BMA condemns Coalition’s local pay drive
THE BMA ARM has condemned the Tory-led drive to impose local pay deals on the public sector – which would mean the end of...
NO DEAL ON IRAN –France accused of blocking agreement on behalf...
IRAN and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, failed to clinch a long-sought deal on Sunday...
Tuc Supports Strikes By Writers Guild Of America
British trade unionists on Wednesday demonstrated their support for America’s striking screenwriters as part of an international day of solidarity called by the Writers...
‘Medicine is under attack! There is an increasing assault on...
THE BMA is urging organisations around the world, from governments and the United Nations to NGOs and medical representative groups, to all play a...
CGT national strike over wages and retirement at 60
STRIKES and demonstrations took place across France on Thursday, with the CGT union federation declaring: ‘November 10 for wages and retirement at age 60.’ ‘For...
‘WE ARE WINNING THIS FIGHT!’ – USW leader tells Mexico union
USW CANADIAN National Director Ken Neumann addressed the 37th Ordinary General Convention of the National Union of Mine, Metal, Steel and Allied Workers of...
DEATH TOLL PASSES 1,100 – in the Rana Plaza disaster
THE death toll from the collapse of the Dhaka building housing garment factories that workers were ordered back into, despite warnings, reached over 1,121...
DELAY BOOTS TAKEOVER IN WAKE OF IMF CRASH WARNING – GMB...
THE GMB has called on the government to delay the private equity take-over of Boots in the wake of the IMF warning of the...
Minimum Wage Violations Cost Workers In California Nearly $2 Billion Annually
EACH year, minimum-wage violations by California employers sap the state’s workforce of nearly $2 billion in earnings, according to a report released this month...
Israel violates ceasefire for 60 consecutive days! – and claims ‘yellow...
The Israeli occupation army continued, for the 60th consecutive day yesterday, to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, targeting residential buildings and...
‘PALESTINIAN BLOOD SHOULD NOT BE SPILLED’ – Haniya urges unity
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, on Tuesday, called on Palestinians to ‘remain united’ in a common cause after days of clashes between Haniya’s Hamas...
Reports of PM Johnson reducing the private sector in the NHS...
BY RETIRED BMA MEMBER ANNA ATHOW THE main story on BBC news on Saturday, was that Boris Johnson was proposing to reverse the Cameron health...
US Union Leaders Warn Obama On Health Care!
President Barack Obama tried to convince top union leaders to drop labour’s opposition to taxing workers’ health care benefits at a meeting at the...
French presidential election candidates hold rallies
LEFT WING French presidential candidate for the France Insoumise (Rebellious France) party Jean-Luc Mélenchon talked about climate change, feminism and the cost of living...
35,000 March On 41 Anniversary Of Athens Polytechnic Uprising! – Masses...
OVER 35,000 university and school students, youth and workers joined the 41st Anniversary March of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising in Athens on Monday. They were...
‘We have to liberate every inch of the Syrian land’ says...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad has said that everything in the world is changing regarding Syria on every level, both local, regional, and international. In a statement...
NHS CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER MUST RESIGN NOW! – demands BMA consultants...
ANGER over the junior doctors training debacle saw hospital consultants on Wednesday demand the ‘immediate resignation’ of NHS Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Liam Donaldson. The...
HEZBOLLAH UPHOLDS ARAB NATIONAL SECURITY says Sayyed Safieddine!
HEAD of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has lashed out at Saudi claims that the Lebanese Resistance movement ‘risks Arab national security’. Speaking at...
BASIC OPERATIONS BEING REFUSED TO SAVE MONEY –leading surgeons accuse PCTs
NHS patients are being refused basic operations because primary care trusts want to save money, six leading surgeons revealed in a devastating letter that...
STOP WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL CLOSING! – – we must all defend our...
WHITTINGTON Hospital is threatened with being reduced to a ‘local hospital’ through having its Accident and Emergency and other vital Departments closed, and...
Tories to blame for education chaos
THE TORY government is to blame for the suffering faced by university staff and students, the University College Union (UCU) has underlined. Responding to the...
‘Venezuelan people will triumph over US’ – SAYS SYRIA
SYRIA’S Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali AbdulKarim, has affirmed that the Venezuelan people will ‘triumph’ over the US conspiracy. Meeting the Venezuelan Ambassador to Lebanon, Jesus...
NUMSA describes post 1994 South Africa as a ‘racist colonial economy...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) 10th National Congress, held on 12th to 15th December in Cape Town issued a...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘History is a tremendous...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 4. Preface to our round trip AT the Stockholm Convention of the Social-Democratic Party, some...
Govia Must Be Stripped Of All Franchises Says RMT!
GOVIA must be stripped of all franchises and a wider review launched says RMT as the ‘fatally compromised’ review into Southeastern Rail Franchise finds...
Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amid deepening food insecurity and...
NASUWT Conference votes for strike action over pay
TEACHERS have instructed their trade union’s executive to consider calling action, ‘up to and including strike action’ against the Tory government’s attacks on their...
Kaddoumi And Hawatimah To Attend Ramallah Plo Meeting
THE Israeli government is permitting Nayif Hawatimah and Faruq al-Kaddoumi to attend the PLO Central Committee’s meeting in Ramallah. The approval constitutes an acceptance...
Obama sanctioned Merkel taps
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama was personally informed of phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002, German...
Striking RMT Members Demand To Know How Much Has Been Paid...
WITH RMT members ‘rock solid’ in their latest day of strike action at Abellio ScotRail and Serco Caledonian Sleeper on Sunday, the railworkers union...
Trump Condemns Iran And Embraces Israel & Egypt!
DONALD Trump’s White House signalled a tougher stance toward Iran on Wednesday, condemning a recent missile test and declaring America was putting the Islamic...
‘End The Bullying & Witch-Hunting Of Staff At Worcester Royal Hospital!’
A DEMONSTRATION held last Thursday March 12 outside the A&E at the Worcester Royal Hospital, demanded an end to the bullying and...
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...
NHS Bed Crisis–A Threat To Patient Safety
THE NHS Bed crisis is a threat to patient safety, doctors have warned as the latest figures were released showing hospitals working at full...
15,000-strong nurses’ strike in New York City
New York City’s largest nurses’ strike in history entered its 24th day on Wednesday. In a statement, the New York State Nurses Association said recent...
MESSAGES OF RESILIENCE! – symbols of perseverance, resistance and defiance
‘WE promise we will rebuild them.’ These words were written by a Palestinian on the walls of a house demolished by Israeli airstrikes in...
NUMSA proved right to predict ‘fierce battles’ between workers and...
AS SOON as the 2016 bargaining negotiation began, it became clear that the National Union of Metalworkers SA (NUMSA) had been proved right to...
‘OCCUPY EALING HOSPITAL! KICK OUT THE COALITION!’– shout 10,000 workers...
‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital – Occupy Now!’ and ‘No Cuts, No Closures – Kick this Government Out!’, were the slogans that dominated the march of...
‘We Will Be Here Indefinitely!’
‘We will be here indefinitely!’ was the defiant message on Tuesday night from the anti-capitalist occupiers who have built up a ‘tent city’ outside...
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...
Huber Ballesteros, Freed Colombian Trade Union Leader Addresses Tuc!
COLOMBIAN trade union leader, Huber Ballesteros, was finally able to address the TUC Congress in Brighton on Wednesday. Weeks before he was due to fly...
Deadly attacks on Colombian teachers & trade unions are condemned by...
Education International supports its affiliate, the Federación Colombiana de Educadores, in denouncing and firmly condemning assassinations and threats targeting Colombian educators, trade unionists, and...
Fire-Fighters Battle Life-Threatening Cuts
Firefighters are gearing up for a major fight against life threatening cuts to the service across the country. The FBU (Fire Brigades Union), in...
50 YEARS OF OCCUPIED PALESTINE SHAMES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY – says PLO
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on Monday condemned the 50 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine as ‘a shame on the international system’. Israel attacked...
ETUC Day of Action against Austerity tomorrow
THE TUC has sent letters to the Spanish and Greek governments urging them to abandon their austerity programmes and to ‘change course now’. The letters...