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THE TUC Congress yesterday passed Emergency Motions against the Lobbying Bill, and against the attack on the right to strike of London...

THE GMB Central Executive Council (CEC) has voted to reduce its current levels of affiliation to the Labour Party from 420,000 to 50,000 from...

THE African National Congress (ANC) has denied that its fear of losing large numbers of votes in next year’s election has made it reconsider...

THIS year the Trade Union Congress meets in Bournemouth from the 8th to 11th September under conditions where, if the Tory-led coalition government have...

THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...

THE government’s Lobbying Bill is an ‘outrageous attack on freedom of speech worthy of an authoritarian dictatorship’, the TUC said yesterday. The TUC is seeking...

FIRST of all we had Labour ex-Health Secretary Burnham serving notice on Miliband that he had until the spring to challenge the Tory-led coalition...

THE bloodbath in Egypt last Wednesday, which saw hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood cut down in cold blood by the Egyptian army,...

BURNHAM, who served as Labour’s health secretary under Gordon Brown and enthusiastically pursued polices to privatise the NHS, cut its budget and bankrupt it...

NEW Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed his country’s readiness to engage in ‘serious and substantive talks’ with the West over Iran’s nuclear issue. Rouhani...

THE US State Department has told its citizens and all non-emergency government staff to leave the Yemen ‘immediately’ due to increased threats to their...

AUSTRALIA'S Community and Public Sector Union leaders voted on Monday to extend the suspension of all CPSU election campaigning. The union called for an urgent...

THE Communication Workers Union Policy Forum of over 500 CWU reps in central London yesterday voted unanimously for a national strike ballot of Royal...

ADDRESSING a meeting of the Unite Executive Council and Regional Political Committees yesterday, General Secretary Len McCluskey made clear that he intends to surrender...

IN her speech to the annual Tolpuddle Martyr’s rally held last Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lambasted the coalition government over the Transparency...

LEGAL proceedings have been issued in the High Court against the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) saying that the agency’s involvement in a...

PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...

TENS OF thousands of workers and youth are taking part in today’s historic Durham Miners’ Gala at a time when the capitalist system is...

STANDING with the ‘One Nation’ Tory slogan behind him, Labour leader Miliband yesterday outlined his intention to wrest the Labour Party completely away from...

LABOUR Party leader Miliband stepped up his attacks on the trade unions yesterday, announcing plans to end the automatic ‘affiliation’ fee paid by three...

THE Unite union, which in recent years has prevented the Labour Party from going bust and has financed its election campaigns with donations of...

THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that living costs have risen 25% in the past five years and placed an ‘unprecedented’ financial burden on...

CHANCELLOR Osborne’s vicious £11.5 billion Spending Review attacks on pay, public services and benefits, were immediately condemned by trade union and TUC leaders representing...

ON Monday, the BMA conference (ARM) passed unanimously a vote of No Confidence in the Tory-led coalition’s Health Secretary, Hunt, and also called for...

DOCTORS at the BMA conference (ARM) yesterday voted for Motion 293 from the London Regional Council ‘to resist cuts and the privatisation of the...

WORKERS at South African Airways (SAA) are threatening to go on strike if their salary increase demands are not met. The workers are calling for...

HEZBOLLAH’S deputy leader Shaykh Na’im Qasim said last Wednesday that his group had fought ‘with honour’ in Syria and had helped in the...

THE workers’ occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) has led to the collapse of the Greek tripartite government. Foris Kouvelis, the...

THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...

TENS of thousands of workers and youth mass day and night in the grounds around the occupied Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) building...

HASSAN Rouhani has hailed his election as Iran’s president as a ‘victory of moderation over extremism’. The cleric won just over 50 per cent of...

TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth are congregating every day and every night at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) building...

LONMIN Plc (LMI) is waiting to be served with a strike notice by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) if the...

TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...

IN A savage attack on workers, youth and disabled people, Labour party leader Ed Miliband yesterday indicated that if Labour wins the next election...

More than 80,000 new homes could be built in Britain each year if just half the total of £22,812m that was spent on housing...

IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...

LABOUR will bring in a means test for winter fuel payments for the elderly if they win the next general election, Shadow Chancellor Ed...

HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...

THE Tories are considering capping visits to GPs, that is limiting the number of times in a year that a patient can see their...

WHEN the leaders of the Coalition are forced to pledge publicly that it will go the distance and will not split apart, the...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has re-affirmed he will not step down, in an interview with Argentina’s Clarin newspaper and Telam news agency. President al-Assad...

HUNDREDS of thousands rallied in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in response to a call by several Egyptian political forces for a series of...

FOXCONN'S promise of facilitating a democratic trade union is only for their marketing image, says a research team based in several universities in the...

LAND swaps should be a result of negotiations with Israel rather than an ‘advance payment’ given by Arab states on behalf of the Palestinians,...