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Dr Khudayr al-Murshidi, official representative of the Iraqi Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, has warned that the United States is seeking to divide the resistance...

UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) says children in the besieged Gaza Strip are the main victims of Israeli atrocities in the Palestinian territory, amid...

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...

THE conference of General Practitioners organised by the British Medical Association ( BMA) takes place this year at York today and tomorrow, 22nd and...

FOLLOWING a decision from the US National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) to restore their rights, graduate student employees at private universities across America are...

THE Israeli Defence Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, threatened to initiate a ‘wide-scale and painful military operation’ against the besieged Gaza Strip due to the continued...

‘THE FOUNDATIONAL myth of the academies programme – that it would boost educational attainment among young people from disadvantaged backgrounds – must now be...

FRENCH vehicle maker the PSA Group says it is pushing ahead with a plan to invest in Iran’s auto industry despite an increased anti-Iran...

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...

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...

AUSTRALIAN unions AMWU, CFMEU and TCFUA held a rally outside of Ansell’s Australian headquarters on Thursday, following the denial of entry visas to a...

THREE Afghan refugees who survived last Monday’s wreckage of their boat off the Greek island of Farmakonisi in the eastern Aegean, emphatically and repeatedly...

ON 3 November Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah spoke in Beirut’s Southern Suburb to mark the occasion of Ashura – a major Shi’i festival...

Migrant workers in Israel’s agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to an October 28th report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning...

A SENOR Fatah official said Saturday that the Palestinian Authority supports Egypt’s efforts to shut down a tunnel network under the border with the...

SYRIA and Iran have signed an agreement for a long-term strategic cooperation between the two countries in Tehran. The agreement was signed on Sunday...

A NEW TUC study just published has revealed ‘systematic exploitation’ of migrant workers in Britain. The TUC said: ‘Thousands of Polish and Lithuanian workers are...

PRIME Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has reaffirmed Algeria’s firm intention not to intervene militarily in Libya, citing the Algerian Constitution ‘which prohibits our troops from...

UNITE, Britain’s biggest union, says urgent action is needed to stop the growth of the zero-hours culture as new figures show the use of...

THE Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have slammed the fatal Israeli shooting of two Palestinian men at a military checkpoint south of...

TOP British medical journal The Lancet has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...

After enduring sniper attacks, fires, bombings, and all forms of violence, the displaced residents of Gaza now face the deadly threat of freezing temperatures...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Friday condemned the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiking of the...

‘HISTORICALLY and contemporarily, police unions serve the interests of police forces as an arm of the state, and not the interests of police as...

Four years after the tortured, lifeless body of Bangladesh garment worker – organiser Aminul Islam – was discovered in a ditch, his killers have...

UNIONISATION drives are sweeping Starbucks and Amazon workplaces across the United States from East to West, with strikes gaining powerful huge support from the...

Jewish Holocaust survivors from around the world call for justice in Gaza. Forty Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and 287 descendants of survivors and...

THE Young Socialists march from London to Liverpool arrived at the Stafford occupation camp to cheers from the campers on Day 11 of the...

PALESTINIAN medical supplies are running out because of the economic siege in the occupied territories – with supplies of some basic materials already at...

COLLEGE lecturers across London staged their second strike against the government’s pay-cutting strategy on Monday, June 9th, after taking part in national strike action...

PUBLIC sector union Unison says the UK immigration system has never been smooth to navigate. The Home Office is infamous for its extortionate fees...

THE IRANIAN government will offer direct cash handouts to the people in the country to offset a decision to raise the price of flour...

ATI management recently mailed a letter to the homes of all of locked-out Steelworkers who are currently covered under the company’s programme of insurance...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape notes recent developments affecting the Taxi Industry in Cape Town and the...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Cuba’s official state news agency Prensa Latina last week. The News Line presents selected extracts from the interview...

THE UNITED States’ Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is to file charges against Amazon on the grounds that they illegally interfered in...

‘IT IS CAPITALISM as a system which has to go,’ artist Harlow Welldon said on the 35,000 strong protest last Wednesday in Hyde Park,...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) is warning that the future of the medical workforce is at risk. This comes as a new survey of medical...

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

IRAN’S defence minister has warned that the United States will suffer a heavy blow if it fails to stop Israel’s savage war against the...

‘WHEN they move to close the maternity and A&E at Ealing Hospital, staff, unions and the community must occupy. A General Strike is coming,...

FRENCH trade union federation, the CGT, says a new day of action is scheduled for June 6 at the call of the inter-union, which...

MANCHESTER City Council, local trade unions and community groups are coming together in Manchester today, Saturday 25 February, to highlight the devastating effects of...

Not only did Congress give zillionaires billions of dollars in tax breaks, they also told the people at the bottom of the economic ladder,...

ISRAEL is up to its old tricks, which does not make anyone optimistic about seeing an end to the Middle East conflict, says an...