Massachusetts teachers win ‘illegal’ strike!
TEACHERS in Haverhill, Massachusetts, have won their strike held last week, defying a state law banning teachers and other public sector workers from striking,...
Lebanon In Economic Meltdown!
OIL PRICES in Lebanon registered an additional hike on Tuesday, December 14th, as the country’s currency slid to a new low against the US...
Father of Yellow Vest whose hand blown off to sue
THE FATHER of the Yellow Vest protester who had his hand blown off by a gas grenade in Paris on Saturday says he plans...
Aussie Journalist Oakes Will Not Be Prosecuted!
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP have confirmed that ABC journalist Dan Oakes will not be prosecuted over his reporting on alleged war crimes carried out...
Older people abandoned to die in care homes
OLDER PEOPLE in care homes were abandoned to die amid government failures during the coronavirus pandemic, Amnesty International accuses the Tory government in a...
‘West Bank is Palestinian territory occupied by Israel’ says Turkish Foreign...
TURKEY has strongly censured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for promising to annex settlements in the West Bank if re-elected, saying that his ‘irresponsible’...
Lecturers Unprecedented 14 Days Of Strike Action
LECTURERS in over 60 universities have in the past fortnight taken nine days of strike action throughout Britain over cuts to their pensions. With...
‘HISTORY WILL JUDGE!’ NEU criticises UK foreign aid cut
‘THERE is no place for famine and starvation in the 21st century,’ teachers representing the National Education Union (NEU) are insisting this week: ‘History...
Ashrawi condemns Pompeo for visiting Israeli colonial settlement!
HANAN ASHRAWI, member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)’s Executive Committee, has condemned the US top diplomat’s visit to an Israeli colonial settlement in...
Five copper miners killed in South Africa
FIVE South African miners have died after being trapped underground at the Palabora Copper mine in Phalaborwa, Limpopo province. Initially, six workers were...
UNISON URGES NORTHERN IRELAND NHS TRUSTS: ‘DON’T MAKE £52m NHS...
UNISON last Friday challenged all five Health Trust Boards in Northern Ireland to refuse to comply with a Tory government demand for £70 million...
‘US and Canadian shale oil producers punished by rout in oil...
IRAN’S Minister of Petroleum, Bijan Zangeneh, says shale oil producers in the US and Canada are being punished by a historic rout in oil...
Senior nurses take strike action in New South Wales
SENIOR nurses in New South Wales, Australia, took two hours of strike action on Monday, saying that chronic staff shortages have pushed them to...
Lack Of Support Letting Down Vulnerable Children
VULNERABLE children are being let down says Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, criticising the use of restraint and seclusion. On Monday she published...
Myanmar Miners – 5 Months On Strike!
Since MYANMAR’S military coup in February this year, 4,800 miners have been on strike in Monywa township in a solid five-month action which has...
Herd immunity strategy against Covid-19 is ‘not an option’ says WHO
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the...
Iran Hails Iraq Parliament Call For All Foreign Troops To Leave...
IRAN’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the assassination in January of top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq,...
Russian troops take control of Kherson in the Ukraine
RUSSIA’S Defence Ministry said its troops have taken control of Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson as the Russian military campaign entered its 20th day. ‘The...
General Soleimani’s Killers ‘Will Not Escape Punishment!’ Says Iran
IRAN will not let those behind the assassination of the country’s legendary anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani evade punishment. ‘We will not allow the martyr’s...
Canadian grocery workers strike
THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...
Prison privateer’s pay offer ‘a farcical lucky dip’
TRADE union Unite, the UK and Ireland’s biggest union, has branded a pay ‘offer’ to its 500 members employed by the company Amey undertaking...
Armed intruders infiltrate mines in South Africa AMCU demands
THE SOUTH African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) says it is ‘wary of armed intruders accessing mines where its members work.’ AMCU has...
SAFTU calls general strike to highlight that ANC policies are responsible...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers across South Africa downed tools on Wednesday, February 24, as a part of a general strike called by the...
Child labourers worldwide increase to 160 million!
THE NUMBER of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million in the last four years. These...
‘THE COST OF REMOVING CLADDING MUST NOT BE IMPOSED ON RESIDENTS’...
‘THE cost of removing dangerous flammable cladding must not fall onto a building’s residents,’ the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said. ‘The government must fund...
NUMSA threatens ‘mother of all strikes’ for 8% pay increase
A DISPUTE over salary increases for workers in South Africa’s steel and engineering industry has been called by the National Union of Metalworkers of...
‘THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE COME HERE IN PEACE!’ –...
‘THIS is the last time we come here in peace, when we come here again we will vandalise,’ the leader of hundreds Community Work...
‘Frontline workers need to be respected, protected and paid’ says Mary...
SERVICE Employees International Union (SEIU) International President Mary Kay Henry says the Covid-19 relief package ‘is just a down payment’. She released the following statement...
‘IRAN SANCTIONS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION AGAINST ALL WORLD NATIONS’ says...
The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivered a defiant speech in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Monday, 22nd April...
Anc Government Is Seeking To Make Public Sector Workers Pay For...
AGAINST a background of economic collapse with unemployment rising to nearly 30 per cent, the ANC government of South Africa, driven by the Treasury,...
Numsa Organiser Mdazo Assassinated In Broad Daylight
MINEWORKERS who have been newly recruited to the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa attended a meeting at Impala Platinum’s shaft 9 in...
National lockdown too late without test and trace – North hit...
THE GOVERNMENT’S announcement of a national lockdown on 31st October, after trying to stave off this ‘nuclear’ option for two months with tiered restrictions,...
US actions have throttled the Palestinian Authority politically and financially!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ and the forthcoming economic summit in Bahrain have reaped a multitude of analyses, not least from...
Refugees Fleeing ‘Hell’ Of Libya
LAST Saturday evening, November 6th, the Italian Coast Guard informed the bridge of the German charity rescue ship SEA-EYE 4 that the Italian authorities...
Frontline workers demand ‘scrap Policing Bill’
Over 660 frontline healthcare, community, social and education workers have called for the Policing Bill to be scrapped ahead of a key debate in...
Repeal Bangladesh Digital Security Act – demands Amnesty
Bangladeshi authorities must end the crackdown on right to freedom of expression online and urgently repeal or amend the draconian Digital Security Act (DSA),...
Tory policy will see non-UK rough sleepers deported – Councils pledge...
LOCAL councils are pledging not to co-operate with the Tories’ Home Office and its proposed ‘policy that will see non-UK national rough sleepers deported’. They...
Offshore workers North Sea strike
OFFSHORE union RMT along with Unite and GMB on Tuesday issued notice of strike action by offshore members employed with North Sea contractors Ponticelli...
Israeli occupation – a crime against humanity – 231 INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS...
APARTHEID is a crime against humanity, giving rise to individual responsibility and state responsibility to bring the illegal situation to an end. In May 2020,...
Russia plans to take full control of Donbass and southern Ukraine
A TOP Russian general says the country plans to take full control of Donbass and Southern Ukraine as part of the second phase of...
Youth from poor backgrounds hit hardest by coronavirus pandemic
YOUNG people, particularly those from deprived backgrounds, have had their earnings and job prospects hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, adding to fears...
Aussie MEAA opposes Assange extradition
AUSTRALIA’S MEAA (Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance) union has written to the British and Australian governments to oppose the extradition to the United States...
NHS staff ‘exodus’ if no increase in pay says BMA –...
DOCTORS’ union the Medical Association (BMA) underlined their demand on Thursday for a pay increase for NHS staff. Responding to a recent analysis by the...
Eskom ‘declaration of war will be met head-on’ says NUM while...
A NATIONAL pay strike is looming at Eskom, after management at South Africa’s massive national power utility issued a ‘declaration of war’ to the...
Israel sends Gaza 50,000 expired Covid-19 vaccines
The Gaza Health Ministry has held Israel responsible for the expiry of 50,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine recently delivered to the besieged coastal enclave. In...