‘Nearly 7 million children live in poverty … more than 2.1...
AN estimated 3.7 million Syrian children – 1 in 3 of all Syrian children – have been born since the conflict began five years...
AFL-CIO MAY NOT ENDORSE THE DEMOCRATS – says AFL-CIO leader Trumka
WASHINGTON — The nation’s most powerful labour leader, vowing to defeat President Obama’s key trade legislation in the House next month, warned Hillary Clinton...
FBU ‘remains humbled’ by the suffering of bereaved Grenfell survivors &...
THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has said that it ‘remains humbled’ by the suffering of the bereaved, survivors and residents (BSRs) of the Grenfell...
New Aid Flotilla To Set Sail For Gaza!
An aid flotilla will set sail for the Gaza Strip in June, organisers announced on Monday after a meeting in France. The Freedom Flotilla II...
Ayatollah Khamenei praises Syria’s Assad for Syrian nation’s ‘resistance to imperialism!’
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, received Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday. Assad travelled to Tehran to offer condolences over the loss...
Cosatu Gives Its Fullest Support To Numsa Strikers
ZWELINZIMA Vavi, General Secretary of COSATU, addressed the FAWU (Food and Allied Workers Union) Eastern Cape Regional Congress last Friday. He said: ‘We meet at...
Dozens Of Palestinians Wounded In Clashes With Israeli Troops
DOZENS of Palestinian worshipers were wounded and dozens were detained after clashes broke in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning with Israeli forces...
Burning of the US embassy in Honduras ‘a provocation’ says former...
A TEACHER has been arrested for allegedly setting the US embassy in Honduras on fire last Friday, following police repression of educators and doctors who are protesting against privatisations. A group...
NHS cervical screening services threatened with privatisation!
FEARS are being expressed about the threat of privatisation of NHS cervical screening services used by thousands of women throughout the country every year,...
Turkish Airlines Workers Continue Their Struggle
305 THY (Turkish Airlines) workers who were sacked because they rose against the banning of their strike action in the aviation industry by law,...
PNA slams ‘collective punishment’
The Palestinian leadership on Sunday condemned the ‘unjustified’ extra-judicial execution of a Palestinian activist and slammed Israel’s tightening of the closure it imposed on...
Nigerian TUC: lift petrol levy or we strike!
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) said on Wednesday that its has demanded that the federal government stop the plan to introduce a...
Colossal General Strike Rallies Take Place Throughout Greece!
History was written last Friday in Greece as truly colossal general strike rallies took place throughout the country when literally hundreds of thousands of...
May Day Message From The Iraqi Trade Unions
ON this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and...
RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike
OVER 40,000 workers are supporting the action and manning the picket lines again today as the RMT railwayworkers union takes this week’s second day...
175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF 1834 TO FREE THE...
APRIL 21 saw the 175th anniversary of the Grand Demonstration of 1834 when over 100,000 marched from Copenhagen Fields in London to Parliament to...
13 Zimbabwe nurses arrested at pay protest
THE ZIMBABWEAN government has arrested thirteen nurses who were protesting their deteriorating pay and working conditions. They have since been released on bail –...
US pro-Palestinian protesters rock Biden’s campaign and condemn him for...
PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters have disrupted president Joe Biden’s campaign speech in North Carolina by chanting slogans and protesting against his support for the crimes of...
‘VICTORY IS CLOSE!’ – say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
‘VICTORY is close now,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a meeting of more than 200 trade unionists and youth on Sunday in...
Executive pay soars in the US as the masses unionise, strike...
As millions of workers across the USA unionise and strike against low wages, a new analysis finds that average pay for top chief executives...
NHS waiting times ‘deeply concerning’ – says BMA
‘THESE latest sets of NHS performance statistics are deeply concerning, and paint a very bleak picture for the future delivery of patient care if...
‘Insulting’ changes to GP contracts rejected!
The BMA (British Medical Association) England GPs committee has rejected ‘insulting’ proposed changes to the GP contract in England which completely ignore the unsustainable...
The Iranian revolution will continue to defeat all plots!
‘the Islamic Revolution will go on to defeat all US plots in the coming years just as it has done over the past four...
JUNIOR DOCTORS’ ANGER REMAINS HIGH – ‘trade unions need to follow...
‘THE strike is going extremely well. Pickets have been well-attended and junior doctors remain united in their struggle against contract imposition.’ Speaking on the second...
WORKERS CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE EVERY FRIDAY – to drive...
Over 100,000 workers and youth marched through Dublin last Friday as Ireland was shut down in support of Irish Ferries SIPTU trade union members...
Argentinian cotton workers strike
COTTON processing workers in Argentina began a new strike on Monday, 22 February 2021, demanding wage increases, the latest in a string of farming...
French refinery workers extend strike for 10% increase
FRENCH refinery workers have continued their strikes as a petrol crisis drags on across the country, with authorities threatening to resort to force to...
Occupy movements and trades unions take action in the US
‘We are the 99 per cent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent,’ says...
New sanctions on Russia are a signal for Ukraine not to...
NEW sanctions against Russia are a US signal to Ukraine not to negotiate an end to the war, Russia says. By introducing new sanctions against...
MET POLICE: ‘culture of institutionalised racism, misogyny and homophobia’
RIGHTS campaign groups Liberty, Runnymede, Stonewall and INQUEST have responded to Baroness Casey’s review of the Metropolitan Police Service which was produced last week. They...
‘We will occupy to keep Chase Farm open!’ – says Council...
Passing cars tooted their horns at the 20-strong, 21st monthly mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday. And hospital workers, outpatients and local residents...
TURKISH INCURSION INTO SYRIA WILL LEAD TO THE REVIVAL OF DAESH...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has warned that the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria could lead to the revival of the Daesh terrorist group...
Hezbollah Will Not Give In To Israeli Provocations
Hezbollah on Wednesday held a memorial service in the township of Majdal Silm in south Lebanon. During the service, Shaykh Nabil Qawuq, Hezbollah’s official in...
Brighton Refuse Workers Are Striking Against Massive £4,000 A Head Pay...
OVER 200 striking refuse workers, who have already endured three years of pay freezes, defiantly marched with their supporters through Brighton and Hove on...
Strength of Palestinian resistance causes Kerry/Zionist fall out
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday blamed approval of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem for derailing peace talks with Palestinians, a charge...
Israeli settlers stone Palestinian family, steal olive harvest and destroy trees
Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian family with stones as they were picking olives on their own land near the village of Rujib, to the...
Mubarak Wants Early ‘peace Deal’
Egyptian President Husni Mubarak said on Monday that a longer term truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip...
AFSCME members under fire as never before!
GLENN Sago has been fighting for his union rights for 10 years, and he’s been through plenty. ‘It’s a lot of work,’ he said....
CGT to march in Paris against far right immigration law
ON JANUARY 21, ‘let’s march for freedom, equality, fraternity,’ the French trade union federation CGT is urging. It said: ‘201 personalities are calling to march...
NUMSA considering legal action against MAHLE Bher after striking worker shot...
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) (which is affiliated to the IndustriALL Global Union) is considering taking legal action against employers...
US war games plan to intimidate North Korea
AN US aircraft carrier and warships from its strike group arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in nearly five years...
‘IT’S TIME FOR SOCIALISM’ says Venezuelan President Maduro
Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) passed a new law last week aimed at empowering the organised working class. The Constitutional Law of Workers’ Productive Councils...
Delay in payments means no new patients at Palestinian hospital
THE AUGUSTA Victoria Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem announced on Sunday that it would no longer accept new patients, owing to a ‘crisis level’...
Massive Kaiser Permanente strike action!
OVER 75,000 workers from various unions at healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente, have initiated a strike, making it the most significant work stoppage by healthcare...
FBU condemns plan for firefighters to be sent into fires with...
THE Fire Brigades Union has formally reported two fire and rescue services to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and identified several others, in...