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‘FREE Mahmoud Khalil!’ demanded a lively demonstration organised by the Camp4Palestine outside the US Embassy in South London on Wednesday night. Addressing a rally outside...

There was a demonstration of over 500 people outside the Foreign Office in Westminster on Friday evening organised by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)...

Sergey Shoigu, the Russian Defence Minister, said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s armed forces command is plotting to deliver strikes on Russian territory, including Crimea,...

PALESTINIAN Arabic dailies on Friday highlighted the Israeli government’s approval of the construction of new settlement units in the heart of Hebron’s old city....

ROYAL Mail managers replaced 100 striking postal workers with 250 managers to cover last week’s strike . . . yet still refuse to settle...

HAMAS and other Palestinian factions agreed on Thursday to a framework for a Gaza ceasefire after months of mediation by Qatar and Egypt. ‘From our...

HASAN Fadlallah, Hezbollah member of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies for the Bint Jubayl constituency, said on Monday morning that ‘the Israeli Army...

IN a detailed report released by Amnesty International, the organisation has shed light on a dramatic increase in the deployment of unlawful lethal force...

AS THE TALIBAN fighters continue to make rapid advances across Afghanistan, the militants have captured another provincial capital in the northern part of the...

A joint survey by public sector unions PCS and Unison of more than 10,000 public sector workers, reveals the shocking impact of the government’s...

THOUSANDS of people, including men, women and children paid their last respects on Saturday to the remains of the late Thiruvengadam Vellupillai, father...

A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of...

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

Ceremonies and events honouring the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire – which killed 146 garment workers, most of them young women, and...

ON Thursday, make or break talks to end the three-month platinum mining strike collapsed once again. The third face-to-face meeting between the Association of Mineworkers...

THE MURDER of teacher José Domingo Ulcué Collazos in the Colombian department of Cauca on 22nd October has been condemned by teachers’ union FECODE,...

Care homes are increasingly struggling to provide high quality care for residents with complex medical conditions, amid a backdrop of a severe lack of...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that the date for holding general elections had seen ‘significant delays – despite the multiple attempts to...

PUERTO RICO’s Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned on Thursday – just three days after a million demonstrators marched down Puerto Rico’s Las Americas highway insisting...

CIVIL cases against Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shavendra Silva, an ex-army commander and currently Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN)...

AFTER having pushed to separate oil rich South Sudan from the North, the US is now preparing for military action against the north, accusing...

AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...

SENIOR nurses in New South Wales, Australia, took two hours of strike action on Monday, saying that chronic staff shortages have pushed them to...

RUSSIA has sufficient capabilities to successfully complete the special military operation in Ukraine without resorting to nuclear arms, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told...

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to stop Hove Park School in Brighton & Hove being turned into an academy have called a march for July 5th. Hands Off...

TAMILNET reports that internally displaced families (IDPs) in Moon’raampiddi and Ve’l’laangku’lam villages, located in the northern part of Mannaar district, were fleeing their villages...

IT IS time for the South African working class to follow the example of the Russian workers who overthrew not only the Tsar and...

By Tithi Bhattacharya – a professor of South Asian History at Purdue University, and a long time activist for Palestinian justice THIS week UAW 2865,...

UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) says children in the besieged Gaza Strip are the main victims of Israeli atrocities in the Palestinian territory, amid...

MORE than 400 people joined Saturday’s march through Enfield by the North-East London Council of Action to keep Chase Farm Hospital open. The march was...

‘OUR INPUT on reopening schools during lockdown is being ignored’ say South African unions. Two of the country’s biggest unions have indicated that they will...

‘WELCOME to Hell,’ is the title of a new report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem: ‘The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture...

RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday lambasted the UN envoy for Syria for failing to restart peace talks aimed at ending the brutal...

GOVIA must be stripped of all franchises and a wider review launched says RMT as the ‘fatally compromised’ review into Southeastern Rail Franchise finds...

THE proposed site of a new City Academy, next to the new Wembley Stadium, is being occupied to stop the privatisation project from going...

THE US Department of Justice should immediately investigate allegations that pre-trial detainees evacuated after Hurricane Katrina to Louisiana’s Jena Correctional Facility were ‘treated like...

‘SUPPORT junior doctors! Save the NHS! Let’s stop this unfair, untested and unsafe contract from being imposed. This contract is bad for patient...

ISRAELI police arrested 561 Palestinian workers throughout the 1948 occupied territories last week under the pretext of entering ‘without permits’. Human rights groups have condemned...

SUPPORT Stafford Hospital campaigners fighting the closure of the West Midlands hospital’s A&E, maternity, and paediatrics departments have set up camp in the...

When a group of more than 100 Israeli settlers, masked and armed with pistols and automatic rifles, killed a Palestinian, injured others and burned...

TWENTY-FOUR rights groups have called on Turkey to release all those arbitrarily detained and imprisoned there simply for demanding basic human rights – and...

THE NATIONAL Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has called on health staff to stay away from work on 28th August to protest...

ISRAEL’S parliament, the Knesset, renewed the controversial ‘Citizenship and Entry into Israel’ law, which sets severe limitations on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian...

COLLEGE lecturers at the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (Conel) on Thursday 10th March voted to condemn the Tory government’s proscription...

‘THIS conflict could be resolved very easily. Lift the sackings and we can all go back to work,’ declared Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general...