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THERE were more than 5,000 people on the Grenfell Tower Fire 5th Anniversary Silent Walk, organised by Grenfell United on Tuesday 14th June. The walk,...

‘THE BUSES should be renationalised. They should put the companies under one name then everybody will have the same rights,’ Unite member Michael Wood...

SYRIAN officials have discovered mass graves containing the bodies of people executed by members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group near the country’s northwestern...

‘IT is shameful that, as one of the richest economies, the UK has provided shelter for less than one per cent of refugees,’...

A STRIKE wave is set to hit schools, colleges and universities across the UK during the summer as teachers and lecturers vote overwhelmingly in...

MASS demonstrations have been taking place over the past weeks in Paris and other major French cities against the Macron government’s dictatorial health bill. And...

CHINA’S embassy in Brussels has warned NATO against dragging the planet towards a new Cold War through its ‘outdated security’ strategies. A spokesperson for the...

ISRAELI forces launched a deadly airstrike that struck southern Gaza on Tuesday, killing three young Palestinians. Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra confirmed that...

It is ‘outrageous’ that King’s College London (KCL) singled out pro-Palestinian student activists and blocked their access cards as a ‘security measure’ ahead of...

COLONEL Gadaffi made a six minute statement over Al-Ra’y TV on Thursday. He said: ‘The Libyan soil is yours since the days of your forefathers....

THE AFL-CIO, America’s trade union body, released a statement on September 20th giving its position on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and...

A PALESTINIAN was shot and left to bleed to death by the Israeli army at Beit Anoun junction to the east of Hebron on...

THE GMB has commented on the written ministerial statement in the House of Commons yesterdayday on public sector pension talks. Brian Strutton, the ...

‘DISABLED people and their families are struggling to make ends meet and feel increasingly nervous about the future’, warned Disability UK on Monday. ‘Crucial decisions...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya met a delegation from the Euro-Med Human Rights Committee at his office in Gaza last Saturday....

MORE than a thousand parents, teachers, heads and support staff converged on Westminster on Tuesday to lobby MPs on school funding. Shadow education secretary Angela...

THE cessation of hostilities agreed last week is ‘a glimmer of hope for all Syrians,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said. n an interview with ARD...

US President George W Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday jointly urged Syria to break with Iran and said that they would...

By Save the Mirror Campaign Group TRINITY Mirror’s Chief Executive Sly Bailey is planning to axe a further 200 editorial staff from The Mirror, Sunday...

SIPTU has stated that it will resist a plan by the management of Irish Water to implement 1,200 redundancies at the state-owned company as...

RUSSIA is seeking peaceful co-existence and ‘compromise’ both with the EU and Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko, President Putin’s supreme economic adviser, Andrey Belusov...

EXAMS at the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in South Africa’s Western Cape have been postponed due to an on-going strike by workers. Unions representing staff...

THE Palestine National Authority will be the sole administrator of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal in August, the Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Easter Sunday visited the ancient Christian town of Maalula, which his troops recently recaptured from rebels, state television said. ‘On...

A strike by 4,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) at ten San Francisco Bay Area, California, Sutter facilities has concluded with nurses walking together back into...

FULL-scale nhs privatisation under Section 75 of the Health & Social Care Act and cuts to terms and conditions of NHS Staff pose real...

ISRAELI authorities raided the house of Samer Issawi, a Palestinian prisoner who engaged in one of the longest hunger strikes in history, on Sunday. Authorities...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has warned that the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria could lead to the revival of the Daesh terrorist group...

SCORES of extremist Israeli settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning – while tight restrictions were imposed on the entry...

One of Nigeria’s university based unions, National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), has opposed the federal government’s offer to float a loan scheme, known...

Hezbollah on Wednesday held a memorial service in the township of Majdal Silm in south Lebanon. During the service, Shaykh Nabil Qawuq, Hezbollah’s official in...

LAST Wednesday Howard Beckett, Unite union assistant general secretary, welcomed as a victory for the union British Airways ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’. Beckett...

FOLLOWING his re-election this week as general secretary of specialist rail and transport union RMT for a further five-year term, Mick Cash is insisting...

JERUSALEM – Several Palestinian officials and experts condemned the detention of a Palestine TV crew in Jerusalem on Friday, describing it as a violation...

IRISH Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Chief Economist Paul Sweeney has told a high level global economic summit involving the IMF, World Bank and...

‘JENNIFER Bates, BAmazon workers leader’s reinstatement by Amazon, is a win for workers,’ says the UNI Global Union. Last week, Jennifer Bates, the lead worker...

THE United Nations has voiced concern over a recently adopted Israeli law allowing the force-feeding of detainees and prisoners on hunger strikes in Israeli...

BELOW is a declaration issued on Tuesday by the international commission of the central council of Russia’s University Solidarity trade union, on the repression...

FRENCH President Macron’s dictatorial new health law and its passage through parliament has angered a vast swathe of workers, youth and the middle class. On...

‘The South African Federation of Trade Unions lowers its flags in honour of Comrade Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, one of the great revolutionary icons of the...

UNIONS representing more than a million staff working across the NHS met with Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Tuesday to discuss the growing workforce crisis...

PRESIDENT ABBAS addressed the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday in Istanbul. ‘We are here today, and behind us all our...

‘The attack by the terrorist enemy army on the city of Rafah is a compounded crime, a deepening of genocide and forced displacement attempts...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal (KzN) working closely with other like-minded and class orientated COSATU affiliates, will swamp the...

GMB shop stewards met in Manchester yesterday to plan strike action after members of the union at 20 Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots voted decisively...