Tag: police
Egyptian Workers Strikes Spread
EGYPTIAN workers are striking to improve their poverty-stricken living standards. Postal workers, textile workers, port workers in Suez and hospital doctors have most recently...
Para-military police units ‘should not have been used at Marikana!’
WITH the strike by platinum miners continuing to grip South Africa, senior police officer Lieutenant Colonel Salmon Vermaak outlined internal problems that contributed...
Full Support For The Ukrainian Workers!
GUNFIRE erupted Sunday morning at a checkpoint, established by workers on the outskirts of the city of Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine. In the skirmishing, one...
Greek Workers March Against Merkel
OVER 3,000 workers and youth staged a rally in the Athens city centre last Friday evening against the visit of the German Chancellor to...
Strength of Palestinian resistance causes Kerry/Zionist fall out
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday blamed approval of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem for derailing peace talks with Palestinians, a charge...
Greek blood money debt bonds for sale!
BANKRUPTED Greece, still up to its neck in debt, is to sell five-year bonds, in the country’s first long-term debt sale since its international...
Notorious G4S Is To Be Brought Back!
NOTORIOUS private security firm G4S, currently under investigation for fraud and three of whose employees are presently in court charged with manslaughter, is being...
Duggan family wins Judicial Review
Mark Duggan’s family has won the right to challenge last year’s coroner’s court verdict that he was lawfully killed when he was shot dead...
‘US mercenaries in Ukraine’
RUSSIA is ready for negotiation with the USA, EU and Ukraine, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He added that the talks may start...
G bay a ‘a US Gulag’ – Shaker Aamer tells ITV
As lawyers today present a motion to the US Federal Court demanding Shaker Aamer’s immediate release, he has given an exclusive interview to ITV...
Greek government – Golden Dawn contact man revealed!
THE Secretary of the Greek government, Panagiotis Baltakos, a close aide for decades of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has been revealed as the go-between...
Cherry Groce Family Demand Legal Aid!
‘WE’RE here to hand in our petition with 130,000 signatures calling for legal aid to assist us and allow us to be active at...
Lagarde Calls For ‘Brave Action’ To Inflate Economies
IMF Managing Director Lagarde has warned that the world economy is ‘too weak for comfort’, and that it could be heading for years of...
ISRAEL REVEALS ITS PLANS FOR 700 HOME SETTLEMENT IN EAST...
US Secretary of State John Kerry failed on Wednesday to save faltering Middle East peace efforts, after both Israel and Palestinians declined further talks. The...
End futile talks with Israel! Forward to Palestinian state!
AHMAD Sa''adat, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Marwan al-Barghouthi, member of the Fatah Central Committee, have...
End all immigration control!
THE death of a 40-year-old woman at Yarl’s Wood on Sunday has once again thrown the spotlight on the privately-run immigration removal centre. According to...
36-hr strike against justice privatisation
PROBATION officers and solicitors across England and Wales walked out on a 36-hour strike at noon yesterday and they are staying out until...
Gold And Coal Sectors To Join Platinum Strike!
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) wants to expand the platinum sector strike. ‘We have filed an application with Nedlac (National Economic...
Eurozone crisis creating revolution – build the Fourth International
THE barrage of propaganda from every mouthpiece of the capitalist class that the economic crisis of capitalism is over, suffered a blow last week with...
Israeli Troops Are Using Live Rounds Against Youth
ISRAELI troops who shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank last week, used live bullets against innocent youth without warning, an...
The lawyers have forced the government to retreat and put...
THE news that the coalition government has been forced to retreat over its proposed cuts to legal aid fees by the decisive actions of...
Rogue Detectives Had ‘Virtual Immunity’
THE SCANDAL involving police corruption deepened yesterday after the Independent newspaper revealed the existence of a secret investigation, ‘Operation Zloty’, that uncovered dozens of...
Call Inquiry into Orgreave police violence
A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION AND KILLINGS HAVE SCUPPERED NEGOTIATIONS – says...
RECENT Israeli actions against the Palestinian people indicate that Israel has given priority to settlement expansion and the demands of settlers over peace and...
Met chief faces questioning over destroyed evidence!
THE head of London’s police is going to be questioned today about the destruction of a ‘lorry-load’ of evidence of widespread police corruption...
Doctors ‘deep sense of outrage’ over wage cut!
CITING ‘doctors’ deep sense of outrage’, BMA Chair Mark Porter has written to health secretary Hunt urging him to reconsider this year’s real-terms pay...
Eu-Ukrainian Deal!
EU leaders yesterday signed an Association Agreement with the Ukrainian coupist government. It is a watered-down version of the agreement that the overthrown President...
Greek Teachers Occupy!
ATHENS – Greek state secondary school teachers threatened with the sack occupied the private office of the Reforms Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last Thursday in...
Unions Condemn Budget As A ‘Provocation!’
Unions have condemned the Chancellor’s 2014 austerity Budget with Unison calling it a ‘clear provocation’, the NUT saying it was ‘more of the same’...
Charge G4S With The Mubenga Killing!
THE THREE G4S guards who unlawfully killed Jimmy Mubenga in 2010 – when he was just 46 years old – using restraint holds as...
POA demands General Strike
UP TO A thousand Prison Officers marched down Whitehall to a rally at Westminster on Budget Day yesterday. Prison Officer’s Association (POA) rep at HMP...
Greek civil servants take strike action while Turkey erupts against Erdogan!
A 48 HOUR strike by civil servants in Greece was launched yesterday as the government negotiates further austerity measures with the troika. This followed...
HALF A MILLION TAKE TO THE STREETS!– to demand jobs for...
HALF a million people will take to the streets today, Wednesday 19 March, in demand for youth jobs, the National Union of MetalWorkers of...
LORRYLOADS OF PAPERS! – shredded by the Met Police
‘LORRYLOADS’ of documents were shredded by the Metropolitian police over the course of two days, including documents relating to the Stephen Lawrence case,...
Hold police to account over deaths – demand relatives to IPCC...
RELATIVES of people who died in police custody yesterday insisted that reforms pledged by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) be implemented without delay...
Irish Courts Rule Siptu Strike Illegal!
THE Irish courts have ruled that a four-hour strike action at airports due to take place today is illegal. The SIPTU trade union which...
Stop mass NHS closures!
MPs passed the Care Bill on Tuesday night, including the hospital closure Clause 119, giving Health Secretary Hunt power to begin a mass...
GREEK PUBLIC SECTOR 24hr STRIKE
GREEK public sector workers went on a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday against the so-called government ‘mobility scheme’ to bring in tens of thousands...
‘We’ve just replaced white capitalists with black capitalists’ – NUMSA...
THE working class and the poor have no good story to tell about how their lives have been changed for the better, National Union...
‘REOPEN CHASE FARM A&E–NO MORE TRAGEDIES!’ –demand Enfield marchers
A POWERFUL march of more than 150 local residents, trade unionists, workers, students and youth drew enormous support from the busy Enfield shopping centre...
The attack on legal aid is an attack on all Basic...
OVER 3,000 solicitors, barristers, probation staff and a number of the many people they represent rallied last Friday in a half-day strike opposite parliament,...
NO TO TWO-TIER JUSTICE! say 3,000 marching lawyers
‘THIS is the biggest gathering that I can remember of solicitors, barristers, probation staff and the many people we represent,’ solicitor Paul Harris told...
You Can’t Reform The Capitalist State – It Must Be Overthrown!
NEVILLE LAWRENCE, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager who was murdered by a racist gang in 1993, said yesterday that he was very...
Greek Riot Police Attack Demonstrators
SACKED Finance Ministry cleaners demanding re-employment, occupied the Athens district tax office in Kallithea yesterday morning. At the same time, state teachers on the ‘mobility...
Police spied on Lawrence family –convictions took 18 years
A JUDGE-LED public inquiry will be held into the work of undercover police following a review into the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. It found...