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AT the end of 2013, an emergency unemployment compensation extension programme that started in 2008 under President George W. Bush expired, meaning 1.3 million...

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...

Gaza marked the first anniversary of the start of Israel’s historic pullout from the coastal strip on Tuesday amid bitterness that the end of...

On Thursday morning, 29th December 2005, I received a short SMS from Muntasser Abdel Rahim, 26, Medical Relief Society Ambulance driver in Jenin. ...

RMT MEMBERS at DHL’s Neasden depot, supply chain partners of Marks and Spencer’s, will strike again for 24 hours this Friday and Monday in...

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

‘Bailiffs and Bulldozers, is the only way Lewisham Council are going to remove us’, is the motto of the Worried Tenants Group who are...

JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...

DEMOCRATIC lawmakers have formally protested against the Navy’s dismissal of the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, who requested urgent aid to...

IN Once Again, Whither France? (March 1935) Leon Trotsky discussed the call for a general strike. He wrote: ‘The general strike, as every Marxist knows,...

UNITE has warned that ‘shameful’ agency practices towards workers at Sports Direct have contributed to its falling profits and reputation. The high street retailer, which...

ISRAEL is inviting bids to build over 1,000 settler homes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the housing ministry said on Sunday, ahead...

DOZENS of Palestinian worshipers were wounded and dozens were detained after clashes broke in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning with Israeli forces...

NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) class size analysis shows a rise in 474 England constituencies since 2010. One in three teachers sees ‘reducing class size’ as...

Joe and Christine Loughrell are fighting eviction from their family home of 30-years. Joe was a resident caretaker for Lewisham Council for 35-years, having joined...

‘IT IS our international duty to organise the overthrow of the capitalist system here in Britain,’ WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney told the 100-strong...

THE FALL in early-career clinical academic numbers shows severe structural crisis, warns the British Medical Association. The doctors’ union was responding to the results of...

TERRORIST organisations positioned in Aleppo countryside have fired shells containing toxic gases on the neighbourhoods of al-Khalidyia, al-Neel Street and Jam’ayat al-Zahra in Aleppo...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Friday evening condemned the Israeli Army for firing into a crowd and killing two Palestinian women during a...

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in South Africa has threatened mass strikes against the mining sector over planned sackings. Several mining companies have issued...

‘No polyclinics! Save our surgeries!’ shouted over fifty Rugby GPs, medical staff and supporters during a town centre protest on Saturday. Carrying banners and wearing...

‘THE GOVERNMENT must resolve the long-term funding, capacity and recruitment issues’ if it is going to avoid a ‘winter crisis’ all year round, doctors...

‘THE truce has no meaning any more after these intense air strikes by the occupant Turkish army,’ the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said on...

IRAN has successfully test-fired its long-range surface-to-air S-200 missile as its air defence drills enter the final phase in the country’s southern belt. Wednesday marked...

THE trade union campaign to reverse the closure of 43 Remploy factories received a significant boost when the All Party Group of MPs published...

Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, exchanging a volley of tear gas and rocks. Israeli troops entered the Haram...

‘VENEZUELA is not a colony and any US aggression will be met with united regional response,’ President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday. Tensions are escalating...

A great night was had by all at the Young Socialists Benefit Concert in North Kensington, west London on Saturday night. It was held at...

THE UNITED States’ Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is to file charges against Amazon on the grounds that they illegally interfered in...

Over 10,000 workers and youth on Saturday marched through central London against the Afghan war, calling for the troops to be brought out now. Organised...

RUSSIA has sufficient capabilities to successfully complete the special military operation in Ukraine without resorting to nuclear arms, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told...

THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...

Last Wednesday marked sixty years since the Deir Yassin massacre. On April 9, 1948 the Zionist paramilitary troops and terrorist gangs committed a massacre at...

ACCORDING to the Syrian president, Syria destroyed all its stocks of chemical weapons back in 2013, but the West was still using ‘fairy tales’...

PRISONER and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has emphasised the need to accelerate the reform and development of the PLO; to hold the National Council...

OVER 40,000 workers are supporting the action and manning the picket lines again today as the RMT railwayworkers union takes this week’s second day...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin ‘prevented a humanitarian catastrophe when he launched the special operation in Ukraine,’ speaker of the Russian State Duma (lower parliament...

THE indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a move that threatens his 10-year grip on power, dominated the front page...

LAST week, after the Court of Appeal ruled that the Bedroom Tax is discriminatory and unlawful, Paul Rutherford, one of the appellants, described himself...

THE speaker of the Iranian Parliament is on his first official foreign visit to Moscow with the goal of further cementing the two countries’...

OVER 600 people took part in a demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice last Friday afternoon over the government’s refusal to provide a relatively...

Special interview with Samina, the mother of Qesser Zuhrah and Salaam Mahmood, both hunger strikers who were arrested for criminal damage to an Elbit...

‘DESPITE the measures taken by the government to try to support the idea that ‘the page on retirement’ is turned, over 1.2 million workers...

EMPLOYEES working for Turkey’s Feza Media Group were allowed to enter the Zaman newspaper building in Istanbul at 8am Saturday after an ID check...

FRENCH trade union federation Force Ouvriere (FO) announced on Wednesday that it is preparing a national strike and rally of private health sector workers...