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A joint survey by public sector unions PCS and Unison of more than 10,000 public sector workers, reveals the shocking impact of the government’s...

THERE is a huge crisis in A&E departments in English and Welsh hospitals. Emergency patients brought to A&E departments by ambulance frequently have to...

THE BWI (Building and Wood Worker’s International) union federation has undertaken a fact finding mission on the deadly building collapse in Mongla Cement Factory...

An Israeli drone attacked the largest vessel in the Global Sumud Flotilla, bound for the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Wednesday morning,...

The Sri Lanka government has suspended the dry food relief supplied under World Food Programme to the recently resettled people in the outskirts of...

Although 11 days have passed since the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip came into effect, the war has not yet left the lives...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has said that it is 100% in solidarity with its affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers...

The RCN has launched a report which reveals there are nearly 20,000 nursing vacancies currently unfilled in England; a ‘hidden workforce crisis’ that could...

THE Palestine National Authority will be the sole administrator of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal in August, the Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive...

‘JEREMY Hunt hear us say, NHS is here to stay!’ and ‘One fight – we are all united!’ chanted campaigners fighting to save A&Es...

On Thursday, over 1,000 workers and young people who are members the Nevada State AFL-CIO, and UNITE HERE’s Culinary Union rallied in Las Vegas...

SOME 15,000 students, youths, workers and trade unionists marched on Sunday afternoon from Athens Polytechnic to the Greek police HQ in protest against the...

FRANCE’S nine main unions united for the first time in a decade in public sector protests earlier this week against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans...

SAVAGE ‘austerity’ cuts to prop up bankrupt capitalism and its banks are being met with a revolutionary response from workers and youth throughout Europe. In...

TAMILNET reports that voting at Thursday’s Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary Elections ended on schedule at 4.00 pm local time as independent monitors placed the voter...

International reaction has poured in since last Friday’s ruling by the top United Nations court that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory...

THE MUA (Maritime Union of Australia) has thrown its support behind striking dockworkers in Canada this week. On Monday the MUA called on one of...

‘EVERYTHING related to the destiny and future of Syria is a 100% Syrian issue. The unity of Syrian territory is self-evident and not up...

OVER 400 disabled people gathered in Parliament Square on Monday 30th June to oppose the bill being put to Parliament yesterday by the Labour...

Senior Israeli officials warned last Sunday that they will step up their attacks against the Gaza Strip, vowing not to let the heavily populated...

On 12 December Algerians went to the polls to elect a new president – or did they? Millions boycotted the election, which they saw...

A DEMONSTRATION of over 100 people gathered outside the Bank of England on Saturday as part of a global day of action to demand:...

ALMOST 95% of RCM members in Northern Ireland who responded to a consultation about industrial action, including strike action, over pay conditions have voted...

South African Airways (SAA) workers have vowed to continue their strike until the company meets their demands. Numsa members embarked on a strike on Friday...

YET when we look around us now, what is there to see but a world where the epoch-making events of just a year ago...

THE People’s Democratic Republic of Laos (LPD) is the most bombed country in history, with 600,000 tonnes of Un-Exploded Ordinance (UXO) – bombs which...

THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...

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

TUESDAY June 6 is scheduled, at the call of the national inter-union, which will be the fourteenth day of national strike in France against...

‘We are concluding the year with greater levels of unity and cohesion in our ranks, which will help us confront the daunting challenges of...

Statement by the Revolutionary Marxist League Greek section of the International Committee of the 4th International TODAY, Wednesday 8 July, the Greek Finance Minister Efklides...

SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has said his union is engaged in a major push for pay increases across the private sector to recover...

THE US is once again flexing its muscles in the Middle East and the Iranian Gulf. American officials claimed a group of 11 Iranian naval...

AS THE genocidal attack on Gaza intensifies and Israel expands its crackdown, thousands of Palestinian civilians, including medical workers, labourers and journalists, have found...

Striking Grangemouth workers have issued a direct appeal to the people of Scotland. They took out a series of adverts in the Scottish media yesterday...

IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called on Islamic and regional countries, especially Iran and Turkey, to unite and remain strong in opposition...

OVER 12,000 trade unionists and numbers of youth joined the TUC May Day demonstration through central London on Monday, at which locked-out Gate Gourmet...

PALESTINIANS for Dignity’ reject the EU’s hypocrisy in upgrading its relations with the Israeli Occupation. ‘It has come to light over the...

THURSDAY’S announcement that seven prisons are to be closed in March 2013 will endanger the government commitment to a rehabilitation revolution, insisted the Prison...

A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of...

THE ‘STATISTICALLY significant’ increase in maternal deaths reported on Thursday by MBRRACE-UK is a tragic indication of a lack of government investment in maternity...

Unions across the world are outraged to learn that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal minority government teamed up with Canada’s Conservative opposition in the early hours...

COSATU – The Confederation of South African Trade Unions – has held a Central Executive Committee workshop to discuss a number of pertinent issues...

FOUR years after the Israeli military assault on the Mavi Marmara, Turkish relatives of victims express their willingness to join the new aid flotilla...

ISRAELI soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager at Mazmoria checkpoint, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday afternoon – only a few hours after...