‘The United States wants to use Russia against Syria!’ – says...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to the Czech paper Literarni Noviny. The following are extracts from the interview. Question: Regarding ISIS, it looks like,...
SAVE OUR SURGERIES! –say 3,000 east London marchers
THREE thousand doctors, NHS staff, patients and supporters last Saturday marched from Aldgate to London Fields in east London. The march was organised to protest...
US unions slam ‘Fast Track trade policy’
THE AFL-CIO trade union federation considers that the Fast Track trade policy has has helped depress wages for America’s workers over the past...
RMT launches fight against mass Greater Anglia ticket office closures
RAIL union RMT has launched a campaign to fight a planned programme of ticket office closures the length and breadth of the Greater Anglia...
PALESTINIANS SHOULD FOLLOW KOSOVO – says Abbas aide
A SENIOR aide to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that Palestinians should follow the example of Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence if Israeli-Palestinian...
REMOVE FLAMMABLE CLADDING IMMEDIATELY – demand Fuel Poverty Action campaigners
At a demonstration outside the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government on Wednesday, Fuel Poverty Action handed in a letter to the Secretary...
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...
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...
Kerry & Biden battle it out over Syria
VICE President Joe Biden said on Saturday that if upcoming negotiations fail and no political solution to the civil war in Syria is possible,...
US student debt $1.3 trillion and going up by thousands...
APRIL marks three years since US student debt hit $1 trillion. Now $1.3 trillion and climbing – by thousands of dollars per second (link...
Vavi To Launch New Sa Trade Union Federation On May 1
TRADE union leaders behind the formation of an alternative federation say they will formally launch the new structure on 1st May this year after...
Pilots criticise BA’s strikebreaking scheme
PILOT representatives from the European Cockpit Association (ECA) and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have voiced concerns about British Airways’ (BA) use of...
Four Years Since Marikana Massacre!
LONMIN workers on Tuesday gathered at the Marikana koppie near Nkaneng informal settlement to pay tribute to their 34 colleagues who were gunned down...
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...
‘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...
‘Syrian Government Is Resolved To Restore Sovereignty Over The Whole National...
PRESIDENTIAL Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban asserted in Damascus yesterday that the Syrian Arab Army will strike wherever there is terrorism in...
PCS ‘serious concerns’ over privatisation of government helpline – and RMT...
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka has written to home secretary Theresa May to highlight serious concerns over the privatisation of a government helpline and...
The Art of Revolution 1917-2017
Undercroft Gallery 112-134 Market Place Norwich NR2 Until October 14 HURRY to catch the ‘Art of Revolution’ exhibition taking place in Norwich, dedicated to the 100th anniversary...
US COMBAT FORCES OUT BY 2010 – says Obama
SPEAKING after talks in Baghdad on Monday, US presidential candidate Barack Obama said the puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had expressed support for...
Russell Group’s ‘nightmare scenario’ will leave students with mortgage-style debt –warns...
The University and College Union (UCU) on Monday warned that lifting the cap on tuition fees would be ‘the most regressive piece of...
Hundreds of thousands of young workers are on zero-hours contracts –...
ZERO-HOUR contracts have risen sharply in recent years, hundreds of thousands of zero-hour contract workers, the majority being young, are on minimum wage whilst...
Power Cuts Hit Greek Cities
GREEK workers of the State Electricity Corporation staged a solid-rock 48-hour national strike on Tuesday and Wednesday and occupied several power plants as well...
200,000 STUDENTS TO BE SHUT OUT OF UNIVERSITY –‘it is just...
OFQUAL, the exams regulator, has given an ‘unprecedented glimpse’ into this year’s A-level results. In a letter, Ofqual’s chief executive Isabel Nisbet took the unprecedented...
‘MARCH IN YOUR MILLIONS’ – Defiant Gadaffi urges masses
IN a live speech to the Libyan people over Libyan state Al-Jamahiriyah TV last Tuesday the, Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gadaffi said that...
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...
Pro-US Haftar Mobilising Against Libyan Islamists
PREPARATION is underway for a ‘decisive’ battle, to storm the city of Benghazi and expel the Islamist militias, by pro-US forces led by Major-General...
‘Damage To The NHS Is Profound And Intense’ Says The Bma...
ONE year on from the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act, the BMA has launched a new campaign, warning that ‘the damage...
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...
Indian garment workers in Karnataka demand increase in minimum wage!
HUNDREDS of Karnataka textile workers gathered last week at Karmikara Bhavana – in the Mysore area of SW India – to protest against low-wage...
‘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...
US MUST END INTERFERENCE IN SYRIA says Iran
IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani says the United States must swiftly end its ‘illegal presence and interference’ in Syria, which, he added, has led to...
South African firefighters demand payment for overtime!
Hundreds of members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) marched to the Cape Town Civic Centre to deliver a memorandum...
UN Makes ‘Freeze Zones’ Initiative To President Assad
‘THE US and the West continue to blunder after the Gulf and Ottoman (Turkish) bets failed to bring down the Syrian state thanks to...
JUNE 16th–FRENCH UNIONS NATIONAL HEALTH STRIKE
TOMORROW, June 16th, everyone is being mobilised (striking) for health, the CGT French union federation has declared. Health, medico-social, social, nursing homes and national education...
Ealing Conference: Full support for Junior Doctors
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY workers and youth attended the West London Council of Action/All Trades Unions Alliance Conference on Sunday, which was called to save Ealing Hospital...
Victories against terrorism in Syria and Iraq! United in struggle!
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed the importance of the victories achieved in combatting terrorism in Syria and Iraq when he received Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim...
‘PERPETRATORS OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES!’ – Human Rights Watch condemns Sri Lankan...
The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and ‘disappearances’ that are a national crisis, New York based rights group Human Rights Watch...
Iraq Security Plan ‘Has Allowed Genocide’
THE Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars has issued a statement on the US’ Baghdad security plan. It said that under the plan: ‘First, most...
Zuma Must Release Marikana Report
DEMANDS are growing for President Jacob Zuma to release the Marikana report, with 300 wounded and arrested miners now threatening to take him to...
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...
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...
Abolish proposed water charges immediately – demands Irish electrical union
DELEGATES to the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) biennial conference in Kilkenny on Sunday called on the Irish government to abolish the proposed...
Strike Wave Gripping South Africa
A STRIKE wave is gripping South Africa with fishermen, media workers and fuel industry and electricity workers taking action. In an eleventh hour decision ...
‘stiff Resistance And Bombs Everywhere’ In Marjah
DESPITE the military claims of US and NATO-led occupation troops, progress remains slow because of the stiff resistance and homemade bombs ‘everywhere’. However, the...
Join The Political Revolution–Sanders Urges US Workers!
US Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders called on US trade unions to rise up and join his political revolution to defeat the Koch brothers...