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THE IRANIAN Army has started large-scale military exercises in an area stretching from the eastern sector of the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the...

‘A GENERAL STRIKE to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!’ was the main demand on the 100,000-strong TUC march from the...

BELOW is a declaration issued on Tuesday by the international commission of the central council of Russia’s University Solidarity trade union, on the repression...

THE leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has warned that the US military is preparing the ground for an act of aggression against the...

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

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members across the country have been holding demonstrations throughout the last week against the plans of US President Trump...

By Simon Parker, End Child Detention Now Co-ordinator End Child Detention Now campaigners have welcomed the launch of the International Detention Coalition’s Global report...

‘SERIOUS people’ in high places in the West are now discussing options for replacing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with someone else, Russian Foreign Intelligence...

THE plight of the Palestinian people under the military occupation is so painful that even sometimes the citizens of Israel recount it in heartwrenching...

THE US State Department has approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Lithuania in a $125 million deal amid escalating tensions between Russia...

SRI Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa, during a meeting held at Temple Trees with electoral officers, declared that he is willing to go even to ...

MONDAY was New Zealand’s Labour Day, an annual public holiday falling on the 4th Monday of October, commemorating the struggle for an eight-hour working...

DAMASCUS – President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday that any political idea for resolving the crisis in Syria that isn’t based on eliminating terrorism...

SECURITY services in Bahrain supported by the UK have been accused of ‘serious and persistent’ human rights abuses. A joint Human Rights Watch and Bahrain...

Hunger Directed by Steve McQueen Starring Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham and Liam Cunningham Specially reviewed at the London Film Festival and on general release later this month ‘HUNGER’...

OVER 200 striking refuse workers, who have already endured three years of pay freezes, defiantly marched with their supporters through Brighton and Hove on...

IN A ‘Protect Teachers and Defend Education’ campaign update, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) said strike action is set to go ahead in...

OVER 15,000 workers and youth demonstrated in London on Saturday to mark the 74th anniversary of Nakba Day, marching from BBC Broadcasting House near...

IMPALA Platinum said on Tuesday that an agreement has been reached with the AMCU trade union on a ‘broad wage offer to end...

The Israeli army and intelligence agencies’ websites were offline on Sunday, two days after hacker group Anonymous warned it would ‘strike back’ in retaliation...

‘WHAT WE’RE seeing is really a naked brutal form of capitalism where people’s lives are expendable,’ says University of Western Cape Professor Ruth Hall...

THE Egyptian military authorities expansion of the emergency law is the greatest erosion of human rights since the revolution forced the resignation of...

Nurses were in a determined mood on the picket lines outside King’s College Hospital (KCH), roundly condemning Prime Minister Sunak’s refusal to even speak...

WORKERS who headed to New Orleans in 2005 to help rebuild the Hurricane Katrina-devastated city were abused and exploited, according to a report by Interfaith Worker...

Anne Boleyn By Howard Brenton Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside Until 21 August, Tickets: £5 - £35 IT’S the little emphases throughout Howard Brenton’s new play at the Globe that...

‘WE WILL win this fight!’ That was the message from speaker after speaker at a rally of more than 1,500 delegates from trade unions and...

Amnesty International has called on the British government to hand over to Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohammed’s lawyers, vital information it holds on him. Binyam...

‘Free, Free Palestine! Palestine will be free from the river to the sea!’ shouted demonstrators at a 400-strong picket and vigil opposite Downing Street...

PATIENTS, staff and local residents joined the North-East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday, and agreed with the call...

‘I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, and from besieged and heroic Gaza, and from...

CLAIMS that trade union officials collaborated with the blacklisters of the Consulting Association are being investigated by Unite. The union has launched an inquiry into...

Polish workers, some of them members of the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU), are being paid 5.20 euros an hour by a contractor...

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

‘The capitalist system is in its death agony. It’s coming to an end, although some people don’t believe it will ever end, but I...

A STRIKE wave is erupting in Australia, with airport firefighters and guards walking out in the lead-up to Christmas. An industrial dispute between a major...

AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP have confirmed that ABC journalist Dan Oakes will not be prosecuted over his reporting on alleged war crimes carried out...

PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump may be touting his deal with heating and ventilation systems manufacurer Carrier as a triumph for working-class Americans, but Vermont Sen....

US Operatives killed detainees during interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq, says the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU has just published an analysis of...

CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...

THE FRENCH economy is expected to shrink 11 per cent this year because of the coronavirus crisis, much worse than the government’s previous forecast...

POWERFUL Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Spokesman of Hashd al-Sha’abi (the Iraqi popular forces) Ahmad al-Assadi, deplored US President Donald Trump’s decision to...

The statement reads: THE outcome of the Special CEC (Central Executive Committee) of COSATU that was shunned by those affiliates who had formally called...

AMNESTY International has urged the Egyptian authorities to ensure that an activist thought to have been arrested on 23 July is immediately freed and...

TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil eelam (LTTE) clashed last Thursday at around 2.00 am...

A TOP Iranian official says Israel has been caught off guard and is encircled by the resistance front, adding that normalisation of ties between...