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THE UFCW US trade union has reacted strongly against the mistreatment of migrant workers during US government raids where they have been illegally...

In his Utah speech to army veterans last Thursday, US President Bush threatened Iran with ‘consequences’, adding that the US will step up its...

‘Over our long fight for the truth there has been no remorse shown by the police – in fact they have tried to disrupt...

THE death toll from a fire in Pakistan’s Gadani shipbreaking yard rose to 21 last Thursday, with as many as 150 still trapped in...

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...

MORE than 5,000 workers, students and youth joined the Grenfell Tower fire 8th anniversary march through Ladbroke Grove, west London on Saturday. It was the...

The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended at the weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labour action overwhelmingly voted...

PARISIAN finance and tax workers held a one-day strike in defence of jobs and services last Friday, July 9th, accompanied by a rally which...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...

Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack says the deaths of four firefighters in Warwickshire has echoed in fire services around the world. The...

THE Young Socialists march from London to Liverpool arrived at the Stafford occupation camp to cheers from the campers on Day 11 of the...

Dr Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, was killed on Wednesday when an Israeli airstrike targeted his home near the...

ISRAEL plans to step up arrests of suspected militants in the occupied West Bank to prevent a rising tide of low-intensity conflict and civil...

The Interim Agreement (I.A.), brokered by Brendan Barber of the TUC, between Royal Mail and the CWU, has allowed Royal Mail to press ahead...

ONE media worker has been sentenced and jailed and another detained amid rising attacks against the press by the military junta in Myanmar. A freelance...

CONSTRUCTION, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) supporters have warned that the massiveprotests bringing city traffic in Melbourne and Sydney to a halt last...

HISTORY has shown that there is not a military solution to the struggle taking place in Sri Lanka, says a Tamil politician, in an...

TENANTS who attended this week’s council housing inquiry at parliament say a programme of new council house building must begin immediately and projects to...

On the 7th of October 2006 a coalition of migrant groups, trade unions and social justice activists marched in London demanding equal rights for...

VOTING takes place this Sunday in Greece for the snap general election the current right-wing government of the New Democracy party called to avoid...

Furious workers in the town of Bell in California have forced their city manager and police chief to resign over a scandal in which...

THOUSANDS of students poured out of classes from University of California (UC) campuses across the state on Thursday to show their anger and opposition...

‘To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty.’ This is the viewpoint...

‘THE GOVERNMENT must resolve the long-term funding, capacity and recruitment issues’ if it is going to avoid a ‘winter crisis’ all year round, doctors...

‘We are concluding the year with greater levels of unity and cohesion in our ranks, which will help us confront the daunting challenges of...

TAMIL NET reports that Ananthi Sasitharan, wife of Elilan, former Trincomalee political head of the LTTE, has told BBC Tamil service that she and...

20,000 people took part in last Saturday’s march in Dublin organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. The aim of the protest was to...

TamilNet reports that 1191 members of 385 Internally Displaced families among the hundreds of thousands detained in Vavuniyaa internment camps after the fall of...

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

Naji Maysara Ghneim, 23, died on Wednesday of wounds sustained a few days ago when hit by Israeli army gunfire east of Rafah in...

‘IT is shameful that, as one of the richest economies, the UK has provided shelter for less than one per cent of refugees,’...

TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...

ALTHOUGH Zimbabwe’s main opposition group, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), called off anti-government protests in the capital Harare at the last minute last...

OVER seventy campaigners demanding the release of Julian Assange attended a party outside Belmarsh prison on Sunday to celebrate his 51st birthday. Assange has been...

LAST Wednesday Howard Beckett, Unite union assistant general secretary, welcomed as a victory for the union British Airways ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’. Beckett...

MEMBER of the PLO Executive Committee, Hanan Ashrawi, said on Saturday evening that the Israeli government and its allies are responsible for rise in...

‘We support a general strike to defeat this bill, we supported it in the TUC and it’s our policy,’ RMT leader Mick Lynch told...

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM) leaders at Boeing the aircraft manufacturers are demanding a 40 per cent pay rise over...

‘WE made Marks and Spencer their profits!’ said an angry Fenland Food worker fighting the closure of her factory and the loss of hundreds...

Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International IN THE first months of this year, north Africa has seen the eruption of colossal revolutionary...

SCHOOLS were closed or disrupted across England and Wales on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of angry teachers took part in a one-day strike...

IN HER foreword to the US Department of Labor’s findings on the worst forms of child labour in 2011, Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of...

LEADING Tunisian judges on Sunday rejected President Kais Saied’s moves to disband the Supreme Judicial Council that oversees them, a move they see as...

BY RETIRED BMA MEMBER ANNA ATHOW THE main story on BBC news on Saturday, was that Boris Johnson was proposing to reverse the Cameron health...

Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Wednesday that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) will close the international Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip...