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Trade union leaders have been shocked by the latest jobless figures which saw a leap in part-time working and female and youth unemployment. Commenting on...

‘I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, and from besieged and heroic Gaza, and from...

The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip vowed on Monday that the Palestinian resistance, backed by the population, would emerge victorious over Israel’s...

IN their boldest move so far, supporters of the Islamic State in Sirte appear to have extended their hold over the town, seizing its...

‘MEMBER countries at the UN Security Council are attempting to destabilise Syria and impose their own hostile agendas,’ Syria’s permanent representative to the UN,...

Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 8. The growing conflict This essay was published In the Novy Mir daily paper in...

ZAKARIYA al-Zubaydi, commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said last Sunday, that ‘Israel’s escalation of the situation, assassinations and aggression against our people and...

Six months after Israel launched its three-week military operation in Gaza on December 27 2008, Gazans still cannot rebuild their lives, a new...

Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) passed a new law last week aimed at empowering the organised working class. The Constitutional Law of Workers’ Productive Councils...

PLO Executive Committee member, Hanan Ashrawi, last Thursday condemned Israel’s unwillingness to punish the ‘terrorists’ responsible for the arson attack in Duma village, south...

CANADA'S federal government was expected to introduce back-to-work legislation on Monday aimed at forcing striking Canadian Pacific (CP) railway employees to return to their...

Reasons to vote NO to the ‘Deal’. What we will lose if this sell-out deal goes through . . . . • LOST: 40,000 more job losses...

Iran’s full-scale involvement in BRICS’ activities was the focus of a telephone call between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Ebrahim Raisi of...

Lebanon’s president, prime minister and Parliamentary Speaker slammed Israel’s ‘aggression’ against the country on Tuesday, as Lebanese and Israeli occupation troops exchanged fire...

ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) escalated their policy of collective punishment last Friday, issuing demolition orders in al-Khalil and forcing a Palestinian resident in occupied...

Saddam’s deputy,      Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, issued a statement on 1 January, mourning his ‘brother’ and calling for unity. ‘The criminal evil hands of the...

‘WHAT is the NHS? To those who run it, a vast endeavour employing 1.4m people, consuming one pound in every six of public spending....

THE South African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – has applied pressure to companies employing their members, with...

WORKERS in Zimbabwe have expressed dismay at the lack of seriousness on the government’s part, after it exempted more companies to operate during the...

THE US State Department has formed an ‘Iran Action Group’ to coordinate and run an aggressive US policy toward the Islamic Republic on the...

AS AMERICANS honoured the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, UPS Teamsters across the country mobilised to demand the...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN said that...

Over 400 French and British workers lobbying the Peugeot shareholders’ Annual General Meeting in Paris on Wednesday declared they are determined to fight the...

THE TOLPUDDLE Martyrs annual festival where thousands of people come together to celebrate trade unionism and remember the role of the Tolpuddle Martyrs began...

FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack has issued the following statement, commenting on the testimony given to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry by...

‘WE have to admit with pain and with a bowed head – we failed.’ These are the words of Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich...

ON THE same day the global Paradise Papers scandal exposed the offshore tax havens and tax avoidance strategies of companies including multinational mining giant,...

RUSSIA’S foreign intelligence (SVR) top brass said any French military unit sent to Ukraine to help it fight Russia would be a ‘priority’ target...

IRANIAN President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad spoke to a gathering of the people of Ramshir in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, which has a large Arab population...

More than 2,400 striking healthcare workers in the Service Employees International Union at MultiCare, held a demonstration at the Navos Behavioral Health Hospital in...

HUNDREDS of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters staged rallies across Spain demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, urging the government to break institutional ties and...

WORKERS in Ohio have spoken out about their struggle earlier this year which saw them go from being unrepresented temporary agency workers to direct...

Six union leaders employed by the One World Apparel garment factory in Haiti have been fired. The leaders of the Textile and Garment...

Campaigners have expressed concern that a new admissions code requires state schools in England to prioritise children from Armed Forces families, as well as...

No-fault eviction court proceedings are up 41% on pre-pandemic levels, homelessness charity Shelter has reported, with new government figures revealing that 5,890 landlords in...

The Bush/Blair ‘war on terror’ has made conditions for asylum-seekers tougher in many countries, the UN refugee agency has warned. Speaking on World Refugee...

ISRAELI forces opened fire at farmers in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, locals said. Witnesses said that Israeli troops stationed at a watchtower fired...

FRENCH trade unions called on Amazon workers to go on strike on Monday, 22 December, less than four days to go before Christmas. Strike...

ISRAELI police yesterday morning and since Tuesday night restricted entry of Muslim worshippers into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, a site Muslims seek...

‘OPEN the doors, let them in!’ shouted trade unionists and youth and their families taking part in Saturday’s 8,000-strong Refugees Welcome, Anti-Racism national demonstration...

THE ‘Framework for Action’ plan for London’s healthcare, fronted by Professor Sir Ara Darzi, proposes the destruction of a publicly-provided National Health Service (NHS)...

SOUTH Africa’s Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union is relieved that deadly electricity blackouts have stopped in all health-care facilities. The Health and Allied...

ISRAELI authorities raided the house of Samer Issawi, a Palestinian prisoner who engaged in one of the longest hunger strikes in history, on Sunday. Authorities...

ACCORDING to witnesses Israeli police, on Thursday afternoon of last week, stormed the Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem’s al-Tur neighbourhood. They said that Israeli police...

VARIOUS divisions of Iran’s Armed Forces are holding annual military parades on the first day of the Sacred Defence Week, which marks the 36th...