Bma Must Decide Action To Defend The NHS – Reject The...
The Health and Social care bill brings in the legislation to privatise the delivery and commissioning of healthcare in England. Coupled with the massive cuts,...
Bahamas Nurses Union Is To Take Industrial Action!
BAHAMAS Nurses Union President (BNU) Amancha Williams said on Monday that the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) and the government have pushed frustrated nurses to...
Children are doing hazardous work in tobacco farming!
THE United States government and tobacco companies are failing to protect teenage children from hazardous work in tobacco farming, says a new report by...
HAMAS OFFICIAL CALLS FOR LONG-TERM CEASEFIRE – while Israel demands mount...
A HAMAS official on Tuesday renewed calls for a ceasefire amid mounting Israeli demands for a broad military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Writing in...
South Korea – All Out Indefinite Strike Action By Twu!
THE Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union began all-out indefinite strike action yesterday, alongside workers on the metros in Seoul and Busan, paralysing...
Canadian grocery workers strike
THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...
‘Confessions coerced in case after case’ in Bahrain – says Human...
SECURITY services in Bahrain supported by the UK have been accused of ‘serious and persistent’ human rights abuses. A joint Human Rights Watch and Bahrain...
US and Canada cut off aid to new Hamas government
TRYING to divide the Palestinian leadership, the United States and Canada on Wednesday suspended contacts with and aid to the new Palestinian 24-member Hamas-formed...
150,000 public sector workers strike – manning 250 picket lines across...
WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...
‘We will negotiate with EC’ says Tsipras
THE Greek leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras in an interview with the Athens left daily Avgi on Sunday...
US ‘dismayed’ at the ‘humiliating defeats’ of terrorists by Syrian army...
SYRIA says the US is ‘dismayed’ to see the return of normal life to Aleppo province because of the ‘humiliating defeats’ of the Washington-sponsored...
ISRAEL OKs NEW HEBRON SETTLEMENT UNITS – while Israeli unions plan...
PALESTINIAN Arabic dailies on Friday highlighted the Israeli government’s approval of the construction of new settlement units in the heart of Hebron’s old city....
‘Police violence is not situational it is endemic’ – ACLU
OVER the past few days new police shootings of black men confirmed a warning from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that ‘significant racial...
Grangemouth Workers Issue Appeal
Striking Grangemouth workers have issued a direct appeal to the people of Scotland. They took out a series of adverts in the Scottish media yesterday...
3,000 Boston University workers begin indefinite strike for pay, healthcare and...
The SEIU union that represents over 3,000 Boston University (BU) graduate student workers started an indefinite strike on Monday. The decision came a week after...
As Gaza genocide intensifies thousands of Palestinians are being detained
AS THE genocidal attack on Gaza intensifies and Israel expands its crackdown, thousands of Palestinian civilians, including medical workers, labourers and journalists, have found...
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GAZANS ARE STILL HOMELESS – and without...
TENS of thousands of Gazans are still homeless and without basic services such as piped drinking water three months after the 18 January ceasefire,...
10,000 SA workers indefinite strike
NEARLY 10,000 workers employed by the South African Revenue Services (SARS) began indefinite strike action last Thursday to fight for an 11.4% salary increase. Members...
Disabled People Demand Basic Rights
Disabled People will be protesting outside the DWP offices, Caxton House, 6-12 Tothill Street, London SW1 from 2.00pm next Monday, February 13. Disabled People Against...
PPPs are looting the planet – says Public Services International
A NEW report released by the UK-based Jubilee Debt Campaign provides a scathing critique of the failure of PPPs across a range of sectors...
Kerry Visits Egypt On The Eve Of Mursi Trial
US Secretary of State, John Kerry says that there are indications Egypt generals intend to restore democracy. He says that the USA is committed...
Ira End Armed Struggle!
The IRA yesterday announced the end of its armed struggle against British imperialism. The IRA statement said: ‘The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann has formally...
‘Let us fight together to transform workers’ lives across the world!’...
COSATU President Zingiswa Losi addressed Day One of the South African trade union movement Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday: ‘Comrades! Brothers and Sisters!...
THEIR MORALS AND OURS – ‘Civilisation can be saved only by...
AFTER 2008, the masses of the world showed they were not about to give up all their hard-won gains so that the banks,...
Trump stokes up Polish nationalism!
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test will have ‘consequences’, while launching into a tirade against Russia...
UN DEMANDS TOTAL ACCESS TO INTERNMENT CAMPS – as Sinhala youths...
TAMILNET reports that gangs of Sinhala youths brandishing Lion flags in the name of victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have...
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...
Portland fast food workers battle for $15.25 an hour!
YOUNG fast food workers in Portland, Oregon, USA, who are fighting for a $5 an hour rise above the US state’s minimum wage and...
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...
Internally Displaced Persons’ Homes Are Torched
TAMILNET reports that a fire at Poonthoaddam Refugee Camp in Vavuniyaa town last Wednesday destroyed 80 temporary sheds of internally displaced families. No...
The West using ‘dirtiest tricks’ against Moscow and Beijing says Russian...
THE COLLECTIVE West is using the dirtiest of tricks against Moscow and Beijing in a bid to maintain its hegemony, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey...
‘We need to push them to repeal Health Act!’
THERE was a lively fringe meeting on the first evening of the BMA Conference in Bournemouth on Monday, organised by the All Trades Unions...
Corby MP reneges on defence of Royal Mail – CWU branch...
Corby Postal Workers have agreed unanimously to campaign against the threat to privatise Royal Mail in Corby despite the local Labour MP Phil Hope...
‘TOWARDS FREEDOM – TOWARDS JERUSALEM!’ – Palestinans march on Naksa Day
Israeli gunfire killed 11 people and wounded about 220 others on Sunday as demonstrators on the Syrian side tried to cross the ceasefire line...
12.7% electricity tariff increase will entrench poverty for millions says South...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Friday that it strongly rejects the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA’s) decision...
South Lebanon Citizens Demand Shelter
The first cries by citizens were heard yesterday coming from the southern Lebanese town of Al-Taybah to express their indignation at the fact that...
‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free’
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ shouted Palestinians and their supporters demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy, west London, on Saturday...
Attack on workers rights in West Virginia
PROPPED up by out-of-state interests, extremists in West Virginia are pushing ‘right to work’ legislation that takes away rights from hardworking people trying to...
Philanthropy Is Promoting The Privatisation Of Education
‘Philanthropy and the privatisation of the democratic state: who needs a Ministry of Education?’ ironically ask the authors of a new report which sheds...
‘The mindset behind the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings remains present...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has condemned the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying the mindset behind such attacks remains present in Washington...
UFCW exposes ICE terror raids on workers
THE UFCW US trade union has reacted strongly against the mistreatment of migrant workers during US government raids where they have been illegally...
French Workers Taking Strike Action
THE Avignon theatre festival and France’s other summer arts festivals may not take place due to a strike threat by stage-hands and other arts-support...
‘West will pay a heavy price for supporting Al-Qaeda’ – says...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday that the West will pay a heavy price for its support of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Assad, whose regime has...
Boycott Wendy’s – demands fair food campaign
‘JOIN us in Palm Beach today as the Workers’ Voice Tour wraps up in Nelson Peltz’s hometown,’ said the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)...
STOP RACIST ATTACKS IN GREECE says Amnesty
THE Greek authorities must act immediately to curb the growing spate of xenophobic and racist attacks, Amnesty International says. It follows a brutal knife attack...