Israel Assassinates Palestinian Childhood
THE ISRAELI occupation authorities have transformed the images of joy, play and education that should be the norm for Palestinian children into a shocking...
European strike wave against austerity
WORKERS throughout Europe are taking strike actions against austerity measures in defence of their jobs, pay, pensions and public services. Following last month’s rail,...
CHAGOS ISLANDERS MAY WIN BACK THE RIGHT TO RETURN says Royal...
The Foreign Secretary was asked to consider alternative options when deciding the best strategy for the protection of the Chagos Archipelago, and the return...
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK – Working Lives & Trade Unions...
All in a Day’s Work Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945-1995 Published by the Britain at Work Project £12.80 with p&p ALL in a Day’s...
Junior doctors’ strike escalates
‘WE ARE not striking for cash, we are not striking for our personal careers, we are striking for the long-term sustainability of the NHS...
‘WE WANT FREE MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE GAZA STRIP AND WEST...
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Minister of Civil Affairs, Mohammad Dahlan has revealed a plan regarding the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Dahlan, who also heads the...
DON’T PRIVATISE THE EAST LONDON LINE! – rail unions tell Livingstone
RAIL UNION leaders took the campaign against the privatisation of the East London Line to commuters yesterday. RMT general secretary Bob Crow, TSSA assistant general...
‘WE DON’T WANT OUR DETAILS ON ANY DATABASE’ – public tell...
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s claim that people ‘just can’t wait’ to get ID cards has been rubbished by campaign group NO2ID. NO2ID national coordinator Phil...
Marks & Spencer veto pay rise for RMT members at DHL
RMT MEMBERS at DHL’s Neasden depot, supply chain partners of Marks and Spencer’s, will strike again for 24 hours this Friday and Monday in...
NATO’S LIBYA POST-GADAFFI – MURDER, TORTURE AND ILLEGAL DETENTIONS – says...
TORTURE continues to be widespread in Libya’s detention centres, according to a United Nations (UN) report released today. The report, ‘Torture and Deaths in Detention...
Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers Kept Out Of Tuc Congress
CRIES of ‘TUC, let us in!’ rang out from locked out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters outside the TUC Conference in Brighton on...
Mass Demonstrations Continue In Haiti
MASS demonstrations continued in Haiti on Xmas eve demanding the resignation of President Michel Martelly and that elections be held. The Haitian parliament’s mandate runs...
Socialist Workers Party voted for postal Interim Agreement – Letter from...
The Interim Agreement (I.A.), brokered by Brendan Barber of the TUC, between Royal Mail and the CWU, has allowed Royal Mail to press ahead...
Royal Mail Moves To Slash Pensions And Mail Centres
Communication Workers Union members are angry that Royal Mail Group has taken Executive Action to replace postal workers’ final salary scheme with an inferior...
‘We want justice for myself and my family’ – Mohammed Abdul...
THE anger of the local community against the police raid in Forest Gate on June 2 burst onto the streets of Newham, east London,...
‘THERE WILL BE AN EVEN WORSE DISASTER THAN THE MARCHIONESS’! –if...
THE Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), the Marchioness Action Group and others demonstrated on Tuesday against the lowering of age and training standards...
Walmart strike wave in USA
This week has seen the biggest strike wave of low-paid retail workers at Walmart in the US – the first-ever strike in the 50-year...
200,000 March On Israeli Embassy
OVER 200,000 people joined the largest-ever demonstration in Britain in support of the Palestinian people, when they marched in London on Saturday. About 10,000 people...
Delphi postpones ‘motion for rejection of collective bargaining agreements’
US autoworkers union (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker, who directs the union’s General Motors and Delphi departments, yesterday issued...
BOYCOTT LONDON MET – urges UCU lecturers’ union following derecognition threat
ANGRY lecturers at London Metropolitan University (London Met) are expected to vote to strike in a ballot starting next week, to demand that the...
Unilever Workers Defending Their Pension
Last Tuesday Unilever workers from all over the country descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the companies ending of their final salary pension...
‘GET THE TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN!’ – demand 10,000 marchers
OVER 10,000 people marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday demanding the withdrawal of the British Army from Afghanistan. At the...
‘THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE NHS’ – Junior doctors...
ANGRY Junior Doctors and their supporters held a vigil on Thursday outside a meeting of the House of Commons health committee which is...
UNISON delegates determined to organise coordinated industrial action
DELEGATES at the UNISON National Delegate Conference in Brighton on Thursday forced a debate on Friday on coordinated action over soon-to-be prime minister Brown’s...
Bush Moves To Evict Working Class From New Orleans
‘It is beyond callous, and can only be seen as malicious discrimination. It is an unabashed attempt to eliminate the black population of New...
WOODLEY INSULTS SACKED GATE GOURMET WORKERS – says they are ‘vulnerable’...
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were accused by TGWU General Secretary Tony Woodley in his speech to delegates on the opening day of their union’s...
10,000 Marchers Force Police To Lift Ban
TEN thousand people forced the police to retreat from their stated position that a march on parliament would be illegal, and that they would...
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...
SEIU and Teamsters quit AFL-CIO
American trade unions, SEIU and the Teamsters have disaffiliated from the national AFL-CIO confederation, and four major unions – the Teamsters, Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE...
UFCW exposes ICE terror raids on workers
THE UFCW US trade union has reacted strongly against the mistreatment of migrant workers during US government raids where they have been illegally...
Stop the routine strip searching of children in English and Welsh...
CHILDREN are routinely strip-searched in child prisons and secure children’s homes in England and Wales despite the government’s pledge to stop, says Carolyne...
Greek Riot Police Attack Ship Repair Workers
GREEK armed riot police viciously attacked with clubs, smoke and lightning bombs and toxic tear gas grenades about 800 protesting ship repair workers last...
RELEASE NAZMUL HUDA! – first journalist to report on the Rana...
REPORTERS Without Borders (RSF) call for the immediate release of Nazmul Huda, a reporter who was arrested on 24 December 2016 because of his...
NO WORKER CAN BE JAILED FOR GOING ON STRIKE! – say...
AN Alexandria misdemeanors court on Sunday overturned jail sentences for five workers from the Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Company. The court had sentenced the...
‘We will never let imperialist powers destroy Syria’ – say Syrian...
‘We’re here, the Syrian community, at this protest organised by Syrian Youth in Britain,’ Danny Makki, one of over 60 mainly young people outside...
SECOND IRAQ INQUIRY – into claims of murder & torture after...
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Defence announced in Parliament the establishment of a public inquiry into the incident of alleged mistreatment...
TRADE UNIONISTS MURDERED FOR DEFENDING WORKERS’ RIGHTS – ICFTU report
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEEN trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested,...
Literacy rate in Palestine one of highest in the world
On the occasion of International Literacy Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published a report last week on the illiteracy rate in...
‘THESE CUTS WILL HIT THE POOREST IN CAMDEN’ – says Camden...
Over three hundred angry Camden trade unionists and residents lobbied the Town Hall last Wednesday night over suddenly announced plans to cut services. The Tory-Liberal...
4 MILLION DISPLACED IRAQIS – international help ‘seriously inadequate’
The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, Amnesty International said in its report ‘Millions in Flight’, published yesterday. Help from the international...
Islamic terrorists attack Libyan towns & oilfields
IN their boldest move so far, supporters of the Islamic State in Sirte appear to have extended their hold over the town, seizing its...
LONDON COLLEGES MARCH TO DEFEND EDUCATION – London Met cuts the...
Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their supporters marched through north London on Saturday in defence of education.Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their...
NATIONALISE THE BUSES! – demand London bus strikers
‘THE BUSES should be renationalised. They should put the companies under one name then everybody will have the same rights,’ Unite member Michael Wood...
Unite investigating union officials collaboration with blacklisters!
CLAIMS that trade union officials collaborated with the blacklisters of the Consulting Association are being investigated by Unite. The union has launched an inquiry into...
UCU SLAMS PLANS TO AXE DEGREE FUNDING – adults and part-time...
Government plans to axe degree funding for certain students contradict its own lifelong learning agenda and will hit universities offering courses to adults and...