GREEK FASCIST PARTY LEADERS ARRESTED – workers determined to destroy them
THE leader and four parliamentary deputies of the fascist Golden Dawn party, along with 13 party cadres and two policemen, were arrested on...
‘We’re ready to take on the government and the employers’ –...
Prof Philip Banfield, Chairman of BMA Council had opened the rally. He said: ‘Every day I am 100% committed to restoring your pay and...
Britain involved in smuggling arms to terrorists in Syria since 2012...
BRITAIN was involved in smuggling arm shipments to the terrorists in Syria from the beginning of 2012, training and organising them under the name...
‘There must be prosecutions, there’s got to be accountability’ says Manchester...
WEDNESDAY was the 6th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 tenants and residents of Kensington and Chelsea perished in their homes on...
Angry South African workers march on municipal offices!
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) held a demonstration on Thursday marching to the Midvaal Municipal offices, south of Johannesburg, in protest against...
‘TELL HAMAS TO DISARM’ – US urges Putin
Senior Hamas official Ismail Haniyah, who topped the Islamic movement’s national list of ‘Change and Reform’ in the parliamentary elections, said last Friday that...
Zimbabwe workers ‘robbed of their wages’!
A NEW report on the non-payment of workers’ wages in Zimbabwe was released earlier this month in Harare, entitled ‘Working Without Pay – Wage...
David King 1943-2016
BY ALEX MITCHELL GRAPHIC designer, photographer, collector and writer David King dedicated most of his adult life to celebrating the Russian Revolution of 1917. He produced...
OUTSOURCING DESTROYS WORKERS CONDITIONS – study confirms
THE John Smith Institute have produced a series of damaging case studies on the impact of outsourcing on employees’ terms and conditions. Outsourcing leads to: •...
‘Any attempt to use force against Manus Island refugees could lead...
RESPONDING to a notice issued by Papua New Guinea (PNG) authorities on Thursday morning at the Lombrum refugee detention centre on Manus Island stating...
ANC government intends to slaughter thousands of workers’ jobs – SAFTU...
IT HAS become clear that the ANC government is intending to slaughter thousands of workers’ jobs, said the South African Federation of Trade Unions...
Millions turn out for Tuesday’s pension strike in France
MILLIONS of workers and youth took part in the first of two new mass strikes and demonstrations in France on Tuesday in opposition to...
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...
THOUSANDS DETAINED AND TORTURED IN IRAQ – Amnesty report condemns US,...
‘Nearly three years after United States (US) and allied forces invaded Iraq and toppled the government of Saddam Hussein, the human rights situation in...
Stop Evictions! Occupy Ealing Hospital! Demands May Day March!
‘WHEN they move to close the maternity and A&E at Ealing Hospital, staff, unions and the community must occupy. A General Strike is coming,...
Amnesty warns over Gulf States human rights record – PM May...
AMNESTY International has warned that the human rights records of Persian Gulf Arab states must not be ‘swept under the carpet’ during the upcoming...
The Israeli army carried out a horrific massacre during its military...
THE Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific massacre during its military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City recently over the...
‘We Will Be Here Indefinitely!’
‘We will be here indefinitely!’ was the defiant message on Tuesday night from the anti-capitalist occupiers who have built up a ‘tent city’ outside...
MILIBAND SUPPORTS BOYCOTT OF COMMONWEALTH HEADS SUMMIT says BTF
MORE than 2,000 Tamils and their supporters marched from Embankment to Downing Street on Saturday afternoon. They demanded the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference planned...
‘ACT QUICKLY TO BUILD MORE COUNCIL HOMES’ – MPs urge Beckett
A delegation of members of the Council Housing group of MPs at Westminster met with Housing Minister Margaret Beckett last Wednesday, February 4th, to...
United Farm Workers Slam Trump For Plans To Slash Farm Workers’...
PRESIDENT Trump’s proposed H-2A rules would harm not help, US farm workers and reduce protections for both domestic and foreign field labourers, warns the United...
US workers take May Day action
While reflecting on a long year of labour struggles at UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz), students looking to the future continued to call...
Lebanese speaker condemns UN role in the Lebanon
NABIH BERRI, the Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies, has condemned the role of the United Nations in the Lebanon after an Israeli...
US put pressure on Abbas to halt payments to families of...
INTERNATIONAL pressure on the Palestinian Authority to halt payments to the families of Palestinians held in Israeli jails, including those convicted of attacks, could...
Palestinians want vote on statehood by end of year
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry left early Sunday for a series of meetings in Europe seeking to head off an end-of-year UN...
Tens Of Thousands March To Defend NHS
‘WE are going to fight to keep our hospitals, even if it means occupying them to keep them open,’ shouted demonstrators fighting plans to...
GPs angry at cuts and NHS privatisation
GPs meeting in London on Thursday reacted angrily to the government’s cuts and drive to privatise, and press and government propaganda blaming GPs for...
Palestinian Premier Hamdallah is to visit Gaza Strip
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said on Thursday that no mechanisms had been put in place to ensure the implementation of the reconciliation agreement...
Sri Lankan workers fighting Ansell Lanka Ltd union busters
Australian-based manufacturer of medical gloves and condoms, Ansell, is attacking workers in its supply chain, suspending 800 striking trade union members in Sri Lanka...
Gate Gourmet Struggle A Major Issue On London May Day March
OVER 12,000 trade unionists and numbers of youth joined the TUC May Day demonstration through central London on Monday, at which locked-out Gate Gourmet...
An inflation-busting pay rise is needed to keep key NHS staff...
FOUR out of five NHS staff say pay is the main reason they would quit their jobs. An exclusive poll of NHS staff yesterday revealed...
NATO MEMBERS PREPARING FOR SYRIA INTERVENTION says Nikolai Patrushev
RUSSIAN Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev spoke on Thursday about the situation surrounding Iran and Syria, and the United States. He said: ‘The US would...
VIRGIN CARE HAS WON £1bn OF NHS CONTRACTS IN ONE YEAR!
MULTI-BILLIONAIRE Richard Branson’s private health company Virgin Care has won £1bn worth of NHS contracts in a single year. Private providers are winning an increasing...
Russian forces have taken control of half of the eastern Ukrainian...
RUSSIAN forces have taken control of half a key industrial city in eastern Ukraine, as they continue an unrelenting push deeper into the Donbass region. A...
Over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners launch open-ended hunger strike
MORE THAN 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike on Monday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned...
10,000 on London Al Quds Day march! – rally closed down...
‘FROM the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!’ more than 10,000 Al Quds Day marchers chanted as they proceeded from Marble Arch,...
IndustriALL demonstrates at mine owners Glencore HQ
IN RESPONSE to mine owners Glencore and Xstrata’s arrogant refusal to meet with a delegation of IndustriALL global union affiliates to discuss labour issues...
Teachers Slam Tory ”exam Factories!’
THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) on Saturday published: ‘Exam Factories? The impact of accountability measures on children and young people.’ This research demonstrates the...
Ban facial recognition Demand campaigners after ruling
LIBERTY, Privacy International and 30 organisations have called for Parliament to ban the use of facial recognition technology, one year after judges found the...
Israel kills 3,500 Lebanese, targeting health facilities & cultural sites
ISRAEL has killed at least 3,452 people and injured more than 14,664 in Lebanon since hostilities began last October between the genocidal Zionist regime...
SAFTU calls for President Ramaphosa’s immediate resignation
AGAINST a background of rolling blackouts, rising poverty and an out-of-control cost of living crisis, the South African government of Cyril Ramaphosa now faces...
SIRTE IS LIBERATED FROM ISIS – says Libya’s unity government
TRIPOLI – Libya’s unity government leader Fayez al-Sarraj on Saturday officially announced the end of military operations in Sirte, after the liberation from Islamic...
The Gap Between The Richest Americans And The Rest Is Growing...
THE gap between the richest Americans and the rest of the nation has widened after the recession, highlighting the worsening income inequality in the...
Australian Unions Fight For Workers’ Rights
The UNI Communicators Forum, attended by union communicators from across the globe, has received a report on Australia’s unions’ battle for the rights of...
Tuc Supports Strikes By Writers Guild Of America
British trade unionists on Wednesday demonstrated their support for America’s striking screenwriters as part of an international day of solidarity called by the Writers...