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The Canadian Autoworkers union (CAW) announced last Saturday it will be donating $40,000 to the Pakistan relief effort and is urging local unions across...

Thousands marched in Gaza to mark the 65th Nakba anniversary demanding faction leaders in Gaza call for unifying the Palestinian political leadership as a...

THE Francis Inquiry – which took three years and cost £13 million – was presented to the public on Wednesday 6th February. Apparently finished last...

HUMAN Rights Watch has called for an end to impunity for Israeli killings of Palestinian children, and the use of unlawful lethal force. The Israeli...

2013 OPENS with Michael Farrar, the NHS confederation chairman, appealing for fewer hospitals and beds, and more care for elderly people in their own...

THE IRAQI authorities executed 12 people last Sunday according to information received by Amnesty International, which has called for all death sentences to be...

ANGRY teachers, parents and pupils from closure-threatened Highshore special school in Peckham attended a meeting of the Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council on...

ONE hundred angry RMT rail workers on London Underground lobbied Downing Street yesterday, demanding that tube maintenance work done by the collapsed Metronet private...

DEPUTY Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr Faysal Miqdad said on Friday that the Syrian people, who are confronting terrorism with epic steadfastness, have the...

WASHINGTON — The nation’s most powerful labour leader, vowing to defeat President Obama’s key trade legislation in the House next month, warned Hillary Clinton...

HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal has reiterated that all Palestinian factions agree on a state ‘within the 1967 borders’ and that Hamas agrees to the...

THE MASS protest marches in Greece against the sheer police violence and oppression have been developing all last week into an insurgency against the...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has slammed the direct flight of an Israeli plane to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Speaking at the weekly Palestinian...

ISRAEL’S move to relax its four-year blockade of the Gaza Strip is simple propaganda, Hamas said Thursday. The Islamic movement ‘considers Israel’s decision to increase...

THE ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has vowed to continue mobilising workers to protest until the government addresses their legitimate grievances. In a statement...

THE UNI Global Union has condemned ‘in the strongest terms’ the labelling of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) as a terrorist organisation...

The Palestinians have turned down a US request to avoid seeking a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, the...

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is failing to meet response time targets to more than half of all emergencies in the areas where ten...

TWO-HUNDRED workers, trade unionists, students and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) Conference at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, in Holborn,...

A former British Army officer has denied that he or his troops were ‘deliberately uncooperative’ with the Al-Sweady investigation into allegations of systematic torture...

Greek Telecom’s OME-OTE trade union leadership succeeded last weekend in pushing through the union’s congress a most reactionary agreement which had been worked out...

THE early morning traffic began to ease as the funeral procession departed from Bethlehem’s city limits, and cars sped up on their way to...

Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International IN THE first months of this year, north Africa has seen the eruption of colossal revolutionary...

US autoworkers union UAW and Ford have reached a tentative deal to modify terms of their agreement on the Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association...

‘THE government’s priorities are simply wrong. They are wrong for education, wrong for teachers and wrong for children and young people,’ teachers union NUT...

SIPTU members will join the march by the National Homeless and Housing Coalition (NHHC) which is taking place today, Saturday 28th May, in Dublin...

THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have expressed their deep concern about the Greek government’s ‘unacceptable’ plans...

IRAN has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its plans to enrich uranium to 20 per cent – after its offer to...

A DEMONSTRABLE increase in homelessness, driven by the cost and availability of housing, has pushed the problem to such a level that a renewed...

AS Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip prepare to vote in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections on May 22,...

INDUSTRIALL Global union affiliates in South Africa are supporting the current probe by the country’s Special Investigating Unit into fraudulent activities in the awarding...

TWENTY-SEVEN Unite members have won their tribunal claim over calculation of a redundancy payment at Rosyth Royal Dockyard in an Employment Tribunal decision. The members...

NEW disclosures have added to the growing body of evidence indicating many Israelis who died on October 7 were killed by the Israeli military. Meanwhile,...

‘BINYAMIN Netanyahu’s arrogant intervention into British politics is not surprising from someone who has always condoned Israeli state terror. Jeremy Corbyn, in contrast, has...

IN ITS 5-4 decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Supreme Court ended the practice of requiring...

ISRAEL has killed at least 190 people in a time span of just 24 hours in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Gaza’s...

Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Wednesday that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) will close the international Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip...

Palestinian Ma’an news agency’s reports on developments in the occupied territories last Friday, August 3rd, illustrate the heroic daily resistance of the Palestinian people. At...

SIPTU Bus Drivers in Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann have voted by over 90%, in both companies, in favour of industrial action and strike...

‘We make no bones about the death of Zahid Mubarek. He died because of institutional murder,’ said the young Asian’s uncle, Imtiaz Amin. In response...

THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...

ISRAELI troops who shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank last week, used live bullets against innocent youth without warning, an...

DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...

‘TODAY the greatest crisis ever of the capitalist system is driving forward revolution in every country, as the workers of the world decide that...

An official visit of a three-member top level delegation of the Government of Sri Lanka to India is scheduled to leave Colombo on August...