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CHILDREN who have been in trouble with the law are being put on electronic tags, given curfews and then sent back to prison because...

OVER 1,500 people on Saturday took part in the United Families and Friends Campaign 13th annual procession in central London against deaths in custody. The...

FRENCH riot police stormed the Sorbonne in the early hours of last Saturday awakening memories of the revolutionary class battles of May June 1968. However,...

A rally of over 300 people was organised outside the US embassy in London on Saturday, against Western intervention in Iran and Syria. The protest...

STRIKING Durham Teaching Assistants have received international support with the Europe-wide public services union EPSU sending a message of ‘strength and solidarity’. The teaching assistants,...

MONDAY night’s BBC Panorama documentary exposed the operations of HC-One, which, with 265 facilities and a bed capacity of 16,116, is the UK’s largest...

JORDAN’S King Abdullah II said yesterday the international community should push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to stop the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe caused...

TWO COFFINS carrying bodies of migrant workers arrive every day in Kathmandu’s airport on average, and their deaths mean disaster for their families. Purna Bahadur...

‘OUR Community Camp 4 Palestine (cc4pal), opposite the United States Embassy in London, is marking one year of non-stop peaceful protest on 31st August. Our...

‘WHO are the killers? Police are the killers! IPCC, not fit for purpose! Scrap the IPCC!’ shouted workers and youth at a rally opposite...

ITALY held a nationwide general strike on Friday. The powerful action was called by the country’s largest trade union, the CGIL. Members of IUF affiliates Flai-CGIL...

Laura Cooper, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia at the US Defence Department, has said that despite a global...

Workers from the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) started strike action at the Annesley Andalusite Mine located in Penge, outside Burgersfort...

HANDS Off Iraqi Oil – the campaign launched to stop the theft of Iraq’s oil reserves – says that mainstream media coverage ‘has uncritically...

WITH WAVES of strike action currently under way across UK airports, hundreds of workers are set to join a mass protest at Heathrow tomorrow,...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Friday on his claims concerning the Gaza flotilla raid alleging that the Israeli occupation soldiers were forced...

A US FEDERAL judge has rejected the limitations imposed by the Trump administration on a programme protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants – often...

Russia has once again warned the United States against sending advanced rocket systems to Ukraine. Three months into the war in Ukraine, US President Joe...

US trade union federation AFL-CIO last Saturday condemned the Bush administration for seeking a free trade deal with Colombia, the most dangerous country in...

ISRAELI forces on Sunday morning opened fire on Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza Strip, local officials said yesterday. Local residents added that Israeli forces...

A TOP US national security official has called on India to scale back its economic and military ties with Russia, warning of ‘consequences’ for...

MASSIVE Arts Council cuts were announced on Tuesday, hitting many superb professional theatre companies, opera companies, galleries and other arts bodies for six. But in...

VITAL public services such as schools and hospitals face serious disruptions should government fail to prepare for the expiry of its 700 PFI contracts,...

THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth on Sunday to clamorous demands for an indefinite General Strike to bring down the government. After last year’s vote...

On 12 December Algerians went to the polls to elect a new president – or did they? Millions boycotted the election, which they saw...

More than 80 theatre artists and 12 Palestine-based theatre and performance groups are demanding that New York’s Lincoln Centre cancel upcoming Israeli government-sponsored performances...

RENAULT Samsung halted operations at its only plant in South Korea on Monday and Tuesday amid a drawn-out dispute with the plant’s labour union...

‘We have to do everything to save this hospital,’ out-patient Farzaeh Yegan told News Line at the North East London Council of Action monthly...

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...

IRANIAN President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad spoke to a gathering of the people of Ramshir in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, which has a large Arab population...

CHINA has hailed the recent joint naval drills with Russia and Iran in the Sea of Oman, saying the exercises boosted the ability of...

The largest private sector strike in the USA in years ended in victory last week, with more than 30,000 Stop & Shop supermarket workers...

NEXT week Washington will host the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. At this gathering, the world’s economic policymakers will...

VERMONT Senator Bernie Sanders secured the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union endorsement to be the Democratic Party presidential candidate on Thursday. The union’s decision gives...

THE AFL-CIO trade union federation in the USA has given its support to the Turkish trade unions and workers and youth who have been...

THE Syrian defence minister, General Fahd Jasim al-Furayj, gave an interview in Damascus on February 4th explaining the Israeli air raid, the ‘armed gangs’...

‘OrganiSational and safety deficiencies at all levels of the BP Corporation’ caused the March 23, 2005, explosion at the BP Texas City refinery, the...

YESTERDAY, South Africa marked the anniversary of one of the darkest moments in its history – when police officials opened fire on striking Lonmin...

THE Greek state secondary teachers’ national strike, which began on Monday, is spreading and deepening attracting other sections of workers. Primary state school teachers declared...

TORY Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s claims that ‘we can truly be the generation that beats dementia’ is a smokescreen for promoting the big drug...

SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has stated that the Israeli occupation has transformed Gaza into ‘a Nazi concentration camp,’ and the regime is practicing...

ASPIRING “word artists” from around the world have joined with youth in Gaza, and now, Lebanon, to create "WE ARE NOT NUMBERS: We are...

‘TODAY, we march not just against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but also to stand up for our right to demonstrate on the streets...

The International Metalworkers’ Federation has joined a global campaign calling on G20 heads of state to protect workers in one of the world’s most...

Jerusalem residents and Fatah official Hatem Abdul Qader confronted a group of Israeli settlers as they attempted to claim lands on the Mount of...