Tag: unemployment
Merkel defeated in Berlin
THE economic collapse of the eurozone continues to drive a huge political crisis for bourgeois political parties across Europe as splits on how to...
EU crisis sharpening to breaking point!
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is attending the meeting of the EU Finance Ministers in Poland to convey the alarm of the...
Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits
THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....
Inflation carries on cutting wages, pensions and benefits
THE Office of National Statistics has given the figures on inflation rates for last month which confirm that British capitalism faces total economic collapse,...
‘WE WILL COME OUT OF THIS FIGHT AS THE WINNERS!’ –...
TENS of thousands of Greek university and higher education college students from all over the country demonstrated last Saturday in the northern city of...
‘GET OFF YOUR KNEES’ YS lobby urges union leaders
A LIVELY lobby of over 50 Young Socialists and supporters, chanting ‘Youth demand a future, youth demand jobs’ demonstrated outside the TUC Congress yesterday...
Joint strike action agreed – at the TUC Congress
THE TUC Congress yesterday instructed the TUC General Council to support and coordinate joint strike action against attacks on jobs, pensions, pay and public...
US ‘job creation’ will come from Medicaid and Medicare cuts
LAST Thursday night US President Barak Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress where he outlined his new initiative that would, he...
Mass Sackings In Greece!
HUNDREDS of thousands of Greek workers, students and unemployed are expected to take part in rallies and demonstrations in Athens and Salonica on...
Youth bear brunt of economic collapse – says Canadian Labour Congress...
THE CLC (Canadian Labour Congress) in Canada have produced a report exposing the fact that youth are bearing the brunt of the mass sackings,...
Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!
THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...
Palestinians concerned over detainees and settler attacks
A CONCERNED Palestinian family has called on the Red Cross to obtain news of Hudhayfah Jarrar, 21, from Jenin, as Israeli occupation authorities have...
HOUSING CRISIS! Middle classes will be on the streets
HOMELESSNESS is spreading to the middle class, homelessness charity Crisis is warning, as mass sackings of public sector workers along with the government’s onslaught...
Smash The Health Bill
Public sector union Unison and the TUC have called a candle-lit vigil outside parliament at 9.30pm on September 7th, as the Health and Social...
South African textile workers fight poverty and exploitation
A march of 3,000 clothing workers organised by the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) brought the town of Newcastle to a...
From Low Wage To No Wage Economy – Tories Plan Chain...
CRISPIN Blunt, the justice minister, announced yesterday that instructions were being issued to the courts to the effect that unemployed offenders sentenced to the...
Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!
ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...
US unions campaign for jobs
‘ACROSS the US, at town halls, fundraisers, and forums in over 150 congressional districts, jobless Americans are uniting with workers, students, and other citizens...
Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can...
THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...
Education cuts and £9,000 fees destroying the future for youth
AFTER record A-Level results, hundreds of thousands of students will be refused university places this year because of the coalition’s savage cuts policy. After being...
Jobless Shock!
TRADE unions slammed the government’s mass sackings and cuts to services as being directly responsible for the shocking unemployment figures released yesterday. These showed that...
MEDICARE, MEDICAID, SOCIAL SECURITY MUST BE DEFENDED! – says SEIU...
Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement after both Republicans and Democrats last Thursday announced their...
The Ys Calls ‘Jobs For Youth’ Lobby Of Tuc!
THE Young Socialists yesterday called a mass lobby of the TUC Annual Congress for Monday September 12, beginning at 8.00am. The conference is being held...
Cameron’s all-powerful police state is to fight the working class
THE beginning of PM Cameron’s speech to the recalled House of Commons was an attempt to divorce the youth uprising that is taking place...
US black workers ‘disproportionately hurt by cuts’
A new study dispels the myth that immigrant workers are taking good-paying jobs away from American-born workers, says the AFL-CIO union federation. According to ‘The...
Only one solution to the death agony of capitalism: bury...
EVEN sections of the bourgeois media, and the bourgeoisie that it represents, were yesterday able to describe the appearance of the current world...
RBS TO SACK 2,000 –as economic crisis bites
Panic gripped investors in the world’s stock markets yesterday as bank shares were hit hard. Share prices on the London stock market slumped...
IMF – British banks warning!
THE IMF warned yesterday that the British banks have a ‘very large potential to originate global shocks’. As if that was not enough they added...
World capitalism hanging over the brink
WHAT bourgeois economists thought was unthinkable just a few days ago is now about to happen. In just four days time the United States is...
Cameron shows his contempt for parliament
TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...
Capitalism’s Historical Crisis Demands Socialist Revolution
THE historic crisis of world capitalism has come to a head with a vengeance, with both the once mighty US economy and the European...
Murdoch withdraws BskyB bid – Now bring down coalition!
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister announced that a judge-led phone hacking inquiry will have powers to call media proprietors, editors and politicians to give evidence,...
Genocidal Rajapaksa Regime ‘Snatching Away’ Tamil Children
The occupying Sri Lanka military governor in Jaffna, Major General Chandrasri now schemes to bring more than 1000 nursery schools functioning in Jaffna under...
Greek ‘bailout’ derailed
The Chairman of the EU group of finance ministers, Jean-Claude Junker, spelt out at the weekend exactly what the EU and IMF ‘bailout’ of...
Workers Demand A General Strike To Defend Their Pensions
750,000 public sector workers struck to defend their pensions on Thursday. 70,000 of them marched through London with banners flying, determined to see the...
Chinese Stalinists Feeling The Anger Of The Masses
THIS week, as part of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party, the party general secretary and China’s president, Ho...
FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF GREEK, SPANISH AND EGYPTIAN WORKERS – say...
IN the international debate on Wednesday afternoon, delegates at the Unison National Delegate conference in Manchester said the best way to show solidarity with...
‘LET’S GO FORWARD TO THE GENERAL STRIKE!’ – ATUA National Secretary...
‘This is the period of the world revolution,’ All Trades Union Alliance National Secretary Dave Wiltshire told 150 delegates at the News Line-ATUA...
‘WORKERS RISING UP!’ – ATUA National Secretary tells conference
‘WE NEED a general strike to bring the government down and go forward to a workers government and socialism.’ This is what All Trades Union...
The Gaza Siege – Punishing Some Of The Poorest Of The...
‘If the aim of the blockade policy was to weaken the Hamas administration, the public employment numbers suggest this has failed’ a UN Relief...
June 30th must be a one-day general strike!
PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union leader Mark Serwotka said yesterday, just before the massive vote for strike action on June 30th by his PCS...
Gaza has 45.2 % unemployment – Greek youth unemployment is 45%!
GAZA’S unemployment rate is among the world’s highest, at 45.2%, the UN has found. The territory continues to be blockaded by Israel, while the...
THE TERRIBLE DEATH OF MR WARD – cooked to death in...
BY CLARE SAMBROOK THE horrible death of a respected Aboriginal elder casts doubt upon often-unchallenged assumptions about the virtues of privatisation. Last week beginning 30...
Workers action shakes Rajapakse
A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...
‘GET OUT OF HERE!’ – Athens Vouli Popular Assembly tells...
FOR the fourth successive night, tens of thousands of youth and workers congregated in the main square of Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament)...