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FORMER Irish prime minister Charles Haughey was told by loyalist paramilitaries 30 years ago that MI5 had ordered his assassination, declassified state papers show. Records...

Israeli warships bombarded Palestinian boats off the Sudaniyya shore north of Gaza City Monday morning, Nizar Ayyash, head of the Fishermen’s Union...

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...

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

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

ON April 21, Ireland held a State ceremony commemorating 100 years since Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand in Kerry as...

AN estimated 150 Indian students are fighting being kicked out of New Zealand because their supporting visa documents were forged by agents in India. The...

TAMILNET reports that yesterday, at 6.50am the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intensified its offensive aimed at dividing the so-called Safety Zone into two. With fire...

YESTERDAY key Blairite cabinet ministers, Blunkett and Hewitt, launched a massive attack on the Welfare State. Hewitt promised to use the NHS budget to...

305 THY (Turkish Airlines) workers who were sacked because they rose against the banning of their strike action in the aviation industry by law,...

140,000 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members are on the verge of a national strike, which will bring the engineering sector...

More than 30 California State University (CSU) students are on a hunger strike to protest against Israel’s blockade of food and water going into Gaza,...

AN ISRAELI settler shot and killed a 23-year-old Palestinian and injured another near the village of Huwwara in the northern occupied West Bank district...

AMNESTY International is supporting a legal action to take the Israeli Ministry of Defence (MoD) to court to demand that it revokes the export...

MORE than 10,000 workers, students and youth marched against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill from Lincoln Inn Fields to Parliament on Saturday...

‘We have to take action at Whipps Cross Hospital against cuts and closure,’ consultant surgeon Mrs Anna Athow told a packed public meeting in...

SAEB Erekat, the Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Chief Palestinian Negotiator, wrote the following opinion article on Friday. ''THE US...

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has issued an urgent appeal to save the lives of hundreds of infants and premature babies who...

A new report warns that plans to privatise London Fire Brigade training and the fire control centre would compromise safety whilst imposing new high...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has spoken on the second anniversary of the end of the war of July-August 2006, or what Hezbollah...

At the end of Saturday’s London March the first speaker at the rally in Whitehall was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK,...

AN IUF global union statement last Friday reminded that a determined campaign by IUF affiliates and allies has beaten back a government attempt to...

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...

NEW disclosures have added to the growing body of evidence indicating many Israelis who died on October 7 were killed by the Israeli military. Meanwhile,...

HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal held a news conference in Cairo last Friday. He began by saying: ‘We are now in Cairo on the first leg...

YOUNG fast food workers in Portland, Oregon, USA, who are fighting for a $5 an hour rise above the US state’s minimum wage and...

Vindicating Palestinian fears of transforming the Gaza Strip into the world’s largest prison, Israel on Monday ruled out giving the Palestinians their own gate...

AT the end of 2013, an emergency unemployment compensation extension programme that started in 2008 under President George W. Bush expired, meaning 1.3 million...

UN SPECIAL Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen on Friday  underlined Syria’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, rejecting a US congressional motion to recognise Israel’s...

THE NHS would become both more cost-effective and equitable if it were operated on its founding principle of co-operation rather than competition, said a...

JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...

MEDECINS Sans Frontieres (MSF – Doctors Without Borders) has ‘strongly condemned’ the UK plan to use gunboats to force would-be refugees back to Libya. Last...

THE demand for union representation is growing amongst workers in the United States. Loyola University catering workers rejoiced on November 2nd, after they received news...

Students on a 1,000-strong march through London on Wednesday called on the trade unions to act to restore free education. Students marched from University of...

GAZANS poured into Egypt for a second consecutive day on Thursday to stock up on supplies after militants blew open the border barrier of...

THE Greek state secondary teachers’ national strike, which began on Monday, is spreading and deepening attracting other sections of workers. Primary state school teachers declared...

BY DAVID VINE AURELIE Lisette Talate died last year at 70 of what members of her community call, in their creole language, sagren — profound...

ON SUNDAY Israeli warplanes shelled a location north of the Gaza Strip while the Israeli army declared a full closure of both Beit Hanoun...

PEOPLE have once again taken to the streets across Syria to protest against US President Donald Trump’s recent recognition of Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over the...

THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...

Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Cardiff expressed their serious concerns at the impact of cuts on healthcare. They...

REVOLUTION is brewing, in the most unlikely of places, as staff walked out last Friday from the British Museum’s cultured halls to strike....

ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa says the labour body will announce a series of dates for fresh protests after tomorrow’s...

A NEW SURVEY, Refugees without refuge, published by the Refugee Council on Friday, has found high levels of homelessness and destitution among refugees shortly...

At least twice as many people die from fatal injuries at work than are victims of homicide, a new report from the Centre for...