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A 600 strong demonstration marched to Downing street to stop the eviction of 92 families from the New Era housing estate in Hoxton, Hackney. The...

THE TORY government is dumping the National Health Service (NHS), the publicly funded healthcare system in the UK. It is seeking help from private health...

THE Libyan leader has vowed not to surrender and to fight till the end. He urged the ‘masses’ to march on the rebel-held areas...

HEALTH staff in Unison across the north of Ireland – including nurses, paramedics, cleaners, domestics and porters – are urging the UK government to...

In his budget speech Chancellor Osborne announced that there would be a one per cent annual pay rise of the public sector up to...

THE IRANIAN government will offer direct cash handouts to the people in the country to offset a decision to raise the price of flour...

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

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office issued its outlines on the ‘Progress on the United Front and the Movement...

‘DURING the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. ‘Even more since my...

On Monday, the Confederation of Education Workers of Argentina (CTERA) held a 24-hour national strike against the far-right President Javier Milei’s policies. The education workers...

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

LAST Friday the leadership of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) issued a press release welcoming the news that the day before the Labour Party...

SOUTH Africa’s National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) on Tuesday called on the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane...

‘DESPITE the measures taken by the government to try to support the idea that ‘the page on retirement’ is turned, over 1.2 million workers...

Only half of GP practice buildings in England are fit for purpose, with surgeries too small to meet the demands of growing populations, a...

‘THERE is no way schools can be opened at this stage because that would be committing genocide,’ Educators Union of South Africa (EUSA) Secretary...

‘This is a terrible day for patients in London, who have found out they stand to lose nearly 1,000 health workers,’ said public sector...

FRENCH trade unions are continuing their fight against the Macron government’s increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 which was forced through...

Marking Saturday’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United States officials have yet again failed to condemn the Israeli regime for...

THE GMB union has slammed as both ‘scandalous and incompetent’ reports that the government sought, at the start of the Covid pandemic, to make...

ON AUGUST 3rd, the US military announced a plan to deploy armed troops on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, continuing the unilateral...

Over 2,000 Tamils demonstrated outside the Commonwealth Conference in central London on Tuesday against the attendance of Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse. Their banners carried...

‘Qatar is acting like a 21st century slave state’, delegates attending the UEFA Congress in London heard. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)...

IN response to an appeal by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), a large-scale strike action took place across Europe yesterday. The ETUC statement launching...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters scored a key victory in the union’s national fight to organise workers at Amazon after a federal judge ruled...

AIN Sokhna Port workers and DP World have reached an agreement to resume work in the Egyptian port, which has been shut down for...

Russia and China are capable of thwarting the dangerous plans of the West and NATO, which are trying to disrupt the unity of the...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) is warning that the future of the medical workforce is at risk. This comes as a new survey of medical...

BY RETIRED BMA MEMBER ANNA ATHOW THE main story on BBC news on Saturday, was that Boris Johnson was proposing to reverse the Cameron health...

TRADE unions responded angrily to the Tory Chancellor Osborne’s Autumn Budget Statement in which he announced permanent austerity, raising the state pension age to...

IN October 2012 Enfield Council engaged the services of Hygeian Consulting, a specialist healthcare consultancy, to support its scrutiny of the implementation of the...

THE GMB has called on the government to delay the private equity take-over of Boots in the wake of the IMF warning of the...

Last Wednesday marked sixty years since the Deir Yassin massacre. On April 9, 1948 the Zionist paramilitary troops and terrorist gangs committed a massacre at...

THE federal government must deliver a plan for jobs to avoid Australia developing long-term structural unemployment, warns the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Thursday’s...

A SENIOR Iranian diplomat has condemned the lack of progress in the implementation of the UN 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) resolution and the...

Fierce confrontations continued between resistance fighters and Israel’s elite forces in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, particularly in the town of Ayta al-Sha’b where the...

TENS of thousands of supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi staged a ‘silent’ protest rally in Tehran on Wednesday against the...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has said that it is 100% in solidarity with its affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has responded to being forced to close its offices in Gaza City last week as protesters blockaded its...

‘TODAY we honour Nelson Mandela and share the joy of our sisters and brothers in South Africa,’ Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said in...

MALTESE authorities on Monday refused the Ocean Viking rescue ship permission to refuel in their harbours while on its search and rescue mission off...

Qantas staff at Australia’s Adelaide Airport were directed to continue working after it was discovered they had been exposed to the coronavirus, the Transport...

THE Leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the latest Israeli attack on the besieged Gaza Strip is an act of clear aggression and...

The only power plant in Gaza city in Palestine has been forced to shut down for the second time in two weeks due to...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin ‘prevented a humanitarian catastrophe when he launched the special operation in Ukraine,’ speaker of the Russian State Duma (lower parliament...