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‘ALL-OUT AND UNCONTROLLABLE WAR’ – if West attacks Syria, warns...
A SENIOR Iranian lawmaker has warned the West against a military attack on Syria, saying such aggression will threaten the security of the entire...
Lobby TUC for general strike to bring down coalition
THIS year the Trade Union Congress meets in Bournemouth from the 8th to 11th September under conditions where, if the Tory-led coalition government have...
Obama and Cameron take just 40 minutes to dispose of...
IN JUST 40 minutes of telephone conversation, imperialist leaders Obama and Cameron, on Saturday, decided the fate of millions of people in the...
Lobbying Bill A Conscious Attack On The Working Class
THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...
Nuj Demands Open Debate On Spooks
THE NUJ has voiced its concerns at the erosion of civil liberties and attacks on press freedom, in a motion to the TUC Congress...
UK Police State Must Be Smashed!
THE detention of a Guardian employee at Heathrow airport for nine hours was unwarranted and unlawful said Amnesty international yesterday. David Michael Miranda – the...
The Lobbying Bill is a ‘massive attack on trade union rights!’
THE government’s Lobbying Bill is an ‘outrageous attack on freedom of speech worthy of an authoritarian dictatorship’, the TUC said yesterday. The TUC is seeking...
STOP RACIST ATTACKS IN GREECE says Amnesty
THE Greek authorities must act immediately to curb the growing spate of xenophobic and racist attacks, Amnesty International says. It follows a brutal knife attack...
Rouhani Ready For ‘Serious And Substantive Talks’ With The West
NEW Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed his country’s readiness to engage in ‘serious and substantive talks’ with the West over Iran’s nuclear issue. Rouhani...
CPSU suspends its election campaign
AUSTRALIA'S Community and Public Sector Union leaders voted on Monday to extend the suspension of all CPSU election campaigning. The union called for an urgent...
Greek Civil Servants Fight 15,000 Sackings
GREEK civil servants staged a one-day strike in the Athens area last Friday against the coalition government’s plan to sack some 15,000 ministries workers...
BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT STILL DENYING WORKERS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS says ITUC
LONG-AWAITED amendments to Bangladesh’s Labour Act passed by the parliament last week fail to protect workers’ rights to freedom of association, falling well short...
Scandal-hit government steps up attack on unions
IN her speech to the annual Tolpuddle Martyr’s rally held last Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lambasted the coalition government over the Transparency...
ISRAEL-PALESTINE TALKS TO BEGIN WITHIN ‘A WEEK OR SO’ says...
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry said on Friday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet in Washington within ‘the next week or so’...
Athens Workers March & Defy Eu-Greek Junta
OVER 1,500 workers, militants, trade-unionists and youth marched through the Athens city centre to the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Thursday evening against the visit...
Greece On The Brink!
THE Greek working class has been pushed right to the brink of revolution this week with the passage of a bill in the Vouli...
50,000 MARCH IN ATHENS! – as part of one-day general strike
SOME 50,000 workers took part in two separated marches through the Athens city centre last Tuesday afternoon as part of the one-day general strike...
Crown Post Office Massive Strike Action
CROWN Post Office workers, all over the country walked out at 12.30pm sharp yesterday, in an effort to persuade the government to halt...
‘Special measures’ against NHS
ELEVEN NHS hospitals are being placed under special measures because of major failings, Health Secretary Hunt announced yesterday. Hunt said the trusts,...
McCluskey praises Miliband while Crow calls for a new Labour Party...
OVER a hundred thousand workers and youth took part in the Durham Miners Gala on Saturday and heard Unite’s McCluskey declare his allegiance...
Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!
PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...
‘We are putting up gallows for you’ – Greek workers tell...
THREE thousand workers staged a militant march through Athens on Thursday, despite temperatures of 40 degrees, demanding the overthrow of the government and an...
CWU proposes ‘not for dividend company’ – instead of organising...
THE CWU leadership is seeking to make a deal with the coalition over the terms and conditions of the privatisation of Royal Mail, when...
CWU is to be recognised for just three more years says...
BUSINESS Secretary Cable announced the government sell-off of Royal Mail through a flotation on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Cable told parliament the pre-Christmas sale...
Greek Local Government Workers Occupy
SCORES of town halls in the metropolitan Athens-Piraeus area were being occupied by municipal workers on Wednesday morning following a decision by the POE-OTA...
Cable Prepares To Privatise!
DATES for the planned privatisation of Royal Mail before Christmas are expected to be announced in the House of Commons by Business Secretary Cable...
UK grants immunity to Israeli army chief
THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) on Tuesday condemned a decision by the United Kingdom to grant immunity to Israel’s army chief while...
‘The Obama administration is afraid of the people’ – Snowden
EDWARD SNOWDEN the former National Security Agency worker who blew the whistle on the US’s spying activities has been denied asylum by a host...
Greek government’s aim – to gag TV workers
ON June 11, the Greek coalition government took the unprecedented decision to close the national TV station in Athens and sack the workforce of...
Desperate Osborne swings the axe as the capitalist crisis deepens
IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...
HEZBOLLAH FIGHTS WITH HONOUR IN SYRIA – while Cameron seeks to...
HEZBOLLAH’S deputy leader Shaykh Na’im Qasim said last Wednesday that his group had fought ‘with honour’ in Syria and had helped in the...
Forward to a workers government in Greece
THE workers’ occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) has led to the collapse of the Greek tripartite government. Foris Kouvelis, the...
Call a general strike to overthrow Samaras! – demand Greek TV...
TENS of thousands of workers and youth mass day and night in the grounds around the occupied Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) building...
‘Overthrow dictatorship!’ – say Greek workers and soldiers
THE Greek State TV and Radio building in northern Athens has become a revolutionary centre of resistance against the parliamentary junta, imposed on Greece...
Hague, Cameron will join Obama’s war on Syria
PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their...
The Spark That Started A Revolution!
OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front...
Greece In Revolution!
TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...
‘Disabled rights and entitlements snatched away’
DISABLED People Against Cuts (DPAC) organised a lively demonstration near Parliament on Monday, to mark the 25th birthday of the Independent Living Fund, which...
Bedouins rally against Negev expulsions
PALESTINIAN Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev announced Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal to be put before the...
Spooks fear revolution
THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...
US-UK spying scandal – Hague to make statement
FOREIGN Secretary Hague yesterday refused to confirm or deny that GCHQ ‘circumvented the law’ to gather data on British citizens, only describing such claims...
Immigrant Children Held In Greek Jails!
ATHENS – Greek state officials delivered shocking reports on the treatment of immigrant children held in jails, at a meeting last Friday of the...
Miliband’s Labour saves Cameron government
ON MONDAY evening, Labour Party leader Miliband completely betrayed the interests of the working class, the youth and the majority of the middle class...
Greek Teachers Fight Conscription!
Over 15,000 teachers and their supporters responded to the call issued by the Executive of the State Secondary Teachers’ Trade Union OLME and staged...
SA: costly private care for privileged – second-rate care for everybody...
THE upcoming International Nurse’s Day in South Africa, on Sunday May 12, will see the life-saving profession hailed as quiet heroines and heroes who...