15,000 Greek Workers March Against Syriza Coalition!
OVER 15,000 workers and youth marched last Saturday in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on the opening of a trade fair, demanding an end to the...
Argentina – right to strike targeted
The far-right government of President Javier Milei on Thursday imposed a significant restriction on the right to strike in Argentina across many sectors. This move...
Junior doctor pay has ‘fallen off a cliff since 2008’ –...
THE DIRE state of junior doctors’ finances has been revealed in a British Medical Association survey. Junior doctors are cutting back on buying food and...
NOMZAMO WINIFRED MADIKIZELA-MANDELA A TIRELESS FIGHTER AGAINST APARTHEID says SAFTU
‘The South African Federation of Trade Unions lowers its flags in honour of Comrade Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, one of the great revolutionary icons of the...
‘Russia is developing despite the difficult times’ says Dmitry Peskov
RUSSIA is developing and will continue to develop, despite all the current difficulties, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. ‘The country is...
Yemen Houthis Ready For US Invasion
THE leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has warned that the US military is preparing the ground for an act of aggression against the...
‘NHS emergency care is itself, in a state of emergency’
‘EMERGENCY care is itself in a state of emergency,’ Dr Taj Hassan, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said on Thursday. He was...
Amazon dominates on-line market – while workers suffer an epidemic of...
AS AMAZON dominates online marketplaces and positions itself to become the largest retailer in the US, more and more people are finding out the...
Cuts Will Leave Poor Families ‘Close To Destitution’
PARENTS working on the minimum wage are on the brink of a new crisis in family finances that will leave many close to destitution,...
Canadian Unions Demand Jail For Asbestos Polluters
AN asbestos-removal company is in court in Canada in a case which started on Monday facing accusations that it repeatedly exposed its workers to...
INTO Irish teachers condemn funding cuts for primary schools!
AT THE Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) annual congress in Belfast on Tuesday, primary teachers condemned the lack of adequate funding to primary schools...
Sri Lankan Military Targets Farmers
Unidentified armed men arriving on a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade on Friday around 5:30am on the house of a Muslim teacher in Ea’raavoor...
Israeli troops shoot dead two Palestinian Civil Defence workers in Nablus
THE Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have slammed the fatal Israeli shooting of two Palestinian men at a military checkpoint south of...
PUBLISH YOUR EVIDENCE! – Students want Russell Group’s fees report made...
STUDENT leaders went to the Russell Group’s headquarters next to Trafalgar Square on Monday, to demand the Group makes public its evidence to the...
ACADEMIES HAVE FAILED! – take them back under local authority control...
THE Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) says the failure of academy chains requires the government to consider taking schools back into local authority...
Sharon Dying – Palestinian Revolution Lives!
ARIEL Sharon, the arch Zionist Israeli prime minister, who has spent his whole life killing Arabs, is fighting for his life in a Jerusalem...
Israeli forces raid al-Quds University
Israeli forces raided the al-Quds University, on Wednesday, in Abu Dis village, south east of the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. Local...
South African teachers endorse Israeli Apartheid Week
THE South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) endorses the Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) taking place from 6th-12th March, 2017. The week focuses on Palestinian political...
French police storm refugee camps in northern Paris
FRENCH police stormed the make-shift refugees camps in northern Paris, tearing down tents and ‘escorting’ families and individuals on to coaches. French police forcibly evicted...
‘PALESTINIAN BLOOD SHOULD NOT BE SPILLED’ – Haniya urges unity
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, on Tuesday, called on Palestinians to ‘remain united’ in a common cause after days of clashes between Haniya’s Hamas...
FURY OVER NEW BBC CUTS! – World Service jobs face...
BBC unions on Tuesday expressed shock and anger over planned cuts at BBC World Service. ‘BBC bosses have announced that they plan to cut £2.3...
Workers Lobby Tuc – To Defend Jobs And Oppose Cuts!
A NUMBER of workers have been lobbying the TUC to demand support and action in defence of jobs and against cuts. Amicus members were lobbying...
‘Israel has suffered unprecedented losses’ – Nasrallah
The secretary-general of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says Israel has suffered ‘unprecedented’ losses at the hands of Palestinian resistance and has failed to achieve...
Irish Unions Faced With ‘Draconian Anti-Union Legislation!
THE Irish trade union leaders are currently deciding whether to accept state control of their public sector trade unions, including control over wages,...
‘We support the call for a general strike’ – the RMT’s...
10,000 WORKERS, trade unionists and youth were on the London May Day March on Thursday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. The march was led...
Gaza Children Main Victims Of Israeli Atrocities Says Unicef
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) says children in the besieged Gaza Strip are the main victims of Israeli atrocities in the Palestinian territory, amid...
History of NHS nursing NEW EXHIBITION AT RCN’S LONDON HQ
IN THE centenary year of nurse registration, a new exhibition is charting the history of the journey from the Nurses Registration Act in 1919...
The link between settlement expansion and demolitions ‘is abundantly clear’ says...
The link between Israel’s settlement expansion in the West Bank and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes is now ‘abundantly clear’, says UNRWA...
TUC silent over the massive crisis of the EU
THE TUC’s head of European Union and International Relations Department, Owen Tudor, has recently given a lengthy interview to the internet EurActiv which specialises...
6,000 LECTURERS FACE THE AXE – UCU fears more to come
The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday it was furious at the response from the university employers’ organisation over the figures for job...
‘Total support for junior doctors’ – 102 CONSULTANTS WRITE TO SIR...
102 CONSULTANTS have written an open letter to Bruce Keogh, Medical Director of NHS England, in support of the junior doctors. It reads: ‘OPEN letter...
EU Rejects Proposals To Halt Arms Sales To Israel
LAST month, foreign ministers representing the European Union categorically dismissed proposals to halt the sale of arms to Israel, despite a rapidly growing body...
100% SUPPORT FOR AN OCCUPATION – to save Chase Farm Hospital
OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...
The Secret Courts Bill places government ‘above the law’
MINISTERS are attempting to overturn concessions won by members of the House of Lords to the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government’s repressive Secret Courts Bill, warns...
The Trade Unions Slam Tory Plans To Ban Strike Action And...
THE TUC on Tuesday rubbished Cameron’s claim of good news in the economy and slammed Tory plans to outlaw strikes. It was commenting on the...
Russia Behind the Camera: Archives, Art and Revolution
Film making in Russia – a masterclass by Margy Kinmonth at Pushkin House DOCUMENTARY film maker Margy Kinmonth gave a masterclass on the theme of...
Saftu Marches For Better Wages And Working Conditions!
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – has applied pressure to companies employing their members, with...
PNA CLOSES GAZA/EGYPT BORDER – Abbas wants international agreement
THE Gaza Strip-Egypt border will reopen only as part of an international agreement, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said, after Palestinian security forces sealed...
UK Manufacturing Employment Less Than In 1841!
Confirmation that manufacturing employment levels are at their lowest since 1841 drew an angry and frustrated response from the Transport and General Workers Union. Tony...
Unions in US major cities back Minneapolis strike against ICE
There is a growing strike movement across the United States against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s clampdown on Minneapolis as millions of workers...
BUILD NEW LEADERSHIP IN THE UNIONS –message from News Line-Locked-out Gate...
NEARLY 400 trade unionists and youth took part in the News Line-Gate Gourmet locked out workers’ conference in London on Sunday and speaker after...
Plans To Privatise ‘La Poste’ Are A ‘Declaration Of War’
The French post office union federations, CGT, SUD-PTT, CFDT, FO, CFTC and CGC, have called on postal workers nationally to strike and demonstrate on...
25 Palestinians detained in West Bank raids
AT least 25 Palestinians were detained in raids from Monday evening to the early morning hours on Tuesday, as Israeli state forces stormed several...
CHARGE GERMANY WITH FACILITATING GENOCIDE BY ARMING ISRAEL – ICJ at...
THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...
OAXACA TEACHERS BLOCK ‘REFORMS’ – ‘a mechanism for privatisation’
TEACHERS in Oaxaca, Mexico, have taken their fight against their government’s punitive ‘education reform’ to a new level this month, with highly visible actions...