Abbas denounces US Jerusalem plan – addressing al-Azhar International Conference
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas says the holy city of Jerusalem al-Quds can be the gate to either peace or war, and that it...
‘Insecure Work Is The Biggest Issue Facing Australian Workers’
Australia is a global pacesetter in the creation of various forms of insecure employment, leaving only 60% of the workforce in standard, secure work,...
IG Metall demands 6% rise & 28-hour week for parental leave!
HUNDREDS of thousands members of IG Metall union, Germany’s largest trade union, are engaged in short-term ‘warning strikes’ against 80 companies, for the right...
Israeli Occupation Forces Are Seizing The Land!
ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES ARE SEIZING THE LAND! THE ongoing seizure of Palestinian land for the expansion of an illegal settlement in the West Bank –...
A SERIOUS ATTACK ON EDITORS AND THE PRESS! – NUJ condemns...
THE draft communications data bill is a serious attack on the privacy of citizen’s electronic data and will severely restrict the freedom of the...
ISRAEL IS A TERROR STATE! – boycott Israel say protesters
‘FREE, free Palestine! Occupation no more! Israel is a terror state!’ chanted workers and youth at a 3,000-strong protest outside the Israeli embassy in...
SOUTH AFRICA: ‘electricity crisis worsens with every day that passes’
THE ‘Civil Society Conference on the Electricity Crisis’ took place last week in Johannesburg, South Africa and declared: ‘The electricity crisis calls for de-corporatisation...
London Bus Privateers Must Stop ‘Race To The Bottom’ Or Face...
UNLESS London bus privateers stop the ‘race to the bottom’ and cease their onslaught on working conditions all-out strike action will swiftly ensue, Unite...
Japanese Foreign Minister Visits Al-Quds University!
JAPANESE Foreign Minister Taro Kono pledged during a visit to Al-Quds University on Wednesday to work to strengthen the working relationship between the Palestinian...
FRENCH ECONOMY EXPECTING ‘BRUTAL SHOCK’ says Finance Minister Le Maire
THE FRENCH economy is expected to shrink 11 per cent this year because of the coronavirus crisis, much worse than the government’s previous forecast...
Wits University Students Strike Against Debt
STUDENTS at Wits University in South Africa are embarking on a strike, warning that returning students may be unable to continue with their studies...
NUMSA CALLS MASSIVE STRIKE ACTION ON SEPTEMBER 30th AGAINST CORRUPTION...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has served notice on behalf of a growing number of unions and their...
MI5 ‘unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years’ says Liberty
THE British security and snoop service MI5 has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years,’ alleged rights organisation Liberty. ‘It has also failed,’ Liberty...
BDS has hit back after Pompeo’s ‘anti-Semitic’ slander
THE PALESTINIAN-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has criticised and firmly rejected US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s labelling of its movement as...
Uni treating workers like slaves! – NUMSA mass picket
AT THE end of last week, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) staged a mass picket at the University...
‘THE POPULAR STRUGGLE WILL CONTINUE IN ITS FULL STRENGTH’ – 200...
ISRAELI police evicted dozens of Palestinian activists early Sunday from a first-of-its-kind protest camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for...
Israeli troops lethal use of force is ‘extrajudicial execution’ says Addameer
THE Palestinian Civil Liaison on Sunday informed the family of Mohammed al-Rimawi, who was killed due to the excessive use of force by Israeli...
Putin Declines To Call Assad An Ally!
IN his recent interview with the German newspaper Bild Vladimir Putin was asked a number of questions about Syria. Question: Now let’s turn to Syria,...
Massive rise in homelessness!
A DEMONSTRABLE increase in homelessness, driven by the cost and availability of housing, has pushed the problem to such a level that a renewed...
‘Withdraw these “flexible” contracts’ – West Midlands FBU launch ‘Fired Up’...
WEST Midlands Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has written to Labour councillors and MPs ‘to raise our serious concerns over the treatment of firefighters within...
Parents criminalised for taking their children on holiday – says NUT
THE NUT (National Union of Teachers) and the CFHF (Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund) have condemned the fining of parents for taking their children out...
10,000 march in London demanding ‘Kill the Bill’ – as protests...
OVER 10,000 youth and workers demanding ‘Kill the Bill’ marched from Speakers Corner Hyde Park and rallied in Parliament Square, central London, on Saturday. Protests...
1,000 Unite ground staff vote unanimously for BA strike action against...
OVER 1,000 British Airways (BA) baggage handlers, loaders and other ‘below-wing’ ground staff workers voted unanimously in favour of strike action at a mass...
UK leads the way in austerity, welfare cuts and hungerK leads...
‘Nothing Left in the Cupboards: Austerity, Welfare Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK,’ is the title of a devastating 115-page Human...
Senior Sri Lankan commander has war crimes evidence
Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a US-based activist group, claimed in a press release issued last Saturday, that it has obtained a 100-page long sworn...
Tens of villages and towns in Aleppo liberated by Syrian army!
The Army and Armed Forces General Command announced that tens of villages and towns in Aleppo western and northwestern countryside have been liberated. The liberation...
Heads Of Midwifery Have Serious Safety Concerns
ALMOST 50 per cent (49%) of Heads of Midwifery (HOMs) from across the UK have had to close their maternity units at some point...
BA ultimatum: accept 20% pay cut or lose your job
British Airways has told cabin crew they must take a 20% cut in basic pay if they want to keep their jobs, – but...
Tayside healthcare workers demand ‘fair pay for all!’
HEALTHCARE assistants at NHS Tayside have gone into battle to demand the same pay as their colleagues demanding ‘fair pay for all!’ They are...
Housing benefit freeze pushing thousands to breaking point – says Shelter
‘THE current freeze on housing benefit is pushing hundreds of thousands of private renters dangerously close to breaking point at a time when homelessness...
EUROPEAN CORPORATIONS ARE ‘TWO FACED’ ON WORKERS RIGHTS says AFL-CIO...
EUROPEAN corporations are two-faced when it comes to respecting working people’s freedom of association and workers’ rights, argues a new report by the AFL-CIO...
Young People Face ‘Surging Housing Prices, Stagnating Wages And Rising Student...
‘YOUNG PEOPLE have been ignored by the government,’ Cat Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Young People said reacting to the new Institute For...
‘QANTAS PLANNED TO USE PANDEMIC TO OUTSOURCE 2,500 WORKERS’ –...
AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is demanding that PM Scott Morrison explains what he knew about Qantas management’s long-term decision to axe and outsource...
French rail workers rolling strikes
FRENCH rail workers walked out on another day of strikes on Thursday June 7th. Rail unions have carried out a series of two-day rolling...
SA union wins victory against labour brokering
THE Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, has ruled that an employer cannot employ a worker for more than three months without...
Nine Yemenis killed by Saudi airstrikes!
AT LEAST nine Yemenis were killed late last week as Saudi-led military aircraft carried out a string of airstrikes against an area in Yemen’s...
‘THE CRISIS IS BEING PAID WITH OUR RIGHTS!’ – says Ecuadorian...
‘We are quarantined but not silent. The millionaire cut to public education moves us to take the space, ours, the house, the neighbourhood, the...
HUNT PROMOTING THE BIG DRUG COMPANIES – under the guise of...
TORY Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s claims that ‘we can truly be the generation that beats dementia’ is a smokescreen for promoting the big drug...
‘THE ERA OF THE PEACE PROCESS IS BEHIND US!’ – writes...
RAMZY Baroud, an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com, has written about his thoughts in an article called ‘The Paris Peace...
Turkey, do not violate our sovereignty–warns Syria
DEPUTY Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr Faysal Miqdad said on Friday that the Syrian people, who are confronting terrorism with epic steadfastness, have the...
Academics & Scientists Call For Boycott Of Israeli Conference In Occupied...
IN an Open Letter published on Friday in the Guardian newspaper, 15 academics and scientists from around the world expressed opposition to holding a...
Companies at London Arms Fair supplying countries accused of committing ‘war...
THE WORLD’S biggest arms companies have set up shop at Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI), one of the world’s largest arms fairs, taking...
Zimbabwe Trade Union Leaders Charged With ‘Disruption Of Public Order’
On 16 November 2018, seven members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) – including ZCTU Secretary General Japhet Moyo and ZCTU President...
150 workers die each day in the USA – from injuries...
ONE hundred and fifty workers die each day in the United States as a result of injuries at work or occupational diseases. The American Federation...
STOP RAISING EXCESSIVE DEMANDS – Iran warns P5+1 group
A SENIOR Iranian official says a final deal with the P5+1 group of countries over Tehran’s nuclear programme will be achieved should the six...