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The National Union of Journalists in Ireland and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on Thursday joined together to condemn new powers which threaten...

African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members barred ANC Chairman Gwede Mantashe from speaking at their 14th national congress on Monday. ‘Hamba Gwede’ (Go Gwede) and ‘asinamali’...

OPERATION BARBAROSSA was the codename given by Adolph Hitler to the invasion of the Soviet Union launched on Sunday 22 June 1941. In the preface...

Public school teachers in Ontario in Canada are set to go on strike against the state government for imposing new contracts under a controversial...

IMPALA Platinum said on Tuesday that an agreement has been reached with the AMCU trade union on a ‘broad wage offer to end...

MINISTERS are attempting to overturn concessions won by members of the House of Lords to the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government’s repressive Secret Courts Bill, warns...

HEALTHWORKERS 4 Palestine and Amnesty International UK staged a mass solidarity protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Friday night. The protest was to...

THE 18th Constitutional Amendment Bill will be debated and put to the vote on September 8th in the Sri Lankan parliament, following a decision...

THE National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) is urging the government to halt the rollout of Personal Independence Payment (PIP – which replaces Disability Living...

US SECRETARY of State John Kerry left early Sunday for a series of meetings in Europe seeking to head off an end-of-year UN...

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...

‘WE LIVE in a moment which feels like everything is at stake,’ Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) National President Mark Hancock told convention...

BY SHABBIR RIZVI   AMERICANS are well aware of the value of the dollar, at least when it comes to their own purchasing power at home....

Dr Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has revealed an unprecedented spread of anaemia among children in the Gaza...

THE United Steelworkers (USW) last Tuesday said a new report conducted by a group of independent health and safety experts should serve as a...

Human rights organisations said yesterday that legislation enabling inquests into those who have died in police custody or been killed at the hands of...

In a report titled ‘Shaming Destitution’, the Citizens Advice Bureaux condemn the Blair government’s treatment of refugees to whom it refuses asylum and ...

‘STOP arming Israel!’ ‘Free, free Palestine!’ ‘Lift the siege!’ ‘Boycott!’ shouted over 2,000 workers and youth at a lobby of Downing Street on Saturday. A...

Joe and Christine Loughrell are fighting eviction from their family home of 30-years. Joe was a resident caretaker for Lewisham Council for 35-years, having joined...

‘The South African Federation of Trade Unions lowers its flags in honour of Comrade Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, one of the great revolutionary icons of the...

MPs on the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts in their report of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) refinancing have called for tougher regulation...

TWO million teachers, education support workers, lecturers, local government workers, firefighters, civil servants and other public sector workers went on a 24-hour strike on...

A NATIONAL bus and rail strike by SIPTU and NBRU drivers is looming in Ireland. SIPTU announced on Tuesday it is to ballot its members...

At least twice as many people die from fatal injuries at work than are victims of homicide, a new report from the Centre for...

LECTURERS who are members of UCU at Liverpool Hope University have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their ongoing row with the...

STOP British bombs from fuelling the crisis in Yemen, demands Oxfam. The charity warns in a statement: ‘The war in Yemen has been brutal....

‘INCOHERENT and dangerous’ – Stop the War responds to David Cameron’s case for bombing Stop the War believes that David Cameron’s incoherent proposals for action...

IN HIS speech to the GMB conference in Blackpool yesterday, the union’s general secretary Paul Kenny featured the union’s current dispute with Asda. He said:...

BRITAIN stabbed the Palestinian people in the back on Tuesday evening when it abstained on the vote at the UN Security Council supporting Palestinian...

In a landmark judgment on Friday in the High Court in London, the UK’s detention policy in Afghanistan was declared unlawful. Since November 2009, the...

AFTER governments across Europe either took over debt-laden banks, or the debts of the banks, in 2008 they demanded ‘austerity measures’ to repay the...

THE Oil and Gas Authority on Thursday awarded a raft of new licences to explore for oil and gas on the mainland of the...

US autoworkers union (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker, who directs the union’s General Motors and Delphi departments, yesterday issued...

AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...

AS the Israeli occupation army intensifies its acts of extermination and ethnic cleansing in the northern Gaza Strip, waves of displacement continue towards Gaza...

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka has written to home secretary Theresa May to highlight serious concerns over the privatisation of a government helpline and...

THE METROPOLITAN Police is using a ‘racially discriminatory’ Gangs Matrix database, says Amnesty International in its new report. Amnesty International UK’s Director, Kate Allen,...

MORE strife is looming at South Africa’s Marikana platinum mines, as members of Amcu (the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union) warned Lonmin’s new...

LEBANESE authorities have granted a Gaza-bound ship carrying aid and activists permission to sail to Cyprus as Gaza’s Popular Committee Against the Siege chief...

HUNDREDS of thousands of council workers are to be balloted and urged to reject a ‘pitiful’ and ‘entirely inadequate’ pay offer during the next...

A YEMENI family whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike have appealed to a German court to ensure that a US base...

RESPONDING to Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget speech last Wednesday, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka commented: ‘Rishi Sunak has today failed to vaccinate the...

GOVERNMENT officials knew of the dangers of flammable cladding 15 years before the horrific Grenfell Tower fire which on June 14, 2017 claimed the...

‘IN THE face of proposals from the UK government which amount to imposition in all but name, the UK junior doctors committee has decided...

IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned US President Donald Trump to avoid threatening the Iranians, advising him to ‘try respect’ as the...