Power cuts and 43% unemployment dominate SA State of the Nation...
THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...
10 Killed When Terrorists Mortar Damascus University
TEN students were killed and others were injured by a mortar shell fired by terrorists which fell inside the cafeteria of the Faculty of...
French workers demand a Gaza ceasefire!
WORKERS and youth throughout France are demonstrating today for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a call by the CGT trade union federation. A union statement...
Scottish strike wave during COP26 summit
Council workers in more than half of Scotland’s local authorities are striking during next month’s COP26 climate summit as part of a rapidly escalating...
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...
Continue legitimate struggle by all possible means! – Hamas urges Palestinian...
PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas on has called on Palestinian people at home and abroad to continue their struggle, by all possible means, in defence...
de Menezes Inquest Opens Today
ON 22nd July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent member of the public, was killed by Metropolitan Police officers in a grotesque and...
‘WITHDRAW YOUR SECURITY FORCES FROM THE STREETS’ – Prime Minister Haniya...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on Sunday called on President Mahmud Abbas to adopt a quick decision to withdraw all members of the...
Sacked Greek Cleaning Ladies Stand Firm For Nearly A Year
595 women cleaners of the Greek Ministry of Finance in Athens were sacked on 17 September 2013 and their jobs given to private contractors....
BMA leaders collaborate with NHS privatisation plans
The Chairman of the doctors union, the BMA, wrote a letter to the medical profession on 30th July regarding the new health White Paper...
South African unions reject ANC-led government’s 2026 National Budget
All three of South Africa’s trade union federations the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), and...
Verizon strike enters second month
‘ONE DAY longer, one day stronger,’ striking Verizon workers chant on their picket lines as their fight proceeds into its second month. More than 40,000...
Palestine decries Balfour Declaration on 104th anniversary
PALESTINE, the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have denounced the infamous Balfour Declaration issued by Britain in 1917, which set...
Gm Workers Walk Out Across America
A MASS strike at General Motors plants across the United States began on Monday morning as 80,000 car workers walked out at 11 am...
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...
‘The 3rd Intifada will defeat Israel’ – Haniya
DEPUTY head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniya has urged Arab and Muslim leaders in the region, in letters sent to them, to support...
Teachers Demand Strike Action To Stop Forced Academisation!
OVER 5,000 angry teachers marched in London on Wednesday night against the government’s plan to force state schools to become academies. Teachers chanted ‘Nicky Morgan...
Gaza starves as Israel turns blockade into a weapon of mass...
AT DAWN on 26th April, a single Israeli airstrike obliterated an entire Palestinian family in central Gaza’s al-Sabra neighbourhood. The al-Khour family, spanning three generations,...
TWO MILLION BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS SACKED – 53.64 million face extreme...
MORE than two million garment workers have been sacked in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of fewer orders from the United...
PLANS ‘TO LIMIT PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE AND PROTEST ARE UNACCEPTABLE’...
‘THE very best of America has come from imminent disturbance, and to limit people’s right to assemble and protest is both unacceptable and un-American,’...
London protest and vigil in solidarity with Sudan on one year...
OVER a hundred Sudanese and their supporters held a vigil in Trafalgar Square on Monday night. Organised by London for Sudan and the Madiniya organisation...
Pay slashed for Irish meat workers snowed in
THE MAIN beef supplier for McDonald’s restaurants in Europe has ruthlessly slashed the pay of workers who could not get to work during the...
AZELLE RODNEY–‘END CLOAK OF SECRECY’ says family’s QC Tim Owen
Chairman, retired judge Sir Christopher Holland formally opened a public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney at 10.30am on Wednesday and adjourned it...
24-hour Argentine general strike against the Milei dictatorship
ARGENTINA’S General Labour Confederation (CGT) will be staging a 24-hour general strike against the right wing government of Javier Milei, tentatively set for before...
US State Governor Compares US Workers To Is Terrorists!
US trade unions have reacted angrily to Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker comparing trade union workers to IS terrorists. The likely Republican presidential contender sparked...
Gadaffi fighters still holding Sirte
Fighters loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi mounted a fierce counter-attack in the city of Sirte on Saturday, forcing back the NATO-backed NTC counter-revolutionaries...
Solano County workers win a two year contract after two strikes
ON WEDNESDAY evening, Solano County, California workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021 overwhelmingly ratified a two-year contract with the...
‘WE WILL SAVE OUR NHS’ – Junior Doctors co-chair tells 1,000-strong...
Over 1,000 striking junior doctors, consultants and radiographers held an angry rally in St Peter's Square, Manchester outside the Tory party conference on Tuesday...
Defeat Israeli plan to ‘manage starvation’ & drive Palestinians out of...
Two days after the limited entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian voices are rising to emphasise the ineffectiveness of the aid provided. They...
‘CREDIBLE ALLEGATIONS IMPLICATE THE UK IN TORTURE’ – says Amnesty
Amnesty International is demanding ‘a full inquiry to end secrecy’, over the British state’s involvement in human rights abuses since the ‘war on terror’...
Black Friday Wal-Mart strike! – in unity with Ferguson campaigners
THIS year’s Black Friday anti-Wal-Mart protests in the US were the widest-reaching ever, with pickets and strikes at 1,600 stores in 49 states to...
Children At Risk In Yarl’s Wood
Parents of sixteen families incarcerated at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) are on hunger strike over their appalling conditions. Meanwhile, Anne Owers, Chief...
Trade Unionists Killed At Guerrero Mine!
THE United Steelworkers (USW) union has called on the Canadian government to intervene after violence flared last Saturday in a labour dispute at a...
‘WE CAN’T DEFEND JOBS PIECEMEAL’ – say postal workers facing mass...
More than 800 postal workers from across the country marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester on Monday. They were joined by disabled Remploy...
‘Our members remain ‘extremely angry’ says NUMSA leader Irvin Jim
TWO weeks into their strike, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), has rejected the latest wage offer in the metals and...
‘WE WILL LIBERATE JERUSALEM AGAIN’ – says Hamas leader Mishaal
HAMAS Political Bureau Head Khaled Mishaal last weekend pledged that Jerusalem will be liberated again during a speech rally in Damascus to mark the...
Six Refugees Drown Off Coast Of Lebanon
SECRETARY-general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has warned of a slide towards violence after at least six people, including a...
‘ATTACK ON IRANIAN TANKER WAS STATE SPONSORED!’ says Iran’s Foreign Minister...
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says the attack on the Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea last Friday was a ‘complicated action’ in...
‘CLOSE TO ONE BILLION PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HAD ACCESS TO...
The Global Campaign for Education on Tuesday launched its Global School Report. The report, looking at 178 countries – from Haiti to Norway found the...
Russia’s Victory Upsets Imperialist Applecart
RUSSIA’s victory over the US supported Georgian blitzkrieg on South Ossetia, has driven the US ruling class into a frenzy. The Georgian offensive seems to...
Only Assad can bring stability say Raqqah residents
RESIDENTS of Syria’s Raqqah, which once served as the capital of the self-proclaimed ‘caliphate’ of the Daesh terrorist group, yearn for the return of...
STATES MUST REAFFIRM EVERYONE’S RIGHT TO ASYLUM – urges Amnesty International
In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International called on states to...
Yemen Boosts Its Defences Against Saudi-Led Aggression
emeni Armed Forces have unveiled new domestically-built military hardware, including ballistic and winged missiles in addition to unmanned aerial vehicles, which they say will...
‘Each Libyan is Muammar al-Gadaffi’, says Saif al-Islam
SAIF al-Islam al-Gadaffi said on Wednesday on Al-Ra’y TV, speaking from ‘the outskirts of Tripoli’: ‘I would like to reassure our brother Libyans everywhere...
‘We are staring the death of justice in the face’ –Barristers...
OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...