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A NEW national partnership agreement signed yesterday by the AFL-CIO and the largest network of worker centres serving low-wage, often immigrant workers will help...

the Centre for Trade Union and Workers’ Services (CTUWS) issued the following rallying call ahead of Egypt’s General Strike called for tomorrow, Saturday 11th...

A PALESTINIAN family of four was killed in a NATO airstrike on Monday in the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to the Palestinian...

Trade unionists estimated that some 150,000 workers and youth participated in the two separate marches in Athens on Thursday. The GSEE (Greek TUC) stated that...

OVER 300 United Families and Friends campaigners marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street to demand justice for their loved ones, who have died...

Getting Away With Murder, is a powerful indictment of the private security companies ‘operating with impunity’ in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their British government...

TAMILNET reports that evidence gathered by The Times newspaper has revealed that at least 20,000 Tamil people were killed on the Mullaitivu beach by...

Medical personnel on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) participated in experimentation and research on detainees during interrogations following the US terror...

‘THERE still needs to be a full public inquiry into blacklisting and the activities of major construction employers who still to this day restrict...

JUST over 3,200 of New Zealand’s 3,500 junior doctors began 48-hour strike action at 7.00am yesterday morning. The New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) members...

SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...

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...

A court in Chile is reviewing a criminal complaint by the Brussels-based Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) against Rom Kovtun an Israeli sniper who served...

The Octagon Theatre Bolton will mark the 25th anniversary of the Great Miners’ Strike when Artistic Director David Thacker revives his acclaimed production of...

SAMA the South African Medical Association has expressed concerns over KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) hospital bed shortages, and medical staff fatigue. The South African Medical Association believes...

THE Central Committee of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) at its meeting on 20-24 April has published the important key...

THERE is a huge crisis in A&E departments in English and Welsh hospitals. Emergency patients brought to A&E departments by ambulance frequently have to...

OCCUPATIONS, strike votes and rallies by health and care workers are sweeping Canada as trade unionists fight against low pay, unequal pay and privatisation...

The Teamsters Union, which represents art handlers at Sotheby’s Auction House, has created an online petition that asks Sotheby’s to end its five-month-long lock-out. Sotheby’s...

ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY workers, students and youth attended the rally to mark the 46th Anniversary of the News Line and the 75th Anniversary of the Assassination...

THE United Nations has condemned the US’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants who have been camped in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del...

Members of the Teamsters union in the United States were joined by other members of the Labour Alliance for Public Transit last Thursday at...

EGYPT National Railway director Hussein Zakariya said he has taken legal action against striking train drivers, referring them to the Administrative Prosecution. He said in...

The All Ceylon Health Trade Union Federation (ACHTUF) held a series of protests opposite main hospitals across the country from 12 noon on Monday...

‘THESE changes can not be separated from the problems A&E is facing. Unite believes that at the heart of this issue is...

ITHAKA – The film title is from a Greek poem – a long journey and the overcoming of obstacles through the knowledge gained on...

Teamsters members at the supermarket Costco across the United States voted by an overwhelming 85 per cent margin on Thursday to authorise a national...

As millions of workers across the USA unionise and strike against low wages, a new analysis finds that average pay for top chief executives...

THE ruling right-wing Tory government of Canada got a massive shock last Tuesday when the Progressive Conservative party (PC) were decisively thrashed in elections...

The following letter was presented to President Mahmud Abbas’s office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organisations on Wednesday September 24, 2008, the Badil Resource...

SCHOOLTEACHERS in Ireland are set to strike over a number of issues, including the 10% pay cut that has affected as many as...

RAN says the United States’ presidential election that toppled Donald Trump bears a message for all those Middle East countries which take the risk of...

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned the treatment of Palestinians by Israeli forces at the Rafah border crossing, calling it collective punishment and a...

THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the 22nd and last phase of Operation True Promise III on Tuesday taught a ‘historic and unforgettable...

LIBERATION Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Operations Command in Mannaar told TamilNet on Tuesday that 60 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed...

TWO thousand more jobs will go in Renault plants Europe-wide and 900 of them will be in France; the automobile manufacturer will announce the...

Spain on Thursday announced its decision to probe Israel’s rights violations in the Gaza Strip in support of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) ongoing investigation into...

An important event for the working class of Leningrad and the entire world by Mikhail Polupanov This exhibition is dedicated to 130th anniversary of outstanding...

IRAQ: Battle between US-led coalition, Iraqi forces and Islamic State creates civilian catastrophe in west Mosul, says Amnesty International. The main findings of its report...

AMID international efforts to de-escalate tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli settlers have once again raided the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied...

Nine out of ten nurses say understaffing is affecting quality of care for patients, a Nursing Standard poll reveals. The RCN (Royal College of Nursing)...

THREE civilians were injured with shells in a terrorist attack on Qana al-Assi in Syria’s northern countryside of Homs on Thursday. SANA’s reporter in...

‘SERVEST OUT!’ shouted striking cleaners and supporters at King’s College London during a lunchtime rally on Friday. The cleaners, members of Unison who work for...

THERE were 500 demonstrators on Saturday’s annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street, where a petition was...

SCORES of extremist Israeli settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning – while tight restrictions were imposed on the entry...