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THERE were strong picket lines outside fire stations throughout England and Wales between 10am-2pm on Wednesday afternoon, as the Fire Brigades Union held its...

A United Nations human rights expert has slammed Israel’s ‘apartheid practices’ in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying the Tel Aviv regime’s actions against Palestinians...

Teamsters members at the supermarket Costco across the United States voted by an overwhelming 85 per cent margin on Thursday to authorise a national...

The offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in India have been raided and searched by the country’s income tax authorities on Tuesday, according...

OVERWORKED doctors must be allowed to rest and recover so we can keep patients safe, doctors’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) warned. The BMA...

‘WE have to admit with pain and with a bowed head – we failed.’ These are the words of Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich...

TRADE UNION Solidarity on Friday said that it regrets the retrenchment crisis at ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), warning that if key players in the...

ISRAELI forces on Friday shot and killed 18 Palestinians as they assaulted rallies that set out to commemorate Land Day on many...

Last week, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government of Jason Kenney introduced Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act, which constitutes ‘an attack...

TWO Hundred Bombardier workers and their supporters descended on parliament on Wednesday to urge the Tory coalition ‘to save British train manufacturing’. The government has...

THE LABOUR Party Conference in Brighton overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Israel for perpetrating an ‘ongoing Nakba’ in the occupied Palestinian territories. The motion, brought by...

DOZENS of trade unions, youth groups, and resistance movements in Turkey marched on Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square on May Day, in open defiance of...

CASES of torture in police stations continue in Egypt despite an uprising that ostensibly began against police brutality, Amnesty International says. The recent case of...

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...

A SENIOR civil servant ‘ignored’ a ‘red alert’ warning about the ‘widespread, historic and ongoing’ use of a highly combustible cladding product on UK...

The University and College Union (UCU) said on Wednesday that for widening participation to really succeed, potential students must have access to the courses...

RUSSIA has the capability to assist with the economic development of Africa and could be a superior replacement to Western countries that are currently...

‘The Abbott Government’s assault on welfare, Medicare, education and the public sector represents the end of the fair go and the biggest attack on...

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released the following statement on the results of the 2016 presidential election in which he declared his willingness to work...

THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...

North Korea has no intention of attacking South Korea, nor does it have any interest in a forceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula, the...

IRAN’S security chief has brushed aside reports about Israel’s budget for a potential attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, warning the Zionist regime that it...

From the start of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was deeply involved. Just after 7th October, Blinken...

EXTENSIVE research by the University of Central Lancashire into toxic contamination surrounding the Grenfell Tower after the tragic fire there has now been published...

US President George W Bush was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his campaign to isolate arch foe Iran and for...

IRANIAN President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad spoke to a gathering of the people of Ramshir in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, which has a large Arab population...

DIVISIONS among the Israeli political leaders have emerged over the way to handle the offensive on Gaza. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak is...

PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were revealed at a south London press conference on Monday. The government-appointed Trust...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it has ‘every intention’ of mounting a court challenge to the lock-out by the...

A PALESTINIAN was fatally shot on Monday by Israeli forces’ fire, after he carried out a shooting attack against Israelis in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood...

Over two hundred doctors, medical staff and health campaigners on Sunday welcomed two NHS consultants at the end of their ‘Bevan’s Run’ against the...

IN a press conference on Sunday afternoon, May 2nd the Greek Finance Minister Yiorghos Papakonstantinou announced yet another set of austerity measures verified later...

A PALESTINIAN rights group has called on United Nations experts and rapporteurs to hold the Israeli regime to account for its extrajudicial killings of...

SOS NHS are demanding emergency investment in a publicly provided NHS. The immediate measures needed are highlighted in a statement for the NHS Day of...

SUNDAY December 8th, marked the 37th anniversary of the First Intifada, the great Palestinian uprising that redefined resistance against the Israeli occupation and apartheid. Intifada is an Arabic...

CAMPAIGNING began on Sunday for Syria’s June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar al-Assad to power, as the regime marked a ...

The Refugee Council has welcomed today’s publication of a new Amnesty International UK report on detention of asylum seekers ‘The Human Cost of Detention’....

‘AUSTERITY-LED changes of the past decade have stirred up a “perfect storm”. The Government in England shifts responsibility for providing services from the centre...

Students on a 1,000-strong march through London on Wednesday called on the trade unions to act to restore free education. Students marched from University of...

CARE staff who come to the UK from overseas are having to share beds with other workers, sleep rough, and pay huge fees to...

RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of becoming directly involved in the Ukraine war by supplying the country with weapons and...

FOR the first time since the conclusion of its ‘normalisation’ deals with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, Israel is set to approve...

SECURITY workers from Great Ormond St Children’s Hospital (GOSH) held a rally on Thursday at lunchtime to mark the end of their six week...

THE Glasgow Reporting Centre at Brand Street was shut down on Tuesday morning as ‘No Borders’ activists and others opposed to the forced removal...

YEMENI army soldiers backed by members of the Popular Committees have managed to foil an attack launched by Saudi naval forces on Yemen’s strategic...