Tag: strike

A 24-hour General Strike declared by GSEE (Greek TUC) and ADEDY (public sectors trades unions federation) took place on Wednesday in Greece, with the...

NEARLY 1,000 current and former Israeli air force reservists have issued a public letter demanding an immediate halt to Israel’s military assault on Gaza,...

THE Federation of Public Service and Health Service Personnel Force Ouvrière (FO-SPS) has expressed its support for striking hospital workers. The FO-SPS said on Wednesday:...

YESTERDAY, the Guardian newspaper revealed that 100,000 jobs in the NHS could be wiped out because of the brutal cost-cutting regime imposed by Labour...

ISRAEL has launched a fresh ground invasion into Gaza City, with occupying forces pushing into the Shejaiya neighbourhood early on Friday. According to Gaza’s civil...

STOCK MARKETS across the world crashed following US president Donald Trump finally revealing the details of his trade war against the world. The speculators and...

The Israeli forces have initiated a military plan to capture and control 25 per cent of Gaza, calling it the buffer zone that it...

WORKERS at the University of Sheffield have voted to strike against ‘drastic restructuring’ plans that put up to 1,000 jobs at risk, the University...

ISRAEL expanded its ground aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday, with its minister of military affairs Israel Katz announcing plans to ‘capture extensive...

YESTERDAY, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz issued a statement that announced a massive capture of territory in the Gaza Strip that will be added...

YESTERDAY was dubbed ‘Awful April’ in the press, as millions of households throughout the UK were hit by massive price increases across the board...

THE Israeli occupation army continued to commit massacres in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, killing and injuring...

IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...

JUST two days after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring mini-budget ‘to grow the economy’ out of economic collapse, thousands and thousands of job losses...

CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves denied that Wednesday’s Budget was anything other than a massive austerity attack on workers with the sick and disabled deliberately...

OVER 100 protesters gathered outside the Old Bailey yesterday in support of the Filton 18, activists from Palestine Action after initially being detained under...

THOUSANDS of workers across the United States have hit the streets to say ‘Hell No!’ to dismantling the postal service. The National Association of Letter...

‘FROM the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!’ more than 10,000 Al Quds Day marchers chanted as they proceeded from Marble Arch,...

OVER ten thousand workers students and youth joined the Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day demonstration in central London yesterday. The demonstration assembled outside Marble Arch Station...

THE PCS trade union has responded to Labour’s huge civil service cuts pronouncements. A shocked and shaken PCS said: ‘The impact of making cuts will...

STRIKING Brunel University lecturers manning the picket lines in Uxbridge, west London yesterday, called for their UCU union to call national strike action to...

ARGENTINA’S General Labour Confederation (CGT) will be staging a 24-hour general strike against the right wing government of Javier Milei, tentatively set for before...

FOLLOWING Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament on Wednesday left wing Labour MP Richard Burgon went on social media warning that Keir Starmer will...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) held a rally and lobby of Parliament on Tuesday as part of its fight against a huge escalation,...

THERE is no doubt that Labour’s proposed benefit cuts are a ‘violation of workers rights’ which will harm ill, disabled and poorer workers in...

ON TUESDAY, the Israeli Zionist state resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip with the deadliest aerial bombings of the besieged territory since...

LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer is prepared to defy the growing anger of workers by pushing through welfare cuts that will impoverish over 600,000...

THE 25th National March for Palestine assembled outside Green Park in Piccadilly in central London on Saturday morning, with 50,000 demonstrators chanting: ‘From the...

THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Wednesday rejected the budget of the ANC led coalition for a second time. SAFTU stated: ‘SAFTU...

The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...

CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...

FEAR gripped the stockmarkets yesterday after Donald Trump first of all threatened to double tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada to...

‘WE have to step up the fight and unite in action across the country to defend all jobs in higher education,’ Hermione Xanthopoulou, Director...

THE CRASH on the global stock markets carried on yesterday as the world financial markets reeled from the shock realisation that the once mighty...

BIRMINGHAM binworkers began indefinite strike action yesterday, Tuesday 11 March, determined to defeat the ‘commissioners’, who were handed control of the council by the...

NEARLY 400 Birmingham refuse workers began indefinite strike action yesterday over the scrapping of the waste collection and recycling officer role (WRCO), which has...

YESTERDAY it was reported that as many as 1,300 people, including over 800 civilians, were killed in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Tartous...

HAMAS has called on the Arab countries and the United Nations to take urgent action to stop the brutal crime of starvation and siege...

Tens of thousands of youth, students and workers participated last Friday evening in fiercely anti-government marches and rallies, held in Athens and ten other...

ITALY started a 24-hour nationwide general strike on Friday evening at 9pm. The nationwide action organised by USI-CIT, Slai-COBAS, CUB, USB, ADL COBAS-CLAP, and the...

UK higher Education faces an unprecedented crisis, the University and College Union (UCU) has declared, with new data compiled by the union showing over...

THE Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is willing to give up his war with Russia in the Ukraine, and is also...

LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer addressed Parliament yesterday reporting on the emergency defence summit of European leaders he’d convened in London at the weekend. This...

History was written last Friday in Greece as truly colossal general strike rallies took place throughout the country when literally hundreds of thousands of...