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THE National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) is urging the government to halt the rollout of Personal Independence Payment (PIP – which replaces Disability Living...

ISRAELI forces early on Friday detained three Palestinians, including a minor, from multiple West Bank districts, said security sources. Israeli forces raided Rummana, a...

From Venezuelan journalist Carolina Graterol ‘WHEN I first arrived to London, in the early 90s, I noticed something unusual: mangos and beef from Venezuela being...

LOCAL residents of several villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah have in coordination with government forces prevented a number of US military convoys...

ATHENS – Greek state secondary school teachers threatened with the sack occupied the private office of the Reforms Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last Thursday in...

TEACHERS’ unions on Monday rejected Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposal for parent-run schools. They were commenting on his Hugo Young lecture where Miliband set out...

THE latest State of Maternity Services report from the Royal College of Midwives shows the baby boom in UK continuing and maternity services at...

Workers from a number of trade unions and their allies rallied on Wednesday in the Civic Centre Park neighbourhood of Denver Colorado in support...

‘Fewer employers are offering health benefits to workers, even as premiums continue to rise, posting a 9.2 per cent increase in 2005 – three...

ISRAELI soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager at Mazmoria checkpoint, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday afternoon – only a few hours after...

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

The University and College Union (UCU) has warned universities and colleges to think very carefully before entering into partnerships with private firms. This is after...

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 295 on Saturday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target...

Courage is not confined to a specific segment of society; it extends beyond soldiers in battle. In the midst of the ongoing Israeli aggression on...

FRESH from his failure to grab Greenland US President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the Iranian Revolution and issued his warning to...

THE Sri Lankan government is attempting to portray the continually escalating incidents of civilian murders, disappearances and robberies as the result of individual enmities...

Amid relentless Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, paramedics, medical centres and ambulances have once again come under fire from Zionist fighter jets, echoing the pattern of Israeli...

BY YOUSEF RAMAZANI ON what the Iranian military officials have called the ‘darkest day’ for American air power in modern history, the Islamic Republic’s integrated...

v‘We are meeting under the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system,’ Chair of Chingford ASLEF Bill Rogers told 150 workers and youth at...

THE ITUC international trade union has described the high and rising levels of youth unemployment globally as a ‘social time-bomb’, which risks damaging the...

NHS! NHS! NHS! chanted 20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters as they marched in central London on Saturday. ‘The BMA is balloting...

UNISON said on Monday that the NHS Future Forum’s report into the NHS Health and Social Care Bill, ‘shows a Bill beyond repair’. Even if...

MORE than 100,000 people marched through central London from Hyde Park to Parliament Square on the REFUGEES WELCOME HERE! march on Saturday. The march was...

‘Fellow Russian citizens, Dear veterans, Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers, Comrade officers, generals and admirals, I congratulate you on the Day of...

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,...

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

IN THE WAKE of last week’s mass Black Lives Matter protests against police racism and brutality in France, the Macron government has announced a...

THE Israeli Defence Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, threatened to initiate a ‘wide-scale and painful military operation’ against the besieged Gaza Strip due to the continued...

OVER A DECADE since the death of the Tunisian fruit seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, after he set himself on fire over the viciousness of the...

CASHIERS, members of the CGT union, at the ‘Grand Frais, fresh food stores in France have won a partial victory. The CGT said: ‘After the...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad on Sunday stressed that Syria is a sovereign country that will fight terrorism and will freely build relationships with countries in...

AFTER the successful lobby of the TUC in Brighton on Sunday, the Young Socialists held a meeting at 5.00pm of 100 youth and workers...

TRAFFIC wardens are into their second day of strike action today in an escalating struggle over pay and union rights. GMB the union which represents...

Central to the Royal Mail ‘Pay Offer and Modernisation Agreement 2007/09’ are the sections on ‘flexible working’. These put the workforce at the minute-to-minute disposal...

‘GPs have been forced into commissioning as the Trojan horse of these reforms. They have been hoodwinked – hook, line, and sinker’, Dr Clare...

BY FRA HUGHES For 800 years the Irish have fought a genocidal British occupation. Eight centuries of ethnic cleansing, land clearances, massacres, starvation, colonisation and a...

One Day in Gaza Shown on BBC 2 Monday 13 May 2019 Now available on BBC iPlayer MADE by award-winning documentary maker Olly Lambert, One Day in...

DOCTORS and nurses working in Zimbabwe’s public health institutions will no longer be allowed to go on strike for an uninterrupted period spanning more...

FORMER Bolivian President Evo Morales has said that the Bolivian nation will continue its fight against an American and Israeli-backed ‘coup’ in the country...

Israel’s Civil Administration on Tuesday demolished a Bedouin village for the fourth time. The Al-Araqib village was razed two weeks ago for the third time,...

Lebanese parliament speaker, Nabih Birri, has asserted that there is no solution to the current crisis in the country – without at least...

AS MINEWORKERS in Marikana prepared yesterday to commemorate the deaths of 34 of their colleagues at the hands of police a year ago, hopes...

A jury at an inquest into the death of 15-year-old Liam McManus last Friday returned a damning verdict finding that ‘systemic failings’ in both...

A KEY education union campaign to stop BTec vocational qualifications being scrapped within two years has won backing from both MPs and even lords...

THE NHS trade union leaders have given a muted response to Monday’s Declaration of War on the NHS by the Labour government. PM Starmer and...