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THE UNI Global Union has condemned ‘in the strongest terms’ the labelling of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) as a terrorist organisation...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Bath and the University of Bristol are joining the latest wave of...

Nurses are the worst paid professional group working in the public sector, according to new evidence from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) released...

HOTELS and restaurants in the Gaza Strip suspended serving meals and drinks on Tuesday from 9am to 3pm, and instead served their customers a...

‘RETURN the bodies of slain Palestinians!’ Bethlehem students unions demanded of Israel, adding that ‘withholding bodies is a war crime.’ Three student unions from...

THE Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service (MPTS) investigating the fitness to practice of the doctor who was responsible for the welfare of Baha Mousa at...

TURKEY’S spy chief has assured the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during a secret meeting last week that the...

A FORMER Saint-Gobain Crystals and Detectors worker in Bangalore, India, Jayaraj Mathangi, was fired for absenteeism after developing severe health problems due to hazards...

‘Firefighters wages make up over three-quarters of fire and rescue service budgets, so cuts to fire service funding invariably mean cuts to firefighters jobs’,...

THE INMO, IMO, Unite, ASTI and the Civil Public and Services Union have recommended a ‘No’ vote to extending the Croke Park Agreement. The new...

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...

IN OCCUPIED Ramallah the Palestinian youth group ‘Palestinians For Dignity’ has called to reject US President Obama’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territory expected...

EXTREMIST Israeli settlers on Sunday spray-painted racist anti-Arab graffiti on the walls of a Jewish synagogue in Safed, in northern Israel, according to local...

NEARLY 500 students still remain living in a housing complex in west London while waiting for alternative accommodation despite it having been deemed a...

MILLIONS of French workers, youth and their families on Thursday took part in the latest strikes and mass demonstrations across the country against the...

A MASS demonstration of around 25,000 people from all over Britain and other countries marched in support of Palestine from Downing Street through central...

THE Azeri newspaper Zarkalo has been discussing what role Azerbaijan should take if the US launches an attack on Iran. Its conclusion is that...

THE IFJ (International Federation of Journalists) has strongly condemned a 10-year prison sentence handed out to researcher and investigative journalist Ismail Alexandrani in Egypt....

THE Canadian Federation of Students, its member unions and allies will step up the fight for accessible education in Newfoundland and Labrador against a...

HUNDREDS of thousands members of IG Metall union, Germany’s largest trade union, are engaged in short-term ‘warning strikes’ against 80 companies, for the right...

OVER 800 Australian protesters took to the streets in Sydney last Saturday to demonstrate against extradition to the US by the British government of...

THE NUMBER of protesters killed in Myanmar since February’s military coup has surpassed 320, according to the country’s Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which...

‘NHS NOT FOR SALE – Keep Our NHS Public!’ declared the banner which led the Defend the Welfare State march on Saturday, alongside that...

The Swaziland government has banned a peaceful protest planned by the trade union movement for 12-14 April. South African trade unions are supporting Swaziland workers. The...

ISMAIL Haniya, the prime minister of the Hamas-run de facto government in Gaza, pledged to release all political prisoners on Thursday, and called on...

PRIVATE Treatment Centres have become a key element in the Labour Government’s plans to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). They are being used in...

ITALIAN workers and youth clashed with police during a ‘Let’s Block Everything’ General Strike and massive mobilisation for Gaza on Monday, which was called...

A DEBATE was held in Westminster Hall on Monday, attended by MPs, teachers, headteachers, support staff and members of the public to discuss the...

GMB members are demonstrating outside Marks & Spencer store in Regent Street, Swindon from 11am today, 11th February, ‘in protest against modern day slavery...

‘The decent work agenda is a primary need when we talk about reconstruction,’ Anthony Jones, the resident representative of the ITUC and the Trade...

PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas waved to the crowd of tens of thousands during a celebration in Ramallah, upon his return from the UN General Assembly...

The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) has demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D. Wickremaratne,...

AHMAD Majdalani, of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, has warned that Israel is attempting to destroy the Palestinian Authority through more financial...

THE TORY government has announced that the Overseas Operations Bill will get its second reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 23rd September. In...

THE AFL-CIO, America’s trade union body, released a statement on September 20th giving its position on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and...

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...

UP to 1,700 workers at a GE Transportation plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, walked out on strike last Tuesday, marking the first large-scale work stoppage...

UNISON has called on the Public Accounts Committee and the Assembly Health Committee to investigate the startling growth of private medicine funded out of...

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has issued a warning about a significant increase in malnutrition cases as Israel’s total blockade of the...

‘I WANTED to pick the flowers not the weeds,’ says Michael Moore of his new film ‘Where to Invade Next’. The producers point out: ‘Michael...

THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...

SOUTHWARK Council says it is prepared to take action to evict remaining tenants from the Heygate Estate, if they refuse ‘reasonable’ offers to leave...

HAMAS has issued a statement saying that the Gaza beach massacre, when an Israeli gunboat shelled a Gaza beach murdering 15 mainly women...

‘No Justice, No Peace! Who are the murderers – Police are the murderers!’ shouted over 300 bereaved relatives and supporters as they made their...

NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has released the declaration from the Preparatory Assembly convened to discuss the forming of a mass...