Tag: europe
220 marches across France against government austerity
AT THE CALL of the trade unions, more than 220 demonstrations were organised across France on Friday, October 13, to say no to austerity...
Biden leaves for Middle East!
US PRESIDENT Biden left Washington yesterday evening for Tel Aviv, where he is to meet Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians before flying to Amman...
World capitalism at risk from imperialist war, bankers and IMF warn
JAMIE Dimon, boss of America’s largest bank JP Morgan Chase, has issued a stark warning to his investors that the world may be facing...
Israel committing massacres in Gaza – 3,000 dead, 1,000 children, 1,000...
ISRAEL headed towards an air, land and sea attack on Gaza yesterday, having killed more than 3,000 Gazans, including over 1,000 children, during the...
Inflation here to stay and global banking system faces collapse
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday produced its latest report on the state of the world capitalist financial system, in which it warned that...
Over 5,000 on London Palestine demonstration – mass march called for...
A MASS demonstration of more than 5,000 workers, students and youth continued throughout the evening from 6.00pm and into the night outside the Israeli...
Russia to strengthen global role of Latin American countries
MOSCOW will continue supporting efforts to strengthen the global role of Latin America and individual countries in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
Capitalism facing ‘impending global disaster’ – time to put it out...
THE Tory Party annual conference ended on Wednesday with Sunak announcing he was cancelling the Northern leg of HS2 rail network – something that...
Politicians have been ‘too squeamish’ to take action on immigration –...
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman has come under fire for her speech to the party conference viciously attacking refugees. She told the Tory faithful that...
‘WE WILL SAVE OUR NHS’ – Junior Doctors co-chair tells 1,000-strong...
Over 1,000 striking junior doctors, consultants and radiographers held an angry rally in St Peter's Square, Manchester outside the Tory party conference on Tuesday...
Defiant pickets & rallies by striking Junior Doctors & Consultants!
THERE were defiant pickets and rallies of striking Junior Doctors and Consultants on Monday, the first day of the current three-day joint British Medical...
Only Socialist Revolution can stop imperialist war
ON SUNDAY, newly appointed Tory Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, writing in the Telegraph, announced that the UK would be sending troops to Ukraine ‘to...
TUC Must Smash The ‘Minimum Service Levels’ Anti-Union Laws!
The TUC has responded to the Tory government's 'Minimum Service Levels: issuing work notices’ document outlining how a trade union should operate as a...
Six countries joining Russian-led BRICS – as Finland abandons neutrality to...
Iran’s full-scale involvement in BRICS’ activities was the focus of a telephone call between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Ebrahim Raisi of...
Iran parades military hardware – longest range drone in the world
Iran has paraded its military hardware including ‘the longest-range drone in the world’ along with ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Last Friday, to mark the anniversary...
Pro-Palestine activities in US & UK campuses facing restrictions!
CONCERNS are rising over restrictions to free speech, academic inquiry, and student activism related to Palestine at universities across the UK. This trend has been...
National Public Sector Strike Called In Greece
The Federation of Greek Public Sector Trade Unions (ADEDY), the Athens and Piraeus Trades Councils and dozens of trade unions have called a 24-hour...
‘Now listen you, you people of NATO. You’re bombing a wall...
AS EUROPE’S migrant crisis grows right across the continent, many in the Russian media are recalling the late Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s prophecy made...
Tories split and turn on each other while TUC Congress refuses...
THE Tory Party is now split and divided as the world- wide capitalist crisis deepens and the weakness of the imperialist powers becomes more...
TUC – call a general strike now to smash the Strikes...
THERE was a powerful Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Conference in Liverpool on Monday morning, where delegate after delegate...
Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!
THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...
‘What is happening in Syria is the opposite of what the...
THE 50th extraordinary conference of Federation of Arab Communities in Latin America (FEARAB America) began on Monday at Damascus University Amphitheatre. Speaking at the conference,...
Ukrainian corruption erupts into the open
ON SUNDAY, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sacked his defence minister Oleksii Reznikov in what has been described as the biggest shake-up of his defence...
Ukraine’s western backers ‘a pro-Nazi coalition’ – says former Russian president...
DEPUTY head of Russia’s Security Council, and Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev has described Ukraine’s Western backers as a ‘pro-Nazi coalition’, dismissing the idea...
Unsafe schools set to collapse! Pupils and teachers are in danger...
YESTERDAY’S Observer newspaper a champion of the rule of the British bosses and bankers, was forced to admit that it had been told by...
Niger Expels French Ambassador!
Niger’s military rulers on Friday revoked the diplomatic immunity of France’s ambassador and ordered police to expel him from the African country. A letter sent...
Anti-union laws being introduced throughout Europe
TRADE union rights are facing escalating challenges throughout Europe, warns the European Public Service Union (EPSU). In France, a number of trade union activists are...
Prigozhin And Key Wagner Aides Killed In Embraer-135 Private Jet Explosion!
AN Embraer-135 private jet crashed in the Tver Region north of Moscow on Wednesday. All 10 people on board were killed, according to preliminary...
The only way to ‘fix’ capitalism is to overthrow it and...
THE euphoria over figures released this week that the UK inflation rate in July had dropped to 6.8%, meaning that prices were shooting up...
Germany crashes into recession – socialist revolution the only answer to...
THE GERMAN economic recession has deepened, with the number of corporate insolvencies in the country sharply increasing in July. Almost a quarter more companies filed...
‘This is very much a fight for the NHS’ – Homerton...
On the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital by Westminster Bridge in Central London, Ada Zembrzycka, a junior doctor and anaesthetic trainee, told News...
EU states ‘vassals of a single colonial power’ says Zakharova
Western countries’ statements about providing security guarantees to Ukraine are empty, groundless excuses, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. ‘Security guarantees presuppose...
Israel ‘main source of instability in West Asia’
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has condemned the Israeli occupation regime as the main source of instability in West Asia, and warned that the...
Overthrow of Niger’s pro-imperialist government a massive blow to imperialism
THE OUSTING of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum by the military has sent shock waves across the imperialist world, with France and the United States...
Putin Makes An Offer To Africa That The Capitalists Are ...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has told a summit of African leaders that Russia will give them tens of thousands of tonnes of grain within...
US Raises Interest Rates To The Highest Level In 22 Years...
THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...
Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!
THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...
Russia Condemns The Use Of Cluster Bombs In Ukraine While Scott...
RUSSIA has blamed the US after an attack conducted by the UK and US armed Ukrainian military forces using Washington-supplied cluster munitions killed Russian...
ANTI-IMMIGRATION BILL DENOUNCED WORLDWIDE says former Syria ambassador Ford
THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...
With the Anti-Union Laws waiting on Royal Assent, the TUC must...
LAST THURSDAY the government made a ‘final offer’ to the NHS consultants, a petty offer that they rejected out of hand. BMA Consultants Committee...
Striking French cashiers win a victory – as government attacks rights...
CASHIERS, members of the CGT union, at the ‘Grand Frais, fresh food stores in France have won a partial victory. The CGT said: ‘After the...
‘WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN!’ says Consultants Chair Vishal Sharma
THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...
TROUBLES BILL: ‘Provides a blueprint for letting state forces and other...
MPs WERE urged to reject the UK government’s ‘cruel and contemptuous’ Northern Ireland legacy bill as it returned to the House of Commons for...
Russia thwarting aerial and underwater drone attacks – NATO using Ukraine...
RUSSIAN forces have repelled a ‘terrorist attack’ by Ukraine on the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol in Crimea, destroying several aerial and underwater...
ITUC accuses French state of ‘police brutality and indiscriminate mass arrests!’
IN ITS annual report on the state of trade union rights in the world, the ITUC accuses the French State of ‘police brutality’ and...