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‘I DO NOT think that the West has relinquished its colonial mentality,’ Syrian president Assad said in a recent interview, while the US and...

TAMILNET reports that the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) have stated that, with the people’s support, they will surmount all difficulties. In an interview with Tamilnet, the...

LATIN Americans who could not get on to the speakers’ platform at the Venezuela Solidarity rally outside Downing Street on Saturday, addressed the crowd...

SIPTU is calling for action on soaring rents to prevent further job losses immediately as the Irish deficit crisis deepens. The union has called on...

‘The Health and Safety Commission says it is seeking “the right balance of enforcement and advice”, in line with the “enforcement-lite” approach sought by...

‘Systemic, chronic understaffing’ endemic in elderly care say Australian nurses unions SYSTEMATIC, chronic understaffing leading to unacceptable instances of neglect, abuse, and too many preventable...

HAMAS is ready to meet with Fatah central committee member Nabil Sha’th in Gaza to discuss Palestinian reconciliation, Hamas leader Atallah Abu As-Sabeh said...

A FLOTILLA of ships, carrying some 5,000 tons of food, drinking water, and medical aid, is expected to depart from Turkey in the coming...

Trade union leaders have been shocked by the latest jobless figures which saw a leap in part-time working and female and youth unemployment. Commenting on...

TAMILNET has reported that the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Major General Lars Johan Solvberg, met Liberation Tigers (LTTE)2 political chief B...

BY TAMARA NASSAR From Electronic Intifada   ISRAEL is committing crimes against humanity by torturing Palestinian detainees, prisoners’ rights group Addameer says in a recent report. And...

A deal aimed at ending the United States government shutdown was passed in the Senate on Sunday, paving the way for the record-breaking impasse...

THE ITUC has condemned the Greek government’s use of wartime emergency powers to break a week-long strike by metro transit workers in the capital...

ABD-AL-AZIZ ALl-DUWAYK, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), said in Amman yesterday that Hamas’s recognition of Israel’s final borders is linked to Israel’s...

THE South African NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has said it will march on the imminent meeting of the ANC National Executive Council, as...

NEARLY three hundred migrant workers, almost all of north African origin, have been on a mass hunger strike in Greece since Tuesday demanding: ‘the...

OVER 60 signatories comprising Palestinian human rights groups and non-governmental organisations have sent a joint open letter from Ramallah to the International Labour Organisation...

UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff angry at the employers’ refusal to budge from a 1% pay offer, which represents a real-terms pay cut of 13%...

Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction by MOISSAYE J OLGIN THE essay, ‘The Proletariat and the Revolution’, was published at the close of...

Tanks and troops of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) invaded the central Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank city of Nablus early Wednesday...

The announcement of changes to civil service redundancy payments made today by the Cabinet Office is an outrageous breach of faith with the unions,...

CHILDREN and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need, according to eight-in-ten (83%) education staff. In...

HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal has reiterated that all Palestinian factions agree on a state ‘within the 1967 borders’ and that Hamas agrees to the...

A PALESTINIAN prisoner who has been in solitary confinement for eight years in Israeli jails has recently been suffering a psychological and neurological disorder,...

‘NONE of us want to strike, but we’ve been forced to by the government,’ Dr Kevin O’Kane, Chair, BMA London Regional Council, told a...

Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon this week after the Israeli military issued mass displacement orders and intensified airstrikes, forcing families onto...

The present unelected Greek coalition government, of social-democrats and conservatives headed by banker Lucas Papademos has decided to fund with some 50bn euros the...

The Palestinians have turned down a US request to avoid seeking a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, the...

THE Libyan leader has vowed not to surrender and to fight till the end. He urged the ‘masses’ to march on the rebel-held areas...

STRIKING FairPoint workers and their supporters from across the Northeast of America held a major rally in Portland, Maine, on Saturday, November 8. Negotiators from...

ON THE morning of 24 August 2024, four-year-old Mira Al-Darini stood outside her family’s makeshift tent in a cramped displacement camp in Khan Younis,...

THE UNITED Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) earlier this summer won a major battle in the courts that recognises the UE’s...

WORKERS from Lear plants across the country entered the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday morning (28th May) and spoke directly to Lear Corp....

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

PALESTINIANS are remembering 25 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre in the Lebanese capital Beirut – in which over 2,000 defenceless Palestinian refugees...

Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...

NEARLY two years after a preventable fire killed 112 garment workers in Bangladesh, the owner of the Tazreen Fashion factory is out of jail,...

THE BRITISH government has decided to ‘balance the books on the backs of the starving people of Yemen,’ in an act that will see...

BELARUS ‘cannot’ call off the WWII Victory Day parade on 9 May, despite the coronavirus pandemic, because thousands of people are looking forward to...

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

SIPTU President, Jack O’ Connor, last Friday condemned a call by the Central Bank for more pay cuts across the economy. He said the...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has called for immediate transparency from Coventry University after its recently published Annual Report and Financial Statements revealed...

‘The Department for Health and Social Care’s decision to prioritise hospitals at the beginning of the pandemic meant social care providers were left exposed...

SAEB EREKAT, the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), has called on Israeli authorities to immediately and unconditionally release...

ALMOST 200 Nepalese men died last year working on construction projects in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) says...