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BLACK men are seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism is not being addressed, the charity Inquest has found. Families of...

‘The Bolivian trade union organisation Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and indigenous peoples organisations have ratified a state of emergency in the face of alleged...

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) (which is affiliated to the IndustriALL Global Union) is considering taking legal action against employers...

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...

IN Delhi, India’s capital, the G20 summit has captured significant global attention. This event brought together world leaders to discuss international economic strategies, presenting...

COLOMBIAN President Gustavo Petro has called for armed intervention in Palestine, emphasising the need to build an international army to ‘liberate Palestine’ and stand...

Council workers in more than half of Scotland’s local authorities are striking during next month’s COP26 climate summit as part of a rapidly escalating...

VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has accused the Argentinian President Javier Milei of ‘eliminating all the rights of the Argentine people’ and ‘ending the economic...

As the demolition last week of the fire-ravaged Albion hotel in Brighton was underway, following an initial earlier blaze, a second fire broke out...

Conference Education Fund says hate crimes in the United States are likely to spike ahead of the 2024 election. The report said: ‘From the mainstreaming...

The News Line Rally of 200 people took place at the Hargrave Hall, in north London on Saturday. Chairman, Tony McEvoy, said the struggle for...

UNIVERSITY leaders have ‘failed staff and students’, the University and College Union (UCU) said today as up to ten days of strike action began...

HEALTH workers in in the Ver.di trade union in Germany have been out on a 48-hour strike which started on Tuesday which and continued...

THE HEAD of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh says all the Palestinian resistance factions firmly support the families of the East al-Quds neighbourhood of...

At the start of the rally outside Downing Street a recorded message was broadcast from Palestine from Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestinian...

ON MONDAY morning, October 23, 6,800 UAW members at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP), Michigan, joined the Stand Up Strike, shutting down production at...

PICKET lines were mounted outside hundreds of ambulance stations across the country on Monday as 23,000 Unison, Unite and GMB paramedics and other ambulance...

FIFTY million people live in modern slavery, says the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight and...

THE TORY government is dumping the National Health Service (NHS), the publicly funded healthcare system in the UK. It is seeking help from private health...

BY SHABBIR RIZVI   AMERICANS are well aware of the value of the dollar, at least when it comes to their own purchasing power at home....

THE US is handing millions of dollars of cash over to the White Helmets organisation, the Syrian and Russian coordination committees said on Tuesday. The...

NAVAL forces from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and China have practised shooting at aerial targets during a night-time operation over an area...

GOVIA must be stripped of all franchises and a wider review launched says RMT as the ‘fatally compromised’ review into Southeastern Rail Franchise finds...

THE STRIKE wave sweeping the USA continues to grow, with tens of thousands of nurses and hundreds of Starbucks and Sodexo workers being the...

RUSSIA’S victory is unavoidable. It is based on the unity of the Russian people, the heroism of special operation fighters and the operation of...

Ardent Theatre Company presents Strike! by Tracy Ryan The Large Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, 77-85 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BD Mon-Sat: 19:30, Tues & Sat: 15:00 Running Time: 90...

UNISON has reaffirmed its commitment to the One Team campaign for the health service, in the face of the government’s ‘divisive’ actions during the...

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...

A SOLIDARITY gathering with Haitian unions has reinforced the need to respect the right of the Haitian people to decide their own future, and...

The offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in India have been raided and searched by the country’s income tax authorities on Tuesday, according...

PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak is facing calls from senior Tories, including members of his own government, to tackle the crisis in the NHS and...

TRADE unions have highlighted the acute crisis facing millions of families facing steep rises in the cost-of-living, declaring that measures outlined in Tory Chancellor...

SOUTH Africa’s trade unions have been meeting with their members to discuss the proposed wage offer from energy giant Eskom, after a proposed agreement...

MORE than 150,000 people in the United States died in 2017 due to suicide, alcohol and drugs, an all-time high, according to a new...

HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...

While the so-called Israeli Defence Force intensified its genocidal bombing campaign against Gaza and its ground forces invaded in their tanks, more than half...

National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members marched to the offices of Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) in Bloemfontein on Monday,...

Israel has announced plans to provide illegal settlers with firearms and weapons in response to the recent retaliatory operations by Palestinians, which killed at least...

Hundreds of students have walked out of Harvard University’s commencement ceremony after the school barred over a dozen pro-Palestinian seniors from receiving their degrees...

COLLEGE lecturers at the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (Conel) on Thursday 10th March voted to condemn the Tory government’s proscription...

IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a stern warning to Israel following a retaliatory missile strike on the ‘strategic centre of Zionist...

The Israeli occupation forces shot and killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday (Tuesday) morning, one in Beit Ummar in the south...

IRAN’S foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says his visit to Russia will focus on efforts to facilitate a resolution of the Ukraine conflict. ‘The main purpose...

‘WHILE more than 2 million of us took to the streets on January 19th, a new day of inter-union mobilisation is scheduled for Tuesday...

THE BMA is urging organisations around the world, from governments and the United Nations to NGOs and medical representative groups, to all play a...