Tag: election

THE BMA and the main TUC trade unions are completely opposed to the Health and Social Care Bill and have given up all efforts...

Sir Gus O’Donnell, the most senior civil servant in the country, has broken cover with the public admission that the crisis of the capitalist...

A WEEKEND explosion at a Shanghai factory run by Apple supplier Pegatron injured 61 workers, 23 of whom were hospitalised according to the Taiwan-based...

PRESENTLY, world imperialism is attempting to enforce its presence and its influence in the different parts of the globe. The bloody aggression against Libya...

severaL thousand people demonstrated on Sunday outside Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem, protesting over a plan they say will displace tens...

UP TO 1,000 workers, trade unionists, local residents and youth electrified Enfield on Saturday afternoon, after hundreds joined the march through the town with...

CIVIL cases against Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shavendra Silva, an ex-army commander and currently Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN)...

Some 200 unemployed workers converged on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, on Thursday to demand that Congress act immediately to extend unemployment insurance to those...

THE Greek coalition’s Finance Minister Evagelos Venizelos has said that the general election date agreed for February 19 by both the ex-Prime Minister Papandreou...

Tens of thousands of protesters flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, demanding the immediate removal of the Egyptian military regime. As the square filled up...

EGYPTIAN workers and youth have reoccupied Tahrir Square in Cairo, and are keeping the military and the police at bay, following Saturday’s deadly clashes...

A court in the governorate of Qalioubiya, north of Cairo, has ruled in favour of independent trade union candidates taking part in the...

NORTHERN Rock (NR) plc is being sold to Virgin Money by the coalition government for £747m. After Northern Rock was nationalised in 2008 it...

THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...

‘We are the 99 per cent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent,’ says...

Over 10,000 students and a number of trade unionists took part in a protest through central London yesterday against £9,000 fees, education cuts and...

THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou won the confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) with a margin of just three last...

MERKEL, Sarkozy and Cameron are all united on one central issue, the Greek workers must not have the slightest ‘democratic’ say over the draconian...

THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou was set to be defeated in a confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Friday...

PREMIER Papandreou told the Greek parliament yesterday that he was now adopting a ‘national position’ and was discussing with the right-wing...

THE fact that Papandreou has had to sack the Greek Military General Staff at the same time as he has angered Sarkozy and Merkel...

FOLLOWING Greek Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou’s calling of a referendum on the EU austerity programme, angry workers have called for his immediate resignation and...

A new report warns that plans to privatise London Fire Brigade training and the fire control centre would compromise safety whilst imposing new high...

A STUDENT leader was attacked and seriously wounded in Jaffna on Sunday, reports TamilNet. Suspected Sri Lanka Army intelligence personnel armed with sharp iron rods...

UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, on Monday welcomed a report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) calling on the...

THE Communications Workers of America Executive Board has endorsed the youth-led Occupy Wall Street Movement. Occupy Wall Street youth campaigners have joined...

A NORTH East London Council of Action conference of over 150 workers, pensioners and youth on Saturday voted unanimously for an occupation of...

MOVING the Public Services composite motion at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday, Unison General Secretary, Dave Prentis said: ‘Conference, today we...

LABOUR Party leader Ed Miliband pledged yesterday to cut tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000 a year if returned to government, as the party’s...

LAST Thursday night US President Barak Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress where he outlined his new initiative that would, he...

THE Egyptian Cabinet has approved new legislation on trade union freedoms, consenting to pass the law within days. The new legislation would eliminate many of...

‘We are prepared to occupy before any closures are implemented,’ said North East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers yesterday. Commenting on news that...

EGYPTIAN labour activists are keenly anticipating a new law on labour syndicates, a draft of which has apparently been completed and which could be...

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) says fire crews are ‘sickened’ by the silence of politicians over fire service cuts. Politicians have been queuing up to...

The TUC Congress next month is meeting at an historic juncture of worldwide economic and political crisis. Millions of workers are having their wages frozen...

ORDERS have been issued by Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa and by his sibling Basil Rajapaksa to colonial governor Maj-Gen Chandrasri for immediate and...

Labour has accused the government of cutting NHS spending in England in poorer areas and moving funds towards richer parts of the country, citing...

Both US President Barack Obama and the Republican leader in Congress John Boehner raised the spectre of a market crash today if the political...

THE GMB has commented on the written ministerial statement in the House of Commons yesterdayday on public sector pension talks. Brian Strutton, the ...

TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...

Political groups participating in the Tahrir Square sit-in issued two statements Sunday underlining their demands. The statements were issued separately, but the demands are almost...

TWO THOUSAND furious Airways Pension Scheme (APS) members attended meetings at Ascot Racecourse on Monday, where they tore into the BA-appointed trustees who have...

UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday made a ‘call to arms’ at the union’s national delegate conference urging delegates to stand ready...

PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union leader Mark Serwotka said yesterday, just before the massive vote for strike action on June 30th by his PCS...

‘CAMERON’S speech today, with the five fake pledges on the NHS, signify that the coalition government is going full steam ahead with the...