Tag: protest
MET POLICE: ‘culture of institutionalised racism, misogyny and homophobia’
RIGHTS campaign groups Liberty, Runnymede, Stonewall and INQUEST have responded to Baroness Casey’s review of the Metropolitan Police Service which was produced last week. They...
POLICE STRIP-SEARCHING CHILDREN ‘DEEPLY CONCERNING’ says Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza
CHILDREN as young as 8-years-old are being strip-searched by the police, with black children six times more likely to be targeted than non-black. A report...
Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And...
THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...
Call an emergency TUC Congress to defy anti-strike laws – says...
TRADE unions must build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament by the Tories, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt...
‘The West is trying to bring down the Russian financial system’...
THE WEST tried to hit Russian citizens themselves with sanctions, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Thursday in his annual government report to...
TUC stands idly by watching the Tories bringing in anti-union laws...
PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak met Benjamin Netanyahu at Downing Street yesterday, just as the Israeli leader faces a huge crisis at home after he...
Big Workers Protest As Netanyahu & Tories Meet
ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...
‘Mobilisations and strikes are the weapon of the workers’ says Force...
MILLIONS of French workers, youth and their families on Thursday took part in the latest strikes and mass demonstrations across the country against the...
2,000 Palestinian prisoners begin ‘Freedom or Martyrdom’ hunger strike
THE LEADERSHIP of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement announced on Tuesday 21 March, that they would begin the collective hunger strike with up to 2,000...
Disband the ‘institutionally racist, sexist and broken’ Met Police – forward...
THE report by Baroness Louise Casey into the Metropolitan Police yesterday damned the force as ‘institutionally racist, sexist and broken’. The report was commissioned by...
Economic Freedom Fighters reject the deployment of SA Defence Force during...
THE EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) ‘rejected’ the deployment of members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) across the country, during Monday’s national...
Dozens of US banks on verge of collapse!
DOZENS of banks in the United States are on the verge of collapse despite the Biden administration’s recent measures to calm the turbulent markets,...
Avoid duplicitous behaviour and stop resorting to violence against protesters! –...
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has condemned the violence by the French police against anti-government demonstrators in the European country as demonstrating France’s non-adherence to...
Iran, Russia and China hold joint naval exercise in Gulf of...
NAVAL forces from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and China have practised shooting at aerial targets during a night-time operation over an area...
French workers are battling a Macron dictatorship while workers are now...
THOUSANDS of French workers have blocked a key highway around Paris and have stepped up strike action at oil refineries in a new massive...
Argentina – year-on-year inflation reaches 102.5% in February
ARGENTINA’S National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) said on Tuesday that inflation in February was 6.6 per cent, while the cumulative year-on-year figure...
DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS! – shout 50,000 Greek workers and...
‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...
Massive London marches call to kick out the Tories – Three...
NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...
48-Hour Strike By Health Workers In Germany
HEALTH workers in in the Ver.di trade union in Germany have been out on a 48-hour strike which started on Tuesday which and continued...
Over 500,000 Public Sector Workers Strike
OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...
Budget Day strikes – demand TUC calls a general strike to...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be delivering his Budget speech today in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up...
BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers...
MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...
‘THIS CRIME WILL NOT BE COVERED UP’ – Greek General Strike...
TENS of thousands of workers with their families, students and youth demonstrated throughout Greece on Sunday against the government of K Mitsotakis whom they...
General Strike now to defend NHS! – call as 2,000 doctors...
SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...
‘The only way forward is a general strike’ – insists Newcastle...
MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...
Restore junior doctors’ 25% pay cut now!
TENS of thousands of junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are holding a 72-hour strike from today until Wednesday. At the weekend...
US arms manufacturers sued by Yemenis for ‘aiding and abetting war...
AMERICAN arms manufacturers face a lawsuit for ‘aiding and abetting’ war crimes in Yemen, which is suffering a full-blown humanitarian crisis as a result...
Greece Erupts As 200,000 Workers March In Athens!
THE VOLCANO of people’s rage which was building up its fury over the last few months, erupted in Greece on Wednesday in an unprecedented...
‘SUPPORT OUR CAMPAIGN!’ – call by NEU ahead of next week’s...
‘AFTER the regional days of strike action across the union, the next action will be 15 and 16 March, by teachers in all state...
Greek workers and youth erupt in fury over deadly rail crash
THOUSANDS of Greek workers, students and youth took to the streets at the weekend in a further extension of the anger that has erupted...
RAGE OF WORKERS AND YOUTH THREAT TO GREEK GOVERNMENT – thousands...
THE RAGE of youth and workers in Greece over last Tuesday’s horrific rail crash is now threatening to overthrow the right-wing government of Prime...
Starbucks illegally monitored, disciplined and sacked workers – US court rules...
A judge in New York ruled on Friday that Starbucks had violated federal labour law dozens of times in responding to a union campaign...
‘OUR FAMILY CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER!’ says Kaba family six months...
‘OUR FAMILY cannot wait any longer, ’ said the family of Chris Kaba yesterday, the six-months anniversary of the 24-year-old black man’s fatal shooting...
‘No Deal – Nothing On The Table!’– Junior Doctors to strike...
‘THERE was no deal. There was nothing, nothing on the table,’ said Junior Doctors’ Co-chair, Robert Laurenson outside the Department of Health, yesterday morning. Laurenson...
The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet...
PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...
Iraq calls for Syrian membership of the Arab League to be...
A NUMBER of Arab parliament speakers and senior legislators have arrived in Damascus amid attempts by certain countries, above all Iraq, to restore Syria’s...
THE TUC must oppose NATO’s war on Russia and insist it...
WORKERS throughout Europe are on the march against NATO’s developing war against Russia and the massive attacks on their living standards that it has...
Iran and Iraq establish closer security and cooperation – Iraq demands...
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian Foreign Minister, has discussed security cooperation with Iraqi government officials during a visit to the neighbouring country, stressing that this...
The TUC Must Give Full Support To The Palestinian Freedom Fighters...
THE Arab League Council yesterday condemned Israeli crimes and massacres of Palestinians and demanded the provision of international protection to the Palestinian people. The Council...
Junior Doctors 72-hr walk-out on March 13th
THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...
Unions prepare to bring France to a standstill on March 7
‘THE CONFEDERATION has brought together all of its federations in order to continue the mobilisation against the pension reform and to prepare for “France...
Israel Intensifies Its Deadly Raids Into The Occupied West Bank
Two Palestinians died on Tuesday, including a teenager, in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank as Israel’s new far-right government intensified its deadly...
TORY REFUSAL TO TALK ON PAY ‘BEYOND BELIEF’ says BMA
TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay’s refusal to join today’s meeting between doctors’ leaders and the Department of Health is ‘beyond belief when the stakes...
Undercover police targeted ‘subversives and left-wing activists’
COINCIDING with a rare public hearing of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) this week, ten women who were deceived into relationships with ‘spycops’ have...
Uni Strike Suspension Condemned!
THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...