‘The government is helping senior civil servants to avoid paying tax’
Civil servants’ union, PCS has slammed ‘the unfairness of the government paying huge salaries and bonuses to senior civil servants, sometimes even helping them...
‘We Must Have Council Housing’
TENANTS who attended this week’s council housing inquiry at parliament say a programme of new council house building must begin immediately and projects to...
US black workers ‘disproportionately hurt by cuts’
A new study dispels the myth that immigrant workers are taking good-paying jobs away from American-born workers, says the AFL-CIO union federation. According to ‘The...
Israel plans settlement in heart of occupied Jerusalem
ISRAEL plans to build a new settlement in the central area of the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds, despite international condemnation, a new report says. Israeli newspaper Calcalist...
Boycott Israel Lift Gaza Siege
ISRAEL has turned Gaza into a ‘concentration camp’, demonstrators warned on Thursday night, at an emergency picket opposite Downing Street attended by over 50...
Almost Every School In The Country Faces £1,000 Per Pupil Slashed...
ALMOST every school in the country is to have its funding slashed, some by as much as £1,000 per pupil per year, under the...
‘AN ABROGATION OF RESPONSIBILITY’ – POA condemns plans to close 7...
THURSDAY’S announcement that seven prisons are to be closed in March 2013 will endanger the government commitment to a rehabilitation revolution, insisted the Prison...
South Africa introducing private energy producers! Cost-cutting will increase the price...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) spokesperson Trevor Shaku came out guns blazing and has charged that the Eskom energy production crisis...
Aamer Freed! Now Shut Down G-Bay!
‘SHUT down Guantánamo Bay!’ demanded human rights organisations on the day that Shaker Aamer was finally freed. After 13 years of languishing in Guantánamo Bay...
Syrian film wins award at ‘International Resistance Film Festival’
SYRIAN feature film ‘The Father’ has collected the Best Screenplay Award at the ending ceremony of the International Resistance Film Festival in Tehran. The...
Mexican Teachers Condemn Trump’s Military Threats!
MEXICO’S main teachers’ union has defended Venezuela against US President Trump’s threats of military action. In a formal statement, the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican...
Israel Approves 942 Settlement Units On The Eve Of Peace Talks
ISRAEL has approved 942 new settlement units for occupied East Jerusalem, a local official said Tuesday, on the eve of the scheduled resumption of...
12,000 Striking Ontario College Employees Reject Latest Contract Offer!
THE UNION representing 12,000 striking Ontario college faculty called on Tuesday for its members to reject their employers’ latest contract offer in a ballot...
‘We teach our children hunger is more bearable than humiliation’ ...
‘I feed my children sugar and water … but if they opened a corridor for us to leave in exchange for raising a white...
‘TAKE RESPONIBILITY FOR RECOVERY PHASE’ – 6th Buncefield report urges government
The Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board (MIIB) on Tuesday published its 6th report, covering emergency preparedness for, response to and recovery from a major...
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...
‘Any Israeli act of aggression will ignite new version of 2006...
THE HEZBOLLAH resistance movement has warned that any Israeli act of aggression against Lebanon will ignite an advanced version of the 33-day war fought...
South African textile workers fight poverty and exploitation
A march of 3,000 clothing workers organised by the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) brought the town of Newcastle to a...
‘RECOVERY’ HAS LITTLE MEANING WHEN MILLIONS ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS –...
THREE global trade union federations – representing 55 million industrial workers – have issued a call to the G20 summit, taking place in Pittsburgh,...
Over 60 million refugees worldwide
‘INDICATIONS from the first half of the year suggest 2015 is on track to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first...
‘Stop the starvation, stop arming Israel, end the genocide’
continued from lead article British/Australian doctor who had worked in Gaza, Mohammed Mustafa spoke wearing the scrubs that he wore in Gaza, saying: ‘These...
‘Cutting salaries and benefits will be met with hellfire’ – South...
‘ANY TALK of cutting salaries and benefits will be met with hellfire,’ Tahir Maepa, deputy general manager of the 200,000-strong Public Servants Association of...
‘Bringing Iran and our people to their knees is a pipe...
‘The enemies are seeking to sanction Iran because the country refuses to bow and won’t accept humiliation,’ President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday, dismissing...
Iran Hails Iraq Parliament Call For All Foreign Troops To Leave...
IRAN’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the assassination in January of top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq,...
Russia Making Major Advances In Ukraine
A Ukrainian drone has been shot down by Russian air defence systems over the Bryansk Region bordering Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said on...
Palestinians defy Israeli clampdown!
AT least four Israeli soldiers have been injured after an improvised explosive device was hurled at a military post in the central part of...
Bnp To Contest Northern Ireland Council Elections
By Irish political journalist John Coulter THE racist British National Party has confirmed it will contest the next Northern Irish council elections. Mid Ulster, Upper Bann,...
Workload Is The Cause Of Teacher Shortage Crisis!
WORKLOAD is the key driver of the teacher shortage crisis, putting people off becoming teachers and compelling enthusiastic teachers to leave, according to a...
Doctors and nurses warn cuts mean new winter crisis
DOCTORS and nurses slammed government cuts and warned of a new winter crisis in response to the latest NHS Digital performance figures released on...
Abbas To Force Through Referendum On Recognising Israel
PALESTINIAN president Mahmoud Abbas has the authority, and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has completed ‘administrative preparations’ for holding a referendum on a two-state...
French ‘yellow vest’ protest today!
LES GILETS JAUNES, France’s nationwide ‘yellow vest’ protest movement, has organised to unite and descend on Paris today Saturday 24 November, in an attempt...
Iran warns that if attacked its action will be ‘rapid, decisive...
Iran says West Asia and Gulf states are making collective efforts to prevent war as they are well aware that any act of adventurism against...
ABBAS-OLMERT TALKS ‘WILL LEAD THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE NOWHERE’ – warns Haniya
Ezzet Al-Resheq, political bureau member of the Hamas Movement, on Monday castigated Palestinian National Authority (PNA) president Mahmud Abbas for insisting on meeting with...
Three unions reps sacked at the Brixton Ritzy cinema!
THREE union representatives at the Ritzy cinema in Brixton have been dismissed by Picturehouse in a move described by their trade union BECTU as...
IMF presides over historic crisis of Capitalism!
NEXT week Washington will host the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. At this gathering, the world’s economic policymakers will...
Class Struggle Sharpening In South Africa!
THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU), as the majority union at the Clinix Health Group, is on strike today over substantive...
We need a general strike to bring down this government
OVER 100 workers, students and youth attended the Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists Rally and Film marking 100 years since the General Strike...
SRI LANKA ARMY SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES –at the hands of Tamil...
TAMILNET reports that officials of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said that 130 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed in the...
US Volkswagen workers win union recognition
UNITED AUTOWORKERS (UAW) officials on Saturday applauded workers’ ‘courage and persistence’ after a vote on union recognition at VW’s Chattanooga plant and...
Shut G-Bay down! 17 years of ‘Temple of Torture’
SEVENTEEN years since it opened, Guantánamo Bay remains as significant and problematic as ever, says Reprieve. The notion that the men in Guantánamo Bay...
Argentina 24-hour general strike to protest at President Javier Milei’s austerity...
On Thursday, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), Argentina’s largest trade union federation, held a 24-hour general strike to protest against right-wing President Javier...
Over 2 Years Since Grenfell Inferno And Still 321 High-Rise Blocks...
DESPITE it being well over two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, which claimed the lives of 72 men, women and children, only...
‘Total support for junior doctors’ – 102 CONSULTANTS WRITE TO SIR...
102 CONSULTANTS have written an open letter to Bruce Keogh, Medical Director of NHS England, in support of the junior doctors. It reads: ‘OPEN letter...
WE WILL FIGHT TO DEFEND PENSIONS – union leaders tell TUC...
THE TUC delegates in Liverpool at the 2009 Congress on Monday voted unanimously to defend public services. Composite Motion C21 Public Services and the Economy...
Netanyahu seeking to undermine ceasefire
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim has emphasised that no new ceasefire agreement exists, accusing Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to undermine the current...