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‘If the NHS is to survive we must get a new...
THERE was a very lively picket line at UCL Hospital yesterday in London’s Euston Road, with over 40 junior doctors waving placards, chanting and...
Junior doctors mass rally in Trafalgar Square – ‘A turbo-charged...
ON THE FIRST day of the four-day strike by 47,600 junior doctors they held a mass rally in central London. From 2pm onwards Trafalgar Square...
General strike to support Junior Doctors and save NHS!
JUNIOR Doctors start their continuous four-day 96-hour strike at 06.59 today, Tuesday 11 April, and end it at 06.59 on Saturday 15 April. Backed by...
Unions must demand TUC call a general strike to support junior...
TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...
Israeli military attacks the Gaza Strip!
JERUSALEM – Early on Friday, the Israeli military’s press service confirmed that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) launched a rocket strike on the Gaza Strip...
Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out...
At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...
The working class must force its leaders to call a general...
PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...
French Workers March To Bring Down Macron
FRENCH protesters downed tools and marched once again in Paris and other cities yesterday. They have been galvanised by President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ram...
Netanyahu delays judicial overhaul in the face of mass opposition
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the delay of his plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, Israeli protest leader Shikma Bressler vowed that demonstrations would...
Russia will expose Western sabotage of Nord Stream 2 – warns...
RUSSIA will determine the future prospects of interaction with Western countries on its own terms, when and if their leadership sobers up, Foreign Minister...
Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And...
THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...
Call an emergency TUC Congress to defy anti-strike laws – says...
TRADE unions must build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament by the Tories, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt...
‘The West is trying to bring down the Russian financial system’...
THE WEST tried to hit Russian citizens themselves with sanctions, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Thursday in his annual government report to...
British Ruling Class To Send Depleted Uranium Shells To The Ukraine!
THE UK government is sending depleted uranium shells for use in the Challenger 2 tanks gifted to Ukraine, a move CND has condemned as...
2,000 Palestinian prisoners begin ‘Freedom or Martyrdom’ hunger strike
THE LEADERSHIP of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement announced on Tuesday 21 March, that they would begin the collective hunger strike with up to 2,000...
Massive London marches call to kick out the Tories – Three...
NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...
5% pay rise and £1,000 bonus offer to NHS – will...
A FINAL pay offer for NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, was made yesterday. Unite leader Sharon Graham said that Unite...
48-Hour Strike By Health Workers In Germany
HEALTH workers in in the Ver.di trade union in Germany have been out on a 48-hour strike which started on Tuesday which and continued...
Over 500,000 Public Sector Workers Strike
OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...
‘THIS CRIME WILL NOT BE COVERED UP’ – Greek General Strike...
TENS of thousands of workers with their families, students and youth demonstrated throughout Greece on Sunday against the government of K Mitsotakis whom they...
‘The only way forward is a general strike’ – insists Newcastle...
MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...
Restore junior doctors’ 25% pay cut now!
TENS of thousands of junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are holding a 72-hour strike from today until Wednesday. At the weekend...
Greece Erupts As 200,000 Workers March In Athens!
THE VOLCANO of people’s rage which was building up its fury over the last few months, erupted in Greece on Wednesday in an unprecedented...
Time For The TUC To Call A General Strike –...
THE TUC, the Equality Trust, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and Runnymede Trust on Tuesday warned that the Strikes Bill,...
‘Zionists are moving towards downfall and collapse’ says Hezbollah’s Nasrallah
The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says unfolding developments in the occupied territories suggest that annihilation of the Israeli regime is...
US General Milley visits illegal occupation forces in Syria US General...
TOP US military officer General Mark Milley has visited American occupation forces in northern Syria just one day after he’d met with the Israeli...
Workers Of The World Unite! UK Workers Must Welcome All...
THE Fire Brigades Union is justly proud to have coordinated the following statement, which was passed as a resolution at its Executive Council last...
Israel facing ‘financial meltdown!’ – say hundreds of Israeli economists
A GROUP of hundreds of Israeli economists have issued a fresh warning that a financial meltdown could occur more ‘powerfully and faster’ than they...
The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet...
PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...
Huwara Set Ablaze By Rampaging Zionist Settlers
HUWARA, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, was almost entirely set ablaze on Sunday night as extensive fires engulfed...
Iraq calls for Syrian membership of the Arab League to be...
A NUMBER of Arab parliament speakers and senior legislators have arrived in Damascus amid attempts by certain countries, above all Iraq, to restore Syria’s...
Iran and Iraq establish closer security and cooperation – Iraq demands...
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian Foreign Minister, has discussed security cooperation with Iraqi government officials during a visit to the neighbouring country, stressing that this...
The TUC Must Give Full Support To The Palestinian Freedom Fighters...
THE Arab League Council yesterday condemned Israeli crimes and massacres of Palestinians and demanded the provision of international protection to the Palestinian people. The Council...
Israel Intensifies Its Deadly Raids Into The Occupied West Bank
Two Palestinians died on Tuesday, including a teenager, in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank as Israel’s new far-right government intensified its deadly...
3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite
DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...
TORY REFUSAL TO TALK ON PAY ‘BEYOND BELIEF’ says BMA
TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay’s refusal to join today’s meeting between doctors’ leaders and the Department of Health is ‘beyond belief when the stakes...
Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany describes notorious fascist Stepan Bandera as a...
UKRAINE’S ambassador to Germany has provoked outrage for paying homage to the notorious founding forefather of what is known today as the nationalistic ‘Azov’...
Modi government blocks documentary, arrests journalists and raids newspapers and...
The offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in India have been raided and searched by the country’s income tax authorities on Tuesday, according...
Hezbollah sends 22-truck aid convoy to Syria
THE LEBANESE Hezbollah resistance movement has dispatched a humanitarian aid convoy to earthquake-affected areas in Syria, at the same time, condemning Western governments’ ‘fake advocacy’...
In Iraq ‘so many sacrifices were ultimately made in the service...
FORMER acting Pentagon chief Christopher C. Miller said the United States must hold senior American military leadership accountable for the failed wars in Iraq...
Power cuts and 43% unemployment dominate SA State of the Nation...
THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...
Two Years Since Myanmar Military Coup
On the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the Global Unions – which represents 200 million workers worldwide – has called for...
Republicans throw pro-Palestinian Congresswoman off Foreign Affairs Committee
NEWLY empowered Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted to oust Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee, because of her...
‘Virtual wards will jeopardise patient safety even further’ – says BMA
THE NHS won’t survive without immediate steps to bolster our workforce, doctors union the British Medical Association (BMA) warned on Monday. Responding to the Tory...
Call a general strike or resign – UCU CONEL demands of...
UCU lecturers at their emergency branch meeting yesterday demanded that the TUC organise a national demonstration and march to parliament on its 1st February ‘Day...