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Annual workforce figures released on Tuesday by The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) reveal the ‘dire’ staff  shortages at cancer centres across the UK. Clinical...

STAFF and parents have said ‘No’ to a Brent, north west London, primary school being forced to become an academy school. At a well attended...

The five week inquest into the restraint-related death of 15-year-old Gareth Myatt, who died in the privately run Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (STC) in...

Hezbollah on Wednesday held a memorial service in the township of Majdal Silm in south Lebanon. During the service, Shaykh Nabil Qawuq, Hezbollah’s official in...

ON the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested....

‘FOR many years the extreme right in Bolivia, based in the oil and gas rich east of the country and very much controlled by...

FIGHTING against the repression of trade unions is bringing democracy to life, says the CGT French trade union federation. Ikéa lawsuits, dismissals, legal attacks against...

CLAIMS that trade union officials collaborated with the blacklisters of the Consulting Association are being investigated by Unite. The union has launched an inquiry into...

‘To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty.’ This is the viewpoint...

THE first speaker at the rally in Kensington High Street at the end of the march was Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse,...

A GENERAL strike is set to take place in India on January 8 against the ‘anti-worker, anti-people, anti-national policies’ of the country’s Narendra Modi...

THE UNIVERSITY of California’s largest employee union, AFSCME Local 3299, has voted to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for President ahead of California’s March...

ISRAEL over the weekend continued to threaten a wide-scale military operation against the Gaza Strip after a series of air strikes which injured three...

AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is demanding that PM Scott Morrison explains what he knew about Qantas management’s long-term decision to axe and outsource...

SUPPORT has been pouring in from Canadian and international unions for striking dockers on Canada’s West Coast. About 7,400 members of the ILWU Canada employed...

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...

ORDERS have been issued by Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa and by his sibling Basil Rajapaksa to colonial governor Maj-Gen Chandrasri for immediate and...

‘Thousands of our people have been murdered with chemical weapons just an hour ago’, Tamil protester Shiva said on Monday evening. He was speaking from...

THE first session of the TUC Congress, on Sunday afternoon in Brighton saw a division over the General Council statement on Brexit and Composite...

THE HEAD of the National Union of Journalists in the UK, Michelle Stanistreet, visited Ramallah in Palestine on May Day, reinforcing the unity between...

President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad in Tehran on Wednesday voiced Iran’s readiness to share its nuclear achievements with other nations within the framework and under the...

THE 11-day-old actors’ strike against video game industry will not end until the companies compromise on their refusal to offer some type of residuals...

OUTGOING Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the dream of a ‘greater Israel’ was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of...

THE number of civilian deaths admitted to by US and NATO forces as a result of airstrikes in Afghanistan is just the tip...

ITALIAN workers and youth clashed with police during a ‘Let’s Block Everything’ General Strike and massive mobilisation for Gaza on Monday, which was called...

PALESTINIAN factions and the broader international Muslim community have expressed outrage at a fledgling trend of Arab-Israeli normalisation that has so far seen the...

AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa has criticised the Mineral Resources Department after the deaths of seven mineworkers at Sibanye-Stillwater’s mine in Driefontein. He said on Saturday...

TWO MEN will be executed in Myanmar after the military junta rejected their death sentence appeals last Saturday, in what will be the first...

NEW ZEALAND’S Unite Union reached an agreement with McDonald’s last week over ending zero hour contracts and other issues in dispute with the company. ‘This...

REPRESENTATIVES of the tube union RMT on the London Transport pension fund have called for disinvestment from Semperian PPP after it emerged that one...

The Unite union has called for the rejection of the government’s final public sector pensions package. ‘The government is steamrolling through its final offer on...

‘THE O’Loan Report confirms Yarl’s Wood abuse and the failure to investigate it,’ says Public Interest Lawyers. Public Interest Lawyers said: ‘Today’s report by Baroness...

‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s our right!’ – Chagos Islanders shouted outside Downing Street on Saturday. They put up the banner of...

Over 2,000 Tamils demonstrated outside the Commonwealth Conference in central London on Tuesday against the attendance of Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse. Their banners carried...

IN his recent addres to the Oxford Union, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa tried to assert, very unconvincingly, that he did not believe...

ANGRY students have occupied the London College of Communication (LCC) this week, against a wave of redundancies and course closures. The occupation, which began at...

US trade unions have reacted angrily to Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker comparing trade union workers to IS terrorists. The likely Republican presidential contender sparked...

WEDNESDAY was the 6th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 tenants and residents of Kensington and Chelsea perished in their homes on...

SYRIA’S Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Mua’llim on Monday delivered a speech before the United Nations General Assembly. He warned: ‘Instead of seeking to contribute...

GOLDSMITHS College students began an occupation of Deptford Old Town Hall, (now part of the university), on Wednesday afternoon – after the Tory-LibDem coalition...

More than 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London on Saturday on the 30th National March since...

Courage is not confined to a specific segment of society; it extends beyond soldiers in battle. In the midst of the ongoing Israeli aggression on...

MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...

THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has called a national demonstration on February 21 at 2pm in Dublin to mobilise workers against...

ISRAELI settlers last Tuesday night attacked Palestinian homes with stones as they provocatively approached the outskirts of Silat ad-Daher, some 20 kilometres to the...