Features

THE commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards accused Saudi Arabia of treachery on Monday, saying the bombing of Yemen had put the kingdom in...

‘THE Ontario government must step in to protect hospital staff and the public in the Carillion bankruptcy,’ Canada’s largest private sector union, Unifor, demanded...

THE Palestinian National Authority (PNA) immediately reacted to the latest Israeli political upheaval on Monday, describing it sceptically but hopefully as a ‘volcano’ that...

JULY 1. That is the date by which Netanyahu has promised to complete the annexation of the West Bank. But what does that really...

In the early hours of Tuesday morning Israeli Police demolished a whole Bedouin village in the Negev desert. Approximately 1,500 Israeli forces were involved including...

ISRAELI forces shot and injured at least three Palestinian protesters with live ammunition, while others suffered tear-gas suffocation as they suppressed naval protests off...

SOUTH Africa’s largest trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), is to launch a campaign in defence of the Expropriation...

THE ‘Framework for Action’ plan for London’s healthcare, fronted by Professor Sir Ara Darzi, proposes the destruction of a publicly-provided National Health Service (NHS)...

TRADE unions worldwide have condemned the latest attack on workers in Sri Lanka. Different Global Union Federations (GUF), including the Building and Wood Workers’ International...

IN TENNESSEE, an inspiring victory against the outsourcing of all state facilities service jobs has been won under the leadership of the small campus...

Communication Workers Union members are angry that Royal Mail Group has taken Executive Action to replace postal workers’ final salary scheme with an inferior...

UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...

THE HOUTHI Ansarullah movement says any political solution to the Yemen conflict should begin with an end to the US-sponsored Saudi military aggression and...

THE RCN picket outside St Thomas’ hospital opposite Parliament in central London on Tuesday was joined by hundreds of nurses, hospital staff, doctors, and...

OVER 200 Young Socialists and trade unionists lobbied the General Council of the TUC on Wednesday morning as it assembled to discuss the calling...

THE working class must kick out the Tories on June 8th and return Labour to government to set the scene for the struggle for...

OVER 100 Civil Society Organisations produced the following Joint Statement on the Military Take Over in Zimbabwe on November 15, 2017. ‘We the undersigned civil...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the Zionist regime against testing Tehran’s resolve, saying Tel Aviv is fully aware of the wide-range of...

‘WHAT DO we want? 15%! When do we want it? Now!’ rang out on the Nurses March through London on Saturday afternoon. More than 1,000...

JACOB Zuma resigned as president of South Africa on Wednesday ahead of a vote of no confidence over uncontainable corruption scandals, and has been...

FAMILIES of the Beirut Port blast victims are continuing to protest against the suspension of the probe into the devastating explosion that took place...

After more than 20 years in exile, Tunisian Ennahda movement leader Rached Ghannouchi returned from London on Sunday, with thousands of supporters greeting him. Ghannouchi...

IRAN has summoned Turkey’s Ambassador, Derya Ors, over the Turkish interior minister’s ‘unacceptable’ claim about the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant...

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

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Friday evening condemned the Israeli Army for firing into a crowd and killing two Palestinian women during a...

HEZBOLLAH’S deputy leader Shaykh Na’im Qasim said last Wednesday that his group had fought ‘with honour’ in Syria and had helped in the...

Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...

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 TUC National Congress held in Brighton during the first week of September 1984 was dominated by the miners’ strike. Miners from the Cortenwood pit...

MORE than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, have called on the UK government to impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, welcomed the official visit of the President of the United States of America, President Joseph...

In Zimbabwe the police still torture while a political solution to the country’s crisis is being sought, says Amnesty International. The Zimbabwean government continues to...

HUNGER striker Samer Issawi called for ‘rage and solidarity’ from his prison cell on Palestinian Prisoners Day. Issawi wrote in a letter sent through his...

THE unity of the struggles of workers and youth across the USA was expressed last Friday in May Day demonstrations and rallies across the...

Andrew Stroehlein, International Crisis Group’s Communications Director, has slammed the Sri Lankan regime’s ‘duplicity’ over the 240,000 Tamils being held in desperate conditions in...

The NHS white paper, which heralds the rapid privatisation of the health service, has no democratic mandate from the public, Unite said on Monday. Unite...

THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...

THE GMB union has slammed the failure of the Grenfell Report to tell the full story. The roots of this disaster lay not with the...

‘GPs have been forced into commissioning as the Trojan horse of these reforms. They have been hoodwinked – hook, line, and sinker’, Dr Clare...

ROYAL Mail managers replaced 100 striking postal workers with 250 managers to cover last week’s strike . . . yet still refuse to settle...

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

Hundreds more UNITE HERE hotel workers have walked off the job, as another wave of strikes hits the US hotel industry last Thursday. Nearly 2,000...

THE FAMILY of a black man murdered in 1959 is demanding access to the police file on his unsolved killing, said the radio documentary,...

PATIENTS, staff and local residents joined the North-East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday, and agreed with the call...

‘SCHOOL performance tables are not an accurate or reliable indicator of school effectiveness. The Progress 8 measure that is used to compile these tables...