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WORKERS in the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the National Transport Movement and the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union, on...

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

A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...

WHILE Gaza City is living through one of its harshest phases, as the ongoing Israeli military assault targets its neighbourhoods and drives its residents...

RMT Union leader Steve Hedley was attacked after taking part in a counter-protest to the Trump and Robinson rally on Saturday. The union leader...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has called for immediate transparency from Coventry University after its recently published Annual Report and Financial Statements revealed...

‘At the end of 2009, some 43.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution, the highest number since the mid-1990s,’...

President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday received Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Yong-ho and the accompanying delegation. Talks during...

THE Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinezhad has said that Iran wishes to have talks with the West on a whole range of issues. He was speaking...

‘TODAY, as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and working families all over the country are coming together in marches for civil...

AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP have confirmed that ABC journalist Dan Oakes will not be prosecuted over his reporting on alleged war crimes carried out...

THE chief PLO negotiator has presented his resignation to the Palestinian president and PLO leadership, officials in Ramallah announced Saturday. Saeb Erekat resigned because of...

THE Department of Health has published an 80-page response to the Francis report into the failings at Mid Staffs Hospital. This is called ‘Patients...

OVER 1,000 head teachers from England and Wales gathered in Parliament Square at 11am on Friday before marching to Downing Street to protest at...

PEOPLE with care needs are having to turn down support packages because they cannot afford them. Backdated bills for care arrive without any explanation of...

‘Reinstate the union president and stop union-busting immediately!’, said the banner of Japanese trade union officials outside the Indonesian embassy in Tokyo on January...

‘WE LIVE in a moment which feels like everything is at stake,’ Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) National President Mark Hancock told convention...

A GROUP OF women’s committees in the besieged Gaza Strip organised a sit-in on Thursday to demand equal pay between men and women in...

A militant National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay on Monday voted to defend disabled people against the attacks of the coalition...

UK children’s wellbeing lags behind many other European countries, including France, Germany, Slovenia and Estonia, Save the Children has found. The charity’s World’s Mothers Index,...

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, received Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday. Assad travelled to Tehran to offer condolences over the loss...

THE following is a statement by Joe Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, made at the ‘Change To...

‘EVERYONE, all of the country, must get organised to take rent strike action, we have shown that rent strikes work,’ Angus O’Brien, the student...

A POWERFUL march of more than 150 local residents, trade unionists, workers, students and youth drew enormous support from the busy Enfield shopping centre...

UNIVERSITIES must scrap plans to reopen campuses next month in order to prevent a major public health crisis, lecturers union UCU said. The union fears...

An ICEM global union federation report has found that the rights of workers in the cement industries of the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation issued a media brief on Tuesday, entitled: Israel’s Colonisation in Western Bethlehem and its Policy of Destroying the Prospects for...

THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) has backed the global school strike on 20 September and pledged to support the efforts of school youth striking...

A GROUP of Israeli military forces and settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds and clashed with...

AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...

TROUBLE erupted on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday the 7th of April 2021. We can only ask if we are witnessing a return...

The Israeli occupation army continued, for the 60th consecutive day yesterday, to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, targeting residential buildings and...

UNITED STATES Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has called on Congress to immediately authorise Tel Aviv’s request for extra emergency funding. Graham made the remarks in...

Over 1,000 secondary school teachers staged a militant rally on Wednesday morning at the Athens Education Authority where a Disciplinary Council was to examine...

DOCTOR Saeb Erekat, head of the PLO Negotiations’ Affairs Department, has said that differences over many issues remain pending between the Palestinian and Israeli...

The Iraqi resistance is dealing daily blows against the US-UK led occupiers as it steps up its attacks. Last Tuesday fighters  attacked with three mortars a...

PALESTINIANS have denounced Binyamin Netanyahu’s swearing-in as Israel’s prime minister in his return as head of the Tel Aviv regime’s most far-right cabinet in...

ON August 10 2005 Gate Gourmet locked out and dismissed over 700 workers in a pre-planned operation designed to secure the introduction of their...

‘WE need to fight like never before,’ Public and Commercial Services (PCS) leader Mark Serwotka told the union annual conference on Wednesday. Tory Government cuts...

FRANCE''S longest rail strike in years entered its second week on Monday, causing major disruptions in a crucial test for President Francois Hollande’s embattled reformist government. The...

THE Iranian foreign minister has warned that the risk of a ‘wider’ conflict in the region has sharply increased due to the United States’...

TWENTY-SIX thousand Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers and 8,000 support staff workers including custodians, special education assistants and bus aides walked out on strike...

A Turkish newspaper discussing the conflict emerging with Syria has urged restraint to avoid confrontation with Iran. Yeni Safak said: ‘Have you realised that Tehran’s...

HAMAS has denounced the ‘normalisation deals’ with Israel, because they are aimed at legitimatising the regime in the Middle East and forging an alliance...

IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif defiantly addressed reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the Iranian cabinet in Tehran on August 12,...