Tag: local government
SA trade unions battle for inflation-beating pay increases for 1.2m
THE LABOUR Court in Johannesburg will be the setting for South Africa’s trade unions and the African National Congress (ANC) government to fight it...
Trade unions must take action for 15% – demand NHS staff
‘WHAT DO we want? 15%! When do we want it? Now!’ rang out on the Nurses March through London on Saturday afternoon.
More than 1,000...
SECOND COVID PEAK IS LIKELY! say thousands of BMA doctors
THOUSANDS of doctors say a second Covid peak is very likely and is their greatest fear this winter.
A major survey of doctors by the...
NHS backlog putting patients’ health at risk!
NHS PERFORMANCE stats reveal the ‘devastating extent of patient suffering’ amid a ‘daunting’ backlog, says the BMA.
In his response to the latest NHS performance...
‘REJECT NORMALISATION AGREEMENT’ – Palestinian Minister tells Arab League
PALESTINIAN Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Malki, called on the Arab League to reject the United Arab Emirates-Israel normalisation agreement.
‘Otherwise, our meeting...
Corona spreading through England’s school system!
DESPITE warnings from unions the Tories re-opened schools last week, and now coronavirus has begun spreading through the school system across England.
Five teachers at...
‘Plots and conspiracies are being hatched by the Israeli and US...
THE MEETING of the General Secretaries of the Palestinian Factions held last Friday in Ramallah and Beirut via video conference confirmed that our people,...
Child poverty & food bank use rises!
A SURVEY of UK social workers by the Child Poverty Action Group, Child Welfare Inequalities Project and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services,...
IndustriALL union supports investigation into PPE tenders in SA
INDUSTRIALL Global union affiliates in South Africa are supporting the current probe by the country’s Special Investigating Unit into fraudulent activities in the awarding...
UK Is £2 Trillion In Debt – Tories Are Ringing The...
UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion and hit £2.004 trillion for July. The debt is £227.6bn more than last year. It is...
230,000 tenants face eviction as ban ends this weekend – Only...
ON SATURDAY the ban on evicting tenants in England and Wales, introduced by the Tories at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, is due...
Hezbollah leadership not involved in HARIRI murder says UN-backed court
THE SPECIAL Tribunal for Lebanon has not found evidence that the leadership of Hezbollah was involved in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime...
Scrapping of Public Health England part of Tory plan to force...
The lead story in last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper announced: ‘Hancock axes failing public health body,’ adding ‘PHE (Public Health England) to be scrapped...
Seattle Police Chief Quits As Working Class Gears Up To Deal...
SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...
US Attempt to Extend Arms Embargo on Iran is ‘Illegal’ and...
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif defiantly addressed reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the Iranian cabinet in Tehran on August 12,...
‘Nurses gave their all – only to be greeted with a...
MORE THAN 10,000 nurses, other NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters marched from St James’s Park to Parliament Square on Saturday on a demonstration...
Defend All BA Jobs! No Pay Cuts! Call A National Strike!
OVER 600 British Airways workers demonstrated outside Heathrow airport yesterday.
42,000 were sacked that day by BA management and will only be re-employed if they...
Lebanon’s foreign minister quits while financial crisis rages!
LEBANON’S Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Monday in protest at what he described as the government’s...
‘Trump’s only interest in Iraq is to loot the country’ –...
WASHINGTON’S already tense relationship with the 82,000-strong Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces militia coalition suffered a major blow in January after PMF deputy commander Abu...
Zimbabwe trade unions marching against corruption arbitrary arrests and abductions
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa says the labour body will announce a series of dates for fresh protests after tomorrow’s...
Israeli Police Attack Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrators As Israel Explodes!
ISRAELI police arrested 12 people and used water cannons before dawn on Sunday to disperse furious protesters against the policies of PM Netanyahu.
Tens of...
‘We will conclude this matter on the streets!’ say South African...
THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in Ekurhuleni is shocked and agitated that out of the blue, the City has provoked municipal workers...
School nurses and health visitors – County Durham swings axe!
THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...
Hundreds of thousands denied a pay rise
CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak was accused yesterday by the Unite union of having ‘a selective memory’ when it comes to public sector pay, rewarding some...
Sinn Fein – Waiting For UK To Hand Back The North!
By Jim Graham
FOR Marxists, Irish liberation and Irish Freedom have always been a burning issue, since the period of the industrial revolution when the...
‘SHAME ON YOU TOWER HAMLETS’ – workers fighting mass sackings and...
‘TOWER Hamlets, shame on you!’ shouted the 40-strong picket of striking council workers outside Albert Jacob House on Roman Road in east London yesterday...
Chinese fury over Tory plan to kick Huawei out of UK!
‘WHETHER the UK can provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies is a litmus test for British markets after Brexit,...
COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul
Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...
GREEK RIOT POLICE ATTACK PROTEST! – thousands march against Police State...
FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS
SCORES of Greek armed riot police attacked thousands of workers and students with tear-gas and noise-smoke grenades last Thursday night...
Grenfell Inquiry bans survivors and relatives while safety experts didn’t even...
GRENFELL survivors and relatives of the 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower inferno are furious that they have been excluded from the inquiry...
ONLY a Socialist revolution can provide a future for workers and...
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled his latest attempt to resuscitate British capitalism in the midst of a crisis that has destroyed the economic...
Syrians demonstrate against the ‘Caesar Act’ sanctions
POPULAR protests against the US and Turkish occupation forces and in rejection of the so-called ‘Caesar Act’ have continued in Syria’s Hasaka province.
The Caesar Syria...
TUC Proposes A Labour Front With The Tories
WITH great fanfare the Tories have announced that they are following in the footsteps of President Roosevelt who, in 1933, launched the ‘New Deal’...
FBU Warns Tory PM And London’s Labour Mayor ‘Not To...
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has vowed to fight ‘unthinkable’ proposals to cut the budget for the London Fire Brigade by £25m over two...
END THE TORTURE! FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands Home Office protest
‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a 20-strong demonstration outside the Home Office on Friday mid-day.
Addressing the protest Emmy Butlin of the Julian Assange Defence Committee...
US police committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter...
Police forces across the USA have committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter protesters, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, as it launched...
Bring down the Tories – the only way to defend and...
THE BMA’s just-published Survey of Doctors reveals the depth of the crisis that the Tory government has plunged the NHS into, as a result...
National Audit Office Says Families Will Live In Fire Deathtraps Until...
IT HAS been three years since the horrific Grenfell fire which killed 72 men, women and children. Three years and there are still seven...
Slum housing drove up Covid-19 deaths – new Public Health England...
POOR housing conditions contributed to the disproportionate amount of people who have died of Covid-19 in poverty-stricken communities, a new report released yesterday by...
3 Years After Grenfell Fire!
'IT'S been an absolute outrage that three years later and the Grenfell families still have no justice, and homes are still unsafe,’ Joe Delaney,...
‘Brutal impact of Covid-19 on our healthcare services has been laid...
NHS STATISTICS highlight the ‘brutal impact’ of Covid-19 on healthcare services and patient care, doctor’s union the BMA said.
Responding to the latest NHS performance...
Don’t Stop At Dumping Slavers, Dump The UK And US Ruling...
THE TORY leadership reacted in fury this week after the statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston was torn down and dumped in...
Palestinians rally in Ramallah against Israeli annexation plan
THOUSANDS of Palestinians rallied in downtown Ramallah on Monday against Israel’s intention to annex a large part of the occupied West Bank.
Participants hoisted the...
SAFTU condemns assassination of community leaders!
SAFTU (the big South African Confederation of Trades Unions) has strongly condemned ‘the low-intensity war against working-class activists!’
In a statement earlier this week, SAFTU...
‘One solution Revolution!’ says 40,000 crowd outside US embassy
‘ONE SOLUTION – Revolution’ rang out through the 40,000-strong crowd outside the US embassy in Vauxhall, south-west London yesterday as a mass demonstration broke...
Unite urges BA staff to accept pay cut
THE UNITE union has sent a ‘GSS UPDATE 17 SEPT’ to its below-wing ground staff members working at Heathrow to try and persuade them...
