Monthly Archives: April 2022
‘WORKERS Resistance and the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) congratulates the working class of the country for making the all-India strike on 28-29 March 2022 a great success. The strike was made successful defying all machinations, threats, arrests, ESMA (Essential Services Maintenance Act – an act of...
THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the trade unions, during which time she was pleased to work as closely as possible with the Cameron, May and Johnson Tory governments, and treat the...
ISRAELI military forces have shot dead a Palestinian woman near the city of Bethlehem in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, amid an escalation of violence across the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Sunday that Israeli forces opened fire on the woman – identified as...
THE Tory government is in a state of crisis and near collapse as revelations pile up daily about the financial activities of Tory ministers who demand sacrifices from workers while making sure their own millions are safeguarded. The latest damning indictment came last week when it was disclosed in the...
CHANCELLOR Sunak has ‘a series of questions to answer’, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said yesterday, as the Tory tax scandal developed. Last week, at the same time as Sunak hiked up taxes for millions of workers with the rise in NI payments and changes to income tax rates,...
TORY PM Johnson visited the Ukrainian capital on Saturday and walked through the deserted streets of Kiev alongside President Volodymyr Zelensky, flanked by machine gun-wielding bodyguards. Johnson’s last minute visit was a ‘show of solidarity’ with the Ukrainian people, said Downing Street, simultaneously announcing that the UK would send 120...
Starbucks the coffee chain has brought back founder Howard Schultz to lead the effort to defeat a union drive that is still spreading across the country, and that workers allege is flagrantly violating federal law as it seeks to slow their momentum. Currently, 176 Starbucks locations have filed for National...
ONE Liam Halligan in The Sunday Telegraph has just announced: ‘Get ready for 1970s-style mass strikes.’ He writes: ‘So don’t be surprised if workers increasingly challenge below-inflation pay offers … After all as the OBR recently remarked, the UK is facing the biggest drop in living standards since the 1950s.’ He...
FIREFIGHTERS in London and Manchester have signed agreements that will see them committed to respond to Marauding Terrorist Attacks (MTA), following a ballot of FBU members. MTAs are incidents when terrorists move through a location, aiming to find and kill or injure as many as possible. If firefighters respond to MTA...
ISRAELI Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says security forces will have ‘full freedom’ to act after two Israelis were shot dead in an attack in Tel Aviv. The two men were killed and 12 others wounded when a Palestinian opened fire on a bar in one of the city's busiest streets...
ISRAELI military forces killed 78 Palestinian children under 18 years in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip in 2021, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said, marking Palestinian Child Day, April 5. According to the records of the Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP), 17 children...
ISRAEL’S navy yesterday targeted Palestinian fishermen sailing offshore Rafah city in the southern besieged Gaza Strip and confiscated two boats, according to a WAFA correspondents. They said that the fishermen were sailing within three nautical miles offshore the city when Israeli naval boats opened heavy gunfire and water hoses towards...
THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June, the trade union movement will be taking to the streets to demand action on the cost of living – a new deal for working people...
LEFT WING French presidential candidate for the France Insoumise (Rebellious France) party Jean-Luc Mélenchon talked about climate change, feminism and the cost of living at a rally on Tuesday in a bid to persuade youth and undecided voters to vote for him in Sunday’s ballot. However, the first round of...
THE National Insurance (NI) rise is leaving experienced nurses worse off, even with the proposed pay increase, says the Royal College of Nursing. Responding to the National Insurance rise yesterday, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: ‘Today’s national insurance rise is part of a concerning financial outlook set to...
TEACHERS on the Isle of Man have voted overwelmingly for strike action in a row over pay, following an insulting 2% pay offer. The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) ballot gained 84% support for a walkout.
General secretary Patrick Roach said the 2% pay offer by the...
THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’ after the imperialist powers ramped up the sanctions with a view to carrying out the regime changes they so desperately require. Under the pretext of the...
‘RUSSIA is outraged that its request for an extraordinary meeting has been denied,’ Vasily Nebenzya the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations said addressing the UN Security Council meeting yesterday. The meeting was called to attempt to step up the war against Russia accusing it of...
Two human rights organisations have filed a complaint at the United Nations against arbitrary executions in Saudi Arabia, especially after last month’s execution of dozens of prisoners in a single day in the ultra-conservative kingdom. The European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR) and Reprieve, a UK-based non-profit organisation of international lawyers...
SRI LANKA is facing a revolutionary upheaval as workers and young people took to the streets over the weekend demanding the immediate resignation of the right-wing president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his entire government. The mass movement erupted as the country is gripped by the worst economic crisis in its history...
THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts while Sri Lanka’s cabinet and central bank governor quit. The protesters defied a curfew and took to the streets demanding that the president Gotabaya Rajapaksa quits. Across...
Employers in bus wage talks in South Africa claim that the trade union’s wage demands are ‘unaffordable’, setting the stage for a strike struggle that could bring the whole country to a standstill as soon as Easter weekend. The South African Bus Employers Association (SABEA) and the Commuter Bus Employers...
ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten the collapse of the US dollar as the dominant world currency, and accelerate the crash in the once mighty US capitalist economy. Last week, economists at...
TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison head of social care Gavin Edwards said: ‘Scrapping the financial support for sick pay in care, just as the devastating cost-of-living crisis intensifies and Covid...
WORKERS erupted in celebrations across the US on the news that Amazon workers forced the tech giant to recognise a trade union in America for the first time. Workers at a New York warehouse voted 55% in favour of joining the Amazon Labor Union. The group is led by former Amazon...
A TOP US national security official has called on India to scale back its economic and military ties with Russia, warning of ‘consequences’ for any nation that helps Moscow avoid the recent wave of Western sanctions. Speaking to reporters after meeting with Indian officials on Thursday, Washington’s deputy national security...
THOUSANDS of people took to the streets across Britain on Saturday, demonstrating against the massive increase in energy prices and a cost of living that is spiralling out of control and condemning millions of workers and their families to poverty. These demonstrations outside Downing Street in London and in major...
IN THE last 48-hours energy bills have risen by over 50%. The pensioners triple lock guarantee has been smashed. Students repayments on their loans are now pauperising graduates. Meanwhile workers face a National Insurance hike, and hikes in council tax and road tax. The ruling class has not only declared...
THE government pay policy to limit civil service pay rises to two to three per cent, announced on Thursday, is an insult to PCS members who helped to keep the country running during the pandemic. Those workers are now struggling immensely because of the cost-of-living crisis the union says.
PCS General...
TODAY British workers and their families face the biggest attack on their living standards since records of cost of living increases were first recorded in 1956. From today, a whole raft of massive increases take place as council tax bills soar and the Tories increase in the energy price cap...
CHINA’S embassy in Brussels has warned NATO against dragging the planet towards a new Cold War through its ‘outdated security’ strategies. A spokesperson for the Chinese representation in the European Union (EU) said in a statement on Saturday that the ‘world’s largest military alliance, NATO, follows an outdated security concept’.
‘It...
TODAY, April 1, the first day of the new financial year, a barrage of vicious cuts and hikes come in attacking the living standards of workers, pensioners, youth and students alike. The cap rises on energy bills, the triple-lock pension comes to an end, while the hike in National Insurance...
RUSSIA Today (RT) managing director, Alexey Nikolov, was sanctioned yesterday by the UK government. Sanctions have also been imposed on RT’s parent company, TV-Novosti. The Foreign Office said it would effectively mean RT could not return to UK screens after losing its licence.
Earlier in March, UK media regulator Ofcom revoked...