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PALESTINIAN factions have called for demonstrations and a general strike in protest at an upcoming US-led conference in Bahrain, which centres on Washington’s ‘Deal...

BRITISH Middle East policy in the human rights arena has long been suspect. It is time for Britain to hold Israel to account Evidence of this...

THE PALESTINIAN cabinet decided on Tuesday to hold municipal elections on May 13 only in the West Bank with the exclusion of the Gaza...

SEVENTEEN years since it opened, Guantánamo Bay remains as significant and problematic as ever, says Reprieve. The notion that the men in Guantánamo Bay...

MASSIVE protests are taking place across Sudan with hundreds of thousands on the streets to denounce the military’s tightening grip on power. Chanting ‘Power to...

THE Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Palestine Martina Anderson has called for East Jerusalem to be placed under immediate international...

A NEW CONTRACT for GPs was signed by Dr Vautrey, the chair of the BMA’s GP committee (GPC), on 31st January 2019. Its full title...

In their scathing report on the treatment of asylum seekers, including enforced destitution, MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights,...

ANGRY workers and youth demonstrated near a traffic checkpoint set up by police and federal agents in Washington DC, on Wednesday night as President...

The first speaker at the Downing Street rally, Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, said: ‘Thank you for showing you will not relent...

There have been horrific testimonies of systematic rape of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. ‘I was screaming and wishing for death every moment. They left...

HUNDREDS of armed riot police were employed last Friday morning in Athens in a series of tear-gas and truncheon attacks against protesting state teachers,...

Workers and youth in Greece were looking to deliver a huge blow to the current right-wing government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in yesterday’s parliamentary elections. The...

‘End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange,’ demand Doctors for Assange – Stephen Frost, Lissa Johnson, Jill Stein and William Frost on behalf...

There is an underground bunker in the South Hebron Hills, camouflaged by bracken and heavy sacks, where a tiny Palestinian village is sheltering a...

‘HUNGRY pupils mean we risk returning to a Victorian era rife with inequality,’ a survey by teachers union ATL has found. Almost four in ten...

INQUEST has launched a damning new report exposing the fact that after an inquest into a death in police custody, there is no mechanism...

A FORMER commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran knows where Benjamin Netanyahu convenes his meetings, a clear sign that the...

MORE than 2,000 Tamils and their supporters marched from Embankment to Downing Street on Saturday afternoon. They demanded the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference planned...

THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...

FRENCH trade union federation Force Ouvriere (FO) announced on Wednesday that it is preparing a national strike and rally of private health sector workers...

ANGRY members of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), took to the streets of Johannesburg protesting...

IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suddenly arrived in the French city of Biarritz on Friday, where the G7 meeting of the seven top...

GARMENT workers on Monday (January 14) marched in Dhaka city demanding assurances for a safe workplace and trade union rights in ...

THE GMB has found that the senior Carillion HR manager involved in the Swindon dispute was the same HR manager for Carillion that dealt...

THE SCHOOL Cuts Coalition, including many education unions, on the eve of the Tory Spring Budget demanded the government address the ‘national emergency’ faced...

A COLOSSAL anti-government rally took place in Athens last Sunday, called by the Association of Relatives of the Tempi Victims, demanding ‘justice’ for the...

A HUGE march of over 100,000 workers and students held in Athens last Wednesday afternoon, as part of a 24-hour general strike, was viciously...

THE FIFTH Congress of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), is taking place in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Delegates filled the largest theatre...

DEPUTY head of Russia’s Security Council, and Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev has described Ukraine’s Western backers as a ‘pro-Nazi coalition’, dismissing the idea...

PALESTINIAN prisoners have been hitting the headlines around the world with the escalating wave of hunger strikes for the release of high-profile prisoners in...

One Day in Gaza Shown on BBC 2 Monday 13 May 2019 Now available on BBC iPlayer MADE by award-winning documentary maker Olly Lambert, One Day in...

A BAHRAINI delegation has joined Israeli settlers in the storming of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem! This comes after Bahrain, along with UAE, Sudan and...

In the Republic of Ireland, a government report has been released which shows that public sector cuts will mean 23,500 workers lose their jobs,...

Last Wednesday November 9th, 21 protesters left Zuccotti Park, the centre of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and set off down...

AN emergency meeting between Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members, teachers, and the Palestinian teachers’ union ended on Sunday without reaching a solution to end...

MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...

WORKERS and youth signed up to join the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) and Young Socialists on Saturday, saying they will vote for Hornsey and...

AROUND 500 workers and labour activists congregated outside the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) on Monday to demand the federation’s dissolution. Protesters gathered at...

CORNELL William Brooks, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) on Saturday led off ‘America’s Journey for Justice March’...

THE Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has told the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera on August 20 – ‘How can anyone talk of...

ABD-AL HADI al-Darraji, a leader of the militant Al-Sadr trend in Iraq has revealed that Representatives of Al-Sadr trend and the Association...

TAMILNET reports that according to reports of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, last week over 13,000 internally displaced people have...

PILOT representatives from the European Cockpit Association (ECA) and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have voiced concerns about British Airways’ (BA) use of...

Research carried out by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) indicates that second-level schools will lose an average of 2.6 temporary and part-time...