Oil and gas workers in Longford, Victoria, Australia, have dismantled their picket line after a mammouth 742 days, following an agreement ending a long-running dispute with ExxonMobil and its…Read more…
Victory At ExxonMobil In Aussie After Two Year Picket
This Is What Democracy Looks Like Event
The Electoral Reform Society and Politics for the Many are launching a major conference on the 31st August in Manchester to inspire the next generation of trade union campaigners for a fuller…Read more…
Labour – Palestine
Please click here to read a model on Palestine for consideration for CLPs to submit to Labour Party Conference this year. The focus of the motion is on how Labour should respond not only to the…Read more…
Brexit: The WTO option would devastate jobs and tear up our rights
By Rosa Crawford First published by the TUC, May 16th Trading with the EU only on the WTO’s terms would have serious repercussions for the economy, public services and the Good Friday…Read more…
A STATEMENT BY ABDULLAH ÖCALAN’S LAWYERS
Asrin Law Office lawyers held a press conference today on the meeting Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan held with his lawyers on May 2. Lawyers Faik Özgür Erol, Newroz Uysal and Rezan Sarica…Read more…
Politcal prisoner Adullah Ocalan meets his lawyers
The Turkish-imprisoned political prisoner and founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, received a visit by his lawyers on May 2nd, for the first time since 2011, a…Read more…
Brazil’s right-wing regime runs scared of Lula’s popularity
We need sustained campaign to secure an immediate release of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison Last year, on April 7th, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was jailed for “indeterminate…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn’s Speech On PMs Statement Today
Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leader of the Labour Party, responding to the Prime Minister’s statement on the Brexit deal in the House today, said: Mr Speaker, I would link to thank the Prime Minister for…Read more…
Contrast Between Germany & UK On Immigration Policy
As the UK Government and the right wing media (and sadly the BBC) have been ramping up an ‘immigration crisis’ it is worth contrasting this with what is happening in Germany following Merkel’s ‘open…Read more…
Mexican President Endorses Corbyn For PM
Mexican President López Obrador has declared his support for the leader of the Labour Party to become the next British prime minister. He made the endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn, whom he described as…Read more…
Labour Must Hold Their Nerve And Vote Down May’s Bad Brexit Deal
“We can’t be bounced into a bad Brexit – the idea that the only choice is between this deal or no deal is preposterous and an insult to the country” says Unite’s Len McCluskey…Read more…
BREAKING: Unite Reps Briefing: Opposing Blindfold Brexit
Issued to Unite the Union workplace reps November 16th Unite Reps Briefing: Opposing Blindfold Brexit Unite the Union is calling on MPs to reject the Government’s Withdrawal Deal if it is put before…Read more…
Brazilian Presidential Election: Unions Say The The Fight Goes On!
Official note from the Unified Workers’ Central [CUT] note on the outcome of the 2018 elections in Brazil Posted: October 29, 2018 – 11h33 | Last modified: October 29, 2018 – 11:58…Read more…
Frances O’Grady’s Speech At The Jimmy Reid Foundation Memorial Lecture, 27th September 2018
Frances O’Grady was introduced by Lynn Henderson, the vice-chair of the project board of the Foundation. Lynn is also this year’s STUC President and a longstanding national officer of the PCS union….Read more…
Tribune Is Back! Left newspaper now high quality bi-monthly magazine
By Adrian Weir After a seven month absence left wing magazine Tribune was relaunched in Liverpool this week at two packed meetings, at The World Transformed and at the Labour Party Conference. The…Read more…
The Tories Industrial Strategy is in tatters – we need a Labour Government to rebuild UK manufacturing.
The UK stands at the crossroads. The country faces the prospect of crashing out of the European Union inflicting untold damage on our manufacturing industries if we are faced with no customs union or…Read more…
CSEU Fleet Support Ships – Campaign Review
The Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions are running an excellent campaign to ensure that the UKs Fleet Support Ships are built here in the UK, protecting good, skilled jobs in UK…Read more…
No Deal Brexit Papers Exercise In Pantomime and Menace
By Ben Norman, Research Officer at Unite the Union And so, perhaps inevitably, it’s come to this. After almost two years of Brexit talks between the EU and Britain’s best interlocutors (plus David…Read more…
Japanese & UK union leaders call for Brexit to deliver for workers in the UK and Japan
27 July 2018 The TUC and RENGO (the Japanese Trade Union Confederation) have issued a joint statement highlighting the threat that a bad Brexit deal poses to workers, trade and investment. In the…Read more…