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The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the Greek TUC, responded on Thursday with an angry statement to the government Labour Ministry’s intention to...

OVER 100 workers and youth voted unanimously on Saturday for occupying hospitals against closure and to stop the smashing up and privatisation of the...

THE Standing Committee for Youth Justice and the UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee yesterday indicted the British government for inflicting pain on young people...

CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has exposed how the union was infiltrated by the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The revelation creates fresh questions about the...

Workers and youth in Greece were looking to deliver a huge blow to the current right-wing government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in yesterday’s parliamentary elections. The...

THOUSANDS of Zimbabwe capital Harare City Council (HCC) workers have threatened to go on strike to force their employer to settle salary arrears stretching...

A NEW report released by the UK-based Jubilee Debt Campaign provides a scathing critique of the failure of PPPs across a range of sectors...

INDEPENDENT Senator Bernie Sanders has said that the United States cannot continue funding Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war machine as it presses ahead...

OVER the past two decades, the United States, Turkey, and the Zionist regime of Israel have faced ultimate defeat in any sedition that they’ve...

SECRETARY of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Dave Oliver, has written a letter speaking out about the abuse of youth in a detention...

VERMONT Senator Bernie Sanders marched alongside McDonald’s workers at a rally last Sunday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He joined McDonald’s workers in the same way...

A candlelight vigil organised by the British Tamils Forum in association with the Tamil Councillors Association was held on Wednesday, 23 July, between 8pm...

TEACHERS have voted to ballot for a one-day strike as part of a campaign against Tory plans to force every school in England to...

THOUSANDS of determined drama and arts schools’ students along with primary and secondary teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Wednesday in a...

THE SAFETY of maternity services is under serious threat, according to a new survey released by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) on Tuesday. The...

PEOPLE have once again taken to the streets across Syria to protest against US President Donald Trump’s recent recognition of Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over the...

IT WAS World Children’s Day on Monday, when it emerged that at least 5,500 children have been killed in Gaza since October 7th. According to...

ON 18th May the doctors union, the BMA, announced that it had agreed a new contract for junior doctors. The BMA had completed eight days...

FOUR BILLION pounds of UK property is owned by high-risk individuals. The House of Lords Joint Committee is looking at the market and money laundering. The...

During two months when trade unionists from Colombia were visiting America to take part in trade union training – four of their colleagues were...

THE proposed site of a new City Academy, next to the new Wembley Stadium, is being occupied to stop the privatisation project from going...

Unite the union on Friday overwhelming voted to re-examine its relationship with Labour and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner who has had her Unite...

THE Independent Municipal & Allied Trade Union (IMATU) has reacted angrily after it was informed that its striking members in local government in Tshwane...

THE NHS Bed crisis is a threat to patient safety, doctors have warned as the latest figures were released showing hospitals working at full...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has issued a response to the South African Communist Party (SACP) November 2014 Augmented Central...

THE ONLY way to stop the nationwide shutdown of almost every university in the country, beginning on Thursday 22nd February, is for university management...

‘We must campaign for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel, and to also boycott goods and services to break the Israeli siege of...

WORKERS breaking down old ships on the coast of India have been forced to go without drinking water, a press conference in London has...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has called for immediate transparency from Coventry University after its recently published Annual Report and Financial Statements revealed...

HUNDREDS of Syrians gathered on Friday morning in front of the UN’s Headquarters in Geneva to express their support for their country, Syria, its...

IN response to an appeal by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), a large-scale strike action took place across Europe yesterday. The ETUC statement launching...

The European Court of Human Rights is considering an important case for returning Croatian Serb refugees, says Amnesty International. The Grand Chamber of the...

SOME 15,000 students, youths, workers and trade unionists marched on Sunday afternoon from Athens Polytechnic to the Greek police HQ in protest against the...

Last Saturday evening, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Asefi outlined his government’s position to the foreign media on a number of issues, beginning with...

FURIOUS parents and staff belonging to Unison public sector union have forced Crawley Borough Council (CBC) to issue letters to parents to deny it...

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...

JORDAN’S King Abdullah II said yesterday the international community should push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to stop the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe caused...

FOUR Palestinians were shot and injured on Sunday, while many others, including students, suffocated during renewed clashes with Israeli army forces in the Hebron...

UK intelligence has been forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use, says Amnesty International. Amnesty is one of...

MORE than 890 people were arrested on Saturday at a demonstration against the government’s ban of campaign group Palestine Action. An estimated 1,500 gathered in...

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...

OVER 30,000 workers, unemployed, youth and students, lawyers, small shop keepers and poor farmers filled up the large square in front of the Vouli...

Last Tuesday Unilever workers from all over the country descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the companies ending of their final salary pension...

TEHRAN’S Friday prayer leader, Chairman of the Expediency Council, and ex-President of Iran Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, told worshippers ‘Wherever America goes, it finally...

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) has called for ending the Israeli siege on Gaza Strip to end the suffering of its inhabitants,...