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PALESTINIAN factions and the broader international Muslim community have expressed outrage at a fledgling trend of Arab-Israeli normalisation that has so far seen the...

Iraq’s newspapers warned Tuesday of the risk of the total collapse of basic services like electricity and water, saying upgrading them was more important...

THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is to make Thursday a public sector general strike against the ANC government to press demands...

THREE civilians were injured with shells in a terrorist attack on Qana al-Assi in Syria’s northern countryside of Homs on Thursday. SANA’s reporter in...

The BBC has expressed ‘surprise’ at the claim by its recognised unions for an increase of £1800 per person from August 1, broadcasting union...

An ICEM global union federation report has found that the rights of workers in the cement industries of the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and...

Leaders of the Common Front of Public Administration Unions (Frente Comum) and the National Federation of Teachers (FENPROF) have welcomed the large turnout for...

AMERICAN trade unions are claiming that the giant Walmart company is retaliating against its workers for the leading role they have played in the...

‘MY TOWN has been demolished. Children are still under rubble. Families are still under rubble,’ said Najid Faqih, from Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, as...

‘THE implications for children’s life chances can’t be allowed to continue,’ said the National Education Union (NEU) on Wednesday, commenting on the Public Accounts...

‘THIS NEWS is extremely concerning, but not altogether surprising considering the continued warnings the BMA has given over Capita’s shambolic running of backroom services...

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised the outgoing administration of the late President Ebrahim Raeisi as ‘the government of...

COLOMBIAN President Gustavo Petro has called for armed intervention in Palestine, emphasising the need to build an international army to ‘liberate Palestine’ and stand...

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of the United States Congress last Wednesday, as his government carries out a genocide...

THE indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a move that threatens his 10-year grip on power, dominated the front page...

OVER 800 people attended the latest fortnightly picket outside Downing Street on Saturday to demand: ‘End the siege on Gaza!’ Thousands have taken part in...

RESPONDING to the plans for ‘secret justice’ and closed courts set out in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday, Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said:...

MOTIONS censuring the union’s leadership are being discussed at the Unison Health Care Service Group Annual Conference being held in Glasgow on 22 –...

THE Israeli Defence Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, threatened to initiate a ‘wide-scale and painful military operation’ against the besieged Gaza Strip due to the continued...

TEACHERS have voted to ballot for a one-day strike as part of a campaign against Tory plans to force every school in England to...

EVEN puppet politicians are complaining about the conduct of British troops in southern Iraq. The Basra newspaper Al-Manarah has interviewed National Assembly Deputy ...

PALESTINE’S Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, Riyad al-Maliki, described on Friday the US deal of the century as a ‘consecration’ of the century-long...

‘Trade union members are threatened, victimised, sacked and blacklisted by employers who pay sums of money to the Catholic Church which coordinates anti-union activities,’...

MAKING sure women throughout the world can give birth in a health facility, in the presence of a midwife, is the best strategy...

ABU Shujaa, the intrepid commander of the Tulkarm Brigade, was assassinated last Thursday during a deadly Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee...

PALESTINIANS set seven conditions for talks in a ‘stormy’ session with Israel last week. The session of ‘saving the negotiations,’ held in Jerusalem for around...

Netanyahu’s planned approval of the construction of new homes for settlers in the West Bank is ‘unacceptable’, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday in...

ON 3 November Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah spoke in Beirut’s Southern Suburb to mark the occasion of Ashura – a major Shi’i festival...

THE Palestinian National Authority has announced the details of its ‘national recovery plan’ for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which it has...

Israeli forces fired on Palestinian farmers as they were working on their lands east of Khan Younis on Monday morning. Khan Younis is a...

EGYPTIAN workers are striking to improve their poverty-stricken living standards. Postal workers, textile workers, port workers in Suez and hospital doctors have most recently...

Over 400 family doctor delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) GPs conference on Thursday expressed their anger and voted no confidence in the...

Unable to live on their wages, Bangladeshi workers are threatening to continue protests that have seen factories ransacked and led to violent clashes...

THE British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM), which opens in Torquay today, gathers at a time of unprecedented challenges for the medical...

THE NUMBER of UK strike actions is growing! A Public and Commercial Services union representative sacked by the National Gallery was likely to have been...

CLEANERS, caterers, porters, housekeepers and other East Suffolk and North Essex support staff began a new 48-hour strike yesterday, demanding to stay in the...

THE Lebanese premier Fu’ad Al Siniora has urged Arab leaders at a special Beirut conference, held on Monday, to strive for an immediate cease-fire...

In a landmark judgment on Friday in the High Court in London, the UK’s detention policy in Afghanistan was declared unlawful. Since November 2009, the...

SOME 10,000 youth and workers congregated last Wednesday evening at the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens demanding for the seventh consecutive night the overthrow...

CARDIFF University has announced that it intends to cut 400 full-time jobs, along with whole course closures and department mergers; with nursing, music and...

FREEZERS and tumble dryers are catching fire daily resulting in nine fatalities and 298 injuries. In fact, this figure does not include the...

THE South East London Cluster combines the PCTs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation trust is a large...

‘THE strike is going extremely well. Pickets have been well-attended and junior doctors remain united in their struggle against contract imposition.’ Speaking on the second...

OVER 200 demonstrators gathered opposite the Pakistan Embassy in London on Sunday to demand a United Nations-led inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan People’s...

TRADE union leaders on Wednesday reacted angrily to the Tories’ planned anti-union legislation and welfare cuts announced in the Queen’s Speech. Paul Kenny, GMB General...