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UNI Global Union said on Thursday that its US affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire...

FIVE thousand deaths every year in Britain are linked to past asbestos exposure, but people are still being exposed to it today, warns the...

UKRAINE and Germany have pushed back against assumptions by Washington about Russian intentions to invade the former Soviet state as tensions further escalated after...

BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER ON April 4th, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced ‘a pause’, a two month ‘listening exercise’, in implementing the...

Workers at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s began four weeks of strike action on Tuesday May 30, fighting to win a backdated pay rise...

THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic has taken a back seat in the news recently. Most public health restrictions in relation to the pandemic were lifted on 19...

SPECIAL Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) funding is being cut to the bone, the National Education Union (NEU) warned in a motion on the...

TELEFONISTAS de Mexico are on the verge of a national strike. The Union of Telephone Operators of the Mexican Republic, STRM, issued a double strike...

ISRAELI military forces have shot dead a Palestinian woman near the city of Bethlehem in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, amid...

Fire contaminants are directly linked to and can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases. The FBU has launched its new trailblazing campaign...

Life came to a standstill in all West Bank cities and towns on Monday as the curfew and strict lockdown Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad...

THE McKinsey and Co report proposes cutting £20bn off the NHS budget and reducing the staff by 10% or 137,000 jobs. The government commissioned...

PALESTINIAN prisoners have again rejected their meals in protest against the Israeli Prison Service’s plans to stop supplying 140 products – including cleaning products...

HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking via a giant screen on Saturday, vowed to respond to attacks on Hezbollah. HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking...

OVER 15,000 Greek school and university students and secondary school teachers marched through the Athens city centre on Monday afternoon in commemoration of the...

In early 2021, AT Medics was taken over by Operose Health Ltd, a subsidiary of the large US health insurance corporation Centene. AT Medics was...

Dr Khudayr al-Murshidi, official representative of the Iraqi Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, has warned that the United States is seeking to divide the resistance...

THOUSANDS of staff working at the DVLA will be balloted for strike action over continuing Covid health and safety concerns, the Public and Commercial...

FRESH protests over unemployment and poverty in central Tunisia on Thursday raised fears of growing social unrest five years after the country’s revolution was...

At least four people, including three women, were killed in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon on Monday, in the latest breach of...

THE Egyptian military authorities expansion of the emergency law is the greatest erosion of human rights since the revolution forced the resignation of...

‘FROM the river to the sea Palestine will be free,’ 1,000 people shouted outside Downing Street in Whitehall in central London on Wednesday evening. It...

SOUTH African unemployed doctors have been protesting once again, launching their third sit-in of the year outside KwaZulu-Natal’s Office of the Premier on Monday...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has condemned the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying the mindset behind such attacks remains present in Washington...

DR HUSSAM Abu Safiya, the former director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, suffered fractured ribs and other injuries after a sustained...

THE Foreign Ministry on Saturday welcomed the announcement by the Prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) on opening an investigation into the...

SEVENTEEN home care workers, Unison members employed across the London Borough of Haringey, are taking care company Sevacare and the council to court in...

THE MARIKANA mine massacre of ten years ago has never curbed President Ramaphosa’s political ambitions, but he’s never been able to escape the fallout...

‘BRINGING in industrial mercenaries shows just how little Anglo cares about their existing workforce,’ CFMEU (Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union) Queensland District President,...

Tanks and troops of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) invaded the central Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank city of Nablus early Wednesday...

‘WELCOME to Hell,’ is the title of a new report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem: ‘The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture...

Passing cars tooted their horns at the 20-strong, 21st monthly mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday. And hospital workers, outpatients and local residents...

TEACHER and public sector unions have angrily rebutted attacks contained in the Ofsted Annual Report published on Tuesday. The report claimed that teaching in 50...

THERE were defiant pickets and rallies of striking Junior Doctors and Consultants on Monday, the first day of the current three-day joint British Medical...

JUNIOR doctors in England WILL walk out for 72 hours in March if the ballot for industrial action is successful, says the BMA. The BMA...

Hundreds of members of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) demonstrated in Al-Tahrir Square in the centre of Baghdad last Saturday, to...

THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has admitted that the management of workers’ money through its Kopano Ke Matla investment arm was...

THE BMA is now opposed to the whole of the Health and Social Care Bill and is due to launch a public campaign to...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN said that...

THE first speaker at the rally in Kensington High Street at the end of the march was Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse,...

INDIRECT talks between Palestinian and Israeli officials will continue in the last week of October, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday. Izzat al-Rishaq said...

BILLIONAIRE brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are dumping hundreds of millions of...

The cost of being a junior doctor has increased by 80 per cent over the last seven years, figures published by the British Medical...

Thousands of Hezbollah supporters made their way to southern Beirut on Monday in order to take part in a rally in the honour of...

TEAMSTERS General President Jim Hoffa addressed the hundreds of Teamster women gathered in New York City on Saturday for the second day of the...