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ON Wednesday workers in Greece staged the biggest ever 24-hour general strike against the IMF–European Commission’s imposed austerity measures with millions participating. Planes remained...

THE President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Katherine Henderson, has urged hospital boards to ‘take immediate action’ to reduce crowding in...

TALKS between Russia and Ukraine should be held on conditions advanced publicly by the Russian side and take into account the actual situation, speaker...

HEZBOLLAH leader Hasan Nasrallah said last Thursday that anti-government protesters would ‘never surrender’ and would continue their street demonstrations until they achieved...

RMT General Secretary Bob Crow has called for joint action to defend pensions against the proposals of Labour renegade Lord Hutton. Crow said: ‘It is...

‘IT IS clear that the economic struggle working-class people are facing is causing real pain and neither party has sufficiently addressed it,’ says AFL-CIO...

‘STOP starving Gaza!’ demanded over 7,000 workers and youth at a mass demonstration outside Downing Street last Friday evening. The ‘emergency protest’ was called by...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Iran’s arch-foe Israel was mulling starting a war ‘next spring or summer’ but has yet to make...

PALESTINIANS rallied across the West Bank and in Gaza on Saturday to commemorate Land Day. March 30 is commemorated every year because of a deadly...

LIBERATION Tigers repulsed a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) ground operation towards the Northern Forward Defence Line (FDL) positions between Ki’laali and Mukamaalai in...

ISRAEL has killed at least 3,452 people and injured more than 14,664 in Lebanon since hostilities began last October between the genocidal Zionist regime...

Continued from lead story The first speaker at the London Rally for Palestine in Whitehall opposite Downing Street at the end of last...

AT LEAST three workers have been killed after protests over garment workers’ wages escalated in Bangladesh, where thousands of angry workers demanding a near-tripling...

Osama Hamdan, the Hamas Movement’s representative in Lebanon, on Saturday condemned Israel as being fully responsible for any retreat from truce understandings. He also said...

WORKERS from Lear plants across the country entered the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday morning (28th May) and spoke directly to Lear Corp....

FAMILIES of 34 South African Marikana miners shot dead by police in 2012, arrived at the ongoing Inquiry into the massacre, being held in...

THE draft political programme of the Hamas-led national coalition government that was distributed to the representatives of the parliamentary blocs and forces during the...

Undercroft Gallery 112-134 Market Place Norwich NR2 Until October 14 HURRY to catch the ‘Art of Revolution’ exhibition taking place in Norwich, dedicated to the 100th anniversary...

THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...

UNITE union members marched and rallied at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, east London Tuesday lunchtime on the first day of a 48-hour strike...

An international conference on Al-Quds, last Sunday, highlighted criminal operations perpetrated by the Zionists, concerning Israel’s annexation policy in Jerusalem. The conference organised under...

THE plight of the Palestinian people under the military occupation is so painful that even sometimes the citizens of Israel recount it in heartwrenching...

Around 4,000 Palestinian workers from Hebron face an arduous journey every day as they try to cross into Israel via the Tarqumiya checkpoint. The luckiest...

NEW evidence showing that Israeli forces carried out war crimes in retaliation for the capture of an Israeli soldier was released on Wednesday in...

Germany’s Ernährung, Gastronomie, Genuss (NGG) union has announced it will step up strike action after negotiations with the Bundesverband der Systemgastronomie (BdS) over a...

ORGANISERS of the second Freedom Flotilla say that an administrative complaint has been filed against the US Boat to Gaza, claiming that the vessel...

PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters have disrupted president Joe Biden’s campaign speech in North Carolina by chanting slogans and protesting against his support for the crimes of...

HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth have re-occupied Tahrir Square in disgust at the light sentencing of ex-president Mubarak and at...

A WikiLeaks exposé has revealed the true intent behind secret 50-country negotiations on a new ‘financial services’ chapter of the Trade in Services Agreement...

ISRAEL’S military intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has been using Microsoft’s European cloud infrastructure to store and analyse a vast archive of intercepted Palestinian phone...

LONGSHORE workers in Oregon and Washington are continuing their round-the-clock fight for a fair contract at grain terminals owned by some of the world’s...

THE INITIAL £6.25 billion spending cuts announced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government on Monday, that will lead to thousands of sackings and closures...

Senior Hamas official Basem Naim has emphasised that no new ceasefire agreement exists, accusing Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to undermine the current...

IN a hard-hitting personal reflection, Irish Political Journalist and National Union of Journalists member JOHN COULTER vehemently defends the right of reporters to withhold...

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

The Unite union has called for the rejection of the government’s final public sector pensions package. ‘The government is steamrolling through its final offer on...

‘I DID nothing wrong,’ claims ‘the Leader’ in a rehearsed reading of ‘Shirleymander’. The sharply witty play by Gregory Evans was presented at the Playground...

ON Monday 24 November, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine and Chairman 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...

AN Israeli court on Thursday ordered the release imprisoned Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners’ Affairs Committee said. Issa Qaraqe...

THE UNIVERSITY of California’s largest employee union, AFSCME Local 3299, has voted to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for President ahead of California’s March...

THE NUT (National Union of Teachers) and the CFHF (Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund) have condemned the fining of parents for taking their children out...

The TUC has joined forces with the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), EEF the manufacturers’ organisation, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and The...

Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Cardiff expressed their serious concerns at the impact of cuts on healthcare. They...

305 THY (Turkish Airlines) workers who were sacked because they rose against the banning of their strike action in the aviation industry by law,...