Government Fails To Meet The NEU’s Five Tests
OVER 1,200 members of the National Education Union (NEU) – all of whom are teachers who work in special school settings with children, many...
ATHENS: 40,000 MARCH – on 37th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising
OVER 40,000 students and workers demonstrated in Athens last Wednesday on the 37th anniversary of the Polytechnic students’ Uprising of November 17, 1973, which...
Menezes Family sidelined by Metropolitan Police Authority
MEMBERS of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) were today made aware of a complaint by The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign about...
Trade union members beaten by thugs in Bangladesh confectionary factory
THUGS, allegedly supplied by a labour contractor at Netherlands-based global confectioner Perfetti Van Melle’s factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, launched an organised attack on union...
University asbestos killer scandal
ALMOST two-thirds of universities in England have ‘potentially harmful’ asbestos in their campus buildings, a survey of top-ranking English universities has claimed. It also judged...
Demonstrators call for work stoppages over Ferguson repression
DEMONSTRATORS have called for the US unions to take strike action, in united action with the mass uprisings against the police which have spread...
‘WE ARE APPROACHING VICTORY’ – says Hamas leader Haniya
The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip vowed on Monday that the Palestinian resistance, backed by the population, would emerge victorious over Israel’s...
Numsa Pledges To Fight ‘jobs Bloodbath’
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) held a highly successful Central Committee meeting (CC) from Sunday the 11th to Wednesday the...
London Met Governors Must Resign Now!
HUNDREDS of students and lecturers demonstrated outside the meeting of the Board of Governors of London Metropolitan University on Tuesday night, demanding: ‘RESIGN NOW!’ Calling the demonstration,...
On International Day of the Midwife the RCN calls for a...
THE ROYAL College of Nurses (RCN) has taken the occasion of the International Day of the Midwife to demand a pay increase for all...
CEASEFIRE NOW! – Halt the massacre of the Palestinian and Lebanese...
‘MY TOWN has been demolished. Children are still under rubble. Families are still under rubble,’ said Najid Faqih, from Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, as...
Workload Is The Cause Of Teacher Shortage Crisis!
WORKLOAD is the key driver of the teacher shortage crisis, putting people off becoming teachers and compelling enthusiastic teachers to leave, according to a...
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution
UNITED NATIONS special rapporteur on torture, Professor Nils Melzer, held a Question and Answer session with the Foreign Press Association (FPA) last Friday, discussing...
Turkish Airlines Workers Continue Their Struggle
305 THY (Turkish Airlines) workers who were sacked because they rose against the banning of their strike action in the aviation industry by law,...
Yemen Facing Worst Ever Cholera Epidemic!
YEMEN is facing ‘the worst epidemic of cholera since records began’, a report from inside Yemen has warned. The Armed Conflict Location and Event...
Global action plan needed for worldwide nurse shortage!
A NEW report from the International Council of Nurses calls for a global action plan to address the ‘nursing workforce crisis and prevent an...
‘LEGAL AID DESERTS’ half of councils have no legal aid for...
OVER 50% of local authorities in England and Wales cannot provide publicly funded legal advice on housing issues, the Law Society warned yesterday as...
Violence Against Refugees On The Hungary-Serbia Border!
UN REFUGEE Agency UNHCR is concerned about Hungary’s new restrictive law, amid increased reports of violence, and a deterioration of the situation at border...
Over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners launch open-ended hunger strike
MORE THAN 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike on Monday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned...
Israeli Fighter Planes Attack Gaza
Fresh Israeli strikes bombed several sites in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, leaving at least 16 people injured – two in a critical condition,...
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...
Tea Factory Workers Step Up The Fight For Permanent Jobs
Supported by the IUF-affiliated National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan, over 700 contract agency workers at Unilever’s last directly-owned and...
Pakistani forces kill scores in Kashmir crackdown
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani paramilitary forces have killed at least 89 civilians in Pakistan-administered Kashmir since June, according to death records and first-hand accounts compiled...
Unions Condemn Budget As A ‘Provocation!’
Unions have condemned the Chancellor’s 2014 austerity Budget with Unison calling it a ‘clear provocation’, the NUT saying it was ‘more of the same’...
Guantanamo detainees suffering is ongoing says UN Special Rapporteur
THE first UN investigator allowed inside the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay said the 30 remaining detainees in the facility are facing ongoing,...
Youth organisations lead 150,000-strong march in Paris
A dozen youth organisations marched through Paris on Saturday afternoon against the government’s pension age hike from 62 to 64, following last Thursday’s mass demonstrations...
Resistance And Liberation Day In Lebanon
Hezbollah marked the tenth anniversary of the Resistance and Liberation Day on Tuesday at the Sayyed Al-Shouhada compound in Beirut’s southern suburb. Official, religious, military,...
Wandsworth traffic wardens – 2nd day of strike in pay battle
TRAFFIC wardens are into their second day of strike action today in an escalating struggle over pay and union rights. GMB the union which represents...
DETAINEES KILLED DURING INTERROGATION– American Civil Liberties Union accuses US military
US Operatives killed detainees during interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq, says the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU has just published an analysis of...
90% Of The Bedouins Were Expelled By Israel
THE killing of two Bedouin youths in southern Israel by police over the last fortnight has shocked the nation’s Palestinian community and has brought...
Obama sanctioned Merkel taps
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama was personally informed of phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002, German...
Barnado’s! Quit The Child Detention Business!
By Alida Alisis BACK in March, almost a year after the government had promised to end what Nick Clegg called the ‘shameful practice’ of locking...
Building Safety Bill ‘vitally flawed’ says FBU’s Wrack
MATT WRACK – the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) – has responded to the passing of the Building Safety Bill in...
Greek teachers strike against mass school closures
GREEK secondary school teachers, in a fighting and determined mood, began a national indefinite strike on Monday against mass school closures and sackings. A rally...
Russia to strengthen global role of Latin American countries
MOSCOW will continue supporting efforts to strengthen the global role of Latin America and individual countries in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
GP reforms ‘intended to facilitate’ privateers
Government ‘reforms’ to primary care have shifted professional control away from general practitioners and financial control away from government, argue senior doctors in this...
ISRAEL DEHUMANISING! Ben Deri sentenced for murdering unarmed Palestinian Nadeem Nuwara
IN RESPONSE to the sentencing of Israeli border policeman Ben Deri who murdered unarmed Palestinian teenager Nadeem Nuwara in cold blood on May 15th,...
‘OUR TIME HAS COME’ – Israel to double Golan settlements
‘OUR TIME has come’ said Israeli Premier Naftali Bennett on Sunday adding that the Tel Aviv regime intends to double the number of illegal...
Teachers Demand Strike Action To Stop Forced Academisation!
OVER 5,000 angry teachers marched in London on Wednesday night against the government’s plan to force state schools to become academies. Teachers chanted ‘Nicky Morgan...
US Fight Against Low Pay Goes Global!
WORKERS in more than 230 cities in the US walked out to join mass protests against poverty level pay last Wednesday in what is...
‘The eyes of the nation are on Houston!’
AS contract negotiations between local Houston janitors in Texas, USA and five national cleaning firms continue today, people of faith and conscience from around...
West Virginia Teachers Walk Off The Job!
TEACHERS across West Virginia walked off the job last Thursday and Friday amid a dispute over pay and benefits, causing more than 277,000 public...
US Losing New ‘Great Game’ In Central Asia
RUSSIAN experts on Afghanistan take a dim view of US ‘achievements’ in their military operations there. Experts believe that Central Asian countries as well...
Palestinian prisoners mobilise against Israeli repressions!
Palestinian political prisoners currently being held in Israeli detention have declared a state of general mobilisation against a new series of repressive measures by...
Nurses are working longer hours and above pay grades to deal...
A MAJOR Royal College of Nursing (RCN) survey has revealed how the pandemic has affected the professional lives of nursing staff. It shows, from...