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‘WE ARE DETERMINED TO DEFEAT THE COALITION!’ – says Campaign Against...
‘We are determined to proceed with our march today and defeat the government’, said the National Campaign Against Cuts and Fees (NCACF). The Committee...
‘WE WILL PROTECT YOUR PENSION BY ALL MEANS’ – pledges PCS
in a notice to members, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) explains why the government’s pensions offer is bad news for all members. The...
‘Wrong body’ insult confirms racist state
Just one week after a demonstration in London by the United Families and Friends Campaign against deaths in police custody has come the shocking...
STOP BABAR AHMAD EXTRADITION TO USA – 100,000 sign e-petition for...
An e-petition supporting, Babar Ahmad, a young computer worker from Tooting, held for seven years without charge as an alleged terrorism suspect, has reached...
Eu Bosses Strangle Greek Democracy!
MERKEL, Sarkozy and Cameron are all united on one central issue, the Greek workers must not have the slightest ‘democratic’ say over the draconian...
Occupy Oakland Shuts Port
Riot police fired tear gas at young protesters in Oakland, California, on Wednesday night after the port city was shut down in protest against...
No renegotiations – Merkel and Sarkozy warn Greece
THE fact that Papandreou has had to sack the Greek Military General Staff at the same time as he has angered Sarkozy and Merkel...
Eu Bosses Rocked By Papandreou Collapse!
A REFERENDUM has been called by the Pasok Prime Minister, Papandreou, on the austerity programme that the EU bosses and bankers have been seeking...
Tuition Fees Challenged In High Court
TWO students began a high court battle against the government yesterday challenging the rise in tuition fees as unlawful as it breaches the equality...
Deadly Israeli air strikes – a cowardly crime!
A fighter from the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was killed on Sunday, and another critically injured, as...
‘Police Need To Be Accountable For These Killings’
OVER 1,500 people on Saturday took part in the United Families and Friends Campaign 13th annual procession in central London against deaths in custody. The...
Rajapaksa under fire in Australia
CANBERRA – Sri Lankan-born Australian Arunachalam Jegatheeswaran filed an indictment on war-crime charges against the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday, declaring he...
NO BANKERS OCCUPATION! – Greek workers condemn government ‘traitors’
FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS TRULY unprecedented spontaneous mass demonstrations of thousands of furious workers and students have forced the cancellation of the official military...
‘We Will Be Here Indefinitely!’
‘We will be here indefinitely!’ was the defiant message on Tuesday night from the anti-capitalist occupiers who have built up a ‘tent city’ outside...
Life Terms Like ‘confetti’
THE Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prison Reform Trust yesterday expressed concern over mandatory life sentences being extended to crimes other than...
Britain to be one big prison!
THE coalition government has published its plans to turn Britain into one big prison with its own version of the US’ two strikes and...
‘Serious questions being raised about the rights of Australians!’
LEADERS from more than 50 countries, representing more than one-quarter of the world’s nations and two billion people, are meeting in Perth, Western Australia...
PROTESTERS SET UP SECOND CAMP IN CITY – ‘This movement is...
Occupy London protesters against the banks voted on Saturday to continue their camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral and expanded their protest to another camp...
‘Pensions Robbery’ – Challenge By Unions
SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...
Occupy Wall Street calls for hundreds of thousands to march on...
AN open letter from the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (OWS) movement that began in New York and spread world wide, calls for all workers...
Greek workers refuse to accept austerity plan!
LAST Wednesday and Thursday saw the biggest general strike of all workers, public and private sector, shopkeepers, and transport workers, which brought the whole...
500,000 march in Athens!
HALF a million Greek workers, students and youth marched through Athens on Wednesday. This was as part of a two-day general strike against a government...
Kensal Rise library picket!
Save Kensal Green Library campaigners are maintaining their round-the-clock presence outside their local library. Outside the library yesterday morning campaigner Phil O’Shea explained: ‘This campaign...
Police-led ‘ethnic cleansing’ at Dale Farm!
HUNDREDS of riot police stormed through the rear perimeter fence into the Dale Farm compound at 7am yesterday morning, injuring female residents that they...
Student Leader Is Attacked In Jaffna
A STUDENT leader was attacked and seriously wounded in Jaffna on Sunday, reports TamilNet. Suspected Sri Lanka Army intelligence personnel armed with sharp iron rods...
Ernst And Young Calls To Lower Interest Rates!
WITH interest rates at their lowest ever at 0.5%, the UK economy is at a dangerous junction, warns the Ernst and Young Item Club. Its...
Gadaffi fighters still holding Sirte
Fighters loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi mounted a fierce counter-attack in the city of Sirte on Saturday, forcing back the NATO-backed NTC counter-revolutionaries...
World Revoluti0N Is The Reality – Build The Fourth International Now!
SATURDAY saw demonstrations and occupations taking place in many countries following the example of the Spanish and Greek square occupations that have featured as...
‘We’re here to stay’ say London occupiers
Over 600 people were yesterday massed at the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, holding a popular assembly after hundreds had camped out overnight following...
Tory Coalition Turns To Civil War Tactics!
THE Tory-led coalition is planning to reintroduce the Riot Act nearly 40 years after it was abolished in England and Wales. Under proposals set out...
‘Overthrow government if you will!’ – Greek Finance Minister challenges opponents
THE Greek Interior Minister, Christos Kastanidis, has issued a press release/edict stating that the wages of all local government workers would be withheld unless...
Court ruling shows government disregard for families – CPAG
The High Court of Justice on Thursday passed down judgment in favour of the government in a Judicial Review brought by Child Poverty Action...
Mining Gold For $1.50 Hourly Wages!
LEADERS of Indonesian FSP-KEP (SPSI), the trade union of Chemical, Energy, and Mine Workers (CEMWU), have officially extended a 30-day strike at the world’s...
‘A scar on the conscience of Britain’
THE fact that 40 per cent of disabled children are living in poverty is ‘a scar on the conscience of Britain’, says Unite, the...
Sustained Campaign Of Industrial Action! – In 67 Unis To Start...
A SUSTAINED campaign of industrial action by members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 67 of the UK’s best-known universities will start...
‘Down With The Pasok Junta’ Shout Greek Workers
50,000 Greek civil servants and public sector workers on Wednesday staged a successful 24-hour national strike and a big march through Athens against the...
‘People need to realise what’s happening before it’s too late’ –...
‘PEOPLE need to realise what’s happening before it’s too late, we need a strike ballot now, straightaway!’ Bill Pulley, Unite member and professional electrician, was...
Sparks demand strike action!
HUNDREDS of electricians blockaded Oxford Street in central London yesterday morning, against the major attack by a ‘cartel’ of contractors who have declared they...
‘FULL CLEARANCE OF DALE FARM IS NOT ENFORCEABLE’ – say campaigners...
MONDAY saw the conclusion of one of the two legal processes challenging Basildon Council’s planned eviction of the Dale Farm community. ‘The case, which halted...
This is how NATO is defending civilians in Libya
ON Saturday, the Red Cross visited Sirte, which has been under intense bombardment and shelling from NATO planes and ships, and by NATO’s ground...
Conference Votes For Chase Farm Occupation!
A NORTH East London Council of Action conference of over 150 workers, pensioners and youth on Saturday voted unanimously for an occupation of...
Greek ministries occupied!
FOLLOWING the example set by school and university students, Greek civil servants carried out a mass occupation of ten ministries on Thursday morning. The...
Reprieve calls on Lithuania to re-open torture site inquiry
REPRIEVE has called on Lithuania to re-open its torture site inquiry after discovering another suspicious flight into Vilnius. Legal action charity Reprieve is demanding that...
Palestinians battle for Security Council votes!
PALESTINIAN envoys are battling for UN Security Council votes to back their effort to win full UN membership, while the United States is...
Greek Workers Battle Riot Police
ATHENS public transport workers were yesterday continuing for the fourth day running their ‘rolling’ strikes. The strikes were called against the government’s plans to transfer...