Tag: strike

‘THE TUC must take action including a general strike and be prepared to call out workers to defend our NHS. ‘It is...

THE NHS is, in practice, being steadily and consciously abolished by the Tories as they drive relentlessly to the goal of a fully privatised...

THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...

A STRIKE wave is spreading throughout South Africa as concrete workers, Telecom workers and miners are locked into escalating struggles against ruthless employers that...

THE GENERAL Practitioners Committee has abandoned balloting GPs for industrial action despite being mandated by their own conference to do so. A motion at the...

PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...

A DEMONSTRABLE increase in homelessness, driven by the cost and availability of housing, has pushed the problem to such a level that a renewed...

THIS September, students in universities across the country are set to erupt in anger when they return after the £9,000 cap on university tuition...

LONMIN workers on Tuesday gathered at the Marikana koppie near Nkaneng informal settlement to pay tribute to their 34 colleagues who were gunned down...

THE National Union of Students (NUS) joined the calls for nationwide student rent strikes yesterday. This September (16/17/18th), activists from UCL Cut the Rent (UCL-CTR),...

THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...

THE Fatah movement in southern Hebron declared a day of mourning on Wednesday after a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces who had...

AUSTRALIA’S Turnbull Government is backing laws that force Indigenous people into work, not for wages, only welfare. The ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions), including...

WORKERS in 23 tea gardens in Habiganj, Bangladesh will go on indefinite strike and block the highways if their demands are not met by...

THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

PALESTINIAN prisoners held in Israeli custody at the Nafha, Ramon, Ktziot, and Hadarim prisons announced their decision on Saturday evening to go on a...

THOUSANDS of workers gathered in Richmond, Virginia, on Friday and Saturday to push for a $15 per hour minimum wage. The first national Fight for...

JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...

THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy yesterday afternoon, when it banned...

WORLDWIDE the class struggle is being driven forward by the deepening world crisis of capitalism. This dictates to the bourgeoisie that its survival depends...

WEDNESDAY was another day of heroic Palestinian resistance against the occupying Israeli forces’ daily repressions and violence. (IPS) in Israel’s Megiddo prison banned 15 hunger...

GMB is celebrating a landmark legal victory over German-owned, low-cost supermarket Lidl. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade...

HOSPITAL managers are to shut an NHS accident and emergency department down at night in order to combat a staffing crisis, caused by the...

A STRIKE wave is gripping South Africa with fishermen, media workers and fuel industry and electricity workers taking action. In an eleventh hour decision ...

EUROSTAR rail unions RMT and TSSA are coming out on strike for seven days this month in a dispute over unsocial hours and...

CALLING for urgent talks, rail union RMT yesterday repeated its offer to suspend Southern strike action. RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: ‘I have written...

EVERY worker in the country, not just every commuter, must support the five-day RMT strike action on Southern. It is a fight for jobs, and...

‘I CAN report that the strike action this morning is rock solid across the Southern Rail network as we fight to put rail safety...

THIS is a huge victory for Labour Party members and party democracy,’ John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor and chair of Jeremy for Labour, said...

PALESTINIAN prisoners have been hitting the headlines around the world with the escalating wave of hunger strikes for the release of high-profile prisoners in...

THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...

THREE thousand jobs are set to disappear after the owner of the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has announced that...

RAIL UNION RMT confirmed yesterday morning that it is taking a new offer to ACAS talks with Southern. The offer is that the union will...

THE United Nations Special Rapporteur, Maina Kiai, on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association made a visit to the United...

PALESTINIAN prisoner of Israel’s jails, Bilal Kayed, today, Wednesday 3rd August, enters his 50th day of hunger strike for his freedom. Kayed, a member of...

ON Monday the US launched air strikes on the Libyan city of Sirte against ISIL, at the request of one of the current Libyan...

SECRETARY of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Dave Oliver, has written a letter speaking out about the abuse of youth in a detention...

GRANTS were abolished yesterday leaving hundreds of thousands of poorer students with a stark choice: either spend the rest of your life in debt,...

NORMAL banking operations were disrupted across the whole of India on Friday as bank employee unions went on strike last Friday to protest against...

WORKERS in Ohio have spoken out about their struggle earlier this year which saw them go from being unrepresented temporary agency workers to direct...

IN A VICTORY for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a high court challenge which attempted to overturn his right to stand in the Labour...

FIVE further days of strike action have been confirmed by train union RMT over the removal of all guards from Govia Thameslink trains. Driver...

MOHAMMED Faqih’s body came out of a Hebron house in an army bulldozer bucket on Tuesday night, after the Israeli Army killed him and...

THE Tory drive against doctors and health workers throughout the NHS was reaffirmed last week when re-appointed health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that GPs...

THE denigration of workers, wage payment systems of dubious legality and a disregard for health and safety law are among the catalogue of abuses...