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An ITF/ITUC mission has just returned from Guatemala where it investigated the murder of trade union leader Pedro Zamora and the use of terror...

ELECTRICIANS are stepping up their fight against the ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors, which has declared it is tearing up the longstanding JIB...

TODAY is the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, when 72 Kensington and Chelsea Council tenants and residents were burnt to death in...

OVER 100,000 people took part in the largest-ever demonstration Britain has seen in support of the Palestinian people on Saturday, as Israel invaded the...

TORTURE, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that...

RALLIES will take place across the United States on Tuesday, August 22, demanding action to tackle the country’s health care crisis. America has a system...

GREEK hospital workers on Monday morning blocked the entrance to the Finance Ministry on Nikis Street near Syntagma Square in an angry protest against...

THE Central Electoral Commission (CEC) with less than 10 per cent of ballots to be counted has declared that the leader of the Party...

WORLD leaders have extended their congratulations to Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on his victory in Iran’s 2021 presidential election. Raeisi garnered almost 62 per cent of...

STRIKE action is looming for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology after talks with workers over salary and service conditions deadlocked last weekend. The declaration...

THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...

THE Libyan leader on July 1 addressed many tens of thousands of people in Tripoli’s main square and in the sidestreets around it....

IRAN has successfully test-fired its long-range surface-to-air S-200 missile as its air defence drills enter the final phase in the country’s southern belt. Wednesday marked...

AN URGENT appeal to the world from occupied Iraq has been issued through the anti-war ‘Brussels Tribunal’. The special appeal – entitled ‘SOS Ramadi’...

Lebanese parliament speaker, Nabih Birri, has asserted that there is no solution to the current crisis in the country – without at least...

ISRAELI occupation forces on Tuesday and Monday night detained at least 14 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, six of them from East...

On Friday, thousands of Cubans joined the ‘March of the Fighting People’ to honour 32 Cuban soldiers who were killed during a US military...

FRANCE was hit with a massive national strike last Thursday against spending cuts and austerity measures imposed by the socialist government of Francois...

The ongoing Israeli violations and extra-judicial killings have put the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the anti-occupation groups on opposite sides of the argument...

TWO weeks before the Greek general election, due on June 17, Alexis Tsipras the leader of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) last Friday...

20,000 people took part in last Saturday’s march in Dublin organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. The aim of the protest was to...

SPEAKING after talks in Baghdad on Monday, US presidential candidate Barack Obama said the puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had expressed support for...

A report published on Monday, March 30 by Amnesty International reveals a pattern of serious human rights violations by Greek police and other...

‘Now that the international community is finally beginning to pay attention to the existence of an estimated two million Iraqi refugees in the Middle...

ADDRESSING reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Lieberman said he deemed Tuesday’s Egyptian-mediated ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza ‘a capitulation to terror’. He added: ‘Despite the...

‘THE poor of our country are suffering! A human calamity is unfolding! The difference is that this is not making headlines because the poor...

STRIKING South African social workers have barricaded the entrances to care centres and are vowing not to leave until their demands – an immediate...

BELARUS ‘cannot’ call off the WWII Victory Day parade on 9 May, despite the coronavirus pandemic, because thousands of people are looking forward to...

Hospital workers in Taunton, Somerset are involved in a massive fight against being thrown out of the NHS and having their jobs handed over...

THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...

UG Solutions, a major United States military subcontractor that helped provide security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is intensifying recruitment amid indications that several...

ON THE eighth anniversary of Rana Plaza on Saturday 24 April, UNI Global Union and IndustriALL demanded fashion brands commit to a new legally-binding...

TWO HUNDRED Sheffield refuse workers voted unanimously on Monday to go on indefinite strike from Monday 22nd November. The vote took place at a mass...

THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is ‘deeply shocked and saddened’ – its leaders have announced in a new statement – at...

MORE than 300 senior British Airways cabin crew at Gatwick Airport have been threatened with the sack if they refuse to accept a pay...

AUT general secretary Sally Hunt is launching a manifesto for academic-related staff in Manchester on 12 May calling for more pay, reduced hours and...

WORKERS from Lear plants across the country entered the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday morning (28th May) and spoke directly to Lear Corp....

AT least 10 people were killed in the latest clashes to shake Tehran, state television said on Sunday, as Iranian leaders took aim at...

CRUCIAL valves to stop gas from fuelling the Grenfell Tower fire may have been built over during refurbishment, the ongoing inquiry into the fire...

DOZENS of delegates walked out of a United Nations conference on racism after Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Iran's president, correctly described the Israeli cabinet as a...

MPs on the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts in their report of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) refinancing have called for tougher regulation...

THOUSANDS of midwives and their supporters protested in towns and cities across the UK at 2.00pm on Sunday to highlight the crisis in maternity...

AT the rally in the Dominion community centre in Southall, after the over 1,000 strong march, a 17 strong panel of trade union and...

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...

In 3 years NHS learning disability nurse numbers increase by only 22! ‘Lives are being put at risk’ – RCN warns The lives of learning...