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THERE is widespread opposition amongst members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) trade union in America to the deal its leaders agreed to call...

THE GMB has called on the government to delay the private equity take-over of Boots in the wake of the IMF warning of the...

ISRAELI officials plan to rubber-stamp the construction of ten new settlements in the Negev desert region at a cabinet meeting next Sunday. The decision...

Youth unemployment is increasing in two thirds of local authorities across UK, warned the TUC on Wednesday. Office for National Statistics figures show that a...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said that it is ‘deeply saddened at the loss of life and immense suffering caused’ by Monday’s massive fire...

Marking Saturday’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United States officials have yet again failed to condemn the Israeli regime for...

Medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating over £13,000 more in debt than their better off peers, says a new report from the BMA. The...

THE PCS civil servants union held a 70-strong international rally at its annual conference in Brighton last Wednesday evening where it launched a joint...

WASHINGTON’S already tense relationship with the 82,000-strong Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces militia coalition suffered a major blow in January after PMF deputy commander Abu...

AN African American journalist and political analyst has said that ever since the inception of the police in the United States African people have...

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...

The BMA ARM (British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting), which took place in Brighton this summer, passed a number of very important motions, including...

STATISTICS indicate that about 30% of South Africa’s workers now belong to unions. Workers in South Africa have many burning issues that include the pressing...

THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has surged dramatically this year, with over...

‘BUILD the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists and the Fourth International.’ That was the message from the News Line/Trotsky Anniversary rally attended by...

THE lecturers strikewave across UK universities is reaching tidal proportions this week, as thousands of University and College Union (UCU) members fight for their...

THE UNION representing 12,000 striking Ontario college faculty called on Tuesday for its members to reject their employers’ latest contract offer in a ballot...

IN CONDITIONS of polarisation, the conservative New Democracy party won Sunday’s crucial and vastly internationally significant Greek general election gaining 29.6 per cent of...

GREEK armed riot police squads once again viciously attacked the women cleaners outside the Finance Ministry in central Athens last Thursday afternoon. Four women cleaners...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on Saturday said he would accept joint control of the Rafah crossing. In a news conference, Haniya said his government...

AN estimated 150 Indian students are fighting being kicked out of New Zealand because their supporting visa documents were forged by agents in India. The...

MARWAN AL-BARGHOUTHI, the Fatah leader imprisoned in Israel, called on the Palestinian leaders ‘to go to the Gaza Strip in order to take part...

THE AFL-CIO labour federation has released the following statement on the 16-day shutdown and threatened default by the US government: ‘Adults took over Washington, DC,...

‘SRI LANKA’s promises on human rights should no longer be accepted by the international community’, Amnesty International said in a press statement after the...

Amos Hochstein, a senior United States diplomat, has met Israeli leaders and has also visited Lebanon as part of a push by Washington to...

OVER 50% of local authorities in England and Wales cannot provide publicly funded legal advice on housing issues, the Law Society warned yesterday as...

THE STRONGEST and most viable effort yet to create a union at technology giant Amazon in many years is underway at its warehouse in...

ON the eighth anniversary of the September 21 Revolution, thousands of Yemeni people poured onto streets in the northwestern city of Sa’ada and other...

AT LEAST thirteen Palestinian protesters were shot and injured with Israeli live ammunition, on Wednesday, during mass protests commemorating the 71st anniversary of Nakba...

REPUBLICAN leaders in Congress are working on plans to cut health benefits for tens of millions of people. The harms from these cuts are...

‘The Department for Health and Social Care’s decision to prioritise hospitals at the beginning of the pandemic meant social care providers were left exposed...

Passing cars tooted their horns at the 20-strong, 21st monthly mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday. And hospital workers, outpatients and local residents...

ISRAELI police stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Sunday morning, right after worshippers at the site were protesting against the provocative visit...

A PALESTINIAN family of four was killed in a NATO airstrike on Monday in the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to the Palestinian...

FIREFIGHTERS face a greater risk of developing cancer because of an ‘alarmingly high’ level of dangerous chemicals carried on their clothing, researchers have found....

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that the United States and Zionists are especially targeting Iran because it is...

THE Syrian opposition’s chief negotiator in peace talks in Geneva said on Wednesday he was ‘not optimistic’ about strained efforts to end the nearly...

HANDS Off Iraqi Oil – the campaign launched to stop the theft of Iraq’s oil reserves – says that mainstream media coverage ‘has uncritically...

DR Anila Reddy has resigned from his post as the lead GP at an NHS ‘walk-in centre’ run by the private sector, at London’s...

JOB SEEKERS are struggling, says the CGT French trade union federation. It said: ‘More job seekers work part-time or under short contracts, while being registered...

TEACHERS unions on Monday condemned plans for a huge acceleration of the forced academisation of state education, with another 3,320 schools handed over to...

Syria has condemned in the strongest terms the United States military for carrying out multiple air strikes in the eastern parts of the Arab...

The US administration has failed dismally in the case of Sri Lanka, with catastrophic consequences, commented Tamil legal activists in the United States on...

THE TORY government’s new asylum bill will allow thousands of refugee children who are separated from their parents to be locked up, according to...

The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says the Israeli military has systematically targeted dozens of information technology experts in the Gaza Strip, as part of...