SAFTU is appalled ‘by the continued bungling’ of the National Student...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) released a statement on Monday saying it is ‘appalled by the continued bungling’ of the National...
Australian Esso workers 1 year on strike!
MORE THAN 500 Australian trade unionists marked the first anniversary of strike action by 230 workers employed by energy giant Exxon Mobil’s maintenance contractor...
Four million children growing up in poverty! – ‘Heart-breaking & wrong’...
‘IT’S HEART-breaking and wrong’ that a million children under 4 are growing up in poverty, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) charity. Almost 3 in...
Global unemployment is expected to rise in 2024
GLOBAL unemployment will rise in 2024 and growing inequalities and stagnant productivity are causes for concern, according to the ILO’s World Employment and Social...
Global strike for higher wages at McDonald’s
McDonald’s employees are planning a global strike next week. McDonald’s workers from New York, Chicago and Los Angeles will travel to eight countries on three...
Syria And Iran Agree Long-Term Strategic Cooperation
SYRIA and Iran have signed an agreement for a long-term strategic cooperation between the two countries in Tehran. The agreement was signed on Sunday...
Major Strike Action Erupting In Usa
SOME major strike actions are taking place in the USA. In Tucson, Arizona the collective bargaining agreement covering more than 530 Teamster represented employees of...
Dire Staff Shortages At Cancer Centres Across The UK – Investment...
Annual workforce figures released on Tuesday by The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) reveal the ‘dire’ staff shortages at cancer centres across the UK. Clinical...
‘WE ARE VERY CONFIDENT OF VICTORY’ – say Gate Gourmet sacked...
300 people attended a special Third Anniversary concert for the sacked Gate Gourmet workers at Hambrough Primary School in Southall, west London, on Saturday...
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...
NHS workers furious over 7th year of pay cuts!
NHS WORKERS are furious that they are to receive a measly 1% pay increase in 2017-18 – in reality another massive pay cut –...
Older people abandoned to die in care homes
OLDER PEOPLE in care homes were abandoned to die amid government failures during the coronavirus pandemic, Amnesty International accuses the Tory government in a...
Indian agricultural workers demonstrate against anti-farmer laws
Agricultural workers across India will protest today and tomorrow, January 7 and 8, in solidarity with the ongoing struggle of farmers against the contentious...
Syria is determined to recover the Golan ‘through all available means’
SYRIA has strongly condemned the controversial Israeli plan to double the settler population in the Golan Heights, warning against the ‘unprecedented and dangerous’ uptick...
Katrina Crisis Workers Were Abused And Exploited After Bush Suspended Labour...
WORKERS who headed to New Orleans in 2005 to help rebuild the Hurricane Katrina-devastated city were abused and exploited, according to a report by Interfaith Worker...
Marches for Gaza across the world
Many world capitals witnessed on Saturday demonstrations denouncing Israel’s ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, calling for an end to the war...
Some of the biggest US banks have underwritten billions of dollars...
Some of the United States’ biggest banks have underwritten billions of dollars in Israel bonds, including a substantial amount of $8 billion (£6.4 billion) in March...
Iran’s response will shock Israel – warns Shamkhani – after Israel...
IRAN’S security chief has brushed aside reports about Israel’s budget for a potential attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, warning the Zionist regime that it...
SA unions serve notice on Cyril Ramaphosa!
THE UNCOMPROMISING attack on corruption in the governing party by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has the potential to shake up...
Khadija Saye: Breath is Invisible
Khadija Saye 1992-2017 236 Westbourne Grove W11 2RH Until August 7th BY LUCY LAVER WITH THE reconvening of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry on Monday and the...
‘Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal’ says...
‘EMOTIONALLY, we are not coping. Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal,’ was the view of hospital nurse Mosima Doreen Mabeba...
UK sanctions torture, police shootings and deaths in custody – Amnesty...
In its Annual Report 2007, covering events of 2006, Amnesty International (AI) is scathing about the UK. It says: ‘The government continued to erode fundamental...
USA public service workers fight anti-union attack
IN ITS 5-4 decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Supreme Court ended the practice of requiring...
AICCTU unions condemn Modi government lies!
THE MODI government’s ‘lies and myth-making’ at the National Labour Conference have been denounced by the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU). The...
‘Change the Record’ launches ‘Walk to Jerusalem’
CHANGE THE RECORD, put on an afternoon celebrating Palestinian culture, on Saturday to launch ‘Just Walk to Jerusalem’. Both were organised by the rights...
South African Unions Claim Big Eskom Pay Victory!
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers, the National Union of Mineworkers and the Solidarity union have won a ‘a strategic victory for workers’ after South...
Thousands Demand Right To Return On Gaza Border
AT LEAST thirteen Palestinian protesters were shot and injured with Israeli live ammunition, on Wednesday, during mass protests commemorating the 71st anniversary of Nakba...
Saudi Arabia Using Banned Cluster Munitions In Sa’Da
AMNESTY International has corroborated new evidence the Saudi Arabia-led coalition recently fired banned cluster munitions in Yemen. The Brazilian-manufactured rockets struck three residential areas and...
CONTROL REGIONALISATION IS ‘BLEEDING THE FIRE SERVICE DRY’ – scrap Whitehall...
Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack says the deaths of four firefighters in Warwickshire has echoed in fire services around the world. The...
Israeli forces demolish hundreds of homes in Jerusalem
LAST year, Israeli officials approved plans for the construction of thousands of new settler housing units and demolished dozens of Palestinian-owned buildings in occupied...
‘If Pelosi cares so much for human rights she should apologise...
CHINA has called on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to express remorse and apologise for the atrocities committed by the Americans in Afghanistan, Iraq,...
Government Wants To ‘Rid North-East Of Any Witnesses Of The Carnage’
COLOMBO has abrogated the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) to remove the presence of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) which was instrumental in exposing...
‘THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ DO NOT NEED FOREIGN INTERFERENCE’ says Ba’ath...
THE Iraqi Ba’ath Party has issued a communique warning that the execution of Saddam Hussein is a red line that must not be crossed. The...
Abolish cladding loan scheme! demands Housing, Communities & Local Government Select...
THE CURRENT government-proposed cladding loan scheme must be abolished – and it should be replaced with a ‘comprehensive’ fund, a cross-party group of MPs...
AL-GHAJAR OCCUPATION A ‘TIME-BOMB’ – warns Lebanese Foreign Minister
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Na’im Qasim said last Thursday: ‘We proposed the national unity government as a positive concept.’ Speaking on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television, Qasim continued:...
2022 QATAR WORLD CUP DISASTER – Almost 200 construction workers killed!
ALMOST 200 Nepalese men died last year working on construction projects in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) says...
Amazon ‘illegally interfered in Alabama’s union vote’ alleges RWDSU
THE UNITED States’ Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is to file charges against Amazon on the grounds that they illegally interfered in...
Tamil political prisoners languishing in Colombo prisons–release them now!
ALMOST none of the 230 Tamil political prisoners currently languishing inside Colombo prisons had command responsibilities in the Tamil Tigers or even contributed...
US backs Israeli threat to second Freedom Flotilla
ORGANISERS of the second Freedom Flotilla say that an administrative complaint has been filed against the US Boat to Gaza, claiming that the vessel...
Renault Workers March Against Thousands Of Sackings
Angry, striking carworkers from Sandouville (Seine-Maritime) Renault plant demonstrated in the streets of Le Havre on Thursday, September 25. The French motor manufacturing giant recently...
BBC Panorama exposes HC-One – UK’s largest care-home operator!
MONDAY night’s BBC Panorama documentary exposed the operations of HC-One, which, with 265 facilities and a bed capacity of 16,116, is the UK’s largest...
IRAN’S ARMED FORCES HOLDING THE UPPER HAND – as demands gather...
IRAN'S highest operational command unit says the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces enjoy the upper hand in the face of the adversaries, and, therefore, do...
24-Hour Tube Strike Rocks Coalition
RAIL union RMT said Tuesday’s strike for tube safety and safe staffing levels on London Underground was ‘rock solid’, and demanded that the...
Putin Declines To Call Assad An Ally!
IN his recent interview with the German newspaper Bild Vladimir Putin was asked a number of questions about Syria. Question: Now let’s turn to Syria,...
‘NetHunter’ demands the release of 500 Palestinian prisoners!
HACKERS have managed to break into the Israeli regime’s ministry of military affairs, offering to sell stolen data unless the regime releases hundreds of...