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Postmen and women were out in force on picket lines at 5.30am on Saturday all over London discussing the progress of their dispute against...

More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...

LOUD and angry protests will again be held outside the AGM of British mining company Vedanta Resources’ AGM at the Lincoln Centre, Lincoln’s Inn...

THE TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday made a show of defending the steel industry and steel jobs. Steel workers were guests of honour in...

Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members in Gauteng last Friday marched to the department of trade and industry to hand in a...

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), in an urgent press statement, has called upon the international community to use all its influence with the Sri...

GOLDSMITHS University UCU (University and College Union) members, who have overwhelmingly voted to strike against the sacking of more than one-in-six academic staff at...

Around 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday, a devastating air strike killed 500 Palestinians receiving treatment in Al-Ahli hospital  in Gaza city. Following the...

AN ANGRY demonstration of over 200 shouting ‘Stop charter flights’ blocked Whitehall for an hour on Thursday evening. The protest was called to prevent a...

REPUBLICAN leaders in Congress are working on plans to cut health benefits for tens of millions of people. The harms from these cuts are...

‘SAVE Charlie Chaplin ward – Don’t let it close! Save Ealing Hospital – Trade unions must act! Defend children’s services – Occupy now!’ demanded...

More than 50 nurses from several AFL-CIO unions packed a House of Representatives hearing room on Tuesday to demand their rights be protected. They were...

THE African National Congress (ANC) has denied that its fear of losing large numbers of votes in next year’s election has made it reconsider...

On International Workers Memorial Day, 28th April 2014, it is time to call the 2022 World Cup in Qatar by its proper name: a...

THE Palestine Expo event at London’s Olympia last weekend attracted thousands determined see the establishment of a Palestinian state. In addition to a host of...

THE ISLAMIC resistance movement Hamas has praised recent calls by the Palestinian Democratic Union (PDU) – a political party active in the Palestine Liberation...

Continued from news story Organisers informed the rally that there were at least 450,000 on the march, that it was the 10th National March for...

FROM FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST HAS Biden bitten off more than he and NATO can swallow? Is it really one year already? Did anyone say it...

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

AT LEAST thirteen Palestinian protesters were shot and injured with Israeli live ammunition, on Wednesday, during mass protests commemorating the 71st anniversary of Nakba...

HUMANITARIAN agencies in Sri Lanka have told the UN agency IRIN that they are preparing for the fallout as increasing...

THE trade unions must take joint action with the postal workers to defend their members’ jobs and basic rights. They must go forward to bring...

Humberside fire crews are warning that cuts and station closures will compromise public and firefighter safety. The warning came as local fire crews launch their...

THE Australian Transport Workers’ Union has accused Aldi of attacking free speech by pursuing a Federal Court case to stop truck drivers from protesting...

THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed last Friday’s High Court in Belfast’s full written judgement on the quashing of arrest warrants for...

APRIL marks three years since US student debt hit $1 trillion. Now $1.3 trillion and climbing – by thousands of dollars per second (link...

DURING its weekly cabinet meeting on Monday, the Palestinian government in Ramallah condemned the killing of four Palestinians in Nablus in less than 24...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s (NUMSA) is threatening a national strike against electricity power company Eskom. A NUMSA statement said: ‘The National...

THE world’s nine nuclear-armed countries – led by the US – spent $82.4 billion upgrading their atomic arsenal in 2021, eight per cent more...

SYRIAN president Bashar al-Assad said that holding local council elections on time proves the strength of the Syrian people and the state. In a speech...

‘MAJOR questions will need to be answered by the Metropolitan Police as to how this everyday event escalated into an armed raid, during which...

While Egypt’s presidential election has dominated the headlines, the class struggle continues unabated with workers determined to defend their rights and improve living standards. Egypt’s...

A MASS strike at General Motors plants across the United States began on Monday morning as 80,000 car workers walked out at 11 am...

The Ukrainian army is violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by soliciting foreign citizens to join the International Legion of the Ukrainian Territorial...

THE BMA’s annual conference has called for restoring pay to 2008 levels and for GPCEngland to organise the withdrawal of GP practices from Primary...

AFTER Fatah-affiliated Palestinians held in Israeli prisons organised a mass hunger strike to take place on Palestinian Prisoners Day later this month, scores of...

A strike by 4,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) at ten San Francisco Bay Area, California, Sutter facilities has concluded with nurses walking together back into...

THE Francis Inquiry – which took three years and cost £13 million – was presented to the public on Wednesday 6th February. Apparently finished last...

A SENIOR Israeli intelligence official has warned of ‘politically-instigated domestic violence’ similar to the January mayhem on the United States Capitol, after the opponents...

Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...

WITH 160,000 performers – from A-listers to extras – voting to take strike action if a deal is not struck in time, the first...

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

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...

‘WE’RE having a very good picket today, enjoying the sunshine,’ North-East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers told News Line on Tuesday. He continued:...

WORKERS in the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the National Transport Movement and the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union, on...