Tag: unions

THE rapid rise in joblessness amongst the UK’s youth has pushed Britain to an unwanted milestone. For the first time in a quarter of...

Workers across India stopped work on Thursday as part of the Bharat Bandh (general strike). They were protesting against labour reforms and economic cuts being...

NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...

THE HIGH Court has ruled that the government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was unlawful. In a...

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has warned that Israel is entering a ‘highly dangerous phase’ of punitive escalation against Palestinian detainees, as it prepares...

THOUSANDS protested outside universities and colleges around the UK yesterday as part of a workers and students Day of Action for Palestine. There were 150...

YESTERDAY, millions of Iranians took to the streets across the country to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the revolution that overthrow the hated Pahlavi...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday that following a meeting on proposed cuts to services in Oxfordshire it is to hold a strike...

‘Thousands of public school teachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public (state) school teachers strike in the city in...

‘IF the council take out an injunction we have to stand strong. They are trying to kill our spirit,’ striking Birmingham binworker Ali Chidodo...

LABOUR leader and PM Keir Starmer’s position was further weakened yesterday as his Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney was forced to quit amidst the...

LABOUR MPs are now warning that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are well and truly numbered. On Wednesday, a clearly shaken Starmer faced demands...

THE SOUTH African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Workers Union (IMATU) occupied the Sol Plaatje council chambers last...

New York City’s largest nurses’ strike in history entered its 24th day on Wednesday. In a statement, the New York State Nurses Association said recent...

THE abject and grovelling performance of PM Keir Starmer in parliament on Thursday succeeded in uniting Labour and Tory MPs who howled with rage...

IN THE port of Piraeus, the ADEDY (public sector federation of trades unions) and the Piraeus Trades Council have called an anti-war 24-hour strike...

LABOUR MPs were queuing up to warn that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are numbered following a disastrous day in Parliament on Wednesday...

MORE than 14,000 Iranian university professors have condemned the European Union’s designation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a so-called terrorist organisation,...

THIS FRIDAY, workers in over 20 Mediterranean ports will take coordinated strike action to oppose the genocidal war waged by Israel to drive Palestinians...

‘SAVE London Met – 120 Jobs at Risk!’ was the call from a mass rally of workers and students outside the Holloway Road site...

EIGHT international aid groups working in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories said yesterday that they would defy an order to provide information about...

HAMAS has hailed yesterday’s reopening of the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza as a significant achievement for the Palestinian resistance. However, the Gaza Ministry of...

Tariq Othman from the Palestinian Forum in Britain told the rally: ‘Colonial occupation has many ugly faces. We have to focus on the mass...

LONDON witnessed one of the largest pro-Palestine demonstrations since the ceasefire agreement was signed in October 2025, with more than 100,000 people marching through...

MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon chanting ‘From the River to...

Workers from a number of trade unions and their allies rallied on Wednesday in the Civic Centre Park neighbourhood of Denver Colorado in support...

IN what amounts to a declaration of war between US imperialism and Iran, US president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that a massive US...

THE Palestinian people are now being murdered by the Israeli ruling class with the UK, US and EU ruling classes looking on. The Ministry of...

Up to 31,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California and Hawaii went on indefinite strike on Monday in the latest work stoppage at the...

Thirty-five Labour MPs have written a letter in support of the striking Birmingham bin workers ahead of their MEGAPICKET on Friday. Many hundreds of trade...

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Monday directed all primary and secondary school teachers in Abuja to join the ongoing strike initiated by...

ANALYSIS conducted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), released on Monday, reveals that a record number of people in the UK live in ‘very...

THE UNITED STATES has erupted in fury after a second person in the span of a month was fatally shot by federal immigration authorities...

THE civil war that has been simmering within the Labour Party erupted this weekend following the decision by Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC)...

THE US nurses union denounced the killing of its member, Alex Pretti, by armed ICE agents in Minnesota on Saturday as ‘a heinous murder’...

FOUR US immigration officers have shot and killed a 37-year-old man, Alex Jeffrey Pretti in front of screaming protesters in an anti-ICE protest in...

The Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies and the National Union of Electricity Employees (SSAEAC) at the Kano Electricity Distribution Company in...

There is a growing strike movement across the United States against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s clampdown on Minneapolis as millions of workers...

A FURIOUS backlash erupted on Thursday against the Labour government’s cancellation of May’s local government elections, which could deprive 10 million citizens of the...

The world crisis of capitalism dominated the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. The splits between US imperialism and its...

HEALTHCARE assistants whose jobs were wrongly graded are at ‘breaking point’, as managers at Epsom Hospital, St George’s in Tooting and St Helier refuse...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has condemned Western countries for seeking regime change in Iran, saying their attempts to destabilise the country are a...

Germany’s Ernährung, Gastronomie, Genuss (NGG) union has announced it will step up strike action after negotiations with the Bundesverband der Systemgastronomie (BdS) over a...

THE World Economic Forum commenced its annual meeting at the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos this week with US president Donald Trump due to deliver...

US president Donald Trump has put the price of a permanent seat on his ‘Board of Peace’ at $1 billion in what is being...