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TUC general secretary Paul Nowak opened Saturday’s Special Congress on ‘the next steps’ in the fight against the Tory anti-strike laws proclaiming: ‘Congress, let...

‘TUC Get Off Your Knees, Call a General Strike!’ and ‘TUC Get Off Your Knees, Kick the Tories Out!’ rang out as the Workers...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched on Saturday through central London, calling for victory to Palestine and an end to Israel’s...

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...

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...

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...

By Shabbir Rizvi SINCE the onset of the Al Aqsa Storm Operation more than a month ago, the US has seen an unprecedented level of...

THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has raised alarms over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Dominique Hyde, UNHCR’s Director of External Relations,...

THE ‘National Day of Action Ceasefire NOW’ organised by the  Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) on Saturday saw powerful rallies in towns and cities across...

OVER seven hundred firefighters and control staff assembled in Westminster on Wednesday to launch a new ‘Firefighters’ Manifesto’. As the country recovers from flooding, and...

THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...

Colombia said on Monday evening that Israel’s ambassador must leave the country after President Gustavo Petro criticised the regime for crimes against the Palestinians...

THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with...

TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman has come under fire for her speech to the party conference viciously attacking refugees. She told the Tory faithful that...

Over 1,000 striking junior doctors,  consultants and radiographers held an angry rally in St Peter's Square, Manchester outside the Tory party conference on Tuesday...

THE only way that bankrupt capitalism can survive is through making the working people of the world pay for its crisis with their jobs,...

LABOUR’s Andy Burnham has said he will consider taking legal action if the government abandons plans for building the HS2 rail link in northern...

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

The Federation of Greek Public Sector Trade Unions (ADEDY), the Athens and Piraeus Trades Councils and dozens of trade unions have called a 24-hour...

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....

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...

TUC Congress delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday voted for composite motion C22: ‘Right to boycott’ from the National Education Union. Moving the motion, Louise Regan,...

THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...

DELEGATES to the TUC conference in Liverpool spoke out in favour of a general strike to defeat the Tory Strikes Minimum Service Levels legislation...

MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by...

Niger’s military rulers on Friday revoked the diplomatic immunity of France’s ambassador and ordered police to expel him from the African country. A letter sent...

Over one thousand angry RMT rail union members and their supporters marched from the Department of Transport offices to Downing Street on Thursday evening...

WITH the Tory Party split and divided, Labour is now revealing its own pro-Tory proposals to make the working class pay for the continuing...

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

YESTERDAY evening, former US president Donald Trump, accompanied by a US Secret Service Motorcade, swept up to Fulton county jail and handed himself in...

THE FICTION of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for British capitalism is now firmly rejected by even the most loyal of...

WORLD capitalism and in particular British capitalism is in its greatest crisis ever with sections of the Tory party compeletely demoralised by the ‘Oceans...

THE COLLAPSE of the popular discount high street retailer Wilko, with 12,500 of its workers facing being thrown out of a job, has thrown...

THE TORIES are planning to knife the NHS through a massive expansion of the private health sector. The Labour turncoats are meanwhile critical of them...

FORMER US President Donald Trump has been charged with illegal plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat. He is accused of four counts including...

THE THREE-DAY Labour Policy Forum (LPF) held in Nottingham over the weekend was ‘chaotic’, Unite said yesterday, with the Starmer party leadership seeking to...

TORY PM SUNAK has insisted the Conservatives can still win the next general election, despite suffering two damaging by-election defeats. Labour and the Lib Dems...

NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...

THE LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer appeared on the Laura Keunssberg Show on the BBC yesterday where he refused to say whether a Labour...

PM Sunak has said he is yet to make a ‘final decision’ on whether to accept the recommended pay rises for public sector workers. Official...

A LANDMARK research study by the Trussel Trust has revealed the excruciating extent of food poverty across Britain as the working class, the middle...

‘JENNIFER Bates, BAmazon workers leader’s reinstatement by Amazon, is a win for workers,’ says the UNI Global Union. Last week, Jennifer Bates, the lead worker...

IN IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi’s meetings with leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba during his recent three-nation tour of Latin America, the pressing and...

THE news from the mortgage front is grim. Millions of families are experiencing shocking hikes in mortgage rates of hundreds of pounds per month,...