Eskom ‘declaration of war will be met head-on’ says NUM while...
A NATIONAL pay strike is looming at Eskom, after management at South Africa’s massive national power utility issued a ‘declaration of war’ to the...
RUSSIA AND IRAN ARE OUR STEADFAST ALLIES – says Assad
IN AN an interview given to al-Manar TV, President Bashar Assad said the essence of the crisis in Syria is foreign interference by the...
Sudan’s civil war escalates – RSF leader bids for power!
WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...
Hezbollah marks 40 years of Iranian revolution!
THE SECRETARY general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has praised the outstanding achievements made in Iran, stressing that the Islamic Republic is now...
179 UK MEDICS HOLD LONDON PROTEST FOR GAZA – to highlight...
HEALTHWORKERS 4 Palestine and Amnesty International UK staged a mass solidarity protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Friday night. The protest was to...
Rafah crossing shut for 6 months
Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Wednesday that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) will close the international Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip...
‘STOP THE COALTION DESTROYING OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM’ says NASUWT leader
TEACHING unions on Thursday slammed the government’s Education Bill. The NASUWT said it was a Bill that ‘has all the hallmarks of being conceived by...
Lebanon Condemns ‘Blatant Violation’ Of Cease-Fire Resolution
Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad al-Siniora condemned an Israeli commando raid early Saturday morning against a position held by Hezbollah in the Al-Biqa as ‘a...
Iran, Russia, Syria & Iraq must defeat IS or the Middle...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad says the coalition of Iran, Russia, Syria and Iraq will succeed, that it must or the entire region will be...
Zero-Hours Workers Earn £300 A Week Less!
ZERO-HOURS workers earn nearly £300 a week less, on average, than permanent employees, according to a new report published on Monday to mark the...
Belgium acts to offset American UNRWA cut
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and discussed with him the latest Palestinian and regional developments. Abbas, on an...
‘WE HAVE TO PROTECT SOCIAL HOUSING!’ say ‘Our West Hendon’ marchers
OVER 400 West Hendon tenants, leaseholders and supporters marched on Thursday evening from West Hendon to Hendon Town Hall for a lobby of a...
Kerry Visits Egypt On The Eve Of Mursi Trial
US Secretary of State, John Kerry says that there are indications Egypt generals intend to restore democracy. He says that the USA is committed...
Trump’s ceasefire plan will allow Israel to resume its war after...
A PROPOSED ceasefire framework pushed by US President Donald Trump, touted as the ‘final proposal’ for ending Israel’s war on Gaza, would still allow...
Los Angeles farm workers in epic pay battle
HUNDREDS of labour activists, farmworkers and their allies marched on Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday demanding that a Fresno fruit grower recognise...
‘7th October was a justified rebellion against the Israeli occupying force!’
Drop Site News, a US-based publication, has recently conducted interviews with senior Hamas officials and reviewed statements from the group’s leaders. These efforts included background...
‘JUSTICE FOR PAUL COKER’ – vigil held at Plumpstead police station
‘WHAT do we want? Justice! – When do we want it? Now!’ and ‘Police – murderers!’, shouted more than 70 people at a demonstration...
Maliki Signs ‘Memorandum Of Understanding’ With Turkey
A MEMORANDUM of Understanding was signed by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Iraqi puppet Prime Minister Nuri...
Iran warns imperialists as Iraqi forces advance in Mosul and Yemenis...
LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that the United States and Zionists are especially targeting Iran because it is...
‘STOP JUSTIFYING ISRAELI ASSAULT!’ – Ashrawi tells EU leadership
PALESTINIAN activist Dr Hanan Ashrawi yesterday called for the EU Foreign Affairs Council to stop ‘adopting Israel’s narrative’ and to stop ‘justifying Israel’s...
Intense Israeli Efforts To Expand Settlements
THE Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds in an editorial called ‘Settlements and Water Anew’, which appeared on October 1, exposes Israeli efforts to prevent the formation...
‘OLMERT WILL EITHER RESIGN OR BE TOPPLED’ says Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah said in an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV broadcast on 19 January: ‘We will accept a transitional government that...
SA police attempted murder of a 14-year-old!
A CASE of attempted murder has been opened over the shooting of a 14-year-old boy on a demonstration in Hangberg, Hout Bay, Cape Town...
No Cuts In Medicare To Finance Tpp Deal!
A DIFFICULT road for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in the House of Representatives got much worse on Monday, when trade unions and pensioners...
Fatah Suspends Participation In Unity Government!
THE Fatah movement said on Tuesday night that it is suspending participation in the three-month old unity government with Hamas until the...
Israel has killed 1.8% of Gazans in the last 10 months
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported this week that the Israeli occupation forces have killed, in the ongoing genocide war on the Gaza...
Ten Palestinians Killed And 882 Injured By Israeli Forces In Gaza...
TEN Palestinians, including three children, were killed and 882 others have been injured by Israeli forces at the Gaza border during the past two...
Sri Lankan Military Targets Farmers
Unidentified armed men arriving on a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade on Friday around 5:30am on the house of a Muslim teacher in Ea’raavoor...
US opposes prosecution of Israel over Shireen Abu Akleh murder
The United States has opposed Al Jazeera’s efforts to have the Israeli regime prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Tel Aviv’s murder...
US Labor Day – AFL-CIO tour of struggles
AFL-CIO leaders Richard Trumka (president), Liz Shuler (secretary-treasurer) and Tefere Gebre (executive vice president), travelled the country on Monday, US Labor Day. Delivering speeches bashing...
Tenants’ Aylesbury floods fury
Tenants on the Aylesbury estate are very angry at Southwark Council’s indifference to their complaints and the Council’s high handed attitude towards tenants’ needs. Tenants...
‘They have crashed into a mountain of granite!’
THE Libyan leader has vowed not to surrender and to fight till the end. He urged the ‘masses’ to march on the rebel-held areas...
‘14,000 Babies In Gaza Could Die Within 48 Hours!’
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher warned on Tuesday morning that as many as 14,000 babies could die in Gaza within 48 hours if...
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...
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...
Shrimp farming in Bangladesh for $0.83 a day!
EVIDENCE of human rights and labour abuses taking place in the Bangladesh Shrimp industry is revealed in a report released on Thursday by the...
Palestinian Political Prisoners Strike! – After Murder Of Ra’Id Al-Ja’Bari
PALESTINIAN prisoners in Israel struck on 10th September over the death of prisoner Ra’id al-Ja’bari which Fatah describes as an Israeli, ‘ugly crime’. ‘Isa Qaraqi,...
Afl-Cio Leader Trumka Quits Trump’s Manufacturing Council
ON SUNDAY August 13th AFL–CIO leader Richard Trumka made his initial statement on the Charlottesville clashes between neo-Nazis supported by the Ku Klux Klan...
MASSIVE PROTEST ORGANISED FOR THE VEDANTA AGM ON AUGUST 14th!
LOUD and angry protests will again be held outside the AGM of British mining company Vedanta Resources’ AGM at the Lincoln Centre, Lincoln’s Inn...
Amnesty Shocked At Mosul Civilian Casualties
THE scale of civilian deaths in Mosul raises questions over rules of engagement being used by US-led coalition and Iraqi forces, says Amnesty International. Commenting...
Israeli army demolishes homes, steals olive saplings, confiscates vehicles to make...
AN ISRAELI army force on Wednesday demolished a residence and uprooted 100 saplings in Masafer Yatta, in the south of the occupied West Bank. Local...
‘Free, Free Palestine’ Demand Hundreds Of Workers And Youth
‘FREE, Free Palestine!’ shouted a crowd of over 400 workers and youth demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy on Saturday. The protest was part of the...
Israel Steps Up Jerusalem Demolitions
Israeli bulldozers demolished two Palestinian houses in the Ath-Thuri neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Al-Quds Centre for...
PAY THE ‘LIVING WAGE’! – GMB to demonstrate at NEXT’s AGM
THE GMB trade union will hold a public protest at the Annual General Meeting of NEXT in Leicester this Thursday, May15. They will call for...
SSANGYONG WORKERS APPEAL FOR SUPPORT –under massive paramilitary attack
STOP Brutal Raid against the Ssangyong Motor Workers! Our Union Members’ Lives are at Stake! TODAY company goons ripped apart the shelters of solidarity supporters encamped...