Australian Unions Fight For Workers’ Rights
The UNI Communicators Forum, attended by union communicators from across the globe, has received a report on Australia’s unions’ battle for the rights of...
1.2 million French workers take to the streets
‘DESPITE the measures taken by the government to try to support the idea that ‘the page on retirement’ is turned, over 1.2 million workers...
10,000 Junior Doctors And Supporters March To Downing Street!
‘SAVE our NHS! Jeremy Hunt doesn’t care! Doctors and teachers unite and fight!’ shouted junior doctors, teachers and their supporters on a 10,000-strong march...
Offshore workers North Sea strike
OFFSHORE union RMT along with Unite and GMB on Tuesday issued notice of strike action by offshore members employed with North Sea contractors Ponticelli...
Bectu Members At Picturehouse Begin Nine Days Of Strike Action!
BECTU members campaigning for the Living Wage at the Picturehouse circuit began nine days of strike action on Wednesday, 4th October, which coincided with...
Palestinian teenagers shot dead by Israelis
ISRAELI soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager at Mazmoria checkpoint, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday afternoon – only a few hours after...
‘HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITALS!’ – demand campaigners marching on Downing Street
‘JEREMY Hunt hear us say, NHS is here to stay!’ and ‘One fight – we are all united!’ chanted campaigners fighting to save A&Es...
French policy responsible for terrorist killings in Syria says Assad
‘THE policy of France, that started from day one, to support the terrorists in Syria, is responsible directly for the killings in our country,’...
‘THIS CRIME WILL NOT BE COVERED UP’ – Greek General Strike...
TENS of thousands of workers with their families, students and youth demonstrated throughout Greece on Sunday against the government of K Mitsotakis whom they...
‘THE RESISTANCE MEN ARE MAKING MIRACLES’ – 60 Merkava tanks destroyed...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday that the ‘resistance’ men are making miracles in the south, noting that over 60 Israeli Merkava tanks and...
4,000 workers & youth mark 7th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower...
OVER 4,000 workers youth and local residents came to Ladbroke Grove in west London on Friday to mark the 7th anniversary of the Grenfell...
Israeli Settlers Burn Farmlands!
RESIDENTS of Huwwara village, south of Nablus, reported on Thursday that Israeli settlers had set dozens of dunums of farm lands on fire, destroying...
SSANGYONG WORKERS APPEAL FOR SUPPORT –under massive paramilitary attack
STOP Brutal Raid against the Ssangyong Motor Workers! Our Union Members’ Lives are at Stake! TODAY company goons ripped apart the shelters of solidarity supporters encamped...
‘ . . . I Heard Baha Mousa Screaming ‘oh My...
Statement by RABINDER SINGH QC to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry RABINDER Singh QC has delivered his opening statement to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry,...
NUMSA defends the Bolivarian revolution! – stop coup attempts in Venezuela
STOP coup attempts against Maduro in Venezuela! says National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) general secretary Irvin Jim. A statement issued on Sunday:...
COSATU & CWU march in support of striking SABC & SAPO...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliate, the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) marched to the Treasury’s Head Office in Tshwane...
Tens Of Thousands March In Tehran Denouncing The Israeli Military Assault...
Thousands of people in the Iranian capital, Tehran, staged a demonstration on Tuesday to express their support for the Palestinians and denounce the Israeli...
Report Alleges Orange Participates In Violations Of Palestinian Rights!
THE global telecom company Orange participates in systematic violations of Palestinian rights, according to an investigation published this week by a coalition of French...
Aussie Journalist Oakes Will Not Be Prosecuted!
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP have confirmed that ABC journalist Dan Oakes will not be prosecuted over his reporting on alleged war crimes carried out...
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...
Chagos Islanders Will Fight Until Victory!
TWO hundred Chagos Islanders and their supporters demonstrated in London on Monday, demanding their right to return home after 40 years of exile imposed...
UK MILITARY CHIEFS SCREAM FOR MORE MONEY – and plan to...
UK military chiefs are screaming for more money to be spent on defence, as a desperate imperialism is driven to launch more wars for...
‘Day Of Rage Is The Beginning Of A Mass Uprising Against...
PALESTINIAN factions rallied and protested throughout the occupied Palestinian territories on Tuesday against the latest US position that claims Israeli settlements are not inconsistent...
No Room For The Chagos Islanders At ‘Let Them Return’ Launch
THE UP-to 2,000 Chagossians who live in Crawley have been shocked to hear that their representatives have been barred from attending the launch of...
New Zealand Junior Doctors On 48-Hour Strike
JUST over 3,200 of New Zealand’s 3,500 junior doctors began 48-hour strike action at 7.00am yesterday morning. The New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) members...
MPs rattled by phone hacking crisis! – PART 2: Privileges Committee...
TOM Watson, (West Bromwich East Labour MP, told the House of Commons: ‘Anyone can have their phone tapped by the newspapers, and they do. He...
IMPERIALISM PLANS MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST LIBYA – warns Algerian President
THE El-Khabar newspaper in Algeria has reported on the preparations of imperialist countries to launch a military campaign against Islamist militias in Libya. It states:...
US Admits To Holding Talks With Insurgents
The outgoing US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has admitted for first time to holding talks with insurgent leaders. Meanwhile bomb attacks killed five...
17,070 Disabled People Have Died Before Receiving One Penny In Benefits!
IT NOW takes so long for claims to be processed that 17,070 disabled people have died before receiving a penny because they were still...
Tshwane bus workers strike gridlocks city centre
SOUTH Africa’s administrative capital Tshwane (Pretoria) was gridlocked for a second day on Tuesday as bus drivers disabled their vehicles and the City insisted...
I‘LL GO TO JAIL’ – Rather than pay Household Tax
THE Dublin Trades Council has declared that it is not the job of local authority workers to knock on doors in pursuit of the...
SUCCESSFUL NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY Rally marks 44 years of the paper...
‘WE ARE celebrating 44 years of the daily Trotskyist paper that fights for a revolutionary leadership that does not bend, capitulate or collapse at...
END PRIVATISATION AND DE-REGULATION – renationalise Bus Sevices
PRIOR to the deregulation of the buses in 1985-86 many important decisions concerning our bus services were decided by the Traffic Commissioners and local...
PROTECT OUR TRAINING, PROTECT OUR NHS! – Doctors march against MTAS
Over 12,000 junior doctors and supporters, including medical students, registrars and a number of consultants, marched through central London last Saturday against government ‘reforms’...
Fast-food workers in 300 US cities striking on Labor Day
LOCAL Miami cooks and cashiers from McDonald’s, Burger King and other restaurants announced they are walking off the job on America’s Labor Day, today,...
Halt ‘serious violations of Palestinian Human Rights’ – says UN
THE United Nations has called on Israel to halt a series of serious violations of the Palestinian people’s human rights cited by a 2009...
Teachers’ Unions Slam Coalition League Tables
TEACHERS’ unions on Thursday slammed the latest publication of school league tables as part of a continuing attack on schools and teachers. Chris Keates, general...
UK ‘Practising Deliberate Policy Of Destitution’ Of Asylum Seekers
‘The government has indeed been practising a deliberate policy of destitution’ of vulnerable asylum seekers, say MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee...
South Korea’s MBC on strike – joins 1,130 KBS producers
WORKERS at the South Korean broadcaster MBC go on strike from Monday joining 1,130 KBS producers who stopped working on Thursday. They are calling for...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part one: ‘A people...
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million...
EU SUPPORTS PALESTINIAN UNITY! – while Netanyahu is to annex 19...
PALESTINE''S ambassador to the European Union, Abdel Rahim al-Farra said on Thursday that EU officials had informed him that financial support to the Palestinian...
Trump signs executive order ending collective bargaining for government employees involved...
US President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late on Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at ending...
May Day Message From The Iraqi Trade Unions
ON this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and...
Rights groups condemn Turkey crackdown on mass protests
THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and 14 other rights organisations are alarmed by the recent escalation in the Turkish government’s crackdown on freedom...
A victory for protection of freedom of the press
EVERY JOURNALIST welcomes the judgement of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal published Monday December 17, which ruled that the former PSNI (Police Service of Northern...