Home Tags Strike

Tag: strike

Thousands picket Netanyahu’s office against attack on Bedouin rights

0
severaL thousand people demonstrated on Sunday outside Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem, protesting over a plan they say will displace tens...

Westminster Council demands unemployed do ‘voluntary work’

0
The Tory ‘flagship’ council, Westminster, yesterday unveiled its blueprint for dumping the savage cuts in local government finances squarely on the backs of the...

Tory-Led Coalition Breaking Apart – Bring It Down!

0
WHILE the Prime Minister is being hailed by the anti-EU section of the Tory Party as standing up for the UK like a...

Mass Support In Enfield For Chase Farm Occupation!

0
UP TO 1,000 workers, trade unionists, local residents and youth electrified Enfield on Saturday afternoon, after hundreds joined the march through the town with...

Unilever Pensions Strike

0
UNILEVER workers are standing firm despite strong-arm tactics by the employer designed to destroy their resistance to plans to end their final salary pension...

It’s Still Pensions Robbery!

0
‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...

Angry Sparks Demand Official Action

0
ANGRY electricians fighting 35% pay cuts imposed by a ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors led by Balfour Beatty, went on strike at construction...

‘WE WILL NOT BE EVICTED!’ – insist St Paul’s occupiers

0
‘We will not be evicted!’ was the clear message from the occupiers outside St Paul’s as they defy new attempts by the Corporation of...

The final solution – Cameron to hand NHS patients’ details to...

0
WE have already had the Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital scandal, where it was put under private management by Circle, with a brief to cut all...

One Million Strike In Greece

0
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took part in mass rallies and marches in all Greek cities and towns on Thursday as part...

Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!

0
THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...

Two Million Strike To Defend Pensions!

0
MORE than 4,000 striking council workers, NHS staff, teachers, lecturers, civil servants and students marched through Norwich on Wednesday, during the national strike in...

Doctors, nurses, patients support occupation of Chase Farm

0
LAST Tuesday a mass picket of Chase Farm hospital was organised by the North East London Council of Action. The pickets won support from doctors,...

Forward to an indefinite general strike to bring down the coalition

0
OVER two million public sector workers walked out yesterday. The message was that the coalition’s savage cuts programme, that was intensified in Osborne’s Autumn...

Millions strike against Coalition

0
huge marches and demonstrations were held in towns and cities all over the UK yesterday. More than two million nurses, other health workers, teachers,...

Big Support For Chase Farm Occupation

0
THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to stop the closure of Maternity, Paediatrics and...

‘Today’s strike is going to be the spark for something a...

0
‘The capitalist system is in its death agony. It’s coming to an end, although some people don’t believe it will ever end, but I...

Osborne to slash £5bn from welfare – answer with general strike

0
In today’s Autumn statement on the economy, the Tory chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, will announce that he intends to ‘kick start’ British...

Teachers Rebut Gove’s Attack

0
TRADE UNION leaders representing millions of the public sector workers striking in defence of their pensions tomorrow angrily rebutted Education Secretary Michael Gove’s attacks...

‘FORWARD TO WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION’ –News Line Anniversary Rally told

0
‘TODAY the greatest crisis ever of the capitalist system is driving forward revolution in every country, as the workers of the world decide that...

METRORAIL STRIKE DECEMBER 6th – announces COSATU

0
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) will be going out on strike on the 6th December 2011 against Metrorail and the declining...

Imperialist mad dogs bomb Pakistan ‘ally’ and step up Syrian intervention!

0
THE desperate crisis of world capitalism is driving forward world revolution, as the continuing revolutionary eruptions in Greece and the eurozone states, and the...

Doctors To Ballot For Pensions Action

0
Doctors and medical students will be asked to vote on changes to their pensions at the conclusion of negotiations with the government, the British...

Turn The November 30Th Strike Into An Indefinite General Strike

0
THERE can be only one demand for next week’s one-day strike by public sector workers and that must be for the TUC to call...

Pensions conflict sharpening UK class struggle to explosion point

0
WITH its threat to bring in new anti-union laws, that will prevent all legal strike action by all trade unions in the UK, if...

STRIKE GOING AHEAD – says Prentis

0
‘The strike will go ahead,’ said Unison general secretary Dave Prentis yesterday as more unions announced their members will be joining the November 30...

Armed Greek Riot Police End Occupation

0
At 8.00am on Thursday morning the armed Greek riot police invaded the building of the State Electricity Board (DEH) Computer Centre in Athens which...

More anti-union laws, no rights at work, the elderly being abused...

0
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has said the danger for the UK from the economic crisis, particularly the crisis in the...

‘POSTPONE GREEK ELECTIONS’ – demands EU dictator

0
THE Greek coalition’s Finance Minister Evagelos Venizelos has said that the general election date agreed for February 19 by both the ex-Prime Minister Papandreou...

SHUT DOWN WEST COAST PORTS! says Occupy Oakland

0
A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...

Independent trades union candidates to stand in Egyptian general election

0
A court in the governorate of Qalioubiya, north of Cairo, has ruled in favour of independent trade union candidates taking part in the...

Police Attack Athens Poly March

0
TENS of thousands of students, youth and workers demonstrated last Thursday in Athens, and in all Greek cities and towns, on the 38th Anniversary...

‘Dale Farm Residents Will Not Be Battered Into Submission’

0
DALE FARM residents are defiant, maintaining their community and bravely refusing to be battered into submission by the brutal actions of the Tory...

Counter-revolution prepares behind cloak of Olympic Games

0
THE news that the coalition government is preparing to deploy ground-to-air missiles at next year’s London Olympic games has been greeted with amused bafflement...

Britannia sinking beneath the waves of the capitalist crisis!

0
THE bourgeois media is currently working overtime publicising the ‘bad news’ about the British capitalist economy. Everybody now knows that youth unemployment (the 16-24 age...

Unions getting ready for November 30 strike

0
Strike day leaflets and posters will be landing in Unison branch offices during this week, Unison has announced. The materials being posted directly to branches...

Metrorail strike against neglect and overcrowding

0
COSATU has announced it is to strike on 1st December 2011 for better train service in Western Cape. In a statement the Confederation of South...

Maude signals plan to ban strikes

0
The Tory cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, made a fantastical offer to the TUC and leaders of the public sector unions last Friday when...

‘Southern Cross-Style Threat’ To NHS

0
Circle Health, the privateer which was handed control of Hinchingbrooke District General Hospital in Cambridgeshire last week, has admitted that patient care could suffer...

Dictatorship in Greece – socialist revolution the only way forward

0
THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...

Occupy movements and trades unions take action in the US

0
‘We are the 99 per cent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent,’ says...

Students And Sparks March Against Tuition Fees And Wage Cuts

0
Over 10,000 students and a number of trade unionists took part in a protest through central London yesterday against £9,000 fees, education cuts and...

Police Attack Sparks –As 10,000 Students March

0
Over 10,000 students and a number of trade unionists marched through central London yesterday against £9,000 fees, education cuts and privatisation. The protest was organised...

Cameron’s ‘Chain Gangs’ For The Unemployed

0
THE PCS civil servants trade union yesterday rightly condemned the coalition government’s plans to force the long-term unemployed, and unemployed youth, to do manual...

Warning – Police Are Armed And Dangerous!

0
THAT the times are really changing was rammed home once again yesterday. People are angrily reacting to the news that 4,000 highly trained police officers...