Tag: protest

The YS March for Jobs and Free State Education marched for 17 miles from Sheffield to Chesterfield yesterday. It is marching on to Mansfield and...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had a great day in Sheffield yesterday. The day started with the marchers splitting up...

IRISH government plans to increase university fees from 1,500 euros to 2,500 euros led to Wednesday’s 40,000 strong students march in Dublin, and to...

The Young Socialists March from Manchester to London for Jobs and Free State Education reached Sheffield late yesterday afternoon after a massive reception in...

MEDICAL students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under Government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...

A court hearing on a case about the torture of 142 Iraqis in UK detention opens this Friday, November 5th. Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) are...

YOUTH from Stockport College cheered as the YS March for Jobs and Free State Education set off on its latest leg from Stockport to...

THE use of police dogs to ‘protect’ scabs at a south London fire station during yesterday’s one day strike by London FBU members shows...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education spent yesterday in Stockport, campaigning, recruiting and selling tickets for the Greet the March...

Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had its first leg from Manchester to Stockport yesterday. After a great march through Manchester...

The Young Socialists on Saturday launched its March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London. Bus workers came to welcome the young...

‘WE’RE calling on everyone to join our march from Manchester to London for jobs for youth, and for the smashing of all tuition fees...

‘THIS conflict could be resolved very easily. Lift the sackings and we can all go back to work,’ declared Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general...

Today, the London FBU are staging the first of two eight hour strikes against the plans to sack the entire workforce of over 5,000...

EVERYONE has had the chance to work out what the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending Review means, with £81bn in cuts hitting jobs...

THOUSANDS of workers and students marched to Downing Street on Wednesday evening, in angry protest against the savage assault on jobs, public services and...

‘The coalition has got it wrong. By only having a strategy for cuts, it has no plans for growth and recovery.’ So warned Unison general...

FRANCE is fast approaching a revolutionary upheaval. In Paris the social crisis increases as the school youth begin to hit the streets in often impromptu...

THE death of a 46-year-old family man being deported from Heathrow has thrown the spotlight on the entire racist immigration policy and its private...

GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...

Trade union leaders have been shocked by the latest jobless figures which saw a leap in part-time working and female and youth unemployment. Commenting on...

Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...

LORD BROWNE’S Review was published yesterday, recommending unlimited tuition fees for university, with ‘the market’ setting the level. The coalition’s Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary,...

UNITE has cancelled its strike ballot of BA cabin crew stating that a new deal is now on the table, and the dispute could...

Business and Universities Secretary Cable has confirmed his intention to lift the cap on tuition fees, as recommended in the Browne Review. Lifting the cap...

TENS of thousands of public sector workers demonstrated in all the Greek major cities last Thursday as part of a 24-hour national strike called...

London Tube workers began walking out at 6.30pm last night at the start of a 24-hour strike in protest at plans to cut ticket...

TWO HUNDRED youth and workers took part in a rally and celebration of five years of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers’ struggle in...

YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...

FOLLOWING their previous threat of proceedings against the government, 34 Iraqi victims of hooding today issued judicial review proceedings against the government to challenge...

LORD Browne’s review of university funding is to recommend a threefold increase in tuition fees. Lord Browne (former head of BP) is proposing to raise...

A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...

PARIS – French workers are on strike again today and staging rallies to protest the government’s bid to raise the retirement age from 60...

THE Chagossian community in Crawley have reacted with fury after an offer from the coalition government and Vince Cable to allow the islanders...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that during his tenure as Premier he had reached an agreement with the United States for...

LONDON’S firefighters are ready to strike, unless a threat by the capital’s fire service bosses to sack them all is withdrawn. More than 2,500 firefighters...

EX-HOME Secretary Alan Johnson threatened a Labour split yesterday if Labour Party members voted to have Ed Miliband as Labour Party leader. He claimed the...

‘You want a war pal, you’ve picked on the wrong union and we’re going to take you on and you will not win,’ GMB...

‘WE will commence a ballot for strike action in seven days’ time,’ Fire Brigades Union General Secretary Matt Wrack announced to a demonstration of...

AFTER only two days of the annual TUC Congress the message is startlingly clear, the trade union and the working class movement stands at...

BRENDAN Barber yesterday shook the TUC to its foundations when he told Congress that this was not the time to raise the minimum wage...

DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester on Monday voted almost unanimously – with just one dissenting voice from BALPA pilots’ union leader Jim...

DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester yesterday voted almost unanimously for Composite Motion 10, Defending public services and for Paragraphs 3.1 and 3.13...

ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...