‘15 MILLION AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING’ – Machinists call for jobs...
THE president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) cited the unemployment numbers for the month of July as hard evidence...
The stark reality of growing up in poverty!
In June 2024, the charity Buttle UK concluded an extensive project to explore the lived experiences of children, young people, and families grappling with...
THE WAY OUT! – Negotiate with the Resistance, Punish the criminals!
The Brussels Tribunal and the International Anti-Occupation Network have issued the following statement on Iraq entitled ‘The Way Out’: ‘If the US military declare...
Armed intruders infiltrate mines in South Africa AMCU demands
THE SOUTH African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) says it is ‘wary of armed intruders accessing mines where its members work.’ AMCU has...
Remploy Workers Vote Overwhelmingly For Strike Action
‘WE now have the prospect of Remploy workers taking strike action to defend their jobs to avoid their certain destiny of being chucked on...
Afl-Cio Leader Trumka Quits Trump’s Manufacturing Council
ON SUNDAY August 13th AFL–CIO leader Richard Trumka made his initial statement on the Charlottesville clashes between neo-Nazis supported by the Ku Klux Klan...
‘A real blow is being prepared’ for public services in France...
‘BUDGET 2025: an austerity plan that doesn’t say its name!’ declared French trade union federation Force Ouvrière (FO) on Tuesday. A FO press statement said:...
Australian unions outraged at abuse of youth prisoners
SECRETARY of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Dave Oliver, has written a letter speaking out about the abuse of youth in a detention...
Napoleon Gomez returns!
INDUSTRIALL global union marked a historic moment as Mexican union leader, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, returned to his country after 12 years in exile to...
Zero-Hours Contracts Being Used To Cut Wages And Avoid Holiday Pay...
UNITE, Britain’s biggest union, says urgent action is needed to stop the growth of the zero-hours culture as new figures show the use of...
‘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...
US nurses strike over pay and condition
ABOUT 6,500 registered nurses staged a one-day strike in Tenet Health hospitals in Florida, California, and Arizona last Friday, demanding better working conditions and...
Iran rebuffs Israel’s use of Hitler’s ‘Big Lie’ technique
IRANIAN Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei says the Israeli media is running a campaign of fabricated stories regarding casualties in recent terrorist riots in...
20,000 Workers & Youth March To ‘Make It Right’ For Palestine!
OVER 20,000 workers and youth along with Palestinians living in the UK, marched through the streets of London on Saturday to ‘Make it Right...
Massive Kaiser Permanente strike action!
OVER 75,000 workers from various unions at healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente, have initiated a strike, making it the most significant work stoppage by healthcare...
TENS OF THOUSANDS CELEBRATE – after Palestinian membership bid is submitted...
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas waved to the crowd of tens of thousands during a celebration in Ramallah, upon his return from the UN General Assembly...
Moscow magistrates court fines Google three million roubles!
A MOSCOW magistrates court has fined US tech giant Google 3 million roubles ($31,800) for its failure to delete questionable information about the special...
Arab writers appeal to world
ARAB writers convening at the First Palestine Forum for the Arab Novel appealed on Wednesday to world governments to intervene to end the suffering...
SEVERE WATER SHORTAGES IN GAZA STRIP – Only 1 in 10...
THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that severe water shortages in the Gaza Strip have reached critical levels, with only one in...
Labour’s Social Care ‘Failing Older People’
‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman, said on Wednesday. He...
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...
ENTRANCES TO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA ARE BLOCKED! – after five...
Entrances leading up to the Unisa (University of South Africa) main campus in Muckleneuk, Pretoria are cordoned off with trees and vehicles this week,...
Iran calls for meeting of OIC member states on ending Gaza...
IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called for an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Committee on Palestine at the Parliamentary Union of the...
RESTORE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS – ACTU urges Rudd government
Turmoil in the global economy has increased the urgency for a fair and balanced industrial relations system, said Australian Council of Trade Unions (actu)...
‘STOP CODDLING ECONOMIC CRIMINALS’ – SAFTU tells South African Treasury
SAFTU (The South African Federation of Trades Unions) has called on the South African Treasury and the Reserve Bank to ‘stop coddling economic criminals...
Greek Public Sector Workers Strike! – Against Mass Sackings
GREEK public sector workers staged a one-day national strike last Tuesday against the government’s workers’ ‘evaluation’ schemes which are designed to lead to mass...
‘WE WON’T LET THE NHS BE BUTCHERED’ – doctors tell BMA...
‘I WANT to see you all out on April 10,’ London doctors’ leader Kevin O’Kane said on Thursday night, calling for a massive march...
Hospital funding crisis! – Restore NHS! – End privatisation
THERE is a huge funding crisis in the National Health Service (NHS). All over the country hospitals are being instructed to close wards and theatres...
While bills & rents soar US to spend $838.8bn on arms
THE devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout continue to take a toll on the world and provide ample reason to...
Overthrow the government, the troika and the Greek austerity accords
STATEMENT of the Ergatiki Antistasi (Workers Resistance), newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League (RML), Greek Section of the International Committee of the Fourth International. FOR...
Ford Workers In Uproar Over Healthcare Vote
UAW US motor workers trade union members have very narrowly ratified the health care agreement that the UAW has made with the Ford Motor...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
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...
‘Confessions coerced in case after case’ in Bahrain – says Human...
SECURITY services in Bahrain supported by the UK have been accused of ‘serious and persistent’ human rights abuses. A joint Human Rights Watch and Bahrain...
Croatian Serbs fight court battle to get homes back
The European Court of Human Rights is considering an important case for returning Croatian Serb refugees, says Amnesty International. The Grand Chamber of the...
China accuses NATO of provoking ‘new Cold War’
CHINA’S embassy in Brussels has warned NATO against dragging the planet towards a new Cold War through its ‘outdated security’ strategies. A spokesperson for the...
Iran destroys $700m US AWACS aircraft on runway
A senior Iranian military commander has warned that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) will deal ‘more crushing’ blows to the United States and...
2,500 US troops have already left Iraq says Iraqi Premier
THE Iraqi prime minister says as many as 2,500 US troops have left the country as part of agreements reached with Washington to enable...
South African firefighters demand payment for overtime!
Hundreds of members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) marched to the Cape Town Civic Centre to deliver a memorandum...
NUMSA condemns xenophobic attacks – calls for the unity of the...
SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma visited a refugee camp in the port city of Durban on Saturday after a fresh outbreak of anti-foreigner violence. Several...
Russian Right Wing Works To Split Medvedev From Putin
Putin’s attack on a mining company has given Medvedev a chance to show who’s boss, Russian Gazeta.ru news website said last weekend, looking to...
ILWU Longshore workers fight lock-out – and remember Bloody Thursday
LONGSHORE workers in Oregon and Washington are continuing their round-the-clock fight for a fair contract at grain terminals owned by some of the world’s...
AUSTERITY–• eroding workers rights • driving up unemployment says ILO report
In light of the new International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) ‘World at Work’ report the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is holding the world’s first...
UN condemns Saudi air strikes on the Yemen
THE United Nations has strongly condemned the latest Saudi airstrikes against Yemen in which at least 12 civilians, including children, were killed, stressing that...
Gadaffi fighters still holding Sirte
Fighters loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi mounted a fierce counter-attack in the city of Sirte on Saturday, forcing back the NATO-backed NTC counter-revolutionaries...