COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT – the decision to suspend Palestinian aid
The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...
‘Sanction Israeli Ministers For War Crimes!’
HAMAS has warned Israel against attacking the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday indicated his support...
Tube Strike Brings London To A Standstill!
POWERFUL picket lines continue outside London rail depots this morning as the RMT Tube union completes this week’s first 24-hour strike at 12noon today,...
Teuta Hoxha – on Day 45 of her hunger strike! She may die...
The 17-year-old sister of a pro-Palestine prisoner who is now on day 45 of her hunger strike says she fears she may die in...
‘We Need A National Strike To Win This Now’
‘WE need a national strike to win this now,’ striking Birmingham binworker Dean Harris, Unite Rep at the Atlas refuse site picket line told...
RCN SETTING UP A £35m STRIKE FUND
FOLLOWING the recommendation of the ‘slap in the face’ 1% pay award by the Department of Health and Social Care in its evidence to...
23 years since Ladbroke Grove disaster
TWENTY-THREE YEARS after 31 lives were lost in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, RMT says that government policy is in danger of dragging the...
GMB pledges to defeat new strike-breaking laws!
‘Butt Out!’ the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday, after it overturned a Welsh law on Monday night banning the use of agency...
PM Johnson’s 5-point ‘Living with Covid’ plan
TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...
BELOW INFLATION RISES ARE A BIG WAGE CUT! – says Unite’s Sharon Graham
UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham yesterday said below inflation rises are a wage cut with workers paying the price of the pandemic. Speaking after new...
NUJ and BECTU condemn the BBC plans to cut 2,000 jobs
THE NUJ and BECTU have condemned the BBC’s plans to cut around 2,000 jobs. The NUJ is urging the broadcaster to meaningfully engage workers and...
‘There is no safe place on the Gaza strip!’
‘LIFE has completely vanished, and the displaced wander with uncertainty, not knowing where to go as there is no safe place in the Gaza...
‘We oppose genocide – we support Palestine Action!’
MORE than 130 prominent writers, scholars, and activists, including Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg, and Brian Eno, have written to the Court of Appeal in...
Israel demolishes UNRWA HQ in Jerusalem!
ISRAEL is bulldozing the headquarters of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem. The genocidal Netanyahu regime is clamping down...
‘CHILD Q’ STRIP-SEARCHING – new guidelines are to be introduced
MUCH tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the ‘hugely distressing’ strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education...
Israel steps up assaults and demolitions in both Gaza and the West Bank
ISRAELI occupation forces have escalated assaults, demolitions, and settler-backed attacks across the occupied West Bank, causing widespread Palestinian casualties, mass arrests, and the destruction...
Don’t withhold the Palestinian revenues urge Nordic nations!
THE Nordic nations have voiced serious concerns over the withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues, further straining the already difficult fiscal situation of the Palestinian...
Bow bus strikers lead fight for safety
BOW bus garage drivers in East London are leading the fight for safety across the country’s bus network, as their dispute around scheduling and...
‘International community must make a stand’
IN the wake of the unlawful US aggression against the peaceful Iranian nuclear sites, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday called on the international...
Fierce battles rage around Jabalia Refugee Camp!
Fighting between Palestinian resistance forces and Israeli troops raged in Gaza on Friday after the Zionist genocidal regime intensified its ground invasion. Fierce battles raged overnight...
NO FIRE ESCAPE! Tory fire safety guidance fails
NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...
International support for UK rail workers!
STRIKING RMT railway workers were boosted by the leader of the US Amazon Labour Union joining their picket line at Euston Station yesterday morning. ALU...
Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Peace Plan – Hamas demands its implementation as agreed
ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel has rejected US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace 15-point plan and will not withdraw...
US-backed Israel continues Gaza massacre of Palestinian workers! – 147 Palestinians killed in 24...
THE US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 96 on Wednesday, with massive aerial and artillery strikes pounding neighbourhoods and homes...
‘IN A QUEUE TO DIE!’ – South Africa’s nurses work in fear and exhaustion
NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...
V&A strikers fighting for their rights
THERE was another very well-attended picket line outside the Young V&A Museum in Bethnal Green on Saturday, with loud chants of: ‘What do we...
‘March all over the world to condemn Israeli massacres in Gaza!’ says Hamas...
THE HAMAS movement has called for organising angry marches all over the world to condemn Israel’s massacres and genocide in the Gaza Strip. In a...
Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!
TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...
6th Form strikes escalating
ON THE EVE of budget day, National Education Union members working in 34 sixth form colleges walked out demanding more funding as colleges have...
‘We are on the brink of making history’ says New York’s first socialist mayor
ZOHRAM MAMDANI, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’, was elected the 111th mayor of New York yesterday. He is the first person of South Asian descent and...
LONDON UNDERGROUND TOTAL SHUTDOWN JULY 26 & 28 – ASLEF joining RMT on strike
ASLEF Tube drivers will strike on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July, alongside their RMT colleagues, closing down the London Underground (LU) network at...
150,000 Workers & Youth March Through London In Support Of Palestine!
THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the...
One million infected by disease in Gaza!
GAZA’S Health Ministry has detected about one million cases of infectious diseases, but doesn’t have the medical capabilities to treat them, as the situation...
Save Lewisham Shopping Centre! – demand hundreds on local march
MORE than 200 Lewisham residents turned out on Sunday afternoon to march and protest against the collaboration of the south east London Labour Council...
Bring All Airport Workers Out Now!
FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) Unite members came out on strike yesterday, with many demanding that the action should be united with British...
Palestinian civilians murdered by Israeli artillery and air strikes in Gaza Strip!
AN unconfirmed number of Palestinian civilians were killed and many more were injured last night in an ongoing Israeli genocide campaign involving airstrikes and...
SECOND COVID PEAK IS LIKELY! say thousands of BMA doctors
THOUSANDS of doctors say a second Covid peak is very likely and is their greatest fear this winter. A major survey of doctors by the...
Russia, Ukraine & US are set to talk in the UAE as the war...
RUSSIAN, Ukrainian and US negotiators are set to hold talks in the United Arab Emirates, marking the first meeting involving all three countries since...
Russia for negotiated ceasefire! – ‘There will be no joining NATO!’
THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...
3-day week looms! JCB cuts 4,000 workers’ hours
DIGGER manufacturer JCB is cutting production and working hours in the UK as it faces a shortage of components from China due to the...
Nurses voting begins in indicative strike ballot – 160,000-strong petition handed to No 10
A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...
Patel responds to drownings by stepping up her attacks on refugees
IN RESPONSE to the drowning of 27 people in the Channel on Wednesday, Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel yesterday pushed her Nationality and Borders...
Parliament in crisis over Taliban victory!
THE HOUSE of Commons met on Wednesday morning at 9.30 am to discuss the implications of the major defeat suffered by both the US...
Banbury Workers Battle ‘Fire & Rehire’
WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...
BAME PPE crisis is continuing!
BLACK, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nursing staff are still more likely to have problems accessing protective equipment, according to latest UK-wide member survey...