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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...

TANSY Hoskins, the author of Anti-Capitalist Fashion, addressed the UNI International Union World Congress world Congress in Cape Town on December...

AMNESTY International said yesterday that recent revelations about deaths in custody and abuses by US troops in Afghanistan are further evidence of a culture...

FACING an imposed ‘suffocating financial crisis,’ Palestinian officials have made no immediate comment yet on an EU decision on Tuesday to suspend 35 million...

Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African President has signed into law a bill allowing land seizures by the state without compensation – a move that...

COSATU (the Confederation of South African Trade Unions) has vowed to ask the African National Congress (ANC) government to isolate the Eswatini (Swaziland) monarchy...

IRAN has successfully test-fired its long-range surface-to-air S-200 missile as its air defence drills enter the final phase in the country’s southern belt. Wednesday marked...

ELECTRICIANS are stepping up their fight against the ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors, which has declared it is tearing up the longstanding JIB...

The Palestinians have turned down a US request to avoid seeking a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, the...

US trade unions have reacted angrily to Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker comparing trade union workers to IS terrorists. The likely Republican presidential contender sparked...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to the TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released...

‘A socialist revolution in this country will open up the whole of the world,’ Frank Sweeney, the General Secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party,...

Hamas leaders on Monday rejected as ‘blackmail’ Western demands that the Palestinian resistance movement recognises Israel’s right to exist and renounces violence against the...

THE IRANIAN government will offer direct cash handouts to the people in the country to offset a decision to raise the price of flour...

UKRAINE’S Right Sector neo-Nazi battalion has deployed multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) in a school in the New York settlement, and is firing at Russian...

Russia has once again warned the United States against sending advanced rocket systems to Ukraine. Three months into the war in Ukraine, US President Joe...

A SENOR Fatah official said Saturday that the Palestinian Authority supports Egypt’s efforts to shut down a tunnel network under the border with the...

A STRIKE wave is continuing in Egypt as workers battle the El-Sisi regime, determined to improve their wages and conditions. Protests by workers at government-run...

Some of the United States’ biggest banks have underwritten billions of dollars in Israel bonds, including a substantial amount of $8 billion (£6.4 billion) in March...

US AIRCRAFT are flying over Iraqi territory collecting intelligence on the country’s popular forces, a senior Iraqi expert said, adding that a drone that...

DOCTORS, psychologists and behavioural consultants working with the US Department of Defence-CIA have concealed evidence of torture. Hippocratic or hypocritical oath? US Department of Defence doctors...

‘We don’t want other families to go through this long and drawn out process with no possible outcome,’ Susan Alexander, the mother of Azelle...

BORDERing countries must give people fleeing the Sudan conflict immediate access for asylum, says Amnesty International UK. More than 560,000 have fled the ongoing crisis...

THE Hamas Movement said on Tuesday that the heroic shooting operation, that took place east of Tulkarem that morning and led to the injury...

Last Sunday night in Bolivia around 10pm, 220 police, armed and accompanied by trained dogs, surrounded Mexico’s Embassy in La Paz. According to a statement...

MPs WERE urged to reject the UK government’s ‘cruel and contemptuous’ Northern Ireland legacy bill as it returned to the House of Commons for...

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...

THE Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said yesterday that Gaza is experiencing a ‘silent wave of death’ of increasing numbers of elderly and children due...

Since MYANMAR’S military coup in February this year, 4,800 miners have been on strike in Monywa township in a solid five-month action which has...

LABOUR activists, community allies and family members came out in force to support UFCW Local 1400 members at Saskatoon Co-op on December 20. They...

Hundreds of Palestinians from lands occupied in 1948 and international activists demonstrated at the Beit Hanoun (Eretz) crossing linking the Gaza Strip with 1948...

WHILE British troops are sheltering in their heavily protected barracks, the puppet army and police forces that they have trained in Basra are running...

FRENCH trade union federation the CGT is calling ‘on the entire world of work to make May Day a powerful day of demonstration to...

A ST. VINCENT meeting to address the Essequibo dispute took place on Thursday. This regional meeting aimed to curb geopolitical tensions between Venezuela and Guyana. On...

GOVIA must be stripped of all franchises and a wider review launched says RMT as the ‘fatally compromised’ review into Southeastern Rail Franchise finds...

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday he does not rule out sanctions against Iran but added that if used, they should be balanced and...

‘MARCH 21 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a day to reflect on racism in our communities and redouble our...

WHEN young Jay (name changed), an Iranian teenager, set foot on UK shores, a myriad of emotions swirled within him: relief, uncertainty, hope, and...

PARENTS, charities and medical professionals have spoken out in opposition to the closure of four specialist children’s heart units, which were proposed on Wednesday. The...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that the date for holding general elections had seen ‘significant delays – despite the multiple attempts to...

AN INDEPENDENT think tank has warned that when the next flu pandemic hits Britain, because the NHS has lost 10,000 staff, the results would...

PALESTINIAN Authority security forces plan to crack down on acts of terrorism carried out by Israeli settlers living in the occupied West Bank, an...

LAST Saturday evening, November 6th, the Italian Coast Guard informed the bridge of the German charity rescue ship SEA-EYE 4 that the Italian authorities...

AROUND a dozen illegal gold miners have been rescued after being trapped down an abandoned mine in South Africa. As many as 200 remained underground...

TODAY is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Pentonville 5 dockers when the TUC was forced to call a general strike and...