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FRENCH trade unions took to the streets last Tuesday in a massive ‘Day of Action’ protest against another government attack on their pensions. Previous...

‘NURSES should come on a half day strike with the junior doctors,’ Jenny a student occupational therapist told a mass rally opposite Downing Street...

Three weeks after Butler Hospital management issued what it called its ‘last, best and final’ contract proposal, the union representing striking workers has ‘overwhelmingly’...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has said he would nominate a woman to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of liberal Justice...

REPORTERS Without Borders (RSF) call for the immediate release of Nazmul Huda, a reporter who was arrested on 24 December 2016 because of his...

A DEMONSTRATION on Saturday of over 2,000 people shouted their support for Palestine in solidarity with the ‘Great March of Return’ in Gaza and...

THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...

Excerpt from the text of the speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, broadcast live by Syrian TV on 3rd June at the Opening...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has warned that the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria could lead to the revival of the Daesh terrorist group...

THE United Nations is able to investigate the war crimes which occurred recently in Sri Lanka, British human rights lawyer and international war crimes...

THE McKinsey and Co report proposes cutting £20bn off the NHS budget and reducing the staff by 10% or 137,000 jobs. The government commissioned...

WORKERS in more than 230 cities in the US walked out to join mass protests against poverty level pay last Wednesday in what is...

Firefighters in Hertfordshire are to vote on strike action against plans to axe job losses and close fire stations, Hertfordshire FBU has announced. The Fire...

PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee member and chief negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat issued a defiant statement on Monday in response to the halting...

THE right to decent work, an end to the banks’ veto on mortgage resolutions and the abolition of water charges are among the measures...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...

ISLAMIC Jihad, the Palestinian resistance movement has held the Israeli regime fully responsible for any harm to its high-profile official Sheikh Khader Adnan, who...

TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million...

OVER 1,200 members of the National Education Union (NEU) – all of whom are teachers who work in special school settings with children, many...

Trade unions have reacted angrily to Tory peer Lord Young’s review of health and safety. The RMT transport union said that his report ‘is...

FOR the first time, Israel has provided a list of names and place of burial of 123 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and whose...

ISRAELI occupation forces on Sunday detained five Palestinians from the West Bank districts of Ramallah and Hebron, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). The...

LOCAL residents of several villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah have in coordination with government forces prevented a number of US military convoys...

JAILED hunger striker Samer Issawi has now stopped taking water after refusing food for 188 days, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said on Tuesday. A PPS...

The Teamsters union started the largest strike against Amazon in United States history on Thursday morning. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow...

A SENIOR Iranian judiciary official says Iran and Iraq have issued a joint statement on an investigation into the ‘criminal and terrorist’ assassination by...

THE PALESTINIAN Presidency on Monday ‘reiterated the firm position of the State of Palestine that supports the right of the People’s Republic of China...

DIFFERENT Palestinian factions have denounced the Israeli raid on a Hezbollah convoy which killed six of the Lebanese resistance movement’s fighters. The...

STOP British bombs from fuelling the crisis in Yemen, demands Oxfam. The charity warns in a statement: ‘The war in Yemen has been brutal....

‘the Islamic Revolution will go on to defeat all US plots in the coming years just as it has done over the past four...

THE publication of the newly proposed Tory strike-ban laws have brought a response from all trade unions. Some union leaders call for action but the...

‘EMOTIONALLY, we are not coping. Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal,’ was the view of hospital nurse Mosima Doreen Mabeba...

THE Save The Children organisation has confirmed that the number of children killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel’s genocidal war...

Two firebombs were thrown at the Tel Aviv home of African residents on Saturday night, Israeli daily Haaretz reported. It is the second such attack...

THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...

A DEBATE was held in Westminster Hall on Monday, attended by MPs, teachers, headteachers, support staff and members of the public to discuss the...

THE Political Division of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) issued a political statement yesterday. ‘The Tamil homeland is witnessing one of the worst...

THIS book shows that Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) have been introduced to give contracts to private companies to provide care for NHS patients,...

THE US is handing millions of dollars of cash over to the White Helmets organisation, the Syrian and Russian coordination committees said on Tuesday. The...

The Australian government is being urged to condemn Israel’s ‘dangerous attack’ on six prominent Palestinian human rights groups after Israeli authorities declared them terrorist...

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned the treatment of Palestinians by Israeli forces at the Rafah border crossing, calling it collective punishment and a...

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...

THE Oil and Gas Authority on Thursday awarded a raft of new licences to explore for oil and gas on the mainland of the...

FOUR YEARS after the first Tube assets were handed to the private sector, London Underground’s biggest union has called for the disastrous ‘Public-Private Partnership’...

SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, has called on the United Kingdom to recognise the State of Palestine on the...