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Release Dr Hussam Abu-Safiya! – demands UNHRC
THE United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) yesterday called upon Israeli authorities to immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital...
Iranians turn out in their millions to bid farewell to Ayatollah...
Iran will never abandon its quest for revenge over the assassination of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Army chief...
Ice agents seize immigrants! Openly flout two judicial orders!
FEDERAL immigration agents arrested three men at New York City immigration courts over the past week, in the first serious breaches of two court...
Trump’s Peace Council moves to ‘highly dangerous model’ for re-engineering Gaza
TALK has returned about plans to establish what are called ‘humanitarian’ shelter centres in Rafah, which are under the control of the Israeli occupation...
Tehran monitoring US compliance ‘minute-by-minute!’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has declared that Tehran will monitor the United States’ compliance with the war-termination Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ‘moment-by-moment’ and warned...
Democratic Socialists win big in New York City!
THREE candidates backed by democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani won Democratic congressional primaries in New York City on Tuesday, a result widely read as...
End British Support For Zionism Now!
A LARGE and vocal crowd gathered in the lobby opposite the Old Bailey yesterday in support of the Filton 8, whose trial is under...
Lawyer for Palestine Action facing new contempt charge
A PALESTINE Action lawyer faces renewed contempt proceedings. The Judge rules to refer Rajiv Menon KC once again over his closing speech in the...
Latest UN report finds Israel guilty of deliberately killing Palestinian children...
ON TUESDAY the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, issued a damning report that...
Starmer’s National Security Bill to silence criticism of Israel and proscribe...
BY NILLY BROOK
THE National Security (State Threats) Bill was rushed through parliament on Wednesday, advancing authoritarianism at home and signalling greater violence abroad. Offences related...
Labour is considering capitalist state regulation of newspapers
THE Labour government is considering a plan to impose state regulation of journalists and newspapers! Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has published preliminary proposals that would...
Bolivia against the State of Emergency
BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE ‘AFTER fifty days of permanent mobilisations and blockades, the Indigenous and popular movement, which is demanding the resignation of US-backed President...
BMA conference must reject NHS England’s attempt to silence doctors over...
A MOTION to be heard tomorrow at the BMA annual conference in Brighton challenges the crackdown ordered by the Labour government against any doctors...
SAFTU marks 50 years since Soweto uprising
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Tuesday that it joins millions of South Africans in commemorating the 50th anniversary of...
UK Courts and Labour double down attacks on pro-Palestinian demonstrators – workers...
LAST Friday, four Palestinian activists became the first protesters in Britain to be sentenced as terrorists without being convicted of any terrorism offence. The four...
Israel escalating ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in West Bank
Acceleration of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians must spur global action to halt West Bank annexation, says rights group Amnesty International. The international community’s tacit or...
Court ratifies Palestine Action ban
SUPPORTERS of the Filton 24 gathered outside the High Court and Old Bailey yesterday when the Court of Appeal issued a ruling that the...
UAW in Michigan win $30 an hour pay for American Axle...
After walking out on strike at midnight on June 1st, UAW Local 2093 members at American Axle/Dauch Corporation in Three Rivers, Michigan reached an agreement...
Four pro-Palestine activists jailed by Woolwich judge
OVER a thousand people gathered outside Woolwich Crown Court, near Belmarsh, in south east London yesterday, as supporters rallied ahead of sentencing in cases...
UK judges have power to sentence protesters as terrorists without them...
Today, four Palestinian Action activists may become the first protesters in Britain to be sentenced as terrorists without being convicted of terror offences. Last month,...
FREE THE FILTON FOUR! – Palestine activists face sentencing today!
FOUR Palestine Action activists face sentencing today in what would mark the first time protesters have been sentenced as terrorists in British legal history,...
STATE OF EMERGENCY IN BOLIVIA! – armed police and fascists attack...
By MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE ‘BOLIVIA is living under a de-facto State of Exception (Emergency) and state terrorism.
It is no coincidence that there have been recent...
Filton judge refuses to quit!
THE judge in the trial of four Palestine Action activists has refused to remove himself from the case following a request from the defence...
SAFTU demands action to solve South Africa’s education crisis!
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has demanded that the African National Council-led government takes action to end the education crisis in...
Defend Our Juries file application to remove Filton Judge!
ON FRIDAY the campaign group, Defend Our Juries (DOJ), filed a complaint with the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office, ahead its hearing today on the...
Birmingham bin strikers fighting Unite betrayal!
THE BIRMINGHAM bin strikers are fighting against an attempt by the leaders of their union, Unite, to call off their more than one-year-long struggle...
Sharp rise in Israeli mass killings & assassinations! – a pattern...
THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said on Thursday it had documented a sharp rise in Israeli mass killings and assassinations of Palestinian civilians...
Targeted political killing! – SAFTU condemns brutal assassination of Mokoena Letsie
SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) has condemned in the strongest possible terms the brutal assassination of community activist and organiser Mokoena Letsie,...
‘I have never before seen anything as devastating as what is...
‘THE torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons is the most extreme I have ever witnessed,’ said Hamdi Shaqqura, from the Palestinian Centre for Human...
70,000-strong App Drivers Union wins recognition in Massachusetts
The App Drivers Union (ADU) said on Monday that they have been recognised by the US state of Massachusetts, making it the first certified...
Trade unions must take strike action to free the 9,400 Palestinian...
MORE than 9,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are marking Eid al-Adha under suffocating restrictions, dire conditions, and an unprecedented rise in abuse and...
‘Iran will eliminate the enemy’s abuse of the Persian Gulf and...
THE Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has reported an increased rate of cargo transit via the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf,...
Dutch transport workers national strike in June
Public transport workers in the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV) are planning a national strike that will affect all trains, buses, trams, and metro...
Sadiq Khan blocks £50 million Palantir police contract
LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan Police contract with US surveillance technology company Palantir, citing a ‘clear and serious breach’ of...
Foreign Ministers from 10 countries condemn Israel’s attack on flotilla to...
TEN countries’ foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a peaceful civilian humanitarian mission attempting to break the Israeli...
Charge RBKC officers & councillors! – demand Grenfell campaigners after prosecutions...
NEARLY nine years after the Grenfell Fire, on 14th June 2017, the Metropolitan Police only yesterday announced that up to 57 individuals and 20...
‘I support my children, I support Palestine and I support the...
Special interview with Samina, the mother of Qesser Zuhrah and Salaam Mahmood, both hunger strikers who were arrested for criminal damage to an Elbit...
Release the Filton 24 Prisoners for Palestine!
JORDAN DEVLIN, one of six ‘Filton 24’ activists, retried by the Labour government for damaging a weapons factory run by Israeli company Elbit Systems,...
Ministers pledge measures to control cost of living
YESTERDAY’S King’s Speech was opened yesterday by King Charles III. The main issues in the King’s Speech were that ministers will support measures that control...
Ben-Gvir The ‘Hangman Of The Century!’
A HUMAN rights group has described Israel’s so-called security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, as the ‘hangman of the century’ over his efforts to advance a...
South African unions demand aid to meet fuel rises
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Wednesday that millions of South African workers and their families are being plunged into...
Demonstrations across India ahead of indefinite strike actions
ROAD Transport Corporation (RTC) employees in Bengaluru in Karnataka, south India held a demonstration at Freedom Park on Monday, demanding the payment of 38...
Iran’s embassy slams UK’s anti-Semitism accusations as ‘baseless and irresponsible’
IRAN’S embassy in London yesterday categorically rejected ‘unfounded and irresponsible’ allegations of anti-Semitism levelled against Iran without a shred of evidence being provided. The sharply...
Israel accused of torturing kidnapped Flotilla activists
TWO GAZA flotilla activists are on hunger strike after Israel on Tuesday acquired a six-day extension of their detention after they were brought to...
‘Fight for a general strike to bring down the government and...
The May Day Rally organised by the Young Socialists and the Workers Revolutionary Party, took place in Holborn on Monday 4th May at the end...