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‘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...

WORKERS, students and youth who came from across the country to rally for Palestine in Whitehall, central London on Saturday, were subject to a...

LAST Wednesday’s 24-hour general strike in Greece saw tens of thousands of workers, students and young people, many waving Palestinian flags, taking part in...

After enduring sniper attacks, fires, bombings, and all forms of violence, the displaced residents of Gaza now face the deadly threat of freezing temperatures...

Defend Council Housing! Demonstrate against the land grab by property Developers Berkeley Housing today. Siobhan McCarthy from local action group Aylesham Community Action, (ACA) believes...

LEBANESE resistance movement Hezbollah issued a statement on Tuesday to condemn the unjust decision by Australia to impose sanctions on Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, His Eminence...

Amidst an atmosphere filled with anticipation and hope, the residents of the Gaza Strip spent their first night after the ceasefire took effect on...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) said on Thursday that they welcome the...

SEVERAL girl students suffered from exposure to tear gas on Tuesday morning when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked their school in al-Khader town,...

THE National Union of Journalists on Tuesday joined the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), in welcoming...

History was written last Friday in Greece as truly colossal general strike rallies took place throughout the country when literally hundreds of thousands of...

UNI Global Union said on Thursday that its US affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire...

Tens of thousands of workers at University of California campuses and UC health care facilities started a 48-hour strike on Wednesday. The strike includes more...

Tens of thousands of youth, students and workers participated last Friday evening in fiercely anti-government marches and rallies, held in Athens and ten other...

COSATU President Zingiswa Losi addressed Day One of the South African trade union movement Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday: ‘Comrades! Brothers and Sisters!...

By Nahid Poureisa, an Iranian analyst and academic researcher focused on West Asia and China   ‘A total of 200 Palestinian abductees, including 121 serving life sentences, were...

A coalition of American unions has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation...

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

A RENOWNED American attorney and indigenous rights campaigner estimates that the Israeli military has killed at least 360,000 people in its 15-month-long genocidal war...

A GROUP of senior doctors from Gaza say they endured beatings, torture and prolonged incarceration at the hands of Israeli forces during the recent...

Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, shocking new testimony from nursing staff revealed on Thursday. A survey of NHS nursing...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), along with 125 other civil society organisations, has urged the European Union (EU) to review Israel’s compliance with its human...

Two Portland, Oregon unions representing city employees are getting closer to walking off the job over a breakdown in contract negotiations. The American Federation of...

ITALY started a 24-hour nationwide general strike on Friday evening at 9pm. The nationwide action organised by USI-CIT, Slai-COBAS, CUB, USB, ADL COBAS-CLAP, and the...

A United States-based human rights organisation has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former US president Joe Biden for ‘aiding and...

Birmingham bin strikers fighting race to the bottom Striking Birmingham bin workers have rejected a one off non-consolidated cash offer from Birmingham council but only if they accept a brutal...

UK higher Education faces an unprecedented crisis, the University and College Union (UCU) has declared, with new data compiled by the union showing over...

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

US President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late on Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at ending...

In a statement released on Wednesday the National Education Association (NEA) Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) the two largest teaching unions...

AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...

PALESTINIAN detainees released back to Gaza have told the BBC they were subjected to mistreatment and torture at the hands of Israeli military and...

BIRMINGHAM binworkers began indefinite strike action yesterday, Tuesday 11 March, determined to defeat the ‘commissioners’, who were handed control of the council by the...

The Israeli forces have initiated a military plan to capture and control 25 per cent of Gaza, calling it the buffer zone that it...

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

THE Palestinian Government Communication Centre has issued its weekly Situation Report covering the key recent developments across occupied Palestine. This week’s report highlights Israel’s renewed...

ON THE morning of 24 August 2024, four-year-old Mira Al-Darini stood outside her family’s makeshift tent in a cramped displacement camp in Khan Younis,...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) held a rally and lobby of Parliament on Tuesday as part of its fight against a huge escalation,...

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement, abruptly declared the end of the ceasefire agreement beyond the first phase with the...

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that severe water shortages in the Gaza Strip have reached critical levels, with only one in...

THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Wednesday rejected the budget of the ANC led coalition for a second time. SAFTU stated: ‘SAFTU...

THOUSANDS of workers across the United States have hit the streets to say ‘Hell No!’ to dismantling the postal service. The National Association of Letter...

UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) warned on Sunday that children in Palestine are facing ‘extremely alarming’ conditions, living in ‘intense fear and anxiety,’ and...

GOOGLE has announced a $32 billion deal to acquire Wiz, an Israeli cloud security company founded by former operatives of Unit 8200, the Israeli...

A NEW rapid systematic review published last Friday 7th March by researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford,...