Tag: protest
SA cops use water cannon and teargas against striking diamond miners!...
HUNDREDS of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members began a strike at the Ekapa diamond mines on August 7th; then on...
Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill – sky high...
DURING a public on-line question and answer session on Monday, the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill warned that higher food prices ‘may...
Palestinian Freedom Fighter Walid Daqqa 37 years behind bars – Israeli...
THE ISRAELI District Court’s decision not to grant the seriously ill freedom fighter Walid Daqqa – who has already served 37 years behind bars...
Strikes, fires and fuel hikes in South Africa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape notes recent developments affecting the Taxi Industry in Cape Town and the...
Chilean teachers begin 48hr strike action!
THE Chilean College of Teachers began a 48-hour strike on Wednesday to demand a response to the requests submitted to the administration of President...
TUC warns interest rate increases driving unemployment but has no answer...
YESTERDAY the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 5.25%, the 14th time in a row that rates have been increased as the...
Israel ‘main source of instability in West Asia’
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has condemned the Israeli occupation regime as the main source of instability in West Asia, and warned that the...
Overthrow of Niger’s pro-imperialist government a massive blow to imperialism
THE OUSTING of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum by the military has sent shock waves across the imperialist world, with France and the United States...
Investment firms and asset managers of UK arms industry making massive...
THE British state is subsidising the UK arms industry to the tune of billions of pounds to the benefit of its wealthy private owners...
Tory Government Is Making War On The Rail Trade Unions –...
THE RMT has revealed that the private rail companies war on the rail trade unions is being financed by the UK government, who are...
More than 200 Palestinians killed by Israel this year!
ISRAELI forces have killed a young Palestinian man in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, only a day after they fatally shot...
Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the...
THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...
Israeli troops shoot dead 3 Palestinians in a car in Nablus
THREE Palestinians were killed on Tuesday after Israeli forces opened fire at their vehicle in al-Tur area in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus,...
As Israel implodes – forward to the Palestinian State where Palestinian...
AFTER 27 weeks of mass Israeli and Palestinian protests, Israel’s legislature has approved the first reading of a racist and divisive plan drawn up...
Starmer right-wing move causing ‘chaos’ in Labour Party – warns Unite
THE THREE-DAY Labour Policy Forum (LPF) held in Nottingham over the weekend was ‘chaotic’, Unite said yesterday, with the Starmer party leadership seeking to...
SETTLERS ATTACK PALESTINIAN CAMP –as Israel on brink of ‘civil war’...
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers on Friday stormed Ein el-Sultan camp to the northwest of Jericho city, leading to clashes. Witnesses said that...
The TUC must give its full support to the State of...
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to unveil an online electronic platform to allow the Palestinians to sue Israelis who commit war crimes. A...
TROUBLES BILL: ‘Provides a blueprint for letting state forces and other...
MPs WERE urged to reject the UK government’s ‘cruel and contemptuous’ Northern Ireland legacy bill as it returned to the House of Commons for...
Terror attacks by Israeli settler militias on the rise
Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of Palestinians taking part on Friday in an anti-colonisation protest in the village of Umm Safa, to the north...
ITUC accuses French state of ‘police brutality and indiscriminate mass arrests!’
IN ITS annual report on the state of trade union rights in the world, the ITUC accuses the French State of ‘police brutality’ and...
30 Canadian ports hit by dock strike
SUPPORT has been pouring in from Canadian and international unions for striking dockers on Canada’s West Coast. About 7,400 members of the ILWU Canada employed...
1,000 Barts workers voting to strike – no 2-tier NHS!
Over 1,000 NHS workers at Barts Health NHS Trust in the City of London began voting for strike action yesterday in a fight against...
Paris protest against ‘racial profiling’ – and state control of every...
HUNDREDS of people have taken to the streets in central Paris against continuing police brutality and racial profiling across France, despite a ‘shocking’ ban...
Teachers Will March On Tory Party Conference!
TEACHERS will march on the Tory Party Conference in Manchester in early October, with all teaching unions on strike together at the time, to...
‘If the government refuses meaningful discussions we will carry on striking’...
‘IF THE government keeps refusing to enter into meaningful discussions, or any discussions, we will be forced to carry on striking because we do...
Striking teachers rally in London and Sheffield
HUNDREDS of thousands of National Education Union (NEU) members are taking part in a second national teachers’ strike today, having also struck on Wednesday...
‘Be ready for action this Autumn’ says NEU
‘BE READY for action in the autumn term, with head teachers with us on the picket line – get ready for a general strike...
COSATU calls public sector general strike in SA
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is to make Thursday a public sector general strike against the ANC government to press demands...
180 arrested during clashes in France after police shooting of 17-year-old!
‘AS MANY as 180 people were detained in France last night (Wednesday) for participation in unrest, sparked by the police shooting a 17-year-old driver...
France erupts as youth rise up against capitalist state brutality!
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron was forced to convene a government emergency crisis meeting on Wednesday morning following two nights of protests and rioting across...
‘Russia and China are capable of thwarting the dangerous plans of...
Russia and China are capable of thwarting the dangerous plans of the West and NATO, which are trying to disrupt the unity of the...
COSATU calls a National Day of Action for July 6th –...
COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) is ‘appalled to learn that many municipalities across the North West are still failing to pay...
World Socialist Revolution only answer to capitalist war at home and...
The political crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, that emerged dramatically on Friday with the march on Moscow by the mercenary Wagner group,...
US considers sending banned cluster bombs to Ukraine
Laura Cooper, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia at the US Defence Department, has said that despite a global...
Russian workers having overthrown capitalism must carry out a political...
THE degeneration of the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy has been revealed for all to see with its hiring of a mercenary army of criminals to...
Drop the extradition case! Free Assange! – answers demanded over destruction...
From an article by Di Stefania Maurizi FOR the last six years, the Crown Prosecution Service have rejected all of our attempts to shed light...
As capitalist inflation lets rip, Sunak turns to the Ukraine’s war...
INFLATION was at 8.7% in the year to May, the same rate as it was in April, creating hundreds of thousands of hungry families...
Seven young men facing execution in Saudi Arabia –Amnesty International demands...
SEVEN young men who were juveniles at the time of their alleged offences are facing imminent execution in Saudi Arabia despite the country having...
Braverman’s instruction to police to ‘ramp up’ stop-and-search inspired by fear...
ON MONDAY, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that she is instructing all 43 police forces in England and Wales to ‘ramp up’ the...
Maudsley strikers to march on Downing St! ‘– End all NHS...
SOUTH London and Maudsley NHS Trust GMB members employed by privateer ISS are striking next week and will march on Downing Street. The GMB union...
Raeisi’s Latin America trip will strengthen resistance front against US interventionism
IN IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi’s meetings with leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba during his recent three-nation tour of Latin America, the pressing and...
‘We are marching to defend the NHS’ say striking junior doctors
AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament...
The TUC must support the Palestinian revolution and ban all Israeli...
THE Arab League has called on the international community to end its silence on the continuing Israeli atrocities across Occupied Palestine, and to compel...
‘There must be prosecutions, there’s got to be accountability’ says Manchester...
WEDNESDAY was the 6th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 tenants and residents of Kensington and Chelsea perished in their homes on...
Junior doctors begin 72hr strike
THERE were powerful picket lines outside hospitals around the country yesterday as junior doctors began a 72-hour strike against Tory attacks on the NHS...