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‘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...
Millions around the world march on May Day!
Millions of workers gathered in cities around the world to mark International Workers Day, on Friday with some demonstrations, such as those in Istanbul,...
UK trade unions must call a general strike in support of...
THE UK ruling class is in a ‘state of alarm’ as more and more UK workers are giving their support to the establishment of...
From Gaza to Buenos Aires workers demand justice on May Day!
WORKERS took to the streets in cities across the world yesterday to mark International Workers Day, with trade unions warning that the US-Israeli war...
Protracted strikes in Nigeria universities and South Africa platinum mine
WORKERS at seven state-run universities and colleges in Plateau State in Nigeria held the third day of a strike on Wednesday, disrupting academic and...
Almost the entire population of Gaza live below the poverty line...
IN the Gaza Strip, unemployment is no longer a chronic economic issue; it has become an all-encompassing reality that haunts an entire generation of...
‘Iran still holds the cards that matter’ – Trump has already...
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says its specialised forces have managed to destroy three American GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) and defuse another...
500 Turkish organisations representing tens of millions pledge support for Gaza-bound...
More than 500 Turkish organisations have pledged support for a new international maritime initiative aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade on Gaza, according to...
‘We oppose genocide – we support Palestine Action!’
MORE than 130 prominent writers, scholars, and activists, including Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg, and Brian Eno, have written to the Court of Appeal in...
Pro-Palestine candidates defeat Zionists in Michigan
TWO PRO-Palestine candidates won victories against Israeli-backed opponents in Michigan Democratic Party primary races delivering a sharp rebuke to the establishment’s sustained legal campaign...
Greek seafarers to strike on May Day – German and Italian...
Following a unanimous decision by the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO), a 24-hour nationwide strike has been at ports nationwide called to coincide with International...
Israel has breached Gaza ceasefire 2,400 times!
A NEW series of deadly Israeli attacks across Gaza on Sunday killed at least seven Palestinians and injured two dozen more. Ceasefire violations have...
Chicago Teamsters lead USA-wide fight against Nestlé union-busting
THE Teamsters trade union on Friday accused the management of the world’s largest food and beverage company Nestlé of stopping its US workforce from...
Barghouti at risk in Israeli jails
JAILED Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is at immediate risk in Israeli jails, where he has been attacked three times in as many weeks, including...
90 arrested at New York anti-war protest as opposition to US...
POLICE in New York City arrested around 90 anti-war protesters on Monday, including whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, as demonstrators gathered near the offices of Senate...
FREE THE FILTON 24! say Palestine campaigners at Woolwich Crown...
THE RETRIAL of six of the Filton 24 opened at Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London yesterday, with scores of demonstrators outside supporting the...
Police Arrest 523 Palestine Supporters
THE METROPOLITAN Police arrested 523 supporters of Palestine in Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, claiming they were showing support for a ‘proscribed...
Revolution in Ireland and Britain!
IRELAND this week has erupted in a confrontation between workers and the Irish government over soaring diesel and petrol prices resulting from the US-Israeli...
No respite for Palestinians as Israel tightens its grip on West...
Israeli forces, settlers, and municipal authorities carried out a series of violent actions across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem on Wednesday and Thursday. 28-year-old...
Keep ICE out of World Cup tournament or we strike! –...
The Unite Here trade union which represents over 2,000 food service workers at the Los Angeles Stadium on Tuesday asked football’s governing body FIFA...
Israel’s ‘drip-feed’ policy in Gaza a deliberate campaign to destroy civil...
Israel has continued its relentless military assault on the Gaza Strip carrying out bombings, drone strikes, shootings and artillery barrages against Palestinian civilians while...
Trump wants to withdraw United States from NATO
DONALD Trump said on Wednesday he is ‘absolutely without question’ considering withdrawing the United States from NATO, his most explicit threat yet against the...
US workers fight lockout at BP and win victory at Amazon
1,000 members of United Steelworkers (USW), union, were illegally locked out of BP’s Whiting, Indiana refinery on Wednesday in what the union is calling...
Palestine coalition condemns false claims of riot & disorder
TODAY’S guilty verdicts in the case of Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop The War Campaign vice chair Chris Nineham are extraordinary...
Qesser Zuhrah Released On Bail
PALESTINE campaigner Qesser Zuhrah was released on bail yesterday from Westminster Magistrates Court after being arrested on Monday morning at 6.20am for posting on...
‘You look like gangsters!’ Palestine campaigner Qesser Zuhrah tells masked arresting...
AT 6.30 yesterday morning campaigner for Palestine Qesser Zuhrah was arrested by masked police officers under Section 44 of the Serious Crimes Act and...
‘No Kings’ mass movement emerging in the USA to smash Trump’s...
MILLIONS of demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the United States on Saturday, taking part in the ‘No Kings’ protest movement against...
Half a million on London march against war & racism
MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined the Together Alliance and pro-Palestine marches through central London to Whitehall on Saturday. The demonstrations,...
‘Inciting support for Hamas’ – Doctor pleads not guilty!
NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan, 31, pleaded not guilty yesterday at Westminster Magistrates Court to charges of ‘inciting support for Hamas’ and ‘publishing material intended...