US unions condemn Trump officials!
THE Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) issued the following statement in response to the Senate confirmation of billionaire public education novice Betsy DeVos as US...
Student Nurses, Unpaid And Uninsured, Are Treating Coronavirus Patients – And...
STUDENT nurses who are currently doing their placements are facing serious risks. Their lives are at risk as many are treating coronavirus patients and...
Hamas ‘absolutely rejects’ Trump’s ‘Deal of Century’
HEAD of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has written to all presidents, kings, and emirs of Arab and Islamic countries; Secretary-General of the Arab...
Migrant workers’ conditions similar to those in 1700s
MIGRANT hospitality workers in the capital have compared life on zero hours contracts to conditions in Britain during the Industrial Revolution, as the government...
‘Too early to talk about negotiations with USA’–Taliban
THE Afghan Taliban militant group says it is ‘way too early’ to speak of restarting direct negotiations with the United States, a day after...
Iran cements strategic relations with Russia!
THE speaker of the Iranian Parliament is on his first official foreign visit to Moscow with the goal of further cementing the two countries’...
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...
Gadaffi Rejects ‘Med Union’ As ‘Crusaders Containment’
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...
Settlement Building Must Stop Immediately! All The Settlers Must Be Evacuated!
ARAB and Islamic countries in the United Nations are drafting a resolution to ask the UN Human Rights Council to adopt the conclusions of...
New Hampshire SEIU endorses Bernie Sanders for President!
The New Hampshire chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president. In doing so, the Granite...
‘RENATIONALISE OUR RAIL’ says RMT
‘THIS IS nothing short of a scandal and reinforces the demand for nationalisation of our rail,’ the RMT union said on Monday. The train union...
Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced...
Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced quality of patient care and increased rates of deaths from treatable causes, according...
Special needs children are not getting the support they need!
CHILDREN and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need, according to eight-in-ten (83%) education staff. In...
Seven Unions Picket Cosatu House Against Numsa Expulsion!
THE leadership of seven Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) affiliates have congratulated their Gauteng branches for picketing outside Cosatu House last Friday...
Von der Leyen vows to transform the European Union into a...
URSULA von der Leyen who has been re-elected as European Commission (EC) President, has vowed to transform the EU into a defence bloc in...
Deadly State Violence Against Children Exposed
A MANUAL obtained by a children’s rights charity under Freedom of Information laws reveals details of extremely violent restraint and so-called distraction techniques for...
LOW WAGES WILL LEAD TO SOCIAL AND RACIAL TENSIONS – Irish...
THE Irish trade union movement has been discussing the dangers that a low rate minimum wage, if not corrected, will lead to it being...
OAXACA TEACHERS BLOCK ‘REFORMS’ – ‘a mechanism for privatisation’
TEACHERS in Oaxaca, Mexico, have taken their fight against their government’s punitive ‘education reform’ to a new level this month, with highly visible actions...
Israeli Occupation Forces Are Seizing The Land!
ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES ARE SEIZING THE LAND! THE ongoing seizure of Palestinian land for the expansion of an illegal settlement in the West Bank –...
South African Unions Fight For Democratic Rights In Swaziland
The Swaziland government has banned a peaceful protest planned by the trade union movement for 12-14 April. South African trade unions are supporting Swaziland workers. The...
NATFHE NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION ON JUNE 1st – after Northumbria suspends the...
Northumbria University has stepped back from its decision to make immediate deductions of 100 per cent of pay from hundreds of lecturers belonging to...
TRADE UNIONISTS MURDERED FOR DEFENDING WORKERS’ RIGHTS – ICFTU report
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEEN trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested,...
The Lesson From The NHS Logistics Betrayal
NHS Logistics was taken over by DHL on 1 October – the Blair/Brown government’s first privatisation of an NHS department so far. The supplier of...
Glencore Locks Out Australian Workers
ON THE same day the global Paradise Papers scandal exposed the offshore tax havens and tax avoidance strategies of companies including multinational mining giant,...
Shocking Impact Of Freezing School Funding And Cuts!
AS the Tory government freezes school funding, a National Union of Teachers (NUT) survey shows the shocking impact of cuts so far. A survey of...
Stop Ealing Maternity closure–Occupy!
‘OCCUPY Ealing Maternity Department to stop its closure on 1st July,’ Ealing Hospital nurse, Claire, a Unison member, told News Line on Monday. A demonstration...
Sudan’s civil war escalates – RSF leader bids for power!
WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...
Israeli Settlers Burn Farmlands!
RESIDENTS of Huwwara village, south of Nablus, reported on Thursday that Israeli settlers had set dozens of dunums of farm lands on fire, destroying...
Guaido One was defeated and Guaido Two will be crushed! –...
VENEZUELAN Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has rejected a European Union statement which calls for ‘further independent verification of the electoral records, if possible by...
Stop east London GP surgery closures!
EAST London GPs, patients and supporters on Thursday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen...
May Day – Trade Unionists Demand A General Strike!
UP TO 10,000 workers trade unionists, students and youth were on the London May Day march from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on Wednesday. There...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘The revolution will make...
Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN 7. Internal Forces of the Russian Revolution (Appeared in the New York daily paper...
New York taxi drivers strike against Trump travel ban – Uber...
THE Uber CEO retreated from the White House Business Advisory Group after organised immigrant drivers protested at the ‘Muslim ban’ and #DeleteUber went viral. New...
‘TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION WITH THE POSTAL WORKERS TO DEFEND...
THE trade unions must take joint action with the postal workers to defend their members’ jobs and basic rights. They must go forward to bring...
SADDAM WAS ASSAULTED AT THE COURT HEARING – insists his defence...
ABD-AL HAQ-AL ANI, counsellor for the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s defence panel, has revealed that an assault took place on the Iraqi leader at...
MI5 ‘unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years’ says Liberty
THE British security and snoop service MI5 has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years,’ alleged rights organisation Liberty. ‘It has also failed,’ Liberty...
Class Struggle Sharpening In South Africa!
THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU), as the majority union at the Clinix Health Group, is on strike today over substantive...
Sri Lanka unions condemn violent army attacks
AT LEAST eight media workers were beaten and violently assaulted by security forces and police during live coverage of Saturdays anti-government protest outside Prime...
Heathrow workers ‘flying picket’ protest for London Living Wage
WITH WAVES of strike action currently under way across UK airports, hundreds of workers are set to join a mass protest at Heathrow tomorrow,...
Greek journalists oppose new broadcaster which threatens 500 jobs
THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have expressed their deep concern about the Greek government’s ‘unacceptable’ plans...
‘MARCH IN YOUR MILLIONS’ – Defiant Gadaffi urges masses
IN a live speech to the Libyan people over Libyan state Al-Jamahiriyah TV last Tuesday the, Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gadaffi said that...
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...
‘We are fighting for the NHS and fighting to win’ –...
PICKET lines were mounted outside hundreds of ambulance stations across the country on Monday as 23,000 Unison, Unite and GMB paramedics and other ambulance...
‘We want no more weasel words – we want immediate recognition...
On the fifteenth National march for Palestine over one hundred thousand workers and youth took to the streets in central London in support of...
Israel’s exploitation of Palestinian water resources condemned
ON UN World Water Day last Saturday the Palestinian Mission UK recirculated a previously published brief by the PLO-Negotations Affairs Department entitled ‘Israel’s Exploitation...