The reality of the British Raj in India
A new academic study has shed light on the devastating impact of British colonialism on India, uncovering staggering death tolls and immense wealth extraction...
Education cuts put kids’ education at risk
MANCHESTER City Council, local trade unions and community groups are coming together in Manchester today, Saturday 25 February, to highlight the devastating effects of...
US Employee Free Choice Act Becomes Law
US trade union leaders have hailed the adoption of the Employee Free Choice Act by the US House of Representatives yesterday as a...
Spanish Socialists increase their lead
Spain’s Socialists increased their lead in a poll published recently in newspaper ABC with 30.9 per cent of votes, equivalent to between 131 and...
SA union wins victory against labour brokering
THE Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, has ruled that an employer cannot employ a worker for more than three months without...
Unite Betrays BA Workers – Demand Emergency Conference Of Union To...
LAST Wednesday Howard Beckett, Unite union assistant general secretary, welcomed as a victory for the union British Airways ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’. Beckett...
3,500 ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM LAW – most for holding cardboard signs!
THE Supreme Court will decide the fate of the ban on Palestine Action on 4 and 5 November, after a year in which roughly...
Florida Court arrest warrant for Cuba’s Raul Castro condemned as...
ON MONDAY, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called the Florida Court’s arrest warrant for Army General Raul Castro a ‘reprehensible action’ and a ‘pathetic Miami...
Argentine government steps up attack on migrant workers
ARGENTINA'S government ended free medical care for non-resident foreigners in national public hospitals and approved the expulsion of migrants who incite hate messages, expanding...
Israeli forces raid town, detaining Palestinians and ransacking homes
ISRAELI forces early on Thursday detained four Palestinians from several West Bank districts. Two Palestinians were detained from Jericho, another from Jerusalem and one from...
Under the spotlight: Israel’s indiscriminate use of internationally banned weapons!
‘AS the Israeli regime’s bombing campaign against Lebanon continues to claim innocent lives, the indiscriminate use of internationally banned weapons has come under the...
JUNE 16th–FRENCH UNIONS NATIONAL HEALTH STRIKE
TOMORROW, June 16th, everyone is being mobilised (striking) for health, the CGT French union federation has declared. Health, medico-social, social, nursing homes and national education...
89 Young People Took Their Own Lives In Prison From April...
THE Howard League for Penal Reform has responded to the Prison and Probation Ombudsman’s learning lessons bulletin on young adult prisoners who died by...
Community Camp 4Palestine celebrates 2nd anniversary
A WELL attended 200-strong pro-Palestine Festival was held on Sunday to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal) opposite the...
Prosecute The Bankers Responsible For The Global Financial Crisis
Delegates to the 28th International Brotherhood of Teamsters Convention in Las Vegas last week unanimously approved a resolution to prosecute chief executives and other...
Bangladeshi parents are defending the BPA Community Disability Service
‘We were very angry today, we are not giving up, we are determined to save our service and we are very shortly going to...
EGYPT SHOULD LEGALISE INDEPENDENT TRADE UNIONS! – urges Human Rights Watch
THE Egyptian government should legalise independent trade unions, Human Rights Watch said last Sunday, May 1st, International Workers’ Day. What has emerged is that police...
15,000-strong nurses’ strike in New York City
New York City’s largest nurses’ strike in history entered its 24th day on Wednesday. In a statement, the New York State Nurses Association said recent...
Greek Students And Teachers Are Determined To Win
TENS of thousands of students took part in two days of action in Greece last Wednesday and Thursday against the government’s proposed Higher Education...
END SCANDAL OF MALNOURISHED PATIENTS – says Age Concern
Four out of ten older people admitted to hospital have malnutrition on arrival, says a new report by Age Concern. The Royal College of...
SAFETY CRIMES ‘FILTERED OUT’ says report
At least twice as many people die from fatal injuries at work than are victims of homicide, a new report from the Centre for...
Armed conflicts displace millions in Sudan and the DRC
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has raised alarms over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Dominique Hyde, UNHCR’s Director of External Relations,...
FBU launch DECON campaign to protect against toxic fire contaminants
Fire contaminants are directly linked to and can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases. The FBU has launched its new trailblazing campaign...
Huge Clashes Between Swazi Workers And Feudal Regime!
RELATIONS between the workers and trade unions of Swaziland and the rule of the feudal monarchy has almost reached the point of civil...
Coalition Privateers To ‘Liberate NHS’: Part Two
THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government’s White Paper on the NHS contains plans for sweeping changes. NHS Commissioning Board The sole commissioners for the NHS will...
INCLUDE HEALTHCARE IN ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE urges SEIU
‘Today, Congress took a first and important step to rebuilding the American Dream,’ said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Thursday as Senators from...
US Homeless Are Being Criminalised
‘To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty.’ This is the viewpoint...
South African Public Works Programme workers demand permanent jobs
AROUND 80 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers protested outside the Port Elizabeth City Hall on Tuesday, demanding that the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality...
TREAT MIGRANT WORKERS FAIRLY demands UNISON
UNISON has welcomed new research showing the value of trade unions to migrant workers. The report by social policy charity the Rowntree Foundation was launched...
Stop Evictions! Occupy Ealing Hospital! Demands May Day March!
‘WHEN they move to close the maternity and A&E at Ealing Hospital, staff, unions and the community must occupy. A General Strike is coming,...
TWO SICK PALESTINIAN PRISONERS ATTEMPT SUICIDE! – hunger strikers in danger...
Two sick Palestinian prisoners have attempted to commit suicide, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s ministry of prisoners affairs said on Tuesday. Hanan al-Khatib said...
‘We are going to strike on Feb 6th alongside Unite &...
UNIVERSITY lecturers up and down the country came out on strike on Tuesday in the second of a series of two-hour strikes in an...
NUMSA CONSIDERS BREAKING WITH COSATU – as South African miners strike...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it’s considering forming a new independent labour federation. But only as a last resort....
Zero-hours contract offensive in the colleges and universities
OVER half of universities and colleges use lecturers on zero-hour contracts and, furthermore, universities and colleges are twice as likely to use zero-hour contracts...
13,000 ‘Disappeared’ From Sri Lankan Prison Camps
TAMILNET reports that according to reports of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, last week over 13,000 internally displaced people have...
Camden threats to rough sleepers ‘may breach human rights laws’ ...
Liberty, the human rights organisation, has written to Transport for London (TfL) and Camden Council warning that recent threats issued to rough sleepers may...
ETUC Day of Action against Austerity tomorrow
THE TUC has sent letters to the Spanish and Greek governments urging them to abandon their austerity programmes and to ‘change course now’. The letters...
‘We will resist until every inch of Palestine is free!’ –...
OVER 15,000 workers and youth demonstrated in London on Saturday to mark the 74th anniversary of Nakba Day, marching from BBC Broadcasting House near...
‘A LABOUR REVOLUTION NEEDED’ – to save Haiti, says ILO leader
‘The decent work agenda is a primary need when we talk about reconstruction,’ Anthony Jones, the resident representative of the ITUC and the Trade...
Tenants’ Aylesbury floods fury
Tenants on the Aylesbury estate are very angry at Southwark Council’s indifference to their complaints and the Council’s high handed attitude towards tenants’ needs. Tenants...
South Africa National Day of Action
TENS of thousands took part in a National Day of Action organised by South Africa’s National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) against...
‘Call general strike!’ WRP & YS TUC lobby demands • Break...
LARGE numbers of delegates stopped at the WRP and Young Socialists lobby of the opening day of the TUC Congress in Manchester on Sunday....
Israel initiates a military plan to seize 25% of Gaza as...
The Israeli forces have initiated a military plan to capture and control 25 per cent of Gaza, calling it the buffer zone that it...
The truth about sexual abuse in a British detention centre
By: Clare Sambrook First published in Our Kingdom WHAT is the government really doing to protect immigration detainees from their guards? In Parliament on Tuesday 15...
Israeli military demolishes Palestinian primary school
THE ISRAELI military has demolished a European Union-funded Palestinian primary school in the central part of the occupied West Bank as the Tel Aviv...