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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...

SHEIKH Na’im Qasim, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, told a Beirut rally marking the ‘29th anniversary of the arrest of Samir al-Qintar’ in Israel and...

OVER 400 doctors, furious at government ‘reforms’ which threaten their profession – making a staggering 14,000 hospital doctors redundant from August – descended on...

‘We have been occupied for 40 years, we have the right to resist’, Farouq Khaddoumi, told a public meeting in London on Monday evening. The...

A NUMBER of Palestinian faction leaders and representatives emphasised last Saturday, that the refugee issue and the right of return is a Palestinian...

OVER a thousand workers in the Massachusetts labour movement rallied for 27 striking Clear Channel Billboard Workers on April 19th. Present at the rally...

THE whole of the Remploy network of factories for disabled workers is under threat, because the government plans to limit the company’s funding to...

The Hamas Movement on Tuesday affirmed that blood of Palestinian martyrs has mapped out the route of liberation for the next Palestinian generations to follow...

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

THE Blair government is challenging a High Court and Court of Appeal ruling that human rights law applies to the British army’s activities in...

THE political bloc of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says it is quitting the Iraqi government, as a wave of bombings left another 43 people...

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger spoke at the Michigan State University School of Labour and Industrial Relations in East Lansing, Michigan on April 10th...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...

THE GMB has called on the government to delay the private equity take-over of Boots in the wake of the IMF warning of the...

The purpose of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), which comes into operation soon, is to protect seafarers’ rights throughout the world. But as Tony Ayton,...

Last year, 2006, the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) put together a new International Convention dealing with the issue of seafarers’...

THE AFL-CIO will join with its Korean trade union allies and strongly oppose the just-completed South Korea-UStrade deal (KORUS) because of the damage it...

US President George W Bush on Tuesday warned that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria sent ‘mixed signals’ that undermined US-led efforts...

‘The act of claiming asylum is not a criminal offence and should not be treated as such,’ say MPs and peers in a scathing...

In their scathing report on the treatment of asylum seekers, including enforced destitution, MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights,...

‘The government has indeed been practising a deliberate policy of destitution’ of vulnerable asylum seekers, say MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee...

OVER ten thousand nurses have bombarded MPs with letters protesting at this year’s pay cut for nurses and other health care workers. It comes...

COLONEL GADAFFI has given some of his reasons for refusing to attend the summit of Arab leaders at Riyadh. He said that he decided not...

THE proposed site of a new City Academy, next to the new Wembley Stadium, is being occupied to stop the privatisation project from going...

The outgoing US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has admitted for first time to holding talks with insurgent leaders. Meanwhile bomb attacks killed five...

THE Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas and the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice held a joint press conference in Ramallah last Sunday in the...

A HAMAS leader Khalil Abu-Layla said on Saturday that the Palestinians are not pinning any hopes on a visit by US Secretary of State...

‘OrganiSational and safety deficiencies at all levels of the BP Corporation’ caused the March 23, 2005, explosion at the BP Texas City refinery, the...

THE Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) has addressed an open message to the Iraqi people on the fourth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq,...

LAWYERS have vowed to fight government plans that they warn will destroy the legal aid system. Hundreds of lawyers staged a mass lobby outside...

‘I welcome you all on this great day’, said Ismail Haniya last Saturday, just before he was sworn in as Prime Minister of the...

Over 12,000 junior doctors and supporters, including medical students, registrars and a number of consultants, marched through central London last Saturday against government ‘reforms’...

AT the heart of the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) programmes for junior doctors is the...

THE US military has reported the deaths of three more troops, two in blasts and one hit by small arms fire in insurgent...

NEARLY 1,000 US Fire Fighters (IAFF) are set to take part in today’s 2008 presidential campaign’s first bipartisan candidate forum on Wednesday in Washington,...

THE GMB welcomes the House of Commons debate on private equity as the ‘barbarians’ target Boots. Michael Meacher MP has secured a...

HASSAN NASRALLAH the Hezbollah leader made an important statement over Hezbollah TV last Friday. He said: ‘In our region we witness a big and serious...

Over 30,000 Greek students and lecturers demonstrating against the government’s Education Bill were viciously attacked by the armed riot police outside the Vouli (Greek...

Thousands have been displaced in a fresh Sri Lankan offensive, reported the Tamilnet website on Thursday. The head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s...

THE Islamic Jihad Movement last Monday called for isolating the Israeli occupation government and trying its leaders for ‘crimes against humanity,’ especially by pursuing...

THE AFL-CIO US trade union federation has condemned President Bush for his lack of any action in support of the victims of the recent...

THE Azeri newspaper Zarkalo has been discussing what role Azerbaijan should take if the US launches an attack on Iran. Its conclusion is that...

Cuts and lack of training led to the deaths of two firefighters in Hertfordshire, the Fire Brigades Union says in its comment following...

‘WE are going to fight to keep our hospitals, even if it means occupying them to keep them open,’ shouted demonstrators fighting plans to...

IMPOSSIBLE fees estimated at £1,500 a year will be imposed in September, if the government is allowed to go ahead with planned cuts in...