Tag: protest

Ramzi Kysia vividly describes the human catastrophe imposed on the people of Gaza by Israel and asks you to join other people of conscience...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has just released thousands of pages of documents related to Navy investigations of civilians killed by Coalition Forces...

REVOLUTION is brewing, in the most unlikely of places, as staff walked out last Friday from the British Museum’s cultured halls to strike....

By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist Where are the loyalist arsenals of death? That’s one of the key questions the proposed new Stormont department for...

TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka Army chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka this week again revised his timetable for defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

HUNDREDS of hauliers picketed parliament in London yesterday to demonstrate against the rising cost of fuel, and the way that it is destroying their...

‘IT is very clear that the collapse of the capitalist system has collapsed New Labour, that is the modern Labour Party’, News...

Two hundred trade unionists and youth attended the News Line & All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) conference in central London, yesterday. They discussed a resolution...

‘We’ve had a lively picket today,’ North East London Council of Action secretary Bill Rogers told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield,...

Patients, staff and Enfield and district residents yesterday welcomed the mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital by the North East London Council of...

In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International called on states to...

‘I REFUSE to be bribed and blackmailed into silence. My struggle for justice continues’ Gordon McNeill declared last Wednesday. Discussions between the sacked Belfast airport...

On Monday, 23 June, the High Court will respond to a Liberty demand for an independent investigation into the treatment of detainees at Harmondsworth...

CHANCELLOR Darling has followed up his appearance before the bankers at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, where he pledged that wage rises would...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...

Over 200 medical students, with placards saying ‘No room for more student debt’ and ‘Junior doctors accommodation – going, going, gone’, demonstrated in central...

PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...

Legal charity Reprieve has released its report, ‘Human Cargo’, which details the rendition and torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident in Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve...

Over 2,000 Tamils demonstrated outside the Commonwealth Conference in central London on Tuesday against the attendance of Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse. Their banners carried...

COLLEGE lecturers across London staged their second strike against the government’s pay-cutting strategy on Monday, June 9th, after taking part in national strike action...

IN the last few weeks we have seen the road hauliers take to the streets against the massive increases in petrol and diesel prices...

‘We want freedom! We want Tamil Eelam! Stop the genocide’ shouted 2,000 Tamils demonstrating in central London yesterday. The protest outside the Commonwealth Conference taking...

SIX HUNDRED Shell tanker drivers are to take four-day strike action from 6am on Friday, fighting for a £2,000 pay rise and a minimum...

Hamas and Fatah failed to reach a breakthrough in reconciliation talks held in Senegal, a top Hamas official said on Sunday. Representatives from the two...

COLLEGE lecturers in London, members of the University and College Union (UCU), will take strike action on Monday (9 June). And further action across England...

By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist Retiring First Minister and hell fire fundamentalist preacher Rev Ian Paisley has been hailed as a political Caesar –...

As Israel steps up its human rights violations and systematic breaches of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip, all the basic functions of...

Not fit for print? On May 1st 2008, the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) sought to publish an open letter to the...

Several thousand striking fishermen from across Spain, as well as some of their counterparts from France, Italy and Scotland, protested outside the Ministry of...

‘WE made Marks and Spencer their profits!’ said an angry Fenland Food worker fighting the closure of her factory and the loss of hundreds...

TWO coachloads of angry Fenland Foods workers descended on Marks and Spencer’s flagship London store at Marble Arch yesterday. The ready meal workers blame M&S...

Hospital doctors and GPs on Wednesday condemned health minister Lord Darzi’s plan for London as ‘a disaster waiting to happen’ whose effect on NHS...

ANGRY road hauliers yesterday spelled out exactly what they will do when the government tries to ignore their huge protest convoys against soaring fuel...

Lorry Drivers and small hauliers rallied hundreds strong at Marble Arch in London yesterday to demand a government fuel subsidy or fuel tax relief...

FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...

GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...

All along the A40, road hauliers and truckers, parked up their big machines and made their way to Marble Arch to warn Gordon...

Benin is one of several West African states gripped by soaring food prices. In a scene on a popular Benin TV series, a farmer named...

‘My personal view is the unions should be up in arms over the number of beds lost in the NHS,’ East Surrey UNISON official...

workers, trade unionists and local people are marching through Enfield on Saturday 26th July against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital, the announcement of...

‘WE ARE calling on everyone to march with us through Enfield on Saturday, July 26th. Workers of Enfield won’t allow this government to close...

THE Independent Asylum Commission is today publishing Saving Sanctuary, the first of three reports of recommendations aimed at restoring public confidence in sanctuary for...

IN his recent addres to the Oxford Union, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa tried to assert, very unconvincingly, that he did not believe...

President Sarkozy threw down the gauntlet to the teaching unions immediately after the hugely successful national strike and demonstrations on Thursday. He shocked union...

‘There is no alternative to the return to our homes and properties,’ declared the National Committee to Commemorate 60 years of the Nakba, on...