Tag: protest

IN THE West Bank, a Palestinian’s day does not begin from the door of his home, but from the Israeli checkpoint. Hours are wasted in...

THE revolutionary tide is sweeping through the world as workers, youth and the oppressed rise up against an international capitalist system that offers no...

ONE MILLION workers, students and youth demonstrated for decent public education and other services in towns and cities across France on Saturday. They came under...

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Limited (HPSEBL) employees, engineers and pensioners has urged the board management not to...

SENEGAL'S three-day general strike entered its second day on Thursday 22nd October with unions reporting widespread participation and increasing pressure on President Bassirou Diomaye...

AUTHORITIES in France have banned or restricted demonstrations in a number of cities ahead of Saturday, 24th October, following violent disturbances during the previous...

TUNISIAN police fired tear gas at protesters in a suburb of the capital and in towns across Sfax governorate on Thursday, as anger over...

RAILWAY workers have started a week-long strike in Portugal, with the first two days of strike action having been held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Workers...

ON MONDAY, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called the Florida Court’s arrest warrant for Army General Raul Castro a ‘reprehensible action’ and a ‘pathetic Miami...

Dr Rima Fakhry, a member of the Political Council of the Hezbollah resistance movement, has sharply criticised the Lebanese government for its passivity and...

MORE than 43,000 deaths involving Covid were recorded in UK care homes between March 2020 and July 2022, after government left the sector without...

FRENCH Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said yesterday that if declaring a state of emergency is deemed necessary ‘we could do so’, adding ‘at this...

PROTESTERS clashed with police in Paris and other French cities on Saturday as over 800,000 people took to the streets, including students and trade...

The revolutionary confrontation between workers and youth erupted across Europe on Saturday engulfing France, Belgium, Portugal, Italy and Albania. In France, the large CGT union...

HUGE demonstrations of workers, students and youth in towns and cities across France came under violent attack on Saturday by armed French gendarmerie, who...

PALESTINIANS in Gaza are having teeth pulled that could be saved, because Israel’s siege has driven the cost of treatment far beyond what displaced...

FRIDAY’S Daily Telegraph was full of praise for Labour Chancellor John Healey’s remarks on the British banks, describing the current banking bankrupts as part...

DELHI police yesterday detained Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), on his way to a flag-waving protest in Connaught Place,...

REEMA Asaad Awad, a 33-year-old mother, burned to death when an Israeli air strike set her family’s flat in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood ablaze...

POLICE on Tuesday detained leaders of India’s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party after they climbed over barricades into Jantar Mantar, the capital’s historic protest ground,...

SCHOOL and university students marched in cities across France yesterday in the fifth national day of action of their movement against understaffed, crumbling schools. Six...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students, and teachers demonstrated in Belgium last Friday against the Belgian government’s austerity measures, in a day of action...

ARRIVING for a rally in Whitehall outside Downing Street, the marchers were told that this was the 37th National Demonstration for Palestine since the...

MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London for Palestine on Saturday, marking the third anniversary of the 7th October 2023 launch...

Fighters of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) refused to help rescue dozens of men trapped when a gold mine collapsed in Sudan’s West Kordofan...

NEW DELHI – Rahul Gandhi, India’s leader of the opposition, stood on a police barricade on Parliament Street on Tuesday 6 October, waving the...

HUNDREDS of thousands of striking French secondary school pupils are joined by the CGT French trade union umbrella organisation today as the schools movement...

IRAN issued a severe warning to its neighbours yesterday, vowing to defend its national interests while urging the regional states to reconsider hosting US-Israeli...

SPAIN erupted on Saturday as thousands of workers and youth poured onto the streets of 50 cities demanding action triggered by the eviction of...

A United Nations fact-finding mission has found that the United States committed a war crime when Tomahawk cruise missiles struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh school...

UP TO 5,000 workers, local families and youth gathered outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall on the Whitechapel Road in east London for the march...

On 4th October 1936 the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney, in the Battle...

FINANCIAL decisions being taken by a strike-hit university are ‘deeply offensive’ to staff, a union has claimed. Members of the University and College Union (UCU)...

OVER 100 people protested outside St Thomas’ Hospital by Westminster Bridge yesterday to demand that NHS England end its £330 million contract with the...

A NATIONWIDE strike by public sector workers took place in France on Tuesday with over 170 demonstrations and rallies taking place across the country. Alongside...

YEMEN’S military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said on Sunday that Saudi fighter jets had carried out two attacks on the main market in...

FOUR Palestinian resistance operations targeting Israeli settlers and occupation forces have been reported across the occupied West Bank within 72 hours, amid an escalation...

SYRIAN President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday that Israel had carried out nearly 500 air and artillery...

PRIME Minister Andy Burnham has committed an RAF Voyager tanker to refuel Saudi warplanes for several weeks. The decision comes as Saudi air strikes on...

Hospital workers in Taunton, Somerset are involved in a massive fight against being thrown out of the NHS and having their jobs handed over...

JERUSALEM – Gaza’s Health Ministry has warned that the Strip’s healthcare system is being pushed towards total collapse, with more than 70% of the...

HUNDREDS of thousands of Iranians marched through the capital Tehran yesterday pledging to take up arms in the largest demonstration since the US and...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Brighton passed a composite motion on Palestine on the conference’s final day yesterday, alongside further motions on military...

THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton yesterday backed motions demanding better public sector pay and the right to coordinated strike action. Moving Motion 34,...

LARGE scale protests have erupted in Syria after the ruling Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime raised fuel prices again. The HTS oil ministry announced that...