Tag: protest

SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...

HALF a million Greek workers, students and youth marched through Athens on Wednesday. This was as part of a two-day general strike against a government...

EX-VISTEON workers who successfully occupied their factory after being sacked, joined the picket of Chase Farm hospital on Tuesday reinforcing the call for occupation...

SUPPORT for the occupation of Chase Farm Hospital is growing as more and more residents and staff support the picket against its closure. Passing motorists...

A STUDENT leader was attacked and seriously wounded in Jaffna on Sunday, reports TamilNet. Suspected Sri Lanka Army intelligence personnel armed with sharp iron rods...

SATURDAY saw demonstrations and occupations taking place in many countries following the example of the Spanish and Greek square occupations that have featured as...

Over 600 people were yesterday massed at the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, holding a popular assembly after hundreds had camped out overnight following...

'WE want a fair contract,’ shouted locked out Teamsters from New York as they and supporters picketed Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on Thursday...

ELECTRICIANS are stepping up their fight against the ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors, which has declared it is tearing up the longstanding JIB...

HUNDREDS of angry electricians halted the traffic for 20 minutes outside St Paul’s Cathedral in central London yesterday morning, during their latest demonstration against...

UNISON yesterday called on peers to oppose the Health Bill today, during its second reading in the House of Lords today. The UK’s largest public...

THE Tory-led coalition’s hated Health Bill to privatise the NHS is due to go to the House of Lords today, following a mass demonstration...

THOUSANDS of young workers and students occupied Westminster Bridge yesterday, determined to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill (HSCB), due to be read...

THE fact that 40 per cent of disabled children are living in poverty is ‘a scar on the conscience of Britain’, says Unite, the...

BRENDAN BARBER, general secretary of the TUC, who doubles as a director of the Bank of England, has been at it once again, doing...

50,000 Greek civil servants and public sector workers on Wednesday staged a successful 24-hour national strike and a big march through Athens against the...

STRIKE action took place on Tuesday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of...

THE Communications Workers of America Executive Board has endorsed the youth-led Occupy Wall Street Movement. Occupy Wall Street youth campaigners have joined...

MONDAY saw the conclusion of one of the two legal processes challenging Basildon Council’s planned eviction of the Dale Farm community. ‘The case, which halted...

EGYPT'S Public Transport Authority workers on Saturday announced the beginning of an open-ended sit-in outside cabinet headquarters on Cairo’s Qasr al-Ainy Street, following a...

A NORTH East London Council of Action conference of over 150 workers, pensioners and youth on Saturday voted unanimously for an occupation of...

CONSTRUCTION site electricians stepped up their campaign on Wednesday to defend pay and conditions against a brutal onslaught by a ‘cartel’ of contractors to...

STRIKING teachers at Kingsbury High School in north-west London were joined on the picket line by parents and students yesterday morning as they showed...

MORE than 300 angry electricians marched onto the Kings Cross Station concourse in central London yesterday, where they held an impromptu public rally. Union reps...

PALESTINIAN envoys are battling for UN Security Council votes to back their effort to win full UN membership, while the United States is...

THE head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Legarde, spelt out the task confronting the capitalist class of Europe last Thursday when she...

OVER 5,000 university students and public sector workers held an impressive and militant rally and march in Athens last Thursday against the government’s plans...

IN mass general meetings last Tuesday the Athens transport trade unions in the Metro system, buses, trolley-buses, and trains decided on a total ‘rolling’...

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for Britain for the third time in nine months and warned George Osborne that...

MORE than 200 construction workers fighting 35 per cent pay cuts demonstrated on the Crossrail site at Farringdon Street in central London yesterday, brushing...

THE Egyptian military authorities expansion of the emergency law is the greatest erosion of human rights since the revolution forced the resignation of...

BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...

GREEK workers have embarked on a series of occupations of state and municipal buildings as well as mass marches. The actions follow the announcement by...

THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....

TENS of thousands of Greek university and higher education college students from all over the country demonstrated last Saturday in the northern city of...

PALESTINIANS are poised to march in their millions on 15th September both inside and outside the occupied territories, and throughout the world, including...

AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...

AT A press conference last Thursday on the just published report by Sir William Gage on the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, lawyers issued a...

GREEK students are deepening and extending their fight against the government’s Education Law passed by the Greek Vouli (parliament) last month. Over 300 university...

TWO Hundred Bombardier workers and their supporters descended on parliament on Wednesday to urge the Tory coalition ‘to save British train manufacturing’. The government has...

TWO hundred Bombardier workers and their supporters descended on parliament yesterday to urge the Tory coalition ‘to save British train manufacturing’. The government has already...

AT 2109 gmt on Sunday, pro-Gadaffi Damascus-based Al-Ra’y TV reported that Bani Walid, 150km southeast of the Libyan capital Tripoli, had rejected negotiations...

THE oft repeated claim by Tory prime minister Cameron that the coalition will not privatise the National Health Service has finally been exposed for...

OVER 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters rallied at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords, from 11am to 1pm on Sunday. The...

‘NO return to slavery, we are workers!’ chanted over 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters outside Parliament yesterday. The protest from 11am-1pm, Old Palace...