Ssangyong Workers Battle Korean Police
Hundreds of South Korean riot police on Tuesday clashed with laid-off workers who have occupied part of Ssangyong Motor Co’s only assembly plant for...
AMCU accuses mining company of ‘underhand tactics’ to end strike!
THE ASSOCIATION of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) have blamed bosses at Sibanye-Stillwater of trying to interdict its protected strike, insisting the company has...
Join The Political Revolution–Sanders Urges US Workers!
US Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders called on US trade unions to rise up and join his political revolution to defeat the Koch brothers...
Thousands Pay Last Respects To Prabhakaran’s Father
THOUSANDS of people, including men, women and children paid their last respects on Saturday to the remains of the late Thiruvengadam Vellupillai, father...
Israel must immediately halt its discriminatory Death Penalty Bill! – urges...
ISRAEL must immediately halt the legislation of the discriminatory death penalty bill, urges the rights group Amnesty International. Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy,...
South African unions demand aid to meet fuel rises
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Wednesday that millions of South African workers and their families are being plunged into...
Staffing crisis! Patients waiting for operations! STOP TORY NHS CUTS!
IN RESPONSE to the most recent NHS performance statistics and the political situation in which they are occurring, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) director...
Scottish teachers demand full 10% pay rise
SCOTTISH teachers in the EIS union rejected a pay offer of 9%, demanding the full 10% pay rise that they are calling for. Teachers in...
South African engineering union NUMSA calls for ‘United Front’ to fight...
SOUTH AFRICAN engineering union Numsa is calling for the building of a new ‘United Front’ to fight for socialism in a strongly worded statement...
Orgreave was a planned attack on the miners
‘I WAS ARRESTED on that day at Orgreave. It was a really terrible day. There were thousands and thousands of police, I was walking...
MESSAGES OF RESILIENCE! – symbols of perseverance, resistance and defiance
‘WE promise we will rebuild them.’ These words were written by a Palestinian on the walls of a house demolished by Israeli airstrikes in...
Amnesty Condemns Egyptian Military
THE Egyptian military authorities expansion of the emergency law is the greatest erosion of human rights since the revolution forced the resignation of...
Scotland In The Red! 30,000 In Debt Crisis
In its report Scotland in the Red released on Tuesday, StepChange Debt Charity Scotland reveals that thousands of households in Scotland are being driven...
Palestinian forced to demolish his own home by the Israeli occupation!
A PALESTINIAN on Wednesday morning was forced to demolish his own house in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, reported WAFA’s correspondent. Following an Israeli court...
South Africa’s Steel Workers Take Indefinite Strike Action!
SOUTH African workers – members of the Numsa trade union in the steel and engineering sectors have embarked on an indefinite strike – recalling...
Eu Urged To Suspend Association Agreements With Israel!
MEMBERS of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Palestine (DPAL) Friday urged the European Union to suspend association agreements with Israel due to...
Barbaric massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees – 34 years since...
MARKING 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon last Friday, Saeb Erekat, secretary...
Nurses, Starbucks & Sodexo workers in US strike wave
THE STRIKE wave sweeping the USA continues to grow, with tens of thousands of nurses and hundreds of Starbucks and Sodexo workers being the...
Hospital workers in France strike against staff shortages
THE Federation of Public Service and Health Service Personnel Force Ouvrière (FO-SPS) has expressed its support for striking hospital workers. The FO-SPS said on Wednesday:...
Grammar schools segregate children by class warn teachers
‘THERESA May’s plans for new grammar schools are a regressive move and a distraction from the real problems facing schools and education,’ Kevin Courtney,...
Greek Trotskyists Call For Indefinite General Strike
THE Greek working class delivered a most powerful notice to all concerned last Tuesday with a militant 24-hour general strike called by the GSEE...
Continue the fight against US and Israel – says Iranian military...
THE Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) described confrontation with the US and Israel as the achievements of the Islamic...
Behind The Scenes Plan To Close Remploy Factories
THE GMB trade union say it has found out that senior members of Remploy management are visiting MPs to brief them about the closures...
Delphi postpones ‘motion for rejection of collective bargaining agreements’
US autoworkers union (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker, who directs the union’s General Motors and Delphi departments, yesterday issued...
900,000 still working on zero-hour contracts
THE TUC has reported: ‘The Office of National Statistics (ONS) release this week on the number of zero-hours contracts showed that there has a been...
Stop ignoring Israel’s targeting of journalists – UN told
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been urged to address Israel’s attacks on press freedom and escalating military actions in Lebanon and Gaza, as...
NHS BACKLOG ‘Dangerously close to crippling services’ – BMA
THE NHS BACKLOG is ‘dangerously close’ to crippling our health service as waiting times hit a record high, doctors’ union the BMA has warned. Responding...
‘Gadaffi Is In Good Health And In Libya!’
DAMASCUS – Musa Ibrahim, the Libyan government spokesman, gave a telephone interview last Monday with Iraqi businessman and owner of Damascus-based and pro-Al-Gadaffi Al-Ra’y...
‘Shell’s presence in Nigeria has led to environmental degradation, corruption and...
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell held a closed, online annual general meeting yesterday because of the coronavirus crisis. IndustriALL submitted questions to the company on...
NHS ‘safe staffing forum’ demands minimum legal safe staffing level!
SIXTY Unison nursing delegates gathered in Warwick last week for the ‘safe staffing forum’ in which the worforce crisis in the NHS was discussed....
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...
‘BRING TUBE MAINTENANCE BACK IN HOUSE’ – Tube workers tell Brown
ONE hundred angry RMT rail workers on London Underground lobbied Downing Street yesterday, demanding that tube maintenance work done by the collapsed Metronet private...
UN condemns Saudi air strikes on the Yemen
THE United Nations has strongly condemned the latest Saudi airstrikes against Yemen in which at least 12 civilians, including children, were killed, stressing that...
President Assad meets the Iranian Foreign Minister
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad received Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and an accompanying delegation on Monday. At the start of the meeting, President al-Assad...
Lebanon is facing a historic turning point! – it must preserve...
Sheikh Naim Qassem, the Hezbollah Secretary-General, says Lebanon is facing a ‘historic turning point,’ where it must choose between yielding to ‘US-Israeli domination’ or...
GAZA READY TO EXPLODE – warns Hamas leader
HAMAS leader Dr Usamah al-Muzayni gave a wide-ranging interview to the Gaza newspaper ‘Filastin’ last weekend, warning that ‘the continuation of the siege of...
ISRAEL MUST WITHDRAW FROM ALL 1967 OCCUPIED TERRITORIES – then we...
THE draft political programme of the Hamas-led national coalition government that was distributed to the representatives of the parliamentary blocs and forces during the...
‘We will defeat TPP’ says Trumka
‘THE hardworking families of the AFL-CIO will join with our allies to defeat the TPP,’ says Trumka. After the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Iran, Russia And China Begin Military Drills In Indian Ocean
IRAN, Russia, and China have kicked off joint military drills in the north of the Indian Ocean, with vessels from the three countries hitting...
Keep ICE out of World Cup tournament or we strike! –...
The Unite Here trade union which represents over 2,000 food service workers at the Los Angeles Stadium on Tuesday asked football’s governing body FIFA...
Hezbollah Thanks Iran For Its Aid To Lebanon!
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has thanked Iran for helping Lebanon weather its economic crisis, saying the Islamic Republic has proven to be...
‘Take immediate action to stop the genocide!’
‘The attack by the terrorist enemy army on the city of Rafah is a compounded crime, a deepening of genocide and forced displacement attempts...
Workers strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum throughout Europe!’ – says...
THROUGHOUT Europe, strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum, notes France’s CGT trade union federation. Faced with inflation and the energy crisis, demonstrators demand wage increases...
COUNTING THE COSTS 2010 –many families go without heating–and parents miss...
WITH CPI inflation reaching 3.2 per cent (0.2 per cent down), inflation for June remained 1.2 per cent above the Bank of England target....
Lecturers And Students March To Defend Pensions
‘OUR STUDENTS’ union supports our strike and supports our right to strike,’ Sean Rowland UCU committee member at City University said, speaking on Wednesday’s...