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South African municipal workers demand 15% increase

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South Africa’s largest local government trade union the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), is set to table numerous demands for its members –...

British Capitalism’s Bankrupt, Budget Shows It’s Time To Expropriate Bosses!

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TORY CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the contents of this year’s Budget in the House of Commons. It is the last scheduled Budget before...

Sunak, Hunt declare war on the UK working class and the...

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THE British ruling class, for all of its threats against the working class, the youth and the masses of Palestine, is on the run! Its...

The West must stand with Israel and Ukraine, trumpets the about-to-be...

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IT is only natural that The Daily Telegraph stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Zionist military child-killers who have drowned the Gaza Strip with blood and...

Starbucks Baristas Battling For First Contracts

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Starbucks baristas from 21 stores around the United States told the company on Tuesday that they plan to organise, potentially adding hundreds of new...

We salute the struggle of the Palestinian people – General Strike...

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The News Line Rally of 200 people took place at the Hargrave Hall, in north London on Saturday. Chairman, Tony McEvoy, said the struggle for...

British capitalism not in ‘technical recession’. It is diving into a...

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YESTERDAY, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produced figures on the state of the UK economy that showed it had fallen into a ‘technical...

Time For Labour To Sack Starmer And To Start Supporting ...

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WITH the Tory Party in its greatest crisis ever – as the capitalist world crisis intensifies and the Tory party brings in new savage...

Bank of England demands wage cuts to keep businesses and the...

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures yesterday on the average pay across the UK, which they claimed saw an increase of 6.2%...

Time For The Working Class To Consign The Bosses To The...

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THE US and UK ruling classes are organising Israel to knife the Palestinian people in a desperate attempt to destroy the Palestinian revolution –...

OBR official demands cuts to benefits and war on migrant workers...

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WHEN the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss launched her notorious mini-budget in September 2022 that came close to crashing the UK economy, one...

IAM Aerospace workers in the US demand a 40% pay rise...

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International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM) leaders at Boeing the aircraft manufacturers are demanding a 40 per cent pay rise over...

‘Structural racism’ in the US affecting healthcare of black and hispanic...

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The medical journal, the Lancet, has released two papers called Lancet Child & Adolescent Health in which it shows that paediatric care for non-white...

German GDLTrain Drivers Union 3-Day Strike

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GERMANY'S GDL train drivers’ union started a three day strike yesterday which concludes tomorrow. The strike is an escalation of a wage dispute with rail...

CGT to march in Paris against far right immigration law

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ON JANUARY 21, ‘let’s march for freedom, equality, fraternity,’ the French trade union federation CGT is urging. It said: ‘201 personalities are calling to march...

Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits –...

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits to fund tax cuts for the rich! He spent the weekend...

The number of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel is...

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THE NUMBER of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Government figures show the...

30,000 Businesses Will Go Bust In 2024!

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ECONOMISTS at the multi-national financial advice service PwC have issued a stark warning that nearly 30,000 businesses in the UK will collapse under the...

NHS squandering billions on privateers – warns the RCN

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THE NHS has squandered billions on agencies that could have been used to hire over 31,000 nurses, says the Royal College of Nursing. New analysis...

US auto industry workers launch major UAW union drive

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MOTOR industry workers at more than a dozen non-union automakers have announced simultaneous campaigns across the country to join the UAW. Thousands of non-union autoworkers...

Wells Fargo employees ballot for union recognition

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In a remarkable series of events, Wells Fargo employees from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Bethel, Alaska, are spearheading the bank’s first-ever union elections. This historic...

The TUC must answer Hunt’s declaration of a vicious war on...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement has been derided for its claims to represent a way out of the economic crisis strangling British capitalism,...

Hunt turns his fire on the sick the disabled and the...

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TORY Chancellor Hunt turned his fire on the sick, the disabled, the mentally ill and the unemployed in his vicious, vindictive anti-working class Autumn...

200 Starbucks stores in US stage ‘Red Cup Day’ strike

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Workers at hundreds of Starbucks branches walked off the job and went on strike during a key promotional event last Thursday, demanding improved staffing and...

French workers demand a Gaza ceasefire!

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WORKERS and youth throughout France are demonstrating today for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a call by the CGT trade union federation. A union statement...

South African workers march to defend healthcare benefits

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National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members marched to the offices of Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) in Bloemfontein on Monday,...

Starbucks unionisation war hotting up – 360 US stores now unionised!

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THE AMERICAN National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) ruled on Friday that the Starbucks coffee chain had unlawfully threatened to withhold benefits if employees in...

Massive Kaiser Permanente strike action!

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OVER 75,000 workers from various unions at healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente, have initiated a strike, making it the most significant work stoppage by healthcare...

Capitalism facing ‘impending global disaster’ – time to put it out...

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THE Tory Party annual conference ended on Wednesday with Sunak announcing he was cancelling the Northern leg of HS2 rail network – something that...

Tory conference splits as preparations for an extra-parliamentary party emerge!

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THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be...

US Autos massive strike action escalates

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BY REZA JAVADI IN mid-September, in an unprecedented move, approximately 13,000 employees from three major American automakers launched an unprecedented strike, pointing to both the...

Capitalism kills – UK death rate increased by Tory austerity war...

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ON MONDAY, the BMJ health journal published the results of its research into the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and the austerity policies ruthlessly...

Over 1,000 march for ‘Right to Food’ in Haringey

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Haringey Right to Food, organised a Hunger March through Tottenham on Saturday, 23 September. A large crowd gathered outside the Spurs Football Stadium from 12...

Labour plans to use the state’s OBR to hold down workers’...

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LABOUR has promised to hand more powers to Britain’s capitalist state, and to the OBR, the Office for Budget Responsibility, to hold down wages...

‘Unite against hunger!’ – Bakers union leader Woolley

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‘BELFAST, Liverpool and London must unite against hunger during the Right To Food Week 2023’ says Sarah Wooley the general secretary of the Bakers...

Bank of England split over interest rates revealing chaos and demoralisation...

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THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday made the surprise decision to hold UK interest rates at 5.25% instead of the widely...

Unionisation has led to massive wins for American workers – as...

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BY SHABBIR RIZVI   AMERICANS are well aware of the value of the dollar, at least when it comes to their own purchasing power at home....

Liz Truss speech calls for ‘new’ party to wage class war...

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IT was almost exactly one year ago that the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that...

‘Now listen you, you people of NATO. You’re bombing a wall...

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AS EUROPE’S migrant crisis grows right across the continent, many in the Russian media are recalling the late Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s prophecy made...

UAW at US ‘big three’ motor companies set to strike...

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The United Auto workers union (UAW) says that its 146,000 members at the so called ‘big three’ motor companies – General Motors, Ford and...

Amazon in court for obstruction of unionisation!

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Amazon has been taken to court in New York state after it was accused of violating federal law multiple times to obstruct unionisation efforts...

UAW geared up for strike at ‘Big Three’ US car giants

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THE United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) is gearing up for strike action at the ‘Big Three’ US automakers General...

Irish actors and writers rally in Dublin to support Hollywood strike!

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Hundreds of actors, writers and entertainment workers gathered by the statue of Wolfe Tone at St Stephen’s Green in Dublin on Saturday, to demonstrate...

Germany crashes into recession – socialist revolution the only answer to...

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THE GERMAN economic recession has deepened, with the number of corporate insolvencies in the country sharply increasing in July. Almost a quarter more companies filed...

EU states ‘vassals of a single colonial power’ says Zakharova

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Western countries’ statements about providing security guarantees to Ukraine are empty, groundless excuses, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. ‘Security guarantees presuppose...