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‘I feed my children sugar and water … but if they opened a corridor for us to leave in exchange for raising a white...

THE Egyptian Cabinet has approved new legislation on trade union freedoms, consenting to pass the law within days. The new legislation would eliminate many of...

RUSSIA’S victory is unavoidable. It is based on the unity of the Russian people, the heroism of special operation fighters and the operation of...

Since 2017, the United States has imposed numerous sanctions on Venezuela, targeting its oil industry, financial sector, and political leaders. These sanctions have severely damaged...

CHINESE President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China is ready to work with Russia to forge a closer partnership in energy cooperation. Energy cooperation...

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...

SOUTH Korea’s umbrella labour unions are defying a government ban and have pledged to push ahead with organising another massive rally on December 5th,...

FORMER chief justice of Kenya, Willy Mutunga, has attacked the British government over its ‘act of gross inhumanity and injustice’ after two Kenyan tribes filed a case...

NUT Wales has welcomed the Welsh Government’s recommendation that the WJEC seeks to re-award its GCSE English Language examination following the row over the...

‘We have been occupied for 40 years, we have the right to resist’, Farouq Khaddoumi, told a public meeting in London on Monday evening. The...

A TOWER block in Bradford with 160 flats has been evacuated over ‘serious fire safety deficiencies’. All the residents at Appleton Point were told to...

COMPLEX and fragmented arrangements for running the privatised ‘London Rail’ franchise will make it ‘more difficult to manage operationally and safely’, with potentially disastrous...

The mastermind of Israel’s policy of aerial extra-judicial execution of Palestinian resistance fighters, Dan Halutz on Wednesday officially replaced Moshe Ya’alon as Chief of...

Tenants and leaseholders on the Grahame Park housing estate in Colindale, north-west London, are angry over ‘regeneration’ proposals which leave many facing eviction. ‘Choices for...

PALESTINIAN president Mahmoud Abbas has the authority, and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has completed ‘administrative preparations’ for holding a referendum on a two-state...

‘DESPITE the measures taken by the government to try to support the idea that ‘the page on retirement’ is turned, over 1.2 million workers...

A REVOLUTION that will bring the platinum mining industry to its knees and cripple SA’s economy is imminent, says Joseph Mathunjwa, president of...

IN THE span of less than 25 hours, two shooting incidents took place in two areas in the occupied West Bank. In both incidents,...

ISRAEL has reopened two vital border crossings between the occupied territories and the blockaded Gaza Strip, about a week after it closed them amid...

On the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital by Westminster Bridge in Central London, Ada Zembrzycka, a junior doctor and anaesthetic trainee, told News...

Over sixty workers and youth marched through Brixton, southwest London, on Saturday to demand Justice for Ricky Bishop. Ricky Bishop was a young black father...

THE Cuban government last Tuesday, September 26th, released images from the security cameras of its embassy in the United States, where an attack with...

ARTS technicians’ union BECTU’S submission to parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, ahead of October’s Comprehensive Spending Review, predicts ‘conflict’ over savage cuts...

HUNDREDS of armed riot police were employed last Friday morning in Athens in a series of tear-gas and truncheon attacks against protesting state teachers,...

Ukrainian forces lost 593,410 troops over the course of 2024, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry’s weekly briefings over the year indicate...

‘TORIES out!’ ‘Resign!’ shouted angry Justice for Grenfell demonstrators on Wednesday night, lobbying the first meeting of Kensington and Chelsea Council since the fire...

IRAN on Saturday started ceremonies of commemorating the 33rd anniversary of the demise of late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, in the...

Not only did Congress give zillionaires billions of dollars in tax breaks, they also told the people at the bottom of the economic ladder,...

The United States has opposed Al Jazeera’s efforts to have the Israeli regime prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Tel Aviv’s murder...

‘WHAT Are the Real Reasons of the Western Positions Vis-A-Vis President Al-Assad? Or Why Has President Al-Assad Become an Obsession for the United States?’...

America’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses has condemned the Obama Administration’s decision to impose a two-year wage freeze on Veterans Affairs...

10,000 WORKERS, trade unionists and youth were on the London May Day March on Thursday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. The march was led...

ECUADORIAN President Lenin Moreno abandoned the capital, Quito, on Monday and fled to the coast ahead of mass demonstrations which were held yesterday. A mass...

UNISON and other EU public sector unions have formed an ‘historic alliance’. UNISON declared yesterday: ‘The fight back has begun. And UNISON is...

Trade unionists joined the Portland, Oregon demonstrations outside the Justice Centre on Saturday night, with many protesters wearing similar coloured shirts as part of...

WHILE Gaza City is living through one of its harshest phases, as the ongoing Israeli military assault targets its neighbourhoods and drives its residents...

SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has stated that the Israeli occupation has transformed Gaza into ‘a Nazi concentration camp,’ and the regime is practicing...

TAMILNET reports that according to reports of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, last week over 13,000 internally displaced people have...

THE government has plans to abolish head teachers in schools and replace them with ‘Tesco-style chief executives’! That is the warning being made by...

THE Palestinian Mission in the UK on Wednesday issued ‘Questions and Answers on the Accession of the State of Palestine to the International Criminal...

THE Zimbabwean authorities must immediately release human rights defenders who have been arbitrarily detained for over two weeks and drop charges against them, independent...

AT least 25 Palestinians were detained in raids from Monday evening to the early morning hours on Tuesday, as Israeli state forces stormed several...

SECURITY services in Bahrain supported by the UK have been accused of ‘serious and persistent’ human rights abuses. A joint Human Rights Watch and Bahrain...

The Ramallah-based Al-Haq human rights organisation on Tuesday called on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to release the long-overdue...

OVER 10,000 workers, students and youth attended a protest rally outside Downing Street on Tuesday night with banners, placards and Palestinian flags. They demanded the...