UCU SLAMS PLANS TO AXE DEGREE FUNDING – adults and part-time...
Government plans to axe degree funding for certain students contradict its own lifelong learning agenda and will hit universities offering courses to adults and...
Father of Yellow Vest whose hand blown off to sue
THE FATHER of the Yellow Vest protester who had his hand blown off by a gas grenade in Paris on Saturday says he plans...
Verizon Workers Ratify Their New Deal
VERIZON union workers represented by the CWA and IBEW ‘overwhelmingly’ ratified a new four-year pact set to run through to August 2019. Verizon Communications and...
BBC pay fight looms
The BBC has expressed ‘surprise’ at the claim by its recognised unions for an increase of £1800 per person from August 1, broadcasting union...
Academics & Scientists Call For Boycott Of Israeli Conference In Occupied...
IN an Open Letter published on Friday in the Guardian newspaper, 15 academics and scientists from around the world expressed opposition to holding a...
The US will repeat the mistakes of Afghanistan!
AN inspector general appointed by the US Congress to examine the war in Afghanistan has listed Washington’s failures in the 20 years of war...
Tens of thousands of VW workers strike across Germany
66,000 VW employees went on a ‘warning strike’ on Monday, said their union IG Metall on Tuesday. A union statement continued: ‘The employees are making...
17,070 Disabled People Have Died Before Receiving One Penny In Benefits!
IT NOW takes so long for claims to be processed that 17,070 disabled people have died before receiving a penny because they were still...
‘LEBANESE PRISONERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE’ – says Hezbollah
SHEIKH Na’im Qasim, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, told a Beirut rally marking the ‘29th anniversary of the arrest of Samir al-Qintar’ in Israel and...
Palestinian left to bleed to death
A PALESTINIAN was shot and left to bleed to death by the Israeli army at Beit Anoun junction to the east of Hebron on...
Greek Workers Need Revolutionary Party!
TWO weeks before the Greek general election, due on June 17, Alexis Tsipras the leader of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) last Friday...
US Trade Unions Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down...
CURFEWS are now in place in cities right across the USA after President Trump sent in the National Guard to try and drive back...
Gm ‘Tentative Contract’ Threat To Wages And Jobs
Manufacturing jobs and the United Autoworkers Union (UAW) are at risk together from two-tier wages in the GM ‘Tentative Contract’, warn rank-and-file UAW workers...
TROUBLES BILL: ‘Provides a blueprint for letting state forces and other...
MPs WERE urged to reject the UK government’s ‘cruel and contemptuous’ Northern Ireland legacy bill as it returned to the House of Commons for...
Syria Puts Fighting Terrorism Onto The Geneva Agenda!
SYRIA’S official delegation has managed to put counter-terrorism on the agenda as stated by the Geneva Communiqué during a joint session concluded on Wednesday...
Police Chief Knew Marikana Operation ‘Would Involve Bloodshed’
THE Inquiry into the police massacre of 34 Marikana miners at the Lonmin pit and the wounding of hundreds more is continuing. On Monday, the...
SAFTU DEMANDS ARREST JOOSTE! – after Steinhoff shares plunge by R134bn
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) demands that Markus Jooste, the former Chief Executive Officer of Steinhoff, be arrested and charged with...
French Youth Demand – Withdraw The Hire And Fire Contract
FRENCH youth are in no mood to give up fighting for their employment rights. They are vowing to continue their blockade of universities and high...
Scotland’s A&Es ‘on the brink’ warns Royal College of Emergency Medicine...
THE NHS in Scotland is ‘on the brink’ as A&E hospital waiting times are the worst since records of them began, the Royal College...
3.7 MILLION IRAQI REFUGEES – The product of Bush and Blair’s...
‘The current exodus is the largest population movement in the Middle East since Palestinians were displaced following the creation of the State of Israel...
SEIU and Teamsters quit AFL-CIO
American trade unions, SEIU and the Teamsters have disaffiliated from the national AFL-CIO confederation, and four major unions – the Teamsters, Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE...
‘We Are Determined To Keep Chase Farm Hospital Open’
‘WE’RE having a very good picket today, enjoying the sunshine,’ North-East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers told News Line on Tuesday. He continued:...
PUBLISH YOUR EVIDENCE! – Students want Russell Group’s fees report made...
STUDENT leaders went to the Russell Group’s headquarters next to Trafalgar Square on Monday, to demand the Group makes public its evidence to the...
‘OUR PEOPLE ARE ONE AND OUR LAND IS ONE’ – extend...
A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was holding on Monday for a second day, despite continued violence in the occupied West Bank where two...
‘Brutal impact of Covid-19 on our healthcare services has been laid...
NHS STATISTICS highlight the ‘brutal impact’ of Covid-19 on healthcare services and patient care, doctor’s union the BMA said. Responding to the latest NHS performance...
Palestinians ready to break off all relations with the USA and...
ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier pledged to ensure the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jewish settlements of the Jordan Valley after US Secretary...
SRI LANKA: WORKERS FIGHT BRUTAL EXPLOITATION – Part 2; Appalling housing,...
THE living conditions of workers, the Tamils on the tea plantations and the Sinhalese on the rubber plantations, and their families, has...
US-NATO PLANNING MASSIVE AFGHAN WAR REINFORCEMENT! – 60,000 more troops demanded
The US and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase of troops for the war in Afghanistan, even in addition to the 17,000...
US struggling to keep up with Ukraine’s demand for weapons!
PENTAGON chief Lloyd Austin has signalled that the United States and its Western allies are having trouble keeping up with Ukraine’s demand for advanced...
Abu Tair and twenty-two others arrested in Israeli police raids...
ISRAELI forces detained Palestinian lawmaker Muhammad Abu Tair and at least 22 others from across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during...
UK STILL IMPICATED IN TORTURE – charges Amnesty report
‘REPORTS implicating the UK in grave violations of human rights of people held overseas continued to emerge,’ Amnesty International says in its 2010 Report. Amnesty...
Mexican Workers Defend Union Jobs
MEMBERS of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) are vowing to fight as long as it takes to defeat the government’s heavy-handed, anti-union moves...
Sun International fired 14 shop stewards to please Gupta family!
THE SOUTH African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) is taking Sun International South Africa hotel chain to court over the treatment of...
Jordanian MPs call for expulsion of Israeli ambassador – in response...
Dozens of Jordanian members of parliament have called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in response to the forced stripping of five Palestinian...
Lebanese condemn Israeli aggression
Lebanon’s president, prime minister and Parliamentary Speaker slammed Israel’s ‘aggression’ against the country on Tuesday, as Lebanese and Israeli occupation troops exchanged fire...
Renogiate Nafta Demand US Trade Unions
SINCE being established in 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement – better known as NAFTA – has triggered job losses, depressed wages and...
Teamsters win the key ‘right to picket’ the Amazon Air Hub
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters scored a key victory in the union’s national fight to organise workers at Amazon after a federal judge ruled...
The truth about sexual abuse in a British detention centre
By: Clare Sambrook First published in Our Kingdom WHAT is the government really doing to protect immigration detainees from their guards? In Parliament on Tuesday 15...
ATI threatens US workers health insurance coverage
ATI management recently mailed a letter to the homes of all of locked-out Steelworkers who are currently covered under the company’s programme of insurance...
‘PM Johnson’s promises are nothing more than hot air’ says GMB
‘THE PRIME Minister’s promises are nothing more than hot air,’ the GMB trade union said in response to Boris Johnson’s speech to the virtual...
100,000 march through Dublin
OVER 100,000 workers in their unions, with students and youth marched on Saturday through the centre of Dublin, furious at the 64 billion euros...
Israel ‘getting a taste of its own medicine’
BY AVIGAIL ARBANEL THE damage on the ground in Israel is far more extensive than people realise. The Israeli population is less interested in the...
Cardiff UCU staff vote 83% for strike action against huge job...
CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...
THE RIGHT OF RETURN IS NON-NEGOTIABLE – Palestinians declare
A NUMBER of Palestinian faction leaders and representatives emphasised last Saturday, that the refugee issue and the right of return is a Palestinian...
‘Our fight goes on!’ say Vestas workers
‘What do we want – nationalisation, now! Organise, occupy, fight for the right to work!’ shouted over three hundred sacked Vestas workers and their...