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Covid-19 has ‘thrived’ among black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) communities because of structural race discrimination, a new Labour Party report from Baroness Doreen...

NORMAL banking operations were disrupted across the whole of India on Friday as bank employee unions went on strike last Friday to protest against...

THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...

THE parliament in Catalonia has declared its support for former leader Carles Puigdemont’s right to re-appointment as president of the northeastern Spanish region. Pro-independence...

THOUSANDS of NHS staff are being transferred by their own trusts into outsourcing firms, risking ‘dozens of Carillion-style meltdowns’ the union Unite has warned....

THE BMA ARM has condemned the Tory-led drive to impose local pay deals on the public sector – which would mean the end of...

US trade unions have warned that the immigration bill going through Congress falls way short of expectations. The strength of opposition has seen the US...

OVER 1,000 trade unionists and youth marched to parliament on Tuesday night on the 63rd birthday of the NHS, demanding: ‘Kill the Bill!’ –...

IT WAS impossible for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to negotiate for striking miners at Marikana because of their aggressive attitude and their...

THE GMB has called a meeting in Stafford on November 13th to mobilise opposition to the outsourcing of Staffordshire Education Support Services (ESS) and...

SHORTAGES, food scandals and rising prices put low-income families on the front line, says the CGT French trade union federation. While food scandals accumulate (Kinder...

In the early hours of Tuesday morning Israeli Police demolished a whole Bedouin village in the Negev desert. Approximately 1,500 Israeli forces were involved including...

AT A PACKED ‘Saving Vauxhall Jobs’ TUC Congress fringe meeting on Tuesday evening, Unite leaders Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson attacked the German government...

MONDAY was New Zealand’s Labour Day, an annual public holiday falling on the 4th Monday of October, commemorating the struggle for an eight-hour working...

BY FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST BRITAIN has been involved in duplicity and skulduggery in Palestine from the secret signing of the Balfour agreement in...

‘THERE is no place for famine and starvation in the 21st century,’ teachers representing the National Education Union (NEU) are insisting this week: ‘History...

Council workers in more than half of Scotland’s local authorities are striking during next month’s COP26 climate summit as part of a rapidly escalating...

TUBE unions have reacted angrily to the announcement that all London Underground ticket offices will be shut by 2015 with the loss of nearly...

ISRAELI forces shot dead two Palestinians during an arrest raid near Ramallah in the central West Bank early Monday, onlookers and medical officials said. ...

South African education unions, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation (Naptosa) and the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), responded on Monday to the Western...

RON GETTELFINGER the president of the UAW, auto workers trade union has urged that the US must adopt a national insurance system to provide...

ZERO-HOUR contracts have risen sharply in recent years, hundreds of thousands of zero-hour contract workers, the majority being young, are on minimum wage whilst...

THE RUSSIAN army struck at warehouses in the Zhytomyr region in the west of Ukraine on Saturday. High-precision long-range sea-based ‘Caliber’ missiles reached the...

THE RMT has issued a warning that the privateer Merseyrail’s planned Grand National scabbing operation will ‘rip up the safety rule book’. Rail union...

LIBERATION Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Operations Command in Mannaar told TamilNet on Tuesday that 60 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed...

PALESTINIAN civil society groups issued a statement on Wednesday urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject the ‘biased, anti-Palestinian’ International...

‘HEALTHCARE workers are our soldiers on the front line, and they are literally being sent into war without any weapons,’ insisted Numsa general secretary...

‘THIS major change to junior doctors’ hours is probably the biggest challenge hospitals will face in 2009.’ This is the view of Dr Jonathan Fielden,...

THOUSANDS of Indigenous people continue to demonstrate in the Ecuadorian capital, as their calls for social and economic reforms grow louder despite a crackdown...

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has slammed the recent ‘normalisation agreement’ between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, and has called...

A MAJORITY of workers at a Ford Motor (F.N) joint-venture battery plant in Kentucky have signed cards indicating their support for the United Auto...

AT LEAST nine Yemenis were killed late last week as Saudi-led military aircraft carried out a string of airstrikes against an area in Yemen’s...

Employees in public universities and colleges in the West Bank and Gaza Strip entered the third day of a strike on Wednesday. Head of the...

STOP coup attempts against Maduro in Venezuela! says National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) general secretary Irvin Jim. A statement issued on Sunday:...

TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka’s technological refutation of the authenticity of a video of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers executing unarmed Tamil men broadcast...

A LABOUR union in the US state of Vermont has declared its decision to join the alliance of ‘Labour for Palestine’, a trade union...

THE Israeli Supreme Court was scheduled to hold a hearing on Sunday to discuss the case of two hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners Anas Shadid, 20,...

The death toll in an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip on Thursday rose to nine after Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at a...

‘TORIES out!’ ‘Resign!’ shouted angry Justice for Grenfell demonstrators on Wednesday night, lobbying the first meeting of Kensington and Chelsea Council since the fire...

DRIVERS employed by the bus privateer Go North West, marked five weeks on indefinite strike against £2,500 per annum pay cuts with a powerful...

‘YOU should be ashamed. The situation is absolutely appalling. They’re killing children! You have the area completely under your control and are therefore responsible...

UNI Global Union and IndustriALL are calling on international fashion brands to continue their long-term commitment to Bangladesh to help secure the country’s democratic...

MASS demonstrations have been taking place over the past weeks in Paris and other major French cities against the Macron government’s dictatorial health bill. And...

IN AN an interview given to al-Manar TV, President Bashar Assad said the essence of the crisis in Syria is foreign interference by the...

THE HUGE picket of around 400 nurses on the steps of University College Hospital (UCH) on the Euston Road in central London was featured...