Tag: local government
US commander dismissed after requesting help –137 sailors aboard aircraft carrier...
DEMOCRATIC lawmakers have formally protested against the Navy’s dismissal of the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, who requested urgent aid to...
‘When companies are exempted the whole process is a circus’ says...
WORKERS in Zimbabwe have expressed dismay at the lack of seriousness on the government’s part, after it exempted more companies to operate during the...
Police shoot two SA nurses during Covid-19 transport confusion!
TWO SOUTH African Free State nurses were shot with rubber bullets by police last Tuesday in Welkom, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers...
‘Thousands upon thousands of people are living in dangerous homes’ says...
ON JUNE 14th 2017, almost three years ago, fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in North Kensington. It caused the deaths...
‘All NHS workers & their families must be tested!’ – demands...
‘ALL health workers and their families must be tested immediately,’ Chair of the Council of the British Medical Association and GP Dr Chaand Nagpaul...
50 Italian Doctors Dead!
THE DEATHS of more than 50 doctors from Covid-19 in Italy must serve as an ‘urgent warning’ to British government on PPE supply.
The BMA...
Unite Is Fighting For Workers’ Rights!
TWO LONDON organisations are flouting government policy over coronavirus by attacking the pay, and terms and conditions of their employees, the Unite, union said...
‘End US-sponsored Saudi aggression and blockade’ say Houthis
THE HOUTHI Ansarullah movement says any political solution to the Yemen conflict should begin with an end to the US-sponsored Saudi military aggression and...
ASSAD MEETS RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER SHOYGU –both sides agreed on next...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Monday received Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu and an accompanying delegation.
The two sides discussed the Russian-Turkish agreements reached on...
20,000 are threatened with eviction during corona crisis
THE TORIES had promised a ‘complete ban’ on evictions from both council and private social housing. However, anger erupted yesterday as it emerged that...
14-DAY LOCKDOWN IN PALESTINIAN WEST BANK –as Palestine confirms 59 coronavirus...
Life came to a standstill in all West Bank cities and towns on Monday as the curfew and strict lockdown Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad...
China will send medical experts & equipment to Serbia – and...
CHINA will provide Serbia with assistance in protective equipment and medical instruments, and send a group of medical experts to help it better contain...
‘The Covid-19 Outbreak Is The Biggest Public Health Challenge For A...
IN LIGHT of the coronavirus pandemic leaseholders who live in buildings clad in the same flammable material which rapidly spread the Grenfell Tower Fire...
DOCTORS ‘FEEL LIKE CANNON FODDER’ says Chair of Doctors’ Association UK
Doctors ‘feel like lambs to the slaughter and cannon fodder’, said the chair of the Doctors’ Association UK yesterday morning, demanding that frontline NHS...
NO SICK PAY FOR 3.3m AUSTRALIAN WORKERS
Casual workers and those in insecure jobs have been left cruelly exposed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, says the...
SAFTU demands resignation after attempts to derigister municipal workers union
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions has called on Labour Registrar Advocate Lehlohonolo Molefe to ‘resign’ – after the labour court suspended as...
South African workers fear a lack of health cover
COSATU – The Confederation of South African Trade Unions – has held a Central Executive Committee workshop to discuss a number of pertinent issues...
Hamas demands immediate release of Palestinian detainees in Saudi Arabia
A Hamas spokes-man has condemned the continued detention and prosecution of Palestinian figures in Saudi Arabia over their support for the Palestinian resistance movement, and...
OCCUPIED! – UCL student action in support of UCU lecturers strike
AT UNIVERSITY College London (UCL) over fifty students occupied the Cloister Building at 7am yesterday morning in front of the Provost’s office, and plan...
Turkey Sends Over 4,500 Terrorists To Intervene In Libya!
THE SYRIAN Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says Turkey has so far sent more than 4,500 allied Takfiri terrorists from Syria to Libya, after...
Refugees Must Be Welcomed – The Bosses Must Be Sent...
FOLLOWING the successes of the Syrian army’s drive into Idlib province, President Erdogan of Turkey has begun to carry out his revenge policy.
Since the...
‘Shut Down Inquiry! It’s A Disgrace!’
‘SHUT down the inquiry, it’s a disgrace!’ protesters shouted outside the Grenfell inquiry yesterday, on the first day it resumed after the Attorney General...
Israeli army attacks Syrian army positions near Golan Heights! –while Japan...
THE Government of Japan has signed a contribution agreement worth $22.4 million with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees...
No immunity over Grenfell Tower atrocity – arrest the real criminals...
WITNESSES from the firms responsible for creating a death trap at Grenfell Tower are to be granted immunity from prosecution arising out of any...
Palestinians urge EU to prevent new Israeli settlement
SAEB EREKAT, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), on Wednesday urged the European Union to intervene to prevent...
Cladding Lobby
TENANTS came from all over the country to lobby Parliament yesterday demanding that the tower blocks they live in are immediately stripped of flammable...
US ‘dismayed’ at the ‘humiliating defeats’ of terrorists by Syrian army...
SYRIA says the US is ‘dismayed’ to see the return of normal life to Aleppo province because of the ‘humiliating defeats’ of the Washington-sponsored...
UCU pay and pensions strike set to escalate
UNIVERSITY staff completed their first two days of strike action yesterday at 74 universities across the country and their strike was solid, winning 100%...
CUPE campaigns for ‘outside’ municipal workers
THE City of Moncton management hides a dirty secret. It has been exploiting employment contract language loopholes to penny- pinch workers.
Over 20% of all...
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...
Syrian Army Advances Are Dealing A Massive Blow At Trump’s Deal...
THE ISRAELI DAILY newspaper Hayom has reported that the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is to lead the joint committee that the US...
More Than 100,000 A&E Patients Waited For More Than Four Hours...
MORE than 100,000 A&E patients waited for hours to be treated in hospitals in January, the highest number since records began, NHS figures show.
There...
Baby deaths & 4-hour trolley waits! Closures of maternity and...
AN INQUIRY into baby deaths at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust has been broadened into an investigation of hundreds of deaths nationally, Tory...
US nurses celebrate Sanders victory
MEMBERS of National Nurses United (NNU), the US’s largest union of registered nurses, on Tuesday celebrated Senator Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire primary win, saying...
UN releases database of companies supporting illegal Israeli settlements
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has welcomed this week’s release of the United Nations database of companies involved in supporting Israeli settlements.
‘We welcome the...
‘What gives Israel rights to annex these lands?’ – Abbas addresses...
‘WHAT GIVES you the right to annex these lands?’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded, referring to Israel’s plan to seize even more of Palestine...
Palestinian police lieutenant shot dead in Jenin police station by Israeli...
THOUSANDS of Palestinians joined the funeral procession of a Palestinian police lieutenant on Friday who was killed a day earlier from Israeli military gunfire.
Thousands...
‘No immunity for Grenfell companies’ – demands FBU member Lucy Masoud
‘NO ONE should be immune from prosecution. The firefighters certainly weren’t and the manufacturers of the cladding definitely should not be,’ Lucy Masoud FBU...
ISRAEL ACCUSED OF ‘TRAFFICKING WITH HUMAN BODIES’ – Jerusalem Legal Aid...
FOR the first time, Israel has provided a list of names and place of burial of 123 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and whose...
Syrian army discovers underground terrorist headquarters in Idlib
DURING sweeping operations in the newly-liberated city of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, Syrian Arab Army units have discovered a fortified Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist...
Zimbabwe Trade Unions Are To Call A General Strike Against...
THE MOTHER of all strikes is imminent – as Zimbabwe’s massive union, ZCTU (the Zimbabwe Confederation of Trade Unions), mobilises other unions to avert...
TUC Must Take Industrial Action To Force The Tories To Oppose...
THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the ‘deal of the century’, which they said was a plan for ‘transfer’...
Workers forced Brexit through! Now bring down Johnson to bring in...
AT ELEVEN pm last night, Britain officially left the European Union. After a long, hard and determined struggle Brexit has actually happened and the...
The deal is Trump’s attempts to impose an extremist Israeli agenda
THE UNVEILING of the so called ‘Deal of the Century’ is yet another disgraceful act by the Trump Administration, today, said the US Palestinian...
FBU criticises ‘serious shortcomings’ of Grenfell Tower Inquiry
BELOW is the introduction to the Fire Brigades Union’s 64 page ‘Response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 Report,’ containing scathing criticism of...
NHS PORTERS AT RISK – transporting the dead in sheets...
NHS PORTERS at Epsom and St Helier Trust, not only have very ‘flimsy’ Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) but they are being forced to transport...
