Tag: worker

OVER half a million trade unionists and youth from every town and city in Britain joined Saturday’s TUC march against the savage spending cuts....

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at around 500 colleges and universities across the UK took strike action yesterday against changes to...

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through its ritual presentation of an ‘alternative’ budget in advance of the coalition government’s budget to be...

ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...

Public sector union Unison on Tuesday published a dossier of cuts hitting social work departments, warning that, together with existing shortages, cuts will put...

THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...

At a press conference last Friday the Greek Finance Minister Yiorghos Papakonstantinou announced the main points of the revised IMF-EC Accord that calls for...

FIRST of all Prime Minister Cameron wrote that the entire public sector, local government, the NHS and education were to be taken over by...

‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...

The Institute of Directors (IoD) has proposed a 24-point plan to the Tory-led coalition government to save British capitalism. Central to their ‘blueprint for growth’ is...

WHEN Lenin saw, on his return to Russia in April 1917, that the ‘democracy’ in Russia proved even less capable of assuming the power...

‘THERE can be no analogy of historical development,’ wrote Trotsky in his book 1905, ‘between, on the one hand, England, the pioneer of capitalism...

THE Sri Lankan government is attempting to portray the continually escalating incidents of civilian murders, disappearances and robberies as the result of individual enmities...

THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...

Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) began a wage strike at mining recruitment company Teba Limited on Monday. The strike comes after...

‘FEBRUARY 25, 1848, had granted the republic to France, June 25 thrust the revolution upon her. And revolution, after June, meant: overthrow of bourgeois...

FREDERICK Engels was also thinking and writing at that time about the permanent revolution. This showed itself even as early as January 1849, when...

BY MIKE DRIVER PART ONE: ‘Fraternity found its true unadulterated and prosaic expression in the war of Labour against capital’ AS French and European workers...

COSATU President Sidumo Dlamini addressed the COSATU union federation’s 25th anniversary celebration last Sunday. He told his audience: ‘Comrades and friends, we are here today...

MORE than 400 people joined Saturday’s march through Enfield by the North-East London Council of Action to keep Chase Farm Hospital open. The march was...

The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...

‘The four-year Israeli siege on Gaza has resulted in the deaths of dozens of Palestinians suffering from health problems due to the lack of...

TEACHER and public sector unions have angrily rebutted attacks contained in the Ofsted Annual Report published on Tuesday. The report claimed that teaching in 50...

‘NO one can deny this is the biggest economic crash – eclipsing 1914 and the 1929 Wall Street crash. And this crisis is driving...

Over 10,000 workers and youth on Saturday marched through central London against the Afghan war, calling for the troops to be brought out now. Organised...

MARCHERS on the Young Socialists March for Jobs were greeted as they set out from Bedford yesterday morning by former Luton IBC plant worker...

THE copper-mining strike by 1,551 members of Sindicato de los Trabajadores de Collahuasi in Chile enters its second week today, with miners emboldened by...

The Young Socialists March for Jobs set out from Northampton for Bedford yesterday morning. The marchers sent out an advance team to recruit new members...

HOSPITAL workers, patients, and local residents in Enfield, said yesterday they would join the march through Enfield on December 4th to stop the closure...

THE demand for union representation is growing amongst workers in the United States. Loyola University catering workers rejoiced on November 2nd, after they received news...

REPUBLICANS on Capitol Hill want to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, which are set to expire at the end of the...

EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs for Youth and Free State Education reached Stoke last night, after a great weekend. The march has now completed...

THE News Line salutes the London FBU membership which has stood firm in its defence of terms and conditions against a pre-planned massive onslaught...

The Young Socialists on Saturday launched its March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London. Bus workers came to welcome the young...

‘OUR resolve is as strong as ever,’ said TGWU union rep Derrick Campbell, as five new days of strike action by Hackney CT Plus...

‘THIS conflict could be resolved very easily. Lift the sackings and we can all go back to work,’ declared Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general...

Workers, patients and visitors at Chase Farm Hospital on Thursday made it clear they are determined to fight any attempt to close their hospital. There...

THOUSANDS of workers and students marched to Downing Street on Wednesday evening, in angry protest against the savage assault on jobs, public services and...

‘The coalition has got it wrong. By only having a strategy for cuts, it has no plans for growth and recovery.’ So warned Unison general...

BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...

Shouts of ‘Low Pay, No Way!’ rang out at a 50-strong, lively picket of busworkers outside CT Plus garage in Hackney in east London...

RMT General Secretary Bob Crow has called for joint action to defend pensions against the proposals of Labour renegade Lord Hutton. Crow said: ‘It is...

TWO HUNDRED youth and workers took part in a rally and celebration of five years of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers’ struggle in...

YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...