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MEMBERS of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have been joined by over 50 angry pensioners and other local residents in a demonstration against the...

THERE has been a 500% increase in the number of people in Ireland who declared bankruptcy in 2014. More than one person was declared bankrupt...

ON April 21, Ireland held a State ceremony commemorating 100 years since Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand in Kerry as...

DOCTORS, psychologists and behavioural consultants working with the US Department of Defence-CIA have concealed evidence of torture. Hippocratic or hypocritical oath? US Department of Defence doctors...

A MANUAL obtained by a children’s rights charity under Freedom of Information laws reveals details of extremely violent restraint and so-called distraction techniques for...

Covid-19 has ‘thrived’ among black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) communities because of structural race discrimination, a new Labour Party report from Baroness Doreen...

AROUND 50 Members of Parliament from seven political parties backed a motion calling for sanctions against the Israeli regime for committing ‘crimes against humanity’,...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi delivered a Workers Day Speech on May 1st. ‘My fellow South Africans, President Cyril...

‘JEREMY Hunt hear us say, NHS is here to stay!’ and ‘One fight – we are all united!’ chanted campaigners fighting to save A&Es...

NIGERIA’S nurses, pharmacists, and other medical professionals on Sunday declared an indefinite strike at federal hospitals under the auspices of the Joint Health...

STOP the jobs bloodbath in the steel industry, South African trade union leaders are demanding after meetings with the government and business failed on...

THE families of Iraqi civilians killed and tortured by British troops during the US-UK 2003 war and occupation have won a legal battle to...

Camouflaged with the provincial elections in Sri Lanka’s East, under military and paramilitary terror, is the Sri Lanka (SL) government’s agenda to dismember the...

THE ‘incendiary kites unit’ of the Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday that the amount of incendiary kites and balloons targeting Israeli areas surrounding Gaza...

¡ADDRESSING the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference on May 3rd, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said: ‘having nuclear bombs is not an honour. It...

THE COMMANDER of the Iranian Navy, Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi, announced on Tuesday that his country’s naval forces are due to hold joint war...

Turning the Tide – The 1966 seamen’s strike and the making of modern maritime trade unionism. An RMT pamphlet, available free from RMT head...

TRADE unionists, youth and local NHS campaigners voted unanimously at a meeting on Thursday night ‘to establish the North East London Council of Action’. The...

While reflecting on a long year of labour struggles at UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz), students looking to the future continued to call...

Psychologists and psychiatrists should not be expected to participate in torture as they do not have the expertise to assess individual pain or the...

A TOTAL of 21,800 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the country since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to...

One in four older people in the UK have become so worried about the future that they are making themselves ill, according to the...

THE EXTRADITION hearing of Julian Assange at Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday morning brought a crowd of over a hundred demonstrators which was doubled...

SOUTH Africa’s administrative capital Tshwane (Pretoria) was gridlocked for a second day on Tuesday as bus drivers disabled their vehicles and the City insisted...

‘THE PRIME Minister’s promises are nothing more than hot air,’ the GMB trade union said in response to Boris Johnson’s speech to the virtual...

APRIL 21 saw the 175th anniversary of the Grand Demonstration of 1834 when over 100,000 marched from Copenhagen Fields in London to Parliament to...

The University and College Union (UCU) published a report yesterday warning that one in four university staff say they have been bullied at work...

THE government is activating a mass hospital closure programme. 30 to 40 ‘failing’ NHS trusts could be handed over to new management, which could...

RAMZY BAHROUD is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. He has just written his latest book: ‘My Father Was a Freedom...

The United Auto workers union (UAW) says that its 146,000 members at the so called ‘big three’ motor companies – General Motors, Ford and...

A proposed US-Iraq security pact states that anyone detained by the Americans must be handed over to the Iraqis within 24 hours, says UN...

IN a significant development, a group of Palestine Action activists, known as the ‘Elbit Eight’, have been acquitted for their role in shutting down...

‘WE SHOULD pool together and name the day for a General Strike and bring this government down’, Prison Officer’s Association (POA) General Secretary Steve...

AFTER 2008, the masses of the world showed they were not about to give up all their hard-won gains so that the banks,...

TODAY, a number of Chagos Islanders will appear at Horsham County Court to fight a Claim Form for Possession of Property from West...

African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members barred ANC Chairman Gwede Mantashe from speaking at their 14th national congress on Monday. ‘Hamba Gwede’ (Go Gwede) and ‘asinamali’...

The University and College Union (UCU) said on Wednesday that for widening participation to really succeed, potential students must have access to the courses...

THE LABOUR Party Conference in Brighton overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Israel for perpetrating an ‘ongoing Nakba’ in the occupied Palestinian territories. The motion, brought by...

THE People’s Assembly elections for selecting 250 members from over 3,500 candidates from across all Syrian provinces began at 7am on Wednesday April 13th,...

CIVIL servants union PCS has slammed the increase in benefit sanctions on the unemployed, that average at 64,307 per month, as ‘truly shocking’. PCS added...

‘The Zionist project is coming to an end; we are freeing Palestine inch by inch, foot by foot,’ a defiant Hamas representative told a...

PRESIDENT ASSAD welcomed President Medvedev of Russia to Syria at a press conference last Tuesday. He said: ‘I welcome our friend President...

The Israeli cabinet is to ban Palestinians from marking the Nakba, (the Catastrophe) of the 1948 creation of Israel. A draft law is up for...

THE Republican-dominated National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) voting along party lines to slash long-time federal labour laws protecting workers’ freedom to form unions has opened...

HUWARA, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, was almost entirely set ablaze on Sunday night as extensive fires engulfed...