Tag: education
Israel is ‘deliberately’ destroying Gaza’s health-care infrastructure!
AN American surgeon volunteer at a Gaza hospital has condemned the Israeli regime’s heavy toll on Palestinian medical facilities since October 7th, 2023, asserting...
Cardiff UCU staff vote 83% for strike action against huge job...
CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...
Over 10,000 workers and youth join Al Quds-Jerusalem Day!
OVER ten thousand workers students and youth joined the Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day demonstration in central London yesterday. The demonstration assembled outside Marble Arch Station...
US unions demand no cuts to Medicaid and education
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members across the country have been holding demonstrations throughout the last week against the plans of US President Trump...
Brunel University lecturers’ strike
STRIKING Brunel University lecturers manning the picket lines in Uxbridge, west London yesterday, called for their UCU union to call national strike action to...
Answer Higher Education Jobs Cull With National Strike!
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) held a rally and lobby of Parliament on Tuesday as part of its fight against a huge escalation,...
Labour targets disabled with £5bn cuts
LABOUR’S announcement of £5 billion a year benefits cuts to be snatched from one million disabled and mentally ill workers were denounced by trade...
Washington lawsuit against Trump attack on unions
A coalition of American unions has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation...
Recognise The State Of Palestine Now!
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The first speaker at the London Rally for Palestine in Whitehall opposite Downing Street at the end of last...
Britain must recognise state of Palestine!
THE 25th National March for Palestine assembled outside Green Park in Piccadilly in central London on Saturday morning, with 50,000 demonstrators chanting: ‘From the...
South African unions reject ANC budget and IMF; ‘Divorced from...
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Wednesday rejected the budget of the ANC led coalition for a second time. SAFTU stated: ‘SAFTU...
BMA demands ‘an end to PA postcode lottery after review concludes...
A NEW rapid systematic review published last Friday 7th March by researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford,...
War exposes weakness and bankruptcy of capitalism in UK and Europe!
CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...
‘Free Mahmoud Khalil’ – Camp4Palestine US embassy protest
‘FREE Mahmoud Khalil!’ demanded a lively demonstration organised by the Camp4Palestine outside the US Embassy in South London on Wednesday night. Addressing a rally outside...
National strike to defend HE jobs! – call from Brunel...
‘WE have to step up the fight and unite in action across the country to defend all jobs in higher education,’ Hermione Xanthopoulou, Director...
Bennett tour of US universities an aggressive defence of genocide!
‘I’ve killed many Arabs in my life, and there’s no problem with that.’ In the United States, such a statement grants you the privilege of...
Tens Of Thousands March Against Greek Government In 11 Cities
Tens of thousands of youth, students and workers participated last Friday evening in fiercely anti-government marches and rallies, held in Athens and ten other...
Italy 24-hour general strike today!
ITALY started a 24-hour nationwide general strike on Friday evening at 9pm. The nationwide action organised by USI-CIT, Slai-COBAS, CUB, USB, ADL COBAS-CLAP, and the...
UK Higher Education Is In Unprecedented Crisis!
UK higher Education faces an unprecedented crisis, the University and College Union (UCU) has declared, with new data compiled by the union showing over...
Labour Is Planning Big Welfare Cuts!
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...
Colossal General Strike Rallies Take Place Throughout Greece!
History was written last Friday in Greece as truly colossal general strike rallies took place throughout the country when literally hundreds of thousands of...
University of California workers strike for pay! – while unions condemn...
Tens of thousands of workers at University of California campuses and UC health care facilities started a 48-hour strike on Wednesday. The strike includes more...
Youth are being hit the hardest by bankrupt capitalism!
SKY-ROCKETING youth unemployment figures just released reveal that nearly one million young people in the UK are not in employment, up from 500,000 in...
‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU...
‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
END IMPUNITY FOR ISRAEL’S VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW! – urge leaders...
THE leaders of South Africa, Malaysia and Colombia have penned a joint article calling for an end to impunity for Israel’s violations of international...
Starmer pledges billions for military while doctors and nurses are hired...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington yesterday for a first meeting with President Trump since his inauguration last month. The situation in Ukraine...
‘Solid grounds’ for charging Biden, Trump, Blinken and Austin with war...
A United States-based human rights organisation has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former US president Joe Biden for ‘aiding and...
‘Solid grounds’ for charging Biden, Trump, Blinken and Austin with war...
A United States-based human rights organisation has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former US president Joe Biden for ‘aiding and...
Cuts begin as Starmer launches massive hike in arms spending!
‘STARTING today, I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War,’ Labour...
COSATU, FEDUSA and SAFTU unite to fight SA government
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) said on Thursday that they welcome the...
UK and US workers must unite to smash capitalism and imperialism!...
ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...
Demand the TUC call a general strike for Palestine
SINCE January, Israel has launched massive attacks on refugee camps in the West Bank killing dozens of Palestinians and forcing at least 40,000 to...
Unions fighting for jobs, pay and services – time for a...
Birmingham bin strikers fighting race to the bottom Striking Birmingham bin workers have rejected a one off non-consolidated cash offer from Birmingham council but only if they accept a brutal...
Infectious diseases soaring in Gaza – rebuilding water & sanitation vital...
OXFAM has reported an outbreak of waterborne and infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip amid the lack of safe water and untreated sewage overflowing...
‘Trump’s plan to drive the Palestinian people out of Gaza will...
‘TODAY, we march not just against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but also to stand up for our right to demonstrate on the streets...
From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ rang out as 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Whitehall in central London...
US teachers will fight Trump’s education attacks!
In a statement released on Wednesday the National Education Association (NEA) Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) the two largest teaching unions...
Trump’s Gaza scheme ‘doomed to failure’
US President Donald Trump’s scheme for the Gaza Strip is ‘doomed’ to failure, says the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. ‘We will bring...
Keep Musk’s hands off workers’ data! – AFL-CIO launches legal action...
The AFL-CIO and several of its affiliated government employee unions, last Wednesday, launched a legal action over fears that Elon Musk’s Department of Government...
British capitalism even more bankrupt than the Bank of England admits
LAST week, the Bank of England issued a ‘gloomy’ outlook for the UK economy with its growth forecast cut in half from that made...
Canadian unions condemn Trump’s trade war
HOW long will Canadian and American workers be pawns in Trump’s trade war? asks the IAM (Machinists) Canada union. Just three days after threatening to...
‘You cannot have an improving school system whilst you are implementing...
‘YOU cannot have an improving school system whilst you are implementing austerity,’ said Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union on Monday. Commenting...
Insufficient government spending pushing medical students into hardship!
THE British Medical Association is warning that insufficient government funding for medical students in England for their lengthy degrees is pushing many into financial...
Banning UNRWA will impact services to 30,000 in Jerusalem
Workers at the main United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) clinic in the Old City of Jerusalem, known as ‘Zawiyat...
Portland, Oregon unions are ready to strike over contract negotiations breakdown!
Two Portland, Oregon unions representing city employees are getting closer to walking off the job over a breakdown in contract negotiations. The American Federation of...