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‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ shouted Palestinians and their supporters demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy, west London, on Saturday...

THE RUSSIAN army struck at warehouses in the Zhytomyr region in the west of Ukraine on Saturday. High-precision long-range sea-based ‘Caliber’ missiles reached the...

KING Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose nation is the world’s number one oil exporter, called on consumer countries to get used to high prices...

A court in the governorate of Qalioubiya, north of Cairo, has ruled in favour of independent trade union candidates taking part in the...

The following is co-founder of the charity Medical Aid for Palestine, Dr Swee Ang’s speech in Beirut’s Ghobeiry Municipal Hall last Friday, on the...

SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Labour, Mildred Oliphant, says 2019 is the ‘earliest opportunity’ for government to implement the R20 per hour National Minimum Wage,...

‘We were engaged in Civil Disobedience’, said New York Transit workers union President Toussaint at State Supreme Court on April 10, 2006, before he...

STAFF and parents have said ‘No’ to a Brent, north west London, primary school being forced to become an academy school. At a well attended...

‘Systemic, chronic understaffing’ endemic in elderly care say Australian nurses unions SYSTEMATIC, chronic understaffing leading to unacceptable instances of neglect, abuse, and too many preventable...

The first part of this article is a solidarity statement to the six Filton 24 hunger strikers from Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, who in April 1969...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its New Year’s greetings for the year 2014 to all our readers and to the workers and youth...

GARMENT workers have flooded the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, this week, clashing with police and denouncing the new wages structure introduced on...

The TUC responded on Thursday to cuts to bus routes by privateers set to be implemented across the country calling for all bus networks...

INITIAL reports say at least six Palestinians have been killed by the latest Israeli air strike on the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Several people...

AT the heart of the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) programmes for junior doctors is the...

THE Israeli government is expected to approve the allocation of an additional 60 million shekels (about $15.5 million) to settlements in the occupied West...

THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) has backed the global school strike on 20 September and pledged to support the efforts of school youth striking...

UNIONS in the US like the Teamsters have made big strides forward in the fight for higher wages for the US working class, however...

UNITE has warned that ‘shameful’ agency practices towards workers at Sports Direct have contributed to its falling profits and reputation. The high street retailer, which...

The ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, now in its third year, has triggered a ‘protracted human dignity crisis’ with devastating humanitarian consequences,...

THE Damascus-based pro-Al-Gadaffi Al-Ra’y TV has broadcast a four-minute audio message to the Libyan people by Colonel Gadaffi’s daughter, Ayshah...

IN THE final hours of her life on January 29, 2024, Hind Rajab’s feeble voice could be heard desperately pleading with her mother and...

THE British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM), which opens in Torquay today, gathers at a time of unprecedented challenges for the medical...

The Octagon Theatre Bolton will mark the 25th anniversary of the Great Miners’ Strike when Artistic Director David Thacker revives his acclaimed production of...

JOURNALISTS’ protection must be a national priority in Syria, demands the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The IFJ, in coordination with one of its affiliates...

US SECRETARY of War Pete Hegseth dismissed three senior Army officers on Thursday, including the Army’s top general, in a sweeping purge that an...

HUNDREDS of New York City police officers entered the Columbia University campus on Tuesday evening, taking many people into custody, in the latest escalation...

THE SOUTH African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Workers Union (IMATU) occupied the Sol Plaatje council chambers last...

THE GENERAL Strike called by the CGT and the CTA, in rejection of the DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) and the Omnibus Law,...

A Jewish-American political appointee who worked as a United States Interior Department staffer, has publicly resigned from her post, in protest against the Joe...

WESTERN countries are actively preparing for a direct conflict with Russia, says Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Vucic told the Pink TV channel: ‘The West would...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...

‘NATIONAL Action is needed to defend the NHS & stop hospital closures!’ was the title of the resolution that was carried unanimously at a...

TOP Iraqi officials ignored ample warnings of an impending attack on second city Mosul and grossly mismanaged the ensuing crisis that saw it seized...

SYRIA’S permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr Bashar al-Jaafari, reiterated that Syria has not and will not use chemical weapons and does not...

HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an urgent investigation into the Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Sana’a International Airport, which happened on May 28,...

Naji Maysara Ghneim, 23, died on Wednesday of wounds sustained a few days ago when hit by Israeli army gunfire east of Rafah in...

FRENCH trade union federation Force Ouvriere (FO) announced on Wednesday that it is preparing a national strike and rally of private health sector workers...

Unite, which has over 100,000 workers in the NHS, including thousands of paramedics, is warning that unprecedented demand is resulting in the ‘wheels being...

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

‘PEOPLE need to realise what’s happening before it’s too late, we need a strike ballot now, straightaway!’ Bill Pulley, Unite member and professional electrician, was...

‘The deregulation of fire safety is essential in understanding how a death trap was created at Grenfell Tower,’ writes Matt Wrack, the General Secretary...

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

BRITISH-Palestinian surgeon Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta has recounted harrowing health-related ordeals Palestinian civilians went through during Israel’s onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip. The brutal...

IN a detailed report released by Amnesty International, the organisation has shed light on a dramatic increase in the deployment of unlawful lethal force...