Local government employers cancel wage negotiations for 1.5m staff! 1,700 Environment...
THE GMB has reacted furiously to the local government employer’s announcement that they have unilaterally cancelled pay negotiations for 1.5 million staff working in...
AFL-CIO & SEIU are reuniting in the United States – 13...
THE AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Thursday that they are reuniting to launch ‘a new, long-term effort to make...
When US withdraws, Syrian crisis will end – Admits US Senator...
THE US Senator Richard Black has said that the ‘crisis’ in Syria ‘will be over quickly once (the) US withdraws its troops from Syrian...
‘LIFT THE BLOCKADE!’ – Abbas addresses Fatah rally in Gaza
HUNDREDS of thousands of supporters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party on Friday held their first mass rally in Gaza since Hamas took...
Tuc Forms A Common Front With The Bosses
The TUC has joined forces with the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), EEF the manufacturers’ organisation, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and The...
South Africa National Day of Action
TENS of thousands took part in a National Day of Action organised by South Africa’s National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) against...
‘Corruption Is The Programme Of The Elite To Steal From The...
‘We do not like corruption, because corruption is a programme of the elite in society to steal from the poor,’ said COSATU General Secretary,...
‘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...
Make corridor care ‘a never event’ – demand Welsh NHS unions
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) and the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales have joined forces to address the alarming state of corridor...
Doctors are suffering ‘emotional and psychological distress–since they cannot give...
BMA research finds doctors are suffering ‘emotional’ and ‘psychological’ distress because they cannot give patients the treatment and care that they need. New research by...
UN Concerned Over Force-Feeding Of Palestinian Hunger Strikers!
THE United Nations has voiced concern over a recently adopted Israeli law allowing the force-feeding of detainees and prisoners on hunger strikes in Israeli...
Nurses Call For National Strike Action To Defend The NHS
NURSES and other National Health Service workers called for national strike action from all unions to defend the NHS last Thursday. RCN and UNISON health...
‘13 Local Authorities Remain 20% Below Their Targeted Fundings!’
‘IT IS concerning that the Department of Health is not getting local authorities to their target funding allocations for public health quickly enough,’ says...
Saftu Set To Call National Shut-Down
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – applied pressure to companies employing their members last Thursday,...
French opthalmologists demand a halt to rubber bullets
FRANCE is experiencing an ‘epidemic of serious eye injuries’ as police repeatedly fire golf-ball-sized rubber bullets at Yellow Vest protesters, the country’s top ophthalmologists...
Junior Doctors Discussing One-Day Strike Action!
‘THE clear message we are trying to get across is that this is a fight for the future of the NHS,’ BMA junior doctors...
‘NON-COMPLIANCE’ RESTRAINT POWERS SLAMMED – after strangled 15-year-old’s inquest
The five week inquest into the restraint-related death of 15-year-old Gareth Myatt, who died in the privately run Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (STC) in...
‘No Difference’ Between Bush And Obama Policies Towards Iraq
SHEIKH Harith al-Dari, secretary-general of the Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), has said, speaking from Amman, that there is no difference between the...
US farm workers’ lives are being put in jeopardy says UFW
‘THE United Farm Workers (UFW) commends the efforts by Senators Udall, Gillibrand, Booker, Blumenthal, Harris and Markey to protect farm workers and their families...
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...
IAM Aerospace workers in the US demand a 40% pay rise...
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM) leaders at Boeing the aircraft manufacturers are demanding a 40 per cent pay rise over...
Millions of US workers fighting for $15 an hour!
AIRPORT and fast-food workers are expected to be joined on picket lines by child care workers, home care workers and graduate assistants, who are...
Spain probes Gaza rights violations
Spain on Thursday announced its decision to probe Israel’s rights violations in the Gaza Strip in support of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) ongoing investigation into...
Battles Rage In Iraq, Syria & Yemen
IRAQI paramilitary forces battled the Islamic State group southwest of Mosul on Sunday, the second day of an operation to cut jihadist supply lines...
Sa Workers Battle ‘Poverty Wages’
THERE is no end in sight to the strike at South African retail giant Shoprite’s distribution centre in Centurion, Gauteng Province, with workers vowing...
Ukrainian drones used against cities in Russia – and HIMARS attack...
AIR defences downed a Ukrainian drone approaching the Russian city of Voronezh, the regional government said in a statement on Monday. ‘Last night, air defences...
ISRAEL MULLING OVER NEW WAR! – warns President Ahmadinejad
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Iran’s arch-foe Israel was mulling starting a war ‘next spring or summer’ but has yet to make...
Occupation Contracted Out Torture To Iraqi Puppets
THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...
‘We will never forget and we will never let those responsible...
A 400 strong packed meeting at Lambeth Town Hall on Tuesday night commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Sean Rigg in Brixton...
Terrorists have gained from the ‘American Alliance’ says Syrian President Assad
PRESIDENT al-Assad has given an interview to the Chinese ‘PHOENIX’ TV Channel The following are excerpts from the interview: Question: You...
Sri Lankan Army Fires Thousands Of Rockets And Shells!
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired at least 2,600 Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL) rockets, more than 1,000 artillery shells and at least 2,000 heavy...
‘The system in place is responsible for the deaths of our...
OVER 300 United Families and Friends campaigners marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street to demand justice for their loved ones, who have died...
The Israeli Cabinet approves the legalisation of settlements
THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...
Community Camp 4Palestine celebrates 2nd anniversary
A WELL attended 200-strong pro-Palestine Festival was held on Sunday to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal) opposite the...
Greek teachers victimised after legal trade union protests
Over 1,000 secondary school teachers staged a militant rally on Wednesday morning at the Athens Education Authority where a Disciplinary Council was to examine...
South African municipal workers demand 15% increase
South Africa’s largest local government trade union the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), is set to table numerous demands for its members –...
‘EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE’ – or millions of Americans will have no...
Some 200 unemployed workers converged on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, on Thursday to demand that Congress act immediately to extend unemployment insurance to those...
Global Condemnation Of Israel’s Killing Of Palestinian Civilians
GLOBAL condemnation has poured in following a recent deadly attack by the Israeli occupation forces on Palestinian civilians seeking food aid in the besieged...
Thirty Palestinian Prisoners Join Shalabi Hunger Strike
The head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society announced last Monday that thirty Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike of Palestinian heroine Hana Shalabi. Palestinian...
Five Picturehouse cinemas out today!
FIVE Picturehouse cinemas are on strike this May Day. In a repeat of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history in April, five...
Israeli Forces Storm Hebron Protest Camp
HEALTH workers in the West Bank will escalate their strike action next week, their union said on Sunday. Osama al-Najjar, the head of the healthcare...
CWU pickets demand the TUC calls a general strike – as...
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) took strike action on Friday and Saturday and explained the reasons for doing so. In a letter to all its...
North American Workers Battle Attacks On Rights And Jobs
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) joined thousands of Canadians opposing the Conservative budget in a mass online protest on Monday. NUPGE...
‘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...
Lieberman resignation ‘a political victory for Gaza’ – says Hamas
ADDRESSING reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Lieberman said he deemed Tuesday’s Egyptian-mediated ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza ‘a capitulation to terror’. He added: ‘Despite the...