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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...

After a £1.3 billion cash strip, the claim that Debenhams is worth double what the venture capitalists paid for it in 2003 is grotesque,...

ISRAELI authorities have hospitalised three Palestinians on hunger strike, an Israeli prison services spokeswoman said last Friday. Ayman Sharawna, Jaafar Azzidine and Tareq Qaadan were...

THE low priority given to children and young people’s health threatens prosperity, argues an expert writing in The BMJ Today. Professor Russell Viner at University...

A DEMONSTRATION held last Thursday March 12 outside the A&E at the Worcester Royal Hospital, demanded an end to the bullying and...

‘WELFARE not warfare’ chanted protesters from all over the UK on a 60,000-strong Stop Trident march from Marble Arch to a rally in Trafalgar...

‘The government has indeed been practising a deliberate policy of destitution’ of vulnerable asylum seekers, say MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee...

OVER 200 Young Socialists and trade unionists lobbied the General Council of the TUC on Wednesday morning as it assembled to discuss the calling...

JAILED Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi has warned that a US veto of the Palestinian bid to join the UN would be tantamount to ‘terrorism’...

The US Senate could take up the so-called Pension Protection Act, H.R. 4, by today, warns the Teamsters union. A Teamsters statement said: ‘This bad...

RUSSIA has submitted its draft resolution to the UN Security Council about the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian town of Khan...

DUBLIN – The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has warned that Ireland faces ‘the most dire consequences’ without a significant deal on the country’s...

WELWYN and Hatfield Keep NHS Public campaign called a picket to stop the imminent closure of the A&E and the Maternity services at the...

Ceremonies and events honouring the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire – which killed 146 garment workers, most of them young women, and...

THE Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah issued a strong warning to Israel in his Ashura Day address in Beirut, last Saturday. Speaking on this...

THE Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov has given a briefing called ‘Russian Federation Armed Forces fighting against international terrorist. New data’. He said:...

VLADIMIR CHIZHOV, The Russian ambassador to the EU, has warned that Moscow will react negatively to countries which recognise Kosovo independence. ‘This, above all, refers...

SYRIA'S President Bashar al-Assad will remain in office, and has the right to decide to run for re-election next year, Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi...

‘DAMPER’ devices placed in Grenfell Tower’s ventilation system to prevent the spread of smoke were of the ‘lowest possible standard’, the ongoing Grenfell inquiry...

TORTURE continues to be widespread in Libya’s detention centres, according to a United Nations (UN) report released today. The report, ‘Torture and Deaths in Detention...

‘Please help us in our quest for justice,’ Allessandro Pereira, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told a vigil in Parliament Square last Friday...

More than 75,000 children are stuck in temporary accommodation due to insufficient housebuilding and low benefits, new studies have concluded. Reports from University College London...

MONDAY night’s Channel 4 Dispatches programme claimed the Next shopping chain has slashed £2.5m off its wage bill by employing hundreds of low-earning apprentices,...

‘ONE day longer, one day stronger,’ chanted about 150 members and supporters of the United Steelworkers union last Sunday. They were holding a rally to...

A DEMONSTRATION on Saturday of over 2,000 people shouted their support for Palestine in solidarity with the ‘Great March of Return’ in Gaza and...

UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) members were taking strike action against massive Tory attacks on their pay yesterday. Pickets declared themselves angry that the employers’...

THE South African Federation of Trade Unions stands fully in support of the long-overdue introduction of a national health insurance (NHI) system, and welcomes...

A new curriculum promising to ‘fast-track medical students into the workforce’, which has been launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for...

THE Cork Young Workers’ Network is holding a protest in solidarity with the locked-out Greyhound workers outside The Peace Park, Grand Parade, Cork, at...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has welcomed the news that three Metropolitan Police officers are to face disciplinary proceedings following a racially motivated attack...

As lawyers today present a motion to the US Federal Court demanding Shaker Aamer’s immediate release, he has given an exclusive interview to ITV...

‘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...

African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members barred ANC Chairman Gwede Mantashe from speaking at their 14th national congress on Monday. ‘Hamba Gwede’ (Go Gwede) and ‘asinamali’...

THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) on Tuesday condemned a decision by the United Kingdom to grant immunity to Israel’s army chief while...

MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riad al-Malki, has discussed in The Hague with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda,...

Last Saturday evening, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Asefi outlined his government’s position to the foreign media on a number of issues, beginning with...

Six months after Israel launched its three-week military operation in Gaza on December 27 2008, Gazans still cannot rebuild their lives, a new...

The public inquiry into the actions of police spies over several decades got underway on Monday and is expected to last for three years. Members...

Massive nationwide industrial action paralysed air and rail travel across Germany yesterday and Thursday as striking workers walked off the job to demand better...

THE AFL-CIO US trade union federation has condemned President Bush for his lack of any action in support of the victims of the recent...

COMMENTING on the publication of the Education Policy Institute’s ‘catch up plan’ for disadvantaged pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary...

‘Israel seeking to use Ukraine to drag Europe into war’ Head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Ebrahim Azizi, has warned...

‘I DID nothing wrong,’ claims ‘the Leader’ in a rehearsed reading of ‘Shirleymander’. The sharply witty play by Gregory Evans was presented at the Playground...

VULNERABLE children are being let down says Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, criticising the use of restraint and seclusion. On Monday she published...

TENANTS on the Aylesbury estate are opposed to privatisation and are demanding improvements to council housing instead of demolition – which is what...