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OVER 15,000 workers and youth marched last Saturday in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on the opening of a trade fair, demanding an end to the...

ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says his party will lay criminal charges against Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, Lonmin directors and Police Minister...

HUNDREDS of Ontario emergency room physicians have signed an open letter to State Premier Doug Ford demanding that the province increase the pay of...

BY RETIRED BMA MEMBER ANNA ATHOW THE main story on BBC news on Saturday, was that Boris Johnson was proposing to reverse the Cameron health...

TWO thousand people took part in three marches that converged on Hackney Town Hall on Saturday, demanding free English language courses for everyone. The marches...

‘THE chaotic scenes during enrolment say it all: we lost over 350 jobs last year and you can already see the difference,’ said the...

IN Once Again, Whither France? (March 1935) Leon Trotsky discussed the call for a general strike. He wrote: ‘The general strike, as every Marxist knows,...

LAND swaps should be a result of negotiations with Israel rather than an ‘advance payment’ given by Arab states on behalf of the Palestinians,...

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...

SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) has acknowledged mass unemployment and poverty precipitated the continuing uprising in the country. In a statement last Friday,...

On October 13, the Biden administration issued a forceful letter to Israel with a clear directive: Within 30 days, permit increased humanitarian aid into...

THE AFL-CIO trade union federation in the USA has given its support to the Turkish trade unions and workers and youth who have been...

SCHOOLTEACHERS in Ireland are set to strike over a number of issues, including the 10% pay cut that has affected as many as...

ONTARIO trade unionists and their families rallied in Toronto on Saturday to demand good jobs, public services, workers’ rights and the recall of the...

THE UNITED Auto Workers union and automaker Nissan said on Monday that they reached an agreement to let workers at a Nissan plant in...

For the rally at the end of the march a large stage was set up just beyond Downing Street, with the 300,000 crowd stretching...

Massive nationwide industrial action paralysed air and rail travel across Germany yesterday and Thursday as striking workers walked off the job to demand better...

A STRIKE wave is erupting in Australia, with airport firefighters and guards walking out in the lead-up to Christmas. An industrial dispute between a major...

A bombshell report and survey of nearly 1,200 claimants by the union Unite lays bare the misery caused by the roll-out of Universal Credit. The...

OVER 1,400 students at the University of Bristol are participating in an ongoing rent strike to protest against the University’s Covid-19 response. This constitutes...

AROUND 600 Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike for over three weeks, since Monday 5th July, against low pay and forced...

IRANIAN Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, have reiterated their countries’ absolute determination to resolve the problems in the region,...

ISRAELI forces have killed over three thousand Palestinian children since the beginning of the Second Intifada also known as the Aqsa Intifada in September...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...

FATAH and Hamas are close to resolving the issues of political detainees and passports for Gaza residents, senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath said Wednesday. Shaath...

THE family of Freddie Gray is frustrated and disappointed with the acquittal Thursday of Baltimore Police Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. on all charges...

ISRAELI authorities delivered demolition notices and halt of construction orders to several homes and schools in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank...

Tens of thousands of workers at University of California campuses and UC health care facilities started a 48-hour strike on Wednesday. The strike includes more...

Haringey Right to Food, organised a Hunger March through Tottenham on Saturday, 23 September. A large crowd gathered outside the Spurs Football Stadium from 12...

PALESTINIAN prisoners and journalists held separate rallies on Thursday in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq. In Israel’s Eshel prison, Palestinian prisoners held a...

The Bangladesh government is using proceedings before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh to prevent the Accord on workers’ safety from operating, thereby putting safety...

WOOD Green and Hornsey Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team won big support on Wood Green High Street on...

‘Without exaggeration we stand before a strategic and historical victory for Lebanon – all of Lebanon, for the resistance, and for the whole nation’,...

THE CLC (Canadian Labour Congress) in Canada have produced a report exposing the fact that youth are bearing the brunt of the mass sackings,...

THE US is handing millions of dollars of cash over to the White Helmets organisation, the Syrian and Russian coordination committees said on Tuesday. The...

  As Israel continues its war of extermination in Gaza with the death toll surpassing 65,000, more than 168,000 wounded, and thousands missing, another battle...

THE UNITE union has expressed its ‘deep concern’ at management proposals to axe more than 200 jobs at the Aston Martin site in the...

EGYPTIAN President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi played a pivotal role in helping Fatah and Hamas overcome their differences to form a National Consensus Government in...

THE main Shia opposition group in Bahrain has warned that the ruling Al Khalifah regime there is ‘contributing to the liquidation of the Palestinian...

A high-ranking official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the popular resistance movement is in a state of war with Israel, calling on the Muslim world...

WORKERS along America’s West Coast are mobilising for ‘strikes with the community’ this May Day in opposition to President Trump’s war on immigrants. Shop steward...

A THOUSAND workers and youth demonstrated outside Downing Street on Saturday, 10th of January, in support of Venezuela and for the release of their...

IN ITS annual report on the state of trade union rights in the world, the ITUC accuses the French State of ‘police brutality’ and...

ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES ARE SEIZING THE LAND! THE ongoing seizure of Palestinian land for the expansion of an illegal settlement in the West Bank –...

NHS leaders in Scotland have discussed abandoning the founding principles of the health service by having the wealthy pay for treatment, setting up a...