Give Fed workers right to strike–get rid of ‘right-to-work’ anti-union laws...
THE VERMONT US Senator Bernie Sanders wants to give federal workers the right to strike, to eliminate so-called ‘right-to-work’ laws, and at the same...
35,000 Greek public & private sector workers take part in mass...
SOME 35,000 public and private sector workers and students took part in mass rallies and marches on Wednesday in central Athens as part of...
Fatah Is Working To Develop Popular Resistance
FATAH Central Committee Member Muhammad al-Alul has said that the Palestinian leadership is currently working on developing the popular resistance against the Israeli occupation...
Damning Report On Deaths In Police Custody
INQUEST has launched a damning new report exposing the fact that after an inquest into a death in police custody, there is no mechanism...
PEACE CAMP DETERMINED TO STAY –as London Mayor Johnson seeks their...
The Peace Camp in Parliament Square was brutally raided by armed police at 8am on Tuesday morning and its leaders were arrested and dragged...
‘We demand a complete arms embargo now & recognition!’ –Palestinian ambassador...
THE first speaker at the rally in Kensington High Street at the end of the march was Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse,...
Suspend Israeli football team! – AIAC
The Italian Football Coaches’ Association (AIAC) is pushing for Israel to be suspended from international competition over the war on Gaza. Ahead of Italy’s World...
BUILD NEW LEADERSHIP IN THE UNIONS –message from News Line-Locked-out Gate...
NEARLY 400 trade unionists and youth took part in the News Line-Gate Gourmet locked out workers’ conference in London on Sunday and speaker after...
‘CHARGE TYSON FOODS WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER’ – demands UFCW Alberta local
Striking United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) members at a Brooks, Alberta, slaughterhouse, last Saturday called for attempted murder charges after a car...
ISRAEL’S BRUTAL ATTACK ON AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL CONDEMNED – UN must stop...
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani has condemned Israel’s brutal attack on the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and the regime’s crimes against medical...
South African Workers Taking Action Over Jobs & Wages
WORKERS at South African Airways (SAA) are threatening to go on strike if their salary increase demands are not met. The workers are calling for...
54 student halls of residence wrapped in same cladding as Grenfell...
AS A FRESH year of students start at their new universities, it has come to light that fifty-four student halls of residence tower blocks...
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...
HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! – Demands 2,000-strong Downing Street demo
There was a powerful 2,000-strong demonstration in support of Venezuela in Whitehall opposite Downing Street on Monday night. The protest was organised by the Venezuela...
‘Julian Assange was a political prisoner’ – says Council of Europe...
THE Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday 2 October voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held a political prisoner in the UK. On...
GHOST STATIONS AND A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE! – RMT staff survey reveals...
A MASSIVE staff survey carried out by the RMT railway workers union reveals the dystopian future awaiting passengers if the industry privateers and the...
Doreen Lawrence demands new inquiry at ‘Resistance -the Best Olympic Spirit’...
THE MOTHER of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence has revealed that she has asked Home Secretary Theresa May for a new inquiry ...
‘The West is always seeking to subjugate countries which do not...
ON Saturday, President Bashar al-Assad received a Russian governmental delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Head of the Russian side to the...
‘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...
ISRAEL HAS ‘SHOT DOWN THE PEACE PROCESS’ says Abbas over Gaza...
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said on Sunday that the latest Israeli military escalation has ‘shot down the efforts to advance the peace process’ after...
Arts being forced out of the schools!
THE Warwick Commission’s final report, Enriching Britain: Culture, Creativity and Growth, launched on Tuesday, warns that the arts are being squeezed out of schools. Commission...
Haniya Meets Euro-Med Human Rights Commission
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya met a delegation from the Euro-Med Human Rights Committee at his office in Gaza last Saturday....
WE WILL FIGHT TO DEFEND PENSIONS – union leaders tell TUC...
THE TUC delegates in Liverpool at the 2009 Congress on Monday voted unanimously to defend public services. Composite Motion C21 Public Services and the Economy...
Hamas Delegation Meets President Assad
A Hamas delegation headed by the Islamist movement’s senior most leader Khaled Mishaal met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday to...
Iran, Russia and China hold joint naval exercise in Gulf of...
NAVAL forces from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and China have practised shooting at aerial targets during a night-time operation over an area...
IRAQI OIL WORKERS THREATEN TO STOP WORK – as demonstrations spread...
At Iraq’s state-owned North Oil Company (NOC) on Saturday a demonstration of 300 day workers warned they would go on strike if their work...
‘We are going to continue to strike until we get what...
AT 7pm on the dot on Christmas Eve the doors of Stoke Newington Fire station opened and the fire fighters began their seventh strike...
SA goldmine fires 1,500 strikers
SOUTH AFRICAN mining company Sibanye Gold has fired around 1,500 workers for taking part in a wildcat strike at its Cooke mine. The decision, announced...
93 fracking licences issued!
THE Oil and Gas Authority on Thursday awarded a raft of new licences to explore for oil and gas on the mainland of the...
‘Nursing staff need to have full confidence they are protected!’
THE TORIES ‘indecision’ means nursing staff are facing a postcode lottery in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), leaving some more protected than others, the Royal...
NHS staff ‘exodus’ if no increase in pay says BMA –...
DOCTORS’ union the Medical Association (BMA) underlined their demand on Thursday for a pay increase for NHS staff. Responding to a recent analysis by the...
ANC dances to tune of ‘white monopoly capital’ – NUMSA on...
THE trajectory of the 2016 Budget delivered by Pravin Gordhan continued to sing to the tune of international and local finance capital, white monopoly...
COALITION ‘TAKING A CHAINSAW TO OUR PUBLIC SERVICES’ – Prentis...
MOVING the Public Services composite motion at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday, Unison General Secretary, Dave Prentis said: ‘Conference, today we...
Egyptian Army Demolitions Creating A Gaza Buffer Zone
AL-AQSA TV on Sunday morning carried the following ‘urgent’ screen caption: ‘Residents on the Egyptian side of Rafah are angry because the Egyptian army...
‘This landmark ruling underscores the crucial importance of protecting press freedom...
THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed the judgement of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal published Monday morning, December 17. The tribunal judges have ruled...
IAM Aerospace workers in the US demand a 40% pay rise...
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM) leaders at Boeing the aircraft manufacturers are demanding a 40 per cent pay rise over...
Palestinians want vote on statehood by end of year
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry left early Sunday for a series of meetings in Europe seeking to head off an end-of-year UN...
Fairpoint Workers Hold Portland Rally
STRIKING FairPoint workers and their supporters from across the Northeast of America held a major rally in Portland, Maine, on Saturday, November 8. Negotiators from...
‘WE WILL NOT BE EVICTED!’ – insist St Paul’s occupiers
‘We will not be evicted!’ was the clear message from the occupiers outside St Paul’s as they defy new attempts by the Corporation of...
100 US STARBUCKS STORES STAGE 3-DAY STRIKE – as BLET rail...
STARBUCKS workers from around 100 stores across the United States started a three-day strike last Friday, making it the longest nationally coordinated job action...
Birmingham bin workers hold strong mega picket!
THE 400 STRIKING Birmingham bin workers held a ‘mega-picket’ on Friday 25th July, with trade unionists travelling from all over the country and arriving...
VAST AND GROWING LEGION OF JOBLESS YOUTH – ILO says worldwide...
The number of people unemployed worldwide climbed to new heights in 2005, especially among the vast and growing legion of jobless youth, the International...
WORKERS CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE EVERY FRIDAY – to drive...
Over 100,000 workers and youth marched through Dublin last Friday as Ireland was shut down in support of Irish Ferries SIPTU trade union members...
GM Latin American workers meet in Sao Paulo!
WORKERS from General Motors plants across Latin America met in São Paulo, Brazil, last week to discuss and take action against workforce casualisation within...
Amnesty Shocked At Mosul Civilian Casualties
THE scale of civilian deaths in Mosul raises questions over rules of engagement being used by US-led coalition and Iraqi forces, says Amnesty International. Commenting...