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MORE than 300 senior British Airways cabin crew at Gatwick Airport have been threatened with the sack if they refuse to accept a pay...

SENIOR Hamas official Mahmoud Zahhar on Sunday denied media reports that the Islamist resistance group is considering declaring the Gaza Strip a separate entity...

THE Fire Brigades Union has formally reported two fire and rescue services to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and identified several others, in...

THE Scottish Nationalist government has defended its decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi amid a mounting and frenzied counter-attack directed...

THE PALESTINIAN cabinet decided on Tuesday to hold municipal elections on May 13 only in the West Bank with the exclusion of the Gaza...

‘THESE latest sets of NHS performance statistics are deeply concerning, and paint a very bleak picture for the future delivery of patient care if...

UNIONS in the US like the Teamsters have made big strides forward in the fight for higher wages for the US working class, however...

A NEW national partnership agreement signed yesterday by the AFL-CIO and the largest network of worker centres serving low-wage, often immigrant workers will help...

London-based charity War on Want has said the British government is ‘complicit in the violence’ perpetrated against Palestinians as it continues to provide arms...

VER a hundred Unite bus drivers and their supporters held a lively rally on Thursday morning outside London’s City Hall demanding action from Transport...

Psychologists and psychiatrists should not be expected to participate in torture as they do not have the expertise to assess individual pain or the...

RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the documents submitted by Moscow to the UN on the use of chemical weapons in...

HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth have re-occupied Tahrir Square in disgust at the light sentencing of ex-president Mubarak and at...

Civil servants union PCS has organised a lobby of Parliament today, 3rd March, where it will be joined by other trade unions and campaigning...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has re-affirmed he will not step down, in an interview with Argentina’s Clarin newspaper and Telam news agency. President al-Assad...

TODAY, Thursday 12 December 2013, will mark 25 years since the Clapham Junction Rail Crash that left 35 people dead and hundreds injured. The accident...

THE United Nations on Wednesday said it was ‘deeply concerned’ about the deterioration of the health care system in the Gaza Strip due to...

Over 500 students, lecturers and other academic staff, and privatisation-threatened support workers, held a vibrant march and rally on Tuesday afternoon, in support of...

JAPANESE Foreign Minister Taro Kono pledged during a visit to Al-Quds University on Wednesday to work to strengthen the working relationship between the Palestinian...

A state of permanent revolution has gripped Egypt as two million workers have joined Egypt’s Federation of Independent Trade Unions in the last year. Egyptian...

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is failing to meet response time targets to more than half of all emergencies in the areas where ten...

OVER half a million high school youth, unemployed youth, university students and workers demonstrated across France on Thursday, March 16. Millions of workers...

UKRAINE and Germany have pushed back against assumptions by Washington about Russian intentions to invade the former Soviet state as tensions further escalated after...

The International Metalworkers’ Federation has joined a global campaign calling on G20 heads of state to protect workers in one of the world’s most...

‘THIS Conference must give a lead in the struggle to defend the NHS and stop it being destroyed by this Tory government... Trade union...

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...

CONSISTENCY between fiscal and monetary policy is paramount for economic and financial stability as high debts and deficits push more countries into budget crises...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has praised the position of the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, who refused to attend the Paris summit to...

We are gathering to ‘remember the dead and fight for the living’, RMT leader Pat Sikorski said at the rally at City Hall on...

PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has called on international mediators to take effective and concrete steps to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under...

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...

IRAN has rejected any foreign meddling in its domestic affairs, and says it is ready to defend its missile programme ‘with full strength’ in...

‘THE STRIKE will continue at Telkom!’ South African Communication Workers Union (CWU) vowed on Tuesday, despite the company trying to drive its employees...

STRIKING catering workers employed by LSG Sky Chefs and Gate Gourmet were arrested at airports across the United States on November 26 as they...

‘LENIN started out from a position that Art is the most powerful means of political propaganda for the triumph of the Socialist cause,’ Margy...

UNIVERSITY and college lecturers are taking action in defence of their jobs, pay and pensions. They will be taking part in strike action next Tuesday...

THE second ship to join the Freedom Flotilla en route to Gaza left Istanbul Saturday afternoon, joining eight other boats from three countries carrying...

Resolution from yesterday’s News Line-All Trades Union Alliance Conference THIS News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference gives its complete support to the June 30th pensions...

THOUSANDS of people are living in abysmal conditions in a new camp, which was built to replace Moria camp on the Greek island of...

‘FREE Palestine! Hands off Jerusalem!’ shouted over 3,000 protesters outside the US Embassy on Friday night. The massive rally called for mass demonstrations ...

BY PETER OBORNE & JAN-PETER WESTAD From Middle East Eye TERENCE English is a celebrated British surgeon. In 1979 he performed the first successful heart...

The French post office union federations, CGT, SUD-PTT, CFDT, FO, CFTC and CGC, have called on postal workers nationally to strike and demonstrate on...

THE Azeri newspaper Zarkalo has been discussing what role Azerbaijan should take if the US launches an attack on Iran. Its conclusion is that...

THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF’s) Minimum Income Standard 2014 study has found that the amount a family need to enjoy even a ‘basic standard...

‘It is beyond callous, and can only be seen as malicious discrimination. It is an unabashed attempt to eliminate the black population of New...