Aussie student nurses: funding frozen
AUSTRALIA’S Federal Government has quietly decided to freeze university funding for regional nursing and other students, warns Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union (QNMU). In a...
Huge Clashes Between Swazi Workers And Feudal Regime!
RELATIONS between the workers and trade unions of Swaziland and the rule of the feudal monarchy has almost reached the point of civil...
Unions in US major cities back Minneapolis strike against ICE
There is a growing strike movement across the United States against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s clampdown on Minneapolis as millions of workers...
Violence Against Refugees On The Hungary-Serbia Border!
UN REFUGEE Agency UNHCR is concerned about Hungary’s new restrictive law, amid increased reports of violence, and a deterioration of the situation at border...
Unison and EU public sector unions form ‘historic alliance’
UNISON and other EU public sector unions have formed an ‘historic alliance’. UNISON declared yesterday: ‘The fight back has begun. And UNISON is...
Doctor at centre of Baha Mousa’s death faces a six-week ‘fitness...
DR DEREK Keilloh is to face a six-weeks General Medical Council fitness to practice panel, commencing 11 June 2012, over his role in the...
Food Price Hikes Grip West Africa
Benin is one of several West African states gripped by soaring food prices. In a scene on a popular Benin TV series, a farmer named...
Hands off Medicare and Social Security! – Demand US workers at...
SENATOR Warren, and the Koch Sisters led the rally to protect Social Security, and Medicare organised by AFSCME members at the ‘Hands Off’ rally...
US screenwriters 98% vote to strike from May Day
Film and television writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the United States are to strike on and from May Day in...
US capitalism faces fiscal ‘heart attack’ – socialist revolution is the...
AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...
Civilians evacuated–water and power restored in Mariupol
ON SUNDAY, the Russian Defence Ministry announced the completion of the operation to evacuate civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. On May 5th, 6th...
Benefit cuts are criminalising the old and the low paid
‘FAMILIES are being forced to choose between staying on the right side of the law or feeding themselves,’ warned Labour’s Shadow communities secretary Hilary...
ENGAGE WITH HAMAS – MPs urge Brown government
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee of MPs has said the UK government’s ‘decision not to speak to Hamas in 2007 following the Mecca...
US expansion of sanctions is a ‘major obstacle’ – says Iranian...
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the United States expanding sanctions against Iran, is a major obstacle to the Vienna talks aimed at putting...
Syrian army regaining control in Ghouta
THE Syrian Arab Army has regained control over Madyra town and a number of farms near Jisreen town as part of the ongoing military...
Clover Workers Escalate Strike Action!
THE STRIKE at South African dairy giant Clover, that started on 22 November last year, has brought together unions, political parties, civic organisations and...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE –‘the lessons of Wapping are...
‘The historic printers’ strike set the scene for a struggle, not just against Murdoch but the whole capitalist state,’ All Trades Unions Alliance national...
Major Privatisation Drive In North Of Ireland
UNISON has called on the Public Accounts Committee and the Assembly Health Committee to investigate the startling growth of private medicine funded out of...
TRADE UNIONISTS LABELLED ‘FACTORY TERRORISTS’ – in the Philippines
Trade unions have been labelled ‘factory terrorists’ by the regime of Gloria Macapagaal Arroyo in the Philippines. Picket lines are being attacked and troops have...
‘Any American soldier setting foot in Iran enters a meticulously prepared...
As the US-Israeli aggression against Iran enters its fourth week, with none of the stated objectives materialising, the spectre of a ground invasion has...
Haitian workers will decide their own future!
A SOLIDARITY gathering with Haitian unions has reinforced the need to respect the right of the Haitian people to decide their own future, and...
COSATU calls public sector general strike in SA
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is to make Thursday a public sector general strike against the ANC government to press demands...
SCOTLAND’S HEALTH BOARDS NOT READY FOR 48-HOUR WEEK – warns BMA
With less than 250 days to go until all junior doctors in Scotland will be restricted to working a maximum of 48 hours a...
‘Hamas will stand firm against Israeli Occupation’ – statement on 42nd...
On the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Hamas Movement in Lebanon said that the Palestinian people would continue to stand...
IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE! – demands powerful east London march for Palestine
A POWERFUL march of 500 protesters for Palestine marched through east London on Saturday, setting off from Mile End and marching to Aktab Ali...
The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office issued its outlines on the ‘Progress on the United Front and the Movement...
Greek workers general strike! March for pay rise waving Palestinian flags!
LAST Wednesday’s 24-hour general strike in Greece saw tens of thousands of workers, students and young people, many waving Palestinian flags, taking part in...
French Teaching Unions Nationwide Day Of Action
TEACHERS’ unions in France held a nationwide day of protests and strikes on Tuesday to call for stricter sanitary measures in schools as coronavirus...
NUMSA to challenge NEASA lock-out!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it has ‘every intention’ of mounting a court challenge to the lock-out by the...
Israel has responded to Palestinian requests to cooperate in fighting ...
SAEB Erekat, Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said Israel has responded to a Palestinian request to cooperate in...
Kerry Returns To Middle East, Desperate For A Peace Deal
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry is to return to the Middle East later this week to resume efforts to draw Israel and the...
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...
GM Latin American workers meet in Sao Paulo!
WORKERS from General Motors plants across Latin America met in São Paulo, Brazil, last week to discuss and take action against workforce casualisation within...
Israeli troops shoot dead two Palestinian Civil Defence workers in Nablus
THE Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have slammed the fatal Israeli shooting of two Palestinian men at a military checkpoint south of...
Blinken’s Role in Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis
From the start of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was deeply involved. Just after 7th October, Blinken...
‘President Sanders’ would ban anti-union ‘right-to-work laws’
US SENATOR Bernie Sanders, who has said he intends to run the first unionised Presidential campaign in history, announced last Monday a policy proposal...
‘The Palestinian resistance will repulse Israeli aggression’ says Hamas Political Bureau
THE PALESTINIAN resistance is ready to repulse any Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, member of Hamas Political Bureau Khalil al-Hayya has said. Speaking at...
Close The Concentration Camps – Free The Tamils! – Say 30,000...
Despite the October chill, over 30,000 British Tamils and supporters took to the streets on Saturday, to highlight the desperate situation faced by Tamils...
SAFTU fights to end two-tier health regime
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions stands fully in support of the long-overdue introduction of a national health insurance (NHI) system, and welcomes...
NATO MEMBERS PREPARING FOR SYRIA INTERVENTION says Nikolai Patrushev
RUSSIAN Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev spoke on Thursday about the situation surrounding Iran and Syria, and the United States. He said: ‘The US would...
‘THIS ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT DOWN BEFORE IT BRINGS ALL...
THE Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection, Avi Gabay, has officially resigned in protest at the appointment of extremist politician Avigdor Lieberman as the regime’s...
Government responsible for deaths at Mid-Staffordshire Hospital
LAST month the Healthcare Commission (HCC) published a report following an investigation into Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. It found that the care of emergency patients...
LENIN STANDS HEGEL ALTOGETHER ON HIS FEET – He led the...
‘THE conformity of concepts with objects is not subjective,’ Lenin stressed in a comment on cognition in his Philosophical Notebooks, close to the end...
Palestinian Cabinet decides on West Bank only elections
THE PALESTINIAN cabinet decided on Tuesday to hold municipal elections on May 13 only in the West Bank with the exclusion of the Gaza...
Palestinians announce blood donation campaign for Syrian army
DAMASCUS, A blood donation campaign titled ‘A Drop of Blood from Damascus to Aleppo’ was organized in Damascus in appreciation of the sacrifices...