Tag: education
Chicago Teamsters lead USA-wide fight against Nestlé union-busting
THE Teamsters trade union on Friday accused the management of the world’s largest food and beverage company Nestlé of stopping its US workforce from...
Iran Hits Back At Trump
IRAN'S President Masoud Pezeshkian hit out at Donald Trump over his threats, saying he is not in a position to deprive the Iranian nation...
As crisis engulfs Starmer – time for a general strike in...
THE political crisis engulfed Labour PM Keir Starmer yesterday over ‘being incompetent, gullible or a liar’, and misleading parliament over the appointment of Peter...
Palestinian Prisoners Day: April 17
On April 17 each year, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is commemorated to remember the plight of thousands of men, women and children held in Israeli...
Palestinian Prisoners Day protest at SOAS
FOUR HUNDRED Palestinian prisoners could be executed in the next couple of weeks under the the Zionist death penalty law. Yesterday SOAS students held a...
90 arrested at New York anti-war protest as opposition to US...
POLICE in New York City arrested around 90 anti-war protesters on Monday, including whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, as demonstrators gathered near the offices of Senate...
London Met Strike Action
LONDON Metropolitan University lecturers came out on strike yesterday, Wednesday 15th April, having warned the university they would do so, if the management refused to...
US to begin automatic draft registration! – while Israeli defences are...
THE United States will begin automatically registering draft-eligible men with the Selective Service System later this year, abandoning decades of self-registration. The automatic registration was...
In Gaza a day without electricity is no longer an exception,...
Across the length and breadth of the Gaza Strip, from food distribution points to water filling stations and basic services, the scene of long...
Police Arrest 523 Palestine Supporters
THE METROPOLITAN Police arrested 523 supporters of Palestine in Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, claiming they were showing support for a ‘proscribed...
Keep ICE out of World Cup tournament or we strike! –...
The Unite Here trade union which represents over 2,000 food service workers at the Los Angeles Stadium on Tuesday asked football’s governing body FIFA...
Death toll in Gaza continues to rise!
THE DEATH toll from Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip has reached 72,317, Gaza’s health ministry reported yesterday, as fresh attacks killed a 13-year-old...
US-UK medicines deal will cost NHS £9 billion a year!
A controversial UK-US medicines deal will cost the NHS an estimated £9bn a year by 2035 in higher drug prices, critics have warned. The agreement,...
US workers fight lockout at BP and win victory at Amazon
1,000 members of United Steelworkers (USW), union, were illegally locked out of BP’s Whiting, Indiana refinery on Wednesday in what the union is calling...
Doctors defy Starmer’s ‘48 hours to call off strike’ threat
THE British Medical Association has responded defiantly to Labour PM Starmer’s threat to break his pledge to train 1,000 new doctors unless the union...
Trade unions must call massive strike actions in support of Palestine...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened to invade Kharg Island in order to take control of Iran’s oil exports. In an interview with the Financial...
8 million workers and youth on 3,200 ‘No Kings’ protests in...
More than eight million workers and young people took to the streets in the United States as at least 3,200 demonstrations took place. There were...
‘If this Labour government wants to defeat racism stop copying the...
AT THE rally in Whitehall the first speaker was the leader of the Together Alliance, Kevin Courtney, the former general secretary of the National...
Half a million on London march against war & racism
MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined the Together Alliance and pro-Palestine marches through central London to Whitehall on Saturday. The demonstrations,...
Iran strikes back against imperialists
HEAVY US-Israeli airstrikes continued across Iran on Thursday, hitting Tehran, Isfahan, and Mashhad as the death toll from the war climbed to at least...
‘Clear evidence’ that the killing of Hind Rajab and Ambulance...
IN THE final hours of her life on January 29, 2024, Hind Rajab’s feeble voice could be heard desperately pleading with her mother and...
Labour Health Sec Streeting launches new attack on NHS
LABOUR Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a new attack on the NHS. While he noted the King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust survey reveals the...
HANDS OFF IRAN! – 10,000 workers demand on London march
The march was organised by a number of groups including Stop the War, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Friends...
Report puts Britain at centre of Gaza genocide
A damning report published on 16 March 2026, following a tribunal into British government conduct since the outbreak of Israel’s assault on Gaza in...
Dozens of doctors, nurses and paramedics killed in relentless Israeli bombing...
Amid relentless Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, paramedics, medical centres and ambulances have once again come under fire from Zionist fighter jets, echoing the pattern of Israeli...
Powerful 5,000-strong Al Quds Day demonstration backs Iran and Palestine
AROUND 5,000 people attended Sunday’s Al Quds rally for Palestine on Albert Embankment on the south side of the River Thames London. Metropolitan Police ranks...
5,000-strong London Al-Quds Day rally!
A POWERFUL Al-Quds Day 5,000-strong rally took place on the Albert Embankment on the south side of the River Thames yesterday afternoon from 1pm-3pm. The...
Lagos University academics indefinite strike!
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) started an indefinite strike on Wednesday over unexplained cuts in...
Full support for Al-Quds Day protest on Sunday!
NEWS LINE completely condemns the unprecedented decision by the government to ban the peaceful Al-Quds March on Sunday and only allow a ‘static’ protest. Last...
Iran’s new leader vows revenge for Minab school massacre
IRAN’S new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei made his first public statement since succeeding his father yesterday, vowing that Iran would avenge the blood of...
US teachers, farmers and health workers fighting for pay, jobs and...
Educators in Dublin, California were on strike on Tuesday after no deal was made between the teachers union and the school district on Monday...
Birmingham bin men mark one year with mass protest
A LIVELY picket of 200 bin men, came out in support of the bin strikers in Birmingham yesterday morning, marking one year of the...
US teachers demand investment in public services!
As part of its nationwide ‘Protect Our Kids, Our Families and Our Communities’ mobilisation, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has brought together a...
Victory to Iran! Smash imperialism now! – tens of thousands march...
TENS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched through central London from Millbank to the American Embassy in Vauxhall on Saturday afternoon in...
Mass displacement in Lebanon – as Israel intensifies airstrikes
Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon this week after the Israeli military issued mass displacement orders and intensified airstrikes, forcing families onto...
More than 780,000 Gaza students have no schooling for 3 years!
ISRAEL’S genocidal assault on Gaza has devastated the territory’s education system, leaving more than 780,000 students without regular schooling for three consecutive academic years,...
Hospital and energy workers strike in Nigeria – strike actions in...
The University College Hospital (UCH), in the city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria, stopped admitting new patients on Monday as hospital workers started a...
TUC pledges solidarity with workers in Middle East – time to...
ON MONDAY, the General Council of the TUC issued a lengthy ‘interim statement on Iran’ which condemned ‘the dangerous escalation of military actions, precipitated...
650 US military casualties!
A SPOKESMAN for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said yesterday that more than 650 US military personnel were killed and wounded in the...
The enemy ‘will take the dream of enslaving Iran to the...
MILLIONS of Iranians took to the streets on Sunday to condemn the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in terrorist...
US-Israelis ‘staining their hands with the blood of the people!’ –...
THE Greek Seafarers Trade Union PENEN issued a statement on Sunday condemning the imperialist attack on Iran and calling for the withdrawal of all...
‘From day-one our revolution has been under siege’ – Grassroots leader...
On the spot report from Carolina Graterol EARLY last week on arrival in Caracas, I managed to join a meeting of grassroot movements connected to...
Down with the US-Israeli aggressors! – chant tens of thousands in...
THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles yesterday as part of its retaliatory...
South African unions reject ANC-led government’s 2026 National Budget
All three of South Africa’s trade union federations the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), and...
‘Every day Trump is pushing to pit working people against each...
TRUMP’S rosy picture is disconnected from workers’ reality, the AFL-CIO trade union federation says. Tuesday’s statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on President Trump’s State...