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GEORGE Osborne’s ‘rich man’s’ budget has failed to address the fundamental economic problems blighting Britain, said the Unite trade union. Unite hit out at...

THE Palestinian Authority in the West Bank faces a $400 million budget shortfall, even if current donor pledges are met, the World Bank warned...

SOUTH African health unions demonstrated outside the Health Ministry in Pretoria on Friday demanding that the ANC government increase the health care budget and...

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

ONE hundred and fifty doctors, nurses, health campaigners and their supporters marched and rallied in London to defend the NHS on Thursday evening. The protest...

‘I want to meet with Bush face-to-face’, says Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq. She vows to camp outside the...

Tens of thousands of youth, students and workers participated last Friday evening in fiercely anti-government marches and rallies, held in Athens and ten other...

Over 15,000 Tamils and their supporters held an angry vigil opposite Downing Street on Saturday evening demanding ‘Stop the war. Don’t kill Tamil people...

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

IN the first of many concrete moves after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its national convention to create new and lasting community partnerships...

AN Israeli court in Jerusalem made a decision on Sunday to release the teenage daughter of Misbah Abu Sbeih, who was killed by Israeli...

UNISON has reaffirmed its commitment to the One Team campaign for the health service, in the face of the government’s ‘divisive’ actions during the...

BY MIKE DRIVER LEON Trotsky’s analysis 1789-1848-1905 is contained in his 1906 book Results and Prospects. This was written while he was in prison awaiting trial...

‘THE Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) could not come up with an unbiased report on the alleged 2018 chemical attack in...

‘I WANT to see you all out on April 10,’ London doctors’ leader Kevin O’Kane said on Thursday night, calling for a massive march...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad says Damascus has nearly won the seven-year war, despite continued US ‘interference’. In an interview given to RT, President al-Assad...

SYRIA’S permanent representative to the United Nations has denounced Israeli assaults on Syrian territories as a ‘continuing, flagrant violation of the UN Charter, of...

EGYPTIAN labour activists are keenly anticipating a new law on labour syndicates, a draft of which has apparently been completed and which could be...

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

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya welcomed Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Sha’ath into his home in the Ash-Shati Refugee Camp on Thursday, along with...

MINISTERS of Group 77 (coalition of developing countries at the United Nations) and China last Saturday reiterated their demand for the Israeli occupation to...

MEXICO’S main teachers’ union has defended Venezuela against US President Trump’s threats of military action. In a formal statement, the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican...

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

THE TUC delegates in Liverpool at the 2009 Congress on Monday voted unanimously to defend public services. Composite Motion C21 Public Services and the Economy...

‘OUR STUDENTS’ union supports our strike and supports our right to strike,’ Sean Rowland UCU committee member at City University said, speaking on Wednesday’s...

IRAN has rebuffed US accusations that it launched the drone attack that cut Saudi Arabia’s oil output in half, as a senior Islamic Revolutionary...

Tenants on the Aylesbury estate are very angry at Southwark Council’s indifference to their complaints and the Council’s high handed attitude towards tenants’ needs. Tenants...

THE UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine issued a report late last Monday accusing Israel of a systematic campaign of forced displacement, destruction and acts...

A NEW rapid systematic review published last Friday 7th March by researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford,...

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...

A LIVELY picket of both gates at Chase Farm Hospital took place on Tuesday, March 29. Beverley Stevens, a Unison support worker in Enfield...

BY YOUSEF RAMAZANI ON what the Iranian military officials have called the ‘darkest day’ for American air power in modern history, the Islamic Republic’s integrated...

‘VICTORY’ the FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has proclaimed, after the North Wales fire authority announced on Monday that plans to downgrade two fire stations...

PALESTINIAN Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev announced Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal to be put before the...

US President George W Bush on Tuesday warned that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria sent ‘mixed signals’ that undermined US-led efforts...

ISRAELI forces on Saturday night notified the families of three alleged Palestinian attackers of their intention to demolish their houses across the occupied West...

IRAN has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its plans to enrich uranium to 20 per cent – after its offer to...

Rail unions, transport campaigners and passenger groups held a national day of action on Tuesday to protest against massive hikes in rail fares, widespread...

PERHAPS the Palestinian folk singer Mohammad Barghouti, 23, did not know that he is going to end up in an Israeli jail because of...

TORY-LIBDEM plans to ‘rank’ 11-year-olds were denounced as potentially the return of the hated 11-plus by the NASUWT on Wednesday, while they were also...

‘FORCE this British government to carry out the rightful decision to return us back to our beautiful islands and put an end to these...

EUROPEAN Union governments agreed on Monday to put the military wing of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on the EU terror list in a major...

A Hamas spokes-man has condemned the continued detention and prosecution of Palestinian figures in Saudi Arabia over their support for the Palestinian resistance movement, and...

HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal held a news conference in Cairo last Friday. He began by saying: ‘We are now in Cairo on the first leg...

ALMOST none of the 230 Tamil political prisoners currently languishing inside Colombo prisons had command responsibilities in the Tamil Tigers or even contributed...