Thousand across US join ‘Strike for Black Lives’
Tens of thousands of US workers walked out of their jobs on Monday in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement and other minority groups...
COSATU concerned at Goodyear plant closure
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Eastern Cape said on Thursday that is deeply concerned by the impending closure of...
Gmb & Unite Defend National Agreements
FULL-scale nhs privatisation under Section 75 of the Health & Social Care Act and cuts to terms and conditions of NHS Staff pose real...
‘SET THE DATE FOR SPEEDY DEPARTURE FROM IRAQ!’ – ‘Community’ union...
The TUC has published the Preliminary Agenda for the 137th annual Trades Union Congress, taking place from 12-15 September in Brighton. Very little action is...
Russia calls truce on 80th anniversary of Victory Day
Russia is ready to continue its dialogue with Western lawmakers both in North America and Europe, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday when speaking...
Starbucks unionisation war hotting up – 360 US stores now unionised!
THE AMERICAN National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) ruled on Friday that the Starbucks coffee chain had unlawfully threatened to withhold benefits if employees in...
‘MAY MUST GO!’ say 15,000 students and lecturers
OVER 15,000 students, lecturers and supporters marched through central London on Saturday to demand free education for all. The largest education demonstration in years was...
PCS considering further industrial action – while UNISON rejects NHS privatisation
THE GMB has commented on the written ministerial statement in the House of Commons yesterdayday on public sector pension talks. Brian Strutton, the ...
‘No cover-ups, no concealments’ – demand bereaved families fighting for justice
BEREAVED families, were joined by speakers from academia, sports, journalism and the arts at an event last Friday for a ‘Hillsborough Law Now’ event...
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...
Israeli troops stole $28m in cash from homes in Gaza!
THE Israeli military’s ‘Loot Unit’ has seized massive amounts of cash, gold and weaponry, among other items, since the start of the war on...
Prosecute Vale over mine deaths – demands USW
If anyone needs further proof to Vale’s global social neglect, it comes in a pair of dirty deeds committed by the Brazilian mining company...
‘THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE FOR ME AND OTHERS CONTINUES’ –...
head of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange avoided immediate extradition to Sweden on Monday after the High Court ruled that he has the right to appeal...
‘The Obama administration is afraid of the people’ – Snowden
EDWARD SNOWDEN the former National Security Agency worker who blew the whistle on the US’s spying activities has been denied asylum by a host...
Argentine universities begin five-day strike
Argentina’s university teachers began a five-day national strike yesterday (Tuesday) marking 300 days since Congress sanctioned the University Financing Law that right-wing President Javier...
‘Turkey Is The Main Destination For Isis Oil!’
THE Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov has given a briefing called ‘Russian Federation Armed Forces fighting against international terrorist. New data’. He said:...
Myanmar Garment Workers Strike
AROUND 2,000 workers from a garment factory in Yangon’s Zaykabar Industrial Park in Mingaladon Township went on strike last Thursday morning, declaring that violations of...
Nursing Shortage Putting Patient Safety In Danger
The shortage of nursing staff in England is putting patient safety in danger, the Royal College of Nursing warned yesterday as it launched a...
Athens transport workers launch total ‘rolling’ strike
IN mass general meetings last Tuesday the Athens transport trade unions in the Metro system, buses, trolley-buses, and trains decided on a total ‘rolling’...
UN calls for investigation into ‘inhuman acts’ by Israel at aid...
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has condemned Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians at aid distribution centres in the...
Burning of the US embassy in Honduras ‘a provocation’ says former...
A TEACHER has been arrested for allegedly setting the US embassy in Honduras on fire last Friday, following police repression of educators and doctors who are protesting against privatisations. A group...
Russia concerned about the USA’s militarisation of Space!
RUSSIA has stressed its concern about the growing ‘militarisation of space’ by the United States and its allies, and urged that such hostile measures...
The Israeli regime ramps up its aggression in occupied West Bank!
THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...
Gaza’s children slaughtered – sometimes by missiles, sometimes by hunger, always...
ON WORLD Day Against Child Labour, 12 June: Gaza’s crushed childhood turns into a struggle for survival, Hamas said yesterday. In Gaza, footballs, pencils, and...
GREECE: THOUSANDS SAY NO TO AUSTERITY – workers demand an indefinite...
OVER 30,000 workers, unemployed, youth and students, lawyers, small shop keepers and poor farmers filled up the large square in front of the Vouli...
CEASEFIRE NOW! – Halt the massacre of the Palestinian and Lebanese...
‘MY TOWN has been demolished. Children are still under rubble. Families are still under rubble,’ said Najid Faqih, from Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, as...
NUMSA to challenge NEASA lock-out!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it has ‘every intention’ of mounting a court challenge to the lock-out by the...
Union action needed to stop Gaza genocide!
For the rally at the end of the march a large stage was set up just beyond Downing Street, with the 300,000 crowd stretching...
Sri Lankan Military Intelligence Threaten Protesting Tamil Fishermen
While hundreds of fishermen from Maathakal were staging a silent protest on Monday morning in front of the Indian consulate in Jaffna, Sri Lankan...
4,000 Colombian miners enter third month of strike!
OVER 4,000 miners, members of the Sintracarbón union, have entered the third month of a bitter strike at the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The...
DELAY BOOTS TAKEOVER IN WAKE OF IMF CRASH WARNING – GMB...
THE GMB has called on the government to delay the private equity take-over of Boots in the wake of the IMF warning of the...
Colombian Anniversary of Resistance
A CROWD of over 100 Colombians held a rally on Thursday night in Trafalgar Square to commemorate the martyrs of the April 28th uprising...
‘Thousands of seriously sick people are being put under pressure by...
On the eve of the new Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s announcement of plans to drive the unemployed and sick off...
Egyptian Strike Wave
A STRIKE wave is continuing in Egypt as workers battle the El-Sisi regime, determined to improve their wages and conditions. Protests by workers at government-run...
Manchester Met University To Strike Over Closure Of Crewe Campus!
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Manchester Metropolitan University will be on strike later this month after they overwhelmingly backed industrial...
Palestinian PM Denounces Pompeo’s Declaration!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has denounced US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration that the US no longer considers the Israeli settlements in...
Numsa Has Won A Victory For Ford Workers In South Africa!
NUMSA has won a victory for Ford workers in South Africa after the union was able to fight off over 500 jobs cuts, and...
Withdraw suspension of 400 UNRWA workers in Gaza
UNRWA Staff Union and UNRWA Head Union in Gaza warned the agency’s administration against taking unprecedented extreme measures and withdrawing from sent notices suspending...
Investigatory Powers Bill threat to whistleblowers
HUMAN rights groups warned the United Nations this week that a new British law allowing police to see journalists’ communications threatens sensitive sources and...
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...
Over 120,000 Children Will Spend Christmas Homeless
OVER 120,000 children in Britain face spending this Christmas homeless and in temporary accommodation, the highest level since 2007, Shelter’s new analysis of government...
An ‘orgy of slashing HSE’ since 2010!
‘Since 2010, Coalition and Tory governments have indulged in an orgy of slashing the enforcement budgets of the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) and...
‘Israel Is Building The World’s Biggest Prison’
‘ISRAEL is going to enter the Guinness Book of Records for having built the world’s biggest prison,’ said an angry Abed Yabrud, waiting his...
Bolivia Coup Leaders Jailed For 10 Years
BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE – Bartolina Sisa Resistance ON JUNE 15, 2022, in the Coup d’etat II case, the 1st Court of Anti-corruption read the...
Israel Seeking To Drive All Palestinians Out Of The Jordan Valley!
ISRAELI occupation forces issued ‘evacuation orders’ to around 100 Palestinian families living in the northern Jordan Valley, last Monday, demanding that they abandon their...