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CAMPAIGNERS fighting to stop Hove Park School in Brighton & Hove being turned into an academy have called a march for July 5th. Hands Off...

PRIVATE Treatment Centres have become a key element in the Labour Government’s plans to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). They are being used in...

Film and television writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the United States are to strike on and from May Day in...

‘THE CITY of Cape Town cannot be allowed to have its cake and eat it. We should not allow it to heap all praise...

THE number of those displaced by the US/NATO military surge against the Taleban resistance in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, has more...

The US State Department falsified a report earlier this month to exonerate Israel from blame for obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, contradicting its own...

THE Fire Brigades Union in Northamptonshire is extremely concerned at reports suggesting a possible merger of the fire and rescue service and the police,...

SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, has requested the United Nations initiates an official investigation into Israeli extrajudicial killings of...

AS MINEWORKERS in Marikana prepared yesterday to commemorate the deaths of 34 of their colleagues at the hands of police a year ago, hopes...

AGAINST a background of rolling blackouts, rising poverty and an out-of-control cost of living crisis, the South African government of Cyril Ramaphosa now faces...

THE Attorney General of Mexico has failed to properly investigate all lines of inquiry into allegations of complicity by armed forces and others in...

MEXICO’S main teachers’ union has defended Venezuela against US President Trump’s threats of military action. In a formal statement, the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican...

THE US Senator Richard Black has said that the ‘crisis’ in Syria ‘will be over quickly once (the) US withdraws its troops from Syrian...

‘THIS is like the 1980s with the miners, even though this is meant to be a democracy and we’ve got the right to withdraw...

HUSAYN al-Khalil, the political aide to Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on 12 May held a Beirut press conference where he insisted that the...

THREE veteran leaders of the UAW have sent an open letter to Ron Gettelfinger and the UAW leadership expressing their concern that the leadership...

THE ZIMBABWEAN government has arrested thirteen nurses who were protesting their deteriorating pay and working conditions. They have since been released on bail –...

AMERICAN journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen has argued that there is no difference between the so-called left, centrist and right parties in Israel, as...

MAKE it Right for Palestine Campaign Year 2017 was launched on Saturday at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) HQ near Euston, north west...

FRENCH vehicle maker the PSA Group says it is pushing ahead with a plan to invest in Iran’s auto industry despite an increased anti-Iran...

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says nearly 3,000 children are at risk of dying before the eyes of their families as they have...

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and the Association for the Prevention of Torture have issued a joint statement calling...

‘THERE is only one decision: No extradition! – free Julian Assange’ chanted a demonstration of over 50 supporters of the jailed Wikileaks founder Julian...

TAMIL National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran has called for an international investigation into the state of Prisoners of War (POW) in Sri Lanka,...

The Israeli army and intelligence agencies’ websites were offline on Sunday, two days after hacker group Anonymous warned it would ‘strike back’ in retaliation...

TEACHERS’ unions united together this week in condemning the Tory SATs tests ‘debacle’, vividly reporting the harm they are doing to children and insisting...

Northumbria University has stepped back from its decision to make immediate deductions of 100 per cent of pay from hundreds of lecturers belonging to...

The United States embassy compound in the Libyan capital of Tripoli has been raided by militiamen, but no Americans were present as the embassy...

TRADE union rights are facing escalating challenges throughout Europe, warns the European Public Service Union (EPSU). In France, a number of trade union activists are...

US President George W Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP), after it was passed with...

IN HER foreword to the US Department of Labor’s findings on the worst forms of child labour in 2011, Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of...

FURIOUS parents and staff belonging to Unison public sector union have forced Crawley Borough Council (CBC) to issue letters to parents to deny it...

THE PALESTINIAN resistance is ready to repulse any Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, member of Hamas Political Bureau Khalil al-Hayya has said. Speaking at...

TRADE union leaders behind the formation of an alternative federation say they will formally launch the new structure on 1st May this year after...

As lawyers today present a motion to the US Federal Court demanding Shaker Aamer’s immediate release, he has given an exclusive interview to ITV...

WARS in Syria and Afghanistan are driving refugees through Turkey as they make their way to Greece. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos,...

A GROUP of British and Irish activists have arrived in the Gaza Strip to show their solidarity with Palestinians living under siege in the...

THE NHS was a key issue in the general election. US-HMO-style (Health Maintenance Organisations) integrated care systems are being set up all over England. Provided largely...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei has touched on a number of foreign and domestic policy issues, such as the relations with the USA, the...

THE President of the Bangladeshi National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) on Saturday warned eight leading UK retailers that there could be a repeat of...

SECRETARY-general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has warned of a slide towards violence after at least six people, including a...

UNISON has given official notice to the NHS employers Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust that 250 of their staff will take their...

MORE than 200 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through Whitechapel to Bethnal Green in central London on Saturday to the News Line...

THE TITLE of the new GP contract is ‘Investment and evolution: A five-year framework for GP contract reform to implement the NHS Long Term...

Israeli bulldozers demolished two Palestinian houses in the Ath-Thuri neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Al-Quds Centre for...