Tag: protest
ANOTHER LOCKDOWN IS POSSIBLE! – says Professor Peter Horby
IN A statement to Parliament today Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a new three-tier lockdown system where each region in...
General Strike In South Africa
BOTH COSATU (the Confederation of South African Trade Unions) and the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) have vowed to bring the country...
‘PM Johnson’s promises are nothing more than hot air’ says GMB
‘THE PRIME Minister’s promises are nothing more than hot air,’ the GMB trade union said in response to Boris Johnson’s speech to the virtual...
The Palestinian people and the US, UK and EU workers are...
IN RESPONSE to legal action taken by Adalah – The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Israeli authorities have clarified that...
Tory contempt for working class as Sunak offers ‘work coaches’ to...
YESTERDAY Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his new Job Entry Targeted Scheme (JETS) that he claimed will ‘provide fresh opportunities to those that have...
Older people abandoned to die in care homes
OLDER PEOPLE in care homes were abandoned to die amid government failures during the coronavirus pandemic, Amnesty International accuses the Tory government in a...
The Republicans Are In A Desperate Crisis While The Democrats Have...
US PRESIDENT TRUMP going down with the coronavirus has sharpened the crisis of the imperialist powers, including the UK, who were up till now...
The Great Care Home Massacre!
A series of ‘shockingly irresponsible’ government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...
Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid...
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...
25 years since Hillingdon Hospital strike 1st OCTOBER 1995 – 30th...
ON October 1st, 1995 56 domestic and catering workers at Hillingdon Hospital were sacked by Pall Mall for refusing to accept a £40 per...
Cosatu plans October 7 ‘national shutdown’
THE CONFEDERATION of South African trade unions (Cosatu) is planning a nationwide shutdown next week, and has announced that its affiliated workers will not...
Palestinian doctor on hunger strike in Maghaberry prison has been joined...
BY FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST
BRITAIN has been involved in duplicity and skulduggery in Palestine from the secret signing of the Balfour agreement in...
NUMSA pickets Zimbabwe embassy against labour rights violations
THE BANNING of protests, abductions and torture of activists and students, arrests of journalists and the intimidation of trade unions are not issues that...
Greek School Pupils Rise Up
SEVERAL hundreds of secondary schools throughout Greece remain shut as school students refused to attend classes considering the Covid-19 government guidelines to be ineffective.
Last...
Tories moving to bring in Martial Law and a licence to...
PM JOHNSON announced the latest draconian lockdown rules in the House of Commons last Tuesday, with the threat that, if not obeyed to the...
THIS CASE THREATENS PRESS FREEDOM says Julian Assange’s fiancée
‘THIS CASE is a grave threat to press freedom, not just for Julian Assange, but for all British journalists,’ lawyer Stella Morris, Julian Assange’s...
‘The US is blackmailing Palestinians to compromise on their rights’ says...
PALESTINE Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has accused the United States administration of pressuring and blackmailing the Palestinians to compromise on their national rights.
Speaking at...
Tories guarantee working class will pay for the profits of the...
YESTERDAY the Tory government announced its plans to save the profits of the private rail companies by bankrolling them for another 18 months.
In March,...
Unite Betrays BA Workers – Demand Emergency Conference Of Union To...
LAST Wednesday Howard Beckett, Unite union assistant general secretary, welcomed as a victory for the union British Airways ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’.
Beckett...
FBI warns of revolution! Now is the time to build 4th...
THE DIRECTOR of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the US ruling class has lost...
Bank of England & US Fed continue to pump out free...
YESTERDAY, the Bank of England announced that it will be keeping interest rates on hold at the historical low of 0.1%.
This was the unanimous...
‘Trump is an outlaw and a rogue’ Syria hits back after...
SYRIA’S Foreign and Expatriates Ministry has affirmed that the statements of US President Donald Trump about targeting Syrian President President Bashar al-Assad for assassination...
Overseas Operations Bill will ‘decriminalise torture’ says Reprieve
THE TORY government has announced that the Overseas Operations Bill will get its second reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 23rd September.
In...
Palestinians rise up against Bahrain-UAE-Israel signing
PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank rose up in anger to denounce the normalisation deals signed in Washington yesterday afternoon...
TUC must act to free Assange says father
JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...
Quit the EU now – defend jobs, forward to socialism!
A PROPOSED law giving PM Johnson’s government the power to reject parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU passed its first reading in...
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...
Unite Demands 15% NHS Pay Rise
NHS workers should receive an early pay rise of 15 per cent or £3,000, whichever is greater, the Unite union, said yesterday.
Unite, which has...
South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the...
ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...
Assange hearing adjourned after Covid fears for lawyer – his supporters...
ON DAY four yesterday of the Old Bailey hearing deciding the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the proceedings were adjourned until Monday while...
‘QANTAS PLANNED TO USE PANDEMIC TO OUTSOURCE 2,500 WORKERS’ –...
AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is demanding that PM Scott Morrison explains what he knew about Qantas management’s long-term decision to axe and outsource...
Assange Must Be Freed Now!
ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...
BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BLOCKADE! – to stop the takeover of the...
THOUSANDS of people formed a human chain in the streets of the Hungarian capital Budapest on Sunday, in protest at what they say is...
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...
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...
Only one answer to mass unemployment – Socialist Revolution
WHILE firms and businesses are closing down as furlough ends and millions of workers are being thrown out of work, the Tories launched their...
Scottish Schools Re-0Pening Failure
DESPITE the Scottish experiment of opening schools in August proving to be a total failure, the Tories proceeded with the re-opening of schools in...
President Trump Refuses To Meet The Family Of Jacob Blake!
THE FATHER of Jacob Blake, the black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, refused to ‘play politics’ with his son’s life’ when President...
Capita Closing Third Of Offices
OUTSOURCING firm Capita is to close over a third of its offices in the UK permanently – despite the Tory government launching a new...
Trump Supporter Shot Dead In Portland
A MAN was shot dead in Portland, Oregon as a large demonstration of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters.
The city...
85,000 deaths across UK this winter predicted
A LEAKED government report suggests a ‘reasonable worst case scenario’ of 85,000 deaths across the UK this winter due to Covid-19.
The document also says...
Trump champions the police and launches his war against communism and...
US PRESIDENT Trump, in his desperate attempt to win the November presidential election, has stepped up his war against the working class, branding all...
Unite Pleads With Tories To Extend Job Retention Scheme!
UNITE and over 100 MPs have joined forces to plead with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the job retention scheme (JRS) for the aviation...
Tories responsible for deaths in care homes and amongst NHS workers...
THIS week, the Tories’ criminal liability for the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the elderly and the disabled was revealed in two...