Tag: education

An important event for the working class of Leningrad and the entire world by Mikhail Polupanov This exhibition is dedicated to 130th anniversary of outstanding...

Public sector trade union Unison yesterday called for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to be taken back under NHS control. It also...

During two months when trade unionists from Colombia were visiting America to take part in trade union training – four of their colleagues were...

The Gaza Freedom March that will take place in Gaza on December 31st is an historic initiative to break the siege that has imprisoned...

Over 20,000 students, youth and workers took part in a militant anti-imperialist demonstration in Athens on Tuesday to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the...

ALL the ‘we will win the war in Afghanistan’ propaganda has now been dumped as the political leaders of imperialism have begun to grasp...

THE DEEPENING world economic imperialist crisis is leading to a much worsening of working class conditions in all parts of the...

ANGRY students have occupied the London College of Communication (LCC) this week, against a wave of redundancies and course closures. The occupation, which began at...

‘The GMB is opposed to a John Lewis partnership running the NHS, and so would the 1.4 million staff employed by the service,’ GMB...

The United Steelworkers’ (USW) global campaign to prevent Brazilian mining giant Vale S.A. from eroding working conditions and denying basic labour rights at its operations worldwide...

A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...

OVER 150,000 workers around the country, and in the north took to the streets in a series of marches last Friday to protest against...

SIR Jock Stirrup, the British army commander, has admitted that the great majority of the British people are opposed to the imperialist war in...

I want to continue my education. I want to be a lawyer when I grow up to defend Palestinian children against the injustice that...

Migrant workers in Israel’s agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to an October 28th report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning...

Israeli bulldozers demolished two Palestinian houses in the Ath-Thuri neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Al-Quds Centre for...

Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...

THE reality of the situation facing postal workers is that after two series of mass strike actions during which they have shown they are...

THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...

HOME SECRETARY Alan Johnson is introducing new police state powers for councils next week. These will not be discussed in the House of Commons...

RUSSIAN experts on Afghanistan take a dim view of US ‘achievements’ in their military operations there. Experts believe that Central Asian countries as well...

NHS London has ordered PCTs and NHS trusts to draw up plans for cuts worth billions. NHS London (London’s Strategic Health Authority) produced a...

THE ‘New Local Government Network’ was warning yesterday of a ‘tsunami of a public sector recession’ after the next general election when the just...

OVER 10,000 people marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday demanding the withdrawal of the British Army from Afghanistan. At the...

‘ROYAL MAIL is misleading the public,’ the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday at the start of the national postal strike in defence of...

THE horrific future under capitalism for workers and youth is being revealed on a daily basis, as the price of the government’s £1.3 trillion...

GREEK armed riot police viciously attacked with clubs, smoke and lightning bombs and toxic tear gas grenades about 800 protesting ship repair workers last...

‘THE chaotic scenes during enrolment say it all: we lost over 350 jobs last year and you can already see the difference,’ said the...

OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of privatising and ‘selling off the family silver at a knock down price’...

The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...

THOUSANDS of students poured out of classes from University of California (UC) campuses across the state on Thursday to show their anger and opposition...

LONDON delivery offices took all-out strike action yesterday in the ongoing battle by postal workers to defend jobs in Royal Mail. The Communication Workers Union...

Postal workers in the Paris region are on an open-ended strike starting Monday, September 21, against the closure of 185 Paris post offices and...

LIB DEM leader Nick Clegg has reiterated his original claim there will need to be ‘savage’ spending cuts. Clegg put forward the same...

The sacked Gate Gourmet workers marked the fourth anniversary of their struggle with a 200-plus strong rally and an evening of thrilling entertainment at...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) hit back yesterday at Education Secretary Ed Balls over his call to sack thousands of school heads and...

‘We commemorate the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in honour of the hundreds of men, women and children killed by death squads...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool on Wednesday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 2: Temporary Agency Workers, to demand that agency workers have...

THE TUC Congress in Liverpool was brought alive yesterday by a passionate call to fight for jobs with occupations by Mark Campbell of the...

THE TUC delegates in Liverpool at the 2009 Congress on Monday voted unanimously to defend public services. Composite Motion C21 Public Services and the Economy...

THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...

TRADE unions and children’s charities have denounced calls from the Taxpayers Alliance and the Institute of Directors for the abolition of child benefit. The right-wing...

ISRAEL’S military onslaught on Gaza, where it not only used massive bombs and missiles but banned cluster bombs and white phosphorus weapons, killed 1,387...

Striking lecturers at Tower Hamlets College in East London yesterday called on other trade unions and colleges to join their Day of Action next...