Tag: strike

Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...

Greek workers and youth have occupied the Greek TUC and are demanding it recalls a general strike. Hundreds of young workers and students stormed the...

‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...

Passing cars tooted their horns at the 20-strong, 21st monthly mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday. And hospital workers, outpatients and local residents...

‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...

THE Brown government is organising a £3bn sell-off of up to one third of the Royal Mail, a privatisation that will cost up to...

THE daily demonstrations of youth and workers are continuing in Greece, over a week after the assassination of the 15-year-old school boy Alexis Grigoropoulos...

GREEK police made hundreds of arrests as students and youth continued the mass demonstrations against the government in Athens and all major cities. On...

THE $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the Big Three US car giants has failed to get the support of the US Senate. Its refusal came...

‘THE news that General Motors is heading into bankruptcy means that the future of all GM plants is in the balance, especially the two...

A huge Athens strike rally on Wednesday demanded the resignation of the ‘murderers’ government’ of Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Under glorious sunshine tens of...

THE Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis delivered a 5-minute proclamation on all national TV channels and radio stations on Tuesday night condemning as ‘enemies...

YESTERDAY in the House of Commons the Tories were glorying in the fact that their votes will make sure that Labour’s bill to force...

THE occupation of a relatively small factory in Chicago by its angry workforce, members of the UE trade union, to prevent its closure, has...

OVER 5,000 Greek school and university students along with teachers and university lecturers demonstrated through the Athens city centre yesterday afternoon for the third...

SOME 15,000 students, youths, workers and trade unionists marched on Sunday afternoon from Athens Polytechnic to the Greek police HQ in protest against the...

IN all of the Greek cities there were clashes throughout yesterday between workers and youth and the riot police, and other Greek special forces....

Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...

THE UK’s biggest car manufacturer, Vauxhall, with plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton, has admitted its more than 5,000 jobs are under massive threat...

General Motors-owned Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and GM Luton have admitted their future depends on the US government bailing out their parent company. During discussions...

THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...

THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...

THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...

THE Labour government, after handing tens of billions of pounds to the Northern Rock and the other major banks, in an attempt to save...

‘As ordinary trade union members are fighting for their jobs they must have a leadership with a policy of “not one job sold, not...

Enfield Council leaders have decided to mount a legal challenge to Health Secretary Johnson’s decision to close Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E and consultant-led Maternity...

The North East London Council of Action held another successful picket of the Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, with passing cars tooting...

THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...

AS is his way, the Prime Minister addressed the CBI bosses organisation yesterday, just hours before his Chancellor was due to declare to the...

LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...

British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...

FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...

US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...

‘THE forces of law and order should massacre the demonstrators without pity’ was the ruling class response from former Italian Prime Minister and president...

Hundreds of Unite members working for the Dover Harbour Board began a 48-hour strike at 7am yesterday morning. Speaking from the picket line yesterday afternoon,...

FACED with the crash of the pound and the enormous 182,000 leap in the number of unemployed in the three months to October, the...

OVER 300 postal workers, their families and supporters defiantly marched in defence of their jobs from the Milton Keynes Mail Centre and on to...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas’ comments during a memorial ceremony for the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat were slammed as an ‘attempt at incitement’ by...

GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...

US president-elect Barack Obama discussed the financial crisis and other big problems with world leaders yesterday. He spoke by telephone with the...

A NINETY-children-to-a-class City Academy, where three-hour lessons are the norm, has been roundly condemned by leading anti-academy campaigner and NUT and ATL Executive member...

LABOUR’S Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans yesterday to allow well-off patients to make so-called ‘co-payments’ for drugs and extra treatments, while still receiving...

LLOYDS stated yesterday that its takeover of HBOS would save it at least £1.5bn a year, more than it had been expecting, which all...

Forty-six Renault workers from the sackings-hit Sandouville plant were before a court in Le Havre last Thursday, October 30. They were taken to court by...

Russia’s super-rich oligarchs, who made their fortunes by stealing or purchasing for a pittance chunks of the Soviet nationalised and planned economy under the...