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CONTROVERSIAL India-based mining company Vedanta was again the subject of an angry protest in London yesterday. London Mining Network, Amnesty International, Survival International and other...

NHS STATISTICS highlight the ‘brutal impact’ of Covid-19 on healthcare services and patient care, doctor’s union the BMA said. Responding to the latest NHS performance...

‘IT IS in the Labour Party Manifesto that first business under a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn is to recognise the state of...

VERIZON union workers represented by the CWA and IBEW ‘overwhelmingly’ ratified a new four-year pact set to run through to August 2019. Verizon Communications and...

THE NUJ is fighting compulsory redundancies following a merger of journalist roles at the Manchester Evening News (MEN) and Huddersfield Daily Examiner, as part...

‘SYRIA won’t be a puppet state for the West,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview with ‘Paris Match’ Magazine. The interviewer began by...

Privateer Global Solutions Ltd (GSL) has been criticised again for its management of Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers published today...

A RELIABLE gauge of the panic gripping the capitalist class over the fast developing world crisis of capitalism and its crushing effect on the...

THE Inquiry into the police massacre of 34 Marikana miners at the Lonmin pit and the wounding of hundreds more is continuing. On Monday, the...

By Anna Athow, Consultant Surgeon ‘WE HAVE reached crunch point, where the process of transition from one system to another is taking place.’ So said...

OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...

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

A NEW chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21st-22nd July 2018, when representatives from...

US TRADE union leaders’ were yesterday demanding that the Democrats take action on workers’ issues in the Houses of Congress, in return for the...

IRAN has summoned Turkey’s Ambassador, Derya Ors, over the Turkish interior minister’s ‘unacceptable’ claim about the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant...

Since MYANMAR’S military coup in February this year, 4,800 miners have been on strike in Monywa township in a solid five-month action which has...

THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed last Friday’s High Court in Belfast’s full written judgement on the quashing of arrest warrants for...

Iran’s full-scale involvement in BRICS’ activities was the focus of a telephone call between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Ebrahim Raisi of...

AUSTERITY is being exploited to drive through budget cuts and reforms which are denying children their basic human rights, according to a major new...

FIREFIGHTERS face a greater risk of developing cancer because of an ‘alarmingly high’ level of dangerous chemicals carried on their clothing, researchers have found....

OVER two thousand teachers held a ‘March for Education’ organised by the London Region National Union of Teachers in central London on Tuesday...

Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...

Testimony given to South African jurist Richard Goldstone’s UN Fact Finding Mission on the winter 2008/2009 war on Gaza, illustrates vividly one of the...

SEVEN thousand mainly young people from London and across the country marched to demand the withdrawal of British and American troops from Iraq and...

WARS in Syria and Afghanistan are driving refugees through Turkey as they make their way to Greece. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos,...

RUSSIA and China have wrapped up their five-day joint strategic military drills in Northwest China which involved over 10,000 troops and advanced weaponry. Top officials...

Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets across the country to express their solidarity with Palestinians in the face of the relentless Israeli air...

Over 400,000 teachers, college lecturers and public and civil servants held a magnificent one-day national strike on Thursday, with a militant turnout on marches...

Medical students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...

ISRAEL has reportedly halted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex the Jordan Valley in the wake of last week’s decision by the International...

US-sponsored and Kurdish-led militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have opened fire for the second straight day at people protesting against their...

MORE THAN 10,000 nurses, other NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters marched from St James’s Park to Parliament Square on Saturday on a demonstration...

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

The Hamas resistance movement has hailed a resolution issued by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), confirming that Israel has committed genocide in...

LARGE numbers of delegates stopped at the WRP and Young Socialists lobby of the opening day of the TUC Congress in Manchester on Sunday....

THE SYRIAN Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says Turkey has so far sent more than 4,500 allied Takfiri terrorists from Syria to Libya, after...

THE Coronavirus Infection Survey published by the Office for National Statistics has revealed the extent that the virus swept through the school system and...

MORE than 10,000 workers, students and youth marched against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill from Lincoln Inn Fields to Parliament on Saturday...

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...

UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, on Monday welcomed a report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) calling on the...

PRESIDENT ASSAD welcomed President Medvedev of Russia to Syria at a press conference last Tuesday. He said: ‘I welcome our friend President...

THERE are thousands of empty homes in the area of the Grenfell Tower fire which could potentially be used by the victims. Some homes...

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...

More than 75,000 children are stuck in temporary accommodation due to insufficient housebuilding and low benefits, new studies have concluded. Reports from University College London...

ALMOST 50 per cent (49%) of Heads of Midwifery (HOMs) from across the UK have had to close their maternity units at some point...