Irish Unions Faced With ‘Draconian Anti-Union Legislation!
THE Irish trade union leaders are currently deciding whether to accept state control of their public sector trade unions, including control over wages,...
US-Israeli scheme for Syria ‘in its last throes’
INFORMATION Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, stressed on Monday that the regional US-Israeli scheme in Syria ‘is in the last throes and it has clinically...
QATAR ACTING LIKE 21ST CENTURY SLAVE STATE –TUC demands re-run vote...
‘Qatar is acting like a 21st century slave state’, delegates attending the UEFA Congress in London heard. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)...
ROCKET ATTACK ON BEIRUT ‘WARNING TO HEZBOLLAH’ says ‘The Free Syrian...
THE missile attacks on Sunday on the suburbs of Beirut are only a warning to Hezbollah, the commander of the imperialist-backed ‘rebel’ Free Syrian...
Public hearings into 200 unlawful killings in Iraq
THE families of Iraqi civilians killed and tortured by British troops during the US-UK 2003 war and occupation have won a legal battle to...
GPs angry at cuts and NHS privatisation
GPs meeting in London on Thursday reacted angrily to the government’s cuts and drive to privatise, and press and government propaganda blaming GPs for...
Unite’s Response To Health Select Committee Inquiry! – Part Two
‘Experience to date of the transition from NHS Direct to the NHS 111 service 24. The Unite experience of the 111 service is that it...
Unite’s Response To Health Select Committee Inquiry!
‘THESE changes can not be separated from the problems A&E is facing. Unite believes that at the heart of this issue is...
Northern Rail Strike Vote Against Casualisation
RMT members at Northern Rail have voted for strike action against sackings and casualisation.’ In a statement the RMT said: ‘Northern Rail management have run...
‘Israel directly supports the terrorist movements’ – says Syrian President Bashar...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has re-affirmed he will not step down, in an interview with Argentina’s Clarin newspaper and Telam news agency. President al-Assad...
DEFEND NHS WITH OCCUPATIONS AND A GENERAL STRIKE! London marchers ...
UP TO 20,000 doctors, nurses, other health workers, trade unionists, older workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday afternoon, angrily demonstrating...
MURSI ‘IS A TOTAL FAILURE’ – millions sign Tamarod ‘Rebellion’ petition
HUNDREDS of thousands rallied in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in response to a call by several Egyptian political forces for a series of...
NAKBA DAY OF RAGE – over 1948 Catastrophe
Thousands marched in Gaza to mark the 65th Nakba anniversary demanding faction leaders in Gaza call for unifying the Palestinian political leadership as a...
Strikes & Suicides Continue At The Foxconn Factory
FOXCONN'S promise of facilitating a democratic trade union is only for their marketing image, says a research team based in several universities in the...
‘The first time that workers from all over Egypt have come...
WORKERS from electricity companies from around the country went on strike in Egypt on Sunday. Workers Media Coordinator at the Egyptian Centre for Economic and...
Unions Must Act To Defend Hospitals
THERE is a huge crisis in A&E departments in English and Welsh hospitals. Emergency patients brought to A&E departments by ambulance frequently have to...
DEATH TOLL PASSES 1,100 – in the Rana Plaza disaster
THE death toll from the collapse of the Dhaka building housing garment factories that workers were ordered back into, despite warnings, reached over 1,121...
SA: costly private care for privileged – second-rate care for everybody...
THE upcoming International Nurse’s Day in South Africa, on Sunday May 12, will see the life-saving profession hailed as quiet heroines and heroes who...
Cyprus And Israel ‘The Start Of New Bilateral Relations’
PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday described his three-day working visit to Israel as the ‘start of a new era in bilateral relations’ saying he...
Bus Workers March Through Johannesburg
DESPITE the urging of the Cosatu trade union federation to end their bus strike, thousands of striking bus drivers marched...
Portland Dockers Fight Lockout
A bitter labour dispute on Northwest docks escalated on Saturday as Columbia Grain Inc. locked out Portland longshore workers, accusing them of obstructing exports...
‘Land swaps must be on equal basis’ – insists Fatah, as...
LAND swaps should be a result of negotiations with Israel rather than an ‘advance payment’ given by Arab states on behalf of the Palestinians,...
‘Marikana’ Evictions Took Place On May 1!
ON Workers Day May 1 the ‘Marikana’ Evictions took place. These residents of Philippi East, a growing township sandwiched between Nyanga, Mitchell’s...
Police Chief Knew Marikana Operation ‘Would Involve Bloodshed’
THE Inquiry into the police massacre of 34 Marikana miners at the Lonmin pit and the wounding of hundreds more is continuing. On Monday, the...
May Day – Trade Unionists Demand A General Strike!
UP TO 10,000 workers trade unionists, students and youth were on the London May Day march from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on Wednesday. There...
ARAB LEAGUE ORGANISING LAND FOR PEACE SELL-OUT! – in return for...
ISRAEL’S lead ‘peace negotiator,’ Tzipi Livni, has praised as ‘important’ a concession by the Arab League that Israel and the Palestinians could trade land...
USW ready for ExxonMobil strike or lock-out
A lockout or strike is set to occur June 15 at ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, refinery, chemical plant and laboratory if company management continues...
EGYPTIAN STUDENTS CLASH WITH THE SECURITY FORCES – in anti-tyranny protests
STUDENTS across Egypt took to the streets on Sunday in protest at the aggressive handling of student movements by security forces and university staff,...
Ealing marchers call for occupation and a general strike! –‘Drastic times...
‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital – Occupy Now!’ rang out in a crescendo as the Ealing leg of the march against four hospital closures stopped outside...
MURSI SNUGGLES UP TO HAGEL – who commits to £1billion of...
IN talks with US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, President Mursi on Wednesday reaffirmed Cairo’s commitment to its peace treaty with Israel and voiced appreciation...
‘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...
£8.3bn wasted on expanding Academies – says MPs Public Accounts Committee
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have been shocked by the £8.3 billion wasted on the expansion of privately-run Academy schools at the expense...
25,000 South African teachers march against Education Minister today!
OVER 25,000 striking teachers in the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) are taking to the streets today for a national march to the...
Probe drugging of Palestinian prisoners – demands Hamas
THE Hamas Movement has appealed to the Palestinian authority and the international groups in the occupied Palestinian lands to investigate news reports saying that...
Unison Leadership Censured Over Pay Retreat
MOTIONS censuring the union’s leadership are being discussed at the Unison Health Care Service Group Annual Conference being held in Glasgow on 22 –...
‘West will pay a heavy price for supporting Al-Qaeda’ – says...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday that the West will pay a heavy price for its support of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Assad, whose regime has...
Issawi Called For ‘Rage And Solidarity’ For Prisoners Day!
HUNGER striker Samer Issawi called for ‘rage and solidarity’ from his prison cell on Palestinian Prisoners Day. Issawi wrote in a letter sent through his...
Construction industry blacklist ‘ruined lives’! – says Scottish Affairs MPs Committee
The major construction firms that established and funded a systematic blacklist of construction industry workers appear to be continuing to avoid taking full responsibility...
ISRAELI LEGAL SYSTEM A SMOKESCREEN FOR WAR CRIMES says PCHR
ISRAELI forces opened fire at farmers in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, locals said. Witnesses said that Israeli troops stationed at a watchtower fired...
Israel Supports Al-Qaeda Against Syria
SYRIAN TV has carried a report on the Al-Nusrah Front and Israel’s position on it, conducted by anchors Wa’il al-Tawil and Alisar Mu’alla...
Major Privatisation Drive In North Of Ireland
UNISON has called on the Public Accounts Committee and the Assembly Health Committee to investigate the startling growth of private medicine funded out of...
US must prove that Manning knowingly helped Al-Qaeda – rules US...
THE US government must prove that army private Bradley Manning knowingly helped Al-Qaeda and other ‘American foes’ by handing over secret documents to WikiLeaks,...
Greek Seafarers Call 24-Hour Strike
The Federation of Greek Seafarers Trades Union PNO have called a 24-hour strike for 16 April on all ferries, passenger and cargo ships, against...
‘THE TROIKA WANTS TO ABOLISH DEMOCRACY’ – says SYRIZA leader Alex...
LEADER of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras has warned that the Troika ‘maybe wants to abolish democracy’. Speaking at a railway...
IRISH TEACHERS CALL TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL – and will fight property...
The Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) last Thursday agreed to oppose and campaign against the incoming property tax. On the final day of their ...