Striking Butler Hospital workers reject pay offer and remain on strike
Three weeks after Butler Hospital management issued what it called its ‘last, best and final’ contract proposal, the union representing striking workers has ‘overwhelmingly’...
METRORAIL STRIKE DECEMBER 6th – announces COSATU
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) will be going out on strike on the 6th December 2011 against Metrorail and the declining...
US workers battle for union representation
THE demand for union representation is growing amongst workers in the United States. Loyola University catering workers rejoiced on November 2nd, after they received news...
‘Lebanon cannot be a soft spot for harming Syria’ – nor...
‘Lebanon cannot be a soft spot for harming Syria and the latter cannot be a conduit for harming Lebanon,’ said Hezbollah’s Sheikh Na’im...
Special assistant to the US chief of staff has publicly resigned...
A Jewish-American political appointee who worked as a United States Interior Department staffer, has publicly resigned from her post, in protest against the Joe...
‘MASSIVE UNREST LOOMING’ says Unison
‘TIME to care for those who care’ or face the prospect of massive industrial unrest is the message behind UNISON’s evidence to the NHS...
Saftu Condemns Energy Privatisation!
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) has condemned the privatisation of energy generation to ‘capitalist companies’ and expressed its support for...
PALESTINE WILL BE FREE! – Message from PALEXPO July 6th &...
THOUSANDS turned out over the weekend and packed the main auditorium sections at the Olympia Stadium, London for the PALEXPO exhibition to boost the...
Seven US Soldiers Killed Near Haditha
Seven US marines have been killed in western Iraq, the US military said yesterday. The soldiers were killed on Monday near Haditha, a town...
Medical Students Face £70,000 Of Debt
Medical students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...
‘A HUMAN RIGHTS CATASTROPHE CONFRONTS TAMILS IN SRI LANKA’ – warn...
TamilNet reported on Wednesday a press conference of Canadian Academics for Tamil Rights in Toronto. The academics stressed recognition of the self-determination of Tamils as...
‘Trump’s victory leads to outsourcing jobs’ – warns Sanders
PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump may be touting his deal with heating and ventilation systems manufacurer Carrier as a triumph for working-class Americans, but Vermont Sen....
Trade Unionists Being Murdered In The Philippines!
THE International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is bringing a complaint against the Philippines over the murder of trade unionists. The ITF is joining forces with...
IOPC reviewing destruction of Malkinson evidence
THE IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct) has begun an investigation as a result of its review into the way Greater Manchester Police handled...
Keep St Helier A&E, Maternity and Children’s Hospital open!
HEALTH bosses have now confirmed that they are pushing forward with their plans to close three children’s wards in SW London including all of...
Hebron settler’s powers to be expanded – ‘MOST DANGEROUS SINCE 1967’...
HEBRON governor Kamel Hameed on Saturday said the Israeli army’s decision to expand municipal powers of illegal settlers in the city of Hebron as...
French ‘yellow vest’ protest today!
LES GILETS JAUNES, France’s nationwide ‘yellow vest’ protest movement, has organised to unite and descend on Paris today Saturday 24 November, in an attempt...
Two Palestinians killed by settlers in West Bank – Israeli planes...
Deir Jarir town, near Ramallah, was brutally attacked again at dawn on Monday by settlers under the protection of the Israeli occupation force (IOF)...
Israeli Forces Storm Hebron Protest Camp
HEALTH workers in the West Bank will escalate their strike action next week, their union said on Sunday. Osama al-Najjar, the head of the healthcare...
National lockdown too late without test and trace – North hit...
THE GOVERNMENT’S announcement of a national lockdown on 31st October, after trying to stave off this ‘nuclear’ option for two months with tiered restrictions,...
Tunisians march on fourth anniversary of revolution!
TUNISIANS on Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the revolution that toppled strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and sparked a mass wave of protests...
THE WAY OUT! – Negotiate with the Resistance, Punish the criminals!
The Brussels Tribunal and the International Anti-Occupation Network have issued the following statement on Iraq entitled ‘The Way Out’: ‘If the US military declare...
Camden threats to rough sleepers ‘may breach human rights laws’ ...
Liberty, the human rights organisation, has written to Transport for London (TfL) and Camden Council warning that recent threats issued to rough sleepers may...
Defend pensions against Labour renegade Hutton
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow has called for joint action to defend pensions against the proposals of Labour renegade Lord Hutton. Crow said: ‘It is...
Siptu Ready To Strike Over Public Sector Pay!
PUBLIC sector workers union SIPTU has declared that it will authorise strike ballots unless the Irish Government opens talks on public service pay. SIPTU General...
Lebanese Camps Exact Toll On Over 400,000 Palestinians
NEW research published in The Lancet has uncovered the hidden health toll that refugee life in Lebanon has taken on more than 400,000 Palestinians. The...
Empire Windrush II launches 75th anniversary celebration in Brixton!
Cresting through the paper waves and spraying water all over the toddlers and six year olds, teenagers and grannies the Empire Windrush (II), blew...
‘NO EDUCATION CUTS’ – demand Tower Hamlets strikers
TOWER Hamlets College staff and students will demonstrate tomorrow, Tuesday July 7, outside the Board of Governors meeting, demanding: ‘No education cuts!’ The east London...
MASSACRE IN BEIT HANOUN – Hamas vows revenge
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Friday evening condemned the Israeli Army for firing into a crowd and killing two Palestinian women during a...
Under the spotlight: Israel’s indiscriminate use of internationally banned weapons!
‘AS the Israeli regime’s bombing campaign against Lebanon continues to claim innocent lives, the indiscriminate use of internationally banned weapons has come under the...
Gaza unemployment – highest in the world!
THE latest World Bank economic update said that Gaza’s unemployment rate – at 43.9% – is now the highest in the world, stressing that...
TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMME OUR GUIDE FOR TODAY – Part three: The Transitional...
Military disaster stares Bush and Blair in the face in Iraq, where the toppling of the puppet regime in the Green Zone will result...
Hezbollah Slams Delay Of National Unity Government As ‘Sectarian Incitement’
HEZBOLLAH has slammed the delay in forming a new government in Lebanon, as ‘sectarian incitement’. Following a Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc meeting at the...
Israel ‘main source of instability in West Asia’
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has condemned the Israeli occupation regime as the main source of instability in West Asia, and warned that the...
High Court Gives Go Ahead For Legal Challenge Over Iraq Civilians...
The High Court has given the go-ahead for a legal challenge over the torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of UK troops. Last Friday,...
US communication workers Labour Day fightback
‘ON this Labour Day, CWA members aren’t taking it easy. Across our union, we’ve been mobilising for fair contracts, organising new members, fighting back...
Pna Being Bullied To Prevent Hamas Standing
The Palestinian National Authority is being bullied into choosing between democracy or empty coffers, the Palestine Media Center (PMC) says. The PMC said on Tuesday:...
Palestinian women battle to survive in a Gaza dominated by destruction...
WHILE the world marked International Women’s Day on 8th March, women in the Gaza Strip are fighting a daily battle for survival amid the...
‘FAWU CAN’T GO BACK TO COSATU BECAUSE THERE IS NO COSATU...
THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...
Gaza ‘withdrawal plan’ aimed at entrenching settlements – warns Erekat
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will hold a summit meeting in Damascus on Thursday, 7th July, adviser to the Palestinian...
Mexican trade unions confronted by armed police
WORKERS attempting to hold a free and democratic unionisation vote at a Mexican silver mine owned by Canadian mining company Excellon Resources were confronted...
US Fight Against Low Pay Goes Global!
WORKERS in more than 230 cities in the US walked out to join mass protests against poverty level pay last Wednesday in what is...
Russian Right Wing Works To Split Medvedev From Putin
Putin’s attack on a mining company has given Medvedev a chance to show who’s boss, Russian Gazeta.ru news website said last weekend, looking to...
Doctors and nurses warn cuts mean new winter crisis
DOCTORS and nurses slammed government cuts and warned of a new winter crisis in response to the latest NHS Digital performance figures released on...
The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...
A STATEMENT by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office Bearers on Sunday outlined the union’s views ‘on the state of...