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...
Abbas Attends Moscow’s Victory Parade!
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas was among up to 30 world leaders on Saturday to attend a huge military parade in Moscow commemorating Russia’s 70th anniversary...
Israel Seeking To Drive All Palestinians Out Of The Jordan Valley!
ISRAELI occupation forces issued ‘evacuation orders’ to around 100 Palestinian families living in the northern Jordan Valley, last Monday, demanding that they abandon their...
COSATU VOTES TO EXPEL GEN SEC. VAVI! – as black masses...
ON March 30th the Central Executive Committee of the South African trade union federation, COSATU, voted to expel its democratically elected General Secretary, Zwelinzima...
Tory welfare cuts driving up poverty
A NEW study shows poverty in the UK is on the rise due to welfare cuts introduced by the coalition government during the last...
‘Boycott General Motors’ Demands Unifor’s Dias
UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...
General Practice is already ‘stretched close to breaking point’ – ...
‘WE cannot continue to meet rising demand with falling investment, general practice is already stretched close to breaking point so we need to address...
”WE HAD NINE VOTES BUT NIGERIA CHANGED ITS MIND AT THE...
PALESTINIAN Authority chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said during an interview last Friday, that Palestine would become a member of the International Criminal Court by...
French Anti-Terror Laws ‘Misused To Curb Peaceful Protest’ Finds Amnesty!
FRENCH state powers designed to combat terrorism have been repeatedly misused to curb peaceful protest, a new report from Amnesty International has found. A right...
Workers and youth say vote Athow in Hornsey and Wood Green!
WORKERS and youth signed up to join the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) and Young Socialists on Saturday, saying they will vote for Hornsey and...
RIGHT TO RETURN IS CENTRAL TO FINAL STATUS – Palestinian factions...
The following letter was presented to President Mahmud Abbas’s office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organisations on Wednesday September 24, 2008, the Badil Resource...
Egypt and Russia boost economic & military cooperation
BILATERAL talks between Vladimir Putin and Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi were followed by negotiations in expanded format with the participation of the two nations’ delegations. The...
‘Opposition must be Syrian opposition,’ says Assad
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given an extensive interview with Australian TV channel SBS. In the interview, he covered such topics as Brexit, the hypocrisy...
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...
Construction industry blacklist ‘ruined lives’! – says Scottish Affairs MPs Committee
The major construction firms that established and funded a systematic blacklist of construction industry workers appear to be continuing to avoid taking full responsibility...
Egyptian security forces given free rein to use ‘lethal force’ against...
‘FREE the 15 Alexandria dockworkers from jail and drop all charges’ demanded trade unionists in a letter to the Egyptian Minister and migration last...
Fairpoint Workers Hold Portland Rally
STRIKING FairPoint workers and their supporters from across the Northeast of America held a major rally in Portland, Maine, on Saturday, November 8. Negotiators from...
‘Between the Fence and a Hard Place’ Israeli-imposed restrictions strangling Gaza
‘Over the past ten years, the Israeli military has gradually expanded restrictions on access to farmland on the Gaza side of the “Green Line”,...
South Korea’s MBC on strike – joins 1,130 KBS producers
WORKERS at the South Korean broadcaster MBC go on strike from Monday joining 1,130 KBS producers who stopped working on Thursday. They are calling for...
‘No return to robber baron capitalism’ – says TEEU leader Devoy
THE Irish State may need to contemplate becoming an employer of last resort to tackle unemployment, says the ICTU General Secretary David Begg. Addressing the...
UNRWA & Syria ‘caring for Palestinian refugees’!
UNITED Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl affirmed on Friday that his recent visit...
RESTORE THE FUEL SUBSIDY – 500 workers and students picket Nigerian...
Last Friday over five hundred Nigerian students and workers picketed their London embassy, furious at the Nigerian government’s removal of a fuel subsidy. The fuel...
BINYAM MOHAMED APPEAL: government attempts ‘to introduce … unconstitutional and manifestly...
THE Court of Appeal on Tuesday ‘firmly and unambiguously’ rejected the government’s argument that it is open to a Court, in the absence of...
Kazakh oil workers rock Stalinist bureaucracy
ALMATY – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said that striking oil workers are not to blame for the riots that took place in the...
Furious Workers Force Bell Town Officials To Resign
Furious workers in the town of Bell in California have forced their city manager and police chief to resign over a scandal in which...
Mexican Teachers Condemn Trump’s Military Threats!
MEXICO’S main teachers’ union has defended Venezuela against US President Trump’s threats of military action. In a formal statement, the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican...
Tens Of Thousands Of Aerospace Jobs At Risk
THROUGHOUT Britain, the Unite union is reporting, the aerospace industry and job futures for many thousands of workers are ‘at five to midnight’ –...
South African Metal And Municipal Unions Demand Cosatu Leaders Convene...
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has joined the Natioal Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) in demanding COSATU convene a...
‘This is the last May Day to be stolen’ – says...
‘THIS is the last May Day to be stolen. It has been used for electioneering and workers are being fed lies and given promises...
Australian Workers Fight Sackings!
A FEDERAL Court judge in Australia has granted an injunction preventing 97 workers at ports in Sydney and Brisbane from being sacked. The Maritime Union...
CAW donates $40,000 to Pakistan Relief Fund – AND URGES ALL...
The Canadian Autoworkers union (CAW) announced last Saturday it will be donating $40,000 to the Pakistan relief effort and is urging local unions across...
NUMSA to challenge NEASA lock-out!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it has ‘every intention’ of mounting a court challenge to the lock-out by the...
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...
Letter from Palestine by ISMAIL RABBAH
Israel’s foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that ‘the Palestinians should not be allowed to hold negotiations with Israel on a local level while fighting...
Saudis Will Be Dealt A Historic Blow In Yemen Says Hezbollah!
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said on Friday that Saudi Arabia will be dealt a severe, historic blow in Yemen, stressing that victory...
‘WE ARE PREPARING FOR A HUGE BATTLE! says South African SAMWU...
‘We are preparing for a huge battle,’ said the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) at the weekend. In an extensive statement, SAMWU said: ‘Our...
MANNING WAS UPSET BY THE PLIGHT OF IRAQI CIVILIANS – witness...
BRADLEY Manning, the US soldier accused of espionage, was ‘upset’ about the plight of Iraqi civilians before he handed over a trove of secret...
‘THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE CANNOT BE DIVIDED’ – Hamas refutes Gaza independence...
SENIOR Hamas official Mahmoud Zahhar on Sunday denied media reports that the Islamist resistance group is considering declaring the Gaza Strip a separate entity...
Excessive Workloads Driving Teachers Out!
TEACHERS are facing low morale, exhaustion, frustration and distress because of the impact of unsustainable workloads, which is driving teachers out of the profession,...
Afl-Cio Supports Wage Act!
ON THURSDAY, members of Congress, led by Senator Patty Murray (Democrat-Washington) and Representative Bobby Scott (Democrat-Virginia), proposed the Workplace Action for a Growing Economy...
CWA condemns the Obama proposal for immigration raids and deportations!
THE CWA trade union has issued a statement on the Obama administration’s planned Immigration Raids and proposed mass deportations. It reads: ‘We have seen...
GPs WILL DEMAND INCREASED FUNDING AND MUST REJECT NATIONAL CHARGING!
THE conference of General Practitioners organised by the British Medical Association ( BMA) takes place this year at York today and tomorrow, 22nd and...
WE NEED ‘REFUGEE AND MIGRANT JUSTICE’ – 600 picket the Ministry...
OVER 600 people took part in a demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice last Friday afternoon over the government’s refusal to provide a relatively...
Doctors Still Expected To Care For Covid-19 Patients With Little Or...
Despite repeated assurances by the government for over a week that millions of units of protective equipment have been delivered to the front line,...
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...