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THIS week it emerged that retired British general Sir Frank Kitson is to be sued by the widow of a Catholic worker murdered by...

In the Republic of Ireland, a government report has been released which shows that public sector cuts will mean 23,500 workers lose their jobs,...

OVER 100 workers, trade unionists and youth attended the rally at the Indian YMCA in Fitzroy Square, central London on Sunday to mark...

Defend Council Housing! Demonstrate against the land grab by property Developers Berkeley Housing today. Siobhan McCarthy from local action group Aylesham Community Action, (ACA) believes...

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher warned on Tuesday morning that as many as 14,000 babies could die in Gaza within 48 hours if...

At least eleven people have lost their lives and more than 205 others have sustained injuries when the Israeli military bombed the Yemeni capital...

As Sodexo shareholders gathered for their annual meeting last Monday in Paris, a delegation of the company’s employees and their unions from the UK,...

THE article in the News Line last Wednesday brought back not just memories of my personal involvement in the campaign led by the Young...

THE MARIKANA mine massacre of ten years ago has never curbed President Ramaphosa’s political ambitions, but he’s never been able to escape the fallout...

AMERICAN jurist Mary Davis, who headed the independent United Nations probe into the events of 2014 aggression on the Gaza Strip, said that Israel...

THE Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (Amcu) yesterday served notice of its intention to strike from Wednesday at the facilities of Sibanye Gold...

The fourth mass anti-president rally in downtown Seoul last Saturday evening saw 600,000 workers, students and senior citizens, chanting slogans demanding scandal-hit President...

MONDAY night’s BBC Panorama documentary exposed the operations of HC-One, which, with 265 facilities and a bed capacity of 16,116, is the UK’s largest...

UNISON is calling on MPs from the South West of England to give their backing to local health workers including nurses, therapists, porters, and...

SAFTU – the South African Federation of Trade Unions – notes the stubborn inflation which remains high above 7%, and averaged 7,2% in December...

The Community Camp4Palestine hosted a panel discussion on Wednesday evening on Zionism and US militarism. The event was well attended on the site of the...

Egypt and Jordan on Sunday announced their rejection of the Israeli government’s unilateral plan to demarcate the borders of the Jewish state inside the...

ON SATURDAY thousands of Swindon football fans showed their determination to fight to keep the Honda car factory open, which is an absolute life...

PROTESTS were held in India and Zambia in parallel with last Friday’s AGM of British mining company Vedanta Resources at Ironmongers Hall, Barbican, London. Inside...

Delegates to the 28th International Brotherhood of Teamsters Convention in Las Vegas last week unanimously approved a resolution to prosecute chief executives and other...

THE secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has met with a delegation of senior officials with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, as hundreds...

PALESTINIAN political factions have denounced Sunday’s Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli army fired missiles into the northern Gaza Strip town...

AS THE genocidal attack on Gaza intensifies and Israel expands its crackdown, thousands of Palestinian civilians, including medical workers, labourers and journalists, have found...

First speaker at the rally in Parliament Square was Louise Regan, the chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who said: ‘Since October, Palestinians have...

the deaths of a hundreds of New Orleans residents and the suffering of so many thousands more people could have been avoided, an inquiry...

THE Glasgow Reporting Centre at Brand Street was shut down on Tuesday morning as ‘No Borders’ activists and others opposed to the forced removal...

There is an underground bunker in the South Hebron Hills, camouflaged by bracken and heavy sacks, where a tiny Palestinian village is sheltering a...

Israel has intensified its aerial assaults on Yemen, emboldened by a 14-month regional war and bolstered by the United States. On Thursday, Israeli fighter jets...

The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) yesterday highlighted the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) latest report for the benefit of Iraqi asylum...

THE GMB union has called for a just-announced Home Office inquiry into undercover police to cover blacklisting. This came during a protest outside Parkside police...

1.1 million workers in Australia will have their ‘JobKeeper’ payments removed from this week, with the Head of Treasury estimating that between 100,000 and...

RECENT attacks on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile strikes, were led by the United States according to a CBS television report Saturday. The...

NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) President Andrew Chirwa has said his union sees no reason to continue supporting the ruling African...

THE AFL-CIO will join with its Korean trade union allies and strongly oppose the just-completed South Korea-UStrade deal (KORUS) because of the damage it...

RESPONDING to the plans for ‘secret justice’ and closed courts set out in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday, Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said:...

United States federal judge, James Donato, last Thursday granted an injunction after ruling that the administration of US President Donald Trump is ‘likely to...

WORLD Health Organisation Director-General has said he is ‘deeply concerned’ after Israeli forces stormed one hospital and put another under siege as they advanced...

THE Israeli military killed at least 20 people on Monday morning, including four journalists serving international outlets, during back-to-back strikes against an overstretched hospital...

MORE than 20,000 nurses, health workers, trade unionists, workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday afternoon to demand TUC action to...

Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction by MOISSAYE J OLGIN THIS is an essay of triumph. Written on January 20, 1905,...

THE draft communications data bill is a serious attack on the privacy of citizen’s electronic data and will severely restrict the freedom of the...

‘FREE, Free Palestine! Gaza, Gaza we will never let you go! From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!’ chanted angry protesters...

AN IRANIAN cleric has criticised the letter written by the country’s president, Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, to the newly-elected American president, Barack Obama. ‘It appears that our...

BUS workers called for the entire bus service to be taken back into public hands and renationalised, during Tuesday’s 24-hour London wide strike over...

THE spectacular military parade by the Yemeni Army and the Ansarullah resistance movement on September 21 at Al-Sabeen Square in the capital city of...