BMA demands ‘an end to PA postcode lottery after review concludes...
A NEW rapid systematic review published last Friday 7th March by researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford,...
Dozens die in latest Gaza strikes!
ISRAELI warplanes carried out renewed attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 26 Palestinians in a series of airstrikes, including an entire...
24-hour Greek General Strike
A 24-hour General Strike declared by GSEE (Greek TUC) and ADEDY (public sectors trades unions federation) took place on Wednesday in Greece, with the...
ANC drops VAT increase to save coalition – as SAFTU celebrates...
South Africa’s finance minister dropped plans on Thursday to increase value-added tax (VAT), in a major climbdown to prevent the collapse of the coalition...
Trump’s Gaza scheme ‘doomed to failure’
US President Donald Trump’s scheme for the Gaza Strip is ‘doomed’ to failure, says the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. ‘We will bring...
Irish support for the Filton 24 hunger strikers
The first part of this article is a solidarity statement to the six Filton 24 hunger strikers from Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, who in April 1969...
‘Whose side is Labour on? Not the workers!’ says Unite leader...
Unite the union on Friday overwhelming voted to re-examine its relationship with Labour and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner who has had her Unite...
470 homes destroyed in Nablus – snipers positioned on rooftops
Israeli forces stormed the Old City of Nablus on Sunday amid intensified raids throughout the West Bank, seizing and arresting many citizens. They raided homes,...
125 union building staff are to strike at the University of...
One hundred and twenty five union building staff at the University of Chicago Medical Centre (UCMC) are to strike next week amid protracted contract...
Nigeria nurses and midwives have confirmed their strike is on and...
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has denied reports that its members have suspended the nationwide strike. The NANNM leadership met with...
Universities in the US imposing ‘police state’ campus measures
United States universities are imposing ‘police state’ rules in an attempt to avoid a repeat of campus protests against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza,...
‘We’ve got to get beyond the limits of capitalism’ say SAFTU...
TRUE empowerment lies beyond the limits of capitalism, says SAFTU, the South African Federation of Trade Unions. A statement issued on Tuesday on behalf of...
Bethlehem Schoolgirls Teargassed
SEVERAL girl students suffered from exposure to tear gas on Tuesday morning when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked their school in al-Khader town,...
Group 77 ministers & China demand Israel ends its occupation and...
MINISTERS of Group 77 (coalition of developing countries at the United Nations) and China last Saturday reiterated their demand for the Israeli occupation to...
Solidarity with Kamal Adwan Hospital rally at US Embassy in London
A CROWD of over 200 rallied outside the US Embassy in south London on Monday night demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Dr...
Radiographers demand pay restoration!
THE NHS will haemorrhage staff unless pay is restored to match national averages, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) warned on Tuesday. The SoR has submitted...
South Africa education workers fight ‘appalling’ casualisation and ‘declaration of war’...
SOUTH Africa’s National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) on Tuesday called on the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane...
‘14,000 Babies In Gaza Could Die Within 48 Hours!’
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher warned on Tuesday morning that as many as 14,000 babies could die in Gaza within 48 hours if...
488 arrested at ‘Lift the Ban’ on Palestine Action rally
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed they arrested a total of 488 peaceful placard-bearing protesters who took part in the action in Trafalgar Square on...
Israeli Forces Have Launched A Campaign Of Exterminating The Palestinians
THE Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip says Israeli forces have killed more than 2,000 civilians in the northern part of the besieged...
Harsh winter nights – eight children die of cold in the...
The nights of the winter season are extremely harsh on the displacement camps in Gaza as the nights, which may be the coldest in...
Nigerian unions will strike against oil company intimidation!
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN said that...
Gaza’s children paralysed in Netanyahu’s genocide!
The Gaza Strip is witnessing a worrying increase in cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), a rare neurological disorder that strikes children suddenly, causing...
Israel kills 3,500 Lebanese, targeting health facilities & cultural sites
ISRAEL has killed at least 3,452 people and injured more than 14,664 in Lebanon since hostilities began last October between the genocidal Zionist regime...
Strikes and unionisation campaigns sweep the USA
Members of the Teamsters union in the United States were joined by other members of the Labour Alliance for Public Transit last Thursday at...
‘Supermajority’ vote to join union at Ford plant in Kentucky
A MAJORITY of workers at a Ford Motor (F.N) joint-venture battery plant in Kentucky have signed cards indicating their support for the United Auto...
‘For many Gazans hunger has become the deadliest weapon’
One child is killed every 30 minutes in the Gaza Strip, in the ongoing Israeli genocide that started on October 7th, 2023. This is taking...
Netanyahu seeking to undermine ceasefire
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim has emphasised that no new ceasefire agreement exists, accusing Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to undermine the current...
Thousands of homes wrapped in dangerous cladding
THE NAO (National Audit Office) report on dangerous cladding confirms our worst fears, says the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). The NAO published its report, Dangerous...
Trump overrides California governor to send 700 Marines and thousands of...
An appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed the Trump administration to return control of California’s National Guard troops...
‘Iran’s armed forces stood up to bullying with all their might’
Iran’s top military commander asserts that the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces confronted the Israeli and American aggression with the full range of their capabilities...
Israel Plans New Settlements on a UNESCO Heritage Site!
When a group of more than 100 Israeli settlers, masked and armed with pistols and automatic rifles, killed a Palestinian, injured others and burned...
AFL-CIO & SEIU are reuniting in the United States – 13...
THE AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Thursday that they are reuniting to launch ‘a new, long-term effort to make...
‘We teach our children hunger is more bearable than humiliation’ ...
‘I feed my children sugar and water … but if they opened a corridor for us to leave in exchange for raising a white...
Israel is conducting violent raids in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm
THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...
US dockers tell bosses strikes will resume if their demands are...
THE International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) dockers union in the United States has agreed to suspend its strike of over 30 ports on the East...
Teamsters win the key ‘right to picket’ the Amazon Air Hub
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters scored a key victory in the union’s national fight to organise workers at Amazon after a federal judge ruled...
Starbucks workers mass walk- out in 34 cities of the USA
THE Starbucks workers’ union said on Thursday that hundreds of new union baristas are walking out of their jobs in 34 cities, joining the...
5,000 workers and youth join the Grenfell Tower Fire 8th anniversary...
MORE than 5,000 workers, students and youth joined the Grenfell Tower fire 8th anniversary march through Ladbroke Grove, west London on Saturday. It was the...
Immigrant textile workers in Italy win eight-hour day!
IN ITALY’S industrial heartland, immigrant textile workers have launched a wave of coordinated strikes that have forced dozens of factories to concede basic labour...
Oregon Legacy nurses strike enters its 3rd week – Starbucks ‘Red...
A strike at Legacy hospitals and clinics in the US state of Oregon that began on Tuesday 2nd December goes into its third week...
US union wins victory after ‘longest hospital strike in Rhode...
THE SEIU union in New England, US, reported that workers at Butler Hospital have officially ratified a new contract, ending the longest hospital strike...
Trump’s executive order removes over 200,000 AFGE members!
THE AFGE (American Federation of Government Employees), the nation’s largest union for federal workers, president said on Monday the organisation’s ongoing staff downsizing will...
‘We will not stop until there is a permanent ceasefire!’
First speaker at the rally at the end of the march in Whitehall was Malik Mohammed from the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said:...
‘We want welfare not warfare 20,00-strong march tells Starmer
AS the ‘Welfare not Warfare’ March was getting ready to leave the BBC and head for Downing Street, Margaret Mills, a Unison member from...