Tag: strike
Put an end to bankrupt capitalism! Forward to the victory of...
THE CRISIS of capitalism is now acute. It has reached the point of explosion, with its very life blood – gas and electricity now...
Workers hit by global gas hike – Unison warns of big...
An unprecedented rise in the price of gas has sent shock waves through the UK energy market, forcing energy suppliers out of business, threatening...
Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy
THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...
Only nationalisation under socialism can provide a solution to energy crisis!
IN THEIR desperation to prevent a complete meltdown of Britain’s food industry the Tories have agreed to pump tens of millions of pounds into...
Strike ballots will open at UK universities on October 18th
The University and College Union (UCU) has confirmed that strike ballots will open at UK universities on Monday 18 October in rows over USS...
Johnson ready to hand billions to bosses! – as unions refuse...
THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...
Israel is being held responsible for the lives and safety of...
NEARLY 200 human rights organisations are holding Israel fully responsible for the lives and safety of six Palestinian prisoners who tunnelled their way out...
Oppose all cuts to ticket office hours at LNER – demand...
A coalition of organisations joined together on Monday to oppose train operator LNER’s proposed cuts to ticket office opening hours at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Darlington; Doncaster;...
Entente Cordiale Is Binned As The UK Backstabs France Which Vows...
IT HAS emerged that the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the US, to supply Australia with nuclear submarines was agreed in...
Grenfell Towers are everywhere! Capitalism cannot be regulated, it must be...
THE TORY government is pushing its Building Safety Bill that it says addresses the big issue of fire safety raised by the horrific Grenfell...
Bank of England under pressure as inflation runs riot – socialist...
THE UK INFLATION rate hit a nine-year high in August with prices increasing by 3.2%, a sharp increase from the 2% recorded in July,...
Israel sends Gaza 50,000 expired Covid-19 vaccines
The Gaza Health Ministry has held Israel responsible for the expiry of 50,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine recently delivered to the besieged coastal enclave. In...
End all collaboration between TUC and Tories – build a new...
TRADES Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Frances O’Grady’s speech to its annual conference contained no call for action from the unions to fight Tory...
Tories prepare for perfect storm of anger from workers – General...
AS THE annual conference of the TUC, this year conducted on-line, opens, the GMB union released analysis of official data showing that 100,000 care...
20 years since 9/11 and imperialism has been driven out of...
TODAY is exactly two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001. That morning, Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing...
Met Commissioner Dick given 2-year extension – ‘Kick Dick out! Disband...
THE TORY government have offered the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, a two-year extension to her term in office with campaigners for justice furious...
Zionist regime humiliated as Palestinians rise-up – Forward to The State...
ISRAEL was dealt a massive humiliating blow early Monday morning when six Palestinian prisoners tunnelled their way out of the Gilbao maximum-security jail. Five of...
ANC workers demonstrate – two months without pay!
AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) workers are continuing protesting outside party headquarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg demanding fair labour practices and salary payments. The ANC...
The only way to ‘fix’ the care system crisis is to...
TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday unveiled his strategy for ‘fixing’ the country’s ‘broken social care system’. Central to his plan is to increase National Insurance...
Wall Street heading for a crash
THE US Wall Street is fast heading for a crash according to the Bank of America (BoA) as the huge speculative bubble on the...
Meet Tory payback time for working class with a general strike...
THE END of September is ‘payback time’ for the working class as far as the Tories are concerned. This is when all the debt incurred...
University pension strike looms after cuts
UNIVERSITY lecturers are gearing up for strike action against cuts to their pensions. Universities UK’s (UUK) announced yesterday that cuts to the pensions of university...
End imperialist war by bringing an end to imperialism through...
A NEW report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University has exposed the death toll of imperialist wars across the globe. It...
Misuse of lecturers’ online recordings – UCU warns of disputes...
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has warned all UK colleges and universities that they may face industrial disputes if they misuse recorded lectures...
Stop NHS cuts and privatisation – a general strike to defend...
THE CRISIS in the NHS has reached a breaking point with NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation issuing an unprecedented joint report calling for...
Ontario nurses demand pay increase and ‘repeal Bill 124’
HUNDREDS of Ontario emergency room physicians have signed an open letter to State Premier Doug Ford demanding that the province increase the pay of...
TUC denied seat at Tories trade table
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) complained yesterday that they have been barred from a seat at the table, demanding involvement in the trade negotiations...
Socialist revolution the answer to capitalist crisis
ONE SURE SIGN that capitalism is rapidly heading for an economic crash of historic proportions is the regularity in which increasingly desperate articles are...
Labour Party staff vote 75% for strike – if redundancies go...
STAFF that work for the Labour Party have voted in favour of striking if Labour carry out their threat of redundancies, GMB and Unite...
‘We want a system that is accountable and meets the needs...
THE TALIBAN ‘seeks to build a political system and government in Afghanistan that would be approved by its people and accountable to people once...
Fresh Rail Gourmet strikes called
TRANSPORT union RMT confirmed yesterday that Rail Gourmet staff at Edinburgh Waverley will be going ahead with a new phase of strike action in...
Tories defy court ruling and keep asylum seekers detained at...
IT HAS been confirmed that the Home Office is determined to keep the dilapidated and dangerous Napier Barracks open for a further four years. The...
US Kabul drone strike kills six! – including four children
SIX people, including four children, were killed in a US drone strike in Kabul, Afghan TV reported yesterday, citing eyewitnesses. Earlier, US officials said that...
After Afghan Disaster, UK Ruling Class Is Determined That UK Workers...
THE HUMILIATING hiding that the UK ruling class has taken from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the US and the UK have squandered tens...
Numsa Organiser Mdazo Assassinated In Broad Daylight
MINEWORKERS who have been newly recruited to the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa attended a meeting at Impala Platinum’s shaft 9 in...
Unite members elect Sharon Graham as General Secretary to take on...
SHARON Graham yesterday was elected as general secretary of the Unite union to replace Len McCluskey securing 37.6% of the vote. Graham, who was considered...
Bosses demand a prison workforce to keep wages below poverty level
IT EMERGED yesterday that desperate UK food companies are begging Tory ministers to let them use prisoners to work in meat processing plants as...
NINE PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE – against detention without charge
NINE Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest against their unfair administrative detention without charge or trial, says the...
Labour is moving to sack a quarter of its staff! A...
THE LABOUR Party is facing strike action by staff who work at the party offices who are members of the GMB and Unite trade...
Johnson under pressure to sack Raab!
PM JOHNSON is facing growing pressure to sack his Foreign Secretary Raab, or if he won’t to resign himself. It has now emerged that neither...
Top bosses paid more in one year than a worker earns...
THE ANNUAL pay of FTSE 100 chief executives fell during the pandemic but still equates to more than a key worker would earn in...
70,000 workers to be balloted over 1.75%! – Unite, Unison &...
SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...
British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!
WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...
‘Take remote sign-on off the table or we ballot for strike’...
Unite announced on Tuesday that ‘if remote sign-on is not taken entirely off the table for all bus operators then Unite, which represents over...
Palestinian Premier Condemns Israel’s Killing Of Four Young Palestinians!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has condemned the Israeli army killing of four young Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and...