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TRANSPORT workers in three unions descend on the Tory Mayor Boris Johnson’s Office this morning to fight the ‘all-out savage attack’ on their pay...

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

CROWDS in Aleppo took to the streets following the announcement of the Army General Command restoration of security and stability to the city after...

Commenting on the government’s NHS ‘reforms’, Professor Ham, a former Director of Strategy at the Department of Health said: ‘The foundations have been laid...

CLASS struggle has erupted on the campus of one of the top universities in the United States of America, Harvard. Four hundred US students gathered...

ANTI-PENSION reform protesters in France stormed the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics in a posh north Paris neighbourhood last Tuesday, leading to pitched...

THE Irish courts have ruled that a four-hour strike action at airports due to take place today is illegal. The SIPTU trade union which...

IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a stern warning to Israel following a retaliatory missile strike on the ‘strategic centre of Zionist...

A CROWD of over 200 rallied outside the US Embassy in south London on Monday night demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Dr...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi delivered a Workers Day Speech on May 1st. ‘My fellow South Africans, President Cyril...

ISRAEL has arrested some 16,500 Palestinian children since the outbreak of the Second Intifada (uprising) in late-2000, a study says. Abdul-Naser Farwana, a Palestinian ex-prisoner...

The West Bank is witnessing an increasing acceleration in the pace of Israeli settlements, with the expansion of infrastructure projects and the construction of...

‘WE WON!!! Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is delighted to announce a major campaign victory with the confirmation that the Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund...

Reports that another large employer has labelled the Howard government’s Industrial Relations laws as ‘farcical’ and ‘pointless’ is further evidence that the government’s IR...

Laura Cooper, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia at the US Defence Department, has said that despite a global...

American arms dealers have gathered ‘record profits’ from Israel’s wars on the besieged Gaza Strip and Lebanon, according to a new report. In a report...

Over 300 Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members at the British Library are to strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November. The...

IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says all Iranian people are in ‘the same boat’ and must stand united against ‘hegemonic powers’ seeking to...

JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...

LEBANESE Christian politician General Michel Awn addressed a mass anti-government rally of over 200,000 people in Beirut on Sunday 10 December. He warned the government...

THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...

DISABLED People Against Cuts (DPAC) organised a lively demonstration near Parliament on Monday, to mark the 25th birthday of the Independent Living Fund, which...

CHRISTIANS from the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy sites in Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, the so-called...

WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...

‘Trade union members are threatened, victimised, sacked and blacklisted by employers who pay sums of money to the Catholic Church which coordinates anti-union activities,’...

‘THE BUSES should be renationalised. They should put the companies under one name then everybody will have the same rights,’ Unite member Michael Wood...

AT LEAST 27 Palestinians were injured, including 14 with Israeli forces’ live fire, while others sustained rubber-coated steel bullets and suffered tear-gas suffocation as...

AT 4.30 am on Thursday the Greek Vouli (parliament) approved by 230 to 63 votes, with seven deputies abstaining or absent, a government austerity...

THE UNITE union has expressed its ‘deep concern’ at management proposals to axe more than 200 jobs at the Aston Martin site in the...

THE TALIBAN ‘seeks to build a political system and government in Afghanistan that would be approved by its people and accountable to people once...

On a daily basis, the death toll among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly the elderly, is increasing due to hunger, malnutrition, and lack...

‘This is further repressive legislation from a very repressive government – attacking the most vulnerable,’ mental health service worker and user Jo Squires said...

SOME 2,000 local residents, trade unionists, youth and their families turned out on Saturday for a ‘Picnic with a Purpose’ outside St Helier Hospital...

THE split in the Sri Lankan ruling class has deepened with the arrest of General Fonseka who led the military campaign which killed tens...

WEAPONS supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States to the Saudi-led coalition in war-torn Yemen killed at least 839 civilians and wounded 1,775...

ACCORDING to the Syrian president, Syria destroyed all its stocks of chemical weapons back in 2013, but the West was still using ‘fairy tales’...

MANY HUNDREDS of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners entered the third day of the ‘Freedom and Dignity’ hunger strike on Wednesday, with imprisoned Palestinian women launching...

Health workers across the NHS are facing severe hardship due to the current economic crisis and the effect of a below inflation pay deal,...

A LIVELY demonstration of over 500 Sudanese and their supporters marched from Marble Arch to Downing Street on Saturday. It was organised by London for...

THE UAW auto workers union is beginning its 2011 contract talks with GM, Ford and Chrysler. For the employers the ...

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...

THE MACRON government is mobilising against the Gradual Cessation of Activity Agreement signed at the SNCF because it will allow French railway workers to...

SIPTU members and officials took part in a protest rally outside the Dáil on Tuesday organised by the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament and other...

IRANIAN Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei says the Israeli media is running a campaign of fabricated stories regarding casualties in recent terrorist riots in...

PALESTINIAN, Israeli and international academics are urging colleagues to boycott the 2017 congress of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies in Jerusalem next month. ‘Some...