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SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS recently spoke at the Free Library of Philadelphia about the current US crisis and his new book ‘Our Revolution’. He said: ‘No:...

Young Palestinian chldren are still severely traumatised six months after the Israeli war on the impoverished Gaza Strip, charities warn. Fourteen-year-old Ghasan Matar won’t talk...

Police forces across the USA have committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter protesters, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, as it launched...

THE ‘Elders’, an independent group of eminent global leaders, cautioned on Friday that ‘the international response to Sri Lanka’s worrying approach to human rights,...

THE Independent Asylum Commission is today publishing Saving Sanctuary, the first of three reports of recommendations aimed at restoring public confidence in sanctuary for...

‘I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, and from besieged and heroic Gaza, and from...

‘I REFUSE to be bribed and blackmailed into silence. My struggle for justice continues’ Gordon McNeill declared last Wednesday. Discussions between the sacked Belfast airport...

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

A revolutionary wave is sweeping the planet, driven by the world economic and political crisis of capitalism and the undefeated nature of the working...

NATIONAL Nurses United held a National Day of Action on January 13th to demand their employers, and the Biden administration protect registered nurses (RNs),...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the use of physician associates warning of serious risks to patients. Responding to revelations from Channel 4 News...

‘THE GUPTA family is the immediate threat to South Africa’s struggling working class,’ South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi...

TamilNet reports that residents of Jaffna peninsula are experiencing an acute shortage of essential food commodities including wheat flour and sugar, sources in Jaffna...

OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...

AUSTRALIAN unions AMWU, CFMEU and TCFUA held a rally outside of Ansell’s Australian headquarters on Thursday, following the denial of entry visas to a...

SYRIA’S Minister of Health, Dr Hassan al-Ghobash, inaugurated the rebuilt General Authority of Aleppo Eye Surgery Hospital on Monday. The hospital, which was destroyed by...

MORE than a week after Donald Trump’s election as next US president, protesters continue to take to the streets in the US and elsewhere...

By Paddy O’Regan RAY ATHOW WAS a party member for 47 years and an organiser for over 30. In all that time, what distinguished him is...

IN A world of depleting resources and contracting economies, states are preparing for future uprisings by a growing underclass. It is hard to ignore the...

IN 2013, foreign brands and unions signed an Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, and although workers  who need to complain against...

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...

Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due...

THE Greek working class has once again demonstrated its strength and determination with a powerful one day general strike last Wednesday, called by the...

Workers at an Amazon air hub in Hebron, Kentucky celebrated a victory on Thursday after the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) found that Amazon...

YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Defence announced in Parliament the establishment of a public inquiry into the incident of alleged mistreatment...

THE LEADER of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has delivered a revealing analysis of the current political situation and spoke candidly about his organisation’s increasing...

A NORTH East London Council of Action conference of over 150 workers, pensioners and youth on Saturday voted unanimously for an occupation of...

THE Sri Lankan government is attempting to portray the continually escalating incidents of civilian murders, disappearances and robberies as the result of individual enmities...

UNITE, Britain’s biggest union, says urgent action is needed to stop the growth of the zero-hours culture as new figures show the use of...

FIVE Picturehouse cinemas are on strike this May Day. In a repeat of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history in April, five...

UNIONS representing more than a million staff working across the NHS met with Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Tuesday to discuss the growing workforce crisis...

THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) said Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu blatantly manipulated the facts when he compared Hamas with the Islamic State group...

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

A United States-based human rights organisation has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former US president Joe Biden for ‘aiding and...

STRIKING South African parliamentary staff on Friday said they would no longer negotiate with the unpopular secretary of the legislature Gengezi Mgidlana and demanded...

Two sick Palestinian prisoners have attempted to commit suicide, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s ministry of prisoners affairs said on Tuesday. Hanan al-Khatib said...

IRISH nurses and midwives are taking strike action from next week, with two-hour rolling stoppages commencing on Thursday, 14th January. Members of the Irish Nurses...

COLOMBIAN trade union leader, Huber Ballesteros, was finally able to address the TUC Congress in Brighton on Wednesday. Weeks before he was due to fly...

THE Irish courts have ruled that a four-hour strike action at airports due to take place today is illegal. The SIPTU trade union which...

MANUFACTURE is now in recession! GMB union responds to the latest ONS ‘damning’ figures which shows the start of a major slump. GMB,...

THIRTEEN Palestinian schools in the besieged Gaza Strip were severely damaged on Tuesday, in the Israeli escalation across the Strip, which has claimed the...

Over 500 students, lecturers and other academic staff, and privatisation-threatened support workers, held a vibrant march and rally on Tuesday afternoon, in support of...

NEARLY 14,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in New York have signed up to join the local branch of the Amalgamated Transit Union, according to...

A GENERAL strike took place on Tuesday in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Issawiya in protest at the latest Israeli ‘security fences’ dividing Palestinian neighbourhoods...

Lorry Drivers and small hauliers rallied hundreds strong at Marble Arch in London yesterday to demand a government fuel subsidy or fuel tax relief...