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ON the first Sunday in September trade unionists remember the Burston School Strike. It was the longest strike in history and lasted 25 years...

NEW analysis by two trade unions shows that spending on private contractors for some key public services has doubled since Labour took power. Research by...

THE private generator network that has supplied the Gaza Strip with all of its electricity since the genocide began in October 2023 is now...

AIRBUS workers in the centres of Getafe (Madrid), San Pablo and Tablada (Sevilla) have decided to maintain the indefinite strike that began last week,...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has condemned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s launch of Phase 3 of the Government-Business Partnership In a statement on...

LAST Thursday thousands of registered nurses – joined by patients and community allies – mobilised to demand hospitals and elected officials immediately cut ties...

Prosecutors will attempt to establish a ‘terrorism connection’ against seven Palestine Action activists charged with malicious damage over a protest at Donald Trump’s Turnberry...

AT LEAST 22 civilians were killed and 47 wounded when Pakistani aircraft struck a residential area of Samkani district in Afghanistan’s Paktia province twice...

Remembering the Libyan Revolution The 56th Anniversary Of Restoration Of The Dignity Of A Nation Article by the ‘New African Charter International’ Tuesday, 2 September 2025   THIS message...

ISRAEL’S Ministry of Defence and its weapons manufacturers have channelled millions of dollars into weapons research at dozens of American universities over the past...

The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) has vowed to continue its strike despite court orders directing the striking health workers to resume duty,...

The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces has honoured medical personnel, especially the tireless and selfless dedication of doctors, nurses, and healthcare...

IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian says that Tehran will not bow to pressure or aggression, warning that the country will deliver a ‘crushing response’ to...

Hundreds turned out at Preston Crown Court on Friday to support five members of the Palestine Action group convicted over an attack on a...

A drone registered to the American defence contractor Shield AI was hovering 500 metres from the burning wreck of an Ecuadorian fishing boat within...

CLOSE to 700,000 Palestinian children have now been deprived of formal in-person schooling for a third year running, according to UNICEF, as the education...

A JUDGE has dismissed felony embezzlement and false pretences charges against a pro-Palestinian University of Michigan graduate student accused of using university funds to...

Argentina’s university teachers began a five-day national strike yesterday (Tuesday) marking 300 days since Congress sanctioned the University Financing Law that right-wing President Javier...

Iran’s Army Commander-in-Chief, Major General Amir Hatami, has announced a financial reward for anyone who kills or captures an aggressor United States soldier, declaring that...

Federal agents launched a sweeping undercover surveillance operation earlier this year targeting progressive organisations, labour unions and other groups protesting against the immigration crackdown...

MIGRANT hospitality workers in the capital have compared life on zero hours contracts to conditions in Britain during the Industrial Revolution, as the government...

ARGENTINA'S government ended free medical care for non-resident foreigners in national public hospitals and approved the expulsion of migrants who incite hate messages, expanding...

DR HUSSAM Abu Safiya, the former director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, suffered fractured ribs and other injuries after a sustained...

LABOUR’S plans to reform social care will only be a success if they also include plans to end the ‘grotesque’ exploitation and extortion of...

The commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force says all units remain in a state of ‘full combat readiness’ and will respond decisively to...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has condemned the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying the mindset behind such attacks remains present in Washington...

THE Supreme Court will decide the fate of the ban on Palestine Action on 4 and 5 November, after a year in which roughly...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani paramilitary forces have killed at least 89 civilians in Pakistan-administered Kashmir since June, according to death records and first-hand accounts compiled...

MOHSEN Rezaei, advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has said the United States was defeated midway in what he called US President...

Teachers in Argentina launched a nationwide 24-hour strike on Monday after unions accused President Javier Milei’s government of refusing to resume salary negotiations and...

The BMA ARM (British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting), which took place in Brighton this summer, passed a number of very important motions, including...

THE BRUTAL Israeli war on the Gaza Strip is not limited to destroying buildings and facilities, but extends to the health system, at a...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) in a statement released last Friday said it ‘condemns in the strongest possible terms the callous,...

ISRAELI occupation forces seized four Palestinian homes in the town of Till, southwest of Nablus, on Thursday and converted them into military outposts, as...

THE Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said on Wednesday that Israeli prisons have undergone a continuing structural transformation since the start of the Israeli war...

THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliate, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU), said on Monday that...

‘Israel seeking to use Ukraine to drag Europe into war’ Head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Ebrahim Azizi, has warned...

INDIA'S Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was forced to resign last Saturday after weeks of protests demanding he be sacked over exam paper leaks and...

ISRAELI warplanes bombed the home of the Al-Masri family in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City at around 2am last Tuesday, killing Firas and...

MORE than 100 students were injured on 20 July when Delhi police broke up a march on India’s parliament. The march was called by the...

BY FATEMEH SAHRANESHIN IN BANDAR ABBAS FOR an Iranian family, social welfare is rarely defined by a single payment or a single government programme. It may...

ATTACKS on civilian infrastructure and schools during the US military campaign against Iran constitute clear war crimes under the Geneva Conventions, an international law...

Deir Jarir town, near Ramallah, was brutally attacked again at dawn on Monday by settlers under the protection of the Israeli occupation force (IOF)...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says for an administration that once portrayed itself as the standard-bearer for the global order, liberalism and the...

At the rally at Downing Street the first speaker was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, who said: ‘Friends of justice, friends...