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ARGENTINIAN universities began a 24-hour strike on Thursday. The National Interuniversity Council (CIN), professors’ and workers’ unions, and student organisations held the 24-hour strike in...

The Israeli occupation army (IOF) continued carrying out deadly attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of civilians. Israeli forces...

SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...

A PROPOSED ceasefire framework pushed by US President Donald Trump, touted as the ‘final proposal’ for ending Israel’s war on Gaza, would still allow...

VENEZUELA has condemned El Salvador for ‘grave crimes against migrants’, citing human trafficking, xenophobia and illegal deportations. It demands the immediate release of 252 Venezuelans. Venezuela’s...

The UAW (United Autoworkers Union) which represents over 48,000 graduate student workers in the University of California system, will hold a strike authorisation vote...

THE Health Ministry in Gaza has warned that healthcare facilities in the war-wracked territory are nearing closure due to an acute fuel shortage for...

HOURS after the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire deal was announced and confirmed by the Lebanese government, people in southern Lebanon took to the streets on Wednesday...

THE use of fighter jets by the Israeli occupation army for the first time since 2000 to bombard a popular café in Tulkarem city...

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported this week that the Israeli occupation forces have killed, in the ongoing genocide war on the Gaza...

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...

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

NATO member countries have been unable to reach an agreement on a multi-year pledge to provide military aid to Ukraine, the DPA news agency...

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...

‘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...

The Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union has initiated a strike in the United States against video game...

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...

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...

THE INTERNATIONAL federation UNI Global Union has strongly condemned the arrest of David Huerta, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California, who...

More than 3,000 unionised Starbucks workers started an indefinite strike at over 100 stores in the United States on Thursday to protest at a...

‘RACIST scum off our streets, fascist scum off our streets, Nazi scum off our streets!’ 30,000 anti-racist protesters chanted as they marched through central...

the torture of Palestinian prisoners has become commonplace since October 7, 2023, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, warned...

The Argentinian parliament’s upper house narrowly passed a controversial bill key to President Javier Milei’s economic cuts and privatisation plans as thousands of protesters...

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) scored a victory on Wednesday in its challenge to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from...

RUSSIA’S nuclear doctrine needed to be revised to adapt to new realities, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. He explained that it was necessary...

THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been urged to address Israel’s attacks on press freedom and escalating military actions in Lebanon and Gaza, as...

THERE were 500 demonstrators on Saturday’s annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street, where a petition was...

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Monday directed all primary and secondary school teachers in Abuja to join the ongoing strike initiated by...

RIGHT-WING Argentina president President Javier Milei’s spokesman said on Thursday that his government has reduced the workforce at state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas by 13...

On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has made a fervent call for the...

Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators have been killed by the police and the army after days of protests over Tanzania’s disputed election, which incumbent President Samia...

More than 600,000 children in Gaza are at risk of permanent paralysis and chronic disabilities due to Israel’s prevention of polio vaccines in the...

AT DAWN on 26th April, a single Israeli airstrike obliterated an entire Palestinian family in central Gaza’s al-Sabra neighbourhood. The al-Khour family, spanning three generations,...

ISRAELI police arrested 561 Palestinian workers throughout the 1948 occupied territories last week under the pretext of entering ‘without permits’. Human rights groups have condemned...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in the Syrian capital on Sunday to reaffirm Tehran’s firm support for Damascus amid the surprise offensive by...

THE first speaker at the rally in Battersea outside the American embassy was University and College Union General Secretary Jo Grady, who said: ‘There...

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...

British Medical Association (BMA) members have hit back in defence of their profession with scores of horror stories submitted to the Reporting Portal Submissions...

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 group of Palestinian children arrived in Dublin on Friday to receive medical treatment in Ireland. The eight children were evacuated from Gaza, accompanied by...

The health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that the Israeli occupation army as committed three massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip...

Amos Hochstein, a senior United States diplomat, has met Israeli leaders and has also visited Lebanon as part of a push by Washington to...

ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) escalated their policy of collective punishment last Friday, issuing demolition orders in al-Khalil and forcing a Palestinian resident in occupied...

On October 13, the Biden administration issued a forceful letter to Israel with a clear directive: Within 30 days, permit increased humanitarian aid into...

‘THE MASSACRES that are being committed on the ground by the Israeli army indicates that there is a plan being implemented at an unprecedented...