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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...
Israel moves to annexe the occupied West Bank
THE Israeli parliament approved in a narrow vote on Wednesday a bill that would extend Israeli domestic law to the occupied West Bank. The move...
HARVEST OF HORROR! – systematic organ harvesting by Israeli occupation
Authorities in Gaza have confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces stole body parts from killed Palestinians during the two-year genocidal war on the besieged...
‘A fascist policy of collective punishment’ – Hamas accuses Israel’s PM!
HAMAS has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking the handover of Israeli captives’ bodies and obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling his...
Senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustains multiple rib fractures after...
SENIOR Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustained multiple rib fractures after being violently assaulted by Israeli prison guards, it was revealed on Wednesday. Barghouti was attacked...
Capitalist financial markets instruct Reeves to make billions of pounds cuts...
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential independent economic think-tank that dispenses ‘advice’ on financial matters to the government, has weighed in this...
Open The Crossings – Let In The Trucks! Stop Starving Gaza!
THE director general of Gaza’s Government Media Office, Ismail al-Thawabta, yesterday demanded that Israel opens the crossings and allow aid in ‘immediately’, warning of...
Trump to send nuclear armed missiles to Ukraine – end imperialist wars...
ON MONDAY, US president Donald Trump addressed the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in a rambling hour-long speech where he boasted of the ‘historic dawn...
‘Tortured on a daily basis’ – declare Palestinian prisoners
PALESTINIAN Resistance Movement Hamas said that it made every effort to safeguard the lives of its captives in Gaza, the final 20 of whom were...
488 arrested at ‘Lift the Ban’ on Palestine Action rally
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed they arrested a total of 488 peaceful placard-bearing protesters who took part in the action in Trafalgar Square on...
Labour to hand police the power to ban demonstrations in move to establish...
KEIR STARMER’S Labour government’s plans to ‘tighten’ protest laws were confirmed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Sunday. The new powers handed to the police...
Hundreds of thousands across Europe march for Palestine
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and young people took to the streets across Italy on Friday in a general strike organised by the CGIL...
Iran-Russia partnership now in force
Iran and Russia have officially started to implement a 20-year comprehensive strategic partnership treaty, signalling a significant step towards deepening bilateral ties between the...
600,000 workers take part in nationwide protests in France! – CGT...
NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...
Israeli navy halts the Gaza freedom Flotilla
ORGANISERS of the international ‘Flotilla of Resilience’ announced Thursday afternoon that the Israeli navy intercepted 40 out of 44 boats carrying activists and humanitarian...
Hamas Pledges That Assassinations Will Not Succeed In Breaking Its Will!
THE Hamas Movement has affirmed that the assassinations carried out by Israel against resistance leaders ‘will not succeed in breaking its will or extinguishing...
Nigerian TUC: lift petrol levy or we strike!
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) said on Wednesday that its has demanded that the federal government stop the plan to introduce a...
Israel Attacks Gaza Flotilla! – Italian Navy Intervenes!
ISRAEL launched multiple intimidatory attacks on ten ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla overnight on Tuesday night-yesterday morning, while they were sailing 30 nautical...
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...
Labour has armed Israel more than the Tories!
An explosive revelation came from the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) on Tuesday, declaring that arms sales to Israel under Labour in the past...
Immigrants are welcome here! Stop the war in Gaza! – insist...
‘RACIST scum off our streets, fascist scum off our streets, Nazi scum off our streets!’ 30,000 anti-racist protesters chanted as they marched through central...
Mandelson is sacked! NOW Forward to a Workers Government...
EARLY yesterday morning, Labour’s Foreign Office released a statement that announced the sacking of Peter Mandelson as the UK ambassador to the United States...
Tory leader Badenoch offers to ‘work together’ with Starmer to slash...
YESTERDAY, in a speech in London, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch made an offer to Keir Starmer to work together on a plan to slash...
‘Starmer has a legal duty to stop the Gaza genocide’ says...
Greta Thunberg has said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is legally obliged to stop the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. ‘Starmer has...
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...
‘A general strike for Palestine is what is needed!’ – as...
More than 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London on Saturday on the 30th National March since...
890 arrested on Palestine Action demonstration!
MORE than 890 people were arrested on Saturday at a demonstration against the government’s ban of campaign group Palestine Action. An estimated 1,500 gathered in...
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...
Scotland Votes For Boycott Of Israel!
SCOTLAND’S Parliament has voted to impose an immediate and comprehensive boycott of Israel and companies linked to its genocide in Gaza, passing a landmark...
‘We don’t trust you, and we will fight against you!’ –...
‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...
Starmer’s ‘reshuffle’ sidelines Reeves and provokes a financial meltdown of British...
THE UK parliament returned from the summer holidays on Monday and Labour prime minister Keir Starmer immediately caused a meltdown in the economy. The immediate...
GAZANS WON’T MOVE! – one million refuse to be displaced...
The Government Media Office (GMO) issued a statement on Sunday saying that the Israeli occupation army has detonated more than 80 booby-trapped robots in...
Mass austerity protests called in France for September 10th
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron gave his support to Prime Minister François Bayrou at a cabinet meeting yesterday, as France is bracing for fresh political turmoil...
Farage calls for mass deportation and detention centres
AT A press conference yesterday Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, set out the programme of mass deportation and detention of migrants if Reform...
UK politicians send letter urging Starmer to ‘act now’ over Gaza...
A JOINT letter signed by leading politicians in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales was sent to Labour prime minister Keir Starmer yesterday calling for...
Union action needed to stop Gaza genocide!
For the rally at the end of the march a large stage was set up just beyond Downing Street, with the 300,000 crowd stretching...
Hands off Palestine Action! Demand TUC call a general strike to...
Over 300,000 marched in London on Saturday, in a powerful demonstration of support for a Palestinian state and against the genocidal war being waged...
Strike now across Britain and globally to defeat Netanyahu’s Gaza plan!
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday on the 29th National March for Palestine...
Bank of England splits over rate cut – time to nationalise...
THE Bank of England’s crisis came out in the open at yesterday’s meeting as the Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey was opposed by two of...
Halt Israel’s genocidal Gaza displacement plan!
HAMAS has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to seize full control of Gaza, calling it an extension of his ‘genocidal and displacement...
Police are preparing to mass arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators at next Saturday’s...
On Monday, the Metropolitan Police issued a warning that it is prepared to make mass arrests at next Saturday’s demonstration in London, which is demanding...
Forward To The General Strike And A Workers Government!
THE Daily Telegraph newspaper used its front page yesterday to kickstart a campaign for the police to enforce the Labour government’s latest terror laws...
Nigeria nurses and midwives have confirmed their strike is on and...
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has denied reports that its members have suspended the nationwide strike. The NANNM leadership met with...
Remain strong in opposition to the US and Israel – says...
IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called on Islamic and regional countries, especially Iran and Turkey, to unite and remain strong in opposition...
Healthcare Workers Against Censorship demand meeting with Streeting
Healthcare Workers Against Censorship have issued a request for a meeting with Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting, their letter...