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‘WE want Tamil Eelam!’, ‘Don’t kill Tamil people!’ shouted more than 1,500 people demonstrating opposite the Houses of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday evening. It...

During two months when trade unionists from Colombia were visiting America to take part in trade union training – four of their colleagues were...

‘EVERYONE, all of the country, must get organised to take rent strike action, we have shown that rent strikes work,’ Angus O’Brien, the student...

‘YOU should be ashamed. The situation is absolutely appalling. They’re killing children! You have the area completely under your control and are therefore responsible...

The Federation of Greek Seafarers Trades Union PNO have called a 24-hour strike for 16 April on all ferries, passenger and cargo ships, against...

TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF’s general secretary, Mick Whelan, has written an article reasserting the union’s commitment to withdrawing from the European Union. It was written...

A HUNDRED THOUSAND Swazi workers have begun a campaign of mass action, led by the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA), and its...

THE Palestinian Authority in the West Bank faces a $400 million budget shortfall, even if current donor pledges are met, the World Bank warned...

YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...

‘THIS ISN’T a general election, it’s a general strike building up,’ News Line editor Jonty Leff told Sunday’s powerful over 100-strong News Line Anniversary...

SHEIKH Harith al-Dari, secretary-general of the Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), has said, speaking from Amman, that there is no difference between the...

AMNESTY International Secretary General Agnes Callamard has called on all international actors, foremost among them the European Union, to take serious steps to stop...

‘GOVE must go!’ shouted angry striking teachers on a 15,000-strong march through central London to rally in Westminster on Thursday. They were taking part in...

WORKERS breaking down old ships on the coast of India have been forced to go without drinking water, a press conference in London has...

‘FEBRUARY 25, 1848, had granted the republic to France, June 25 thrust the revolution upon her. And revolution, after June, meant: overthrow of bourgeois...

‘THIS major change to junior doctors’ hours is probably the biggest challenge hospitals will face in 2009.’ This is the view of Dr Jonathan Fielden,...

THE South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) held a demonstration on Thursday marching to the Midvaal Municipal offices, south of Johannesburg, in protest against...

NUMSA has issued a National Office Bearer’s statement on the SACP augmented Central Committee statement of 1 December. It reads: ‘It has now become absolutely...

NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...

Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) began a wage strike at mining recruitment company Teba Limited on Monday. The strike comes after...

Haiti’s post-election crisis deepened on Sunday after opposition presidential candidates prolonged the political uncertainty by refusing to participate in a proposed recount. President Rene Préval’s...

AT LEAST two US servicemen and 14 other people have lost their lives when a massive bomb explosion struck near a patrol of the...

THE GMB Annual Conference, which opened in Brighton on Sunday and finishes today, warned that there is a ‘social care ticking timebomb’ ... with...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) announced over the weekend that 68 universities across the UK will face a further five days of strike action beginning...

THE opposition Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) has launched a campaign of ‘civil resistance’, after more than one million Mexicans rallied on Sunday to denounce...

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

SYRIAN Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Mu’allim discussed with Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council Ali Larijani bilateral relations between Syria...

WITH CPI inflation reaching 3.2 per cent (0.2 per cent down), inflation for June remained 1.2 per cent above the Bank of England target....

CONSTRUCTION workers held a demonstration at the troubled HS2, Costain/Skanska Joint Venture (CSJV) at Euston Station in central London last Friday, as concerns grow...

THE DRAFT Protest Law to regulate the right to peaceful assembly, issued by Egyptian Interim President Adly Mansour on Sunday, has been widely criticised...

Palestinian citizens stranded at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border terminal declared on Sunday that they had entered the second stage of their...

AT DAWN on Sunday, Israeli warplanes launched over 30 raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the ‘most violent attack’ on Lebanon since...

Two international ‘contact groups’, one each to check Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fund-raising and arms purchases, were initiated by the US in...

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...

SRINAGAR, India – The Group of 20 (G20) summit commenced in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, focusing on the topic of tourism. However, the meeting has...

‘GENERAL PRACTICE – and the NHS as we know it – is in danger of disintegrating unless the Chancellor urgently increases investment in the...

THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...

WORKERS have twice voted no on Honeywell’s proposals to eliminate cost-of-living increases and retiree health care, freeze pensions, curtail overtime pay, subcontract work, and...

DOCTORS and nurses working in Zimbabwe’s public health institutions will no longer be allowed to go on strike for an uninterrupted period spanning more...

THE United Nations is able to investigate the war crimes which occurred recently in Sri Lanka, British human rights lawyer and international war crimes...

TUNISIAN Prime Minister Habib Essid has stated that Libya’s current turmoil has largely come about as a result of the foreign military intervention in...

TENS of thousands of workers and youth participated in the mass rallies and marches throughout Greece last Friday and Saturday as part of the...

OVER 15,000 workers and youth demonstrated in London on Saturday to mark the 74th anniversary of Nakba Day, marching from BBC Broadcasting House near...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and discussed with him the latest Palestinian and regional developments. Abbas, on an...

‘This programme is a disgrace to all Australians and must be scrapped,’ ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) Indigenous Officer Lara Watson said on...