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The Israeli cabinet is to ban Palestinians from marking the Nakba, (the Catastrophe) of the 1948 creation of Israel. A draft law is up for...

THE CRS and gendarmerie have remained on the streets of Paris since the uprising sparked by the violent state attack on demonstrators at Place...

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

The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) held a 500-strong ‘Keep Royal Mail Public’ national rally before a bigger lobby of MPs on Tuesday against the...

TWO PALESTINIAN university students were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets and dozens of others suffocated during clashes that broke out with...

The democratically elected Hamas government has called on Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries on Wednesday to stay away from a US-sponsored Middle East...

ONE year on from the gruesome murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who entered the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey but never came out...

THIS IS the text of a speech by SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, at the centenary commemoration of the founding of the Irish Neutrality League...

A SENIOR Hamas official has told Press TV that Palestinians will resist the so-called deal of the century proposed by the administration of US...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) 10th National Congress, held on 12th to 15th December in Cape Town issued a...

A 24-hour General Strike declared by GSEE (Greek TUC) and ADEDY (public sectors trades unions federation) took place on Wednesday in Greece, with the...

US President Donald Trump basked in adulation on Monday at the Israeli Knesset, where he was hailed as ‘the president of peace’, even as...

OVER 600 people took part in a demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice last Friday afternoon over the government’s refusal to provide a relatively...

The Gaza Health Ministry has held Israel responsible for the expiry of 50,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine recently delivered to the besieged coastal enclave. In...

CNN’s decision to fire a veteran Mideast editor over a Twitter message mourning the death of the Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is...

‘UP and down the country our A&E departments are in meltdown, our staff are at breaking point and we need your help,’ Rob Galloway,...

IN ITS 5-4 decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Supreme Court ended the practice of requiring...

Over 1,000 striking junior doctors,  consultants and radiographers held an angry rally in St Peter's Square, Manchester outside the Tory party conference on Tuesday...

Despite the October chill, over 30,000 British Tamils and supporters took to the streets on Saturday, to highlight the desperate situation faced by Tamils...

‘WE want justice now!’ shouted over six hundred taking part in the United Friends and Families annual procession from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street...

US autoworkers union (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker, who directs the union’s General Motors and Delphi departments, yesterday issued...

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...

THE 15th of February marked the 30th anniversary of the pullout of Soviet troops from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The Soviet-Afghan War lasted...

CHINA will provide Serbia with assistance in protective equipment and medical instruments, and send a group of medical experts to help it better contain...

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

LECTURERS at further education colleges across Scotland are to begin an indefinite series of strikes, taking three days of strike action every single week...

‘THE PRIME Minister’s promises are nothing more than hot air,’ the GMB trade union said in response to Boris Johnson’s speech to the virtual...

THE low priority given to children and young people’s health threatens prosperity, argues an expert writing in The BMJ Today. Professor Russell Viner at University...

AN emergency meeting between Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members, teachers, and the Palestinian teachers’ union ended on Sunday without reaching a solution to end...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya met a delegation from the Euro-Med Human Rights Committee at his office in Gaza last Saturday....

Corby Postal Workers have agreed unanimously to campaign against the threat to privatise Royal Mail in Corby despite the local Labour MP Phil Hope...

RON GETTELFINGER the president of the UAW, auto workers trade union has urged that the US must adopt a national insurance system to provide...

BOEING strikers are standing firm despite the announcement last Friday that Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs, 10% of its global workforce, delay first deliveries...

AN Ohio Nurse who spoke out for rights has won a defamation verdict against the hospital which sacked her. Ann Wayt, a 38-year veteran registered...

‘DON’T bomb Syria! Don’t bomb Syria!’ chanted a crowd of over 4,000 that blocked Whitehall opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The mass protest was one...

LEBANESE authorities have granted a Gaza-bound ship carrying aid and activists permission to sail to Cyprus as Gaza’s Popular Committee Against the Siege chief...

IN THE wake of recent revelations, it appears that agents from Britain’s intelligence community might finally be held accountable for their previously lesser-known involvement...

DUBLIN – The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has warned that Ireland faces ‘the most dire consequences’ without a significant deal on the country’s...

By Irish political journalist John Coulter THE racist British National Party has confirmed it will contest the next Northern Irish council elections. Mid Ulster, Upper Bann,...

‘THAT courage is required for a turnout, often indeed much loftier courage, much bolder, firmer determination than for an insurrection, is self-evident.’ ‘It is,...

‘TORIES out!’ ‘Resign!’ shouted angry Justice for Grenfell demonstrators on Wednesday night, lobbying the first meeting of Kensington and Chelsea Council since the fire...

Following a unanimous decision by the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO), a 24-hour nationwide strike has been at ports nationwide called to coincide with International...

EUROPEAN corporations are two-faced when it comes to respecting working people’s freedom of association and workers’ rights, argues a new report by the AFL-CIO...

THE National Health Service is under attack on every side by the government. It is being crippled by funding cuts and privatisation reforms. The...

THE FIFTH Congress of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), is taking place in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Delegates filled the largest theatre...