Tag: protest
Police violently attack Ecuadorian protesters
THOUSANDS of Indigenous people continue to demonstrate in the Ecuadorian capital, as their calls for social and economic reforms grow louder despite a crackdown...
Railworkers Are Fighting For All Workers! TUC Must Be Made To...
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has responded to the rocketing inflation rate. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘Inflation reaching...
RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike
OVER 40,000 workers are supporting the action and manning the picket lines again today as the RMT railwayworkers union takes this week’s second day...
Hospital protests across Sri Lanka
The All Ceylon Health Trade Union Federation (ACHTUF) held a series of protests opposite main hospitals across the country from 12 noon on Monday...
Ecuador general strike defies state of emergency
FOR over a week now, farmers, students, workers, and transporters continue to join the national strike called by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of...
‘The workers are with us and that’s why we are going...
‘A GENERAL STRIKE to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!’ was the main demand on the 100,000-strong TUC march from the...
Trade unions must use their power to stop Assange’s extradition to...
HOME SECRETARY Patel has not been humbled in the slightest by the decision of the European Human Rights Court to consider that her attempt...
An inflation-busting pay rise is needed to keep key NHS staff...
FOUR out of five NHS staff say pay is the main reason they would quit their jobs.
An exclusive poll of NHS staff yesterday revealed...
TUC MUST CALL GENERAL STRIKE! – bring down Tories – bring...
THE railways will be shut down for 3 days on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, when workers from Network Rail and 13 train operating companies...
Bank of England follows US Fed in driving up interest rates...
YESTERDAY, the Bank of England (BofE) hiked up the interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%, its highest level in 13 years – the first...
TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to...
US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...
Macron Set To Lose His Majority As French Workers Vote Socialist!
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron is set to lose his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections....
‘The political people … have delivered incompetence and indifference towards us’...
FIVE years ago, in the early hours of the morning of June 14th 2017, a kitchen fire led to an inferno that set alight...
Tuc Must Reply To Tory Threats And Call A General Strike...
THE TUC leaders will be meeting in Blackpool on Wednesday evening June 15th just three days before their huge 100,000 plus ‘March for Change’...
Johnson fighting a war on two fronts against Russia and against...
PM JOHNSON in his Thursday speech in Blackpool unveiled his war on two fronts against the Russian workers abroad, and at home against the...
TUC warns nurses of huge wage ‘hit!’ – says Johnson will...
NURSES will suffer a huge wage ‘hit’ this year if the Government imposes a pay rise well below the soaring rate of inflation, unions...
Johnson’s answer to recession – sell off social housing!
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Blackpool yesterday to deliver what was billed as his great ‘reset speech’, to shore up his leadership...
Health workers march in France! ‘Our public hospitals are dying...
HEALTH workers demonstrated in cities across France on Tuesday to demand higher pay and more staff for services stretched to breaking point, just days...
Tuc Must Call General Strike To Win The Rail Dispute And...
WITH a Civil War raging inside the completely split Tory Party there could be no better time for taking on the Tory regime, defeating...
All India Coal Workers Federation Are Fighting The Break-Up And Privatisation...
THE RECENTLY held two-day national meeting of the All India Coal Workers’ Federation in Jharkhand’s Ranchi decided on launching a month-long series of actions...
German economy crashing into recession
GERMANY, the EU’s biggest economy, is fast heading into recession according to economists who are growing increasingly fearful that inflation fuelled by the EU...
‘We need to start building for a general strike’ 4,000 striking...
4,000 striking station and revenue control staff shutdown London Underground on Monday in a show of strength to oppose pension attacks and job cuts.
Trains...
Boris Johnson being dumped – time for a general strike to...
BORIS JOHNSON is being dumped as prime minister, as Tory MPs held a vote of no-confidence in his leadership last night.
Yesterday morning, the chairman...
Military Reinstates Executions In Myanmar
TWO MEN will be executed in Myanmar after the military junta rejected their death sentence appeals last Saturday, in what will be the first...
Tube pickets call for a general strike to bring down the...
‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...
Johnson Mortally Wounded In Confidence Vote
TORY PM Boris Johnson was mortally wounded in the no confidence vote in parliament last night, with 40% of Tory MPs voting against his...
Massive support for Tube workers’ strike – Now forward to a...
London Underground is closed down today as Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) members staged another 24-hour strike over jobs, pensions and in defence of...
‘Enemies are seeking to pit the Iranian people against their government’...
IRAN on Saturday started ceremonies of commemorating the 33rd anniversary of the demise of late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, in the...
Met Police Still Taking Action Over Everard Vigil – Time To...
SIX people have been charged by the Met police for allegedly breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules while attending the Sarah Everard vigil in south London.
Many...
Hundreds of Palestinians march in funeral processions as PM Shtayyeh condemns...
HUNDREDS of people marched in the funeral processions of two of the Palestinians, out of three killed by the Israeli forces in the occupied...
Turn TUC demonstration on 18th June into a general strike...
THE national demonstration and march on Parliament called by the TUC on Saturday June 18th has met with a massive response throughout the working...
US Democrats protest at Israeli attacks on Palestinians – the British...
ON SUNDAY, thousands of right wing Israeli settlers stormed Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem to mark the so-called flag march in the Old...
Bank of America: Pound faces ‘existential crisis’ with outlook for...
THE BRITISH pound is facing an ‘existential crisis’ that is only going to get worse according to the Bank of America and the outlook...
End Cuba blockade now! – demands international Day of Action
A Day of action against the US blockade on Cuba has been held in several countries, with supporters of the Latin American nation determined...
Call A General Strike To Kick The Tories Out!
The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has called a summit at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Wednesday, June 15. ‘to bring together union leaders and...
A general strike to bring down the Tories is the only...
MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...
‘We’re NHS workers – bring us back in-house’! – demand striking...
STRIKING cleaners, domestic workers and hostesses employed by the public services privateer Mitie, got great support from local people as they held a powerful...
Zionists are on the march in Jerusalem. The UK trade unions...
NABIL Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that East Jerusalem, with its Islamic and Christian holy sites, will remain the...
Sunak’s emergency ‘cost of living package’ a sign of Tory desperation...
ORY chancellor Rishi Sunak announced an emergency cost of living package to the House of Commons yesterday, as soaring inflation that is driving millions...
No Fault Evictions – Court Proceedings Up 41%
No-fault eviction court proceedings are up 41% on pre-pandemic levels, homelessness charity Shelter has reported, with new government figures revealing that 5,890 landlords in...
TUC must support the railworkers by calling a general strike to...
WORKERS up and down the country, struggling to feed their families in the face of a massive price inflation that is growing all the...
Workers in the US are joining unions in their tens of...
Workers across the United States, including in multi-national corporations like Starbucks and Amazon, as well as in the video game industry, are joining trade...
Equity Phoenix victory after Leeds demonstration
FOLLOWING performers’ union Equity’s demonstration outside the Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds on Monday morning to demand that the contemporary dance company reverse their decision to lay...
Met strip-searched 14-year-old girl as male officers looked on
THREE-QUARTERS of the thousands of children who are strip-searched by police forces around the UK each year are black, the BBC’s File On 4...
4,000 Tube station staff to strike on Monday 6th June!
THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...