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DOCTORS’ union the Medical Association (BMA) underlined their demand on Thursday for a pay increase for NHS staff. Responding to a recent analysis by the...

For the rally at the end of the march a large stage was set up just beyond Downing Street, with the 300,000 crowd stretching...

TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan on Monday called for the railways to be taken back into public ownership. Whelan welcomed news that...

DR DEREK Keilloh is to face a six-weeks General Medical Council fitness to practice panel, commencing 11 June 2012, over his role in the...

Iran’s oil minister has called for today’s meeting of the OPEC oil cartel to cut production in order to raise prices above 60 dollars...

ON Monday night, a crowd of over a thousand gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to rally for Palestine and demand an end to...

A UK/Sierra Leone-led draft resolution calling for a ceasefire in Sudan at the UN Security Council meeting chaired by British Foreign Secretary David Lammy...

WEDNESDAY’S four-hour strike by firefighters in England and Wales was an enormous success, with pickets and demonstrations outside fire stations and in town and...

THE Syrian Arab Army has regained control over Madyra town and a number of farms near Jisreen town as part of the ongoing military...

ISRAELI occupation forces seized four Palestinian homes in the town of Till, southwest of Nablus, on Thursday and converted them into military outposts, as...

IN A HISTORIC meeting, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has held talks with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the Iraqi holy...

In a double blow to the UK Government, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has held that ‘the three-year internment...

Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...

MOVING the Public Services composite motion at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday, Unison General Secretary, Dave Prentis said: ‘Conference, today we...

TAMILNET reports that officials of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said that 130 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed in the...

THE Special Trust Administrator’s plan for South London Healthcare Trust (SLHT ) and the NHS in South East London, aims to close Lewisham...

ALMOST 200 Nepalese men died last year working on construction projects in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) says...

HUNDREDS of rail cleaners will launch a 48-hour strike action next week in fight for pay justice. Transport union RMT members who keep trains and...

At least 18 people were injured in Yemen’s north-western province of Sa’ada when Saudi border troops fired artillery at residential neighbourhoods near the border...

THE UNITED Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) earlier this summer won a major battle in the courts that recognises the UE’s...

OVER 200 mostly young people assembled outside the US embassy in London before marching to Parliament Square on Saturday, in a demonstration organised by...

Two human rights organisations have filed a complaint at the United Nations against arbitrary executions in Saudi Arabia, especially after last month’s execution of dozens of...

Amos Hochstein, a senior United States diplomat, has met Israeli leaders and has also visited Lebanon as part of a push by Washington to...

ARAB states are demanding that the United States clarify the purpose of a planned return trip by US President George W Bush to Israel...

Today, January 20th, UNITE HERE will launch its UNITE HERE for Change campaign, an ‘effort to work with President Obama and Congress to make...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, welcomed the official visit of the President of the United States of America, President Joseph...

A 24-hour General Strike declared by GSEE (Greek TUC) and ADEDY (public sectors trades unions federation) took place on Wednesday in Greece, with the...

The Brussels Tribunal and the International Anti-Occupation Network have issued the following statement on Iraq entitled ‘The Way Out’: ‘If the US military declare...

THE living conditions of workers, the Tamils on the tea plantations and the Sinhalese on the rubber plantations, and their families, has...

THE NHS will haemorrhage staff unless pay is restored to match national averages, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) warned on Tuesday. The SoR has submitted...

BY RAMZY BAROUD – Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a...

THOUSANDS of striking electricity, industrial and hospital workers met up with protesting pensioners in the streets of Athens last Wednesday, as they all marched...

LAST Friday, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) commemorated the mass murder of striking miners in Marikana, who were gunned down for...

THE BMA’s annual conference has called for restoring pay to 2008 levels and for GPCEngland to organise the withdrawal of GP practices from Primary...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool on Wednesday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 2: Temporary Agency Workers, to demand that agency workers have...

THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has ‘deferred’ the strike action it has called for March 30 following a government offer of...

‘FROM the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!’, chanted over 50 protesters at an emergency demonstration outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...

THE Iranian daily Keyhan has been examining the Russian intervention into Georgia and seeking to draw lessons from it. It states: ‘In the early hours...

AROUND 500 workers and labour activists congregated outside the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) on Monday to demand the federation’s dissolution. Protesters gathered at...

‘THESE latest sets of NHS performance statistics are deeply concerning, and paint a very bleak picture for the future delivery of patient care if...

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...

By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER THE three unarmed Provisional IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar two decades ago were allegedly sacrificed...

UG Solutions, a major United States military subcontractor that helped provide security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is intensifying recruitment amid indications that several...

the torture of Palestinian prisoners has become commonplace since October 7, 2023, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, warned...

  BY FRA HUGHES ‘THEY will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised,...