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THE NUMBER of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Government figures show the...

‘UP and down the country our A&E departments are in meltdown, our staff are at breaking point and we need your help,’ Rob Galloway,...

ACROSS the US, thousands of workers marched to Labour Board Offices and Worksites, demanding Freedom to have a Trade Union, on Monday July 10. Workers...

ON May 15th, Nakba Day, Palestinians commemorate their forced displacement and dispossession resulting from the establishment of the state of Israel. By marking the Nakba...

THE split in the Sri Lankan ruling class has deepened with the arrest of General Fonseka who led the military campaign which killed tens...

‘Reinstate the union president and stop union-busting immediately!’, said the banner of Japanese trade union officials outside the Indonesian embassy in Tokyo on January...

ON 3 November Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah spoke in Beirut’s Southern Suburb to mark the occasion of Ashura – a major Shi’i festival...

SYRIAN President Al-Asad said that through Western support, now there are thousands of Al-Qaeda fighters from 80 countries in Syria and that terrorism must...

BILLIONAIRE brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are dumping hundreds of millions of...

THE GMB general workers union yesterday called on parliament to halt ‘tax privileges’ to venture capitalists and establish the amount of unfunded pension...

ISRAELI authorities on Thursday razed land and demolished a greenhouse and water well in Beit Ula, a village located northwest of Hebron, according to...

Sri Lanka is now waging a new genocidal war on unarmed and demographically weakened Tamils after converting their country imperceptibly into an open concentration...

ON SUNDAY, thousands of Tunisian workers and youth rallied on the streets of the capital, Tunis, to demand that President Kais Saied restore the...

‘THE WORLD’S first socialist revolution when the working class took power is showing us the way forward today,’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary Frank...

WITH 160,000 performers – from A-listers to extras – voting to take strike action if a deal is not struck in time, the first...

The TUC preliminary agenda covers the mounting concerns of workers over jobs, wages and conditions, public services and basic rights. The agenda opens...

THE American viewing public got a stark warning from the billionaire Donald Trump during a recent TV interview when he announced that Americans should...

THE TUC on Tuesday rubbished Cameron’s claim of good news in the economy and slammed Tory plans to outlaw strikes. It was commenting on the...

TWENTY years after invading Afghanistan, US-led coalition troops have vacated the largest military base in the war-torn country, located in the ancient city of...

President Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday condemned the ongoing Israeli air strikes in Palestinian civilian areas as ‘state terrorism’. The attacks claimed the lives of three...

ON Saturday 2 November, more than 200 trade unionists and activists attended CSC’s Unions for Cuba conference at the NEU headquarters in London. The largest...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) 10th National Congress, held on 12th to 15th December in Cape Town issued a...

‘A system that was already in chaos is going to (experience) a lot more chaos,’ United Nurses of Alberta President Heather Smith warned on...

TRADE union leaders were silent on proposing any action on Thursday despite a vote taken in the House of Lords on Tuesday being a...

‘ONE, two, three, four – education, not war!’ ‘Five, six, seven, eight – occupy and demonstrate!’ shouted large contingents of students on Sunday’s national...

MARWAN AL-BARGHOUTHI, the Fatah leader imprisoned in Israel, called on the Palestinian leaders ‘to go to the Gaza Strip in order to take part...

DEPUTY Oil Minister for International and Trade Affairs Ali Majedi has voiced Iran’s readiness to speedily replace Iraq oil in the world market if...

THE Government of Japan has signed a contribution agreement worth $22.4 million with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees...

BY FATEMEH SAHRANESHIN IN BANDAR ABBAS FOR an Iranian family, social welfare is rarely defined by a single payment or a single government programme. It may...

‘IT IS our international duty to organise the overthrow of the capitalist system here in Britain,’ WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney told the 100-strong...

CROWDS in Aleppo took to the streets following the announcement of the Army General Command restoration of security and stability to the city after...

SADDAM HUSSEIN, the legal Iraqi president, was dragged from his hospital bed where he was being forcibly fed after a 17 day hunger strike...

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has spoken about the importance of the struggle of the US trade unions. ‘Today, thousands of workers embraced a union future....

ON Thursday, make or break talks to end the three-month platinum mining strike collapsed once again. The third face-to-face meeting between the Association of Mineworkers...

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...

AFTER Israel decided to drastically cut electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory, Robert Piper,...

The Federation of Greek Public Sector Trade Unions (ADEDY), the Athens and Piraeus Trades Councils and dozens of trade unions have called a 24-hour...

The president of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, has called for Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations if it fails to reverse its...

TODAY is International Workers’ Memorial Day, when Public Services International (PSI) members, their families and communities are joining together to remember and mourn sisters...

THE Hamas Movement said on Tuesday that the heroic shooting operation, that took place east of Tulkarem that morning and led to the injury...

A damning report, the second in seven days on the British government’s practice of incarcerating children in UK removal centres was published yesterday. Excerpts follow...

THE Greek prime minister Yiorghos Papandreou met with his government’s Defence and Foreign Ministers last Thursday to discuss Libya following talks last Wednesday...

BY WESAM BAHRANI IT IS unrealistic to observe the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza without understanding its strategic dimension, in particular the current phase of...

UKRAINE and Germany have pushed back against assumptions by Washington about Russian intentions to invade the former Soviet state as tensions further escalated after...

While reflecting on a long year of labour struggles at UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz), students looking to the future continued to call...