PCS Members Call For National Action Against Privatisation
FULL-TIME civil service union officer Andrew Lloyd has issued a response to Permanent Secretary David Bell over the compulsory transfer of support staff to...
Fight against anti-union ‘right-to-work’ legislation is critical for US workers –...
AS working people in the US are gearing up to get out and vote in mid-term Congressional and state elections on November 4, AFL-CIO...
‘OUR TASK IS TO FIGHT ALL CUTS’ – says PCS NEC...
STRIKING PCS members in Harrow, north-west London, staged pickets at the Land Registry, the local Jobcentre, Harrow Magistrates and Harrow Crown Court from early...
Millions turn out for Tuesday’s pension strike in France
MILLIONS of workers and youth took part in the first of two new mass strikes and demonstrations in France on Tuesday in opposition to...
OAXACA TEACHERS BLOCK ‘REFORMS’ – ‘a mechanism for privatisation’
TEACHERS in Oaxaca, Mexico, have taken their fight against their government’s punitive ‘education reform’ to a new level this month, with highly visible actions...
PCS ‘serious concerns’ over privatisation of government helpline – and RMT...
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka has written to home secretary Theresa May to highlight serious concerns over the privatisation of a government helpline and...
EU 3 call emergency meeting of the IAEA– while Putin warns...
BRITAIN, France and Germany are to call an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, (the IAEA) early next month to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme, the...
END LOW PAY – END POLICE OPPRESSION – demand US May...
THE unity of the struggles of workers and youth across the USA was expressed last Friday in May Day demonstrations and rallies across the...
US casualties in Iraq ‘unacceptable’ – say 75 per cent of...
A US Humvee was destroyed when an explosive charge went off on Wednesday near a US forces convoy in the Al-Rustamiyah area, southeast of...
Kellogg factory will be ‘delivered to workers’ says Venezuelan President Maduro
AHEAD of this Sunday’s presidential election, the Venezuelan government has called on workers to occupy the Kellogg factory in Maracay after the firm announced...
NO JOBS FOR STUDENTS! – NUS warns of ‘disastrous’ summer
THE National Union of Students (NUS) has expressed alarm at the rapid rise in youth unemployment, warning that the chances of students getting summer...
OCCUPATIONS AND NATIONAL ACTION TO SAVE NHS – calls Enfield conference
‘NATIONAL Action is needed to defend the NHS & stop hospital closures!’ was the title of the resolution that was carried unanimously at a...
Msf Evacuating Staff From Hospitals In Saada And Hajjah Provinces
FOLLOWING the 15th August aerial bombing of Abs Hospital in Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate, which killed 19 people and injured 24, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without...
‘We Have To Take The Fight To The Government – Bring...
AFTER the successful lobby of the TUC in Brighton on Sunday, the Young Socialists held a meeting at 5.00pm of 100 youth and workers...
August 21 – Felixstowe Port is to come to a standstill...
THE most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout. This is after after pay talks broke...
Victory to Iran! Smash imperialism now! – tens of thousands march...
TENS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched through central London from Millbank to the American Embassy in Vauxhall on Saturday afternoon in...
Pharmacists and air traffic controllers on strike for pay in Italy
On Thursday, more than 60,000 private pharmacy workers in Italy stage a 24-hour national strike to demand higher wages and the renewal of the...
JUSTICE FOR GAZA! –demand Jewish Holocaust survivors
Jewish Holocaust survivors from around the world call for justice in Gaza. Forty Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and 287 descendants of survivors and...
Rouhani Ready For ‘Serious And Substantive Talks’ With The West
NEW Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed his country’s readiness to engage in ‘serious and substantive talks’ with the West over Iran’s nuclear issue. Rouhani...
‘No To Slavery – We Are Workers’
OVER 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters rallied at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords, from 11am to 1pm on Sunday. The...
500 Turkish organisations representing tens of millions pledge support for Gaza-bound...
More than 500 Turkish organisations have pledged support for a new international maritime initiative aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade on Gaza, according to...
‘Israel directly supports the terrorist movements’ – says Syrian President Bashar...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has re-affirmed he will not step down, in an interview with Argentina’s Clarin newspaper and Telam news agency. President al-Assad...
Save Charing Cross A&E – anger over NHS cuts
THOUSANDS are marching through west London against hospital closures today, determined that Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing hospitals will not close. Today’s march...
Palestinians submit allegations of Israeli war crimes to International Criminal Court!
FOUR Palestinian human rights organisations on Wednesday submitted their fourth substantive communication to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), alleging that high-level...
EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL FEES JUDGED ILLEGAL! – ‘a brilliant and groundbreaking...
THE SUPREME Court ruling on Wednesday that the Tory-LibDem introduction of employment tribunal fees in 2013 was illegal is a shattering blow to the...
‘Our members remain ‘extremely angry’ says NUMSA leader Irvin Jim
TWO weeks into their strike, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), has rejected the latest wage offer in the metals and...
‘Today, Egypt witnesses the second wave of the great revolution’
the Centre for Trade Union and Workers’ Services (CTUWS) issued the following rallying call ahead of Egypt’s General Strike called for tomorrow, Saturday 11th...
Civil Service Unions ‘Outrage’ Over Redundancy Pay Cuts
The announcement of changes to civil service redundancy payments made today by the Cabinet Office is an outrageous breach of faith with the unions,...
Garment workers denounce wage structure in Dhaka and clash with police
GARMENT workers have flooded the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, this week, clashing with police and denouncing the new wages structure introduced on...
Saftu Urges Full Support For Bus Workers
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has come out in full support of the rejection of the latest offer from the employers...
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...
GAZA DEATH TOLL REACHES 117 – 13,000 injured, 300 still critical
Naji Maysara Ghneim, 23, died on Wednesday of wounds sustained a few days ago when hit by Israeli army gunfire east of Rafah in...
Turkish work-related fatalities highest in Europe–four a day!
A TOTAL of 21,800 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the country since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to...
Syrian army destroys terrorist hideouts in Idlib – as Russia accuses...
SYRIAN military forces are continuing to target terrorist hideouts in northwestern Syria where the government has been restraining its offensives based on a de-escalation...
SYRIAN VILLAGERS DRIVE OUT US MILITARY VEHICLES – as US planes...
SYRIANS in the villages of al-Qahira and al-Dushaisha – in Tal Tamir in Hasaka northern countryside – have intercepted US occupation force vehicles and...
RUSSIA, GERMANY & FRANCE SUPPORT 2015 IRAN DEAL – while the...
THE leaders of Russia, France and Germany have underscored the need to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, stressing their commitment to boosting...
Gaza’s child casualties are ‘the result of precise, targeted shootings’
ON THE morning of 24 August 2024, four-year-old Mira Al-Darini stood outside her family’s makeshift tent in a cramped displacement camp in Khan Younis,...
‘WE WILL COME OUT OF THIS FIGHT AS THE WINNERS!’ –...
TENS of thousands of Greek university and higher education college students from all over the country demonstrated last Saturday in the northern city of...
Israeli army attacks Syrian army positions near Golan Heights! –while Japan...
THE Government of Japan has signed a contribution agreement worth $22.4 million with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees...
IRAN MUST ATTEND ANY GENEVA CONFERENCE – insists Russia
SPEAKING in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said said on Thursday that the ‘international community’ has to decide with whom it will...
Palestinian teenagers seized in overnight raids
ISRAELI occupation forces arrested 13 Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids on Wednesday night – one of the arrests was south of Nablus,...
Shrimp farming in Bangladesh for $0.83 a day!
EVIDENCE of human rights and labour abuses taking place in the Bangladesh Shrimp industry is revealed in a report released on Thursday by the...
Sodexo Workers Lobby Paris Agm
As Sodexo shareholders gathered for their annual meeting last Monday in Paris, a delegation of the company’s employees and their unions from the UK,...
VICTORY TO THE GATE GOURMET LOCKED-OUT WORKERS – reinstate their hardship...
ON August 10 2005 Gate Gourmet locked out and dismissed over 760 workers in a pre-planned operation designed to secure the introduction of their...
‘KIDNAPPING, DETENTION TORTURE AND EXECUTIONS’ –by Syrian opposition groups, reports Human...
‘Armed opposition elements have carried out serious human rights abuses,’ Human Rights Watch said last week in a little-publicised public letter to the Syrian...