South African workers march to defend healthcare benefits
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members marched to the offices of Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) in Bloemfontein on Monday,...
‘We’ve just replaced white capitalists with black capitalists’ – NUMSA...
THE working class and the poor have no good story to tell about how their lives have been changed for the better, National Union...
150,000 Workers March Through Athens
Trade unionists estimated that some 150,000 workers and youth participated in the two separate marches in Athens on Thursday. The GSEE (Greek TUC) stated that...
‘Virus Sweeping Through School System With Alarming Results!’
THE Coronavirus Infection Survey published by the Office for National Statistics has revealed the extent that the virus swept through the school system and...
‘WE WANT A FREE GOVERNMENT’ – Beirut demonstrations continue
Demonstrators remained camped near central Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square and on streets leading to the government’s headquarters on Saturday following Friday’s million-strong opposition protest, led by...
‘We call on Israel to lift the inhumane and deadly siege...
AS ISRAELI forces resume and expand their military offensive by air, ground and sea on the Gaza Strip, Palestine, forcibly displacing people and deliberately...
Israel is shutting down the Palestinian institutions
‘ISRAEL is attempting to erase Palestinian presence in Jerusalem by shutting more Palestinian institutions,’ Hanan Ashrawi, an Executive Committee member of the Palestine Liberation...
End The Ppp On The London Underground
TUBE passengers and taxpayers remain exposed to an unacceptable level of financial risk and could face another ten-figure bill if the Tubelines consortium were...
National Express ‘Extremely Vicious Towards It’s US Workers’
‘NATIONAL Express needs to step up to the plate and take responsibility for the activities being perpetrated in its name in America,’ Teamsters’ General...
Palestinian children welcomed in Venezuela
PALESTINIAN child victims of Israeli aggression are arriving in Venzuela to be house in shelters named Hugo Chavez after the former Venezuelan president, aimed...
‘THE POPULAR STRUGGLE WILL CONTINUE IN ITS FULL STRENGTH’ – 200...
ISRAELI police evicted dozens of Palestinian activists early Sunday from a first-of-its-kind protest camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for...
Ferry Crews Back Greek Farmers
Greek armed riot police repeatedly attacked with tear-gas and stun bombs 1,500 protesting farmers from Crete in the port of Piraeus...
Assad spends New Year with his soldiers
WITH the beginning of the New Year, President Bashar al-Assad visited army and popular defense forces on the firing lines of Jobar, in the...
Nationwide trade union protests across Australia March 4 – ‘Time to...
JOIN the national protests around the country on Wednesday 4 March 2015, urges Australia’s Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). The CPSU warns: ‘It’s not...
PAY THE ‘LIVING WAGE’! – GMB to demonstrate at NEXT’s AGM
THE GMB trade union will hold a public protest at the Annual General Meeting of NEXT in Leicester this Thursday, May15. They will call for...
Italian All-Out Strike!
A 24-HOUR general strike paralysed Italian towns and cities on Monday, while 127 Alitalia flights were cancelled and public transport ground to a halt. The...
British surgeon training Palestinian doctors in complex limb reconstruction
BY PETER OBORNE & JAN-PETER WESTAD From Middle East Eye TERENCE English is a celebrated British surgeon. In 1979 he performed the first successful heart...
Iuf Demands Trade Union Rights For Pearl Continental Workers
Not fit for print? On May 1st 2008, the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) sought to publish an open letter to the...
State Of Emergency Declared By Bolivian Unions! Statement By Bartolina Sisa...
‘The Bolivian trade union organisation Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and indigenous peoples organisations have ratified a state of emergency in the face of alleged...
‘WELCOME TO HELL’ ‘The Israeli prison system as a Network of...
‘WELCOME to Hell,’ is the title of a new report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem: ‘The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture...
Three million at risk of starvation in Yemen – UN report...
FOOD insecurity across Yemen is set to rise from two million to over three million in just six months, report UN agencies – who...
HUNT PROMOTING THE BIG DRUG COMPANIES – under the guise of...
TORY Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s claims that ‘we can truly be the generation that beats dementia’ is a smokescreen for promoting the big drug...
Zimbabwe trade unions ‘itching for mass action’ to be paid in...
THE OPPOSITION Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has joined forces with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to push for salaries in United...
KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN – as an acute District General Hospital
THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) has endorsed proposals to close Chase Farm Hospital as an acute District General Hospital (DGH). This is in order that...
Hamas Frees Political Prisoners
ISMAIL Haniya, the prime minister of the Hamas-run de facto government in Gaza, pledged to release all political prisoners on Thursday, and called on...
West Still Plotting Against Syria – Jaafari
THE WEST has plotted against Syria with the aim of changing the country’s stances, policies and national identity to serve a ‘New Middle East’...
Misuse of lecturers’ online recordings – UCU warns of disputes...
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has warned all UK colleges and universities that they may face industrial disputes if they misuse recorded lectures...
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...
Teachers and lecturers fighting mass sackings across the UK
STRIKING Shaftesbury School teachers are drawing increasing public support in their dispute over restructuring, as the Sherborne Area Schools Trust (SAST) refuses to come...
Aussie Food Workers Third Week On Strike
United Workers Union (UWU) members at the McCormick Foods manufacturing site in Clayton, south-east Melbourne, Australia, have just started their third week out on...
Thousands march in support of the Venezuelan government
VENEZUELA’s President Nicolas Maduro has urged the United States to discuss ‘peace and sovereignty’ in a high level commission mediated by the Union of...
Chagossians Demand Right To Return!
OVER 400 people attended the Chagos Islands Community Association rally in central London on Saturday evening, to demand the Chagossians’ right to return to...
Police Had Planned To Shoot The Marikana Miners
The lawyer George Bizos, who represents the families of the 34 Lonmin miners shot dead by the South African police, has said the police...
Bush Will Return In May To Celebrate The Founding Of Israel
ARAB states are demanding that the United States clarify the purpose of a planned return trip by US President George W Bush to Israel...
‘AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO ALL OF THE CUTS!’ – Theatre workers...
CLOSURE-THREATENED theatre companies are lobbying today’s meeting of the Arts Council in the Roundhouse in Camden, North West London today at 1.30pm, demanding a...
US SANCTIONS ON IRAN HAVE FAILED says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says, despite all the pressure exerted on the Iranian nation by the United States – especially through the imposition of...
GPs stopped from working due to Capita delays
NEWLY qualified GPs have been stopped from working for six months due to delays by the privateer Capita’s management of the National Performers List...
Syrian film wins award at ‘International Resistance Film Festival’
SYRIAN feature film ‘The Father’ has collected the Best Screenplay Award at the ending ceremony of the International Resistance Film Festival in Tehran. The...
38 people on Gambia’s death row face immediate execution
AT least 38 people still on death row in The Gambia are at imminent risk of execution following official confirmation that nine other death...
Workers, Students, Youth Discussing ‘Whither Egypt?’
The Pipeline in Egypt that supplies Israel with gas was bombed last Monday for the 13th time since the overthrow of former president Hosni...
Sacked Greek Cleaning Ladies Stand Firm For Nearly A Year
595 women cleaners of the Greek Ministry of Finance in Athens were sacked on 17 September 2013 and their jobs given to private contractors....
Rice Pledges Parallel Talks Ans Secret Diplomacy
THE Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas and the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice held a joint press conference in Ramallah last Sunday in the...
Minneapolis unions call general strike – force ICE agents out of...
A coalition of Minneapolis trade unions and community organisations is calling for a general strike to take place this coming Friday with the goal...
Seven unions fighting pensions rip-ofF
SEVEN unions held a joint demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday against the government’s imposed changes in the way they calculate...
US forces seize Venezuelan tanker in Indian Ocean!
THE US military boarded another tanker in the Indian Ocean carrying Venezuelan oil, the Pentagon has said, in the latest escalation of Washington’s sanctions enforcement...