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People of Aleppo march to support Syrian army

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PEOPLE of Aleppo on Tuesday marched through the streets of the city to show their support to the Syrian Arab Army which confronts terrorism...

Brutally beaten Palestinian-American teen under house arrest!

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AN Israeli court on Sunday placed under house arrest a Palestinian-American teenager who was filmed being brutally beaten by police during clashes in Jerusalem. Tarek...

14-DAY LOCKDOWN IN PALESTINIAN WEST BANK –as Palestine confirms 59 coronavirus...

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Life came to a standstill in all West Bank cities and towns on Monday as the curfew and strict lockdown Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad...

Russian Right Wing Works To Split Medvedev From Putin

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Putin’s attack on a mining company has given Medvedev a chance to show who’s boss, Russian Gazeta.ru news website said last weekend, looking to...

Israeli Settlers And Troops Are Confiscating Hebron Land

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DOZENS of Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli forces early Friday began farming on lands confiscated from Palestinian farmers in a village south of Hebron,...

Secret Netanyahu-US diplomacy to extend ‘settlement freeze’

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Monday that Israel and the United States were holding behind-the-scenes talks geared at resolving the recent deadlock...

YOU MUST ACCEPT SEPARATION WALL AS THE BORDER OF YOUR STATE...

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Israel has told the Palestinians to forget the 1967 boarders and accept the Separation Wall that cuts through West Bank as the border ...

Numsa Battle To Halt Its Expulsion!

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is going to court on Thursday to stop Cosatu (Confederation of South African Trade Unions)...

West Still Plotting Against Syria – Jaafari

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THE WEST has plotted against Syria with the aim of changing the country’s stances, policies and national identity to serve a ‘New Middle East’...

OSBORNE LASHES THE WORKERS – Trades unions’ verdict on Autumn Statement

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TRADE unions responded angrily to the Tory Chancellor Osborne’s Autumn Budget Statement in which he announced permanent austerity, raising the state pension age to...

Numsa Set To Call National Strike!

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140,000 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members are on the verge of a national strike, which will bring the engineering sector...

Army Is Sole Authority For Lebanon’s Security – Hezbollah!

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HUSAYN al-Khalil, the political aide to Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on 12 May held a Beirut press conference where he insisted that the...

Two US troops killed in Manbij bomb explosion

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AT LEAST two US servicemen and 14 other people have lost their lives when a massive bomb explosion struck near a patrol of the...

NO SICK PAY FOR 3.3m AUSTRALIAN WORKERS

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Casual workers and those in insecure jobs have been left cruelly exposed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, says the...

Palestinian doctor on hunger strike in Maghaberry prison has been joined...

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BY FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST BRITAIN has been involved in duplicity and skulduggery in Palestine from the secret signing of the Balfour agreement in...

Suspend all police implicated in Marikana massacre! – demands Amnesty International

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HUMAN rights group Amnesty International says President Jacob Zuma must suspend all police officers implicated in the Marikana shooting. Sunday marked exactly three years since...

Staff And Parents Say ‘No’ To Forced Academy!

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STAFF and parents have said ‘No’ to a Brent, north west London, primary school being forced to become an academy school. At a well attended...

Syrian film wins award at ‘International Resistance Film Festival’

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SYRIAN feature film ‘The Father’ has collected the Best Screenplay Award at the ending ceremony of the International Resistance Film Festival in Tehran. The...

Israel Renews Apartheid ‘Citizenship And Entry Law’

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ISRAEL’S parliament, the Knesset, renewed the controversial ‘Citizenship and Entry into Israel’ law, which sets severe limitations on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian...

Child poverty & food bank use rises!

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A SURVEY of UK social workers by the Child Poverty Action Group, Child Welfare Inequalities Project and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services,...

‘We Cannot Tolerate And Forgive Those That Shed The Blood Of...

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MARKING one week since local Hezbollah leader Samir Al-Kuntar’s assassination near Damascus at the hands of an Israeli missile, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan...

Trade Unionists Killed At Guerrero Mine!

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THE United Steelworkers (USW) union has called on the Canadian government to intervene after violence flared last Saturday in a labour dispute at a...

30 Palestinian youth hit by rubber bullets in East Jerusalem clashes

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THIRTY Palestinian youths were wounded by rubber-coated bullets during clashes with Israeli forces in the East Jerusalem village of Al-Isawiyah last Friday. The wounded received...

Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills 3 Palestinians

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ISRAELI forces launched a deadly airstrike that struck southern Gaza on Tuesday, killing three young Palestinians. Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra confirmed that...

Jerusalem Tensions Boiling Over

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A PALESTINIAN man on Sunday succumbed to wounds he sustained in a car attack on a light rail station in East Jerusalem, his wife...

Three Numsa Shop Stewards Killed In Targeted Shooting

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THREE NUMSA shop steward leaders were gunned down late on Wednesday 6 August 2014 in the KwaZulu-Natal province. A National Union of Metalworkers of South...

Women and Tamil youth demand an international investigation into the thousands...

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WOMEN activists and Tamil youth activists of the missing persons’ relatives campaign concluded a three-day fast and a four-day walk from Mu’l’livaaykkaal in Vanni...

Israel Seeking To Drive Arabs Out Of Jerusalem

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MINISTER of Jerusalem Affairs in the Palestinian government and its governor Adnan Husseini warned on Monday that an Israeli plan to break away Arab...

Palestinian Intifada intensifies

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FOUR Palestinians were shot and injured on Sunday, while many others, including students, suffocated during renewed clashes with Israeli army forces in the Hebron...

Kerry Returns To Middle East, Desperate For A Peace Deal

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US SECRETARY of State John Kerry is to return to the Middle East later this week to resume efforts to draw Israel and the...

Bangladesh government using court to put workers’ safety at risk say...

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The Bangladesh government is using proceedings before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh to prevent the Accord on workers’ safety from operating, thereby putting safety...

Shut G-Bay down! 17 years of ‘Temple of Torture’

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SEVENTEEN years since it opened, Guantánamo Bay remains as significant and problematic as ever, says Reprieve. The notion that the men in Guantánamo Bay...

East Jerusalem ‘Must Be Placed Under International Protection’

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THE Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Palestine Martina Anderson has called for East Jerusalem to be placed under immediate international...

RAIL FARES SOARING BY 6.2 PER CENT – ‘a massive kicking...

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Rail unions, transport campaigners and passenger groups held a national day of action on Tuesday to protest against massive hikes in rail fares, widespread...

‘overthrow Government’ Demand Greek Workers

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TENS of thousands of workers and youth participated in the mass rallies and marches throughout Greece last Friday and Saturday as part of the...

South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs is served with strike notice

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SOUTH Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has been served with a notice to strike on 19 June by unions representing employees at the department. The...

Fast food revolt in New Zealand!

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RESTAURANT Brands which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr and Starbucks chains has committed to end zero-hour contracts by July this year in...

Canadian Hospital Workers Threatened By Carillion Collapse

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‘THE Ontario government must step in to protect hospital staff and the public in the Carillion bankruptcy,’ Canada’s largest private sector union, Unifor, demanded...

Almost Every School In The Country Faces £1,000 Per Pupil Slashed...

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ALMOST every school in the country is to have its funding slashed, some by as much as £1,000 per pupil per year, under the...

‘Deal of the Century’ does not meet the minimum level of...

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‘THE PALESTINIAN leadership is committed to achieving a political solution of the Middle East conflict, based on the creation of an independent Palestinian state...

Iran Will Continue To Support Syria Against Terrorist Groups

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IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has insisted that the Islamic Republic will continue to support Syria in its fight against terrorist groups. Zarif made...

ISRAEL ANNOUNCES PLANS TO BUILD 1,000 NEW SETTLER HOMES IN THE...

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ISRAEL is inviting bids to build over 1,000 settler homes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the housing ministry said on Sunday, ahead...

Assad Denounces Imperialist Wars For ‘Redrawing The Map Of The World!’

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President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday received Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Yong-ho and the accompanying delegation. Talks during...

US-UK air attack on Syrian army ‘definitely intentional’ says Assad

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SANA, the Syrian state news agency, is showing an interview with President Assad by Associated Press and the current ceasefire crisis. We are very...

Mass Hunger Strikes In Israeli Jails Planned

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AFTER Fatah-affiliated Palestinians held in Israeli prisons organised a mass hunger strike to take place on Palestinian Prisoners Day later this month, scores of...