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THIS is what happened at West Hendon Estate last Friday It was a quiet day on the West-Hendon Front. No cement lorries driving down Tyrrel...

Many flights operating out of French airports like Paris-Orly, Toulouse, Nantes were cancelled over the weekend due to ongoing strike action by air traffic...

WEDNESDAY was the 6th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 tenants and residents of Kensington and Chelsea perished in their homes on...

The head of Iranian volunteer Basij (The Organization for Mobilization of the Oppressed) forces says the United States is not in a position to...

SPORADIC clashes between demonstrators and police took place in the Chilean capital Santiago on Sunday as the country marked the 49th anniversary of the...

TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka’s technological refutation of the authenticity of a video of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers executing unarmed Tamil men broadcast...

THE United Nations Special Rapporteur, Maina Kiai, on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association made a visit to the United...

IRAQ’S anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah says the United States has turned its embassy compound in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad into a...

LONDON Ontario’s first strike by inside civic workers in 36 years entered its sixth week on Monday, after mediated contract talks over the...

The rain was not just droplets of water, it became a nightmare haunting thousands of displaced people in the Gaza Strip. Families forced by war...

Picket lines were out across the country on Wednesday morning as 800,000 UNISON and Unite council worker members began the first day of a...

OVER 100 bereaved relatives whose loved ones have been killed in the illegal war and occupation of Iraq were joined by MPs, peace campaigners...

SYRIA’S permanent representative to the United Nations, Bashar al-Jaafari, said on Thursday that the United Nations’ bodies and some of its member states adopt...

‘WHAT’S happening in Gaza of systematic starvation and deliberate destruction is not a war, but a genocide,’ the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation...

CHANCELLOR Osborne’s welfare cuts will hit the safety net for workers, warned the TUC last Friday. It was commenting on the Chancellor’s comment at the...

A KEY education union campaign to stop BTec vocational qualifications being scrapped within two years has won backing from both MPs and even lords...

‘Today is a momentous day. It is time to let the people know we are not going to accept this,’ Merlin Emmanuel told a...

RUSSIA’S victory is unavoidable. It is based on the unity of the Russian people, the heroism of special operation fighters and the operation of...

OTTAWA – Major unions have endorsed a mass sit-in to defend Canada’s West Coast from tar sands pipelines and tankers. The Communications Energy and Paperworkers...

A BATTLE is well underway save 44 threatened libraries across Essex as figures show that 127 public libraries were closed across the UK last...

AMERICA’S nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), has condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday which resulted in the death of a...

THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and 14 other rights organisations are alarmed by the recent escalation in the Turkish government’s crackdown on freedom...

N A VICTORY against the foreign backed terrorists, the Syrian government under President Assad have announced that they have managed to get 52 health...

FATMA RAMADAN member of the Executive Committee of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions, issued the following statement last Friday on the eve...

THE government’s changes to research funding threaten the future of science in Britain, leading experts are warning. According to Professor Donald Braben, Honorary Professor, Department...

‘EMERGENCY care is itself in a state of emergency,’ Dr Taj Hassan, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said on Thursday. He was...

HAMAS, the resistance movement, says Palestinians should keep up the ‘armed resistance’ against Israeli occupation in the West Bank, after one of the regime’s...

HEZBOLLAH MP Hassan Fadlallah on Friday condemned the sending of a US warship, the USS Cole to the eastern Mediterranean. He said Hezbollah would not...

UK military chiefs are screaming for more money to be spent on defence, as a desperate imperialism is driven to launch more wars for...

The University and College Union (UCU) has warned universities and colleges to think very carefully before entering into partnerships with private firms. This is after...

Three days before Colombian President Uribe was scheduled to meet with President Bush on August 4th at his Crawford, Texas ranch, the State Department...

THE North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has launched its largest military exercise since the Cold War, with a US warship leaving the United States...

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) joined thousands of Canadians opposing the Conservative budget in a mass online protest on Monday. NUPGE...

PRO-PALESTINE protests and occupations are sweeping universities across America, with students and lecturers demanding an end to US arms to Israel. The demonstrations, which started...

WE KNEW there would be a bloodbath of jobs if Sibanye-Stillwater’s acquisition of Lonmin’s Marikana operations was approved by the Competition Commission.’ Association of Mineworkers...

IN May and early June 2010, a two-week-long strike involving more than a thousand workers at the Honda transmission plant in Foshan triggered a...

WEAPONS supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States to the Saudi-led coalition in war-torn Yemen killed at least 839 civilians and wounded 1,775...

A state of permanent revolution has gripped Egypt as two million workers have joined Egypt’s Federation of Independent Trade Unions in the last year. Egyptian...

BERNIE SANDERS, US Senator for Vermont, addressed a packed ‘Save London’s Transport’ rally organised by the RMT railway workers union, at London’s TUC building...

AN Ohio Nurse who spoke out for rights has won a defamation verdict against the hospital which sacked her. Ann Wayt, a 38-year veteran registered...

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

ISRAEL has called on Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to rip up the unity deal struck between the PLO and Hamas. Israel earlier suspended peace talks...

The United Nations has urged those countries that have paused funding for its Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, to reverse their decision, warning that aid for...

THE working class must kick out the Tories on June 8th and return Labour to government to set the scene for the struggle for...

MORE than 100,000 nurses, teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers walked off the job across Aotearoa, New Zealand, on Thursday in one of...