Maher Al-Akhras Hunger Strike Now Exceeds 90 Days!
‘CALLING for the freedom of one Palestinian political prisoner is what Israel expects from the international community. ‘The latest detainee to go on hunger strike...
HEWITT MUST GO! say junior doctors
THE British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in London on Saturday called for the immediate resignation of health secretary Patricia Hewitt and health...
Health workers throughout Europe are defending jobs and services!
HEALTH workers across Europe are fighting to defend their jobs, conditions of employment and the services they provide to millions of workers and their...
Primary care has been run down under successive Tory governments
THE GPs’ magazine Pulse has published the results of a major survey of GP surgeries, showing the extent to which primary care has been...
Open pipes turned Grenfell into a gas oven Shut-off valves hidden...
CRUCIAL valves to stop gas from fuelling the Grenfell Tower fire may have been built over during refurbishment, the ongoing inquiry into the fire...
FIGHT ‘RE-CONFIGURATION’ – Labour’s plans for hospital closures • PART ONE
THE ‘re-configuration’ of 60 District General Hospitals (DGHs) means a huge reduction in National Health Service (NHS) hospital capacity. This will result in the loss...
Turkish FM Cavusoglu says Turkish troops will prevent Libya falling into...
TURKISH Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is preparing for troop deployment to Libya, says the prolongation of the Libyan conflict could plunge the...
‘POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES’ – East London Line privatisation warning
COMPLEX and fragmented arrangements for running the privatised ‘London Rail’ franchise will make it ‘more difficult to manage operationally and safely’, with potentially disastrous...
‘No justice, no peace’ chant marchers after Ohio police shooting of...
ANGRY demonstrators marched through the northwest city of Columbus in Ohio last Friday to demand justice and transparency in investigations into the police killing...
ISRAEL IS STIFLING PALESTINIAN GROWTH –warns World Bank
THE Palestinian Authority in the West Bank faces a $400 million budget shortfall, even if current donor pledges are met, the World Bank warned...
Iran denies PKK presence on its soil – accuses Turkey of...
IRAN has summoned Turkey’s Ambassador, Derya Ors, over the Turkish interior minister’s ‘unacceptable’ claim about the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant...
RAIL PASSENGERS RUNNING SAME RISK say Ladbroke Grove survivors – six...
On 5 October 1999, 31 people died and 259 were injured in a terrible train crash that took place at Ladbroke Grove, just outside...
Blinken’s Role in Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis
From the start of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was deeply involved. Just after 7th October, Blinken...
A call from Gaza to Labour Unions around the world
A CALL from the Workers of Gaza to Labour Unions Around the World: A Cry in the Face of Starvation and Genocide. ‘To all free...
‘WE WILL PROTECT YOUR PENSION BY ALL MEANS’ – pledges PCS
in a notice to members, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) explains why the government’s pensions offer is bad news for all members. The...
Sri Lanka Garment Workers Rise Up Over Pensions
THE Sri Lankan proposed private sector pension scheme has angered workers in the garment sector, with trade unionists warning of mass street...
‘We had expected presidential statements to be supportive of the government’...
PALESTINIAN government spokesman Ghazi Hamad has insisted that his government is not just a Hamas government but is the government of the entire Palestinian...
‘This will be the year of finishing the US presence in...
In his first audio recording since the fall of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on 9th April 2003, Izzat al-Duri, Iraqi vice-president, declared that...
5,000 striking public sector workers, pensioners and students rally in...
SOME 5,000 local government workers, teachers, hospital workers, university staff, civil servants, along with pensioners and university students participated last Tuesday in a militant...
US aircraft carrier group to enter South China Sea!
THE US has dispatched an aircraft carrier group to the South China Sea, in a move that is set to escalate tensions after China...
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,...
52 Years Since Arafat Launched First Operation Against Israeli Occupation
PALESTINIANS yesterday marked 52 years since the launch of the revolution against the Israeli occupation and the first military operation. Fatah, which launched the...
STOP DEPORTATIONS! – demands march for migrant workers
‘Stop deportations! Asylum rights are human rights! Equal rights for migrants!’ shouted over 500 people taking part in a March for Migrant Workers last...
From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free! –...
PALESTINIAN heroine Ahed Tamimi was introduced to the cheering crowd at the end of the 10,000-strong march to 10 Downing Street marking Nakba Day...
Essex FBU strike ballot launched
Ballot papers are going out to Essex fire crews this week in a strike vote over unnecessary frontline cuts and changes imposed without agreement. The...
‘Stand up against the South West Pay Cartel’ –and stop pay...
UNISON is calling on MPs from the South West of England to give their backing to local health workers including nurses, therapists, porters, and...
Hamas Insist US-Israel Are Behind Gaza Fighting
SAMI Abu-Zuhri, a Hamas leader in Gaza on Wednesday made a statement about the fighting that is taking place in Gaza between Hamas...
END THE SIEGE OF GAZA – Hamas condemns Blair-Israel manoeuvre
ISRAEL’S move to relax its four-year blockade of the Gaza Strip is simple propaganda, Hamas said Thursday. The Islamic movement ‘considers Israel’s decision to increase...
CWU proposes ‘not for dividend company’ – instead of organising...
THE CWU leadership is seeking to make a deal with the coalition over the terms and conditions of the privatisation of Royal Mail, when...
China will send medical experts & equipment to Serbia – and...
CHINA will provide Serbia with assistance in protective equipment and medical instruments, and send a group of medical experts to help it better contain...
3.7 MILLION IRAQI REFUGEES – The product of Bush and Blair’s...
‘The current exodus is the largest population movement in the Middle East since Palestinians were displaced following the creation of the State of Israel...
Australian Government Forced To Back Down Over Baby Asha!
AUSTRALIAN unions have applauded the community #LetThemStay alliance that forced the Turnbull government to back down on Sunday from sending baby Asha and her...
‘THE FUTURE STEP IS IRAQ’S INDEPENDENCE, UNITY AND SOVEREIGNTY’ – says...
‘We will work with one hand and save Iraq from darkness’, said militant Iraqi Shi’ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr last weekend. He said in an...
Anti-Olympics Campaign Launched
THE Counter Olympics Network (CON) has announced a march and rally in London’s East End on Saturday 28 July, assembling in Mile End Park...
Gm Boss Refuses To Say Which European Plants Will Be Closed
GENERAL Motor’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Fritz Henderson, took questions at a Detroit press conference on Thursday, November 5th concerning the Magna...
GREEK GOVERNMENT GIVES 50bn EUROS TO THE BANKS
The present unelected Greek coalition government, of social-democrats and conservatives headed by banker Lucas Papademos has decided to fund with some 50bn euros the...
Bahrain ruler condemned for conference supporting Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century!’
THE main Shia opposition group in Bahrain has warned that the ruling Al Khalifah regime there is ‘contributing to the liquidation of the Palestinian...
President Assad wins the struggle for Syria
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad headed to the Saudi city of Jeddah on Thursday to participate in the activities of the 32nd session of the meeting...
Labour, the CWU and Royal Mail privatisation
LAST Friday the leadership of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) issued a press release welcoming the news that the day before the Labour Party...
BAHA MOUSA INQUIRY ‘MUST LOOK AT ALL CASES AND ISSUES’ –...
LAST Wednesday the government announced an independent inquiry into the death of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa. Mousa, a hotel worker with a young family,...
‘Dale Farm Residents Will Not Be Battered Into Submission’
DALE FARM residents are defiant, maintaining their community and bravely refusing to be battered into submission by the brutal actions of the Tory...
Air France workers – more strike action – ‘future of airline...
TRADE unions representing Air France workers have threatened to ground more flights in September as a pay dispute with the airline’s bosses continues. Air...
One-In-Four University Staff ‘bullied At Work’
The University and College Union (UCU) published a report yesterday warning that one in four university staff say they have been bullied at work...
Five Picturehouse cinemas out today!
FIVE Picturehouse cinemas are on strike this May Day. In a repeat of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history in April, five...
‘It will be hard for GPs to keep one eye on...
Nurses and Midwives have strongly criticised the Health and Social Care Bill published last week, calling it a toxic prescription for patients and a...