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ISRAELI forces detained Palestinian lawmaker Muhammad Abu Tair and at least 22 others from across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during...

‘NO ONE should have to experience the conditions that the refugees are living in,’ civil servants union PCS member Wayne Harrison said yesterday after...

The Islamic Army in Iraq last Sunday, in a videotape, claimed responsibility for an attack with an explosive device against a US foot patrol...

TamilNet reports that Professor Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, has said Britain is obliged to...

THE IFJ (International Federation of Journalists) has welcomed news that the ‘illegal’ search warrants issued against two journalists are to be quashed. Following two days...

THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has published ‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a tome of tragedies,’ in which homeless people and...

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

ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says his party will lay criminal charges against Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, Lonmin directors and Police Minister...

A DISPUTE between workers in the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the South African Parliament is building. The workers are employees...

UNI Global Union said on Thursday that its US affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire...

TWO RECENT articles in the US socialist magazine Jacobin celebrate the announcement of Bernie Sanders, the Democratic senator for Vermont, that he will be...

OFFICIALS of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Vanni told TamilNet on Saturday that their defensive formations at Mallaavi had thwarted...

JOHN SWEENEY the president of the AFL-CIO US trade union federation has spoken out in favour of the Employee Free Choice Act. He said...

The Health and Social care bill brings in the legislation to privatise the delivery and commissioning of healthcare in England. Coupled with the massive cuts,...

THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been urged to address Israel’s attacks on press freedom and escalating military actions in Lebanon and Gaza, as...

BBC unions on Tuesday expressed shock and anger over planned cuts at BBC World Service. ‘BBC bosses have announced that they plan to cut £2.3...

Trade union United Association of South Africa (UASA) who represent workers in financial services said on Thursday that the rise in Consumer Price Inflation...

THE United States on Tuesday urged Russia to back UN Security Council action on Syria, after UN officials said the death toll in the...

US Congressman Steve Driehaus (Democrat-Ohio), a senior member of the United States National Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, in a letter to US Secretary...

THE early morning traffic began to ease as the funeral procession departed from Bethlehem’s city limits, and cars sped up on their way to...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas received the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley, and his accompanying delegation at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah on Wednesday, during...

JULY 31 marked the 40th anniversary of a great working class victory, the release of the jailed Pentonville Five dockers in 1972. The TUC was...

LEADER of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras has warned that the Troika ‘maybe wants to abolish democracy’. Speaking at a railway...

TWO-HUNDRED marchers – local residents, trade unionists and youth – expressed enormous anger on Saturday as they demonstrated through Enfield in north London against...

THE Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection, Avi Gabay, has officially resigned in protest at the appointment of extremist politician Avigdor Lieberman as the regime’s...

One child is killed every 30 minutes in the Gaza Strip, in the ongoing Israeli genocide that started on October 7th, 2023. This is taking...

THOUSANDS of demonstrators have blocked traffic into the departures area at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, where Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin landed for...

‘The enemies are seeking to sanction Iran because the country refuses to bow and won’t accept humiliation,’ President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday, dismissing...

‘OCCUPATION no more!’ ‘Israel is a terror state!’ ‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 200 workers and youth at a picket of the Israeli embassy...

WORKERS from General Motors plants across Latin America met in São Paulo, Brazil, last week to discuss and take action against workforce casualisation within...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared three days mourning, while in Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya declared a general strike in response...

OVER 60 signatories comprising Palestinian human rights groups and non-governmental organisations have sent a joint open letter from Ramallah to the International Labour Organisation...

THE International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) posted a statement on its website following the December...

The head of Iranian volunteer Basij (The Organization for Mobilization of the Oppressed) forces says the United States is not in a position to...

RUSSIA has submitted its draft resolution to the UN Security Council about the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian town of Khan...

BBC unions on Friday went into dispute with the corporation over proposed compulsory redundancies. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said in a statement: ‘The...

‘CORONAVIRUS has exposed global inequality, and leaders have ramped up attacks on human rights,’ so concludes the Amnesty International Report 2020/21 released today, which...

OVER 800 people attended the latest fortnightly picket outside Downing Street on Saturday to demand: ‘End the siege on Gaza!’ Thousands have taken part in...

TAMILNET reports that the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) have stated that, with the people’s support, they will surmount all difficulties. In an interview with Tamilnet, the...

Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, has been elected to the governing body of Fatah which dominates the Palestinian Authority,...

THE Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinezhad has said that Iran wishes to have talks with the West on a whole range of issues. He was speaking...

LAST Thursday two leaders from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, underlined the need to strengthen national...

BEREAVED families, were joined by speakers from academia, sports, journalism and the arts at an event last Friday for a ‘Hillsborough Law Now’ event...

PEOPLE will need water, already scarce in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), even more desperately if temperatures rise because of climate change,...

THE MURDER of teacher José Domingo Ulcué Collazos in the Colombian department of Cauca on 22nd October has been condemned by teachers’ union FECODE,...