‘HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITALS!’ – demand campaigners marching on Downing Street
‘JEREMY Hunt hear us say, NHS is here to stay!’ and ‘One fight – we are all united!’ chanted campaigners fighting to save A&Es...
‘JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE!’ –President Abbas addresses 54th anniversary of...
‘JERUSALEM is not for sale. Palestine will never let the US sell occupied al-Quds to Israel,’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said adding that the...
Assad Denounces Imperialist Wars For ‘Redrawing The Map Of The World!’
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...
Hands off Medicare and Social Security! – Demand US workers at...
SENATOR Warren, and the Koch Sisters led the rally to protect Social Security, and Medicare organised by AFSCME members at the ‘Hands Off’ rally...
STUDENT UPRISING AGAINST FEES –rocks the Tory-LibDem coalition
STAFF and students at the University of Reading held a special demonstration yesterday against government cuts to higher education. The lobby was organised by...
Row Growing Over Future Of 17,000-Plus Detainees
A proposed US-Iraq security pact states that anyone detained by the Americans must be handed over to the Iraqis within 24 hours, says UN...
20,000 Nursing Vacancies – A Serious Threat To The NHS!
The RCN has launched a report which reveals there are nearly 20,000 nursing vacancies currently unfilled in England; a ‘hidden workforce crisis’ that could...
Mass Hunger Strikes In Israeli Jails Planned
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...
‘I Call On Youth – Take To The Streets Of The...
JAILED Palestinian Leader Marwan al-Barghouthi believes much must be carried out in 2013, starting with national reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, the liberation of...
Palestinian Premier Hamdallah is to visit Gaza Strip
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said on Thursday that no mechanisms had been put in place to ensure the implementation of the reconciliation agreement...
Putin Accuses West Over Syria ‘Chaos’
PRESIDENT Putin has accused the West of pursuing policies that had destabilised states in the Arab world and now risked creating chaos...
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...
Junior doctor pay has ‘fallen off a cliff since 2008’ –...
THE DIRE state of junior doctors’ finances has been revealed in a British Medical Association survey. Junior doctors are cutting back on buying food and...
‘US works on stopping any investigation into use of chemical weapons’...
24 NATIONS have agreed to push for sanctions against perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria with US Secretary of State Tillerson saying that Russia...
‘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...
Haiti textile workers fight sackings of six union leaders
Six union leaders employed by the One World Apparel garment factory in Haiti have been fired. The leaders of the Textile and Garment...
30 Palestinian youth hit by rubber bullets in East Jerusalem clashes
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...
Palestinian Intifada intensifies
FOUR Palestinians were shot and injured on Sunday, while many others, including students, suffocated during renewed clashes with Israeli army forces in the Hebron...
Eight Years Since The Marikana Massacre Of 34 Miners
YESTERDAY, South Africa marked the anniversary of one of the darkest moments in its history – when police officials opened fire on striking Lonmin...
54 student halls of residence wrapped in same cladding as Grenfell...
AS A FRESH year of students start at their new universities, it has come to light that fifty-four student halls of residence tower blocks...
US-UK air attack on Syrian army ‘definitely intentional’ says Assad
SANA, the Syrian state news agency, is showing an interview with President Assad by Associated Press and the current ceasefire crisis. We are very...
Trump Declares War On Public Sector Unions
LAST Wednesday night the Trump administration declared war on America’s public sector unions. In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice...
People of Aleppo march to support Syrian army
PEOPLE of Aleppo on Tuesday marched through the streets of the city to show their support to the Syrian Arab Army which confronts terrorism...
Student Grants Must Be Restored Says Nus!
STUDENT poverty and debt will not be solved by just curbing vice-chancellors’ pay, says the NUS, student grants must be restored. Sky-high pay among university...
Russia Relying On Poroshenko Being A ‘Prudent Politician’
RUSSIA is seeking peaceful co-existence and ‘compromise’ both with the EU and Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko, President Putin’s supreme economic adviser, Andrey Belusov...
Israel Approves 942 Settlement Units On The Eve Of Peace Talks
ISRAEL has approved 942 new settlement units for occupied East Jerusalem, a local official said Tuesday, on the eve of the scheduled resumption of...
Union leaders denounce Osborne’s spending review – but call no action...
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s vicious £11.5 billion Spending Review attacks on pay, public services and benefits, were immediately condemned by trade union and TUC leaders representing...
Trump’s Budget The Most Significant Betrayal Yet Of Working People
US PRESIDENT Trump’s Budget betrays working people, says a statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Trump’s Financial Year 2018 budget proposal. The US union...
‘overthrow Government’ Demand Greek Workers
TENS of thousands of workers and youth participated in the mass rallies and marches throughout Greece last Friday and Saturday as part of the...
Deadly Israeli air strikes – a cowardly crime!
A fighter from the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was killed on Sunday, and another critically injured, as...
Saudi accuses Hezbollah of ‘hijacking Lebanese banks’
SAUDI Arabia’s foreign minister last Friday accused Hezbollah, which Riyadh blames for the shock resignation of Lebanese premier Saad Hariri, of holding Lebanon hostage...
93 Gazans Vist Relatives Jailed In Israel
A GROUP of 93 Palestinians from Gaza visited relatives jailed in Israel on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Spokesperson Suhair Zaqqut...
South African universities strike looms
STRIKE action is looming for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology after talks with workers over salary and service conditions deadlocked last weekend. The declaration...
Israeli army attacks Syrian army positions near Golan Heights! –while Japan...
THE Government of Japan has signed a contribution agreement worth $22.4 million with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees...
TWO SICK PALESTINIAN PRISONERS ATTEMPT SUICIDE! – hunger strikers in danger...
Two sick Palestinian prisoners have attempted to commit suicide, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s ministry of prisoners affairs said on Tuesday. Hanan al-Khatib said...
Suspend all police implicated in Marikana massacre! – demands Amnesty International
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...
Fast food revolt in New Zealand!
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...
Israel Seeking To Drive Arabs Out Of Jerusalem
MINISTER of Jerusalem Affairs in the Palestinian government and its governor Adnan Husseini warned on Monday that an Israeli plan to break away Arab...
Angry Nurses Force Emergency General Meeting Over Pay Sell-Out!
AN EMERGENCY General meeting will be held by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in September, in response to a petition with over 1,000...
Palestinian left to bleed to death
A PALESTINIAN was shot and left to bleed to death by the Israeli army at Beit Anoun junction to the east of Hebron on...
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...
Iran and Russia–strategic defence co-operation
‘IRAN and Russia are on the path of strategic defence cooperation’ said the Iranian Daily Javan website on 21 January. It stated: ‘Iranian...
Erekat ‘Disappointed’ That Obama Ignored Palestine At UN Assembly
SECRETARY-General of the PLO’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat Monday expressed his disappointment in US President Barack Obama for ignoring the Palestinian question during his...
Canadian Workers Struggling Against Privatisation
LONDON Ontario’s first strike by inside civic workers in 36 years entered its sixth week on Monday, after mediated contract talks over the...
Stop gagging asylum seekers’ doctors – warns BMJ
IN THE British Medical Journal this week, two doctors criticise Australia for passing legislation that may be used to silence doctors working with asylum...