Gettelfinger Has No Answer To ‘The Race To The Bottom’
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger spoke at the Michigan State University School of Labour and Industrial Relations in East Lansing, Michigan on April 10th...
‘THIS IS MORE THAN ENOUGH!’ – Palestinian population being caged in...
‘ENOUGH is enough!’ The Palestinians must be treated with equity, with Israel ending its occupation of the Palestinian territories. That was the message from the...
HEZBOLLAH ‘JIHAD FOR CONSTRUCTION’ – dispenses £10,000 for each destroyed...
The Lebanese Hezbollah movement on Monday began paying compensation to the residents of buildings that were totally destroyed in the city of Baalbek by...
Medical Students Are Deep In Debt!
Medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating over £13,000 more in debt than their better off peers, says a new report from the BMA. The...
Thousands march in support of the Venezuelan government
VENEZUELA’s President Nicolas Maduro has urged the United States to discuss ‘peace and sovereignty’ in a high level commission mediated by the Union of...
Australian Government Forced To Back Down Over Baby Asha!
AUSTRALIAN unions have applauded the community #LetThemStay alliance that forced the Turnbull government to back down on Sunday from sending baby Asha and her...
Defend pensions against Labour renegade Hutton
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow has called for joint action to defend pensions against the proposals of Labour renegade Lord Hutton. Crow said: ‘It is...
WASHINGTON ROWS OVER SURGE POLICY – while Bil Laden proclaims ‘US...
GENERAL David Petraeus, the top US military commander in Iraq, has clashed with his immediate military superior over President George W Bush’s troop ‘surge’...
Australian Unions Support Sri Lanka Workers
AUSTRALIAN unions AMWU, CFMEU and TCFUA held a rally outside of Ansell’s Australian headquarters on Thursday, following the denial of entry visas to a...
BRITAIN UP TO ITS NECK IN EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION – says ex-SAS...
AT a press conference called by the Stop The War Coalition in London on Monday, ex-British SAS soldier Ben Griffin read out the following...
‘Inquests Behind Closed Doors Unacceptable’
Human rights organisations said yesterday that legislation enabling inquests into those who have died in police custody or been killed at the hands of...
AUSTRALIAN ‘WORK CHOICES’ LAWS ‘BAD FOR WORKING FAMILIES’ – says ACTU
Reports that another large employer has labelled the Howard government’s Industrial Relations laws as ‘farcical’ and ‘pointless’ is further evidence that the government’s IR...
MEDICARE, MEDICAID, SOCIAL SECURITY MUST BE DEFENDED! – says SEIU...
Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement after both Republicans and Democrats last Thursday announced their...
IRISH WORKERS SHARE BURDEN OF ECONOMIC CRISIS – says Irish Congress...
THE one per cent economic crisis levy on the wages of every worker in the Irish Budget was described as ‘a crude instrument that...
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...
Barghouthi Writes To Fatah’s Sixth General Congress
ON 4th August, Al-Hayat al-Jadidah daily carried a report saying that ‘Marwan al-Barghouthi, Fatah secretary and Legislative Council member, has sent a letter to...
Children were killed in their homes as they slept! – demand...
THE Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip during July and August 2014 claimed the lives of 501 Palestinian children. Defence for Children International –...
Black Lives Matter: 60,000 Rally And March In London
SIXTY THOUSAND youth and older workers joined the Black Lives Matter march in London on Saturday, from Parliament Square to the Home Office, then...
‘THERE MUST BE ACTION TO SMASH THE BILL! –doctors, medical students...
OVER 2,000 consultants, GPs, medical students and their supporters marched from the British Medical Association head office, Tavistock Square to Wednesday evening’s TUC rally...
AFL-CIO ‘hope to work with President-elect Trump’
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released the following statement on the results of the 2016 presidential election in which he declared his willingness to work...
Nafha Prisoners Will Be Joining Hunger Strike
PALESTINIAN prisoners being held inside Israel’s Nafha prison have announced that they will be joining an upcoming mass hunger strike on Monday April 17,...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – over 100,000 workers march in Athens
OVER 100,000 workers flooded the entire Athens city centre on Thursday March 11th, in a magnificent demonstration on the day of a 24-hour general...
Brown’s Planned ‘Reforms’ A Recipe For Ending The NHS
On January 7th 2008, prime minister Gordon Brown made a key policy speech on the NHS, in which he called for ‘continued reform’ and...
Israel Steps Up Jerusalem Demolitions
Israeli bulldozers demolished two Palestinian houses in the Ath-Thuri neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Al-Quds Centre for...
Writers Guild Of America Takes Indefinite Strike Action
HOLLYWOOD writers took to the picket lines on Monday to begin their first strike against the US film and television industry in nearly two...
Defeat The Health And Social Care Bill!
BY ANNA ATHOW, BMA COUNCIL, IN A PERSONAL CAPACITY THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government is determined to push through the Health and Social Care Bill...
Deliveroos Fighting Slave Labour Pay And Conditions
OVER 100 Deliveroo food delivery company couriers and supporters met in Camden, northwest London on Tuesday evening to discuss their campaign against slave labour...
‘Profiteering from the deaths of innocent children’ – War Child UK...
WAR Child UK has accused UK weapons manufacturer BAE Systems of ‘profiteering from the deaths of innocent children’ by selling missiles and fighter...
‘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...
‘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...
NUT Conference votes to fight Coalition cuts on the disabled
A militant National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay on Monday voted to defend disabled people against the attacks of the coalition...
‘We stand united to defend pensions’ -says NUT leader CHristine Blower
School teachers, further education college and post-92 university lecturers in London are taking part in a one-day strike and demonstration today as the next...
‘ALL-OUT AND UNCONTROLLABLE WAR’ – if West attacks Syria, warns...
A SENIOR Iranian lawmaker has warned the West against a military attack on Syria, saying such aggression will threaten the security of the entire...
This BMA ARM must decide on action to defend NHS! –...
THE health services in England and Wales and Northern Ireland are in massive crisis. In February, The Francis report on Mid Staffordshire hospital (MSH)...
Chicago boss charged with fraud over alleged underpayment!
THE owner of a northwest Chicago suburban construction company, Schaumburg, has been charged with fraud for allegedly underpaying union employees and underfunding their pensions. Joseph...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
Walmart Workers Win Raise As Oil Workers Strike & West Coast...
AMERICA’S largest private employer, retail giant Walmart has announced plans to raise wages for more than 500,000 hourly employees at its US stores. Walmart said...
Metrorail strike against neglect and overcrowding
COSATU has announced it is to strike on 1st December 2011 for better train service in Western Cape. In a statement the Confederation of South...
Trump stokes up Polish nationalism!
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test will have ‘consequences’, while launching into a tirade against Russia...
Turkey And Iran Being Driven Into Conflict Over Syria!
A Turkish newspaper discussing the conflict emerging with Syria has urged restraint to avoid confrontation with Iran. Yeni Safak said: ‘Have you realised that Tehran’s...
‘Refugees–let them in!’ – 100,000-strong march through central London
MORE than 100,000 people marched through central London from Hyde Park to Parliament Square on the REFUGEES WELCOME HERE! march on Saturday. The march was...
‘ACT QUICKLY TO BUILD MORE COUNCIL HOMES’ – MPs urge Beckett
A delegation of members of the Council Housing group of MPs at Westminster met with Housing Minister Margaret Beckett last Wednesday, February 4th, to...
US separates 2,000 children from their families as they cross the...
ALMOST 2,000 children were separated from their families at the US border over six weeks, officials say. Following a Trump administration crackdown on ‘illegal’...
FEEDING THE HUNGRY IN THE USA! – letter carriers collect 743...
THE National Association of Letter Carriers’ (NALC) annual food drive collected 74.3 million pounds of food and was the second most successful in the...
‘UK should examine its own destructive past actions in the Middle...
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the United Kingdom needs to take a retrospective look at its past destructive actions in the Middle...