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OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...

In a Labor Day statement last Saturday the US Teamsters Union President Jim Hoffa stressed that workers have to rely on themselves and their...

DUTCH teachers are on strike, demanding decent salaries and a normal workload, and urging the government to clearly and firmly address burn-out and a...

THE arrival of Prime Minister Ram Hamdallah and an Egyptian delegation as part of a fresh attempt to restore Palestinian national unity dominated the...

Despite the October chill, over 30,000 British Tamils and supporters took to the streets on Saturday, to highlight the desperate situation faced by Tamils...

FOUR years after the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,100 textile workers were killed when the garment factory they were...

TRADE unionists, youth and local NHS campaigners voted unanimously at a meeting on Thursday night ‘to establish the North East London Council of Action’. The...

UCU MEMBERS were out on strike on Wednesday with historic numbers this week over stagnant pay, miserable working conditions and casualisation of academic work. In...

A COURT in Turkey has sentenced a journalist working for Syria’s official news agency, SANA, to more than four years in prison for allegedly...

A TEACHER has been arrested for allegedly setting the US embassy in Honduras on fire last Friday, following police repression of educators and doctors who are protesting against privatisations. A group...

TALKS between Russia and Ukraine should be held on conditions advanced publicly by the Russian side and take into account the actual situation, speaker...

AT LEAST eight media workers were beaten and violently assaulted by security forces and police during live coverage of Saturdays anti-government protest outside Prime...

US autoworkers union (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker, who directs the union’s General Motors and Delphi departments, yesterday issued...

1,300 IRISH bus drivers working for Bus Éireann have returned a massive 94% ‘YES’ vote for strike action to defend their pay and conditions,...

THE GOVERNMENT’S announcement of a national lockdown on 31st October, after trying to stave off this ‘nuclear’ option for two months with tiered restrictions,...

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...

THE BRICS group is seeking to expand and now has Iran in its sights along with five other countries. Iran has been invited to become...

ECUADORIAN President Lenin Moreno abandoned the capital, Quito, on Monday and fled to the coast ahead of mass demonstrations which were held yesterday. A mass...

‘The decent work agenda is a primary need when we talk about reconstruction,’ Anthony Jones, the resident representative of the ITUC and the Trade...

THE LEADER of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has delivered a revealing analysis of the current political situation and spoke candidly about his organisation’s increasing...

Ceremonies and events honouring the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire – which killed 146 garment workers, most of them young women, and...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier pledged to ensure the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jewish settlements of the Jordan Valley after US Secretary...

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

SAMEH Ashour, the head of Egypt’s Lawyers Syndicate, has called a lawyers strike against the Ministry of Interior after the disappearance of lawyer Ibrahim...

Marking Saturday’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United States officials have yet again failed to condemn the Israeli regime for...

‘UNCEASING fatalities’ continue in the Bangladesh shipbreaking industry, as two more workers were killed and thirteen injured in yet another incident at the Ziri...

JUST as every volcanic eruption is preceded by a slight swelling in the earth, so the UNISON annual delegate conference, whose preliminary agenda has...

‘THE current freeze on housing benefit is pushing hundreds of thousands of private renters dangerously close to breaking point at a time when homelessness...

ON 6th June 2017 at the height of general election fever, senior NHS managers at NHS England (NHSE) and NHS Improvement (NHSI) were secretly...

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at ten colleges will take strike action throughout May and June as part of a row...

SYRIANS in the occupied Golan Heights have demonstrated and burned Israeli election ballots in a symbolic dismissal of local council elections and ‘a policy...

A JOINT Statement by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al-Haq begins with a statement by Hana Shalabi. ‘To...

THE locked-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to fight until they win reinstatement on their old terms and conditions, six months after the 700-strong...

300 people attended a special Third Anniversary concert for the sacked Gate Gourmet workers at Hambrough Primary School in Southall, west London, on Saturday...

AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...

THE UAW President Ron Gettelfinger has made a submission to the Congressional Roundtable on the Crisis in the US Auto Industry. He told the Commission:...

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...

THE Islamic Jihad Movement last Monday called for isolating the Israeli occupation government and trying its leaders for ‘crimes against humanity,’ especially by pursuing...

‘FROM the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!’ more than 10,000 Al Quds Day marchers chanted as they proceeded from Marble Arch,...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2015, Moscow ON International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp...

‘STOP working with Israeli torturers,’ Palestinians urge European Union (EU) academics. Palestinian academics are urging their European counterparts to end their cooperation with a European...

The IRA announced the end of the armed struggle against British imperialism in a statement issued on Thursday. The statement said: ‘The leadership of...

ISRAELI warplanes carried out renewed attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 26 Palestinians in a series of airstrikes, including an entire...

‘THESE figures reflect the stark reality facing NHS trusts resulting from the combination of relentless increases in patient demand, 100,000 staff vacancies and the...

ISRAEL’S decision to block a Libyan aid ship from docking in Gaza proves its siege is ‘an act of terror’, the Gaza-based Prime Minister...