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THOUSANDS of striking university and college lecturers, along with other workers in higher education, were solidly on 24-hour strike on Tuesday. Four unions – University...

IN MARCH, the Healthcare Commission reported that emergency care at Mid Staffordshire Hospital was ‘appalling’. It’s in-depth investigation discovered excess patient deaths of 400...

‘Fewer employers are offering health benefits to workers, even as premiums continue to rise, posting a 9.2 per cent increase in 2005 – three...

FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner dismisses the idea that even one nuclear bomb makes the Iranians immune to attack, he told Ha’aretz in an...

Three days before Colombian President Uribe was scheduled to meet with President Bush on August 4th at his Crawford, Texas ranch, the State Department...

‘We were very angry today, we are not giving up, we are determined to save our service and we are very shortly going to...

THE world renowned American civil rights leader and peace campaigner Jesse Jackson attended the World Tamils Forum in central London on Thursday, as the...

THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) has expressed its ‘deep regret’ at the Israeli District Court’s approval – on a pretext of ‘security concerns’...

DISTRICT General Hospitals are being destroyed. Bruised and battered from every direction with reforms, £900m direct cuts are the knock out blow with which to...

ISRAELI settlers on Sunday began levelling a large tract of land in central Hebron in preparation for the construction of a new Jewish settlement...

THE PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) has called on the European Union (EU) to pressure Israel to stop escalatory unilateral measures in the occupied territories. In...

n a development that has sparked widespread concern, the United Nations has announced plans to reduce the food supplies it provides to the Rohingya...

ISRAEL is once again trying to whitewash its crimes against Lebanon by offering the country ‘humanitarian aid’. Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz said Israel was...

Tens of thousands of people across the UK took part last Saturday in demonstrations against the murderous Israeli bombardment of Lebanon. Eleven rallies...

A STRIKE threat has been issued at Manchester’s Metropolitan University – as students learned that in-person teaching was to resume in spite of the...

IMPACT trade union’s civil service conference has passed an emergency motion on the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse –...

‘FOR many years the extreme right in Bolivia, based in the oil and gas rich east of the country and very much controlled by...

The Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya on Friday called on Egypt and Saudi Arabia to move swiftly and open...

MORE than half (52%) of school support staff across the UK have experienced stress, anxiety or depression as they struggle to cope with their...

LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to ‘fight until we win our jobs back’ and defeat attempts by their union leadership to sell-out their...

THE LEADER of the 12th brigade of the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), also known as the Nujaba Movement, Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi, was killed during...

Greta Thunberg has said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is legally obliged to stop the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. ‘Starmer has...

On 12 December Algerians went to the polls to elect a new president – or did they? Millions boycotted the election, which they saw...

Lower than expected college funding poses a severe threat to adult education and those who provide it, warns the latest edition of public sector...

BRITISH Airways workers are faced with taking strike action to defeat the management onslaught on their jobs, terms and conditions. BA boss Walsh has issued...

‘Something very dark lurks in the evidence files of the Mulcaire case, and dark and mysterious forces are keeping it that way,’ Labour MP...

There is a growing strike movement across the United States against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s clampdown on Minneapolis as millions of workers...

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...

ABD-AL-AZIZ ALl-DUWAYK, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), said in Amman yesterday that Hamas’s recognition of Israel’s final borders is linked to Israel’s...

A judge in New York ruled on Friday that Starbucks had violated federal labour law dozens of times in responding to a union campaign...

ON April 21, Ireland held a State ceremony commemorating 100 years since Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand in Kerry as...

THE BRICS group is seeking to expand and now has Iran in its sights along with five other countries. Iran has been invited to become...

THE Eurozone has agreed to lend the Spanish banks up to 100bn euros without demanding any austerity measures after Spanish Economy Minister...

FRIDAY 2 January was a typical day in Venezuelan capital Caracas. The roads were unusually quiet and few people were out on the streets,...

THE GMB trade union held its first annual GMB Eleanor Marx Day last Thursday, 14th January 2016, at the union’s national office in Euston...

MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...

THE Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) has released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth that shows youth pay a heavy...

THE Gaza Strip Government Media Office (GMO) has published its annual report about Israel’s devastating war on Gaza since October 7th, 2023. According to the...

LEFTIST SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras addressed a crowd of party supporters in Sparti, in the Peloponnese, on Thursday night. Tsipras said that his party would...

JOURNALISTS at Italy’s public broadcaster RAI held a 24-hour national strike on Monday to protest against the ‘stifling control’ exercised over their work by...

Plans to close down all forty six of the fire service’s 999 command and control centres in England and move to nine regional centres are...

ZWELINZIMA VAVI, SAFTU general secretary, addressed the THOR Congress at the Plaza hotel, Durban 24-25 Feb 2018. He said: ‘THOR (Transport Action Retail...

‘THE raising of our flag epitomises the triumph of all our diplomatic efforts and heralds the future de jure recognition of Palestine which is...

THE US is experiencing a surge of strikes – 10,000 John Deere workers went on strike in October, and so did 1,400 Kellogg workers,...

AFTER overthrowing the Mursi presidency at home to stop a workers revolution, the Egyptian army is planning to undermine the Palestinian militant group Hamas,...