Orgreave was a planned attack on the miners
‘I WAS ARRESTED on that day at Orgreave. It was a really terrible day. There were thousands and thousands of police, I was walking...
Three year smoke & mirrors pay deal means real financial hardship...
‘THE CURRENT 3 year deal,’ says Gary Palmer GMB Regional Organiser, ‘fails to deliver a real terms pay increase for the majority of NHS...
Brutal US ‘Security’ Operations In Baghdad
A LONDON-BASED Arab newspaper is warning of the danger of a ‘new Fallujah’ by American occupation forces and their puppets in the Iraqi capital...
National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign launched
OVER 2000 workers rallied in San Francisco for the kickoff of the ‘National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign’ on February 15. Chanting ‘Si...
13 million children prevented from going to school!
SURGING conflict and political upheaval across the Middle East and North Africa are preventing more than 13 million children from going to school, according...
‘Let us fight together to transform workers’ lives across the world!’...
COSATU President Zingiswa Losi addressed Day One of the South African trade union movement Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday: ‘Comrades! Brothers and Sisters!...
Tshwane bus workers strike gridlocks city centre
SOUTH Africa’s administrative capital Tshwane (Pretoria) was gridlocked for a second day on Tuesday as bus drivers disabled their vehicles and the City insisted...
Algerians Boycott Presidential Election
On 12 December Algerians went to the polls to elect a new president – or did they? Millions boycotted the election, which they saw...
Marx And The Permanent Revolution
BY MIKE DRIVER PART ONE: ‘Fraternity found its true unadulterated and prosaic expression in the war of Labour against capital’ AS French and European workers...
No Academy At Hove Park School!
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to stop Hove Park School in Brighton & Hove being turned into an academy have called a march for July 5th. Hands Off...
Tory policy will see non-UK rough sleepers deported – Councils pledge...
LOCAL councils are pledging not to co-operate with the Tories’ Home Office and its proposed ‘policy that will see non-UK national rough sleepers deported’. They...
1,000 Teachers, Parents And Supporters March On Department For Education
ONE thousand teachers, parents and supporters marched through Westminster in the cold and rain, led by the National Education Union, (NEU) to demand that...
Washington lawsuit against Trump attack on unions
A coalition of American unions has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation...
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...
NHS Bed Crisis–A Threat To Patient Safety
THE NHS Bed crisis is a threat to patient safety, doctors have warned as the latest figures were released showing hospitals working at full...
US airstrikes on Iraq are ‘a clear example of terrorism’ –...
THE United States’ latest military aggression against Iraq’s popular Hashd al-Sha’abi forces that left dozens of casualties continues to draw widespread condemnation from officials...
‘To reverse years of underinvestment sustained levels of investment are needed’...
RESPONDING to PM Johnson’s comments in the weekend’s Sunday Times newspaper, in which he pledged a £1.8bn cash injection into the NHS BMA council...
US no longer recognises the Syrian National Council as leader of...
US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington wanted to help the Syrian opposition unite against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime but...
Turkey strike ban is ‘a violation of constitution’
TURKEY’S Constitutional Court has ruled that the cabinet decree banning IndustriALL’s affiliate United Metalworkers’ Union (Birleflik Metal-Is) decision to strike in 2015 is a...
Sana Journalist Sentenced To Four Years In Jail For Exposing Turkish...
A COURT in Turkey has sentenced a journalist working for Syria’s official news agency, SANA, to more than four years in prison for allegedly...
Go North West negotiations collapse – Manchester bus strikes to...
GO NORTH West negotiations have collapsed without agreement as Manchester bus strikes are set to continue. Protracted peace talks between management at Go North West...
‘There has been a shift in the balance of power in...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcast on Thursday. We are very pleased to publish it in two parts PART TWO Al-MANAR: Mr...
War On Iraq Planned Long Before 2003!
SIXTEEN years on from the start of the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq, further evidence has emerged that the war was planned long before...
THREE FIRE STATIONS THAT RESCUED APOLLO THEATREGOERS ARE TO CLOSE IN...
THREE of the eight fire stations that sent engines to the Apollo Theatre last night are set to close in less than three weeks,...
US unions fight against the voter identification laws
THE US’ largest labour federation plans to mount an aggressive campaign against voter identification laws in a half-dozen battleground states that will be key...
Sri Lankan Army Offensive Halted
OFFICIALS of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Vanni told TamilNet on Saturday that their defensive formations at Mallaavi had thwarted...
Workers, Students, Youth Discussing ‘Whither Egypt?’
The Pipeline in Egypt that supplies Israel with gas was bombed last Monday for the 13th time since the overthrow of former president Hosni...
‘WE WILL NOT RENEW THE TRUCE’ say Hamas and Islamic Jihad
The ongoing Israeli violations and extra-judicial killings have put the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the anti-occupation groups on opposite sides of the argument...
Abbas Predicts ‘Hamas Digging Its Own Grave’
THE Palestinian Information Centre, the website of Hamas, last Friday posted a statement by Hamas denouncing PNA President Mahmud Abbas’s speech...
EALING MATERNITY ENTRANCE OCCUPIED! – Stop work on July 1 and...
THE occupation of Ealing Hospital is in full swing, with shifts ensuring that the entrance to the closure-threatened maternity department is occupied 24...
‘A general strike for Palestine is what is needed!’ – as...
More than 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London on Saturday on the 30th National March since...
Marikana platinum miners ready to strike for a year!
MORE strife is looming at South Africa’s Marikana platinum mines, as members of Amcu (the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union) warned Lonmin’s new...
Egypt’s New Trade Union Law Within Days
THE Egyptian Cabinet has approved new legislation on trade union freedoms, consenting to pass the law within days. The new legislation would eliminate many of...
‘Huge support from public’ – say striking ambulance strikers
Thousands of ambulance workers, paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulance technicians and other 999 crew members in Britain held a one-day strike on Wednesday. Ambulance staff...
‘There Is No Alternative To The Return To Our Homes’
‘There is no alternative to the return to our homes and properties,’ declared the National Committee to Commemorate 60 years of the Nakba, on...
Unionisation drives are sweeping Starbucks & Amazon across the USA
UNIONISATION drives are sweeping Starbucks and Amazon workplaces across the United States from East to West, with strikes gaining powerful huge support from the...
‘The situation… provides a historic opportunity to break free from the...
SYRIAN deputy Premier Qadri Jamil, and Syrian Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs Ali Haydar have spoken on Damascus TV following their meeting...
Now it’s time to criminalise the genocide! – demands Covenant for...
Participants in the ‘Covenant for Jerusalem’ conference held in Istanbul on Saturday and Sunday, announced the launch of a popular document titled ‘The Covenant...
Israel threatens full-scale invasion of Rafah!
THE WORLD’S attention is drawn to the small city of Rafah in the far south of the Gaza Strip on the Palestinian coast with...
‘ISRAEL MUST END VIOLATIONS’ – Hesbollah tells Annan
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has stressed that the Lebanon cease-fire UN Security Council Resolution 1701 has to be implemented in full. He has made it...
Numsa ‘Declares War On The Lack Of Progress Since Apartheid!’
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) Special National Congress December 17 to 20, 2013 issued a declaration of war on the...
SAFTU fights to end two-tier health regime
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions stands fully in support of the long-overdue introduction of a national health insurance (NHI) system, and welcomes...
MED UNION ‘ATTEMPT TO LET ISRAEL IN THROUGH THE WINDOW’ –...
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has praised the position of the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, who refused to attend the Paris summit to...
British Government Seeks To Hide Its ‘Torture Policy’
‘AFTER a full year, the British Government still refuses to reveal its “Torture Policy’’ – reneging on assurances that it would be published before...
Rights groups condemn Turkey crackdown on mass protests
THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and 14 other rights organisations are alarmed by the recent escalation in the Turkish government’s crackdown on freedom...