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Fire & rehire at Glasgow Council – 23,000 staff will face the sack! GLASGOW City Council is set to dismiss more than 23,000 non-teaching staff and rehire them on new contracts from 1 January after talks with the GMB, Unison and Unite over a new pay and grading system broke down. Dismissal letters will go out next week to every non-teaching employee, from nursery staff and refuse collectors […] Th…

Big support for striking V&A workers STRIKING PCS and Prospect union members were getting plenty of support on their picket lines at the V&A museum in South Kensington yesterday morning. Both PCS and Prospect unions are in dispute dispute with management over pay, health and safety, working conditions and trade union engagement. The industrial action follows an overwhelming ballot of PCS […] The …

Gaza children return to school after 3 years THOUSANDS of children in the Gaza Strip have gone back to school after nearly three years in which Israel’s genocidal war shut down their education. Many have found no school to return to. They sit on the ground in overcrowded tents and makeshift classrooms, with few desks and too few books, notebooks and pens to […] The post Gaza children return to sc…

Trade Unions must take action and call a general strike to give full support to the State of Palestine! FOUR Palestinian resistance operations targeting Israeli settlers and occupation forces have been reported across the occupied West Bank within 72 hours, amid an escalation of Israeli military raids and settler attacks. The latest operations included a car-ramming attack near Ramallah on Wednes…

Solidarity demonstration for the Filton 25 THERE was a crowd of over 50 people outside Woolwich Crown court demonstrating in solidarity with the Filton 25 yesterday. The court is considering in private the cases of six of the Filton 25, Qesser Zuhrah, Liam Mulany Heba Muraisi Kamran Ahmed, Moiz Ibrahim and Zahra Farooque. Qesser told the News Line that there were […] The post Solidarity demonstra…

Syrian villagers battle Israeli occupation raids alone – as Damascus government stands aside! SYRIAN President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday that Israel had carried out nearly 500 air and artillery strikes and more than 1,200 ground incursions into Syria since December 2024, and had detained around 300 people. He demanded that Israeli troops withdraw to the…

Israel waging genocidal war on Gaza Strip states Abbas PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly yesterday that Israel was waging ‘a genocidal war’ on Gaza. He spoke by pre-recorded video after Washington refused him a visa for the second year running. ‘We reject these unlawful, punitive measures and we reject the accusations and justifications on which they were based,’ he…

China is defeating US imperialism! Forward to nationalised economies worldwide and an end to imperialism! THE TRADE war against the Chinese workers’ state has been the cornerstone of Trump’s second presidential tenure. However, it has completely failed to bring down the United States deficit. Meanwhile, China has clocked up a mammoth trade surplus despite all the barriers that the US and UK rulin…

Eight universities to strike! Eight UK universities have already announced plans to strike in the 2026/2027 academic year – including three Russell Group universities. University of Dundee After a long-running dispute over budget cuts and compulsory redundancies, Dundee staff have been on strike on weekdays during the first five weeks of term, from 21st September to 23rd October. The […] The post…

Burnham declares an ‘anti-disinformation unit’ targeting Russia in an attempt to achieve ‘social cohesion’ in UK LABOUR prime minister Andy Burnham used his  address to the UN General Council on Tuesday to announce that his government was setting up a new UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from ‘hostile states’ naming Russia as its prime target. This new centre, initially led by the prime m…