Only UK rulers back up US accusations against Iran
TO DATE the UK is the only major diplomatic power to support the American accusations against Iran. As the British opposition Labour Party, in addition...
How the DWP is spying on benefit claimants
IN 2019, the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published their two-part staff guide on conducting fraud investigations. Privacy International (a UK-registered charity which...
‘We demand a complete arms embargo now & recognition!’ –Palestinian ambassador...
THE first speaker at the rally in Kensington High Street at the end of the march was Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse,...
AFL-CIO MAY NOT ENDORSE THE DEMOCRATS – says AFL-CIO leader Trumka
WASHINGTON — The nation’s most powerful labour leader, vowing to defeat President Obama’s key trade legislation in the House next month, warned Hillary Clinton...
Israeli forces raid al-Quds University
Israeli forces raided the al-Quds University, on Wednesday, in Abu Dis village, south east of the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. Local...
Unison Motion To Boycott Israel
MOVES towards a trade union boycott of Israel are gaining momentum, with UNISON announcing this week that it is to debate a boycott at...
25 YEARS SINCE THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE – Part 3: The TUC...
ON Saturday, March 16, the printers and their supporters replied to this attack on their picket line with a mass picket of 7,000. Again the...
Far right Israeli minister Ben Gvir repeats calls for Palestinians to...
FAR RIGHT Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for ‘encouraging’ Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, saying the regime’s occupation of the...
THE LTTE WILL NOT LAY DOWN ITS ARMS – before a...
Selvaraja Pathmanathan, the LTTE plenipotentiary for international relations, gave an interview to TamilNet on Monday. TamilNet: How do you view the response of...
Israel Fears Palestinians Will March On Border
Israel strengthened its forces along the border with the Gaza Strip last Sunday, fearful that thousands of Palestinians may march on the border against...
30th Anniversary of Red Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan! Sputnik interview General...
THE 15th of February marked the 30th anniversary of the pullout of Soviet troops from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The Soviet-Afghan War lasted...
A quarter of a million Gaza homes destroyed!
The Ministry of Public Works in Gaza has reported that more than a quarter of a million housing units have been completely or partially...
DISMANTLE THE WALL – say UN experts
Eight UN experts on Monday called for the Israeli separation Wall being constructed on Palestinian land to be dismantled. The UN experts were marking the...
Over 146,000 Tamils Are Still Unaccounted For!
SUPPORT is growing for an international, independent inquiry into the 2009 genocide against the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Over 10,000 people rallied in Trafalgar Square...
The G20 Summit in Delhi ‘A Tale of Two Indias’
IN Delhi, India’s capital, the G20 summit has captured significant global attention. This event brought together world leaders to discuss international economic strategies, presenting...
Forced Academies – ‘This Is A Huge Government Climbdown!’ Says Nut
‘THIS is a huge government climb-down and is a testament to the campaigning of teachers and parents,’ Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the...
Barbaric massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees – 34 years since...
MARKING 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon last Friday, Saeb Erekat, secretary...
ISRAELI MEDICAL NEGLECT KILLED HAMDIYEH! – Palestinian prisoners begin three-day hunger...
THE death of a cancer-stricken detainee on Tuesday has raised tensions in Israeli jails as Palestinian prisoners announced a three-day hunger strike. Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh,...
HOUSING OMBUDSMAN TO INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS OF MOULD & DAMP – but...
THE HOUSING Ombudsman has launched an investigation into damp and mould in buildings – which has shown just how widespread it now is throughout...
Israeli War Left Gaza Children Traumatised
Young Palestinian chldren are still severely traumatised six months after the Israeli war on the impoverished Gaza Strip, charities warn. Fourteen-year-old Ghasan Matar won’t talk...
Academies Are Designed To Smash Free State Education
Academies are private companies and will be in charge of education in local areas, the Labour government makes clear in its document Building Schools...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘The revolutionary masses are...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction by MOISSAYE J OLGIN THIS is an essay of triumph. Written on January 20, 1905,...
Hundreds of New York City police invade Columbia University campus
HUNDREDS of New York City police officers entered the Columbia University campus on Tuesday evening, taking many people into custody, in the latest escalation...
Student nurse numbers declining! –10,000 off target by 2025! – says...
STUDENT nurse numbers are declining to the extent that the official NHS workforce plan for England will be over 10,000 off target by 2025,...
FIRE DEATHS DOUBLE IN MERSEYSIDE! – as further savage fire service...
‘FIRE deaths in Merseyside have doubled in the past five years,’ Merseyside firefighters warned yesterday as further savage cuts are planned to their service. Merseyside...
7-Day Working Proposed For Hospital Consultants!
BY A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT PROPOSALS are being made by clinical leaders to bring in 7-day working for hospital consultants. These proposals are laid out in a...
UK’s Afghan Detention Policy Is Declared Illegal!
In a landmark judgment on Friday in the High Court in London, the UK’s detention policy in Afghanistan was declared unlawful. Since November 2009, the...
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...
Young Socialists Launch Their March For Jobs And Free State...
The Young Socialists on Saturday launched its March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London. Bus workers came to welcome the young...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
Special Unit Set Up By Netanyahu To Force Feed Palestinians
PALESTINIAN hunger striker Mohammad Allan was forcibly removed from Soroka hospital in Beersheba and taken to the Barzilai Medical Centre in Ashdod, by Israeli...
Two Years Since Myanmar Military Coup
On the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the Global Unions – which represents 200 million workers worldwide – has called for...
Bectu Members At Picturehouse Begin Nine Days Of Strike Action!
BECTU members campaigning for the Living Wage at the Picturehouse circuit began nine days of strike action on Wednesday, 4th October, which coincided with...
‘Wendy’s Allowing Slavery To Flourish!’
‘IT is time for Wendy’s to commit to justice and human rights – to choose meaningful and verifiable rights protections for the workers who...
‘THE ADVERSARY IS EXTREMELY STRONG – HOWEVER WE HAVE BEEN ABLE...
Cuban President Fidel Castro on Monday delivered the following message announcing his resignation from the presidency. It said: ‘Message from the Commander in Chief ‘Dear compatriots: ‘Last...
Child labourers worldwide increase to 160 million!
THE NUMBER of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million in the last four years. These...
Greek Riot Police Let Loose On Protesting Workers
HUNDREDS of armed riot police were employed last Friday morning in Athens in a series of tear-gas and truncheon attacks against protesting state teachers,...
Tamils Braced For A Major Onslaught On Vanni
TamilNet said that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) during the weekend has reportedly been engaged in heavy deployment of its troops poised for a...
1,383 US medics demand deportations stop!
1,383 MEDICAL professionals last Friday demanded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) end the Title 42 border expulsions order that has...
GOLAN HEIGHTS SYRIAN TERRITORY – says UN Special Envoy for Syria!
UN SPECIAL Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen on Friday underlined Syria’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, rejecting a US congressional motion to recognise Israel’s...
Carnage And Despair: Iraq Five Years On
Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is in disarray, the human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity prevails,...
‘Insulting’ changes to GP contracts rejected!
The BMA (British Medical Association) England GPs committee has rejected ‘insulting’ proposed changes to the GP contract in England which completely ignore the unsustainable...
‘EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE’ – or millions of Americans will have no...
Some 200 unemployed workers converged on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, on Thursday to demand that Congress act immediately to extend unemployment insurance to those...
Palestinian Prisoners Are Denied Representation
The Israeli Security Agency, Shin Bet is preventing as many as 90 per cent of Palestinian prisoners from consulting with an attorney, even though...
Iraqis Accuse UK Of Torture And Murder At Camp Abu Naji...
A former British Army officer has denied that he or his troops were ‘deliberately uncooperative’ with the Al-Sweady investigation into allegations of systematic torture...