Tag: strike

For the second year running, the US has banned Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas from attending the UN General Assembly meeting due to be held...

ON WEDNESDAY, Labour’s Chancellor John Healey announced that he has appointed TUC general secretary Paul Nowak to the board of the Bank of England. Healey...

CRISIS-HIT CAPITALISM is heading for a massive disaster, writes Ambrose Evans Pritchard in the Daily Telegraph. He writes that: ‘Four powerful shocks are hitting the...

The annual conference of the TUC today will be debating a motion and amendments demanding that the trade unions in the UK take action...

The Yemeni resistance movement Ansarullah says Yemen’s armed forces have dealt the United States a serious setback, forcing Washington to reconsider its naval strategy...

THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton yesterday backed motions demanding better public sector pay and the right to coordinated strike action. Moving Motion 34,...

THE TUC Congress opened in Brighton yesterday afternoon with delegates supporting the Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby calling for strike action for...

ITALIAN metalworker unions FIM, FIOM and UILM on Wednesday called a strike at Electrolux’s facilities in the country on 15th September, saying there had...

ACTING US Navy Secretary Hung Cao has admitted that Iranian forces ‘blew the hell’ out of the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in...

WORKERS from 6 departments at St Thomas’ hospital on Westminster Bridge Road were on the third day of their strike action yesterday, when they...

FOREIGN Secretary Ed Miliband told the House of Commons on Tuesday that Israeli ‘settler terrorists’ are carrying out ethnic cleansing in the West Bank...

Public sector doctors and teachers in Paraguay have announced separate strikes in September, stepping up pressure on the government as Congress debates the proposed...

THE Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, warned on Tuesday that the unprovoked, illegal war on Iran by the US is having...

WASHINGTON – Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI each signed contracts worth up to $200m with the Department of Defence in July 2025 committing them...

Yesterday, the Labour government’s Armed Forces minister, Louise Sandher-Jones, revealed plans for the mobilisation of army veterans in preparation for a war against Russia. The...

Labour’s newly appointed Chancellor John Healey delivered his first major speech on the collapsing UK economy in Coventry yesterday. Healey tried to strike an optimistic...

AT LEAST 17 people, including two infants, have been killed and another 20 injured in Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon over the past 48...

A WELL attended 200-strong pro-Palestine Festival was held on Sunday to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal) opposite the...

THE demand for the Bank of England to increase interest rates at the next meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) later this month...

ON the first Sunday in September trade unionists remember the Burston School Strike. It was the longest strike in history and lasted 25 years...

THERE was another very well-attended picket line outside the Young V&A Museum in Bethnal Green on Saturday, with loud chants of: ‘What do we...

LABOUR MINISTERS have been warned that the Labour government must prepare for ‘the threat of food shortages’. The National Audit Office has already warned that...

THERE was a very loud and lively picket outside the Young Victoria and Albert Museum in Bethnal Green east London yesterday, with chants of:...

‘BRACE, BRACE FOR IMPACT, a financial tsunami is heading for Britain, threatening to sweep away Andy Burnham’s premiership before it even gets started.’ This...

AIRBUS workers in the centres of Getafe (Madrid), San Pablo and Tablada (Sevilla) have decided to maintain the indefinite strike that began last week,...

A RALLY of over 100 Victoria and Albert Museum workers was held in Exhibition Road in South Kensington at 8am yesterday morning, ahead of...

MORE than 100 protesters gathered outside Downing Street yesterday to confront Labour ministers over their failure to sanction Israel and to alleviate the suffering...

AT LEAST 22 civilians were killed and 47 wounded when Pakistani aircraft struck a residential area of Samkani district in Afghanistan’s Paktia province twice...

RUSSIA has threatened to strike British military targets both inside and outside the Ukraine after British missiles were used to attack Russian territory. Maria Zakharova,...

THREE members of the Abdeen family were killed by an Israeli strike on al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis, yesterday as the occupation army broke...

THE ceasefire in Gaza was violated for the 321st consecutive day on Wednesday, as Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian in a drone strike...

Yesterday the UK’s energy regulator Ofgem announced that the energy prices for millions of households will increase by 4% on 1st October driven by...

BEIJING says it will take ‘all necessary measures’ to protect its interests as the US steps up efforts to isolate Tehran. China has denounced the...

The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) has vowed to continue its strike despite court orders directing the striking health workers to resume duty,...

LABOUR’S new prime minister Andy Burnham’s first overseas visit was to the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Monday, where he used the opportunity to proclaim...

AROUND 50 Arriva bus drivers picketed the Stamford Hill garage yesterday morning, with a strong turnout at Wood Green as well. Nick Leon, a Unite...

TEHRAN – Iran has warned every state in its region that joining Washington’s economic offensive will be treated as an act of enmity, threatening...

INSTITUTE for Cancer Research (ICR) strikers welcomed great support, including from abroad and other unions as they held a rally outside South Kensington Tube...

The Central Committee of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) has held a meeting, chaired by Deputy Chairman Hussein al-Sheikh, to discuss Israel’s ongoing...

STRIKERS from the Institute of Cancer Research at its Chelsea and Sutton sites met at Sutton railway station yesterday as part of their ongoing...

UNITE members on strike at the Institute of Cancer Research in Chelsea say they are confident of winning their pay dispute. ‘We rejected the management’s...

GOVERNMENT borrowing across the most advanced capitalist nations in the world has been hit with the highest interest rate increases in decades, as the...

Argentina’s university teachers began a five-day national strike yesterday (Tuesday) marking 300 days since Congress sanctioned the University Financing Law that right-wing President Javier...

ARRIVA bus drivers mounted another strong picket at Wood Green garage in north London yesterday on the second day of their strike over terms...

The extreme right-wing security minister in the government of Israel has publicly called for the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to carry out a ‘nightly...