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OVER 300 people marched from Shepherd’s Bush to Parliament Wednesday lunchtime following last week’s Grenfell Tower fire disaster. ‘We know the government is guilty,’ declared...

Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need and are at risk of being permanently excluded from...

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday accepted Italy’s offer to host Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, urged international commitment to the UN-adopted ‘roadmap’ peace plan, the Palestine...

THERE is a huge funding crisis in the National Health Service (NHS). All over the country hospitals are being instructed to close wards and theatres...

the deaths of a hundreds of New Orleans residents and the suffering of so many thousands more people could have been avoided, an inquiry...

TEN thousand people forced the police to retreat from their stated position that a march on parliament would be illegal, and that they would...

SIPTU is calling for action on soaring rents to prevent further job losses immediately as the Irish deficit crisis deepens. The union has called on...

Hamas and Israel on Tuesday agreed to an Egyptian-brokered deal to cease fire for six months in and around the Gaza Strip. It was effective...

SYRIA has again condemned the Israeli occupation’s practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – the demolition of schools, the killing of children and innocent...

Hundreds of staff working at two of Australia’s private hospitals set to be closed over the next few weeks were notified of the closures...

The Israeli cabinet on Sunday approved a racist bill which would compel all new citizens to swear allegiance to Israel as ‘a Jewish and...

JAPANESE Foreign Minister Taro Kono pledged during a visit to Al-Quds University on Wednesday to work to strengthen the working relationship between the Palestinian...

WITH RMT members ‘rock solid’ in their latest day of strike action at Abellio ScotRail and Serco Caledonian Sleeper on Sunday, the railworkers union...

THE National Union of Students (NUS) has expressed alarm at the rapid rise in youth unemployment, warning that the chances of students getting summer...

TRADE unions have highlighted the acute crisis facing millions of families facing steep rises in the cost-of-living, declaring that measures outlined in Tory Chancellor...

THE National Health Service is under attack on every side by the government. It is being crippled by funding cuts and privatisation reforms. The...

TRADE unionists from across the public sector spoke out on Tuesday, demanding action from the TUC to stop the privatisation of the NHS and...

RALLIES will take place across the United States on Tuesday, August 22, demanding action to tackle the country’s health care crisis. America has a system...

A FURTHER two days of strike action will take place on South Western Railway next week after RMT Guard members voted for industrial action...

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas last Saturday condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the wake of a deadly attack in the...

‘EVERY member of the RMT welcomes the Scottish government’s announcement that the publicly-owned Operator of Last Resort will run the ScotRail franchise from March...

TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a motion to extend the State of Emergency for another month by a majority of...

‘Gaza is witnessing the worst of the worst levels of malnutrition, especially child malnutrition, and it’s entirely man-made,’ Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh said...

Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike today, Tuesday 30th August, 171 days into the protest against his detention without charge or trial...

AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is demanding that PM Scott Morrison explains what he knew about Qantas management’s long-term decision to axe and outsource...

By KYE GBANGBOLA ACROSS this country there are families suffering from living in proximity to contaminated land and polluted water. The suffering varies, from birth defects,...

Hundreds of students have walked out of Harvard University’s commencement ceremony after the school barred over a dozen pro-Palestinian seniors from receiving their degrees...

A STATEMENT by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office Bearers on Sunday outlined the union’s views ‘on the state of...

THE CWA trade union has issued a statement on the Obama administration’s planned Immigration Raids and proposed mass deportations. It reads: ‘We have seen...

THE ISRAELI enemy carried out an air aggression on Thursday on the two international airports of Damascus and Aleppo, taking them out of service,...

BY JOHN COULTER, Irish political journalist ANY serious trouble at this Sunday’s proposed ‘Home Coming’ British army parade and republican counter demonstrations in Belfast city...

LAST Thursday and Friday, angry workers and youth once again took to the streets of Istanbul to condemn Erdogan’s government, resulting in violent clashes...

The fight to save local children’s access to a sports ground in the shadow of Wembley Stadium continued this week as protesters reoccupied the...

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

THE US-based Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued an ‘active genocide alert’ over the situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. ‘Israel is...

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

By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER IRISH republicans must re-negotiate their political relationship with unionists, the president of the North’s largest nationalist party, Sinn Fein,...

RESPONDING to the plans for ‘secret justice’ and closed courts set out in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday, Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said:...

UNI Global Union and IndustriALL are calling on international fashion brands to continue their long-term commitment to Bangladesh to help secure the country’s democratic...

PARENTS working on the minimum wage are on the brink of a new crisis in family finances that will leave many close to destitution,...

SOUTH African health unions demonstrated outside the Health Ministry in Pretoria on Friday demanding that the ANC government increase the health care budget and...

‘WITH our aid, let us through! Refugees are human too!’ hundreds of angry protesters demanded after their 250-vehicle strong Convoy to Calais was blocked...

‘The appalling failures in the health care of children in detention centres, which are the ultimate responsibility of the UK Home Office’, are condemned...

First speaker at the rally was the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot, who said: ‘Israel has killed 11,000 innocent people and is...

‘It’s going well, union members are not coming in. Obviously, we want to protect our pensions,’ Camden UNISON housing department shop steward Lesley Amber...