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Disband the Met and the entire police force that serves only...

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WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II,...

Justice For Chris Kaba – Abolish Met Police!

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SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...

IT WAS MURDER! – Chris Kaba killing condemned

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‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100...

Palestinians defy Israeli clampdown!

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AT least four Israeli soldiers have been injured after an improvised explosive device was hurled at a military post in the central part of...

Black people in US ‘subjected to brutality and death in the...

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AN African American journalist and political analyst has said that ever since the inception of the police in the United States African people have...

UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to...

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WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...

632,000 child deaths since Saudi-led war on Yemen

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YEMEN’S Ministry of Public Health and Population has given a detailed report on the devastating effects the Saudi-led coalition war – which it launched...

Khalih Awawdeh – 171 days on hunger strike against Israel’s illegal...

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Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike today, Tuesday 30th August, 171 days into the protest against his detention without charge or trial...

Myanmar junta jails photojournalists

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ONE media worker has been sentenced and jailed and another detained amid rising attacks against the press by the military junta in Myanmar. A freelance...

French student unions challenge Macron over huge rises in the cost...

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WITH inflation and the increase in the cost of living, the French student unions are challenging the government on the eve of the start...

COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA

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MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...

PROSECUTE P&O FERRIES – RMT condemns Tories for refusal to act

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SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...

‘Israel must eliminate its stockpile of nuclear weapons’ – says...

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A SENIOR Iranian diplomat has condemned the lack of progress in the implementation of the UN 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) resolution and the...

CWU National Action this Friday!

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THE CWU (Communication Workers Union) is taking national strike action this Friday with 115,000 Royal Mail workers stopping work. Further action has been called for...

Palestinian Prisoners Are Staging A Mass Hunger Strike – Now Is...

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PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...

Washington’s behaviour risks ‘direct conflict’ – warns Russian embassy in US

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THE Russian embassy in the United States has warned that Washington’s behaviour on the world stage risks direct conflict between the nuclear states. This comes...

Barristers To Take Indefinite Action!

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BARRISTERS have voted to take indefinite action, refusing appear in court, and take new instructions from September 5th over fees and legal aid cuts,...

‘Shoot to kill first and ask questions later’–if the target is...

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IN THE span of less than 25 hours, two shooting incidents took place in two areas in the occupied West Bank. In both incidents,...

10 YEARS SINCE MARIKANA MASSACRE Ramaphosa … ‘the mastermind of a...

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THE MARIKANA mine massacre of ten years ago has never curbed President Ramaphosa’s political ambitions, but he’s never been able to escape the fallout...

‘SORRY WRONG HOUSE!’ say Israeli soldiers after murdering 21-year-old

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‘We made a mistake in the house,’ said one of the Israeli occupation soldiers, trying to justify to the mother of Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham,...

Demand The TUC Call A General Strike To Bring Down The...

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UNITE has revealed that Harrods is the ‘first employer’ to threaten staff with the new law allowing agency workers to break strikes and engage...

‘Down with Bolsonaro!’ – thousands of Brazilians take to the streets

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THOUSANDS of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October’s...

‘From The River To The Sea – Palestine Will Be Free!’

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‘FROM the river to the sea Palestine will be free,’ 1,000 people shouted outside Downing Street in Whitehall in central London on Wednesday evening. It...

French workers battle to save hospitals and pensions

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FRENCH workers are fighting attacks on their pensions and health service. French trade union federation CGT has raised the alarm over hospital closures. On Saturday March...

Disbanding The Met Police Force Is Long Overdue. It Must Be...

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POLICE in London have strip-searched 650 mostly Black children – most of whom were found to be innocent of the suspicions against them –...

Tens Of Thousands March In Tehran Denouncing The Israeli Military Assault...

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Thousands of people in the Iranian capital, Tehran, staged a demonstration on Tuesday to express their support for the Palestinians and denounce the Israeli...

SAFTU calls South Africa national strike for August 24th – against...

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A NATIONAL strike across South Africa against the rising costs of living, load shedding, and other economic challenges will take place on 24 August,...

Palestine – the UK unions must take action in support of...

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THE Palestinian Presidency has strongly condemned the ‘dangerous Israeli escalation against our people in the Gaza Strip, which so far has resulted in the...

Truss Reveals That She Is Planning Huge Wage Cuts For Workers...

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AT A TIME when the cost of living is rocketing Tory leadership contender Truss has been forced to publicly scrap her plan to link...

Saftu Trade Unions Convene A Working Class Summit To Fight Rising...

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SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) has convened a Working Class Summit on Friday August 5 ‘to prepare a fight back’. It said: ‘In...

Landlords Can Grab The £400 Energy Bill Rebate

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LANDLORDS face a potential Tory cash bonanza with nothing to stop them holding on to the £400 energy bill rebate which the government is...

Unions must break with Starmer NOW and call a general strike...

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LABOUR is becoming ‘irrelevant to workers’ and it is now hard to justify handing the party millions in funding, the leader of the Unite...

The family of Abu Akleh has demanded that President Biden takes...

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THE family of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in May, has...

75% of the Tunisian people boycott constitutional referendum which gives the...

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OVER A DECADE since the death of the Tunisian fruit seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, after he set himself on fire over the viciousness of the...

COSATU cost-of-living protest in Gauteng

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Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members in Gauteng last Friday marched to the department of trade and industry to hand in a...

Ukrainian military using school buildings to launch rocket attacks – and...

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UKRAINE’S Right Sector neo-Nazi battalion has deployed multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) in a school in the New York settlement, and is firing at Russian...

Trade unions in the US and UK must support Palestinian hunger...

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SEVENTY-FIVE Palestinian inmates have gone on hunger strike in support of two of their fellow prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for several...

New Sri Lankan President Is As Hated As Rajapaksa...

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SRI LANKAN MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new president, despite his extreme unpopularity with Sri Lankan workers and youth...

Inflation Is Cutting Pay At A Massive Rate – The Trade...

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THE purchasing power of workers’ pay packets is falling at the fastest rate since 2001. Between March and May, pay, excluding bonuses, was down 2.8%...

Ithaka – the fight to free Julian Assange

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ITHAKA – The film title is from a Greek poem – a long journey and the overcoming of obstacles through the knowledge gained on...

SAFTU calls on workers to mobilise and unify for a general...

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‘SAFTU calls on the working class to mobilise and unify towards the Working Class Summit and the General Strike in August 2022.’ SAFTU said it...

TUC must back railworkers, and postal workers and call a general...

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THE EMERGENCY anti-union regulations, passed in the House of Commons by 289 votes to 202 on Monday night, are set to be used to...

Myanmar Garment Workers Strike

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AROUND 2,000 workers from a garment factory in Yangon’s Zaykabar Industrial Park in Mingaladon Township went on strike last Thursday morning, declaring that violations of...

Sri Lanka unions condemn violent army attacks

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AT LEAST eight media workers were beaten and violently assaulted by security forces and police during live coverage of Saturdays anti-government protest outside Prime...

Johnson Has Been Forced Out – Now The TUC Must Act...

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BORIS Johnson finally resigned as Prime Minister early yesterday after more than 50 Tory ministers and aides jumped ship and left him floundering to...