Time to build a new independent, militant, anti-imperialist trade union federation...
IN THE wake of the COSATU special congress, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has declared: ‘The time has arrived to...
HALT ALL SETTLEMENTS – demands Abbas
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) government in the West Bank on Monday called on Israel to end all expansion of settlements as a necessary...
‘THERE IS HUGE, MASSIVE DEEP-SEATED DISCONTENT AMONG TRANSIT WORKERS’ – TWU...
‘We were engaged in Civil Disobedience’, said New York Transit workers union President Toussaint at State Supreme Court on April 10, 2006, before he...
Nine out of ten back Olympic payment for bus workers
A survey of almost 3,000 London transport passengers conducted by independent researchers for Unite, has revealed that almost nine out of ten back bus...
Mass Protests All Over Palestine On Nakba Day
PALESTINIANS commemorated the 71st anniversary of the Nakba Day (May 15th – the Day of Catastrophe) in the occupied West Bank and the blockaded...
UCU strike ballot against vicious assault on members pensions
‘UCU (University and College Union) will be calling sustained strike action aimed at massively disrupting lectures, classes and the administrative life of your institution...
Privateers paid £2.3m to draw up massive cuts plan for...
PRIVATE firms have been paid a ‘shocking’ £2.3m to draw up controversial plans which will cut health and social care spending by more than...
Liberty Steel Crisis Worsens! Unions Oppose Job Cuts!
LIBERTY Steel crisis worsens, unions oppose massive job cuts and de-industrialisation, says IndustriALL. In over just few days, news of massive job cuts, of bankruptcy...
Bernie Sanders addresses packed ‘Save London Transport’ rally at the TUC
BERNIE SANDERS, US Senator for Vermont, addressed a packed ‘Save London’s Transport’ rally organised by the RMT railway workers union, at London’s TUC building...
Dr Marwan al Sultan targeted & killed by Israeli air strike
Dr Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, was killed on Wednesday when an Israeli airstrike targeted his home near the...
South Africa must follow the example of the Russian Revolution
IT IS time for the South African working class to follow the example of the Russian workers who overthrew not only the Tsar and...
COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA
MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...
BP under siege over oil spills and cover-ups
IT is reprehensible that neither the contractors nor BP seem to give a toss about these 430 workers who have been locked out but...
Pro-Palestine activities in US & UK campuses facing restrictions!
CONCERNS are rising over restrictions to free speech, academic inquiry, and student activism related to Palestine at universities across the UK. This trend has been...
Vote ‘NO!’ to NHS pay offer! – 6.5% increase over 3...
A CONSULTATION of NHS workers was launched at the Unison health conference in Brighton on Monday on the new ‘pay deal’. Unison members...
WE ARE DETERMINED TO OVERCOME THE CURRENT CHALLENGES! – says LTTE...
TAMILNET reports that the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) have stated that, with the people’s support, they will surmount all difficulties. In an interview with Tamilnet, the...
Prosecute Gorbachev For Ussr Break-Up!
WITH a view to possible action against former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of MPs representing both majority and opposition parties have asked...
Greek Workers Defy Riot Police And Condemn Merkel
OVER 60,000 workers and youth, in angry and militant mood, defied the riot police and demonstrated at a rally in front of the Vouli...
Release the Filton 24 Prisoners for Palestine!
JORDAN DEVLIN, one of six ‘Filton 24’ activists, retried by the Labour government for damaging a weapons factory run by Israeli company Elbit Systems,...
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance slams Saudi refusal to renew ceasefire
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has slammed the Saudi-led coalition for failing to renew the UN-brokered truce deal and deteriorating the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn...
‘One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Places For Trade Unionists’
A SHAM paramilitary demobilisation process, combined with thousands of cases of threats and killings and a chronic lack of investigations and prosecutions, makes Colombia...
Iran Remembers – 36 Years Since The Iran-Iraq War!
VARIOUS divisions of Iran’s Armed Forces are holding annual military parades on the first day of the Sacred Defence Week, which marks the 36th...
UN ISSUES HAITI RED ALERT –over cholera epidemic and tropical storm...
The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) said on Monday that Haitian authorities (the Direction de la Protection Civile – DPC) issued a...
US government workers win legal victory against Trump sackings!
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) scored a victory on Wednesday in its challenge to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from...
South Korean Strike Wave
A STRIKE wave is spreading across South Korea as workers in various industries fight in defence of their pay and conditions, while union membership...
200 years since the birth of Frederick Engels
TODAY is the 200th anniversary of the birth, on 28th November, 1820, of Frederick Engels, the closest collaborator, benefactor, friend and comrade of Karl...
LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE?’ TODAY Part 3: A Programme of Action...
THE election results from May 6th in Greece and France show that the working class will use every opportunity to fight against paying for...
Swazi Nurses & Teachers Taking Action!
IT seems an official nurses’ strike is looming in Swaziland after the union called a special urgent meeting scheduled for today. The meeting is...
The Israeli regime ramps up its aggression in occupied West Bank!
THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...
Brighton University Strike Action!
STAFF at the University of Brighton have called a series of strikes over an all round attack on teaching staff, downgrading some and sacking...
French Anti-Terror Laws ‘Misused To Curb Peaceful Protest’ Finds Amnesty!
FRENCH state powers designed to combat terrorism have been repeatedly misused to curb peaceful protest, a new report from Amnesty International has found. A right...
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,...
California State University students on hunger strike against Israel’s blockade of...
More than 30 California State University (CSU) students are on a hunger strike to protest against Israel’s blockade of food and water going into Gaza,...
The 200 Palestinians freed on Saturday represent the unity of Palestinian...
By Nahid Poureisa, an Iranian analyst and academic researcher focused on West Asia and China ‘A total of 200 Palestinian abductees, including 121 serving life sentences, were...
‘You are sending a message that you are not taking it...
OVER 500 SERCO strikers and their supporters marched through East London on Saturday demanding 30p an hour wage increase. What do we want? A pay...
‘Gaza is suffering from industrial scale savagery!’ says Palestinian Ambassador
The first speaker at the Downing Street rally, Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, said: ‘Thank you for showing you will not relent...
END IMPUNITY FOR ISRAEL’S VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW! – urge leaders...
THE leaders of South Africa, Malaysia and Colombia have penned a joint article calling for an end to impunity for Israel’s violations of international...
In Gaza a day without electricity is no longer an exception,...
Across the length and breadth of the Gaza Strip, from food distribution points to water filling stations and basic services, the scene of long...
52 Years Since Arafat Launched First Operation Against Israeli Occupation
PALESTINIANS yesterday marked 52 years since the launch of the revolution against the Israeli occupation and the first military operation. Fatah, which launched the...
French workers demand a Gaza ceasefire!
WORKERS and youth throughout France are demonstrating today for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a call by the CGT trade union federation. A union statement...
How Israel Militarised Gaza’s Aid!
BACKED by both the US and Israel, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was introduced by the Trump administration as a ‘humanitarian’ mechanism for food...
Shelling of Donetsk school ‘a blatant violation of international law’
MOSCOW authorities have said that they view Kiev’s shelling of a school in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk as a blatant violation of...
Doctors Still Expected To Care For Covid-19 Patients With Little Or...
Despite repeated assurances by the government for over a week that millions of units of protective equipment have been delivered to the front line,...
NEW ZEALAND WORKERS END ZERO-HOUR CONTRACTS AT McDONALD’S
NEW ZEALAND’S Unite Union reached an agreement with McDonald’s last week over ending zero hour contracts and other issues in dispute with the company. ‘This...
Palestinian workers and youth are on the march
DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...