Tag: strike

THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...

BEFORE the 1997 election, the Blair-Brown gang proved to big business that they were the right men to run capitalism by conducting a war...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, youth, self-employed and small shopkeepers took part last Wednesday in the mass and militant demonstrations throughout Greece as part...

YESTERDAY Greece was hit by a massive general strike with tens of thousands of workers marching in Athens demanding that there be an...

ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....

A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...

BY LINAH ALSAAFIN PALESTINIAN hunger striker Bilal Diab went without food in an Israeli prison for 77 days incarcerated without charge. Diab won his struggle...

‘NATIONAL Action is needed to defend the NHS & stop hospital closures!’ was the title of the resolution that was carried unanimously at a...

THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...

BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...

THE City Council of Acharnes, one the local councils of the Greater Athens area, with a population of over 100,000 voted on Thursday to...

THE Portuguese government has agreed to look for alternatives to th social security tax rise, just one week after huge anti-austerity street protests shook...

DOZENS of Palestinian youth gathered outside the Ramallah offices of the European mission training the Palestinian police on Friday morning, to protest Europe’s policies...

BILLIONAIRE brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are dumping hundreds of millions of...

Dr Kevin O’Kane, chairman of the London Region BMA told its Annual Business Meeting on Thursday night that London Region felt let down and...

THE Palestinian Authority in the West Bank faces a $400 million budget shortfall, even if current donor pledges are met, the World Bank warned...

THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...

‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...

THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...

‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital – Occupy Now!’ and ‘No Cuts, No Closures – Kick this Government Out!’,  were the slogans that dominated the march of...

HEALTH workers, trade unionists and local residents spoke out in support of the policy of occupying Ealing Hospital to stop the closure on the...

A REPORT  issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) this week exposes the appalling state of hospitals in England as the NHS is...

THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...

COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...

TUC delegates at their Congress 2012 in Brighton on Monday voted unanimously for motions calling for coordinated strike action against cuts in jobs and...

LABOUR shadow chancellor Balls was booed at the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday when he made it clear that a Labour government would carry...

THE President of the German bosses association ASSON has called for Greece to be turned into a huge ‘Special Economic Zone’. Hans-Peter Keitel, President...

AFTER the successful lobby of the TUC in Brighton on Sunday, the Young Socialists held a meeting at 5.00pm of 100 youth and workers...

THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...

TUC delegates at the opening of the Congress in Brighton yesterday supported the Young Socialists lobby which demanded ‘Youth Demand a Future, Youth Demand...

THE TUC General Council is meeting in Brighton at 9.00am today to discuss a resolution calling for it to consider the practicalities of a...

TODAY at 9am the TUC General Council is discussing a motion from the Prison Officers Association (who have no right to strike) that urges...

THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that local pay will harm patient care. It did so as it slammed the plan by 20...

A GROUP of 106 South African mineworkers, arrested following the police shooting at UK-based Lonmin’s Marikana mine, were released yesterday by the ...

THE appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State (SoS) for Health, is a declaration of war on the NHS. Hunt is a right winger...

THREE THOUSAND striking platinum miners marched to the Marikana Lonmin mine and forced the massed ranks of the riot police to retreat yesterday at...

A LEAKED email sent to the Greek Ministries of Finance and Labour from the Troika mafia in Brussels says Greek private sector workers must...

HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has been demoted to the role of Leader of the House of Commons. This is after his health goose was cooked...

TEACHERS in England returned to work this week facing an all-out assault on their jobs, their pay and the very existence of free state...

TRADES unionists, their families and supporters gathered in Burston village near Diss in Norfolk on Sunday for the annual rally and march to commemorate...

SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...

UNEMPLOYED youth will be forced to work unpaid for three months before they can claim benefits under plans announced by London Mayor Johnson and...

CONTROVERSIAL India-based mining company Vedanta was again the subject of an angry protest in London yesterday. London Mining Network, Amnesty International, Survival International and other...