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‘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...

WORKERS breaking down old ships on the coast of India have been forced to go without drinking water, a press conference in London has...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ismail Haniya spoke at a rally organised by the Hamas Movement at Al-Yarmuk playground in Gaza on 6 October ‘in support...

‘Stop deportations! Asylum rights are human rights! Equal rights for migrants!’ shouted over 500 people taking part in a March for Migrant Workers last...

ASSAULTS are commonplace in Immigration Removal Centres, which should not be responsible for the health care of their detainees. That is what is being said...

‘BY passing the Military Commissions Act, the United States Congress has, in effect, given its stamp of approval to human rights violations committed by...

The Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) has issued an urgent appeal ‘Solidarity needed! 119 of KGEU local offices forcefully closed down!’ A KGEU statement...

THE General Medical Council (GMC) was set up in 1858 to register genuine medical practitioners and make a distinction between them and pretenders. This...

A DEPARTMENT of Health (DoH) report from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Sir Liam Donaldson, 202 pages long was published this July called ‘Good...

Over two million households are estimated to be struggling to pay Council Tax, according to a new report by the Warwick Institute for Employment...

MAKING sure women throughout the world can give birth in a health facility, in the presence of a midwife, is the best strategy...

THERE WERE up to 50 pickets and supporters on the picket line at the Maidstone NHS Logistics distribution depot on Tuesday evening at 10...

TODAY, a number of Chagos Islanders will appear at Horsham County Court to fight a Claim Form for Possession of Property from West...

LAST Friday Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed in person a victory rally in Lebanon. ‘Brothers and sisters, Ladies and Gentlemen. On...

UP TO 5,000 health workers, trade unionists and local residents determined to save their jobs, hospitals and NHS services from massive cuts marched through...

THE Bush administration is pushing legislation through Congress to legalise its unlawful military commissions and indefinite detention without charge or trial, says Amnesty...

THE Hamas-led Palestinian government spokesman Dr Ghazi Hamad confirmed on Monday that the current freeze of the negotiations, regarding forming a Palestinian national...

‘It wasn’t enough for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to leave thousands of trailers rotting for months unused in acres of swampy fields...

‘WE were the first to call for a united, unified, fully sovereign, independent, free, and lofty Lebanon where the state and the government represent...

Over 7,000 striking Merseyside firefighters and their supporters marched through Liverpool last Saturday in a show of strength to demonstrate their determination to defeat...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has criticised the visit of British Premier Tony Blair to Lebanon in a recorded interview broadcast by Al Jazeera TV...

SOME 20,00 Greek trade unionists and workers staged a militant demonstration last Saturday in the northern city of Salonica where the Prime Minister Kostas...

CRIES of ‘TUC, let us in!’ rang out from locked out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters outside the TUC Conference in Brighton on...

SPEAKING at a press conference in Brighton on the eve of the TUC Congress, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today I launch a...

THE following emergency resolution was carried unanimously at last year’s TUC Congress. The resolution was the TUC’s response to the Gate Gourmet management’s...

TENANTS on the Aylesbury estate are opposed to privatisation and are demanding improvements to council housing instead of demolition – which is what...

MARWAN al Barghouthi, the Fatah leader is currently serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail. In an interview with the Lebanese...

The Howard League for Penal Reform revealed on Thursday that local authorities ‘are systematically failing to provide suitable accommodation and support for vulnerable children...

EAST MIDLANDS UNISON and the Royal College of Nursing are holding a ‘The NHS is on its Knees, Get off your Feet to Save...

In a Labor Day statement last Saturday the US Teamsters Union President Jim Hoffa stressed that workers have to rely on themselves and their...

In his Utah speech to army veterans last Thursday, US President Bush threatened Iran with ‘consequences’, adding that the US will step up its...

UNIVERSITY students are working more and more – during holidays and during term-time – just to survive, says a joint report just published by...