Tag: unemployment

RMT MEMBERS at DHL’s Neasden depot, supply chain partners of Marks and Spencer’s, will strike again for 24 hours this Friday and Monday in...

THE French Socialist government has said it will raise Value Added Tax and cut public spending, kicking the working class and the poor in...

LAST week the two main Greek trade union organisations representing workers in the public and private sector called a two-day general strike starting today...

AFTER all of the Tory propaganda chatter about the ‘recovery has begun’ the reality is that the slump is deepening. The UK’s manufacturing sector,...

TORY attempts to convince the working class, the middle class and the poor that the ‘recovery’ has begun and things are looking better, are...

More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...

AIN Sokhna Port workers and DP World have reached an agreement to resume work in the Egyptian port, which has been shut down for...

PCS civil servants union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday slammed Work and Pensions secretary Duncan Smith’s speech attacking youth, families and the unemployed. Serwotka said:...

AN influential group of MPs have finally admitted publicly what everyone already knows – that the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO troops, led by...

PALESTINIAN voters in the West Bank have delivered a blow to the Fatah movement in local elections which saw Fatah winning two-fifths of...

500,000 angry workers, trade unionists and youth marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government and its cuts and privatisation programme...

STATEMENT of the Ergatiki Antistasi (Workers Resistance), newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League (RML), Greek Section of the International Committee of the Fourth International. FOR...

CHANTING ‘It’s their crisis – the solution is uprising!’; ‘Down with the government and the troika of the EC-IMF-ECB. The time has come...

TODAY’S march called by the TUC must not be just another mass demonstration against the drive by this coalition to bail out the banks...

STRIKE leaders at Gold Fields KDC West operations in Carletonville, Northwest province, South Africa, said yesterday that their industrial action will not end until...

BRITISH Gas yesterday announced six per cent increases to the gas and electricity prices it charges customers, adding £80 a year to the average...

IN HIS speech to the Tory faithful yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that he is going to grind the...

‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...

PRIME minister Cameron yesterday revealed on the eve of the Tory Party conference that the government is planning to slash welfare by another £16...

WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...

IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...

IMF CHIEF Christine Lagarde opened her speech of last Monday in Washington with a dose of false optimism. She said: ‘Let me begin by saying...

THE City Council of Acharnes, one the local councils of the Greater Athens area, with a population of over 100,000 voted on Thursday to...

AT the end of August the EU-imposed Greek prime minister, Antonis Sameras, announced to a disbelieving populace that the £9.3 billion cuts imposed on...

THE Tory pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is a man on a mission – a mission to drive the unemployed, low paid and youth...

BANK SHARES rose rapidly yesterday with the news that the Federal Reserve Bank is to open up the inflationary floodgates and re-prop up the...

TUC DELEGATES yesterday voted unanimously to defend the Welfare State, pensions, and state education. They voted for Composite Motion 8: The Welfare State...

LABOUR shadow chancellor Balls was booed at the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday when he made it clear that a Labour government would carry...

THE President of the German bosses association ASSON has called for Greece to be turned into a huge ‘Special Economic Zone’. Hans-Peter Keitel, President...

TUC delegates at their Congress 2012 in Brighton on Monday voted unanimously for motions calling for coordinated strike action against cuts in jobs and...

AFTER the successful lobby of the TUC in Brighton on Sunday, the Young Socialists held a meeting at 5.00pm of 100 youth and workers...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...

THE TUC General Council is meeting in Brighton at 9.00am today to discuss a resolution calling for it to consider the practicalities of a...

THE UK economy will contract by 0.7 per cent this year, the OECD said yesterday, in a sharply revised prediction from that made in...

A LEAKED email sent to the Greek Ministries of Finance and Labour from the Troika mafia in Brussels says Greek private sector workers must...

THE UN’S International Labour Organisation has issued a dire warning of the disaster that will follow on from Greece being evicted from the EU...

UNEMPLOYED youth will be forced to work unpaid for three months before they can claim benefits under plans announced by London Mayor Johnson and...

new figures show there has been a massive 33% rise in court orders to evict private tenants over the past two years. Housing charity Crisis...

THE European Central Bank has reported that outflows from the Spanish banks reached 74bn euros (£59bn) in the month of July,...

TOP members of South Africa’s ruling ANC party met yesterday to discuss the political crisis that has emerged in the wake of the ANC’s...

THE Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) has released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth that shows youth pay a heavy...

ON the eve of International Youth Day, the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth,...

‘IT’S the last chance – the Greek people need to know this.’ That was the threat of Eurogroup bully-boy President Jean Claude Juncker to the...

THE GREEK BOURGEOISIE is now pleading for more time to repay its massive loans. The unelected Prime Minister, Samaras, who was selected...

EXPELLED ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema last Saturday blamed the ANC leaders for the massacre of 34 miners and the...