Tag: strike

On the spot report from Carolina Graterol EARLY last week on arrival in Caracas, I managed to join a meeting of grassroot movements connected to...

IRAN’S Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed and in fact murdered in a major assault on Iran by Israel and the United States,...

THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles yesterday as part of its retaliatory...

LABOUR’S spectacular defeat in Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester, although expected, has driven deep splits and recriminations within the party. Hannah Spencer, the...

AT LEAST six Palestinians were killed overnight into Friday in Israeli drone strikes on police posts in central and southern Gaza, as Israel continued...

THE Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has said that, in light of Israel’s continued aggressive policies, the Palestinian leadership will take...

ISRAELI forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip this week killing Palestinians in air strikes and shelling while reports emerged of Palestinian women detainees...

LORD Peter Mandelson was arrested on Monday and released on bail pending further investigations early yesterday morning. The former Labour minister, US ambassador and the...

The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended at the weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labour action overwhelmingly voted...

IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged not to give in to pressure from the United States after Donald Trump said he was considering limited...

DEFENCE Secretary John Healey said yesterday that his hope was that he would be the first Defence Secretary to deploy British troops to the...

A WHITE HOUSE official warned yesterday that the US military is 99 per cent certain to launch a massive military attack on Iran ‘to...

AN article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph delivered a sharp wake up call to the TUC and the trade union leaders who cling to the...

YOUTH are bearing the brunt of unemployment according to new Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released this week. According to the ONS figures, unemployment...

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer performed yet another abrupt U-turn yesterday when he was forced to abandon plans to cancel 30 local government elections in...

BRITAIN and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have just made an unprecedented joint appeal to the workers of Europe to accept the ‘moral case’...

IN A marathon session that lasted until after 4.00am on Thursday, the Argentine Senate approved the interim motion for labour reform proposed by the...

THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...

FOR 200 days, Abu Ismail Hammad has been digging beneath his destroyed home in Gaza City, sifting through the sand to collect the remains...

THE rapid rise in joblessness amongst the UK’s youth has pushed Britain to an unwanted milestone. For the first time in a quarter of...

Workers across India stopped work on Thursday as part of the Bharat Bandh (general strike). They were protesting against labour reforms and economic cuts being...

NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...

THE HIGH Court has ruled that the government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was unlawful. In a...

THE LEADING humanitarian law institute, the Geneva Academy of International Law and Human Rights, has released a report that concludes that the death toll...

THOUSANDS protested outside universities and colleges around the UK yesterday as part of a workers and students Day of Action for Palestine. There were 150...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday that following a meeting on proposed cuts to services in Oxfordshire it is to hold a strike...

‘Thousands of public school teachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public (state) school teachers strike in the city in...

Keir Starmer survived as Labour prime minister by the skin of his teeth on Monday night as his cabinet rallied round him, inundating Labour MPs...

‘IF the council take out an injunction we have to stand strong. They are trying to kill our spirit,’ striking Birmingham binworker Ali Chidodo...

LABOUR MPs are now warning that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are well and truly numbered. On Wednesday, a clearly shaken Starmer faced demands...

THE SOUTH African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Workers Union (IMATU) occupied the Sol Plaatje council chambers last...

New York City’s largest nurses’ strike in history entered its 24th day on Wednesday. In a statement, the New York State Nurses Association said recent...

THE abject and grovelling performance of PM Keir Starmer in parliament on Thursday succeeded in uniting Labour and Tory MPs who howled with rage...

IN THE port of Piraeus, the ADEDY (public sector federation of trades unions) and the Piraeus Trades Council have called an anti-war 24-hour strike...

LABOUR MPs were queuing up to warn that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are numbered following a disastrous day in Parliament on Wednesday...

MORE than 14,000 Iranian university professors have condemned the European Union’s designation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a so-called terrorist organisation,...

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned the treatment of Palestinians by Israeli forces at the Rafah border crossing, calling it collective punishment and a...

THIS FRIDAY, workers in over 20 Mediterranean ports will take coordinated strike action to oppose the genocidal war waged by Israel to drive Palestinians...

Iran says West Asia and Gulf states are making collective efforts to prevent war as they are well aware that any act of adventurism against...

EIGHT international aid groups working in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories said yesterday that they would defy an order to provide information about...

LONDON witnessed one of the largest pro-Palestine demonstrations since the ceasefire agreement was signed in October 2025, with more than 100,000 people marching through...

MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon chanting ‘From the River to...

Workers from a number of trade unions and their allies rallied on Wednesday in the Civic Centre Park neighbourhood of Denver Colorado in support...

‘WE need a national strike to win this now,’ striking Birmingham binworker Dean Harris, Unite Rep at the Atlas refuse site picket line told...

IN what amounts to a declaration of war between US imperialism and Iran, US president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that a massive US...