Massive French Anti-Austerity Strikes!
FRANCE was hit with a massive national strike last Thursday against spending cuts and austerity measures imposed by the socialist government of Francois...
Irish bus drivers vote for strike action!
SIPTU Bus Drivers in Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann have voted by over 90%, in both companies, in favour of industrial action and strike...
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...
Fast food revolt in New Zealand!
RESTAURANT Brands which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr and Starbucks chains has committed to end zero-hour contracts by July this year in...
COSATU VOTES TO EXPEL GEN SEC. VAVI! – as black masses...
ON March 30th the Central Executive Committee of the South African trade union federation, COSATU, voted to expel its democratically elected General Secretary, Zwelinzima...
Another deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh!
THE BWI (Building and Wood Worker’s International) union federation has undertaken a fact finding mission on the deadly building collapse in Mongla Cement Factory...
IS enters Yarmouk refugee camp!
HUNDREDS of ISIS terrorists, aided by Al Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra, have entered Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said,...
US indebtedness unnerves the Bourgeoisie!
THE American viewing public got a stark warning from the billionaire Donald Trump during a recent TV interview when he announced that Americans should...
‘PALESTINE IS A STATE UNDER FOREIGN MILITARY OCCUPATION!’ – as it...
THE Palestinian Mission in the UK on Wednesday issued ‘Questions and Answers on the Accession of the State of Palestine to the International Criminal...
National Bus And Rail Strike Is Looming In Ireland!
A NATIONAL bus and rail strike by SIPTU and NBRU drivers is looming in Ireland. SIPTU announced on Tuesday it is to ballot its members...
Arab summit agrees to form Arab joint military force to fight...
EGYPTIAN President Abd-al-Fattah al-Sisi has hailed Arab state leaders for ‘agreeing on the principle of forming a joint Arab military force’ to face...
Stop the demolition of council housing say West Hendon residents
THIS is what happened at West Hendon Estate last Friday It was a quiet day on the West-Hendon Front. No cement lorries driving down Tyrrel...
‘NO MORE GAMES WITH NHS’ – says BMA as RCM members...
MIDWIVES and doctors unions have responded to Labour leader Miliband’s pledge to find ways to increase NHS funding. Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair said:...
ELECTION MANIFESTO of Young Socialists – Workers Revolutionary Party
General Election – Thursday 7 May 2015 ALL over Europe the anti-austerity revolution is raging and on May 7 workers in the UK will deliver...
Numsa To ‘Swamp’ The Streets Of Durban In A Massive May...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal (KzN) working closely with other like-minded and class orientated COSATU affiliates, will swamp the...
Student Occupations Are Spreading!
STUDENT occupations are spreading! Students have occupied the London School of Economics on March since Tuesday March 17 demanding free university education for all. By Thursday...
Bangladeshi parents are defending the BPA Community Disability Service
‘We were very angry today, we are not giving up, we are determined to save our service and we are very shortly going to...
Syria: ‘festivities turning into funerals’ after crimes by ‘moderate opposition’
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed on Sunday that Syria is keen to keep working to push forward Russia’s efforts for holding a second round of...
Egypt Arrests Gaza Fishermen
EGYPTIAN naval forces detained nine Palestinian fishermen off the coast of southern Gaza on Friday, a local union official said. Nizar Ayash, head of Gaza’s...
Stop east London GP surgery closures!
EAST London GPs, patients and supporters on Thursday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen...
Stop the closure of Ealing maternity!
‘ONCE we know we are ready it will take just six weeks to close the maternity at Ealing,’ Pippa Nightingale, Head of Midwifery, Imperial...
US ready to negotiate with Assad says Kerry
AS the devastating war in Syria entered its fifth year on Sunday, the US said it would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar...
Stonethrowers Charged With Attempted Murder By Israeli Police
SUNDAY marked two years since five boys from the northern West Bank village of Hares were arrested over an alleged stone-throwing incident that saw...
Coalition spy chaperoned UK schoolgirls to ISIS in Syria
THE Turkish authorities have captured a person working for the intelligence agency of a coalition country in connection with the journey of three teenaged...
‘End The Bullying & Witch-Hunting Of Staff At Worcester Royal Hospital!’
A DEMONSTRATION held last Thursday March 12 outside the A&E at the Worcester Royal Hospital, demanded an end to the bullying and...
Investigate undercover police role in blacklisting – GMB calls for home...
THE GMB union has called for a just-announced Home Office inquiry into undercover police to cover blacklisting. This came during a protest outside Parkside police...
Gender pay gap: Australian women effectively working for free
DUE to the ever-widening gender pay gap, Australian women were effectively working for free on International Women’s Day on Sunday, 8 March. Speaking on International...
Major Clashes Throughout Palestine!
CLASHES with Israeli forces left dozens of Palestinians injured in Kafr Aqab in northern Jerusalem on Tuesday, medics said. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that...
Women and Tamil youth demand an international investigation into the thousands...
WOMEN activists and Tamil youth activists of the missing persons’ relatives campaign concluded a three-day fast and a four-day walk from Mu’l’livaaykkaal in Vanni...
Barnet families denounce mass evictions
TENANTS facing eviction from their homes in Sweets Way Estate in Barnet, north London, were joined by their recently evicted former neighbours on Sunday...
Staff And Parents Say ‘No’ To Forced Academy!
STAFF and parents have said ‘No’ to a Brent, north west London, primary school being forced to become an academy school. At a well attended...
‘13 Local Authorities Remain 20% Below Their Targeted Fundings!’
‘IT IS concerning that the Department of Health is not getting local authorities to their target funding allocations for public health quickly enough,’ says...
IRAN’S ROLE IN IRAQI OFFENSIVE COULD BE POSITIVE SAYS GENERAL DEMPSEY...
IRAN’S role in an Iraqi military offensive to recapture Tikrit could be positive as long as it does not fuel sectarian divisions in the...
Secret Police State Helped Bosses Draw Up Blacklist And Used Women...
CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has exposed how the union was infiltrated by the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The revelation creates fresh questions about the...
Seven Unions Picket Cosatu House Against Numsa Expulsion!
THE leadership of seven Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) affiliates have congratulated their Gauteng branches for picketing outside Cosatu House last Friday...
US State Governor Compares US Workers To Is Terrorists!
US trade unions have reacted angrily to Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker comparing trade union workers to IS terrorists. The likely Republican presidential contender sparked...
Isis Gangs Attacking Syrian Citizens In Hasaka Province!
SYRIA’S Foreign and Expatriates Ministry has addressed two identical letters to the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Security Council about the...
Ealing Midwives Condemn Maternity Closure Plans
NINETY Ealing Hospital midwives have written a shocking open letter condemning the threatened closure of their Maternity Unit, warning that the ‘rotting away’ of...
‘BAN ZERO-HOURS CONTRACTS’ – demands McCluskey as numbers soar to 1.8...
ALMOST 700,000 people say their main employment is on a zero-hours contract, an increase of 111,000 on the previous year, according to a report...
OAXACA TEACHERS BLOCK ‘REFORMS’ – ‘a mechanism for privatisation’
TEACHERS in Oaxaca, Mexico, have taken their fight against their government’s punitive ‘education reform’ to a new level this month, with highly visible actions...
FIREFIGHTERS STRIKE TODAY – ‘No More Lies’ says FBU
FIREFIGHTERS in England are striking for 24 hours from 7am this morning in their long running dispute with the government over its unworkable pension...
Nationwide trade union protests across Australia March 4 – ‘Time to...
JOIN the national protests around the country on Wednesday 4 March 2015, urges Australia’s Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). The CPSU warns: ‘It’s not...
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...
Arts being forced out of the schools!
THE Warwick Commission’s final report, Enriching Britain: Culture, Creativity and Growth, launched on Tuesday, warns that the arts are being squeezed out of schools. Commission...
Anger Over UN Refusal To Publish Tamil Genocide Report
ANGER has greeted the United Nations announcement that it will not report on its investigation into the genocide in Sri Lanka next month after...