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IMF predicts ‘worst economic fallout since the Great Depression’ – Only...
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday: ‘We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.’ ‘Just three months ago, we...
‘Healthcare workers … are our soldiers being sent into war without...
‘HEALTHCARE workers are our soldiers on the front line, and they are literally being sent into war without any weapons,’ insisted Numsa general secretary...
Iran wins legal battle against US attempt to seize bank funds!
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as Bank Markazi, says the country has won a legal battle in Europe...
PM Johnson In ‘Intensive Care’ And Labour Is Ready For A...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital, laid low by the coronovirus, perfectly reflecting the state of British...
Starmer Congratulated By Union Leaders, Now Awaits His National Service Government...
THE election of Starmer as Labour leader has been cheered to the rooftops by both the trade union bureaucracy and the Tory Party-supporting media. His...
Tories considering a national government – they must be overthrown! Forward...
THE COLLAPSE of the US economy with 10 million US workers losing their jobs in the last two weeks, allied to the already collapsed...
1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get...
THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...
Police shoot two SA nurses during Covid-19 transport confusion!
TWO SOUTH African Free State nurses were shot with rubber bullets by police last Tuesday in Welkom, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers...
Johnson goes down with coronavirus – plunging his anti-working class regime...
THE TRADE union leaders and the Labour Party are currently cementing their role as the most enthusiastic would-be partners of the Tory government and...
Worst US unemployment since Great Depression – 3.3 million Americans jobless
FIGURES released yesterday show that 3.3 million Americans have filed for unemployment, the worst jobless figures since the Great Depression of the 1930s after...
Johnson Will Use His Dictatorial Powers Against The Working Class!
THE DEBATE on the adjournment of Parliament for a month until April 21 took place immediately after the Tory emergency legislation passed though the...
20,000 are threatened with eviction during corona crisis
THE TORIES had promised a ‘complete ban’ on evictions from both council and private social housing. However, anger erupted yesterday as it emerged that...
Draconian police state powers
DRACONIAN emergency powers contained within the Coronavirus Bill were debated during the bill’s second reading in Parliament yesterday. Police state measures were outlined to detain...
Tories Have Just Borrowed Billions While Doctors Say That They Are...
PM JOHNSON has put the blame for the coronavirus firmly on the people, when he warned on the TV that the NHS could be...
China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the...
CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...
Zimbabwe trade unions ‘itching for mass action’ to be paid in...
THE OPPOSITION Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has joined forces with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to push for salaries in United...
Royal Mail workers must set the date for their all out...
ON TUESDAY, postal workers delivered a massive 94.5% YES vote to strike in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions and the very existence...
Union leaders must take action to bring down the Tories – and...
THE WORLD Health Organisation has issued its ‘Test, Test and Test’ call as its main policy to lay the basis for dealing with the...
Tories Introducing Emergency Powers!
THE TORY government will introduce ‘Emergency Powers’ tomorrow, Tuesday, which are to be voted on in the House of Commons on Thursday, Health Secretary...
Unions Must Stop Pleading With Bosses And The Tories And Use...
BORIS JOHNSON’S policy of do-nothing to combat or turn back the coronavirus has now been dumped after 229 scientists wrote to the government saying...
SAFTU demands resignation after attempts to derigister municipal workers union
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions has called on Labour Registrar Advocate Lehlohonolo Molefe to ‘resign’ – after the labour court suspended as...
South African workers fear a lack of health cover
COSATU – The Confederation of South African Trade Unions – has held a Central Executive Committee workshop to discuss a number of pertinent issues...
After A Decade Of Savage Austerity The Tories Propose A Massive...
THE NEW Tory chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, yesterday painted a picture of British capitalism as fundamentally ‘robust’ while the NHS was ‘sound’...
OCCUPIED! – UCL student action in support of UCU lecturers strike
AT UNIVERSITY College London (UCL) over fifty students occupied the Cloister Building at 7am yesterday morning in front of the Provost’s office, and plan...
In US elections Sanders must defy Democrat campaign to stop him...
THE RACE to become the Democratic Party candidate to face Trump in November’s presidential election has come down to a fight between the democratic...
North Kensington Workers Fighting Racism!
FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...
RMT strike action to defend guards safety role
A FURTHER two days of strike action will take place on South Western Railway next week after RMT Guard members voted for industrial action...
2,000 March On Eve Of Assange Extradition Hearing!
Over 2,000 marched from Australia House to a rally in Parliament Square in support of Julian Assange on Saturday shouting: ‘Free Julian Assange! Only...
Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’! The way to end the ‘hostile...
THE HOME Office is ‘institutionally racist’. This is the verdict of the first draft of the ‘lessons learned’ review by Wendy Williams, HM Inspector...
UCU pay and pensions strike set to escalate
UNIVERSITY staff completed their first two days of strike action yesterday at 74 universities across the country and their strike was solid, winning 100%...
Bloomberg Flops! Sanders Must Stand For President – US Unions Must...
BILLIONAIRE Michael Bloomberg, whose wealth amounts to $64bn, has seen his bid to purchase first of all the Democratic nomination to be its presidential...
CUPE campaigns for ‘outside’ municipal workers
THE City of Moncton management hides a dirty secret. It has been exploiting employment contract language loopholes to penny- pinch workers. Over 20% of all...
World Crisis Can Only Be Resolved By World Revolution!
THE DEEPENING of the world crisis of capitalism is driving forward massive job cuts for workers across the world, as manufacturing industry globally faces...
PARIS ERUPTS – as Macron’s pension attack goes to French Parliament
FRENCH unions brought the transport system to a halt again yesterday on ‘Black Monday’ the day the French parliament, the Assemblée nationale, began debating...
Sanders wins union endorsement for presidential campaign
THE UNIVERSITY of California’s largest employee union, AFSCME Local 3299, has voted to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for President ahead of California’s March...
US nurses celebrate Sanders victory
MEMBERS of National Nurses United (NNU), the US’s largest union of registered nurses, on Tuesday celebrated Senator Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire primary win, saying...
Sinn Féin win 37 seats in Irish election!
SINN Féin was celebrating the results of the Irish elections yesterday which saw them as the second biggest party, winning 37 seats – an...
Industry collapses in UK under impact of capitalist crisis
THE UK economy stagnated with no growth in the last quarter of 2019, according to official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Gross...
Stop mass deportation flight today! – demand 150 MPs and Lords
THE MASS deportation flight due to leave today with 50 people on board who came to the UK as children must be stopped! over...
Tory ‘hostile environment’ programme alive and kicking – Stop mass...
THE PLANNED deportation of 50 people to Jamaica, many of whom came to the UK as children, shows that the Tories racist hounding of immigrant...
‘Stop shameful deportations!’ of people who came to the UK as...
THE GOVERNMENT must end the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush...
Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution
TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...
Zimbabwe Trade Unions Are To Call A General Strike Against...
THE MOTHER of all strikes is imminent – as Zimbabwe’s massive union, ZCTU (the Zimbabwe Confederation of Trade Unions), mobilises other unions to avert...
Workers forced Brexit through! Now bring down Johnson to bring in...
AT ELEVEN pm last night, Britain officially left the European Union. After a long, hard and determined struggle Brexit has actually happened and the...
Universal Credit can’t be fixed: Abolish it along with the Tories!
THE TORY government suffered a defeat in the courts this week when the court of appeal dismissed a challenge by the Department for Work...