Young People Face ‘Surging Housing Prices, Stagnating Wages And Rising Student...
‘YOUNG PEOPLE have been ignored by the government,’ Cat Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Young People said reacting to the new Institute For...
Trump denounced as ‘traitor’ by far-right extremists in US
FAR-RIGHT extremists are reportedly furious with Donald Trump, calling him a ‘traitor’ and a ‘coward’, after the outgoing president pleaded for calm following his...
General Strike In Palestine Against Bahrain Conference
PALESTINIAN factions have called for demonstrations and a general strike in protest at an upcoming US-led conference in Bahrain, which centres on Washington’s ‘Deal...
South African Telkom to sack 20% of workforce – executives getting...
SOUTH AFRICA’S Communication Workers Union (CWU) secretary-general Aubrey Tshabalala has accused the top executives of the state-owned telecommunications company Telkom of getting rich by...
SOUTH AFRICAN UNION NEHAWU CALLS TO ‘STAY AWAY’ ON AUGUST 28th...
THE NATIONAL Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has called on health staff to stay away from work on 28th August to protest...
Housing benefit freeze pushing thousands to breaking point – says Shelter
‘THE current freeze on housing benefit is pushing hundreds of thousands of private renters dangerously close to breaking point at a time when homelessness...
‘The Palestinian resistance will repulse Israeli aggression’ says Hamas Political Bureau
THE PALESTINIAN resistance is ready to repulse any Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, member of Hamas Political Bureau Khalil al-Hayya has said. Speaking at...
Senior Sri Lankan commander has war crimes evidence
Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a US-based activist group, claimed in a press release issued last Saturday, that it has obtained a 100-page long sworn...
‘QANTAS PLANNED TO USE PANDEMIC TO OUTSOURCE 2,500 WORKERS’ –...
AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is demanding that PM Scott Morrison explains what he knew about Qantas management’s long-term decision to axe and outsource...
‘We want a system that is accountable and meets the needs...
THE TALIBAN ‘seeks to build a political system and government in Afghanistan that would be approved by its people and accountable to people once...
SOUTH AFRICA: ‘electricity crisis worsens with every day that passes’
THE ‘Civil Society Conference on the Electricity Crisis’ took place last week in Johannesburg, South Africa and declared: ‘The electricity crisis calls for de-corporatisation...
STOP WORKING WITH ISRAELI TORTURERS! – Palestinians urge EU academics to...
‘STOP working with Israeli torturers,’ Palestinians urge European Union (EU) academics. Palestinian academics are urging their European counterparts to end their cooperation with a European...
NHS 70 years on battles for funding
ON JUNE 30th, hundreds of thousands of people will be marching to celebrate and defend our National Health Service. The NHS is facing many problems...
Vote ‘NO!’ to NHS pay offer! – 6.5% increase over 3...
A CONSULTATION of NHS workers was launched at the Unison health conference in Brighton on Monday on the new ‘pay deal’. Unison members...
INTO Irish teachers condemn funding cuts for primary schools!
AT THE Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) annual congress in Belfast on Tuesday, primary teachers condemned the lack of adequate funding to primary schools...
Migrant workers cheated of wages & deported from US!
GERADO Santiago-Hernandez was a worker at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Michigan. A lawsuit filed in June 2020, on behalf of him and other...
Senior doctors in Zimbabwe strike and accuse the government of turning...
STRIKING senior doctors in Zimbabwe have accused the government of misleading the nation – by suggesting it had secured large quantities of essential drugs...
SA unions serve notice on Cyril Ramaphosa!
THE UNCOMPROMISING attack on corruption in the governing party by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has the potential to shake up...
Release All Political Prisoners In Turkey
TWENTY-FOUR rights groups have called on Turkey to release all those arbitrarily detained and imprisoned there simply for demanding basic human rights – and...
‘THE RAISING OF OUR FLAG HERALDS THE FUTURE RECOGNITION OF PALESTINE’...
‘THE raising of our flag epitomises the triumph of all our diplomatic efforts and heralds the future de jure recognition of Palestine which is...
‘Aggression will be confronted with the strongest and most crushing...
A SPOKESMAN for Iran’s armed forces has threatened a ‘crushing response’ against any US aggression and allies who host American troops. ‘Any place and any...
Syria warns terrorists prepared to launch chemical weapons in Idlib
AN OFFICIAL at Syria’s Foreign and Expatriates Ministry affirmed at the weekend that all shouting and untrue, fabricated news about the use of chemical...
TENNESSEE PRIVATISATION PLAN SMASHED! University of Tennessee campus union scuppers billionaire...
IN TENNESSEE, an inspiring victory against the outsourcing of all state facilities service jobs has been won under the leadership of the small campus...
Teachers Hostility To Government Policy Has Soared
Teacher hostility to the government and its policies has increased dramatically in recent months, according to a YouGov survey of 804 teachers, which was...
Incendiary kites & balloons will increase to defy the Israeli...
THE ‘incendiary kites unit’ of the Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday that the amount of incendiary kites and balloons targeting Israeli areas surrounding Gaza...
‘State terrorism is inscribed on the forehead of the US’
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says that outgoing US president, Donald Trump, registered state terrorism on America’s official record by openly accepting responsibility for the assassination...
Forced Academies – ‘This Is A Huge Government Climbdown!’ Says Nut
‘THIS is a huge government climb-down and is a testament to the campaigning of teachers and parents,’ Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the...
SAFTU fights to end two-tier health regime
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions stands fully in support of the long-overdue introduction of a national health insurance (NHI) system, and welcomes...
Teachers’ leader Courtney calls for General Strike for Palestine!
LABOUR MP for Hayes and Harlington John McDonnell said: ‘Netanyahu must be imprisoned for war crimes. The campaign for disinvestment in Israel must be...
Abysmal conditions for thousands of refugees in ‘Moria 2.0’ camp
THOUSANDS of people are living in abysmal conditions in a new camp, which was built to replace Moria camp on the Greek island of...
Arab writers appeal to world
ARAB writers convening at the First Palestine Forum for the Arab Novel appealed on Wednesday to world governments to intervene to end the suffering...
Massive London marches call to kick out the Tories – Three...
NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...
Stop Forcing Academies Onto The Communities Say Teaching Unions
THE National Union of Teachers has condemned the wholesale forced academisation of state-run education measures contained in the Tory government’s Education and Adoption Bill. Kevin...
‘Wage Theft In Australia’–Bosses Exploiting Students
THE NATIONAL Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has demanded that Australia’s government takes ‘urgent and immediate action to stop unconscionable employers ripping off international students...
More Than 40,000 Nursing Vacancies
‘OUR NURSING workforce is in a state of crisis, with more than 40,000 vacancies in England alone across our health service, from A&E to...
Turkey, do not violate our sovereignty–warns Syria
DEPUTY Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr Faysal Miqdad said on Friday that the Syrian people, who are confronting terrorism with epic steadfastness, have the...
Irish Doctors’ Strike – Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) Has Had No...
The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has had no contact from the Department of Health in relation to a planned public health doctors’ strike in...
Britain Has No Sovereignty Over The Chagos Islands
THE maritime law tribunal of the United Nations has ruled that Britain has no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. It criticised London for its failure...
Solano County workers win a two year contract after two strikes
ON WEDNESDAY evening, Solano County, California workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021 overwhelmingly ratified a two-year contract with the...
26,000 Chicago public teachers & 8,000 support staff strike
TWENTY-SIX thousand Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers and 8,000 support staff workers including custodians, special education assistants and bus aides walked out on strike...
53rd Anniversary of News Line – 82nd Anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination
FIRST speaker at the News Line Anniversary Rally on Saturday was Bill Rogers, ASLEF Chingford Branch Chairman, who said: ‘This rally is being held...
25.9 million refugees – 70.8 million displaced says Global Trends report...
YET AGAIN, wars, violence and persecution have driven record numbers of people from their homes worldwide, according to the latest annual study released yesterday...
University, health & shopworkers strike in SA – Rubber bullets fired...
EXAMS at the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in South Africa’s Western Cape have been postponed due to an on-going strike by workers. Unions representing staff...
STOP RAISING EXCESSIVE DEMANDS – Iran warns P5+1 group
A SENIOR Iranian official says a final deal with the P5+1 group of countries over Tehran’s nuclear programme will be achieved should the six...
‘A HISTORIC VICTORY FOR ALL JOURNALISTS’ – NUJ welcomes court judgement...
THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed last Friday’s High Court in Belfast’s full written judgement on the quashing of arrest warrants for...