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The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) in a statement has urged the Sri Lanka Department of Elections to implement a proper programme...

THERE WERE up to 50 pickets and supporters on the picket line at the Maidstone NHS Logistics distribution depot on Tuesday evening at 10...

REVOLUTION - NEW ART FOR A NEW WORLD A Margy Kinmonth Film Director: Margy Kinmonth Created with the support of Alisher Usmanov, Founder of the Art, Science...

SOUTH Africa’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since the third quarter of 2017 to 27.6% at the end of the first...

EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove’s plans for schools to be run for profit and to end state education as we know it must be resisted,...

A new study dispels the myth that immigrant workers are taking good-paying jobs away from American-born workers, says the AFL-CIO union federation. According to ‘The...

AMERICAN trade union UNITE HERE has released Inhospitable, a report revealing how White House immigration policies are creating a crisis in America’s hospitality industry. The report was...

PALESTINIAN prisoners in Israel struck on 10th September over the death of prisoner Ra’id al-Ja’bari which Fatah describes as an Israeli, ‘ugly crime’. ‘Isa Qaraqi,...

Not only did Congress give zillionaires billions of dollars in tax breaks, they also told the people at the bottom of the economic ladder,...

A SURVEY of UK social workers by the Child Poverty Action Group, Child Welfare Inequalities Project and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services,...

BY FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST BRITAIN has been involved in duplicity and skulduggery in Palestine from the secret signing of the Balfour agreement in...

NURSING Associates have been given the go-ahead to administer drugs, unsupervised, to the alarm of the nurses’ union RCN. NHS to train 2,000 new Nursing...

A THIRD of NHS contracts have been awarded to private sector providers since the Health and Social Care Act came into force, finds an...

By DINA ROVITHAKI, President of the ‘stage’ workers’ trade union at the Institute for Agricultural Development and member of the National Co-ordinating Committee of ‘stage’...

‘THIS is the grim reality of water privatisation, a company swimming in debt while the rest of us are swimming in sewage,’ Unite General...

STRIKING Kenyan airport workers have declared that they will not return to work until their union leaders are released from jail. On Friday morning, the...

THE leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has warned that the US military is preparing the ground for an act of aggression against the...

The medical journal, the Lancet, has released two papers called Lancet Child & Adolescent Health in which it shows that paediatric care for non-white...

ON Wednesday workers in Greece staged the biggest ever 24-hour general strike against the IMF–European Commission’s imposed austerity measures with millions participating. Planes remained...

THE Palestinian resistance is drawing a new path for the Palestinian people and will continue until the basic goal of ending the siege imposed...

THE NHS has squandered billions on agencies that could have been used to hire over 31,000 nurses, says the Royal College of Nursing. New analysis...

THE UNITE union, has accused Blue Handling at Stansted, which provides services to Ryanair, of cruelly sacking over a hundred workers instead of using...

CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...

Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike today, Tuesday 30th August, 171 days into the protest against his detention without charge or trial...

THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth on Sunday to clamorous demands for an indefinite General Strike to bring down the government. After last year’s vote...

‘THE clear message we are trying to get across is that this is a fight for the future of the NHS,’ BMA junior doctors...

TWENTY-SEVEN Unite members have won their tribunal claim over calculation of a redundancy payment at Rosyth Royal Dockyard in an Employment Tribunal decision. The members...

‘THE chaotic scenes during enrolment say it all: we lost over 350 jobs last year and you can already see the difference,’ said the...

EGYPTIAN naval forces detained nine Palestinian fishermen off the coast of southern Gaza on Friday, a local union official said. Nizar Ayash, head of Gaza’s...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah said in an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV broadcast on 19 January: ‘We will accept a transitional government that...

A TOP secret Wal-Mart memo obtained by WakeUpWalMart.com shows how Wal-Mart is exerting corporate pressure to force suppliers to join a...

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

FRANCE’S small and mid-size towns have been at the forefront of the battle against President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform – in some places...

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

‘I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, and from besieged and heroic Gaza, and from...

The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday it was furious at the response from the university employers’ organisation over the figures for job...

Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Minister of Civil Affairs, Mohammad Dahlan has revealed a plan regarding the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Dahlan, who also heads the...

TENS of thousands of civil servants and allied workers expressed their anger at poverty pay, attacks on their pensions and privatisation during Wednesday’s solid...

WEST Midlands Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has written to Labour councillors and MPs ‘to raise our serious concerns over the treatment of firefighters within...

‘THE FOUNDATIONAL myth of the academies programme – that it would boost educational attainment among young people from disadvantaged backgrounds – must now be...

Massive demonstrations took place in the capitals of several European countries on Sunday in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to...

LAST month, foreign ministers representing the European Union categorically dismissed proposals to halt the sale of arms to Israel, despite a rapidly growing body...

ITALY started a 24-hour nationwide general strike on Friday evening at 9pm. The nationwide action organised by USI-CIT, Slai-COBAS, CUB, USB, ADL COBAS-CLAP, and the...

FRENCH rail workers walked out on another day of strikes on Thursday June 7th. Rail unions have carried out a series of two-day rolling...

President Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday condemned the ongoing Israeli air strikes in Palestinian civilian areas as ‘state terrorism’. The attacks claimed the lives of three...