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AS COVID-19 continues to fuel increased hardship among the two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, thousands of vulnerable and orphaned refugee children living...

Following a successful ballot of both unions’ leadership members, the NUT and NAHT executives have decided that the boycott of this year’s SATs will...

AN INVESTIGATION released last week into the deaths in July 2019 of two railworkers at Magram, a suburb of Port Talbot in Wales, has...

‘FREE, Free Palestine!’ shouted a crowd of over 400 workers and youth demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy on Saturday. The protest was part of the...

MYANMAR’s trade unions are facing brutal retaliation in the fight for democracy, says Khaing Zar Aung, the President of the Industrial Workers Union of Myanmar. Democratic...

TEN students were killed and others were injured by a mortar shell fired by terrorists which fell inside the cafeteria of the Faculty of...

WOMEN activists and Tamil youth activists of the missing persons’ relatives campaign concluded a three-day fast and a four-day walk from Mu’l’livaaykkaal in Vanni...

Angry, striking carworkers from Sandouville (Seine-Maritime) Renault plant demonstrated in the streets of Le Havre on Thursday, September 25. The French motor manufacturing giant recently...

SEVERAL Palestinian associations and institutions have issued a statement calling on the international community to save Palestinian schools from the occupation’s education genocide, as...

THE ‘re-configuration’ of 60 District General Hospitals (DGHs) means a huge reduction in National Health Service (NHS) hospital capacity. This will result in the loss...

THE Irish trade union leaders are currently deciding whether to accept state control of their public sector trade unions, including control over wages,...

Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...

SYRIA’S Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Hussam Eddin Ala, affirmed on Monday that the Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and...

The march was organised by a number of groups including Stop the War, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Friends...

COSATU leader Zwelinzima Vavi has written an open letter to the South African Communist Party (SACP) expressing his concerns over the party’s right wing...

JAILED hunger striker Samer Issawi has now stopped taking water after refusing food for 188 days, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said on Tuesday. A PPS...

ON 21st March 2018, Jeremy Hunt announced the government was offering NHS staff on Agenda For Change (AfC) a new pay offer. ON 21st...

The sacked Gate Gourmet workers marked the fourth anniversary of their struggle with a 200-plus strong rally and an evening of thrilling entertainment at...

THE TUC delegates in Liverpool at the 2009 Congress on Monday voted unanimously to defend public services. Composite Motion C21 Public Services and the Economy...

THE HEAD of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh says all the Palestinian resistance factions firmly support the families of the East al-Quds neighbourhood of...

THE GOVERNMENT’S announcement of a national lockdown on 31st October, after trying to stave off this ‘nuclear’ option for two months with tiered restrictions,...

WORKERS and youth signed up to join the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) and Young Socialists on Saturday, saying they will vote for Hornsey and...

RECENT attacks on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile strikes, were led by the United States according to a CBS television report Saturday. The...

Workers at Barnes & Noble, the United States largest chain of bookstores, are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six shops voted...

‘OrganiSational and safety deficiencies at all levels of the BP Corporation’ caused the March 23, 2005, explosion at the BP Texas City refinery, the...

DOCTORS and nurses slammed government cuts and warned of a new winter crisis in response to the latest NHS Digital performance figures released on...

CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has exposed how the union was infiltrated by the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The revelation creates fresh questions about the...

TWENTY-SEVEN Unite members have won their tribunal claim over calculation of a redundancy payment at Rosyth Royal Dockyard in an Employment Tribunal decision. The members...

UNITED STATES Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-backed Afghan forces have committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability which amount to war crimes, Human...

‘WE are not going to leave, we will fight them to the end and this only ends when we are given a permanent home!’ This...

ABU Shujaa, the intrepid commander of the Tulkarm Brigade, was assassinated last Thursday during a deadly Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee...

DELEGATES to the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) biennial conference in Kilkenny on Sunday called on the Irish government to abolish the proposed...

BELARUS ‘cannot’ call off the WWII Victory Day parade on 9 May, despite the coronavirus pandemic, because thousands of people are looking forward to...

‘Get Ready For A Stayaway,’ the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) General Council has instructed its member organisations. In a statement last Saturday, ZCTU...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Tuesday that al-Shifa Hospital is ‘nearly a cemetery’ and unable to bury dead bodies as the facility is...

‘IT IS TIME to get serious. It is time to go all the way and uproot the virus of occupation. We demand sanctions on...

A group of blacklisted workers in the UK has launched a High Court claim against construction giant Sir Robert McAlpine which could potentially be...

‘FREE Mahmoud Khalil!’ demanded a lively demonstration organised by the Camp4Palestine outside the US Embassy in South London on Wednesday night. Addressing a rally outside...

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

PRO-PALESTINE protests and occupations are sweeping universities across America, with students and lecturers demanding an end to US arms to Israel. The demonstrations, which started...

HUWARA, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, was almost entirely set ablaze on Sunday night as extensive fires engulfed...

Fresh Israeli strikes bombed several sites in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, leaving at least 16 people injured – two in a critical condition,...

AN OFFICIAL at Syria’s Foreign and Expatriates Ministry affirmed at the weekend that all shouting and untrue, fabricated news about the use of chemical...

The Peace Camp in Parliament Square was brutally raided by armed police at 8am on Tuesday morning and its leaders were arrested and dragged...

MARWAN al Barghouthi, the Fatah leader is currently serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail. In an interview with the Lebanese...