Tag: strike

THE United Nations has renewed its call to expand humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israeli restrictions continue to block vital supplies...

MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...

On Thursday, more than 60,000 private pharmacy workers in Italy stage a 24-hour national strike to demand higher wages and the renewal of the...

‘What do we want? Fair Pay!’ ‘When do we want it? Now!’ chanted a mass picket of over 150 PCS strikers outside the British...

ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S victory winning the race to become New York City’s first Muslim mayor came as Democrats swept through the first major elections of...

NIGERIA’S Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, and the Assembly of Healthcare Professionals (AHP) will take part in a national health strike from midnight on...

YESTERDAY morning Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an unprecedented pre-budget speech designed, she said, to address ‘speculation’ about what she would be announcing in...

At breakfast time on Sunday, in Bronzefield prison, the first two of the Prisoners4Palestine hunger-strikers Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib refused food. This marks the...

Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators have been killed by the police and the army after days of protests over Tanzania’s disputed election, which incumbent President Samia...

THE British National Debt has almost tripled in the period between 2005 and 2025, outpacing all the other major capitalist states. Britain now has a...

GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...

Volkswagen workers in the United Autoworkers union (UAW) in Chattanooga,Tennessee voted on Thursday to authorise a strike against the German car maker after over...

EX-PRINCE Andrew’s public disgrace has rocked the British ruling class, with the King stripping his younger brother of his ‘prince’ title and evicting him...

FIVE Palestinians were killed on Friday, including two who died from injuries sustained in earlier Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...

‘VENEZUELA is not a colony and any US aggression will be met with united regional response,’ President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday. Tensions are escalating...

The Communication Workers Union (COWU) in Kenya has held a national strike, on Monday 27 October, stopping all operations at the Postal Corporation of...

Boeing workers in the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union at three midwest plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed...

NEARLY 42 million American workers and their families face losing access to food stamps as funding for what is officially called the Supplement Nutritional...

THE DEMANDS for the Labour government to slash all government spending on welfare is reaching a crescendo in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’...

Leaders of the Common Front of Public Administration Unions (Frente Comum) and the National Federation of Teachers (FENPROF) have welcomed the large turnout for...

MORE than 100,000 nurses, teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers walked off the job across Aotearoa, New Zealand, on Thursday in one of...

BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...

IN WHAT was described as a ‘historic first’, a UK navy destroyer, HMS Duncan, was placed under the direct command of NATO and ordered...

OVER 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company are taking strike action today and Monday after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. ‘We are...

THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by...

Although 11 days have passed since the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip came into effect, the war has not yet left the lives...

ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump insisted that his ‘peace deal’ between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli regime was holding despite...

A LETTER was delivered to the Home Office yesterday, informing it of a forthcoming hunger-strike by pro-Palestine prisoners held in British jails. The prisoners are...

LAST Friday, over 50,000 Cubans attended a rally in solidarity with Venezuela, a country facing the threat of US military aggression. The crowd was made...

DURING stock market trading last Friday more than £12.8bn was wiped off the value of the UK’s bank stocks as the rumours of ‘bad...

Over 300 Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members at the British Library are to strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November. The...

AMID world stock markets crashing, and the head of the IMF revealing she has ‘sleepless nights’ over the dangerous risks of collapses in the...

THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential independent economic think-tank that dispenses ‘advice’ on financial matters to the government, has weighed in this...

N a moment where the pain of siege merged with tears of joy and victory, Gaza emerged on Monday from beneath the rubble to...

OVER 46,000 US healthcare workers have gone on strike against private health provider Kaiser Permanente. 31,000 United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) members...

A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide...

600,000 WORKERS AND YOUTH marched from Central London to Whitehall on Saturday in a massive show of strength and solidarity with the masses of...

MORE than half a million workers, students and youth held a powerful march for Palestine in central London on Saturday, marking two years of...

Senior NHS doctors declared a state of national emergency in the NHS yesterday as waiting lists soared, with thousands of patients being treated in...

TWO years have passed since the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th, 2023, and the facts today have become far clearer: What happened and continues...

THE Bank of England on Wednesday warned of a growing risk of a ‘sudden correction’ in the world stock markets. The massive Artificial Intelligence...

‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! – From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever!’ ‘Say it now...

FRANCE’S Prime Minister Sébastian Lecornu was summoned back to the Élysée presidential palace in Paris on Monday afternoon just hours after his shock resignation...

WRITING in the Times newspaper yesterday, Labour Prime Minister Starmer urged students not to attend the protests called at universities across the country to...

KEIR STARMER’S Labour government’s plans to ‘tighten’ protest laws were confirmed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Sunday. The new powers handed to the police...