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Israeli airstrikes killing a record number of humanitarian workers
SINCE 7 October 2023, Israeli airstrikes have emerged as the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers globally, responsible for over 75 per cent...
‘REFORM OR DIE’ – Starmer launches major attack on the...
THE NEW Labour government launched its massive attack on the NHS yesterday, with PM Sir Keir Starmer threatening that the NHS must ‘reform or...
Stop the UK plot to launch a missile attack on Russia...
US PRESIDENT Biden is now poised to lift the ban on the UK’s Storm Shadow missiles being fired into Russia by the US-UK’s fascist...
Hezbollah Is Determined To Fight In Support Of Palestinians In The...
A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of...
Argentina’s President Milei reduces the workforce at state-owned airline by 13%
RIGHT-WING Argentina president President Javier Milei’s spokesman said on Thursday that his government has reduced the workforce at state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas by 13...
Grenfell Tower Deaths Were Avoidable – Time To Nationalise The Banks...
THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...
179 UK MEDICS HOLD LONDON PROTEST FOR GAZA – to highlight...
HEALTHWORKERS 4 Palestine and Amnesty International UK staged a mass solidarity protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Friday night. The protest was to...
Israeli trade unions call a general strike!
THE head of Israel’s Histadrut labour union has called a general strike today to pressure the government into reaching a deal to return Israeli...
‘Despite the heroic efforts of staff, waits for hospital care are...
A NEW report published last Thursday, 22 August, by the Health Foundation found that the UK’s performance on hospital-based care is consistently languishing near...
Bankrupt Britain Is On The Rocks! Now Is The Time To...
JUST 50 days after being elected with an unassailable landslide 141-seat majority, the Labour government has replaced the hated Tory austerity cuts with Labour...
The Israeli Regime Has Escalated Its Genocide!
THE ISRAELI regime escalated its genocide in and around Khan Younis, the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip, yesterday. Palestinian casualties mounted, bringing...
It Is Time For The UK, EU And US Trade Unions...
A SENIOR member of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has said that there is no real will on the part of the United States...
‘Netanyahu and his government are not willing to make a ceasefire...
‘EVERYONE understands that (Israeli Prime Minister) Netanyahu and his government are not willing to reach a ceasefire deal,’ Hamas warned yesterday. The Hamas Palestine liberation...
NUMSA defends the Bolivarian revolution! – stop coup attempts in Venezuela
STOP coup attempts against Maduro in Venezuela! says National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) general secretary Irvin Jim. A statement issued on Sunday:...
UK, US And EU Workers Must Take General Strike Action To...
PHILIPPE Lazzarini, Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), reported on Saturday that over 75,000 Palestinians have been...
Racists driven off the streets!
IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to...
Guaido One was defeated and Guaido Two will be crushed! –...
VENEZUELAN Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has rejected a European Union statement which calls for ‘further independent verification of the electoral records, if possible by...
Millions must march for Palestine on Saturday August 3 – They...
A FORMER Lebanese lawmaker Naser Kandeel said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the US featured a planned coordination...
Israel Murders Ismail Haniyeh On Behalf Of The US And UK...
IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the Islamic Republic and the Resistance Front will avenge the murder of Ismail Haniyeh, head...
Russia congratulates Venezuelan President Maduro on election win
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nicolas Maduro on being re-elected President of Venezuela, noting the strategic partnership between Moscow and Caracas. ‘Russian-Venezuelan relations have...
Hezbollah denies responsibility for deaths!
HEZBOLLAH issued a statement yesterday categorically denying Israeli allegations that it was responsible for the killing of 12 children on a football field in...
Fourteen Palestinian factions sign national unity agreement
FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...
Powerful international reaction to ICJ ruling that Israeli occupation is illegal!
International reaction has poured in since last Friday’s ruling by the top United Nations court that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory...
The Spokesman For Yemen’s Armed Forces Warns Israel Against Any Further...
THE spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces has warned Israel against any further act of aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, saying the coastal...
Von der Leyen vows to transform the European Union into a...
URSULA von der Leyen who has been re-elected as European Commission (EC) President, has vowed to transform the EU into a defence bloc in...
Moayad Shaaban – ‘Since the beginning of the year the Israeli...
THE HEAD of the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission, Moayad Shaaban, said that since the beginning of this year, the Israeli occupation authorities have...
Zionist genocide and land seizures have killed the fantasy of a...
ON Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres slammed Israel for ‘driving a stake through the heart’ of a two-state solution between Palestinians...
Biden sending more heavy bombs to Israel – ignoring demands for...
THE administration of US President Joe Biden plans to resume shipping heavy bombs to Israel, defying international appeals against this action, as part of...
‘March all over the world to condemn Israeli massacres in...
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...
NATO unable to agree multi-year pledge to arm Ukraine
NATO member countries have been unable to reach an agreement on a multi-year pledge to provide military aid to Ukraine, the DPA news agency...
Russian air defence systems strike nine Ukrainian aircraft
Russian air defence systems have struck nine Ukrainian Air Force aircraft, including seven Su-27s, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported on Tuesday. They said: ‘Two...
The Israeli Cabinet approves the legalisation of settlements
THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...
Netanyahu under siege as he imposes sanctions on Palestine!
THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...
Junior Doctors Want A 35% Pay Rise!
PICKETS were out yesterday morning at the Royal London Hospital on day two of the Junior Doctors’ strike. They are determined to fight whatever government...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Stop Israel’s...
AN international human rights organisation says Israel is pressing ahead with a ‘systematic policy of targeting civilians’ in the Gaza Strip, including bombardment of...
Occidental College student workers vote to join SEIU Local 721
OCCIDENTAL College student workers have voted to join the SEIU union Local 721, allowing over 1,000 undergraduate workers – baristas, tutors, translators, lifeguards, and...
‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He...
DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...
Respond to the death agony of imperialism by organising the victory...
ON FRIDAY, June 21, The Republic of Armenia officially recognised the State of Palestine, raising the number of countries that recognise Palestinian statehood to...
Labour movement rises up in Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe
Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, on Thursday, called on the leadership of the...
LARCO Industrial Workers Protest At Mass Sackings!
IN an unprecedented 12 hours long rally under a scorching sun and temperatures exceeding 45ºC, hundreds of LARCO industrial workers and miners, along with...
O’connor Calls For Sanctions On Israel To Stop The Genocide
THE IRISH Trade Union Congress Executive Council member and INTO Deputy General Secretary Deirdre O’Connor delivered a speech on behalf of the workers of...
Time For The UK Trade Unions To Take Strike Action In...
THE top United Nations human rights official has warned of the worsening situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the ‘unconscionable death...
US desperate to defuse tensions between Israel and Hezbollah!
Amos Hochstein, a senior United States diplomat, has met Israeli leaders and has also visited Lebanon as part of a push by Washington to...
Russia responds to NATO Sec General Stoltenberg’s ‘nuclear alert’ threats!
Russia’s Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has responded to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s remarks that the bloc’s members are discussing putting their nuclear arsenals...
Biden deploys record troop numbers to Jordan
A NEW report to the US Congress reveals that the Biden administration has deployed a record number of US troops to Jordan as the...