South Africa’s Steel Workers Take Indefinite Strike Action!
SOUTH African workers – members of the Numsa trade union in the steel and engineering sectors have embarked on an indefinite strike – recalling...
Shocking Impact Of Freezing School Funding And Cuts!
AS the Tory government freezes school funding, a National Union of Teachers (NUT) survey shows the shocking impact of cuts so far. A survey of...
South African engineering union NUMSA calls for ‘United Front’ to fight...
SOUTH AFRICAN engineering union Numsa is calling for the building of a new ‘United Front’ to fight for socialism in a strongly worded statement...
MI6 assumed power to break the law on UK soil
MI6 unilaterally assumed power to break the law on UK soil, a tribunal has found. At the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Wednesday, it was revealed...
THE BATTLE AT THE BMA’s ANNUAL REPRESENTATIVE MEETING
THE British Medical Association (BMA) leadership had a plan for the 2007 Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Torquay last week. They wanted to push through...
No Cuts In Medicare To Finance Tpp Deal!
A DIFFICULT road for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in the House of Representatives got much worse on Monday, when trade unions and pensioners...
‘Working class must follow example of October 1917’
A POWERFUL News Line 47th Anniversary and 76th Anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s Assassination Rally, with 200 workers, students and youth in attendance, was held...
‘Ultimate victory belongs to the resistance’ declares Tehran rally
The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has confirmed the assassination of its secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in massive Israeli airstrikes targeting residential buildings in southern...
Blacklisted workers launch claim against McAlpine
A group of blacklisted workers in the UK has launched a High Court claim against construction giant Sir Robert McAlpine which could potentially be...
Barnet families denounce mass evictions
TENANTS facing eviction from their homes in Sweets Way Estate in Barnet, north London, were joined by their recently evicted former neighbours on Sunday...
‘Catastrophic crisis’ in teaching doctors of the future – as UK...
THE FALL in early-career clinical academic numbers shows severe structural crisis, warns the British Medical Association. The doctors’ union was responding to the results of...
‘CALL A GENERAL STRIKE RIGHT NOW!’ Young Socialists tell the TUC
THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth on Sunday to clamorous demands for an indefinite General Strike to bring down the government. After last year’s vote...
Campaign For A Trade Union Boycott Of Israel Growing Fast
THE Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadidah on 2 June praised the decision of the UCU trade union to discuss in every one of...
Israel cuts electricity supplies to Gaza while the UN is to...
AFTER Israel decided to drastically cut electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory, Robert Piper,...
‘THIS IS A WORTHLESS AND FALSE PARLIAMENT’ – Iraqi puppets administer...
the Accountability and Justice Law is a ‘worthless’ piece of paper, approved by a ‘worthless and false parliament’, a ‘Ba’ath party spokesman’ in Iraq...
EGYPT AND JORDAN REJECT ISRAEL’S DEMANDS – to establish new borders
Egypt and Jordan on Sunday announced their rejection of the Israeli government’s unilateral plan to demarcate the borders of the Jewish state inside the...
‘Ceasefire the pinnacle of humiliation imposed on the Zionist regime’
The commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has lauded the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas...
Russia focussing on the liberation of the Donbass
RUSSIAN Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow has completed the main objectives of the first phase of the special military operation in Ukraine and...
60 years since the Aberfan coal tip disaster!
THE 21st October marks the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster in the valley of the Taff south Wales. On 21st October 1966, with...
Commute Iraq death sentences – urges Amnesty
THE IRAQI authorities executed 12 people last Sunday according to information received by Amnesty International, which has called for all death sentences to be...
PENTAGON IS BUILDING MISSILE DEFENCE RADAR STATIONS IN QATAR – in...
THE Pentagon is building a missile defence radar station at a covert location in Qatar, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The site will...
Amnesty report reveals the brutal crackdown on the Palestinians
IN a detailed report released by Amnesty International, the organisation has shed light on a dramatic increase in the deployment of unlawful lethal force...
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...
24/7 Alliance Is Fighting Pay And Public Service Cuts
THE 24/7 Alliance launched a DVD yesterday morning in Dublin to argue its case against further cutbacks in pay, operational conditions and...
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...
11,000 Residents & Supporters Join Grenfell Silent Walk
MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...
40,000 Boys And Girls Working In The Mines Of The Republic...
AMNESTY International has accused Apple, Samsung and Sony, among others, of failing to do basic checks to ensure minerals used in their products are...
Syria’s rightful sovereignty over Golan recognised by UN
THE UN General Assembly has again voted by majority to recognise Syria’s rightful sovereignty over the occupied Golan, and on considering all the measures...
‘The Zionist Project Is Coming To An End – We Are...
‘The Zionist project is coming to an end; we are freeing Palestine inch by inch, foot by foot,’ a defiant Hamas representative told a...
STOP REMPLOY CLOSURE PROGRAMME – says All Party Group of MPs
THE trade union campaign to reverse the closure of 43 Remploy factories received a significant boost when the All Party Group of MPs published...
Walmart Workers Continuing With Their Fight!
AMERICAN trade unions are claiming that the giant Walmart company is retaliating against its workers for the leading role they have played in the...
Israel Gives Green Light To Settlers To Evict Palestinians
Israeli settler organisations have been given the green light by the Israeli government to take over a number of East Jerusalem homes belonging to...
‘No such thing as a free lunch’ BofE warns furlough scheme...
DEPUTY governor of the Bank of England Ben Broadbent said this week that ‘resilient’ household spending has been ‘funded by tomorrow’s taxpayers’ – in...
Patients are dying in corridors – a desperate situation for nursing...
Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, shocking new testimony from nursing staff revealed on Thursday. A survey of NHS nursing...
Red Cross Condemns Sri Lanka Shelling Of Wounded And Sick
TamilNet reports the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), in a statement issued from Colombo on Sunday, expressed shock at the shelling...
MURSI SNUGGLES UP TO HAGEL – who commits to £1billion of...
IN talks with US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, President Mursi on Wednesday reaffirmed Cairo’s commitment to its peace treaty with Israel and voiced appreciation...
Far Reaching Changes To Be Imposed On The NHS
THE Blair government is trying to impose ‘far-reaching changes’ to the NHS – without any real consultation with the public. That is the finding...
US approves $125m sale of missiles to Lithuania – Putin slams...
THE US State Department has approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Lithuania in a $125 million deal amid escalating tensions between Russia...
East End Suffragettes – revealed for first time in 100...
East End Suffragettes: the photographs of Norah Smyth 2 November-9 February 2019 Tues-Sat: 11.00-18.00 daily Admission free EAST End Suffragette photos from 100 years ago, are revealed, for...
Lobbying Act will have a devastating effect on unions
TRADE union leaders were silent on proposing any action on Thursday despite a vote taken in the House of Lords on Tuesday being a...
A Thousand Workers Rally To Support Billboard Strikers
OVER a thousand workers in the Massachusetts labour movement rallied for 27 striking Clear Channel Billboard Workers on April 19th. Present at the rally...
Starbucks Workers Fight Victimisations!
Starbucks the coffee chain has brought back founder Howard Schultz to lead the effort to defeat a union drive that is still spreading across...
‘There must not be any cooperation between Volkswagon and yellow unions’...
THE head of the German union (IG Metall) representing automotive workers has spoken out against Volkswagen working with anti-labour groups at its plant in...
54 student halls of residence wrapped in same cladding as Grenfell...
AS A FRESH year of students start at their new universities, it has come to light that fifty-four student halls of residence tower blocks...
RIGHT TO RETURN IS CENTRAL TO FINAL STATUS – Palestinian factions...
The following letter was presented to President Mahmud Abbas’s office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organisations on Wednesday September 24, 2008, the Badil Resource...