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A new report, The last post, released on Monday, provides new evidence of the vital social and economic role of urban sub post offices.  The report,...

DRAFT CORPORATE-killing legislation to be debated in parliament today would have made no practical difference to the four major railway disasters since 1997 had...

Demonstrators remained camped near central Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square and on streets leading to the government’s headquarters on Saturday following Friday’s million-strong opposition protest, led by...

GATE GOURMET, owned by venture capitalists Texas Pacific, is at it again in its class war against workers and trade unions. In August 2005 it...

The University and College Union (UCU) said on Wednesday that for widening participation to really succeed, potential students must have access to the courses...

‘This is further repressive legislation from a very repressive government – attacking the most vulnerable,’ mental health service worker and user Jo Squires said...

A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was holding on Monday for a second day, despite continued violence in the occupied West Bank where two...

Hezbollah has warned America and the UN against ‘being party to’ Lebanon’s ‘internal conflicts’. Hezbollah TV Al-Manar last Saturday reported on statements by Hashim...

Over 1,500 trade unionists, youth and local residents last Saturday defied the rain to march and rally outside St Helier Hospital, near Sutton in...

LAST Thursday two leaders from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, underlined the need to strengthen national...

THE Iraqi Ba’ath Party has issued a communique warning that the execution of Saddam Hussein is a red line that must not be crossed. The...

Amnesty International on Tuesday renewed its call for a comprehensive and independent UN-led inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law committed during this year’s...

Nurses are the worst paid professional group working in the public sector, according to new evidence from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) released...

AS contract negotiations between local Houston janitors in Texas, USA and five national cleaning firms continue today, people of faith and conscience from around...

Following on the heels of two days of record-breaking acts of non-violent civil disobedience in Houston, last Friday janitors and their supporters spoke out...

THE current cash crisis at Worthing and Southlands Hospitals is the result of a ‘manufactured’ funding deficit. This is due to the government’s belief that...

Confirmation that manufacturing employment levels are at their lowest since 1841 drew an angry and frustrated response from the Transport and General Workers Union. Tony...

Privateer Global Solutions Ltd (GSL) has been criticised again for its management of Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers published today...

THE Irish trade union movement has been discussing the dangers that a low rate minimum wage, if not corrected, will lead to it being...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Saturday pledged to expose the full extent of last week’s Israeli massacre at Beit Hanoun of 19 mainly...

Donald Rumsfeld, who was forced to resign as US defence secretary last Wednesday, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo...

US TRADE union leaders’ were yesterday demanding that the Democrats take action on workers’ issues in the Houses of Congress, in return for the...

THE commander of Iran’s Revolution Guards, Brig-Gen Rahim-Safavi, has told Iranian TV that Tehran now possesses modern missile systems, and that Iran is ready...

NHS Logistics was taken over by DHL on 1 October – the Blair/Brown government’s first privatisation of an NHS department so far. The supplier of...

Last Thursday, the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, launched a public debate on ‘the implications of living in a surveillance society’. The Information Commissioner’s Office...

‘VICTORY is close now,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a meeting of more than 200 trade unionists and youth on Sunday in...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Friday evening condemned the Israeli Army for firing into a crowd and killing two Palestinian women during a...

‘We have to take action at Whipps Cross Hospital against cuts and closure,’ consultant surgeon Mrs Anna Athow told a packed public meeting in...

MANY thousands of NHS staff, from cleaners to doctors, from all over the country, were joined by members of the public fighting hospital closures...

‘BLOOD on your hands!’, ‘Shame on you!’ shouted demonstrators opposite parliament on Tuesday night, as MPs left the House of Commons after a debate...

‘Lebanon is implementing (UN) Resolution 1701 while Israel is dragging its feet and is showing intransigence’, Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad al-Siniora told a joint...

‘ONE, two, three, four – education, not war!’ ‘Five, six, seven, eight – occupy and demonstrate!’ shouted large contingents of students on Sunday’s national...

‘Tony Blair we want justice!’ shouted over seven hundred bereaved families and supporters outside Downing Street last Saturday. They had marched from Trafalgar Square on...

HUNDREDS of angry pensioners from all over Britain descended on parliament on Wednesday to demand an immediate increase in the basic state pension to...

Leading officials of fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff held a press conference on Tuesday, declaring they...

Al-Sharqiyah TV reported on its 2 pm news broadcast last Sunday the security and political developments of that day. The report stated: ‘The US Army...

RAIL UNION leaders took the campaign against the privatisation of the East London Line to commuters yesterday. RMT general secretary Bob Crow, TSSA assistant general...

THE Egyptian security delegation’s efforts succeeded last Friday night in reaching a mutual agreement between Fatah and Hamas to contain the tensions and differences...

YET more mass demonstrations were held on Wednesday in Athens and Salonica by state primary and secondary school teachers and their supporters in the...

THE Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), the Marchioness Action Group and others demonstrated on Tuesday against the lowering of age and training standards...

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

THE Republican-dominated National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) voting along party lines to slash long-time federal labour laws protecting workers’ freedom to form unions has opened...

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Na’im Qasim said last Thursday: ‘We proposed the national unity government as a positive concept.’ Speaking on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television, Qasim continued:...

‘STOP the employers getting away with murder,’ angry bereaved relatives said on their Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) lobby of Parliament on Tuesday. Hilda Palmer...

Witnesses giving evidence to the continuing inquest into the death in Iraq of veteran ITN war reporter Terry Lloyd in March 2003 have said...