Worldwide Mobilisations Demand Action on Climate Change on Eve of Climate Summit
All Out to Humanise the Natural and Social Environment Field of Climate Fire, Glasgow On the eve of the United Nations Climate Summit COP26 starting in Glasgow on Sunday, October 31, workers, women and youth and their collectives around the world, as well as international bodies, are in action to protect the environment and the world’s people who are threatened by the consequences of industrial pollution and destruction of Mother Earth for private gain. Read More...
29 Oct 2021 - 21:50 by WDNF	Peoples Movement |

Global Days of Action for Climate Justice
One Humanity, One Struggle All Out to Humanise the Natural and Social Environment! On November 6, as world leaders meet in Glasgow for the COP26 Global Climate Summit, towns and cities across the world will take to the streets demanding global climate justice. Read More...
28 Oct 2021 - 12:37 by WDNF	Peoples Movement |

Making saving life a crime, the brutality of the Nationality and Borders Bill
October 21, 2021 Written by Peter Bird Published in Latest News Counterfire Read More...
27 Oct 2021 - 22:02 by WDNF	Peoples Movement |

Unite vows to continue fight against fire-and-rehire
By Tim Lezard 25th October 2021 - 1:04 pm Union News Read More...
26 Oct 2021 - 15:35 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

Local government unions in Scotland announce pay strike
By Tim Lezard 26th October 2021 - 8:00 am Union News Local government unions have today issued notices of industrial action to local authorities across Scotland in a dispute over pay for council workers. Read More...
26 Oct 2021 - 12:36 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

TUC and unions warn government against sleep-walking into a winter of chaos
Issue date 22 Oct 2021 Union leaders call for urgent action to curb rise in Covid cases – including mandatory face coverings on transport and in shops, and increase to sick pay Ministers cannot afford “laissez-faire approach to managing the pandemic” “Dithering and delaying will only make situation worse” say union heads TUC Read More...
25 Oct 2021 - 09:23 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

Qatar calls for embrace of gas producers for energy transition
Energy minister sees ‘no way’ net zero push can succeed without adding more of the fuel to the mix Andrew England in London 4 HOURS AGO Financial Times Read More...
24 Oct 2021 - 14:54 by WDNF	International |

Incredibly concerning that Government is not taking more action to protect public against Covid, warns BMA
by BMA media team Press release from the BMA Location: England Published: Wednesday 20 October 2021 Read More...
22 Oct 2021 - 21:31 by WDNF	National |

Military applications at centre of Britain’s plans to be AI superpower
20/10/2021Peter Burt Drone Wars UK Read More...
21 Oct 2021 - 14:16 by WDNF	National |

80th Anniversary of Nazi Atrocities Committed at Babi Yar
September 29-30, 1941 – November 6, 1943 Monument at Babi Yar to Jewish Victims See performance of Symphony No.13 (Babi Yar) by Shostakovich: https://youtu.be/YOmfNobfeqw Read More...
19 Oct 2021 - 16:19 by WDNF	RCPB(ML) |

GMB members on strike in the Derbyshire Dales
By Tim Lezard 18th October 2021 - 11:00 am Union News GMB members at Serco in the Derbyshire Dales are today on strike over “a pattern of disrespect and low pay”. Read More...
18 Oct 2021 - 13:52 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

Burkina Faso. Justice for Thomas Sankara
photo: Thomas Sankara's memory looms large over Burkina Faso Deutsche Welle, Date 10.10.2021 Author Katrin Gänsler In Burkina Faso, a historic trial is taking shape for the death of iconic leader Thomas Sankara in 1987. But the main defendant and former president, Blaise Compaore, will be absent. Read More...
18 Oct 2021 - 08:42 by WDNF	International |

Tens of thousands descend on Brussels for climate protest
Date 10.10.2021 DW Climate protestors from dozens of organizations marched through the streets of Brussels demanding greater climate protection. World leaders are set to meet in Glasgow this month. Read More...
15 Oct 2021 - 17:19 by WDNF	International |

Covid. Schools picking up the pieces amid lack of support services
Freddie Whittaker 14 Oct 2021, 0:01 Schools Week Schools shouldered 'significant responsibilities within networks of support that have themselves fragmented' - UCL report Read More...
14 Oct 2021 - 17:47 by WDNF	National |

Greece, 100,000 teachers take on the government in national strike
October 11, 2021 Written by Kevin Ovenden Published in Latest News Counterfire In opposition to a new law that is widely seen as a step towards marketising education, teachers defiantly walked out across Greece, reports Kevin Ovenden Read More...
13 Oct 2021 - 20:54 by WDNF	International |

Lambeth College strike. This is about people, not just about pay
October 12, 2021 Written by Peter Bird Counterfire Further-education staff are striking for the sake of resources for education, while money is wasted on expensive consultants, reports Peter Bird. Read More...
13 Oct 2021 - 20:30 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

People's Peace Prize Awarded to Cuba's International Medical Brigade
No to US Terrorism and Aggression Against Cuba! Celebrate Cuba's Contributions to Humanity's Well-Being! Prensa Latina, Cubaminex Read More...
13 Oct 2021 - 12:46 by WDNF	International |

UCU members on strike at Royal College of Art
By Tim Lezard 12th October 2021 - 8:30 am Union News Read More...
12 Oct 2021 - 18:03 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

EIS members back on strike at Scotland’s Rural University College
By Tim Lezard 12th October 2021 - 9:00 am Union News Lecturing staff at Scotland’s Rural University College (SRUC) today take their third day of strike action over pay and grading. Read More...
12 Oct 2021 - 17:25 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

British Government Plans Further Provocations in the South China Sea alongside US
The attempt by the government to project post-Brexit "Global Britain" as part of a "rules-based international order" that is acting for "global security" continues with its deployment of the UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG) led by HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Asian Pacific seas and is planning to carry out further provocations in the South China Sea where Britain ad its allies have no business to be. Read More...
12 Oct 2021 - 12:41 by WDNF	RCPB(ML) |

Tony Burke, Speech at VSC AGM October 9th
Posted on October 9, 2021 by Tony Burke Power In A Union Read More...
11 Oct 2021 - 18:29 by WDNF	Peoples Movement |

Fire and rehire at Clarks
Clarks UK are attempting to fire and rehire their workforce on worse terms and conditions. It's an outrage. We must show Clarks how many of us are standing with these workers. And send a message to bosses everywhere that fire and rehire is unacceptable. Sign the petition. https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/clarks-end-fire-and-rehire Read More...
7 Oct 2021 - 18:52 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

NEU launches Value Education, Value Educators campaign
By Tim Lezard 5th October 2021 - 12:00 pm Union News The NEU today launches its Value Education, Value Educators campaign. https://youtu.be/nJ9UH8PgtjY Read More...
5 Oct 2021 - 19:00 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

Striking Royal Parks cleaners launch hardship fund
By Tim Lezard 4th October 2021 - 9:00 am Union News Read More...
4 Oct 2021 - 17:08 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

END OF 1981 HUNGER STRIKE
BOBBY SANDS TRUST Oct 3, 2021 At 3.15pm, on this day forty years ago, the 1981 hunger strike ended after two hundred and seventeen days. With increasing family interventions as prisoners lapsed into unconsciousness the hunger strike as a weapon was voided. Within three days the British conceded the right of the prisoners to wear their own clothes thus ending five years of intransigence, the prison uniform being the symbol of criminalistion. Other battles would be fought—successfully—over segregation from loyalist paramilitaries, and the prisoners running their own lives within each block under a republican command structure. Read More...
3 Oct 2021 - 11:05 by WDNF	Peoples Movement |