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Youth and workers in global strike against climate change – Time...
TODAY, a week of action across the world starts with a Global Climate Strike in at least 137 countries.
This follows mass action in every...
‘THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE COME HERE IN PEACE!’ –...
‘THIS is the last time we come here in peace, when we come here again we will vandalise,’ the leader of hundreds Community Work...
Only Socialist Revolution can resolve the political and economic crisis and...
YESTERDAY, Scottish appeal court judges ruled that the decision by the Tory government to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the...
Companies at London Arms Fair supplying countries accused of committing ‘war...
THE WORLD’S biggest arms companies have set up shop at Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI), one of the world’s largest arms fairs, taking...
‘Overthrow the EU – Replace it with the Socialist United States...
‘TROTSKY wrote about the prospects of the European capitalists uniting Europe,’ Dave Wiltshire, National Secretary of the All Trades Union Alliance told the YS/WRP...
‘Unceasing Fatalities’ In Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry
‘UNCEASING fatalities’ continue in the Bangladesh shipbreaking industry, as two more workers were killed and thirteen injured in yet another incident at the Ziri...
‘Return bodies of our martyrs’
‘SINCE 1967, Israel has applied an inconsistent policy of refusing to deliver the mortal remains of hundreds of Palestinian combatants to their families,’ an...
US, UK AND FRANCE CHARGED WITH COMMITTING WAR CRIMES IN THE...
THE UNITED States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to the...
Israeli police demolish Bedouin village for 157th time
ISRAELI authorities and their heavily armed police force demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Naqab desert in southern Israel for the 157th...
COSATU condemns political killings and ‘vote buying’ during ANC campaign
SOUTH Africa’s trade union federation COSATU has expressed concern over ongoing factional battles in the governing ANC party, allegations of vote buying by the...
Workers must organise unions to take the UK out of the...
THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Barnier has set the scene for this week’s ‘Brexit showdown’ in the House of Commons by rejecting out-of-hand PM Johnson’s...
Keep a guard on every train! – RMT leader Mick Cash...
RMT members at Waterloo Station were picketing South Western Railway yesterday morning as part of their ongoing fight to keep a guard on every...
Remainers launch a legal challenge!
‘THE CANDYFLOSS of outrage we’ve had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted...
RMT steps up the fight for workplace justice & insists every...
FOLLOWING his re-election this week as general secretary of specialist rail and transport union RMT for a further five-year term, Mick Cash is insisting...
Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut,...
LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...
‘Israel will pay a high price for its brazen acts of...
THE spokesman for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's administration has slammed Israel’s recent attacks against a number of regional countries, warning Tel Aviv will pay...
Zarif Arrives In Biarritz For Talks With Macron
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suddenly arrived in the French city of Biarritz on Friday, where the G7 meeting of the seven top...
Marikana platinum miners ready to strike for a year!
MORE strife is looming at South Africa’s Marikana platinum mines, as members of Amcu (the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union) warned Lonmin’s new...
‘Bleak Houses’ and desperate living conditions for workers and youth in...
THE REPORT by Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, ‘Bleak houses: Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England’, reveals the ‘terrible reality’...
GM Latin American workers meet in Sao Paulo!
WORKERS from General Motors plants across Latin America met in São Paulo, Brazil, last week to discuss and take action against workforce casualisation within...
As Imperialism Hits The Rocks – Forward To The Victory Of The...
US AND UK-backed Islamists are on the run from their last stronghold in Idlib province in Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported...
Hamas Hails ‘Our People In Jerusalem’ And Warns Israel That Attacks...
ON the Israeli violations in al-Aqsa Mosque – statement from the Hamas movement.
The leadership of Hamas held an urgent meeting on the ongoing dangerous...
Grenfell families rehoused in ‘high fire-risk’ building
KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire!
A fire risk...
US Drone Carrying Missiles Crashes On Farms In Iraq!
US AIRCRAFT are flying over Iraqi territory collecting intelligence on the country’s popular forces, a senior Iraqi expert said, adding that a drone that...
Parliament to forcibly evict Westminster rough sleepers
HOMELESS people are to be forcibly evicted from the Westminister underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off.
In December...
Corbyn calls on civil servants to block no-deal Brexit! Organise general...
IN THE LATEST attempt to block a no-deal Brexit, Labour leader Corbyn has called on the civil service to move into action and do...
Doctors welcome Tory pensions concessions!
DOCTORS have welcomed a series of concessions by the Treasury, altering the effect on them of punitive pension rules which are in fact forcing...
All Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action To Support...
HARLAND AND WOLFF shipyard has been occupied by the workforce to prevent its closure.
However on Monday, the unions involved revealed that staff had already...
Wadi al-Hummus demolitions are ‘a heinous crime we will not accept’...
THE PALESTINIAN Presidency on Monday ‘reiterated the firm position of the State of Palestine that supports the right of the People’s Republic of China...
‘To reverse years of underinvestment sustained levels of investment are needed’...
RESPONDING to PM Johnson’s comments in the weekend’s Sunday Times newspaper, in which he pledged a £1.8bn cash injection into the NHS BMA council...
PCS Calls For Universal Credit To Be Smashed!
‘THROUGH our Universal Credit Fact Versus Fiction campaign, PCS is exposing the massive problems with a system that we say needs to be scrapped...
Tshwane bus workers strike gridlocks city centre
SOUTH Africa’s administrative capital Tshwane (Pretoria) was gridlocked for a second day on Tuesday as bus drivers disabled their vehicles and the City insisted...
‘Free Sudanese journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ – NUJ
‘SUDANESE generals must free journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland demanded yesterday joining calls from...
Only Assad can bring stability say Raqqah residents
RESIDENTS of Syria’s Raqqah, which once served as the capital of the self-proclaimed ‘caliphate’ of the Daesh terrorist group, yearn for the return of...
Sudanese Masses Resistance Forces Junta To Agree To Murder Trial...
EIGHT SENIOR military officers are to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity over their part in the mass killing of over 150...
‘Get Ready For A Stayaway!’ Zimbabwe Trade Unions Instruct Their Members
‘Get Ready For A Stayaway,’ the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) General Council has instructed its member organisations.
In a statement last Saturday, ZCTU...
Chicago Nurses Demonstrate Against Unsafe Working Conditions!
NURSES at the University of Chicago Medical Centre (UCMC) demonstrated against unsafe working conditions and inadequate staffing levels at a rally organised by the...
‘THE CRUELTY AND BRUTALITY ON MANUS AND NAURU HAS TO END’...
‘There is no good reason to keep these people on Manus and Nauru ... The cruelty, the brutality has to end,’ Chris Breen, co-organiser...
May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!
TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...
‘Total Showdown’ Nigerian Unions Call General Strike
TRADE Union leaders of Nigeria’s JNPSNC are telling members in public service, in all 36 states and in Abuja, to prepare for ‘total showdown’...
Parliament & Peterloo Exhibition
‘Parliament & Peterloo’
Exhibition in Westminster Hall between 4th July and 26th September 2019
THE Parliamentary Archives invites people to visit the ‘Parliament & Peterloo’ exhibition...
Unite investigating union officials collaboration with blacklisters!
CLAIMS that trade union officials collaborated with the blacklisters of the Consulting Association are being investigated by Unite.
The union has launched an inquiry into...
STOP SACKINGS AT ARCELORMITTAL says Solidarity SA
TRADE UNION Solidarity on Friday said that it regrets the retrenchment crisis at ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), warning that if key players in the...
70 Palestinian Homes In Jerusalem To Be Demolished
ON JULY 9th, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an Advisory Opinion on the wall Israel had started building in the occupied...
Morrison government looks to bring back its union-busting legislation!
AUSTRALIA’S Industrial Relations Minister has accused the construction union CFMMEU of an ‘extraordinarily high standard of unlawful activity’ as the Morrison government moves to...
‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ – warns...
IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned yesterday that any attack on his country after a series of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil...
