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The European Union (EU) has warned that the eurozone will slide into recession over the winter with Brussels putting up inflation forecasts for 2022 and 2023...

TUC DELEGATES in Brighton gave a standing ovation to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday afternoon despite the fact that he failed...

BAHRAINIS living in Britain are preparing for a wave of protest actions today, to coincide with massive anti-al Khalifa regime demonstrations planned in Bahrain. Bahraini...

THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth on Sunday to clamorous demands for an indefinite General Strike to bring down the government. After last year’s vote...

THE leader and four parliamentary deputies of the fascist Golden Dawn party, along with 13 party cadres and two policemen, were arrested on...

THE first session of the TUC Congress, on Sunday afternoon in Brighton saw a division over the General Council statement on Brexit and Composite...

The medical journal, the Lancet, has released two papers called Lancet Child & Adolescent Health in which it shows that paediatric care for non-white...

OVER two hundred workers, trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-North East London Council of Action Special Conference to defend our hospitals and...

IN OCTOBER 1917 workers took power in Russia. This is the 90th anniversary of the victorious October Revolution, the first time in history that the...

A SENIOR Hamas official has told Press TV that Palestinians will resist the so-called deal of the century proposed by the administration of US...

THE ISRAELI public prosecutor for the Jerusalem district has filed ‘a precedent-setting’ civil lawsuit against the widow and young children of Fadi al-Qunbar –...

ISRAELI doctors’ organisation Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) is calling on the World Medical Association to instruct doctors around the world not to...

UNISON said on Monday that the NHS Future Forum’s report into the NHS Health and Social Care Bill, ‘shows a Bill beyond repair’. Even if...

TRUMP’S rosy picture is disconnected from workers’ reality, the AFL-CIO trade union federation says. Tuesday’s statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on President Trump’s State...

ACROSS the US a Working People’s Day of Action calling on the masses to ‘rise up and fight’ for strong unions, and equitable ...

JUNIOR Doctors start their continuous four-day 96-hour strike at 06.59 today, Tuesday 11 April, and end it at 06.59 on Saturday 15 April. Backed by...

HUNDREDS of people have taken to the streets in central Paris against continuing police brutality and racial profiling across France, despite a ‘shocking’ ban...

THE Palestinian Authority in the West Bank faces a $400 million budget shortfall, even if current donor pledges are met, the World Bank warned...

Russia’s Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has responded to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s remarks that the bloc’s members are discussing putting their nuclear arsenals...

McDonald’s cooks and cashiers in 16 cities went on strike last Wednesday, the day before the company’s annual shareholders meeting, to demand the burger...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions has called on Labour Registrar Advocate Lehlohonolo Molefe to ‘resign’ – after the labour court suspended as...

THE Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) have censured the latest comments by Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief and ambassador...

VIOLENCE is threatening Al Nao hospital, a vital lifeline for people in Omdurman, to the north west of Khartoum, as the conflict in Sudan...

CONSTRUCTION workers held a demonstration at the troubled HS2, Costain/Skanska Joint Venture (CSJV) at Euston Station in central London last Friday, as concerns grow...

ONE thousand teachers, parents and supporters marched through Westminster in the cold and rain, led by the National Education Union, (NEU) to demand that...

A CASE of attempted murder has been opened over the shooting of a 14-year-old boy on a demonstration in Hangberg, Hout Bay, Cape Town...

Privateer Global Solutions Ltd (GSL) has been criticised again for its management of Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers published today...

IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suddenly arrived in the French city of Biarritz on Friday, where the G7 meeting of the seven top...

‘GPs have been forced into commissioning as the Trojan horse of these reforms. They have been hoodwinked – hook, line, and sinker’, Dr Clare...

THE GMB has called on the government to delay the private equity take-over of Boots in the wake of the IMF warning of the...

THE Iranian foreign minister has warned that the risk of a ‘wider’ conflict in the region has sharply increased due to the United States’...

THE FRENCH CGT union federation has condemned as a ‘provocation’ a short term ‘alms’ payment that ignores many workers. It said: ‘The government announced on...

AN estimated 3.7 million Syrian children – 1 in 3 of all Syrian children – have been born since the conflict began five years...

MPs on the House of Commons Business and Enterprise Select Committee have warned that gas and electricity price hikes in the near future will...

The Israeli occupation continues to commit a systematic crime against the education sector in the Gaza Strip, as part of a comprehensive war against...

Over 8,000 tractors and tens of thousands of small farmers have occupied sections of motorways and national roads in central and northern Greece, setting...

NOT only the print unions got dragged before the Courts. In February 1986 the postal workers union (UCW) was hauled before the judge who ruled...

FRIENDS OF Newport Art Gallery are appealing to Newport City Council to Save the Newport Art Gallery Temporary Exhibitions Programme (T.E.P.) Newport City Council’s...

OVER 10,000 youth and workers demanding ‘Kill the Bill’ marched from Speakers Corner Hyde Park and rallied in Parliament Square, central London, on Saturday. Protests...

MOVING the Public Services composite motion at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday, Unison General Secretary, Dave Prentis said: ‘Conference, today we...

ONE hundred and fifty doctors, nurses, health campaigners and their supporters marched and rallied in London to defend the NHS on Thursday evening. The protest...

Lebanon has entered a decisive week during which its parliament is due to elect a new president. With tanks and troops deployed on the streets,...

PALESTINIAN factions rallied and protested throughout the occupied Palestinian territories on Tuesday against the latest US position that claims Israeli settlements are not inconsistent...

At least four protesters were killed and scores injured in clashes with security forces in Baghdad on Saturday as demonstrations seriously escalated. Three of the...

WEST BANK Palestinians held a general strike yesterday in solidarity with people in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli attack on a ‘safe...