Tag: police
UK protest against Nigeria’s police killings
OVER 2,000 angry Nigerians demanding their president ‘Buahari must go’ demonstrated outside the Nigerian Commission in London on Wednesday evening before marching to Downing...
UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically
THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...
SA broadcasting workers to strike against ‘jobs bloodbath’
SOUTH AFRICA’s CWU (Communication Workers Union) and BEMAWU (Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union) are organising for a full blown strike against the...
Nigeria Mass Protests Against Police Violence
AS MASS protests against police violence continued across several cities in Nigeria for the eighth straight day last Friday, the Nigerian army issued a...
Hundreds demonstrate support for asylum seekers outside Britain’s first ‘refugee camp’!
LAST Saturday over 250 pro-asylum seekers protested outside a former military barracks housing asylum seekers near Folkestone, the first refugee camp in Britian, which...
Police and MI5 granted licence to kill by the Tories &...
POLICE spies and MI5 operatives have been given the green light to commit crimes with impunity after an extremely controversial law was passed on...
Aussie Journalist Oakes Will Not Be Prosecuted!
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP have confirmed that ABC journalist Dan Oakes will not be prosecuted over his reporting on alleged war crimes carried out...
Capitalism makes billions out of coronavirus – time to get rid...
THE CAPITALIST contempt for the health and safety of workers in the pursuit of profit has been highlighted this week by the giant on-line...
Herd immunity strategy against Covid-19 is ‘not an option’ says WHO
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the...
SA National strike against wage cutting
ON WORLD Day For Decent Work, trade union federations in South Africa declared a national strike against ‘the winds of austerity blowing out the...
End herd immunity capitalist barbarism with a socialist revolution!
THE DEMAND for capitalism to ‘reopen’ under the umbrella of the discredited theory that herd immunity is the only way to combat coronavirus has...
General Strike In South Africa
BOTH COSATU (the Confederation of South African Trade Unions) and the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) have vowed to bring the country...
2,500 US troops have already left Iraq says Iraqi Premier
THE Iraqi prime minister says as many as 2,500 US troops have left the country as part of agreements reached with Washington to enable...
25 years since Hillingdon Hospital strike 1st OCTOBER 1995 – 30th...
ON October 1st, 1995 56 domestic and catering workers at Hillingdon Hospital were sacked by Pall Mall for refusing to accept a £40 per...
Cosatu plans October 7 ‘national shutdown’
THE CONFEDERATION of South African trade unions (Cosatu) is planning a nationwide shutdown next week, and has announced that its affiliated workers will not...
Palestinian doctor on hunger strike in Maghaberry prison has been joined...
BY FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST BRITAIN has been involved in duplicity and skulduggery in Palestine from the secret signing of the Balfour agreement in...
UK, US, French Role In Invasion Of Libya Exposed By Wikileaks!
‘WIKILEAKS publication represents a great victory for freedom of expression in the face of government secrecy,’ said a statement by respected journalist Patrick Cockburn,...
NUMSA pickets Zimbabwe embassy against labour rights violations
THE BANNING of protests, abductions and torture of activists and students, arrests of journalists and the intimidation of trade unions are not issues that...
Bankrupt British Bosses Declaring War On Workers, Students And Youth!
THE UK government borrowed £35.9bn in August, which was £30.5bn more than it borrowed in August last year. Borrowing between April and August totalled...
Met Students Confined To Rooms By Security Guards!
STUDENTS at Manchester Metropolitan University are confined to their rooms, with security officers keeping them inside. In a statement, Manchester Met said: ‘Our security teams...
Greek School Pupils Rise Up
SEVERAL hundreds of secondary schools throughout Greece remain shut as school students refused to attend classes considering the Covid-19 government guidelines to be ineffective. Last...
Tories moving to bring in Martial Law and a licence to...
PM JOHNSON announced the latest draconian lockdown rules in the House of Commons last Tuesday, with the threat that, if not obeyed to the...
END THE PROSECUTION OF JULIAN ASSANGE! – Demand the Presidents of...
THE PRESIDENTS of Venezuela and Argentina have demanded an end to the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently fighting extradition to...
THIS CASE THREATENS PRESS FREEDOM says Julian Assange’s fiancée
‘THIS CASE is a grave threat to press freedom, not just for Julian Assange, but for all British journalists,’ lawyer Stella Morris, Julian Assange’s...
Trump Threatens To De-Fund New York, Seattle And Portland!
THE TRUMP administration has stepped up its war on ‘Marxists and radicals’ naming three major cities that it has targeted to strip of their...
‘The US is blackmailing Palestinians to compromise on their rights’ says...
PALESTINE Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has accused the United States administration of pressuring and blackmailing the Palestinians to compromise on their national rights. Speaking at...
Trump seeks to expand conservative majority in the Supreme Court!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has said he would nominate a woman to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of liberal Justice...
To End The Covid-19 Crisis The Trade Unions Must Bring Down...
TORY HEALTH SECRETARY Hancock yesterday said of the Covid-19 crisis that Britain was facing a ‘tipping point’ and ‘we have a choice’. It turns...
TORIES IMPOSE £10,000 FINES! – and make appeal for informers
THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...
FBI warns of revolution! Now is the time to build 4th...
THE DIRECTOR of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the US ruling class has lost...
Attack on WikiLeaks countered – day 11 of hearing
DURING DAY 11 of the hearing yesterday at the Old Bailey, in which the prosecution is attempting to get WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited...
Overseas Operations Bill will ‘decriminalise torture’ says Reprieve
THE TORY government has announced that the Overseas Operations Bill will get its second reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 23rd September. In...
TUC must act to free Assange says father
JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...
SA trade unions battle for inflation-beating pay increases for 1.2m
THE LABOUR Court in Johannesburg will be the setting for South Africa’s trade unions and the African National Congress (ANC) government to fight it...
‘Trump is behind drive to extradite Assange’ – says US lawyer...
US PRESIDENT Trump is behind the politically motivated prosecution of Julian Assange who he said should receive the death penalty, it was alleged by...
South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the...
ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...
Assange hearing adjourned after Covid fears for lawyer – his supporters...
ON DAY four yesterday of the Old Bailey hearing deciding the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the proceedings were adjourned until Monday while...
To Get Rid Of The Coronavirus – Get Rid Of The...
YESTERDAY, Boris Johnson announced new emergency laws making social gatherings of more than six people illegal in England from next Monday. This law applies to...
Assange Must Be Freed Now!
ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...
‘Unions must strike to release Assange!’ Protesters rally outside the Old...
‘THE TRADE unions should organise mass demonstrations and call a general strike,’ Julian Assange Defence Committee member Joe Brack told News Line yesterday. He was...
BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BLOCKADE! – to stop the takeover of the...
THOUSANDS of people formed a human chain in the streets of the Hungarian capital Budapest on Sunday, in protest at what they say is...
SA unions serve notice on Cyril Ramaphosa!
THE UNCOMPROMISING attack on corruption in the governing party by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has the potential to shake up...
Free Julian Assange! Imperialists are the real war criminals!
JULIAN Assange’s extradition hearing resumed in London yesterday with the US government once again throwing in new charges at the last moment. According to reports,...
Mass Protest On First Day Of Assange Case
A CROWD of over 200 supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrated outside the Old Bailey in central London yesterday prior to the...
Child poverty & food bank use rises!
A SURVEY of UK social workers by the Child Poverty Action Group, Child Welfare Inequalities Project and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services,...