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Corby Postal Workers have agreed unanimously to campaign against the threat to privatise Royal Mail in Corby despite the local Labour MP Phil Hope...

RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the documents submitted by Moscow to the UN on the use of chemical weapons in...

JULIANO Mer-Khamis, an Israeli film director and founder of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp, was shot dead on Monday April 4th after...

PALESTINIAN Authority chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said during an interview last Friday, that Palestine would become a member of the International Criminal Court by...

RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...

Sri Lankan health workers launched an indefinite pay strike on Monday, 7th February, protesting against the government’s failure to address salary and other issues. The...

CHARGES against two journalists detained after they applied for permission to hold a peaceful protest over the executions of nine death row inmates must...

NEARLY 400 trade unionists and youth took part in the News Line-Gate Gourmet locked out workers’ conference in London on Sunday and speaker after...

UNITED Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has demanded the protection of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails and detention facilities amid the novel coronavirus...

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya welcomed Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Sha’ath into his home in the Ash-Shati Refugee Camp on Thursday, along with...

THE government has rejected calls to release confidential files relating to the Shrewsbury 24, who were charged with various offences after the first national...

THE BANNING of protests, abductions and torture of activists and students, arrests of journalists and the intimidation of trade unions are not issues that...

AT LEAST nine Yemenis were killed late last week as Saudi-led military aircraft carried out a string of airstrikes against an area in Yemen’s...

THE AUGUSTA Victoria Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem announced on Sunday that it would no longer accept new patients, owing to a ‘crisis level’...

WITH 160,000 performers – from A-listers to extras – voting to take strike action if a deal is not struck in time, the first...

We publish below the SUD-Rail strike bulletin for the first day of the French rail strike, N°8 – 24 November 2005, with thanks to...

CASES of torture in police stations continue in Egypt despite an uprising that ostensibly began against police brutality, Amnesty International says. The recent case of...

Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi said on Sunday that Palestinian prisoners would remain united in their support for fellow prisoners on hunger-strike. Prisoners affiliated to...

OUTGOING Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the dream of a ‘greater Israel’ was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of...

A TOTAL of 17 people were deported on a chartered flight by the Johnson government to Jamaica early on Tuesday morning. The action was condemned...

THE war in Syria poses the greatest threat to US security because of the risk of the government falling and the country becoming a...

THE GMB union has slammed as both ‘scandalous and incompetent’ reports that the government sought, at the start of the Covid pandemic, to make...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) 10th National Congress, held on 12th to 15th December in Cape Town issued a...

TENANTS who attended this week’s council housing inquiry at parliament say a programme of new council house building must begin immediately and projects to...

Dear Sir, I have been trying to expose without success, in the so-called Democratic Western media, the use by the German & British governments...

ISRAELI forces shot and injured at least three Palestinian protesters with live ammunition, while others suffered tear-gas suffocation as they suppressed naval protests off...

FIERCE battles broke out between French workers and police as over 170,000 workers, students and youth took to the streets in 110 cities across...

HUNDREDS of thousands of council workers are to be balloted and urged to reject a ‘pitiful’ and ‘entirely inadequate’ pay offer during the next...

The most pertinent fact about the Biden administration’s stance on the ongoing conflict in Gaza is as follows: No act by Israel, regardless of...

INTERNATIONAL Paramedics Day 2025 is being marked at the Camp4Palestine opposite the US Embassy in London tonight at 6.30pm and will be featuring a...

IN OCCUPIED Ramallah the Palestinian youth group ‘Palestinians For Dignity’ has called to reject US President Obama’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territory expected...

Spain’s National Court plans to proceed with an investigation of Israeli officials for possible war crimes against humanity over the 2002 killing of a...

LECTURERS in over 60 universities have in the past fortnight taken nine days of strike action throughout Britain over cuts to their pensions. With...

‘STOP starving Gaza!’ demanded over 7,000 workers and youth at a mass demonstration outside Downing Street last Friday evening. The ‘emergency protest’ was called by...

ARGENTINA’S General Labour Confederation (CGT) will be staging a 24-hour general strike against the right wing government of Javier Milei, tentatively set for before...

US trade unions have reacted angrily to Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker comparing trade union workers to IS terrorists. The likely Republican presidential contender sparked...

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...

US RAILWAY workers, Amazon Workers Union, Pilots union and NY State Communist Party among others, gathered outside of New York’s Grand Central Station at...

MORE than 150 trade unionists have signed a declaration calling on the labour movement to advocate for a united Ireland and a new all-Ireland...

AN ANGRY demonstration of over 200 shouting ‘Stop charter flights’ blocked Whitehall for an hour on Thursday evening. The protest was called to prevent a...

Entrances leading up to the Unisa (University of South Africa) main campus in Muckleneuk, Pretoria are cordoned off with trees and vehicles this week,...

DESPITE the ceasefire agreement of October 10, 2025, the gas crisis deepens in Gaza, the Strip’s General Petroleum Authority warns. Despite nearly three months having...

AMERICA’S largest private employer, retail giant Walmart has announced plans to raise wages for more than 500,000 hourly employees at its US stores. Walmart said...

A court in the governorate of Qalioubiya, north of Cairo, has ruled in favour of independent trade union candidates taking part in the...

OVER 4,000 miners, members of the Sintracarbón union, have entered the third month of a bitter strike at the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The...