Tag: protest

A TOTAL of 46 Palestinian detainees began an open-ended hunger strike on Thursday in protest against their improper living conditions, said a lawyer representing...

SAMEH Ashour, the head of Egypt’s Lawyers Syndicate, has called a lawyers strike against the Ministry of Interior after the disappearance of lawyer Ibrahim...

‘IN KETTERING it is illegal to go out after 11 at night if you are under 18. In Hillingdon you cannot gather in...

‘WELFARE not warfare’ chanted protesters from all over the UK on a 60,000-strong Stop Trident march from Marble Arch to a rally in Trafalgar...

HUNDREDS of British Airways workers are demonstrating outside the airline’s Heathrow HQ today against the outsourcing and offshoring of their jobs to Tata Consultancy...

GMB British Airways workers will hold a public meeting and rally from 12.30pm on Monday 29th February at the Thistle Hotel, Heathrow, against proposals to...

THE knives are out for one-time Tory Party hero Michael Gove, the self-styled ‘hammer of the teaching trade unions’, who has had the temerity...

LECTURERS, librarians, technicians, cleaners and caretakers in Unison and the UCU union walked out on strike in Sixth Form Colleges around the country yesterday,...

JUNIOR doctors in England have confirmed three further strike dates. In a BMA ballot of junior doctors last November, 98 per cent of those who...

MORE than 60 Montreal municipal employees will be tried together on charges related to a 2014 protest that saw hundreds of union members storm...

THOUSANDS of refugees living in the southern part of the camp in the French port of Calais known as the Jungle have been ordered...

PALESTINIAN prisoners and journalists held separate rallies on Thursday in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq. In Israel’s Eshel prison, Palestinian prisoners held a...

THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...

MEMBERS of the PLO Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi and Saeb Erekat on Wednesday slammed the United Kingdom’s decision to ban the boycott of Israeli...

ISRAELI soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager at Mazmoria checkpoint, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday afternoon – only a few hours after...

PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

TRADE union leaders behind the formation of an alternative federation say they will formally launch the new structure on 1st May this year after...

42,728 evictions in 2015 are ‘clear proof of the devastating impact that welfare cuts and the chronic shortage of affordable homes are having on...

‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

‘WE ARE not striking for cash, we are not striking for our personal careers, we are striking for the long-term sustainability of the NHS...

BARTS Health NHS Trust, the biggest hospital trust in the country, will go £134.9 million in the red by the end of March according...

‘BY attacking the junior doctors they’ve poached the wrong bear, we really believe in the NHS and an attack on us is an attack...

FOLLOWING Saturday’s brilliant march on Downing Street by more than 7,000 junior doctors (see pages 6 & 7), and ahead of Wednesday’s 24-hour strike,...

THE Syrian opposition’s chief negotiator in peace talks in Geneva said on Wednesday he was ‘not optimistic’ about strained efforts to end the nearly...

TODAY thousands of junior doctors, health workers, student nurses, march through central London demanding ‘Victory to the junior doctors!’ At 8am next Wednesday morning (February...

LAST week, after the Court of Appeal ruled that the Bedroom Tax is discriminatory and unlawful, Paul Rutherford, one of the appellants, described himself...

ANGRY GPs on Saturday voted for action over underfunding and a workload that threatens patient safety and their own health. But at the start of...

‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

GREEK workers, youth, farmers and professionals are continuing and developing the struggle against the government’s Pensions Bill.  On Tuesday night over 5,000 workers and youth...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is preparing to take action, ‘including lunchtime pickets, placard demonstrations, marches and strikes’, to defend...

LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...

FRESH protests over unemployment and poverty in central Tunisia on Thursday raised fears of growing social unrest five years after the country’s revolution was...

THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...

CONDEMNING the ‘dreadful conditions’ in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Dunkirk, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News that up to 3,000 people waiting...

EMPLOYMENT Minister Nick Boles announced on Wednesday evening that the new anti-union legislation will govern industrial action in the fire, health, education, transport,...

THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...

STUDENT nurses demanded action to defend their bursaries at a Unison student nursing summit held at the union’s headquarters in Euston, central London, yesterday. Sophia...

A TORY pilot trial extending ambulance response time by two minutes has had lethal consequences, with many more patients suffering heart attacks not making...

‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...

ISRAELI army troops on Sunday shot dead an unidentified Palestinian youth at Huwwara checkpoint, to the south of Nablus, after he allegedly attempted to...

GREECE’S Seamen’s Pension Fund union held a general assembly to decide on further action on the second day of a two-day strike over pensions. Pension...

YESTERDAY the junior doctors took the first day of their three days of strike action, and shook the Tory regime to its core with...

MASS picket lines packed with enthusiastic doctors and supporters were the rule in every part of the country yesterday on the first day of...

A MEDECINS Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF)-supported hospital has been hit in northern Yemen causing at least four deaths, injuring 10 people and leading...

TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...