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THE GOVERNMENT of Venezuela has warned of an imminent military attack by the United States, which has stepped up deployment of naval and air...

TENS of thousands of Palestinians have attended a huge rally in the besieged Gaza Strip to mark the 31st anniversary of the establishment...

The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday (Thursday) that forcing students to pick up the bill for higher education was an astonishingly weak,...

‘PRESIDENT George W Bush wants to make sure his tax cuts for the wealthy become permanent, at a cost of about $3...

FOLLOWING Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that the just-elected parliament is illegitimate, workers are vowing that they will not allow the return to a...

THE Palestinian Government Communication Centre has issued its weekly Situation Report covering the key recent developments across occupied Palestine. This week’s report highlights Israel’s renewed...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Friday that it strongly rejects the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA’s) decision...

THE US State Department has approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Lithuania in a $125 million deal amid escalating tensions between Russia...

Union Network International (UNI), a federation of unions from across the globe, will convene more than 1,500 delegates from six continents, 140 countries and...

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that the United States and Zionists are especially targeting Iran because it is...

ON the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested....

The Israeli occupation army continued, for the 60th consecutive day yesterday, to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, targeting residential buildings and...

Iran has paraded its military hardware including ‘the longest-range drone in the world’ along with ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Last Friday, to mark the anniversary...

THE Young Socialists march from London to Liverpool arrived at the Stafford occupation camp to cheers from the campers on Day 11 of the...

IRISH Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has told the trade unions it would be ‘reckless’ of them to seek a 10 per cent pay...

ANGRY teachers, parents and pupils from closure-threatened Highshore special school in Peckham attended a meeting of the Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council on...

GATE GOURMET, owned by venture capitalists Texas Pacific, is at it again in its class war against workers and trade unions. In August 2005 it...

ANGRY Palestinians demonstrated against French Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie as she visited Gaza on Friday over a ‘war crimes’ quote attributed to her by...

AFTER defeating attempts by their own union leadership to call off the strikes by forcing their leaders to throw out an unacceptable deal, lecturers...

ISRAEL has been pursuing its cry-wolf policy since its inception. Successive Israeli regimes have followed the same tactic of presenting their own nation as...

TEACHING unions on Thursday slammed the government’s Education Bill. The NASUWT said it was a Bill that ‘has all the hallmarks of being conceived by...

THE Glasgow Reporting Centre at Brand Street was shut down on Tuesday morning as ‘No Borders’ activists and others opposed to the forced removal...

MORE than two million garment workers have been sacked in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of fewer orders from the United...

GENERAL Motor’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Fritz Henderson, took questions at a Detroit press conference on Thursday, November 5th concerning the Magna...

Hundreds of teachers in the East Bay area of San Francisco, California went on strike last Thursday after talks collapsed over better pay and...

‘WE ARE not striking for cash, we are not striking for our personal careers, we are striking for the long-term sustainability of the NHS...

• No to the destruction of the state pension system • Down with the junta of the IMF-European Commission-Papandreou! • For an indefinite Political General Strike! Statement...

A comprehensive study conducted by Ben Tippet and Rafael Wildauer from the University of Greenwich has utilised data from The ‘Sunday Times Rich List’...

THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) said it will escalate the strike by plastics sector workers after the Labour Court in Johannesburg...

PALESTINIAN detainees released back to Gaza have told the BBC they were subjected to mistreatment and torture at the hands of Israeli military and...

SYRIA has again condemned the Israeli occupation’s practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – the demolition of schools, the killing of children and innocent...

EGYPTIAN workers are striking to improve their poverty-stricken living standards. Postal workers, textile workers, port workers in Suez and hospital doctors have most recently...

‘JERUSALEM is not for sale. Palestine will never let the US sell occupied al-Quds to Israel,’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said adding that the...

DOCK workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports last Friday protested against a partial work stoppage ordered by a group representing West...

THERE was an angry and determined mood among the 10,000 trade unionists and youth who travelled from all over the country on Tuesday to...

ISRAEL has turned Gaza into a ‘concentration camp’, demonstrators warned on Thursday night, at an emergency picket opposite Downing Street attended by over 50...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) accused the London Fire Brigade and the Fire Authority of incompetence and having ‘handed over control of the fire...

NOT ONE of the social housing blocks granted building safety funding have had their remediation work completed yet, the latest figures from the Ministry...

IRAN’S foreign minister has censured Washington for vetoing, for the third time, a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the besieged...

Over three hundred angry Camden trade unionists and residents lobbied the Town Hall last Wednesday night over suddenly announced plans to cut services. The Tory-Liberal...

FROM Paris to Marseille, from Lille to Lyon, an unprecedented number of workers, a reported three million, have been protesting against pension reforms in...

National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, NUMSA, and mining company, SASM, have vowed to fight it out in court as the company intends...

THE Palestinian Foreign Ministry yesterday condemned in a statement remarks by Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett in which he announced the establishment of what...

Lebanon’s president, prime minister and Parliamentary Speaker slammed Israel’s ‘aggression’ against the country on Tuesday, as Lebanese and Israeli occupation troops exchanged fire...

THE FAMILY of a black man murdered in 1959 is demanding access to the police file on his unsolved killing, said the radio documentary,...