Athens transport workers launch total ‘rolling’ strike
IN mass general meetings last Tuesday the Athens transport trade unions in the Metro system, buses, trolley-buses, and trains decided on a total ‘rolling’...
‘Drive out the privateers!’ demand Unison & RMT
NEW analysis by two trade unions shows that spending on private contractors for some key public services has doubled since Labour took power. Research by...
3,200 Boeing workers vote to extend indefinite strike
Boeing workers in the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union at three midwest plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed...
‘OPENING SCHOOLS TO THE MARKETPLACE IS WRONG’ – NUT slams Barclays’...
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) on Thursday slammed the announcement by Michael Gove that Barclays Bank will be supporting Academies, Free Schools, University...
Tampa General Hospital Must End Partnership With Israel
IN WASHINGTON on Friday, August 13th, numerous US organisations signed an online petition demanding Tampa General Hospital end their partnership with an Israeli business. Seventeen...
Israeli Settlers & Soldiers Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque
A GROUP of Israeli military forces and settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds and clashed with...
Syria Strongly Denies Supplying Scud Missiles To Hezbollah
SYRIA strongly denied on Thursday Israeli accusations that it has been delivering Scud missiles to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. ‘For some...
Occupy Movements At High Court
Anti-capitalist occupiers camped outside St Paul’s cathedral went down to the High Court on Monday in support of the Parliament Square occupiers who are...
2,000 students & teachers march in Athens
THOUSANDS of determined drama and arts schools’ students along with primary and secondary teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Wednesday in a...
Increase of maternal deaths a tragic indictment of the lack of...
THE ‘STATISTICALLY significant’ increase in maternal deaths reported on Thursday by MBRRACE-UK is a tragic indication of a lack of government investment in maternity...
Israel Guilty Of Crimes Against Humanity In Gaza
The latest health report from the Lancet considers Israel guilty of ‘crimes against humanity’ for the deaths of pregnant women and their babies at...
LONDON COLLEGES MARCH TO DEFEND EDUCATION – London Met cuts the...
Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their supporters marched through north London on Saturday in defence of education.Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their...
‘Free Julian Assange’ demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival
Campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, attended a ‘Night Carnival’ in London on Saturday. Approximately 2,000 people gathered at...
Teachers Condemn Tory Sats Tests Debacle
TEACHERS’ unions united together this week in condemning the Tory SATs tests ‘debacle’, vividly reporting the harm they are doing to children and insisting...
THE GRIM REALITY OF WATER PRIVATISATION – ‘A company swimming in...
‘THIS is the grim reality of water privatisation, a company swimming in debt while the rest of us are swimming in sewage,’ Unite General...
Teachers shortage crisis in schools!
SCHOOLS across England are at risk of teacher shortages in key subject areas, according to government figures released last Thursday. The figures show that there...
Iran rebuffs Israel’s use of Hitler’s ‘Big Lie’ technique
IRANIAN Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei says the Israeli media is running a campaign of fabricated stories regarding casualties in recent terrorist riots in...
Three Gaza Strip Civilians Die From Starvation!
MEDICAL sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday that three civilians had died from starvation and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, according...
US union to vote on Israel boycott
By Tithi Bhattacharya – a professor of South Asian History at Purdue University, and a long time activist for Palestinian justice THIS week UAW 2865,...
London And Cambridge Strike Action!
ROYAL Mail staff walked out on strike in London and other parts of the country again yesterday, as a national ballot by the Communication...
500,000 March Against The Coalition Attacks
OVER half a million trade unionists and youth from every town and city in Britain joined Saturday’s TUC march against the savage spending cuts....
48 SOUTH AFRICAN FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS ARE SUSPENDED! – after working...
THE SOUTH African City of Ekurhuleni on Monday suspended 48 female firefighters after they protested about their working conditions and the non-payment of shift...
More than 200 Palestinians killed by Israel this year!
ISRAELI forces have killed a young Palestinian man in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, only a day after they fatally shot...
Armed scabs in US ports battle
ILWU longshore workers in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, are facing a union busting attack by Marubeni who owns Columbia Grain and United Grain...
Top World Health Organisation Official Is Extremely Worried About Polio &...
A TOP World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday that he’s ‘extremely worried’ about polio and other outbreaks of communicable diseases in Gaza...
South African textile workers fight poverty and exploitation
A march of 3,000 clothing workers organised by the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) brought the town of Newcastle to a...
Directors amassing pension pots worth an average £3.8 million says TUC...
DIRECTORS of the UK’s top companies have amassed pensions pots worth an average of £3.8 million, according to the new TUC PensionsWatch survey published...
RIGHTS OF MINORITIES ‘A GREY AREA’ IN GREECE – says...
FOREIGNERS shot on the border, asylum-seekers detained in metal containers, Roma forcibly evicted from their homes in Athens – these are some of the...
Arab Leaders Meet With Rice And Gates
EGYPTIAN presidential spokesman Sulayman Awwad said yesterday that President Husni Mubarak’s talks last Tuesday 31 July with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and...
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...
GADAFFI SPEAKS TO LIBYAN PEOPLE – and to the world
TRIPOLI – Colonel Gadaffi on Wednesday made a major address to the Libyan people. He began: ‘Dear great Libyan, resisting, steadfast and brave people. I...
‘DON’T LET YOUR FIRST JOB BE YOUR LAST’ – TUC warns...
DON’T let your first job be your last, TUC warned young summer workers yesterday. As four million under 25 year olds go to work this...
FEEDING THE HUNGRY IN THE USA! – letter carriers collect 743...
THE National Association of Letter Carriers’ (NALC) annual food drive collected 74.3 million pounds of food and was the second most successful in the...
Saftu Marches For Better Wages And Working Conditions!
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – has applied pressure to companies employing their members, with...
Abbas Attends Moscow’s Victory Parade!
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas was among up to 30 world leaders on Saturday to attend a huge military parade in Moscow commemorating Russia’s 70th anniversary...
ESSEX FBU STRIKE BALLOT ‘Don’t doubt the outcome’ – warns Brigade...
Essex fire crews have given formal legal notice of a strike ballot in a dispute over frontline cuts and changes forced through without proper...
‘Unilateral’ ceasefire in Idlib
Russia says Syrian government forces have suspended their operations against foreign-backed Takfiri militants in the northwestern province of Idlib as part of a ‘unilateral’...
Government Fails To Meet The NEU’s Five Tests
OVER 1,200 members of the National Education Union (NEU) – all of whom are teachers who work in special school settings with children, many...
Benefit sanctions are a ‘truly shocking nightmare’
CIVIL servants union PCS has slammed the increase in benefit sanctions on the unemployed, that average at 64,307 per month, as ‘truly shocking’. PCS added...
Sudan marchers demand an end to ‘counter-revolutionary war’
ON SATURDAY, over 500 people marched for Sudan from the BBC in Portland Place to Downing Street to demand an end to the war...
Kerry & Biden battle it out over Syria
VICE President Joe Biden said on Saturday that if upcoming negotiations fail and no political solution to the civil war in Syria is possible,...
Down with the junta of the IMF!
• No to the destruction of the state pension system • Down with the junta of the IMF-European Commission-Papandreou! • For an indefinite Political General Strike! Statement...
Thousand across US join ‘Strike for Black Lives’
Tens of thousands of US workers walked out of their jobs on Monday in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement and other minority groups...
School Support Staff Are Struggling To Cope With Workload
MORE than half (52%) of school support staff across the UK have experienced stress, anxiety or depression as they struggle to cope with their...
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...