Greek Seafarers Call 24-Hour Strike
The Federation of Greek Seafarers Trades Union PNO have called a 24-hour strike for 16 April on all ferries, passenger and cargo ships, against...
Uni treating workers like slaves! – NUMSA mass picket
AT THE end of last week, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) staged a mass picket at the University...
ANC workers demonstrate – two months without pay!
AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) workers are continuing protesting outside party headquarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg demanding fair labour practices and salary payments. The ANC...
Palestinian prisoners at critical stage of hunger strike!
TWO Palestinian prisoners have entered the critical stages of hunger strikes undertaken in protest at how they have been detained without charge or trial. Hassan...
Carillion at centre of blacklisting scandal
THE GMB has found that the senior Carillion HR manager involved in the Swindon dispute was the same HR manager for Carillion that dealt...
‘We will never stop fighting for Detroit and its workers’ –...
AMERICAN Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees union (AFSCME) leaders have pledged to ‘continue the fight for Detroit and its workers.’ In Detroit last...
UN ISSUES HAITI RED ALERT –over cholera epidemic and tropical storm...
The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) said on Monday that Haitian authorities (the Direction de la Protection Civile – DPC) issued a...
Support staff are ‘overworked and underpaid and taken for granted!’
OVER 1,750 support staff working in UK state-funded schools responded to a questionnaire stating that they are ‘overworked, underpaid and taken for granted’, the...
Free The Miami Five Now Demands Rally Of 500 Trade Unionists
Over 500 trade unionists, youth and supporters rallied outside the US Embassy in central London on Wednesday evening to demand the release of the...
Nut Condemns Academies’ Attack On State Education
The National Union of Teachers says the involvement of private sector companies in education over recent years ‘is of grave concern’. It stresses that the...
‘No National Elections Without A Unity Agreement And The Release Of...
No national elections will be held without a unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah and the release of political prisoners from West Bank jails,...
WAKE UP AMERICA! – ‘Corporate greed is on the march as...
Teamsters’ leader James Hoffa junior tells 27th Teamsters Convention ‘Welcome to the 27th International Teamsters Convention. It is an honor to address you as your...
Turkish workers victory after six month strike!
AROUND 250 members of Turkey’s IndustriALL trade union affiliate Selüloz-Is have won an outstanding victory after being out on strike for six months. Selüloz-Is members...
Syria condemns Israeli war crimes against Palestinians
SYRIA has again condemned the Israeli occupation’s practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – the demolition of schools, the killing of children and innocent...
NAME THE DAY FOR A GENERAL STRIKE! –POA secretary urges General...
‘WE SHOULD pool together and name the day for a General Strike and bring this government down’, Prison Officer’s Association (POA) General Secretary Steve...
No To Pay Cuts ‘Sleight Of Hand’
IRELAND’S largest nursing union, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has warned companies with agency nurses that they have no right to impose...
BASRA ASSASSINATIONS WARNING – police out of control, says chief
‘Basra Police Chief Abd-al-Jalil Khalaf revealed that there is a conspiracy to assassinate religious figures in Basra Governorate during the holy month of Ramadan,’...
‘THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE CANNOT BE DIVIDED’ – Hamas refutes Gaza independence...
SENIOR Hamas official Mahmoud Zahhar on Sunday denied media reports that the Islamist resistance group is considering declaring the Gaza Strip a separate entity...
PENTONVILLE 5 VICTORY – 40 years on
TODAY is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Pentonville 5 dockers when the TUC was forced to call a general strike and...
‘LONG LIVE PALESTINE’ – says Saddam Hussein in a letter from...
Imprisoned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has vowed in a letter to sacrifice himself for the cause of Palestine and Iraq. He urged Arabs to...
‘We Demand Apology For Balfour Declaration’ And Recognition Of Palestinian State!
– Rally 10 Downing St November 4 ‘WE DEMAND an apology for the Balfour Declaration and we demand repatriation and recognition of the Palestinian state,’...
Abbas denounces US Jerusalem plan – addressing al-Azhar International Conference
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas says the holy city of Jerusalem al-Quds can be the gate to either peace or war, and that it...
‘Frontline workers need to be respected, protected and paid’ says Mary...
SERVICE Employees International Union (SEIU) International President Mary Kay Henry says the Covid-19 relief package ‘is just a down payment’. She released the following statement...
Vavi To Launch New Sa Trade Union Federation On May 1
TRADE union leaders behind the formation of an alternative federation say they will formally launch the new structure on 1st May this year after...
‘The whole trade union movement must take action to defend...
MANY thousands of NHS staff, from cleaners to doctors, from all over the country, were joined by members of the public fighting hospital closures...
Tens of thousands march in Turkey on May Day
DOZENS of trade unions, youth groups, and resistance movements in Turkey marched on Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square on May Day, in open defiance of...
EUROPEAN WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE – a tool for increased exploitation and...
‘THIS major change to junior doctors’ hours is probably the biggest challenge hospitals will face in 2009.’ This is the view of Dr Jonathan Fielden,...
‘Occupy–Stop The Closure Of Chase Farm To Defend Patients And Jobs!’
PATIENTS, staff and local residents joined the North-East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday, and agreed with the call...
GEORGIA’S ACTIONS ARE US-INSPIRED – to bring NATO peacekeepers into Ossetia...
GEORGIA’S latest actions are aimed at ousting Russian peacekeepers from South Ossetia and bringing a NATO police force there, Col-Gen Leonid Ivashov, former chief...
Undercover police targeted ‘subversives and left-wing activists’
COINCIDING with a rare public hearing of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) this week, ten women who were deceived into relationships with ‘spycops’ have...
Garment workers denounce wage structure in Dhaka and clash with police
GARMENT workers have flooded the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, this week, clashing with police and denouncing the new wages structure introduced on...
Private company driven out of NHS
A HEALTHCARE ‘procurement’ process that named a private provider as the preferred bidder for contracts worth £25m has been abandoned after NHS trusts threatened...
‘Nurses gave their all – only to be greeted with a...
MORE THAN 10,000 nurses, other NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters marched from St James’s Park to Parliament Square on Saturday on a demonstration...
Taliban Making Advances In Northern Afghanistan
AS THE TALIBAN fighters continue to make rapid advances across Afghanistan, the militants have captured another provincial capital in the northern part of the...
Presidents back US trade unionists
Three presidents – Lula da Silva of Brazil, Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain and Nestor Kirchner of Argentina – cancelled an appearance scheduled for...
‘There is a need to mobilise the South African workers’ says...
NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) President Andrew Chirwa has said his union sees no reason to continue supporting the ruling African...
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...
Summer strikes at Isle of Wight ferries and Heathrow – RMT’s...
ALL of the Isle of Wight’s Southampton-to-Cowes ferries will shut down during summer holidays as 120 workers take strike action against Red Funnel and...
‘US works on stopping any investigation into use of chemical weapons’...
24 NATIONS have agreed to push for sanctions against perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria with US Secretary of State Tillerson saying that Russia...
Strikes, fires and fuel hikes in South Africa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape notes recent developments affecting the Taxi Industry in Cape Town and the...
Leon Trotsky’s CLASS AND ART – PART TWO Raskalnikov and the...
THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...
Rail unions demand permanent renationalisation of the whole rail network!
LAST WEEK Tory minority government Transport Secretary Grayling announced that the privately-run East Coast Mainline has collapsed again and will be ‘temporarily renationalised’ –...
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...
Chilean teachers begin 48hr strike action!
THE Chilean College of Teachers began a 48-hour strike on Wednesday to demand a response to the requests submitted to the administration of President...
Unite Is Fighting For Workers’ Rights!
TWO LONDON organisations are flouting government policy over coronavirus by attacking the pay, and terms and conditions of their employees, the Unite, union said...