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SA union wins victory against labour brokering

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THE Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, has ruled that an employer cannot employ a worker for more than three months without...

Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of...

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NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...

Locked-out US steel workers lobby UK AGM

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REPRESENTATIVES of United Steel Workers (USW) trade union members who are locked out in Massachusetts, USA, by National Grid, lobbied the parent company’s AGM...

AS THE CAPITALIST CRISIS DEEPENS, MPs WANT A DICTATORSHIP OVER...

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THE UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ with voters being targeted with ‘pernicious views’ and data being manipulated, a parliamentary MPs committee warns. According to...

US Steelworkers To Protest At National Grid Agm

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MEMBERS of the United Steelworkers union working for the British multinational utility company National Grid in the US state of Massachusetts will be flying...

Nurses Very Angry Over The Big Pay Sell-Out!

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THE HEAD of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being ‘misled’ over the new pay deal. The union...

Air France workers – more strike action – ‘future of airline...

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TRADE unions representing Air France workers have threatened to ground more flights in September as a pay dispute with the airline’s bosses continues. Air...

SA Working Class Summit to unite workplace and community struggles

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A NEW chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21st-22nd July 2018, when representatives from...

Public sector pay rise will cost thousands of jobs!

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''OUT OF TOUCH’ Theresa May has left one million people ‘in limbo’, said the GMB on Tuesday, in response to the Tory announcement that...

Tory pay rise is a pay cut!

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‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...

Defend the NHS! Stop the wholly-owned subsidiaries in their tracks!

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THERE are Unite and Unison trade union protests in York and Chesterfield today against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly-owned subsidiaries...

NUMSA fights attempt to ban South Africa bus strike

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THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has opposed an application to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) Essential Services...

All generations of Chagossians join fight

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EXILED Chagos Islanders were yesterday continuing their five-day occupation of Trafalgar Square that was launched on Friday. Jean Paul France of the Chagos Islanders...

‘We won’t pay £39bn divorce bill’ says Brexit Sec Raab

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IN A Sunday Telegraph interview, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab threatened to withhold the £39 billion ($51 billion) divorce fee from the EU,...

Tolpuddle Martyrs festival weekend

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THE TOLPUDDLE Martyrs annual festival where thousands of people come together to celebrate trade unionism and remember the role of the Tolpuddle Martyrs began...

Parents Queue At 3Am To Get Their Children Into Breakfast Clubs!

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MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...

Incendiary kites & balloons will increase to defy the Israeli...

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THE ‘incendiary kites unit’ of the Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday that the amount of incendiary kites and balloons targeting Israeli areas surrounding Gaza...

NO OUTSOURCING! – BMA slams NHS privatisation

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DOCTORS union the BMA is ‘strongly opposed to the fragmentation and privatisation of the NHS, which is divisive to hardworking NHS staff and could...

UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a...

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THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...

Deadly attacks on Colombian teachers & trade unions are condemned by...

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Education International supports its affiliate, the Federación Colombiana de Educadores, in denouncing and firmly condemning assassinations and threats targeting Colombian educators, trade unionists, and...

Johnson Leaves May Off Hook!

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FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told MPs in his resignation speech: ‘It is not too late to save Brexit. We have time in...

Israeli Army Rehearsing The Taking Of Gaza City!

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BESIEGED GAZA is under a heavy non-stop Israeli siege and onslaught. The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israel of ‘dangerous consequences’ as the...

Five copper miners killed in South Africa

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FIVE South African miners have died after being trapped underground at the Palabora Copper mine in Phalaborwa, Limpopo province. Initially, six workers were...

May forced to accept all amendments

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THE TORY government confirmed that it will accept all four amendments put by the Tory pro-Brexit MPs to the Chequers sell-out White Paper. Prime Minister...

RMT leader Steve Hedley attacked by fascists

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RMT Union leader Steve Hedley was attacked after taking part in a counter-protest to the Trump and Robinson rally on Saturday. The union leader...

Baker Reveals That Brexit Committee Was A Front And That...

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PARLIAMENT OF ITS OWN FREE WILL handed over the decision as to whether the UK should remain in or leave the EU to the...

MAY HAS UNDERMINED BREXIT says ex-Brexit Under Secretary Steve Baker

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EX-BREXIT Under Secretary of State Steve Baker, who resigned along with Brexit Secretary David Davis, told The Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister May had...

30,000 New Zealand nurses take strike action

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30,000 NEW Zealand nurses went on strike across the country last Thursday over pay and conditions, the first national nurses strike for 30 years. The...

Workers of the UK and USA must send May, Trump and...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump, on arrival to the UK on Thursday, did an interview with the Sun newspaper in which he said that he...

PM May assures Trump over trade deal with US

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‘WE WANT to trade with the UK, and the UK wants to trade with us. We are by far their biggest trading partner and...

Right to strike restored – for those waiting for ‘leave to...

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IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal the government has been forced to change the rules to ensure workers from other countries can participate...

Trump forces NATO ‘allies’ to capitulate to US imperialist war drive

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THE TWO-DAY NATO summit ended yesterday with US president Donald Trump walking out and announcing that he had forced the European nations to submit...

Israeli drones fire on kite fliers

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ISRAELI drones carried out an airstrike targeting a group of Palestinian kite-flyers in eastern Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon....

China shocked by US plans for massive new tariffs!

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THE CHINESE government has said that it is ‘shocked’ after the US government announced plans for massive new tariffs, escalating the trade war between...

No confidence in May move gathering pace

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THE CHEQUERS Brexit compromise White Paper on the UK’s plans to leave the EU is to be published today. The plan, thrashed out behind...

‘Privatisation gravy train must end’ says GMB

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‘The gravy train needs to end – public services should be just that; public,’ said the GMB union on Tuesday, in response to a...

Workers must take action to bring down the May government and...

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THE RESIGNATION of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary was only delayed until he was faced with dying from shame if he held back any...

Ukrainian miners from Donetsk, Lviv Lugansk and Volyn protest in Kiev

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ON TUESDAY, 10 July, miners from Donetsk, Lugansk, Volyn, and Lviv regions held a protest in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. Since 6th July miners...

Johnson & Davis Quit Cabinet

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BORIS Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary, the third minister to walk out of the May government rather than back Theresa May’s plans...

Davis resignation shatters Tories as May goes looking for Labour...

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TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis exploded a bomb under the leadership of PM Theresa May on Sunday with his resignation from the cabinet. May had...

US National Grid lock-out – workers health benefits stopped!

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LOCKED-OUT United Steelworkers (USW) union members are blasting National Grid for stopping payment to their health care plans, but the company says it won’t...

May Duping Electorate! – Says Tory Mp Bridgen

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TORY MP Andrew Bridgen has called PM May’s pledges about the EU, made at Chequers ‘a pretence and charade intended to dupe the electorate’....

PM May surrenders to EU! UK needs a workers government and...

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ON THURSDAY 23rd June, 2016, the EU referendum took place and the people of the United Kingdom took a revolutionary decision to leave the...

Firefighters are angry about Grenfell too! – writes Matt Wrack FBU...

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WRITING in the Independent Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union posed the question: ‘Firefighters are angry about Grenfell Tower too –...

Joint Russian & UK Salisbury investigation: The only way to uncover...

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RUSSIA says the UK shows no interest in conducting a joint investigation into the alleged assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia,...