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TAMILNET reports that fatigue uniform clad armed men who came in a white van abducted a 16-year-old girl student last Monday night around 11.30...

‘MY TOWN has been demolished. Children are still under rubble. Families are still under rubble,’ said Najid Faqih, from Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, as...

TANSY Hoskins, the author of Anti-Capitalist Fashion, addressed the UNI International Union World Congress world Congress in Cape Town on December...

MORE than 1,000 low-wage workers from the fast food, retail, healthcare and delivery industries marched to McDonald’s at 82 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn...

THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Wednesday that millions of South African workers and their families are being plunged into...

  BY FRA HUGHES ‘THEY will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised,...

British Airways has told cabin crew they must take a 20% cut in basic pay if they want to keep their jobs, – but...

Over 2,000 Tamils demonstrated outside the Commonwealth Conference in central London on Tuesday against the attendance of Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse. Their banners carried...

Pakistani HUMAN rights lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar presented evidence from his pioneering lawsuits for victims of US drone attacks in Waziristan, Pakistan at a...

UNI Global Union said on Thursday that its US affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire...

PRESIDENT Barack Obama proclaimed Syria’s newly reorganised opposition as the ‘legitimate’ representative of the nation’s people on Tuesday, in the most significant...

ISRAEL has reopened two vital border crossings between the occupied territories and the blockaded Gaza Strip, about a week after it closed them amid...

SECRETARY-general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has warned of a slide towards violence after at least six people, including a...

HAMAS has issued a statement headed: ‘Open letter to legal and international organisations: Let all efforts and energies unite to bring the Zionist war...

THREE of the eight fire stations that sent engines to the Apollo Theatre last night are set to close in less than three weeks,...

SOUTH African unemployed doctors have been protesting once again, launching their third sit-in of the year outside KwaZulu-Natal’s Office of the Premier on Monday...

LEON TROTSKY wrote ‘If America Should Go Communist’ on August 17, 1934, over a year after President Roosevelt brought in his ‘New Deal’, ...

MORE than 200 students marched from Goldsmiths College to Lewisham Town Hall on Tuesday evening in solidarity with council workers facing mass sackings and...

PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas on has called on Palestinian people at home and abroad to continue their struggle, by all possible means, in defence...

A TOP secret Wal-Mart memo obtained by WakeUpWalMart.com shows how Wal-Mart is exerting corporate pressure to force suppliers to join a...

SEVENTEEN home care workers, Unison members employed across the London Borough of Haringey, are taking care company Sevacare and the council to court in...

‘THE raising of our flag epitomises the triumph of all our diplomatic efforts and heralds the future de jure recognition of Palestine which is...

OVER 2,000 journalists have signed the following statement in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. ‘If the US government can extradite Assange for this, it...

THE WHITE House is reportedly worried that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could use his upcoming speech to the US Congress to publicly criticise...

SYRIANS in the villages of al-Qahira and al-Dushaisha – in Tal Tamir in Hasaka northern countryside – have intercepted US occupation force vehicles and...

PALESTINIAN heroine Ahed Tamimi was introduced to the cheering crowd at the end of the 10,000-strong march to 10 Downing Street marking Nakba Day...

US President George W Bush was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his campaign to isolate arch foe Iran and for...

OVER two thousand people silently marched through the streets of Notting Hill on Thursday night to mark the six months anniversary of the Grenfell...

‘TIME to care for those who care’ or face the prospect of massive industrial unrest is the message behind UNISON’s evidence to the NHS...

OVER 100 workers, students and youth attended the Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists Rally and Film marking 100 years since the General Strike...

HEAD of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has written to all presidents, kings, and emirs of Arab and Islamic countries; Secretary-General of the Arab...

THE NUMBER of protesters killed in Myanmar since February’s military coup has surpassed 320, according to the country’s Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which...

A second general strike in six months which started on Tuesday evening disrupted services across Portugal on Wednesday and continued into Thursday. The nationwide action,...

THE NHS was a key issue in the general election. US-HMO-style (Health Maintenance Organisations) integrated care systems are being set up all over England. Provided largely...

TamilNet reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) launched an indiscriminate artillery barrage into the newly announced ‘safety zone’ on Tuesday killing at least...

‘THE Palestinian Resistance’s victory in Gaza is a clear sign of the weakness of the Zionist regime and a prelude to final victory of...

‘Nearly three years after United States (US) and allied forces invaded Iraq and toppled the government of Saddam Hussein, the human rights situation in...

THE STRONGEST and most viable effort yet to create a union at technology giant Amazon in many years is underway at its warehouse in...

‘The defining moment for the International Community (IC) is right now, if it really wishes to establish its commitment to a principled approach towards...

OVER A DECADE since the death of the Tunisian fruit seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, after he set himself on fire over the viciousness of the...

TRADE union leaders on Wednesday reacted angrily to the Tories’ planned anti-union legislation and welfare cuts announced in the Queen’s Speech. Paul Kenny, GMB General...

FRANCE’S major trade union confederation, the CGT, has announced a ‘spring of struggles and has called for ‘joint action between the different professions in...

UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, on Monday welcomed a report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) calling on the...

Iran and Russia have officially started to implement a 20-year comprehensive strategic partnership treaty, signalling a significant step towards deepening bilateral ties between the...

A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...