Washington lawsuit against Trump attack on unions
A coalition of American unions has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation...
Ecuador general strike defies state of emergency
FOR over a week now, farmers, students, workers, and transporters continue to join the national strike called by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of...
IRAN ‘HAS NOT VIOLATED PARIS AGREEMENT’ – on resuming nuclear activity
Last Saturday evening, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Asefi outlined his government’s position to the foreign media on a number of issues, beginning with...
UN releases database of companies supporting illegal Israeli settlements
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has welcomed this week’s release of the United Nations database of companies involved in supporting Israeli settlements. ‘We welcome the...
Striking Garment Workers Shot And Killed In Bangladesh!
TWO striking garment workers were shot dead by police in Bangladesh on Monday. Almost 140 Bangladeshi garment factories were shut as thousands of workers took...
San Francisco Nurses Fight For Patient Care
A strike by 4,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) at ten San Francisco Bay Area, California, Sutter facilities has concluded with nurses walking together back into...
US unions sit-in, strike and recruit!
Amazon workers at JFK8, the company’s Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this year, held a sit-in, strike on Monday after a...
‘Eviction, homelessness and hunger’ facing US families – Indivar Dutta-Gupta advisor...
AN ECONOMIC adviser to the campaign of US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has warned of ‘evictions, homelessness, and food insecurity’ by the end...
Muslim and EU countries move to stop Israeli genocide
A group of Muslim countries has strongly condemned Israeli settler incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound amid escalating violations and rising tensions across the...
6th day of French rail strikes
FRENCH rail workers began another two-day rolling strike on Friday which hit services across the country. But President Emmanuel Macron has vowed he will...
‘We’ll keep on striking till we win!’
‘WE are not quitting until we are winning! We will keep on striking until we win,’ Unite member and Serco worker Yomi Sogbesan told...
Medicine company workers fury over Iraq police attack
The Iraqi resistance is dealing daily blows against the US-UK led occupiers as it steps up its attacks. Last Tuesday fighters attacked with three mortars a...
Indian bank workers strike while Sri Lankan workers organise in Free...
NORMAL banking operations were disrupted across the whole of India on Friday as bank employee unions went on strike last Friday to protest against...
Brighton University Strike Action!
STAFF at the University of Brighton have called a series of strikes over an all round attack on teaching staff, downgrading some and sacking...
STAFF, PATIENTS AND VISITORS – determined to keep Chase Farm open
Staff, patients and visitors are determined to keep Chase Farm Hospital open. They welcomed the latest over twenty-strong monthly picket of the Enfield hospital site...
Germany to send 2,000 additional anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to...
GERMANY will send 2,000 additional anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to replenish the country’s depleting arsenal and bolster its defences against the Russian military operation. The...
NHS Together Will Challenge Will Challenge 1.5% Pay Offer
Leading officials of fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff held a press conference on Tuesday, declaring they...
SMASH ALL FEES, RESTORE GRANTS –demand students
‘ONE, two, three, four – education, not war!’ ‘Five, six, seven, eight – occupy and demonstrate!’ shouted large contingents of students on Sunday’s national...
‘Teamster Women Are Going To Take Back America’
TEAMSTERS General President Jim Hoffa addressed the hundreds of Teamster women gathered in New York City on Saturday for the second day of the...
Ramaphosa ‘enemy of working class’ – NUMSA
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has rejected and expressed disgust at the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions’ (COSATU) endorsement...
Saint-Gobain Crystals in India sacks worker after exposing him to hazardous...
A FORMER Saint-Gobain Crystals and Detectors worker in Bangalore, India, Jayaraj Mathangi, was fired for absenteeism after developing severe health problems due to hazards...
Nursing on a ‘knife-edge’ RCN warn of intensifying staffing crisis
NURSES’ unions have declared that World Patient Safety Day 2021 must be a ‘wake-up call’ to ministers to tackle – ‘urgently’ – the nursing...
‘Renew the Intifada in West Bank’ – says Haniya
IN A speech in Gaza to mark on the second anniversary of the prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya,...
Syria Condemns US Terrorist Airstrikes!
SYRIA on Friday condemned ‘the US criminal aggression’ which Qassemled to the martyrdom of the leader of al-Quds Failaq, Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani...
Ukrainian Army violated Easter Truce 4,900 times!
UKRAINE took advantage of the Easter truce to launch strikes on Russian territory, advisor to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Igor...
Israeli police storm funeral tent of Palestinian prisoner hero Walid Daqqa!
ISRAELI police stormed the funeral tent of Palestinian hero, writer and prisoner Walid Daqqa in the West Bank city of Baqa al-Gharbiya in Occupied...
NATO offensive turns thousands of families into refugees
THE number of those displaced by the US/NATO military surge against the Taleban resistance in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, has more...
If Necessary ‘I And All Hezbollah Members Will Go To Syria’...
‘AFTER the first bombing, the situation was brought under control. After yesterday’s massacre, the situation was brought under control. ‘However, we cannot make predictions....
‘20-50 NHS TRUSTS AT RISK’ – BMA ARM warned
THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Bournemouth on Thursday passed, almost unanimously, Emergency Motions calling to halt the take-over...
Half of US cop killings unreported
THE British medical journal The Lancet says more than half of police killings in the United States are unreported and Black Americans are most...
ST Helier’s ‘Picnic with a Purpose!’ – DETERMINED THAT THE HOSPITAL...
SOME 2,000 local residents, trade unionists, youth and their families turned out on Saturday for a ‘Picnic with a Purpose’ outside St Helier Hospital...
CWU proposes ‘not for dividend company’ – instead of organising...
THE CWU leadership is seeking to make a deal with the coalition over the terms and conditions of the privatisation of Royal Mail, when...
‘Nearly 7 million children live in poverty … more than 2.1...
AN estimated 3.7 million Syrian children – 1 in 3 of all Syrian children – have been born since the conflict began five years...
Nurses, Starbucks & Sodexo workers in US strike wave
THE STRIKE wave sweeping the USA continues to grow, with tens of thousands of nurses and hundreds of Starbucks and Sodexo workers being the...
ISRAEL SEIZES HAMAS LEADERS – as Palestinians discuss a Unity Government
ISRAELI forces seized Hamas leaders across the West Bank early on Thursday in an apparent attempt to pressure the group in the negotiations over...
‘THE HUMAN COST OF DETENTION’ –Refugee Council welcomes Amnesty report
The Refugee Council has welcomed today’s publication of a new Amnesty International UK report on detention of asylum seekers ‘The Human Cost of Detention’....
Canadian government to ‘rip away’ dockers’ right to strike
Unions across the world are outraged to learn that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal minority government teamed up with Canada’s Conservative opposition in the early hours...
Numsa SA Workers Vow To Continue Their Strike!
South African Airways (SAA) workers have vowed to continue their strike until the company meets their demands. Numsa members embarked on a strike on Friday...
Nursing Associates to administer drugs unsupervised!
NURSING Associates have been given the go-ahead to administer drugs, unsupervised, to the alarm of the nurses’ union RCN. NHS to train 2,000 new Nursing...
US ‘deal of century’ opposed!
SOME are being misled to believe that the soon-to-be-announced ‘deal of the century’ is a US-sponsored peace initiative aimed at resolving the so-called Palestinian-Israeli...
Israeli airstrikes set out to destroy Yemen’s Sana’a Airport
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an urgent investigation into the Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Sana’a International Airport, which happened on May 28,...
STRIKE IS SOLID! – ‘We need the rest of the public...
YESTERDAY’s 24 hour strike of CWU postal workers was 100 per cent, and massively powerful. Everywhere pickets told News Line that what they wanted...
GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY STAFF VOTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION! –while Sixth Form College...
STAFF at Glyndwr University have overwhelmingly voted in favour of industrial action in a dispute over job losses. 84% of members of the University and...
‘T-Mobile – Do not violate our human rights!’ – demand US...
AT LAST Friday’s annual meeting of T-Mobile US Inc. in Bellevue, Washington, east of Seattle, shareholders voted on a proposal urging the T-Mobile board...
Algerian riot police invade court to attack judges!
Algerian riot police clashed with judges participating in a nationwide strike on Sunday in the north-western port city of Oran. The judges are pushing for...