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FOR FIFTY years, ever since the start of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinians have been banned...

THE Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on the 200th day of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on Tuesday the Israeli military is planning...

‘NATIONAL Action is needed to defend the NHS & stop hospital closures!’ was the title of the resolution that was carried unanimously at a...

IN the international debate on Wednesday afternoon, delegates at the Unison National Delegate conference in Manchester said the best way to show solidarity with...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s (NUMSA) is threatening a national strike against electricity power company Eskom. A NUMSA statement said: ‘The National...

TWO HUNDRED and nine economists have signed a public statement supporting Medicare for All, said the National Nurses United union on Tuesday. The letter called...

AN INQUEST jury has condemned the police restraint of a young black man in a mental health hospital whilst medical staff looked on. The inquest...

A TOTAL of 17 people were deported on a chartered flight by the Johnson government to Jamaica early on Tuesday morning. The action was condemned...

Up to a quarter of a million civil servants were out on strike on Wednesday, expressing their anger at the threat to thousands of...

GERADO Santiago-Hernandez was a worker at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Michigan. A lawsuit filed in June 2020, on behalf of him and other...

ISRAELI warplanes carried out renewed attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 26 Palestinians in a series of airstrikes, including an entire...

ISRAEL will be hit by 2,000 missiles a day in a future war with Hezbollah an Israeli general has said. A high-ranking Israeli military commander...

While reflecting on a long year of labour struggles at UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz), students looking to the future continued to call...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs for Youth and Free State Education reached Stoke last night, after a great weekend. The march has now completed...

After enduring sniper attacks, fires, bombings, and all forms of violence, the displaced residents of Gaza now face the deadly threat of freezing temperatures...

AT LEAST thirteen Palestinian protesters were shot and injured with Israeli live ammunition, on Wednesday, during mass protests commemorating the 71st anniversary of Nakba...

Hunger Directed by Steve McQueen Starring Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham and Liam Cunningham Specially reviewed at the London Film Festival and on general release later this month ‘HUNGER’...

THE MAIN beef supplier for McDonald’s restaurants in Europe has ruthlessly slashed the pay of workers who could not get to work during the...

TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan on Monday called for the railways to be taken back into public ownership. Whelan welcomed news that...

OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...

FIREFIGHTERS in England are striking for 24 hours from 7am this morning in their long running dispute with the government over its unworkable pension...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that Syria’s moderate opposition could play a role in fighting against and pushing back jihadists...

THE AFGE (American Federation of Government Employees), the nation’s largest union for federal workers, president said on Monday the organisation’s ongoing staff downsizing will...

BY WESAM BAHRANI IT IS unrealistic to observe the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza without understanding its strategic dimension, in particular the current phase of...

Some 200 unemployed workers converged on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, on Thursday to demand that Congress act immediately to extend unemployment insurance to those...

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,...

At breakfast time on Sunday, in Bronzefield prison, the first two of the Prisoners4Palestine hunger-strikers Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib refused food. This marks the...

A GROUP of hundreds of Israeli economists have issued a fresh warning that a financial meltdown could occur more ‘powerfully and faster’ than they...

THE NAO (National Audit Office) report on dangerous cladding confirms our worst fears, says the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). The NAO published its report, Dangerous...

SYRIAN army forces have made considerable gains in their battle against foreign-backed militants around the capital, Damascus, retaking a key ‘rebel’-held town. The government forces...

THE Israeli Supreme Court was scheduled to hold a hearing on Sunday to discuss the case of two hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners Anas Shadid, 20,...

THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...

Protests resumed in Yemen on Monday after a fruitless meeting with Gulf mediators and late night demonstrations turned violent in Sanaa. The streets of Sanaa...

RESTAURANT Brands which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr and Starbucks chains has committed to end zero-hour contracts by July this year in...

THE Cosatu trade union federation has issued a special statement on the attack being launched in South Africa on free collective bargaining. ‘THE Congress of...

THE new school year began in Palestine on Monday amid ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, and the escalating aggression...

Without fanfare, but with determination, Israel is systematically, militarily and economically squeezing Palestinians out of the Jordan Valley, expanding colonial Jewish settlement in the...

THE Conclusions and recommendations of the Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on ‘Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan’ make grim reading for supporters of the imperialist...

GREEK workers, youth, farmers and professionals are continuing and developing the struggle against the government’s Pensions Bill.  On Tuesday night over 5,000 workers and youth...

WORKERS, students and youth who came from across the country to rally for Palestine in Whitehall, central London on Saturday, were subject to a...

MOHSEN Rezaei, a former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has warned that the Israeli regime’s targeted killings of resistance commanders...

THERE is a huge funding crisis in the National Health Service (NHS). All over the country hospitals are being instructed to close wards and theatres...

AT LEAST four Syrian army troops have been killed and three others injured after ‘hostile’ Israeli missiles hit the outskirts of the capital, Damascus,...

THE Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific massacre during its military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City recently over the...

PROPOSED rules by the Bush regime’s Transportation Security Administration for the US railway system ignore necessary employee training and protections against employer retaliation. The...