER having pushed to separate oil rich South Sudan from the North, the US is now preparing for military action against the north, accusing...
MI6 assumed power to break the law on UK soil
MI6 unilaterally assumed power to break the law on UK soil, a tribunal has found. At the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Wednesday, it was revealed...
Defend NHS with General Strike!
THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...
‘UNITED ACTION IN EVERY SENSE’ – call by PCS leader Serwotka
‘WE need to fight like never before,’ Public and Commercial Services (PCS) leader Mark Serwotka told the union annual conference on Wednesday. Tory Government cuts...
‘We face our jailers with firm will and steadfastness’ –...
Israeli forces raided the Jerusalem office of a university media institute on Monday, shutting down the launch of an online media network and detaining...
MAY MUST GO! say Grenfell marchers
OVER 300 people marched from Shepherd’s Bush to Parliament Wednesday lunchtime following last week’s Grenfell Tower fire disaster. ‘We know the government is guilty,’ declared...
Worldwide demand to break the siege of Gaza!
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared three days mourning, while in Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya declared a general strike in response...
Workers safety net will be destroyed by cuts says TUC
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s welfare cuts will hit the safety net for workers, warned the TUC last Friday. It was commenting on the Chancellor’s comment at the...
Gaza City Power Plant Closes Again!
The only power plant in Gaza city in Palestine has been forced to shut down for the second time in two weeks due to...
COSATU organising general strike action against labour broking
‘We are concluding the year with greater levels of unity and cohesion in our ranks, which will help us confront the daunting challenges of...
SAFTU condemns assassination of community leaders!
SAFTU (the big South African Confederation of Trades Unions) has strongly condemned ‘the low-intensity war against working-class activists!’ In a statement earlier this week, SAFTU...
‘WE HAVE LIVED THROUGH THE ORANGE NIGHTMARE TOGETHER’ –says Yanukovych winner...
THE Central Electoral Commission (CEC) with less than 10 per cent of ballots to be counted has declared that the leader of the Party...
Zimbabwe workers ‘robbed of their wages’!
A NEW report on the non-payment of workers’ wages in Zimbabwe was released earlier this month in Harare, entitled ‘Working Without Pay – Wage...
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GREEK WORKERS AND YOUTH MARCH on second...
Tens of thousands of school and university students and workers participated in profoundly anti-government mobilisations in all Greek cities last Monday. The demonstrations marked...
Education cuts put kids’ education at risk
MANCHESTER City Council, local trade unions and community groups are coming together in Manchester today, Saturday 25 February, to highlight the devastating effects of...
‘Make it right for Palestine Campaign Year 2017’ – UK must...
MAKE it Right for Palestine Campaign Year 2017 was launched on Saturday at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) HQ near Euston, north west...
Government appeal against Bedroom Tax ruling is condemned
LAST week, after the Court of Appeal ruled that the Bedroom Tax is discriminatory and unlawful, Paul Rutherford, one of the appellants, described himself...
New Hampshire SEIU endorses Bernie Sanders for President!
The New Hampshire chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president. In doing so, the Granite...
Additional US forces in Iraq ‘to threaten Syria and the Lebanon’...
THE Syrian newspaper Al Thawra has warned that the US is beefing up its forces in Iraq in preparation for an attack on Syria. ...
76.5 million children are living in poverty in the ‘developed’ world!
THE number of UK children living in poverty has increased to more than a quarter as a result of austerity measures introduced following the...
Doctors Pensions Victory – Presumption Of Guilt Proposal Is Outlawed By...
THE BMA doctors’ union secured a high court victory on Friday over controversial changes made by the Tory secretary of state for health and...
US police committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter...
Police forces across the USA have committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter protesters, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, as it launched...
USW ready for ExxonMobil strike or lock-out
A lockout or strike is set to occur June 15 at ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, refinery, chemical plant and laboratory if company management continues...
Frontline Services ‘To Be Devastated’ In Ireland
In the Republic of Ireland, a government report has been released which shows that public sector cuts will mean 23,500 workers lose their jobs,...
Israel will not end administrative detentions – as thousands join hunger...
An Israeli military court has refused an appeal by long-term hunger-strikers Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diyab to end their detention without charge, prisoners groups...
The BMA must unite with health unions to defend the NHS...
THE Tory coalition is accelerating its onslaught on the NHS. Every structure that was good in our publicly provided NHS is being destabilised and...
HAMAS SLAMS ABBAS ‘INCITEMENT’ –during Arafat anniversary speech
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas’ comments during a memorial ceremony for the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat were slammed as an ‘attempt at incitement’ by...
US Employee Free Choice Act Becomes Law
US trade union leaders have hailed the adoption of the Employee Free Choice Act by the US House of Representatives yesterday as a...
Greek workers determined to bring down the crisis-ridden government
THE Greek coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is in a crisis following disagreements over more barbaric economic measures demanded by the EC-IMF-ECB...
MARWAN FILM SHOWN IN LONDON – Zionist ban is defeated
AS the Federation of Palestinian Communities in Europe and the Fatah movement in London prepare to screen the film ‘Marwan,’ a biopic telling the...
HS2 workers Euston protest
CONSTRUCTION workers held a demonstration at the troubled HS2, Costain/Skanska Joint Venture (CSJV) at Euston Station in central London last Friday, as concerns grow...