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North Korea has no intention of attacking South Korea, nor does it have any interest in a forceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula, the...

HASSAN Nasrallah, secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, has spoken at a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the July 2006 war with Israel. Speaking in...

TURKEY’S spy chief has assured the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during a secret meeting last week that the...

JUNIOR Doctors start their continuous four-day 96-hour strike at 06.59 today, Tuesday 11 April, and end it at 06.59 on Saturday 15 April. Backed by...

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi has called for large-scale peaceful protests in support of a Palestinian bid for United Nations membership in September. In a...

ISRAEL’S military just after midnight on Friday admitted their responsibility for the death of a teenage girl in Gaza. The announcement came following its insistence...

The Howard League for Penal Reform has again slammed the Tories’ preferred prisons privateer G4S following the scandal revealed by the BBC Panorama programme...

THE WEST London Council of Action Big Bike Ride to Save Ealing Hospital on Sunday was a great success. More than two dozen riders with...

There was a lively protest on Thursday afternoon of around 60 people outside Stratford Town Hall in support of the ‘Day of Action for...

TURKEY praised the United States on Wednesday for providing intelligence in support of attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, as it confirmed its...

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

The latest demolitions of Palestinian structures in Beit Jala city in Bethlehem district and the string of Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip...

THE Blair government is challenging a High Court and Court of Appeal ruling that human rights law applies to the British army’s activities in...

‘Fellow Russian citizens, Dear veterans, Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers, Comrade officers, generals and admirals, I congratulate you on the Day of...

JAMAHIRIYA NEWS has reported on NATO war crimes in Libya including deformities in new born babies due to the use by NATO of...

TRADE UNION supporters had a rude awakening last Wednesday with news of the Massachusetts state House vote to slash collective bargaining rights for municipal...

TAMILNET reports that Pararajasingam Kanagalingam, president of the Vanni People Welfare Organisation (VPWO), last Wednesday sent it a recorded affidavit on the civil situation...

A SYRIAN government airplane successfully took off from the Aleppo International Airport on Friday, marking the first time in four years that any aircraft...

THE Palestine National Authority will be the sole administrator of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal in August, the Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive...

PALESTINIANS commemorated the 71st anniversary of the Nakba Day (May 15th – the Day of Catastrophe) in the occupied West Bank and the blockaded...

RAIL union RMT said Tuesday’s strike for tube safety and safe staffing levels on London Underground was ‘rock solid’, and demanded that the...

Greek students, youth and workers delivered a significant blow to the Mitsotakis government, the US-NATO imperialists, EU and Israel on Sunday. They staged a most...

The polar low-pressure system ‘Byron’ has intensified the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip after striking the area last Wednesday evening, bringing torrential...

ISRAEL has detained thousands of Palestinians during the war on Gaza and stands accused of numerous cases of torture, the Office of the United...

OPENING the public sector pay debate at the 149th Trades Union Congress in Brighton on Monday afternoon, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis moved composite...

IF the government’s proposed changes go ahead, ‘private companies would be entitled to run much of the NHS’ and ‘market forces would determine the way...

THE Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip says Israeli forces have killed more than 2,000 civilians in the northern part of the besieged...

‘Stop deportations! Asylum rights are human rights! Equal rights for migrants!’ shouted over 500 people taking part in a March for Migrant Workers last...

NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...

PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad and Hamas resistance movement have warned that Israel’s house demolitions and its expansion of illegal settlements in al-Quds (Jerusalem) will trigger...

SUPPORT is growing for the Workers Revolutionary Party candidates standing in the general election. In south London on Saturday, many new recruits were made, especially...

FOR years now the capitalist class internationally through their mouthpieces in government and the bourgeois press have been peddling, often contradictory, statistics to show...

RAMZY Baroud, an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com, has written about his thoughts in an article called ‘The Paris Peace...

OVer the past year, Muhanad Omar al-Helo has twice petitioned the Israeli government to leave Gaza in order to study in Europe for a...

Amnesty International has accused Israel of enacting a ‘deliberate policy’ of starvation in Gaza as the UN and aid groups warn of famine in...

By Fra Hughes in West Belfast FOR the first time in 49 years, the Bloody Sunday Commemorative March has been forced off the road, as...

JUST one day before Democrats and Republicans were set to forge a trillion dollar debt deal that would impose savage cuts on the American...

Campaigning in the Palestinian legislative elections ended at mid-night on Monday. 24 hours before about 80 per cent of eligible voters in the West...

‘The gravy train needs to end – public services should be just that; public,’ said the GMB union on Tuesday, in response to a...

No more ‘illegal miners’ are believed to be trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams...

ISRAEL continued its war on Palestinian youth on Sunday, with the arrest of a thirteen-year-old boy in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli forces detained the child...

THE government is cutting more than £1bn from NHS hospitals. All over the country, trusts are cutting staff, beds, operating theatres and services. The result...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has said that it is 100% in solidarity with its affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers...

THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has published ‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a tome of tragedies,’ in which homeless people and...

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