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International reaction has poured in since last Friday’s ruling by the top United Nations court that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory...

THE CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is celebrating 35 years of existence – and relentless struggle – since it was formed on...

One child is killed every 30 minutes in the Gaza Strip, in the ongoing Israeli genocide that started on October 7th, 2023. This is taking...

‘Today, Congress took a first and important step to rebuilding the American Dream,’ said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Thursday as Senators from...

17,000 secondary school teachers are set to go on strike over the Irish government’s plans to cut their pay and allowances. The Association of Secondary...

PICKETS were out in force at universities across the UK during Thursday’s one-day strike by University and College Union (UCU), Unison, Unite and Educational...

‘GENERAL PRACTICE – and the NHS as we know it – is in danger of disintegrating unless the Chancellor urgently increases investment in the...

WEDNESDAY began with a horrendous ordeal for one man of the Dawabsha family in Dura village near Nablus in the Palestinian West Bank. Muhammad Fayiq...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) will be lobbying the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DfCSF) on Wednesday, 11 July 2007 to publicise...

SOUTH Africa’s automotive sector, already reeling from poor sales, now seems set to suffer a further blow – as carworkers threaten to take strike action...

IRAN’S foreign minister says the US is waging ‘economic terrorism’ against the Islamic Republic by employing restrictive measures that are troubling the relief efforts...

THE report of the inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney was published on Friday. Azelle Rodney was 24 when he died on 30 April...

‘FACING 10 years of pay cuts in real terms, our vital public sector workers – nurses, midwives and refuse collectors – have had an average of...

US school teachers are on strike in Washington state, defying a strike ban. Pasco Association of Educators have been on strike for two weeks. The...

The Israeli occupation army continued, for the 60th consecutive day yesterday, to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, targeting residential buildings and...

PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has called on international mediators to take effective and concrete steps to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under...

Cuts and lack of training led to the deaths of two firefighters in Hertfordshire, the Fire Brigades Union says in its comment following...

RUSSIA and China have wrapped up their five-day joint strategic military drills in Northwest China which involved over 10,000 troops and advanced weaponry. Top officials...

Forty-six Renault workers from the sackings-hit Sandouville plant were before a court in Le Havre last Thursday, October 30. They were taken to court by...

RUSSIAN Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev spoke on Thursday about the situation surrounding Iran and Syria, and the United States. He said: ‘The US would...

ON Saturday, March 16, the printers and their supporters replied to this attack on their picket line with a mass picket of 7,000. Again the...

LEBANESE authorities have granted a Gaza-bound ship carrying aid and activists permission to sail to Cyprus as Gaza’s Popular Committee Against the Siege chief...

WITH unwavering courage, Dr Amira Al-Assouli, a female Palestinian physician, sprinted through Israeli sniper bullets and drones targeting anything that moved to save an...

ISRAELI forces stormed a secondary school in the southern occupied West Bank village of Tuqu on Sunday. Three Palestinian teachers suffered from pepper spray...

The Chairman of the doctors union, the BMA, wrote a letter to the medical profession on 30th July regarding the new health White Paper...

‘THE conformity of concepts with objects is not subjective,’ Lenin stressed in a comment on cognition in his Philosophical Notebooks, close to the end...

‘THE clear message we are trying to get across is that this is a fight for the future of the NHS,’ BMA junior doctors...

KENYA’S Nurses have vowed to continue with their strike until the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) they signed with the Council of Governors is honoured. The...

At least 76 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and dozens more injured in a new round of violence in Bangladesh over the...

‘IT is very clear that the collapse of the capitalist system has collapsed New Labour, that is the modern Labour Party’, News...

‘CLOSING Ealing Hospital maternity is a real attack on the NHS and a real attack on the people of Southall, Ealing and surrounding areas,’...

By JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist THE sectarian war in Ireland is over, but the war on racism has begun. That was the pledge from Sinn...

OVER 2,000 workers and youth marched to city hall Norwich in opposition to the English Defence League on Saturday. This is the first time that...

THOUSANDS of Palestinians rallied in downtown Ramallah on Monday against Israel’s intention to annex a large part of the occupied West Bank. Participants hoisted the...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) held a rally and lobby of Parliament on Tuesday as part of its fight against a huge escalation,...

A CONSULTATION of NHS workers was launched at the Unison health conference in Brighton on Monday on the new ‘pay deal’. Unison members...

A DOSSIER relating to a complaint delivered last Friday to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding the responsibility of...

ARAB writers convening at the First Palestine Forum for the Arab Novel appealed on Wednesday to world governments to intervene to end the suffering...

BAHRAINIS living in Britain are preparing for a wave of protest actions today, to coincide with massive anti-al Khalifa regime demonstrations planned in Bahrain. Bahraini...

LEGAL action charity Reprieve and Islamabad human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar on Monday announced the publication of the first large array of photographs depicting...

A GROUP of senior doctors from Gaza say they endured beatings, torture and prolonged incarceration at the hands of Israeli forces during the recent...

Two international ‘contact groups’, one each to check Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fund-raising and arms purchases, were initiated by the US in...

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

WORKERS at South African Airways (SAA) are threatening to go on strike if their salary increase demands are not met. The workers are calling for...

Israeli occupation forces killed a young Arab man from the city of Kafr Qassem last Friday morning, as unchecked crimes against Palestinians rage on...