Vavi To Launch New Sa Trade Union Federation On May 1
TRADE union leaders behind the formation of an alternative federation say they will formally launch the new structure on 1st May this year after...
Dutch Teachers On Strike
DUTCH teachers are on strike, demanding decent salaries and a normal workload, and urging the government to clearly and firmly address burn-out and a...
SAVE THE HUNGER STRIKERS –end arbitrary detentions and jailings, Palestinian Mission...
TODAY, hundreds of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli jails are refusing food for one day in solidarity with the four leading Palestinian Prisoners – Samer...
Malema blames ANC leaders for massacre
EXPELLED ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema last Saturday blamed the ANC leaders for the massacre of 34 miners and the...
Fourteen delivery drivers in South Korea dead from overwork this year
Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due...
‘We as Syrians will never accept that Syria become a western...
‘SYRIA won’t be a puppet state for the West,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview with ‘Paris Match’ Magazine. The interviewer began by...
Folk singer Mohammad Barghouti is arrested over his songs!
PERHAPS the Palestinian folk singer Mohammad Barghouti, 23, did not know that he is going to end up in an Israeli jail because of...
‘Opposition must be Syrian opposition,’ says Assad
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given an extensive interview with Australian TV channel SBS. In the interview, he covered such topics as Brexit, the hypocrisy...
25,000 War Widows In Batticaloa
‘Estimates reveal that there are more than 89,000 war widows in the North and Eastern provinces and more than 25,000 of these widows are...
ISRAEL ISSUES STOP WORK ORDERS –to Palestinian wind and solar power
There is an underground bunker in the South Hebron Hills, camouflaged by bracken and heavy sacks, where a tiny Palestinian village is sheltering a...
‘Damage To The NHS Is Profound And Intense’ Says The Bma...
ONE year on from the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act, the BMA has launched a new campaign, warning that ‘the damage...
‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a Tome of...
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has published ‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a tome of tragedies,’ in which homeless people and...
Zionist witch-hunt costs Octavia Nasr her CNN job
CNN’s decision to fire a veteran Mideast editor over a Twitter message mourning the death of the Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is...
Irish state commemorates Roger Casement
ON April 21, Ireland held a State ceremony commemorating 100 years since Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand in Kerry as...
Lebanese condemn Israeli aggression
Lebanon’s president, prime minister and Parliamentary Speaker slammed Israel’s ‘aggression’ against the country on Tuesday, as Lebanese and Israeli occupation troops exchanged fire...
Trade unions must take action to stop Chase Farm closing!
‘SAVE Chase Farm Occupy Now! Whose hospital? Our Hospital!’ More than 200 marchers chanted this slogan as they marched to Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield...
Algerians Boycott Presidential Election
On 12 December Algerians went to the polls to elect a new president – or did they? Millions boycotted the election, which they saw...
PAY FREEZE – NO WAY! – unions demonstrate outside LGA
More than 100 members of the three local government unions, Unison, GMB and Unite, held a noisy demonstration over pay, job and service cuts...
20,000 Workers & Youth March To ‘Make It Right’ For Palestine!
OVER 20,000 workers and youth along with Palestinians living in the UK, marched through the streets of London on Saturday to ‘Make it Right...
Canadian Students Fight 30% Tuition Fees Hike!
THE Canadian Federation of Students, its member unions and allies will step up the fight for accessible education in Newfoundland and Labrador against a...
Ealing Conference: Full support for Junior Doctors
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY workers and youth attended the West London Council of Action/All Trades Unions Alliance Conference on Sunday, which was called to save Ealing Hospital...
Renogiate Nafta Demand US Trade Unions
SINCE being established in 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement – better known as NAFTA – has triggered job losses, depressed wages and...
700 airport workers on strike in Canada ‘Swissport willing to sacrifice...
OVER 700 ground crew workers at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada’s busiest airport, have been on strike since 9.30pm last Thursday evening, after their...
Support Building Up For Indian Farmers Struggle
SUPPORT has been pouring in for protesting farmers, who are camping on the Indian national capital’s borders demanding repeal of three new farm laws. On...
Excessive Workloads Driving Teachers Out!
TEACHERS are facing low morale, exhaustion, frustration and distress because of the impact of unsustainable workloads, which is driving teachers out of the profession,...
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...
‘ALL PRISONERS CALL ON THE POLITICAL LEADERS TO RESTORE UNITY’ –...
Husam Khadir, a former member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who was recently released from the prisons of the occupation, has called for national...
Roger Waters performs for Assange – Defend freedom of speech! No...
OVER a thousand supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rallied outside the Home Office on Monday evening to hear Roger Waters perform ‘Wish...
Occupation Contracted Out Torture To Iraqi Puppets
THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...
US-UK attack on Syrian army is support for ISIS terrorists
‘THE cowardly US aggression against positions of the Syrian Arab army in the surroundings of Deir Ezzor Airport is evidence of the support provided...
Platinum Miners Union Fighting For Recognition
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) is facing lengthy delays in companies signing new recognition agreements with the union which has replaced...
Bradford Tower Block Evacuated!
A TOWER block in Bradford with 160 flats has been evacuated over ‘serious fire safety deficiencies’. All the residents at Appleton Point were told to...
Open pipes turned Grenfell into a gas oven Shut-off valves hidden...
CRUCIAL valves to stop gas from fuelling the Grenfell Tower fire may have been built over during refurbishment, the ongoing inquiry into the fire...
Palestinians Look Forward To Netanyahu Facing Trial!
THE indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a move that threatens his 10-year grip on power, dominated the front page...
‘What are we waiting for? – Someone to die?’ says sacked...
OVER 100 Amazon employees at a New York fulfilment centre went on strike at noon on Monday, alleging management has been unresponsive to safety...
HOME CARE CRISIS! Vulnerable and elderly are being left to...
A NEW report has exposed the growing homecare crisis where shorter and shorter visits mean that homecare workers cannot provide proper care, leaving the...
Nationwide general strike in India Wed January 8th ‘DOWN WITH MODI!’
A GENERAL strike is set to take place in India on January 8 against the ‘anti-worker, anti-people, anti-national policies’ of the country’s Narendra Modi...
Trade Unionists Being Murdered In The Philippines!
THE International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is bringing a complaint against the Philippines over the murder of trade unionists. The ITF is joining forces with...
Cosatu Gives Its Fullest Support To Numsa Strikers
ZWELINZIMA Vavi, General Secretary of COSATU, addressed the FAWU (Food and Allied Workers Union) Eastern Cape Regional Congress last Friday. He said: ‘We meet at...
Irish TUC must call a general strike – Forward to a...
RESPONDING to the announcement today of an 85 billion euro European Union and IMF loan facility for Ireland, SIPTU General President Jack...
‘Down with the IMF Accord! Down with the euro! Bring down...
Tens of thousands of workers, students and youth in Greece participated in the May Day rallies and marches held last Sunday in all Greek...
Canadian School Workers To Strike Against 5-Year Pay Freeze
CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...
General Practice is already ‘stretched close to breaking point’ – ...
‘WE cannot continue to meet rising demand with falling investment, general practice is already stretched close to breaking point so we need to address...
PALESTINIANS SHOULD FOLLOW KOSOVO – says Abbas aide
A SENIOR aide to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that Palestinians should follow the example of Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence if Israeli-Palestinian...
Aslef Fundamentally Opposed To Tory Trade Union Bill!
ASLEF has submitted its evidence on the government’s Trade Union Bill to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee. Introducing its evidence Aslef leader Mick...