Marwan Barghouthi Elected To Fatah Central Committee
Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, has been elected to the governing body of Fatah which dominates the Palestinian Authority,...
Canadian Postal Union Fighting To Overturn Strike Ban
THE CANADIAN Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) filed a constitutional challenge last week to block legislation ordering them back to work, passed by the...
SA National Banking Strike Banned!
ATTEMPTS to put on trial the most notably capitalist elements of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ suffered a major blow at the Labour Court of...
‘systematic Exploitation Of Migrant Workers In Israel
Migrant workers in Israel’s agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to an October 28th report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning...
‘The first time that workers from all over Egypt have come...
WORKERS from electricity companies from around the country went on strike in Egypt on Sunday. Workers Media Coordinator at the Egyptian Centre for Economic and...
Equity Phoenix victory after Leeds demonstration
FOLLOWING performers’ union Equity’s demonstration outside the Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds on Monday morning to demand that the contemporary dance company reverse their decision to lay...
50,000 March For Jobs And Justice
THE TUC-organised ‘Put People First’ march over jobs, justice and climate attracted up to 50,000 workers and young people in central London on Saturday. Trade...
‘Save Palestinian schools from the Israeli occupation’s genocide’
SEVERAL Palestinian associations and institutions have issued a statement calling on the international community to save Palestinian schools from the occupation’s education genocide, as...
June 6–fourteenth national pension strike in France – as German food...
TUESDAY June 6 is scheduled, at the call of the national inter-union, which will be the fourteenth day of national strike in France against...
East End Suffragettes – revealed for first time in 100...
East End Suffragettes: the photographs of Norah Smyth 2 November-9 February 2019 Tues-Sat: 11.00-18.00 daily Admission free EAST End Suffragette photos from 100 years ago, are revealed, for...
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...
Teachers’ Unions Slam Coalition League Tables
TEACHERS’ unions on Thursday slammed the latest publication of school league tables as part of a continuing attack on schools and teachers. Chris Keates, general...
Numsa metalworkers are on indefinite strike action! – as Nehawu demands...
Hundreds of Numsa metalworkers’ union members at the Impala Platinum Mine in Freedom Park near Rustenburg are on indefinite strike against exploitation by three...
Two Media Workers Killed Every Week Says IFJ
NUJ comment on an International Federation of Journalists report TWO MEDIA workers die every week, according to an International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) report.
The UK’s...
Ukraine Rejects De-Mining Black Sea Ports!
UKRAINE has rejected calls from Russia to de-mine its ports around the Black Sea to resume grain shipments. Ukraine accuses Moscow of trying to ‘attack’...
Amazon ‘illegally interfered in Alabama’s union vote’ alleges RWDSU
THE UNITED States’ Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is to file charges against Amazon on the grounds that they illegally interfered in...
Champoor Tamil Families Demand To Return To Their Own Homes!
A SECTION of uprooted Tamil families from Champoor, now staying at one of four so-called welfare centres in Trincomalee, staged a protest on Saturday. They...
Qantas Staff At Adelaide Airport Directed To Continue Working Despite Coronavirus...
Qantas staff at Australia’s Adelaide Airport were directed to continue working after it was discovered they had been exposed to the coronavirus, the Transport...
Scottish GP practices forced to close their lists!
GP PRACTICES across three towns in Scotland have been forced to close their lists to new patients amid ongoing GP shortages. Three towns in North...
END THE MASSACRE OF TAMIL CIVILIANS – urges TNA
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), in an urgent press statement, has called upon the international community to use all its influence with the Sri...
SCOTLAND’S HEALTH BOARDS NOT READY FOR 48-HOUR WEEK – warns BMA
With less than 250 days to go until all junior doctors in Scotland will be restricted to working a maximum of 48 hours a...
Students across the UK defy Starmer to march on Gaza Day
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! – From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever!’ ‘Say it now...
Halt The Torture Case Against Naheem And Rehan
Legal charity Reprieve has called on the British government to make up for failing Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman by intervening immediately to prevent...
Chicago erupts against Trump
MORE than a week after Donald Trump’s election as next US president, protesters continue to take to the streets in the US and elsewhere...
Building Safety Bill ‘vitally flawed’ says FBU’s Wrack
MATT WRACK – the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) – has responded to the passing of the Building Safety Bill in...
‘It will be hard for GPs to keep one eye on...
Nurses and Midwives have strongly criticised the Health and Social Care Bill published last week, calling it a toxic prescription for patients and a...
300,000 March To Get Rid Of Tories!
WORKERS, trade unionists and youth on the more than 300,000-strong march from the BBC Broadcasting House to Parliament Square on Saturday demanded that...
Israel demolishing homes of accused Palestinians
ISRAELI authorities on Thursday handed the families of two Palestinian suspects – whom Israel accused of being involved in an attack against Israeli soldiers...
NO SICK PAY FOR 3.3m AUSTRALIAN WORKERS
Casual workers and those in insecure jobs have been left cruelly exposed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, says the...
DON’T USE FORCE AGAINST IRAN – Lavrov warns US and Israel
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there was no proof it was trying to...
Israel’s Golani Brigade Butalises Palestinians In The City Of Hebron
A NEWLY released report submitted to the United Nations by international organizations working in Hebron (Al Khalil) documents a sharp increase in serious...
LEIGH DAY DEMAND FULL COPY OF CYGNUS REPORT – and insist...
Lawyers acting for an NHS doctor who is taking a legal case against the UK Government seeking the publication of the findings of Exercise...
‘Murdering trade unionists does not violate labour standards’
A MAJOR row has broken out in the US over statements made last week by the United States Trade Representative (USTR), who claimed that...
Palestinian women battle to survive in a Gaza dominated by destruction...
WHILE the world marked International Women’s Day on 8th March, women in the Gaza Strip are fighting a daily battle for survival amid the...
Saftu Set To Call National Shut-Down
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – applied pressure to companies employing their members last Thursday,...
Palestinian Cabinet decides on West Bank only elections
THE PALESTINIAN cabinet decided on Tuesday to hold municipal elections on May 13 only in the West Bank with the exclusion of the Gaza...
AMERICAN FARM WORKERS TO LAUNCH – ‘March for Rights, Respect and...
AMERICAN farmworkers are to launch a two-week, 200-mile ‘March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food’ calling on Publix supermarket to accept historic human rights...
890 arrested on Palestine Action demonstration!
MORE than 890 people were arrested on Saturday at a demonstration against the government’s ban of campaign group Palestine Action. An estimated 1,500 gathered in...
Syria Celebrates Anniversary Of Yom Kippur War And Contrasts It With...
‘I DO NOT think that the West has relinquished its colonial mentality,’ Syrian president Assad said in a recent interview, while the US and...
Benefit sanctions are a ‘truly shocking nightmare’
CIVIL servants union PCS has slammed the increase in benefit sanctions on the unemployed, that average at 64,307 per month, as ‘truly shocking’. PCS added...
‘This War Has Shattered The Myth Of The Invincible Israeli Army’
Gaza marked the first anniversary of the start of Israel’s historic pullout from the coastal strip on Tuesday amid bitterness that the end of...
‘RESIST DELPHI ATTACKS’ – says ‘The Future of the Union’ UAW...
‘We are moving nearer to Delphi motioning the bankruptcy court to pitch out our labor agreement,’ said ‘The Future of the Union’ rank and...
‘WE ARE THE BEDROCK OF THE NHS’ – declares doctors’ conference
Over 400 family doctor delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) GPs conference on Thursday expressed their anger and voted no confidence in the...
US Losing New ‘Great Game’ In Central Asia
RUSSIAN experts on Afghanistan take a dim view of US ‘achievements’ in their military operations there. Experts believe that Central Asian countries as well...
Gaza siege ‘creates an atmosphere of escalation and explosion’ says...
THE PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas says the Israeli regime must be held fully accountable for any consequences of tightening the years-long all-out siege on...