Cardiff University intends to slash and burn 400 full-time jobs and...
CARDIFF University has announced that it intends to cut 400 full-time jobs, along with whole course closures and department mergers; with nursing, music and...
ELECTIONS MUST GO AHEAD – insist Hamas
Palestinian Islamic liberation movement Hamas has declared: ‘No to killing, banditry, and the policy of kidnapping foreigners’. In a statement posted on the Palestinian Information...
800 UK lawyers & 300 prominent French writers demand sanctions against...
MORE than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, have called on the UK government to impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its...
Director of Al-Shifa Hospital – held by Israel for seven months...
THE director of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, who had been detained by Israeli forces for more than seven months, says he was put through ‘severe...
76th anniversary of Nakba Day – 15th May 1948!
TODAY, May 15th, marks the 76th anniversary of Nakba, ‘the Catastrophe’, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land to...
TORY AUSTERITY POLICIES ARE DESTROYING THE NHS says the BMA
‘AUSTERITY-LED changes of the past decade have stirred up a “perfect storm”. The Government in England shifts responsibility for providing services from the centre...
‘THEY WERE ALL INNOCENT!’ – families welcome Saville Report
Families of the victims of Bloody Sunday on Tuesday addressed a crowd of thousands outside the Guildhall, Derry, and gave their reaction to the...
Teamsters Mobilising Against ‘Flawed Pensions Bill’
The US Senate could take up the so-called Pension Protection Act, H.R. 4, by today, warns the Teamsters union. A Teamsters statement said: ‘This bad...
Uaw Calls For Police Union To Be Expelled From Afl-Cio!
‘HISTORICALLY and contemporarily, police unions serve the interests of police forces as an arm of the state, and not the interests of police as...
Oppose BBC Pensions robbery!
‘Over the past few days the joint unions have held a number of packed meetings as part of our campaign to oppose the BBC’s...
Community Camp 4 Palestine support for hunger strikers
THE Community Camp 4 Palestine, opposite the US Embassy in south London, hosted a meeting to support the hunger strikers from Filton 24 on...
Strike wave across education against job and pay cuts
A STRIKE wave is set to hit schools, colleges and universities across the UK during the summer as teachers and lecturers vote overwhelmingly in...
‘Sunak wants to break our resolve – instead he has united...
Thousands of junior doctors are manning picket lines outside hospitals around the country again today as they continue their four days of strike action...
Privatisation of social care is a ‘ticking time-bomb’ – GMB
THE GMB Annual Conference, which opened in Brighton on Sunday and finishes today, warned that there is a ‘social care ticking timebomb’ ... with...
IHRA seeks to ‘silence criticism of Israel’
PALESTINIAN civil society groups issued a statement on Wednesday urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject the ‘biased, anti-Palestinian’ International...
Reverse NW London hospital closure plan – RE-OPEN MATERNITY AT EALING...
THE ‘deeply flawed’ decision to downgrade North West London hospitals must be halted, according to a report by Michael Mansfield QC. It warns that the...
CWU members challenge Hayes – at London meeting
‘This is an important fight, it will define the future of our members, whether we stay full or part time, or even employed at...
Two Years Since Israel’s Invasion Of Gaza!
SOME 900 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to require medical attention as a result of permanent disabilities they sustained during Israel’s devastating 51-day...
‘We support the call for a general strike’ – the RMT’s...
10,000 WORKERS, trade unionists and youth were on the London May Day March on Thursday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. The march was led...
Thousands march in Ontario for $15 minimum wage!
JUST nine days after the Ontario election, thousands flooded the streets outside the Ministry of Labour and marched to Queen’s Park on Saturday in...
Suffolk Council Rush To Sell Off Fire Control Centre
‘Without any prior public consultation, Suffolk county councillors have rushed through plans to sell-off the Ipswich fire control centre and get emergency fire calls...
Austerity driving up infant mortality
THE GAP in infant mortality rates between English local authorities narrowed between 1999-2010, but that trend has been reversed since 2011 as a result of...
Canadian Hospital Workers Threatened By Carillion Collapse
‘THE Ontario government must step in to protect hospital staff and the public in the Carillion bankruptcy,’ Canada’s largest private sector union, Unifor, demanded...
ZIMBABWE TEACHERS ON INDEFINITE STRIKE! – as ZCTU condemns power sharing...
SCHOOL exams in Zimbabwe should be cancelled because strike action by teachers has left pupils unprepared, a teaching union said on Tuesday. ‘For the record,...
‘TAKE OUT A WRIT AGAINST FORD’ –demand 500 ex-Visteon workers
500 sacked Visteon workers demonstrated outside the Unite London headquarters on Wednesday to demand the union immediately takes out a writ against Ford motor...
INDIA GIVES GO-AHEAD TO ‘ELIMINATE LTTE’ – claims Sri Lankan Premier
IN his recent addres to the Oxford Union, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa tried to assert, very unconvincingly, that he did not believe...
King’s unions & management disengage
KING’S College Hospital Foundation Trust (KCHFT) management has been accused by the Unite union of ‘racism, discrimination and bullying’ as staff-side joint partnership meetings...
ISLAND OF SHAME: The secret history of the US Military Base...
‘ABSOLUTELY must go!’ were the three words Admiral Elmo Zumwalt gave to US navy officials on Diego Garcia, concerned about the expulsion of Chagossians...
‘Plots and conspiracies are being hatched by the Israeli and US...
THE MEETING of the General Secretaries of the Palestinian Factions held last Friday in Ramallah and Beirut via video conference confirmed that our people,...
NO JOBS FOR STUDENTS! – NUS warns of ‘disastrous’ summer
THE National Union of Students (NUS) has expressed alarm at the rapid rise in youth unemployment, warning that the chances of students getting summer...
Over 700 Palestinians Have Been Displaced By Israeli Demolitions This Year!
ISRAELI forces detained early on Tuesday 10 more Palestinians, including four minors, from a number of West Bank districts, said Palestine Prisoners’ Society. Forces detained...
PLANS ‘TO LIMIT PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE AND PROTEST ARE UNACCEPTABLE’...
‘THE very best of America has come from imminent disturbance, and to limit people’s right to assemble and protest is both unacceptable and un-American,’...
Armed conflicts displace millions in Sudan and the DRC
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has raised alarms over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Dominique Hyde, UNHCR’s Director of External Relations,...
Britain’s Toxic Secret
By KYE GBANGBOLA ACROSS this country there are families suffering from living in proximity to contaminated land and polluted water.
The suffering varies, from birth defects,...
STOP THE WAR AGAINST THE TAMILS – urges mass demonstration
TAMILNET reports that the Indian High Commissioner in Mauritius last Friday rebuffed a memorandum from thousands of Mauritian Tamil demonstrators, requesting India stop the...
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...
Directors amassing pension pots worth an average £3.8 million says TUC...
DIRECTORS of the UK’s top companies have amassed pensions pots worth an average of £3.8 million, according to the new TUC PensionsWatch survey published...
Union leaders address UCU strike rally
UCU MEMBERS were out on strike on Wednesday with historic numbers this week over stagnant pay, miserable working conditions and casualisation of academic work. In...
NUMSA’s international tour to investigate forming a workers’ party
THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) has kicked off its year with study tours overseas to investigate the feasibility of forming a...
French Trade Unions March And Denounce Israel’s Atrocities Against The Palestinians...
AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...
RUSSIA, GERMANY & FRANCE SUPPORT 2015 IRAN DEAL – while the...
THE leaders of Russia, France and Germany have underscored the need to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, stressing their commitment to boosting...
Over 5,000 on London Palestine demonstration – mass march called for...
A MASS demonstration of more than 5,000 workers, students and youth continued throughout the evening from 6.00pm and into the night outside the Israeli...
‘Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal’ says...
‘EMOTIONALLY, we are not coping. Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal,’ was the view of hospital nurse Mosima Doreen Mabeba...
Following Veto US Pledges To Act Outside The Security Council
RUSSIA and China on Thursday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that threatened sanctions against Syria and President Bashar al-Assad if he...
Global condemnation of Israel’s onslaught on Lebanon
Israeli strikes killed 558 people in Lebanon on Monday, including 50 children and 94 women, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad told a press conference...