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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...

FAMILIES are being asked to care for their sick relatives, act as nurses and even administer injections, in an extremely controversial move...

‘Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is like a poster girl promoting migration of Filipinos in the name of dollar remittances, at the expense of the poor’, the...

DOCTORS’ anger at the drive to privatise the NHS dominated the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh this week. Delegates voted overwhelmingly for...

THE US Think-Progress website has published the text of the ‘60 Minutes’ TV interview with former CIA official Tyler Drumheller who revealed that in...

MULTI-BILLIONAIRE Richard Branson’s private health company Virgin Care has won £1bn worth of NHS contracts in a single year. Private providers are winning an increasing...

THE Russian embassy in the United States has warned that Washington’s behaviour on the world stage risks direct conflict between the nuclear states. This comes...

AUSTRALIA’S Federal Government has quietly decided to freeze university funding for regional nursing and other students, warns Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union (QNMU). In a...

‘WE will not stand down! We are here with our “street friends”,’ Sister Catherine, lead organiser for Divine Rescue Charity said inside the occupied...

THE United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution declaring that the Israeli regime’s decision to impose its jurisdiction in Syria’s Golan Heights with...

THE RUSSIAN military will do everything possible to reduce and then eliminate the threat of Ukrainian shelling attacks on Russian cities, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry...

THE Health and Safety Executive has served two Improvement Notices on Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service in the aftermath of the deaths of two...

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama was personally informed of phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002, German...

TEHRAN’S Friday prayer leader, Chairman of the Expediency Council, and ex-President of Iran Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, told worshippers ‘Wherever America goes, it finally...

THE International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, the three premier human rights watchdogs, yesterday slammed Sri Lanka’s reconciliation commission (LLRC). They accused...

SIPTU, the Irish trade union, is to call general meetings of its members in Aer Lingus for next week following an emergency meeting of...

ON JUNE 30th, hundreds of thousands of people will be marching to celebrate and defend our National Health Service. The NHS is facing many problems...

AMONG the towns and cities where Iraqis have been marching in funeral processions to honour President Saddam Hussein is Al Dujail. This is where the...

TEACHERS’ unions on Monday rejected Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposal for parent-run schools. They were commenting on his Hugo Young lecture where Miliband set out...

LABOUR activists, community allies and family members came out in force to support UFCW Local 1400 members at Saskatoon Co-op on December 20. They...

‘IT is very clear that the collapse of the capitalist system has collapsed New Labour, that is the modern Labour Party’, News...

‘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...

THE AMERICAN National Nurses United (NNU) applauds the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) efforts to investigate the exploitative and coercive employment-related Training Repayment Agreement...

Hundreds of Numsa metalworkers’ union members at the Impala Platinum Mine in Freedom Park near Rustenburg are on indefinite strike against exploitation by three...

A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...

‘BUDGET 2025: an austerity plan that doesn’t say its name!’ declared French trade union federation Force Ouvrière (FO) on Tuesday. A FO press statement said:...

SYRIANS on Sunday commemorated the 70th anniversary of Evacuation Day on Sunday (Syrian Independence Day, which marks the evacuation of French occupation forces from...

Jewish Holocaust survivors from around the world call for justice in Gaza. Forty Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and 287 descendants of survivors and...

LEADER of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras has warned that the Troika ‘maybe wants to abolish democracy’. Speaking at a railway...

FIVE-HUNDRED St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers – now into the second week of their month-long strike – are going from strength to strength in...

‘THIS is the grim reality of water privatisation, a company swimming in debt while the rest of us are swimming in sewage,’ Unite General...

AN Israeli journalist-turned-intelligence officer has exposed part of the regime’s physical and psychological torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons since Israel launched the...

THE ISRAELI military killed at least 710 Palestinian babies before they made it to their first birthday, the equivalent of two infants under one-year-old...

Four years after the tortured, lifeless body of Bangladesh garment worker – organiser Aminul Islam – was discovered in a ditch, his killers have...

GPs at Handsworth Medical Practice have been praised for their efforts helping victims of a bus crash at Highams Park in North East London...

HUGE numbers of anti-water-charges demonstrators marched through Dublin city last Saturday, ending with a 100,000-strong rally at the Spire on O’Connell Street, with...

Thousands of ambulance workers, paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulance technicians and other 999 crew members in Britain held a one-day strike on Wednesday. Ambulance staff...

ON Friday August 31, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Birri, delivered a speech outlining his proposals for the current political crisis...

OVER 1,750 support staff working in UK state-funded schools responded to a questionnaire stating that they are ‘overworked, underpaid and taken for granted’, the...

ON AUGUST 3rd, the US military announced a plan to deploy armed troops on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, continuing the unilateral...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has criticised the visit of British Premier Tony Blair to Lebanon in a recorded interview broadcast by Al Jazeera TV...

WORKERS at South Africa’s construction supplies giant, Form-Scaff, nationally, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) have downed tools and...

‘YOUNG PEOPLE have been ignored by the government,’ Cat Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Young People said reacting to the new Institute For...

THE GMB welcomes the House of Commons debate on private equity as the ‘barbarians’ target Boots. Michael Meacher MP has secured a...

AT a rally organised in Gaza City on Monday commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal, a number of activists...