‘Labour history was made in Chicago last July’ – UNITE HERE...
‘Labour history was made in Chicago last July with a merger that has paid real dividends for American workers’, says the UNITE HERE trade...
‘BIN HOWARD’S WORKCHOICES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE’ – Australian trade unions...
THE Australian trade unions have welcomed the victory of the Labour Party in the general election, but doubts are growing over whether the new...
US, Turkish And Japanese Workers Unite To Fight Capitalism!
THE AFL-CIO trade union federation in the USA has given its support to the Turkish trade unions and workers and youth who have been...
‘BELARUS WILL NOT JOIN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’ – says Lukashenka
‘ABSOLUTELY nothing depends on Belarus’ in the construction of the union state with Russia, said Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Minsk on 29 May...
STAFF, PATIENTS AND VISITORS – determined to keep Chase Farm open
Staff, patients and visitors are determined to keep Chase Farm Hospital open. They welcomed the latest over twenty-strong monthly picket of the Enfield hospital site...
Gadaffi fighters still holding Sirte
Fighters loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi mounted a fierce counter-attack in the city of Sirte on Saturday, forcing back the NATO-backed NTC counter-revolutionaries...
BUCHNER, BRENTON AND REVOLUTION! – The revolutionary role of Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn By Howard Brenton Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside Until 21 August, Tickets: £5 - £35 IT’S the little emphases throughout Howard Brenton’s new play at the Globe that...
‘DON’T GO BREAKING MY ARTS’ – eight unions launch campaign to...
OVER 200 people attended a ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Arts’ rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday night. The rally was organised...
US SUPPORTS ISRAELI ONSLAUGHT as Abbas holds talks with Mubarak
After cancelling a planned October 2 meeting with Israeli premier Ariel Sharon, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and his delegation arrived in Cairo on Tuesday...
NHS Direct Action fighting NHS privatisation
ON WEDNESDAY morning, at 9.00am, 15 NHS Direct Action and UK Uncut activists visited 2020health to protest against the think-tank’s role in lobbying...
DEFEND NHS WITH OCCUPATIONS AND A GENERAL STRIKE! London marchers ...
UP TO 20,000 doctors, nurses, other health workers, trade unionists, older workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday afternoon, angrily demonstrating...
Bma Reps Battle Leaders To Defend NHS At Annual Meeting
THE British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting (BMA’s ARM), June 2006 turned into a struggle between the leadership, which supports the government’s privatisation reforms,...
TEMPORARY WORKERS USED AND ABUSED – TUC urges protection against exploitation
TEMPORARY workers in Britain are being paid illegally low wages, having unlawful deductions taken from their pay packets, and are being denied holiday pay...
1,000 days in Belmarsh–Free Assange now!
JULIAN Assange supporters held a lively protest outside the Australian High Commission in London on Wednesday, the 1,000th day of his imprisonment in Belmarsh...
‘Water And Electricity More Important Than Constitution’ Say Iraqis
Iraq’s newspapers warned Tuesday of the risk of the total collapse of basic services like electricity and water, saying upgrading them was more important...
Iran offers to replace Iraqi oil to bail out US!
DEPUTY Oil Minister for International and Trade Affairs Ali Majedi has voiced Iran’s readiness to speedily replace Iraq oil in the world market if...
STRIKES, SIT-INS AND OCCUPATIONS IN EGYPT –as workers fight to scrap...
Between 1st January 2011 and 31 December 2011 there were 335 labour protests in Egypt, said a report issued by the Egyptian Ministry of...
Prominent Tamil Editor Abducted In Colombo
TAMILNET reports that the prominent Tamil Editor Nadesapillai Vithyatharahas been abducted in Colombo. Eyewitnesses told TamilNet that armed...
CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE DETAINED IN TINSLEY – says Owers
A damning report, the second in seven days on the British government’s practice of incarcerating children in UK removal centres was published yesterday. Excerpts follow...
Bush, Blair And Ahern Welcome Ira Statement
The IRA announced the end of the armed struggle against British imperialism in a statement issued on Thursday. The statement said: ‘The leadership of...
Israeli Warships Shell Gaza Fishermen
Israeli warships bombarded Palestinian boats off the Sudaniyya shore north of Gaza City Monday morning, Nizar Ayyash, head of the Fishermen’s Union...
Egyptian class struggle continues
While Egypt’s presidential election has dominated the headlines, the class struggle continues unabated with workers determined to defend their rights and improve living standards. Egypt’s...
‘THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ’S OIL’ Part two – ‘We are fighting...
HANDS Off Iraqi Oil – the campaign launched to stop the theft of Iraq’s oil reserves – says that mainstream media coverage ‘has uncritically...
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...
Thousands March To Defend Rio Tinto Alcan Jobs!
THOUSANDS of people marched through the streets of Alma in Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec province on Saturday to demand an end to the...
‘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...
72 YEARS SINCE THE NAKBA CATASTROPHE! – Palestinian worldwide population now...
JERUSALEM – On the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the Palestinian dispersal and expulsion from their homes and land in Palestine on May...
‘WE ARE FIGHTING SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE FOR OUR...
‘WE made Marks and Spencer their profits!’ said an angry Fenland Food worker fighting the closure of her factory and the loss of hundreds...
‘SUSPEND EU-ISRAEL TRADE AGREEMENT!’ – demands Labour MP at Downing Street...
OVER 800 people attended the latest fortnightly picket outside Downing Street on Saturday to demand: ‘End the siege on Gaza!’ Thousands have taken part in...
French Workers Fight Wage Cuts, Sackings And Privatisation!
Bagneres de Bigorre, a small town near Tarbes has been hit by a wave of redundancies and short-time working in the local factories. Over 500...
New Zealand Remembers Struggle For 8-Hour Day
MONDAY was New Zealand’s Labour Day, an annual public holiday falling on the 4th Monday of October, commemorating the struggle for an eight-hour working...
Unison Promotes Divisive Pensions Deal
Heather Wakefield, UNISON National Secretary, Local Government Service Group, last Wednesday rushed a circular out to branches. This contained campaign materials to demand the same...
THEY DEMAND THAT WE JOIN RUSSIA – Lukashenka condemned Putin leadership
BELARUSIAN president Alyaksandr Lukashenka has blamed the Russian government for the oil transit crisis earlier this month. Speaking to reporters while casting his vote in...
Islamic Jihad slams hostile US statements
THE statements by American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her visits to Tel Aviv and Ramallah are ‘aggressive and anti-Palestinian’, the Palestinian resistance...
UAW-Ford deal on VEBA health care trust
US autoworkers union UAW and Ford have reached a tentative deal to modify terms of their agreement on the Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association...
Bush Refuses To Aid Victims Of Alabama And Georgia Tornadoes
THE AFL-CIO US trade union federation has condemned President Bush for his lack of any action in support of the victims of the recent...
Greek Workers Besiege High Court
GREEK health centre workers and doctors, on indefinite strike for over a month, demonstrated once again last Thursday in Athens against a government Bill...
Private companies will hit junior doctors’ training
Increased competition in the NHS could jeopardise the quality of doctors’ training, the new leader of the UK’s 49,000 junior doctors warned on...
‘THE UNITED STATES CANNOT DECIDE OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE’ says Khalid...
Al-Jazeera satellite TV carried live on 15 October a 50-minute episode of its weekly programme ‘Open Dialogue,’ hosted by Ghassan Bin-Jiddu. He interviewed...
‘Occupy–Stop The Closure Of Chase Farm To Defend Patients And Jobs!’
PATIENTS, staff and local residents joined the North-East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday, and agreed with the call...
RELEASE HUBER BALLESTEROS! – and all Colombian political prisoners
JUST as preparations were being made for the launch of a campaign to call for the release of Huber Ballesteros and the other several...
8 US SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ – while Britain is sending...
EIGHT US soldiers have been killed across Iraq in the past four days, including three in roadside bombings Wednesday morning, the US military said. Two...
‘WALSH IS OUT TO SMASH THE UNION’ –it must now use...
‘THIS is like the 1980s with the miners, even though this is meant to be a democracy and we’ve got the right to withdraw...
‘They are planning to get rid of the whole of Ealing...
ANN FRANKLYN, 22 years a nurse and midwife at Ealing Hospital, carrying heavy bags, stopped at the occupation at 6.30pm on Friday evening. ‘Today...
‘THERE WILL BE ‘BIG CHANGES’ IN EGYPT’S GAZA POLICY– Ambassador Yasser...
Egypt’s ambassador to the Palestinian territories Yasser Othman on Tuesday said there will be ‘big changes’ in Egypt’s policies towards the Gaza Strip. Othman told...