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‘The only way forward is a general strike’ – insists Newcastle...
MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...
Unions prepare to bring France to a standstill on March 7
‘THE CONFEDERATION has brought together all of its federations in order to continue the mobilisation against the pension reform and to prepare for “France...
‘I Can’t Breathe’: Race, Death and British Policing
BLACK men are seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism is not being addressed, the charity Inquest has found. Families of...
Israeli army demolishes homes, steals olive saplings, confiscates vehicles to make...
AN ISRAELI army force on Wednesday demolished a residence and uprooted 100 saplings in Masafer Yatta, in the south of the occupied West Bank. Local...
Multinational companies who supplied cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower making...
Yesterday’s Observer newspaper revealed that manufacturers of the insulation installed on Grenfell Tower – cladding that led to the inferno that killed 72 people...
‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka
THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...
Government Failure Was Partly To Blame For Grenfell Fire – Says...
COLLECTIVE government failures regarding building regulations ‘over many years’ were partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. He...
‘We’re heading for a general strike’ say UCLH nurses
THE HUGE picket of around 400 nurses on the steps of University College Hospital (UCH) on the Euston Road in central London was featured...
‘March with UCLH nurses to Downing Street today’ – urges Homerton...
OVER 2,000 trade unionists, workers and youth joined an emergency 6.00pm demonstration called by the trade unions in Whitehall opposite Downing Street on Monday...
BMA Junior Doctors Unite With The RMT To Demand Action Against...
THE sight of the junior doctors of the British Medical Association and the RMT union beginning to form an alliance in order to defend...
‘VICTORY TO THE DOCTORS AND THE RAIL WORKERS!’ – RMT’s Mick...
ON SATURDAY, the BMA held a rally to launch its campaign for Pay Restoration. Balloting opened for strike action on 9th January and votes...
NI housing workers’ strike in 23rd week!
STRIKING housing workers in the north of Ireland have voted 99.5 per cent on a 93.5 per cent turn-out to reject the inadequate NI...
Latest IMF warning that 2023 is year of world recession –...
THE HEAD of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has delivered a stark New Year warning that a third of the world economy...
Tories are bringing in savage anti-union laws to police the working...
THE GOVERNMENT has announced what it says is one of the biggest bonfires of financial regulations to allow the City of London to rule...
US opposes prosecution of Israel over Shireen Abu Akleh murder
The United States has opposed Al Jazeera’s efforts to have the Israeli regime prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Tel Aviv’s murder...
48,000 University of California workers strike!
THE UAW (United Auto Workers) union has been leading a strike involving some 48,000 academic workers in ten University of California cities — including...
Doctors raise the alarm over UK’s poor health care after ‘years...
DOCTORS have raised the alarm on the misery of the nation’s poor health caused by years of Tory government neglect and funding cuts! In a...
Israel’s ‘terrorism, threat and intimidation won’t frighten us!’ – says Palestinian...
THE agreement between Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is ‘a broad call for an escalation in the violence in...
SAFTU condemns interest rates hike as postal workers strike for 15%...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Friday condemned the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiking of the...
Canadian trade unions fight for Bangladeshi garment workers
CANADIAN trade unions allege that workers in Bangladeshi garment factories that supply Canadian Tyre subsidiary Mark’s with clothing sold under brand names like Wind...
‘Left, right or centre, all Zionists believe in colonising Palestine!’ –...
AMERICAN journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen has argued that there is no difference between the so-called left, centrist and right parties in Israel, as...
2-year-old Awaab died ‘entirely due to mould!’
TWO YEARS-OLD Awaab Ishak died on 21 December 2020 shortly after his second birthday ‘entirely’ as a result of extensive mould in his flat,...
GRENFELL – ‘Change the law so that those who are considered...
As the phase 2 of the public inquiry in the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the life of 72 residents draws to a close...
Grenfell Tower Inquiry Ends This Week
THE FIVE years-long inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the lives of 72 people entered its final stage this week with closing...
NICARAGUANS VOTING IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ‘US rulers and their terrorist...
PRESIDENT Daniel Ortega, as he went to vote in the municipal elections on Sunday, emphasised that people were voting for Nicaragua and by doing...
Bolivian unions mobilise against ‘right-wing coup plotters’
FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her...
Massachusetts teachers win ‘illegal’ strike!
TEACHERS in Haverhill, Massachusetts, have won their strike held last week, defying a state law banning teachers and other public sector workers from striking,...
Nablus under siege for two weeks!
A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli...
Tories Moving To Dump Truss!
YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if...
‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!
BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...
75,000 children in London in temporary accommodation
More than 75,000 children are stuck in temporary accommodation due to insufficient housebuilding and low benefits, new studies have concluded. Reports from University College London...
Israeli settlers invade al-Aqsa Mosque compound
ISRAELI settlers have once again invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem in the latest act of provocation against...
Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...
SAFTU demonstration for a 1,500 Rand Basic Income Grant
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is opposing plans by the South African ANC government to replace the Social Relief of Distress...
Black people in US ‘subjected to brutality and death in the...
AN African American journalist and political analyst has said that ever since the inception of the police in the United States African people have...
Over 100 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2022
A Palestinian human rights group says Israeli military forces have killed more than one hundred Palestinians, and wounded hundreds more during raids and various...
Bernie Sanders addresses packed ‘Save London Transport’ rally at the TUC
BERNIE SANDERS, US Senator for Vermont, addressed a packed ‘Save London’s Transport’ rally organised by the RMT railway workers union, at London’s TUC building...
French student unions challenge Macron over huge rises in the cost...
WITH inflation and the increase in the cost of living, the French student unions are challenging the government on the eve of the start...
Israeli attack on Gaza is an act of clear aggression says...
THE Leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the latest Israeli attack on the besieged Gaza Strip is an act of clear aggression and...
Iran condemns murderous Israeli attacks!
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has sharply criticised the Israeli regime’s latest deadly airstrikes in Gaza, condemning the international community’s inaction and silence about the...
Landlords Can Grab The £400 Energy Bill Rebate
LANDLORDS face a potential Tory cash bonanza with nothing to stop them holding on to the £400 energy bill rebate which the government is...
While bills & rents soar US to spend $838.8bn on arms
THE devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout continue to take a toll on the world and provide ample reason to...
IMF fears world revolution as the world economic crisis deepens
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another dire warning about the economic crisis raging throughout the world yesterday with its head, Kristalina Georgieva, saying...
SAFTU calls on workers to mobilise and unify for a general...
‘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...
UN warns mass evictions of Palestinians a ‘war crime’
The United Nations (UN) has warned that the Israeli regime’s forcible mass eviction of over 1,200 Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta...