US screenwriters 98% vote to strike from May Day
Film and television writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the United States are to strike on and from May Day in...
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...
‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka
THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...
French opthalmologists demand a halt to rubber bullets
FRANCE is experiencing an ‘epidemic of serious eye injuries’ as police repeatedly fire golf-ball-sized rubber bullets at Yellow Vest protesters, the country’s top ophthalmologists...
UPS Teamsters demand a paid holiday for Martin Luther King Day!
AS AMERICANS honoured the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, UPS Teamsters across the country mobilised to demand 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...
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...
Nationalise all bus networks – demands TUC
The TUC responded on Thursday to cuts to bus routes by privateers set to be implemented across the country calling for all bus networks...
Trade unions demand a united Ireland Call for new all Ireland...
MORE than 150 trade unionists have signed a declaration calling on the labour movement to advocate for a united Ireland and a new all-Ireland...
‘The workers are with us and that’s why we are going...
‘A GENERAL STRIKE to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!’ was the main demand on the 100,000-strong TUC march from the...
Welsh landlords refusing housing benefit tenants!
a fifth of lettings advertised in Wales explicitly exclude people in receipt of housing benefit, a practice the homelessness charity Shelter Cymru has labelled...
Israel’s apartheid practices slammed by UN special rapporteur
A United Nations human rights expert has slammed Israel’s ‘apartheid practices’ in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying the Tel Aviv regime’s actions against Palestinians...
£4bn of UK property is owned by ‘high risk individuals!’ Lords...
FOUR BILLION pounds of UK property is owned by high-risk individuals. The House of Lords Joint Committee is looking at the market and money laundering. The...
SAFTU demands expropriation of the land without compensation! 72 per cent...
TUESDAY 6th April, marked the 369th anniversary of the arrival of Dutch settlers in South Africa. The first settlers aimed at establishing trading posts...
Fatah leader Rjoub stresses the need for agreement with Hamas!
THE RULING Fatah party is going to run in the coming Palestinian legislative elections planned for May 22 in one list, today said Jibril...
President Abbas congratulates Bashar al-Assad on the anniversary of Evacuation Day,...
PALESTINIAN president Mahmoud Abbas has offered his congratulations to his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad on the annual anniversary of Evacuation Day, the day when...
COSATU president celebrates Workers Day on May 1st
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi delivered a Workers Day Speech on May 1st. ‘My fellow South Africans, President Cyril...
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...
‘Sunak’s refusal to lift the pay cap on civil servants and...
RESPONDING to Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget speech last Wednesday, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka commented: ‘Rishi Sunak has today failed to vaccinate the...
Hamas denounces Arab countries’ normalisation deals with Israel
HAMAS has denounced the ‘normalisation deals’ with Israel, because they are aimed at legitimatising the regime in the Middle East and forging an alliance...
Asylum seekers housed in cramped and filthy conditions!
ASYLUM seekers are housed in cramped and filthy conditions at two military barracks, with a number of residents feeling suicidal, inspectors have said. Key findings...
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people
PALESTINE President Mahmoud Abbas received a telegram from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday to mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian...
‘Strong measures required to stop crimes of Zionist regime’ Hamas leader...
A HIGH-RANKING member of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has called on the ‘Muslim world to take up a firm stance in support...
Cape Town firefighters take to the streets to protect jobs
SCORES of South African firefighters facing possible dismissal and or disciplinary action marched on the City of Cape Town offices on Saturday in support...
‘UN Must Condemn Assassination Of Fakhrizadeh!’ Says Iran
IRAN has called on the United Nations and its Human Rights Council to stop their ‘selective’ approach and condemn the recent assassination of the...
Australian teachers to strike over pay & workload
AUSTRALIAN school teachers and principals in New South Wales (NSW) are taking part in a pay strike next Tuesday, December 7th. The 67,000-member union said...
Maher Al-Akhras Hunger Strike Now Exceeds 90 Days!
‘CALLING for the freedom of one Palestinian political prisoner is what Israel expects from the international community. ‘The latest detainee to go on hunger strike...
Dockers Win Compensation
TWENTY-SEVEN Unite members have won their tribunal claim over calculation of a redundancy payment at Rosyth Royal Dockyard in an Employment Tribunal decision. The members...
ANC government intends to slaughter thousands of workers’ jobs – SAFTU...
IT HAS become clear that the ANC government is intending to slaughter thousands of workers’ jobs, said the South African Federation of Trade Unions...
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...
‘US WILL DRIVE LEBANON TO SEDITION’ – warns Hezbollah leader
Lebanese national resistance movement Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah has warned that the United States will drive Lebanon towards sedition if Lebanon does not conform...
Amazon working through the tornado ‘inexcusable’ says US Retail, Wholesale and...
THE RWDSU (Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union) has issued a devastating ‘Statement on the Amazon Warehouse Collapse,’ after at least six workers were...
800 Pennsylvania Nurses Are Taking Strike Action!
NEARLY 800 nurses at a Bucks County hospital in Pennsylvania went on strike last Tuesday and Wednesday over dangerously low staffing levels that prevent...
England Will Lose More Than 600 Gp Practices By 2022
ENGLAND will lose more than 600 GP practices by 2022 without urgent investment, BMA analysis reveals. More than 600 GP practices in England will be...
US & EU continuing economic terrorism against Syria
‘MEMBER countries at the UN Security Council are attempting to destabilise Syria and impose their own hostile agendas,’ Syria’s permanent representative to the UN,...
Syria And Its Allies Angrily Condemn Biden Air Strike
SYRIA and its allies have angrily condemned the first airstrike ordered by new US President Joe Biden, which the Pentagon claimed had targeted Iran-backed...
Sheffield refuse workers vote for indefinite strike!
TWO HUNDRED Sheffield refuse workers voted unanimously on Monday to go on indefinite strike from Monday 22nd November. The vote took place at a mass...
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...
France’s Force Ouvriere (FO) is ready for a national strike and...
FRENCH trade union federation Force Ouvriere (FO) announced on Wednesday that it is preparing a national strike and rally of private health sector workers...
‘The Palestinian cause is for the whole world’ – says Hamas
A SENIOR official of the Hamas resistance movement has described Israel as a threat to humanity, saying Palestine’s anti-occupation struggle is a humanitarian cause...
President Assad blames US for stopping return of Syrian refugees!
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has blamed the United States for hampering the return of refugees to Syria. Assad was delivering a speech delivered via video...
South African joblessness rises to 27.6%
SOUTH Africa’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since the third quarter of 2017 to 27.6% at the end of the first...
SA broadcasting workers to strike against ‘jobs bloodbath’
SOUTH AFRICA’s CWU (Communication Workers Union) and BEMAWU (Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union) are organising for a full blown strike against the...
Seven African states condemn AU granting Israel observer status
SEVEN African Arab states have rejected a recent decision by the African Union (AU) Commission to grant the Israeli regime an observer status at...
No Fault Evictions – Court Proceedings Up 41%
No-fault eviction court proceedings are up 41% on pre-pandemic levels, homelessness charity Shelter has reported, with new government figures revealing that 5,890 landlords in...