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,...
‘NON-COMPLIANCE’ RESTRAINT POWERS SLAMMED – after strangled 15-year-old’s inquest
The five week inquest into the restraint-related death of 15-year-old Gareth Myatt, who died in the privately run Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (STC) in...
Russia Behind the Camera: Archives, Art and Revolution
Film making in Russia – a masterclass by Margy Kinmonth at Pushkin House DOCUMENTARY film maker Margy Kinmonth gave a masterclass on the theme of...
Iran urges hand power in Sudan to civilians
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry on Tuesday urged Sudan to address the people’s demand in the country and immediate transition of power to civilians. The ministry’s spokesman...
Teachers Vote To Strike Over Pay!
THE ANNUAL Conferences of the two main teachers unions, the National Education Union (NEU) and the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of...
Plans To Privatise ‘La Poste’ Are A ‘Declaration Of War’
The French post office union federations, CGT, SUD-PTT, CFDT, FO, CFTC and CGC, have called on postal workers nationally to strike and demonstrate on...
Police assault and crime rate continues to climb – time to...
A SERVING British Transport Police (BTP) officer has been dismissed without notice, after sexually assaulting a colleague at London Bridge station. Police Sergeant Tristan Davis...
IRAN ‘HAS NOT VIOLATED PARIS AGREEMENT’ – on resuming nuclear activity
Last Saturday evening, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Asefi outlined his government’s position to the foreign media on a number of issues, beginning with...
Bolton Theatre celebrates Great Miners Strike
The Octagon Theatre Bolton will mark the 25th anniversary of the Great Miners’ Strike when Artistic Director David Thacker revives his acclaimed production of...
Loyalist Killers Turn To God
BY IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST JOHN COULTER The Castlerock massacre in Co Derry in which four Catholic workmen were shot dead could have been stopped if...
82% of midwives work unpaid overtime – ‘We desperately need 5,000...
MIDWIVES have commented on the NHS Staff Survey and the impact of staff shortages and inadequate staffing levels on the health of midwives and...
Defend NHS with General Strike!
THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...
Deaths and injuries continue in Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards
WORKERS’ lives continue to be in danger due to the unsafe working conditions at Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards. Two accidents occurred on 12 January in two...
‘A SMOKESCREEN FOR MORE PRIVATISATION’ – ‘Unite warns over NHS constitution
TWO major health unions have reacted cooly to the Labour government’s new NHS Constitution, launched last Wednesday, which contains ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’ for both...
GMB welcomes debate on private equity
THE GMB welcomes the House of Commons debate on private equity as the ‘barbarians’ target Boots. Michael Meacher MP has secured a...
Israeli forces to vet Palestinian school teachers
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has introduced two bills that would bring Palestinian schools colleges and universities and their staff in the 1948-occupied territories under stricter...
Capita GP services ‘shambolic’ – BMA GP committee chair Richard Vautrey
‘THIS NEWS is extremely concerning, but not altogether surprising considering the continued warnings the BMA has given over Capita’s shambolic running of backroom services...
Masses of vital council services to close!
LOCAL services including leisure facilities, children’s centres and pothole repairs will be slashed due to funding cuts over the next two years, a survey...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART THREE: ‘Now we are...
THE brutal police riot at the Orgreave coke depot was not the only state attack launched against the NUM and striking miners in June...
Climate Change protesters besiege BAA
CAMP for Climate Action protesters yesterday morning were still besieging British Airports Authority (BAA) head office at Heathrow Airport. Protesters were camped out under...
Boeing strikers ‘standing firm’ in fight to save 17,000 jobs
BOEING strikers are standing firm despite the announcement last Friday that Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs, 10% of its global workforce, delay first deliveries...
NATO Patriot missiles–‘harbingers of a war on Syria’
THE Turkish privately-owned, mass-circulation daily Hurriyet, on 23 November, discussed the issue ‘Are the Patriots Harbingers of a War in Syria?’ It stated: ‘Turkey first...
‘THE DAY OF ISRAELI MILITARY TOURISM ON THE LEBANESE BORDER AND...
HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking via a giant screen on Saturday, vowed to respond to attacks on Hezbollah. HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking...
‘CALL A GENERAL STRIKE’ – lobby urges TUC General Council
OVER 200 Young Socialists and trade unionists lobbied the General Council of the TUC on Wednesday morning as it assembled to discuss the calling...
Academies are ‘managing out’ pupils!
THE ‘MANAGING out’ of pupils in order to ‘game’ government league tables is rife among academies, Education DataLab revealed on Wednesday. ‘The NUT has long...
Israeli Strikes After Soldier Killed In Ambush
TWO Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli air strike targeting a Palestinian motorcyclist in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, witnesses and medics said. The...
‘If Pelosi cares so much for human rights she should apologise...
CHINA has called on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to express remorse and apologise for the atrocities committed by the Americans in Afghanistan, Iraq,...
ESSENTIAL TO END ‘ESTRANGEMENT’ BETWEEN HAMAS AND FATAH – says Hamas...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on Friday called on the participants in the Paris meeting of the donor states to stand...
‘ACT QUICKLY TO BUILD MORE COUNCIL HOMES’ – MPs urge Beckett
A delegation of members of the Council Housing group of MPs at Westminster met with Housing Minister Margaret Beckett last Wednesday, February 4th, to...
A ‘PERMANENT WINTER NHS CRISIS LOOMS’ – warns BMA over Tory...
‘THE GOVERNMENT must resolve the long-term funding, capacity and recruitment issues’ if it is going to avoid a ‘winter crisis’ all year round, doctors...
1,000 Unite ground staff vote unanimously for BA strike action against...
OVER 1,000 British Airways (BA) baggage handlers, loaders and other ‘below-wing’ ground staff workers voted unanimously in favour of strike action at a mass...
Hamas supports call for general elections!
THE ISLAMIC resistance movement Hamas has praised recent calls by the Palestinian Democratic Union (PDU) – a political party active in the Palestine Liberation...
Escalating looting of South Africa’s resources – SAFTU statement
‘THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) founding congress in April 2017 warned our members, and the entire country, that both of the...
Clashes erupt after Israeli forces land grab
ISRAELI occupation forces on Sunday detained five Palestinians from the West Bank districts of Ramallah and Hebron, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). The...
WE WILL FIGHT UNTIL WE RETURN TO OUR ISLANDS – say...
OVER 150 Chagos Islanders and their supporters – including a delegation of Chagossians who had flown from Mauritius – were at the House of...
‘THIS IS THE PERIOD OF WORLD REVOLUTION’ – message to News...
THIS is the period of world revolution. That was the message delivered to the News Line Anniversary Rally attended by 200 youth and workers in...
French Railworkers call for ‘all-out, indefinite strike’ against privatisation
The following is a translation of the first strike bulletin published in the current dispute at French Railways (SNCF) by French railworkers’ union SUD-Rail...
TAKE ACTION AGAINST NHS CUTS! – call from delegates at BMA...
Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Cardiff expressed their serious concerns at the impact of cuts on healthcare. They...
Worldwide demand to break the siege of Gaza!
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared three days mourning, while in Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya declared a general strike in response...
Immigrant workers face ‘an epidemic of workplace injury and death’ says...
‘TODAY immigrant workers in this country face an epidemic of workplace injury and death,’ stated the Afl-Cio trade union federation yesterday. In fact, immigrant...
CGT national strike over wages and retirement at 60
STRIKES and demonstrations took place across France on Thursday, with the CGT union federation declaring: ‘November 10 for wages and retirement at age 60.’ ‘For...
SAVE THE HUNGER STRIKERS –end arbitrary detentions and jailings, Palestinian Mission...
TODAY, hundreds of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli jails are refusing food for one day in solidarity with the four leading Palestinian Prisoners – Samer...
2,000 Sri Lankan Troops Killed In 2007
OVER two thousand Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers were killed and four thousand wounded in the battles of 2007, TamilNet reported yesterday. The information was...
Only a general strike will stop the attack on workers rights!...
THERE were strong picket lines outside fire stations throughout England and Wales between 10am-2pm on Wednesday afternoon, as the Fire Brigades Union held its...
TAKE ACTION TO DEFEND THE NHS – down with corporate healthcare...
THE government has launched a blitzkrieg of around £900m cuts to NHS hospitals resulting in the closure of thousands of hospital beds and compulsory...