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Trump plans Gaza military base to control the Strip
THE Donald Trump administration is planning a large military installation in Gaza capable of housing up to 5,000 personnel as part of a multinational...
‘Inhospitable’ – Trump’s immigration policies creating a crisis in the US...
AMERICAN trade union UNITE HERE has released Inhospitable, a report revealing how White House immigration policies are creating a crisis in America’s hospitality industry. The report was...
Israel preparing prisoner execution & increasing administrative detention!
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has warned that Israel is entering a ‘highly dangerous phase’ of punitive escalation against Palestinian detainees, as it prepares...
San Francisco teachers hold their first strike in 47 years!
‘Thousands of public school teachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public (state) school teachers strike in the city in...
GO NOW! Scottish Labour leader demands of Starmer
SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar demanded PM Keir Starmer stand down yesterday, saying: ‘The distraction needs to end, and the leadership in Downing Street...
The time has come to organise the British socialist revolution!
THE abject and grovelling performance of PM Keir Starmer in parliament on Thursday succeeded in uniting Labour and Tory MPs who howled with rage...
‘Mistreatment, abuse, and deliberate extortion’ at the Rafah crossing!
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned the treatment of Palestinians by Israeli forces at the Rafah border crossing, calling it collective punishment and a...
Save London Met! 120 jobs at risk!
‘SAVE London Met – 120 Jobs at Risk!’ was the call from a mass rally of workers and students outside the Holloway Road site...
Teachers join mass public sector strike in Abuja – in Kenya...
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Monday directed all primary and secondary school teachers in Abuja to join the ongoing strike initiated by...
Nurses union demands the immediate abolition of ICE
THE UNITED STATES has erupted in fury after a second person in the span of a month was fatally shot by federal immigration authorities...
Nigeria electricity workers commence indefinite strike
The Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies and the National Union of Electricity Employees (SSAEAC) at the Kano Electricity Distribution Company in...
US nurses union ‘outraged’ at Trump’s invasion of Venezuela
THE American National Nurses United union (NNU) has strongly condemned US President Trump and his administration’s illegal invasion of and regime change operation in...
706 family members of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel
ISRAEL has killed at least 706 family members of Palestinian journalists since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, according...
More than 239,000 Palestinians killed or injured in Gaza!
THERE has been a significant rise in miscarriages in Gaza in the past 12 months, alongside a sharp 40% drop in new births compared...
Israel using winter cold as a weapon against Palestinians
ISRAEL is using winter cold as an additional weapon to inflict suffering on Palestinians in Gaza, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said yesterday. It warned...
Labour MPs and the trade unions must junk the Lammy plan...
DOZENS of Labour MPs have correctly attacked the plan of the Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to axe trial by jury...
‘Compel Israel to comply with ceasefire agreement’ – Hamas call
PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has called on international mediators to take effective and concrete steps to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under...
5,000 striking public sector workers, pensioners and students rally in...
SOME 5,000 local government workers, teachers, hospital workers, university staff, civil servants, along with pensioners and university students participated last Tuesday in a militant...
Polar storm rips through Gaza
A POLAR low-pressure storm poses a serious danger to displaced families and residents amid the massive destruction caused by the Israeli genocide that has...
Free the hunger strikers now! – Lammy surgery protest demands
A LIVELY demonstration was held outside the surgery of the Labour Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP in White Hart Lane,...
10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour...
LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...
The collapse of living conditions in the Gaza Strip is accelerating
TWO major humanitarian alerts issued on Tuesday and Wednesday underscored the accelerating collapse of living conditions in the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands...
Make the TUC call a general strike to bring down Labour...
DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...
‘Palestine is the spearhead of the struggle against colonisation!’
‘PALESTINE is the spearhead of the struggle against colonisation,’ orthopaedic surgeon and founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians Dr Swee Ang told over 100...
Labour leaders split over increasing income tax and abolishing welfare state!
YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...
Israel still obstructing vital supplies for Palestine!
THE United Nations has renewed its call to expand humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israeli restrictions continue to block vital supplies...
‘We are on the brink of making history’ says New York’s...
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...
End the brutal blockade of Cuba! – UN votes 65-7 in favour!
On Friday, China urged the United States to ‘heed the call of the international community’, by lifting its blockade and sanctions against Cuba ‘immediately’,...
The UK ruling class is in a desperate crisis – forward...
EX-PRINCE Andrew’s public disgrace has rocked the British ruling class, with the King stripping his younger brother of his ‘prince’ title and evicting him...
Palestinians battle on!
FIVE Palestinians were killed on Friday, including two who died from injuries sustained in earlier Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...
Public sector general strike in Portugal
Leaders of the Common Front of Public Administration Unions (Frente Comum) and the National Federation of Teachers (FENPROF) have welcomed the large turnout for...
Gaza Will Be Rebuilt! Israeli Occupation Has Failed! –...
WHEN silence falls after the storm, the real story begins. In Gaza, the bombs have gone quiet, but the sound of the rubble is...
‘We’ve got to get beyond the limits of capitalism’ say SAFTU...
TRUE empowerment lies beyond the limits of capitalism, says SAFTU, the South African Federation of Trade Unions. A statement issued on Tuesday on behalf of...
Israeli regime deliberately violating ‘peace deal’ since very first day
ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump insisted that his ‘peace deal’ between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli regime was holding despite...
PCS pay strike at British Library and strike ballots at four...
Over 300 Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members at the British Library are to strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November. The...
French PM resigns after just 3 weeks! – hundreds of thousands...
FRANCE’S Prime Minister Sébastian Lecornu was summoned back to the Élysée presidential palace in Paris on Monday afternoon just hours after his shock resignation...
Blair’s colonial plan for Gaza: – legitimising occupation, undermining self-determination
As Israel continues its war of extermination in Gaza with the death toll surpassing 65,000, more than 168,000 wounded, and thousands missing, another battle...
Labour Mayor Andy Burnham reveals Labour MPs want him to oust...
THE Labour Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper yesterday said that many Labour MPs have been privately...
Plan For Mayors To Run NHS Hospitals!
MINISTERS are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that...
Israel escalates Gaza slaughter as the UN confirms GENOCIDE!
AS the united Nations officially confirmed that the Israeli war on Gaza is a ‘GENOCIDE’ yesterday, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) massively escalated their...
Gaza Doctor Warns Forced Displacement Will Lead To A Humanitarian &...
Dr MUNIR AL-BURSH director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, warned this week that the forced displacement of residents from Gaza City...
20,000 children killed in Gaza since October 2023! – one child...
THE Save The Children organisation has confirmed that the number of children killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel’s genocidal war...
Starmer’s reshuffle marks Labour’s drive to the right!
THE forced resignation of Angela Rayner as Labour’s Housing Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister on Friday has been seized by Keir Starmer as an...
The TUC Congress must vote for a general strike for UK...
THE scheduled visit to the UK next Tuesday and Wednesday of Israeli president Isaac Herzog has enraged Labour MPs. The visit will take place...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza! – International Association of Genocide Scholars...
The Hamas resistance movement has hailed a resolution issued by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), confirming that Israel has committed genocide in...