‘We need more action! The teachers unions must come out together!
SCHOOLS were closed or disrupted across England and Wales on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of angry teachers took part in a one-day strike...
Hundreds of thousands of young workers are on zero-hours contracts –...
ZERO-HOUR contracts have risen sharply in recent years, hundreds of thousands of zero-hour contract workers, the majority being young, are on minimum wage whilst...
Israel’s exploitation of Palestinian water resources condemned
ON UN World Water Day last Saturday the Palestinian Mission UK recirculated a previously published brief by the PLO-Negotations Affairs Department entitled ‘Israel’s Exploitation...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION AND KILLINGS HAVE SCUPPERED NEGOTIATIONS – says...
RECENT Israeli actions against the Palestinian people indicate that Israel has given priority to settlement expansion and the demands of settlers over peace and...
Deep Public Service Cuts Are Harming Australian Workers!
OUTGOING Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson is right to highlight the impact deep public service cuts are having on the bureaucracy’s ability to do its...
Greek Teachers Occupy!
ATHENS – Greek state secondary school teachers threatened with the sack occupied the private office of the Reforms Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last Thursday in...
Unions Condemn Budget As A ‘Provocation!’
Unions have condemned the Chancellor’s 2014 austerity Budget with Unison calling it a ‘clear provocation’, the NUT saying it was ‘more of the same’...
Greek civil servants take strike action while Turkey erupts against Erdogan!
A 48 HOUR strike by civil servants in Greece was launched yesterday as the government negotiates further austerity measures with the troika. This followed...
HALF A MILLION TAKE TO THE STREETS!– to demand jobs for...
HALF a million people will take to the streets today, Wednesday 19 March, in demand for youth jobs, the National Union of MetalWorkers of...
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...
‘I WILL NOT END MY LIFE WITH A BETRAYAL’ President Abbas...
IN A speech last Wednesday to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Palestinian President Abbas declared: ‘I want to achieve something for my country and I...
Irish Courts Rule Siptu Strike Illegal!
THE Irish courts have ruled that a four-hour strike action at airports due to take place today is illegal. The SIPTU trade union which...
LIBYAN PREMIER ZEIDAN FLEES TO GERMANY as militias fight over ‘ownership’...
THE ousted Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has fled to Germany despite a travel ban slapped on him by Libya’s top prosecutor for his suspected...
Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills 3 Palestinians
ISRAELI forces launched a deadly airstrike that struck southern Gaza on Tuesday, killing three young Palestinians. Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra confirmed that...
‘We’ve just replaced white capitalists with black capitalists’ – NUMSA...
THE working class and the poor have no good story to tell about how their lives have been changed for the better, National Union...
Strike Wave Grips Egypt
EGYPT is gripped by a wave of strikes as the working class continues its revolutonary actions along with the country’s youth that have seen...
‘REOPEN CHASE FARM A&E–NO MORE TRAGEDIES!’ –demand Enfield marchers
A POWERFUL march of more than 150 local residents, trade unionists, workers, students and youth drew enormous support from the busy Enfield shopping centre...
TWU urges halt to 5,000 Qantas sackings!
AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers Union (TWU) National Secretary Tony Sheldon, at talks in Sydney on Thursday afternoon, said he would urge Qantas CEO Alan Joyce...
The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office issued its outlines on the ‘Progress on the United Front and the Movement...
NATO war criminals used depleted uranium weaponry in Libya!
JAMAHIRIYA NEWS has reported on NATO war crimes in Libya including deformities in new born babies due to the use by NATO of...
The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...
A STATEMENT by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office Bearers on Sunday outlined the union’s views ‘on the state of...
Greek Riot Police Let Loose On Protesting Workers
HUNDREDS of armed riot police were employed last Friday morning in Athens in a series of tear-gas and truncheon attacks against protesting state teachers,...
ONE BIG TEACHERS UNION! – demands Professional Unity Conference!
OVER 100 teachers from around the UK attended a Professional Unity conference last Saturday, organised by their trade unions. Speakers were Mary Bousted, Association of...
2.3 million children in the UK are in poverty!
AROUND 2.3 million children in the UK are in child poverty, with that figure rising by a further 400,000 Labour said. The Tory coalition government...
Rail Unions Fighting Eu Privatisation
The UK’s rail unions joined colleagues from across Europe in Strasbourg on Tuesday to protest against European Commission (EC) plans to impose the privatisation...
Marikana – 50 shooters to be charged with murder as ANC...
FAMILIES of 34 South African Marikana miners shot dead by police in 2012, arrived at the ongoing Inquiry into the massacre, being held in...
Housing benefits siphoned off to the super rich
BILLIONS going into fat cats’ wallets and off-shore tax havens from Housing Benefit would be better spent building houses and homes for working people,...
South African Metal And Municipal Unions Demand Cosatu Leaders Convene...
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has joined the Natioal Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) in demanding COSATU convene a...
‘DEVASTATING SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF GREEK AUSTERITY’ says The Lancet
A PAPER published in today’s Lancet draws attention to the plight of many of Greece’s most vulnerable groups who are faced with cuts in...
Tv Workers Exploited For 16 Hours A Day
WORKERS who are employed in the production of documentaries often are expected to work 14, 15 or 16 hours a day for several days...
Bangladeshi workers suffer from lack of legal rights to organise!
The government must take steps to reform laws so they meet international standards for freedom of association and collective bargaining rights, said A K...
‘Cosatu Is Being Turned Into A Toothless Giant To Please Its...
The statement reads: THE outcome of the Special CEC (Central Executive Committee) of COSATU that was shunned by those affiliates who had formally called...
Low paid Apex care workers ‘gagged & searched’
UNISON on Monday condemned a range of draconian measures imposed on low-paid homecare workers by Apex Care, which include a gagging order, refusals to...
200 trapped in abandoned mine
AROUND a dozen illegal gold miners have been rescued after being trapped down an abandoned mine in South Africa.
As many as 200 remained underground...
Local government employers cancel wage negotiations for 1.5m staff! 1,700 Environment...
THE GMB has reacted furiously to the local government employer’s announcement that they have unilaterally cancelled pay negotiations for 1.5 million staff working in...
Stability in the Middle East depends on Egypt, says Putin
MOSCOW – Russia is carefully following events in Egypt, Russian Defence Minister Army Gen Sergey Shoygu said, opening a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart,...
Syria Puts Fighting Terrorism Onto The Geneva Agenda!
SYRIA’S official delegation has managed to put counter-terrorism on the agenda as stated by the Geneva Communiqué during a joint session concluded on Wednesday...
2022 QATAR WORLD CUP DISASTER – Almost 200 construction workers killed!
ALMOST 200 Nepalese men died last year working on construction projects in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) says...
Teachers Oppose Miliband Over Parent-Run Schools
TEACHERS’ unions on Monday rejected Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposal for parent-run schools. They were commenting on his Hugo Young lecture where Miliband set out...
Greek Workers Besiege High Court
GREEK health centre workers and doctors, on indefinite strike for over a month, demonstrated once again last Thursday in Athens against a government Bill...
GARMENT WORKERS ARE BEING TERRORISED IN BANGLADESH – says Human Rights...
GARMENT factory workers in Bangladesh who try to start trade unions are being intimidated and threatened with murder to stop their efforts to organise,...
Staff are angry over pay ‘hypocrisy’ says Sally Hunt
PICKETS were out in force at universities across the UK during Thursday’s one-day strike by University and College Union (UCU), Unison, Unite and Educational...
People of Aleppo march to support Syrian army
PEOPLE of Aleppo on Tuesday marched through the streets of the city to show their support to the Syrian Arab Army which confronts terrorism...
Iraqis Accuse UK Of Torture And Murder At Camp Abu Naji...
A former British Army officer has denied that he or his troops were ‘deliberately uncooperative’ with the Al-Sweady investigation into allegations of systematic torture...
Students launch nationwide week of action against the privatisation of student...
THE Student Assembly Against Austerity’s National Week of Action to stop the sale of student loans to private companies is well under way. At least...