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CANADIAN trade unions allege that workers in Bangladeshi garment factories that supply Canadian Tyre subsidiary Mark’s with clothing sold under brand names like Wind...

UN Secretary-General Kofi   Annan has stressed that the Lebanon cease-fire UN Security Council Resolution 1701 has to be implemented in full. He has made it...

STRIKE action is looming for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology after talks with workers over salary and service conditions deadlocked last weekend. The declaration...

FAMILIES are being asked to care for their sick relatives, act as nurses and even administer injections, in an extremely controversial move...

workers, trade unionists and local people are marching through Enfield on Saturday 26th July against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital, the announcement of...

1,383 MEDICAL professionals last Friday demanded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) end the Title 42 border expulsions order that has...

HEAVY battles between M23 fighters and Congolese government forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Goma have left many...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) demands that Markus Jooste, the former Chief Executive Officer of Steinhoff, be arrested and charged with...

By Irish political journalist John Coulter THE racist British National Party has confirmed it will contest the next Northern Irish council elections. Mid Ulster, Upper Bann,...

THE UN General Assembly has again voted by majority to recognise Syria’s rightful sovereignty over the occupied Golan, and on considering all the measures...

Iraqi puppet prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki warned his cabinet on Sunday to shape up within 100 days or face ‘changes’, as protest organisers called...

YOUNG people, particularly those from deprived backgrounds, have had their earnings and job prospects hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, adding to fears...

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has failed the first test of his promise to let GPs lead NHS reforms, doctors say. Lansley has backed plans to...

THE chief PLO negotiator has presented his resignation to the Palestinian president and PLO leadership, officials in Ramallah announced Saturday. Saeb Erekat resigned because of...

emeni Armed Forces have unveiled new domestically-built military hardware, including ballistic and winged missiles in addition to unmanned aerial vehicles, which they say will...

AN Israeli court on Sunday placed under house arrest a Palestinian-American teenager who was filmed being brutally beaten by police during clashes in Jerusalem. Tarek...

SEEKING healthcare in Taiz, a city split by a frontline, is a Medecins Sans Frontieres feature on Yemen which has been under deadly assault...

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

MEMBERS of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Palestine (DPAL) Friday urged the European Union to suspend association agreements with Israel due to...

Tens of thousands of US workers walked out of their jobs on Monday in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement and other minority groups...

The link between Israel’s settlement expansion in the West Bank and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes is now ‘abundantly clear’, says UNRWA...

OVER 400 disabled people gathered in Parliament Square on Monday 30th June to oppose the bill being put to Parliament yesterday by the Labour...

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

‘OCCUPY Ealing Maternity Department to stop its closure on 1st July,’ Ealing Hospital nurse, Claire, a Unison member, told News Line on Monday. A demonstration...

TWO million workers in the UK are joining together to fend off savage attacks on working people and their families. That was the message from...

THOUSANDS of Palestinians in the city of al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank took part in the funeral of 19-year-old Ahmad Nashat Othman...

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) said on Wednesday that its has demanded that the federal government stop the plan to introduce a...

Workers at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s began four weeks of strike action on Tuesday May 30, fighting to win a backdated pay rise...

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa might soon find himself embroiled in a Labour Court battle as Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) is set to take...

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...

Amidst an atmosphere filled with anticipation and hope, the residents of the Gaza Strip spent their first night after the ceasefire took effect on...

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...

A NEW report published last Thursday, 22 August, by the Health Foundation found that the UK’s performance on hospital-based care is consistently languishing near...

PRIVATE firms have been paid a ‘shocking’ £2.3m to draw up controversial plans which will cut health and social care spending by more than...

ON Saturday, March 16, the printers and their supporters replied to this attack on their picket line with a mass picket of 7,000. Again the...

GARMENT factory workers in Bangladesh who try to start trade unions are being intimidated and threatened with murder to stop their efforts to organise,...

RUSSIA says it has struck and disabled Ukraine’s Starokostiantyniv military air base with long-range high-precision weapons. ‘The Russia armed forces continue to strike the military...

FORMER Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to a decade in prison by a special court in what is being termed as...

A SURVEY of UK social workers by the Child Poverty Action Group, Child Welfare Inequalities Project and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services,...

Workers of Ship-Repair Yard 178 in Vladivostok began a strike on June 3rd 2009, demanding their pay. The workers have not had any money...

‘The appalling failures in the health care of children in detention centres, which are the ultimate responsibility of the UK Home Office’, are condemned...

SAUDI Arabia will work together with Russia to find a solution for the crisis in Syria and settle the issue of Syrian refugees, a...

SIX months after donors pledged billions of dollars for devastated Gaza, most of the money remains blocked, and reconstruction efforts are painfully slow, a...

TORY Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s claims that ‘we can truly be the generation that beats dementia’ is a smokescreen for promoting the big drug...

BRITAIN’S secretive work at a death-row jail in Bahrain is being challenged by international human rights group Reprieve. The UK Foreign Office paid almost a...