Tag: unemployment
Tory leader Badenoch offers to ‘work together’ with Starmer to slash...
YESTERDAY, in a speech in London, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch made an offer to Keir Starmer to work together on a plan to slash...
1,000 workers and youth, members of AFL-CIO, rally in Las Vegas...
On Thursday, over 1,000 workers and young people who are members the Nevada State AFL-CIO, and UNITE HERE’s Culinary Union rallied in Las Vegas...
French workers strike against 44bn euro budget cuts!
FACED with the social emergency of PM Bayrou’s planned 44bn euros budget cuts, French trade unions have called a national strike on Wednesday 10th...
Millions Of Youth Facing Employment Crisis As Capitalism Nose Dives!
ONE MILLION YOUTH aged 16-24 are no longer in employment, education or training, the latest figures show! The Centre for Social Justice said last week...
Farage calls for mass deportation and detention centres
AT A press conference yesterday Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, set out the programme of mass deportation and detention of migrants if Reform...
TUC must call a general strike to bring in a workers...
THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) will be holding its annual conference in Brighton from Sunday 7th September to Wednesday 10th September. It is taking place...
United Association of South Africa demanding action over rising inflation
Trade union United Association of South Africa (UASA) who represent workers in financial services said on Thursday that the rise in Consumer Price Inflation...
13 YEARS SINCE THE MARIKANA MASSACRE – 34 striking miners...
COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) remembers the tragic events that led to the death of 44 workers in Marikana, in the North...
New Nigerian loan scheme ‘will perpetually enslave the workers’
One of Nigeria’s university based unions, National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), has opposed the federal government’s offer to float a loan scheme, known...
US capital Washington DC in recession as unemployment soars
LAST week, Mark Zandi, the chief economic analyst at the giant investment bank Moody’s, described the US as being ‘on the precipice of recession’. The...
Bank of England splits over rate cut – time to nationalise...
THE Bank of England’s crisis came out in the open at yesterday’s meeting as the Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey was opposed by two of...
Capitalism diving into world recession – forward to world socialist revolution!
AT MIDNIGHT on Thursday the US tariff war on the rest of the world erupted as Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ levies on imports from foreign...
Nigeria nurses and midwives have confirmed their strike is on and...
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has denied reports that its members have suspended the nationwide strike. The NANNM leadership met with...
BMA doctors demand a tangible and acceptable pay offer!
BMA resident doctors’ committee co-chairs Dr Ross Nieuwoudt and Dr Melissa Ryan yesterday called for a ‘tangible and acceptable’ pay offer. Commenting on new talks...
Doctors’ strike out solid for pay and to save NHS
Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...
TUC Must Take General Strike Action To Stop The Mass Murder...
WEDNESDAY’S Guardian newspaper admitted that Israel faced intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza’ quoting UN Secretary General Antonio...
Labour crisis deepens in face of collapsing economy!
PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...
Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government
THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...
SA trade unions want trade deal with USA before 30% tariffs...
SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...
Greek workers say ‘No’ to 13-hour day
The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the Greek TUC, responded on Thursday with an angry statement to the government Labour Ministry’s intention to...
High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide –...
ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...
‘This is Labour’s Poll Tax – No Labour MP who backs...
OVER 400 disabled people gathered in Parliament Square on Monday 30th June to oppose the bill being put to Parliament yesterday by the Labour...
Union-buster Trump violated the law – US court hears
United States federal judge, James Donato, last Thursday granted an injunction after ruling that the administration of US President Donald Trump is ‘likely to...
South African unemployed doctors launch 3rd sit-in
SOUTH African unemployed doctors have been protesting once again, launching their third sit-in of the year outside KwaZulu-Natal’s Office of the Premier on Monday...
Hundreds of Gaza babies and infants at risk due to lack...
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has issued an urgent appeal to save the lives of hundreds of infants and premature babies who...
COSATU concerned at Goodyear plant closure
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Eastern Cape said on Thursday that is deeply concerned by the impending closure of...
Strikes and unionisation campaigns sweep the USA
Members of the Teamsters union in the United States were joined by other members of the Labour Alliance for Public Transit last Thursday at...
Labour government splitting apart as ministers prepare for a national government!
YESTERDAY, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that splits had erupted in the heart of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet between deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and...
South African trade unions demand action on unemployment
SOUTH AFRICA’S leading trade union federations the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) and the Federation...
Labour told British capitalism needs its own ‘Elon Musk’ to avoid...
Last week, The Daily Telegraph newspaper published an article that clearly set out the dangers of a revolutionary upsurge by workers and youth resulting...
Tories Are Returning To Their ‘Starve The Workers’ Tactic!
WITH the capitalist system in its greatest ever crisis, the British Tories are beginning to debate about what is the best way out of...
Israel has brought record unemployment and mass starvation to the Gaza...
MAHMOUD Radwan sits among the ruins of his destroyed home, contemplating an uncertain future amidst a labour crisis unlike any he has seen before,...
ANC drops VAT increase to save coalition – as SAFTU celebrates...
South Africa’s finance minister dropped plans on Thursday to increase value-added tax (VAT), in a major climbdown to prevent the collapse of the coalition...
Capitalism reaches end of the road – time to overthrow it...
YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump performed another humiliating retreat when he accused Ukrainian president Zelensky of being responsible for the war on Russia continuing. When...
The April Wall Street crash ‘worst since 1932’ as recession hits...
‘TRUMP rout is taking on historic dimensions’ was how American financial paper, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), described the news yesterday that the Dow...
Tax the rich! – urge SAFTU leaders as they condemn ANC...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) last Thursday condemned the ANC, saying that there is no real difference on the economy between...
Investors Dump Stocks As Capitalism Crashes!
INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...
Labour launches jobs massacre – savage benefit cuts and tax rises...
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...
Reeves budget drives split in party as Labour MPs fear anger...
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...
South Africa honours the 65th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre!
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) said on Friday that it joins millions of South Africans in honouring the 65th anniversary and...
Labour splits emerging as Starmer faces ‘mother of all rebellions’
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...
Labour Taking Action To Make The Workers And The Poor Pay...
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...
Labour targets disabled with £5bn cuts
LABOUR’S announcement of £5 billion a year benefits cuts to be snatched from one million disabled and mentally ill workers were denounced by trade...
Stock markets crash as capitalism drives into recession – Socialist revolution...
THE CRASH on the global stock markets carried on yesterday as the world financial markets reeled from the shock realisation that the once mighty...
Stock markets are in crisis – capitalism is reeling! Forward to...
THE carnage in overvalued US stock markets on Thursday saw billions of dollars lopped off share prices just days after president Donald Trump paused...