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August 21 – Felixstowe Port is to come to a standstill...

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THE most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout. This is after after pay talks broke...

‘It’s Time For A General Strike’ – RMT Pickets Tell News...

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RMT pickets at Elephant and Castle Underground station were joined by supporters from Unite Community and members of the public yesterday morning. RMT member Ebony...

Unite campaign for ‘Workers Economy’ is a campaign for a Starmer-led...

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THE Unite trade union has issued a press release that dangles before its members and the working class the pledge that the union would...

50,000 RMT members take strike action!

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OVER 50,000 RMT members across Network Rail, London Overground, London Underground and other 14 train operating companies will walk out on strike this week,...

Unionisation drives are sweeping Starbucks & Amazon across the USA

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UNIONISATION drives are sweeping Starbucks and Amazon workplaces across the United States from East to West, with strikes gaining powerful huge support from the...

10 YEARS SINCE MARIKANA MASSACRE Ramaphosa … ‘the mastermind of a...

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THE MARIKANA mine massacre of ten years ago has never curbed President Ramaphosa’s political ambitions, but he’s never been able to escape the fallout...

Demand The TUC Call A General Strike To Bring Down The...

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UNITE has revealed that Harrods is the ‘first employer’ to threaten staff with the new law allowing agency workers to break strikes and engage...

Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’...

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THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...

French workers battle to save hospitals and pensions

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FRENCH workers are fighting attacks on their pensions and health service. French trade union federation CGT has raised the alarm over hospital closures. On Saturday March...

London Transport Strikes Escalating!

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LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...

SAFTU calls South Africa national strike for August 24th – against...

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A NATIONAL strike across South Africa against the rising costs of living, load shedding, and other economic challenges will take place on 24 August,...

Nurses Move To Strike Vote

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is urging its hundreds of thousands of members to vote to strike for pay in a ballot which...

Saftu Trade Unions Convene A Working Class Summit To Fight Rising...

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SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) has convened a Working Class Summit on Friday August 5 ‘to prepare a fight back’. It said: ‘In...

Nurses pay cut plan a ‘death knell’ for Truss!

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TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss was forced into a humiliating U-Turn yesterday, after saying in a ‘hustings’ meeting on Monday night that, as Prime...

GHOST STATIONS AND A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE! – RMT staff survey reveals...

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A MASSIVE staff survey carried out by the RMT railway workers union reveals the dystopian future awaiting passengers if the industry privateers and the...

Labour MPs to attend CWU pickets today!

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LARGE numbers of Labour MPs will attend Communication Workers Union (CWU) picket lines again today, in defiance of the anti-union stance taken by party...

CGT calls for ‘day of mobilisation’

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FRENCH trade union federation CGT has called for September 29 to be a ‘day of mobilisation and interprofessional strikes’ over unemployment. The CGT stated that...

Smash The Thatcherite Tory Party With A General Strike And A...

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IN YESTERDAY’s Daily Telegraph, Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport, displayed his 100% hatred of trade unions and trade unionists. Reacting to the...

‘I would agree with a general strike’ says RMT’s Dempsey!

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THE RMT Deputy General Secretary Eddie Dempsey made the call for a general strike when he spoke out on the picket line at Euston...

40,000 Railworkers Strike Today!

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BRITAIN is in shutdown again today as 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies strike in defence of jobs, pay, conditions,...

Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to...

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Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...

COSATU cost-of-living protest in Gauteng

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Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members in Gauteng last Friday marched to the department of trade and industry to hand in a...

Telefonistas are set for national strike in Mexico!

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TELEFONISTAS de Mexico are on the verge of a national strike. The Union of Telephone Operators of the Mexican Republic, STRM, issued a double strike...

Starbucks workers in New York State are joining the union

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NEW YORK State baristas and other workers at the Starbucks coffee shop in Syracuse’s Armory Square, are seeking to join a union as part...

New Sri Lankan President Is As Hated As Rajapaksa...

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SRI LANKAN MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new president, despite his extreme unpopularity with Sri Lankan workers and youth...

‘Today we are unionising the United States Congress’ says the Congressional...

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STAFF members of the US House of Representatives in Washington filed a petition for representation on Monday to form a union for the first...

Unions Strike Ballots To Achieve Inflation-Busting Pay Rises!

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UNIONS representing nurses, firefighters, teachers, council workers and every other section announced strike ballots and ‘calls to action’ to achieve inflation-busting pay rises in...

Australia Fining Nurses For Going On Strike!

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AUSTRALIA is now threatening to fine health workers and their unions for coming out on strike, in a move which is set to be...

French aviation union calls four-day strike over low pay and bad...

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FRENCH aviation union Syndicat National du Personnel Navigant Commercial (SNPNC-FO) cabin crew members (hostesses and stewards) are on strike from Wednesday July 13 to...

SAFTU calls on workers to mobilise and unify for a general...

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‘SAFTU calls on the working class to mobilise and unify towards the Working Class Summit and the General Strike in August 2022.’ SAFTU said it...

RMT’s Lynch welcomes ASLEF strike vote

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has welcomed the overwhelming strike vote by ASLEF members in eight train operating companies, setting the scene for a...

As The Crisis Deepens The Time Has Come To Organise The...

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LENIN in his book Left Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder writes about the ‘fundamental law of revolution.’ He states: ‘For a revolution to take...

ASLEF & TSSA strike action ballot

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RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...

Summer strikes at Isle of Wight ferries and Heathrow – RMT’s...

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ALL of the Isle of Wight’s Southampton-to-Cowes ferries will shut down during summer holidays as 120 workers take strike action against Red Funnel and...

Tory Party Civil War Set To Continue

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‘IT IS clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a...

34 Tories quit government positions

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BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...

Eskom pay struggle intensifies in SA – SAFTU calls for a...

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SOUTH Africa’s trade unions have been meeting with their members to discuss the proposed wage offer from energy giant Eskom, after a proposed agreement...

51st birthday rally for Assange

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OVER seventy campaigners demanding the release of Julian Assange attended a party outside Belmarsh prison on Sunday to celebrate his 51st birthday. Assange has been...

Unite Leader Graham Condemns Lammy For Refusing To Support BA Striking...

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THE leader of the Unite trade union has hit back at comments by David Lammy MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, on Sunday, that he...

RMT joins striking barristers outside Old Bailey

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STRIKING barristers were supported by the RMT at their rally outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in central London yesterday, while...

The Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down...

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BORIS Johnson’s reaction to the Tory Party’s massive by-election defeats at Tiverton and Honiton and at Wakefield has been to reject the advice and...

Police violently attack Ecuadorian protesters

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THOUSANDS of Indigenous people continue to demonstrate in the Ecuadorian capital, as their calls for social and economic reforms grow louder despite a crackdown...

Tory Chairman Quits While Johnson Skulks In Rwanda Hoping That Something...

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THE TORY wipe-out in the two by-elections has left the great leader skulking in Rwanda, while his Tory Party chairman Dowden has resigned, writing...

Tories Plan To Bring In Legal Strikebreakers To Force Workers To...

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DEPUTY Prime Minister Dominic Raab says the UK government cannot allow unions to win a battle for higher pay as it would supposedly fuel...

Numsa metalworkers are on indefinite strike action! – as Nehawu demands...

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Hundreds of Numsa metalworkers’ union members at the Impala Platinum Mine in Freedom Park near Rustenburg are on indefinite strike against exploitation by three...