Ssangyong Workers Battle Korean Police
Hundreds of South Korean riot police on Tuesday clashed with laid-off workers who have occupied part of Ssangyong Motor Co’s only assembly plant for...
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...
FRENCH ECONOMY EXPECTING ‘BRUTAL SHOCK’ says Finance Minister Le Maire
THE FRENCH economy is expected to shrink 11 per cent this year because of the coronavirus crisis, much worse than the government’s previous forecast...
German GDLTrain Drivers Union 3-Day Strike
GERMANY'S GDL train drivers’ union started a three day strike yesterday which concludes tomorrow. The strike is an escalation of a wage dispute with rail...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW GP CONTRACT – it introduces American...
THE TITLE of the new GP contract is ‘Investment and evolution: A five-year framework for GP contract reform to implement the NHS Long Term...
Iran wins legal battle against US attempt to seize bank funds!
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as Bank Markazi, says the country has won a legal battle in Europe...
200 Children Held In Israeli Prisons
IN A REPORT on Palestinian resistance fighters held in Israeli prisons through to the end of August, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on...
Teachers to ballot for academies strike!
TEACHERS have voted to ballot for a one-day strike as part of a campaign against Tory plans to force every school in England to...
South African health unions demonstrate in Pretoria for more hospital doctors
SOUTH African health unions demonstrated outside the Health Ministry in Pretoria on Friday demanding that the ANC government increase the health care budget and...
Independent trades union candidates to stand in Egyptian general election
A court in the governorate of Qalioubiya, north of Cairo, has ruled in favour of independent trade union candidates taking part in the...
‘IT’S ONE RULE FOR TORY SLUSH FUNDS AND ANOTHER FOR THE...
TRADE union leaders on Wednesday reacted angrily to the Tories’ planned anti-union legislation and welfare cuts announced in the Queen’s Speech. Paul Kenny, GMB General...
Torture, flogging and killings! AT ISLAMIC SECRET PRISONS SAYS AMNESTY
TORTURE, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that...
DEFEND WHIPPS CROSS AND FIGHT FOR NATIONAL STRIKE ACTION! – call...
‘We have to take action at Whipps Cross Hospital against cuts and closure,’ consultant surgeon Mrs Anna Athow told a packed public meeting in...
Sri Lanka Assassinations Continue
A 28-year-old Tamil man, recently deported from the UK was found killed in Trincomalee on 18 April, news sources in the district told TamilNet...
‘A savage and ruthless bully!’ – South Africa’s NUMSA union denounces...
‘DONALD Trump is a creature of the US. NUMSA calls upon its brothers, sisters and comrades in the United States to deal with Donald...
‘THE POPULAR STRUGGLE WILL CONTINUE IN ITS FULL STRENGTH’ – 200...
ISRAELI police evicted dozens of Palestinian activists early Sunday from a first-of-its-kind protest camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for...
Unison condemns ‘brutal massacre in Gaza’
UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has joined others in condemning the ‘brutal massacre in Gaza’. Writing on the union’s website, Prentis said on Wednesday: ‘On...
RAJAPAKSE GIVEN ‘A LICENCE TO KILL’ –by the International Community
THE British Tamil Forum has condemned the statement by the Co-Chairs (US, EU, Japan and Norway) of the international community demanding that...
‘CALL THE PUBLIC SECTOR OUT’ – say striking post workers
Communication Workers Union (CWU) pickets were out in force on Saturday morning, in the first of the latest strikes against attacks on post workers’...
Bma Opposes ‘Deliberate Targetting Of Civilians In Gaza And Sri Lanka
Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Liverpool on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for Motion 247 on ‘humanitarian crises in...
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...
700 Haitian Families Evicted From Makeshift Camps
Haitian authorities forcibly evicted nearly 700 families from two make-shift camps in the last two weeks, reported Amnesty International. Hundreds of families were left...
Palestinians Have Been Banned From Any Kind Of Political Expression
FOR FIFTY years, ever since the start of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinians have been banned...
Maliki supporters threaten ‘insurrection’ if he is not made Premier
IRAQ’s election race tightened between the two main rivals Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the former Premier Iyad Allawi, after a count, of 79...
NHS BACKLOG ‘Dangerously close to crippling services’ – BMA
THE NHS BACKLOG is ‘dangerously close’ to crippling our health service as waiting times hit a record high, doctors’ union the BMA has warned. Responding...
Israel has killed 1.8% of Gazans in the last 10 months
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported this week that the Israeli occupation forces have killed, in the ongoing genocide war on the Gaza...
Settlers Launch Pogrom On Palestinian Village
OUTGOING Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the dream of a ‘greater Israel’ was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of...
Unionisation drives are sweeping Starbucks & Amazon across the USA
UNIONISATION drives are sweeping Starbucks and Amazon workplaces across the United States from East to West, with strikes gaining powerful huge support from the...
US-Made Cluster Bombs Found At Many Sites In Lebanon
The US State Department said last Friday it has launched an inquiry into whether Israel misused US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon during the US-backed...
10 Years After Katrina 100,000 Of The Poorest People Have Not...
TEN years of uneven recovery have exacerbated the economic inequalities that predated Hurricane Katrina, says Louisiana SEIU local 21LA. Without a doubt, the economic progress...
Myanmar military mass murder of workers and youth continues
THE NUMBER of protesters killed in Myanmar since February’s military coup has surpassed 320, according to the country’s Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which...
Republicans throw pro-Palestinian Congresswoman off Foreign Affairs Committee
NEWLY empowered Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted to oust Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee, because of her...
Youth bear brunt of economic collapse – says Canadian Labour Congress...
THE CLC (Canadian Labour Congress) in Canada have produced a report exposing the fact that youth are bearing the brunt of the mass sackings,...
‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEND THE NHS!’ – says...
A HUGE CROWD rallied in Whitehall, opposite 10 Downing Street on Monday afternoon, the first day of the British Medical Association’s three-day strike of...
Palestinian Medics Strike Declared Illegal
THE Palestinian High Court ruled on Wednesday that an ongoing strike by Palestinian medics in the West Bank is illegal, as doctors staged a...
‘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...
471 Days of israeli Crimes Gives Way to Ceasefire
Amidst an atmosphere filled with anticipation and hope, the residents of the Gaza Strip spent their first night after the ceasefire took effect on...
Displaced Palestinians have ‘no safe place’ to go!
THE United Nations says Israel’s indiscriminate strikes on the Gaza Strip and incessant evacuation orders have left displaced Palestinians with ‘no safe place’ to...
‘PALESTINIAN HEALTH SITUATION FACES COLLAPSE’ – PNA health minister slams siege
PALESTINIAN medical supplies are running out because of the economic siege in the occupied territories – with supplies of some basic materials already at...
UK’s 63,000 excess deaths during coronavirus: the highest in Europe!
THE UK has had over 63,000 excess deaths during the coronavirus pandemic, the highest in Europe. The Office of National Statistics, (ONS) calculates excess deaths...
Greek civil servants take strike action while Turkey erupts against Erdogan!
A 48 HOUR strike by civil servants in Greece was launched yesterday as the government negotiates further austerity measures with the troika. This followed...
‘AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL NEARLY A CEMETERY’ says World Health Organisation ahead of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Tuesday that al-Shifa Hospital is ‘nearly a cemetery’ and unable to bury dead bodies as the facility is...
‘NAME THE DATE FOR COORDINATED STRIKE ACTION’ – urges Prisoners Officers...
COLLEGE lecturers across London staged their second strike against the government’s pay-cutting strategy on Monday, June 9th, after taking part in national strike action...
Strike Wave Gripping South Africa
A STRIKE wave is gripping South Africa with fishermen, media workers and fuel industry and electricity workers taking action. In an eleventh hour decision ...
Female former LTTE cadres being continually abused
THE genocidal Sri Lanka military occupying the country of Eezham Tamils is routinely engaged in repeated sexual abuse of the former female members of...