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Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...

GMB shop stewards met in Manchester yesterday to plan strike action after members of the union at 20 Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots voted decisively...

THE Sri Lankan proposed private sector pension scheme has angered workers in the garment sector, with trade unionists warning of mass street...

MORE than 300 parents, teachers, students and schoolchildren marched through the centre of Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday to save Lewisham Bridge Primary School. The...

Egypt and Jordan on Sunday announced their rejection of the Israeli government’s unilateral plan to demarcate the borders of the Jewish state inside the...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said that it is ‘deeply saddened at the loss of life and immense suffering caused’ by Monday’s massive fire...

A mass petition with over 600,000 signatures was delivered to the Government on Monday, demonstrating the strength of public opposition to the Police, Crime,...

BELOW is the introduction to the Fire Brigades Union’s 64 page ‘Response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 Report,’ containing scathing criticism of...

TAMILNET reports that on Saturday Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers attacked a populated village, known as ‘Redd Barna’ settlement, in Visuvamadu after targeting...

‘SRI LANKA’s promises on human rights should no longer be accepted by the international community’, Amnesty International said in a press statement after the...

OVER 25,000 striking teachers in the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) are taking to the streets today for a national march to the...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has welcomed the news that three Metropolitan Police officers are to face disciplinary proceedings following a racially motivated attack...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Jason Greenblatt and their remarks hit the front page headlines in local Palestinian...

THERE is very heavy fighting around the Tamil Tigers’ stronghold of Ki’linochchi on the eve of Christmas as the Tamil Tigers are defending the...

Peter was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party for nearly 40 years. He was out in front in every campaign and even in...

THE College of Emergency Medicine on Monday announced guidelines titled Creating satisfaction and maintaining wellbeing in Emergency Medicine. The College of Emergency Medicine said in...

THE UNITED Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has stressed that ‘peace’ is the best solution to save Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, as...

‘WHOSE NHS? Our NHS!’ chanted over 150 junior doctors from east London hospitals at a lunchtime strike rally outside Hackney Town Hall on Thursday. One...

A group of Palestinian children arrived in Dublin on Friday to receive medical treatment in Ireland. The eight children were evacuated from Gaza, accompanied by...

IN a significant development, a group of Palestine Action activists, known as the ‘Elbit Eight’, have been acquitted for their role in shutting down...

On Thursday, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), Argentina’s largest trade union federation, held a 24-hour general strike to protest against right-wing President Javier...

Israeli forces raided the Jerusalem office of a university media institute on Monday, shutting down the launch of an online media network and detaining...

More than 40 US states have filed a lawsuit accusing pharmaceutical firms of operating a cartel and conspiring to artificially inflate the cost of...

UKRAINE’S incursion into Russia’s borderline region of Kursk was planned with the participation of NATO and Western special services, and was prompted by Kiev’s...

ISRAELI army troops on Sunday shot dead an unidentified Palestinian youth at Huwwara checkpoint, to the south of Nablus, after he allegedly attempted to...

After shattering the Israeli blockade of Gaza earlier this week, the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty victoriously departed Gaza for Cyprus at 2.00pm...

WITH unwavering courage, Dr Amira Al-Assouli, a female Palestinian physician, sprinted through Israeli sniper bullets and drones targeting anything that moved to save an...

THE Palestinians of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are surrounded by barriers, as a desperate Israel tries to turn Occupied Palestine...

THE TUC, railway unions and transport campaigners have launched a campaign to fight job cuts, service reductions, ticket office closures and fare hikes in...

US President George W Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP), after it was passed with...

The women from Avocet and Dove units, along with a few men on the family wing, are refusing food and are planning further protests....

DEPUTY Prime Minister and Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, has announced that the Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the proposal of the Russian leadership...

FOUR Palestinians were shot and injured on Sunday, while many others, including students, suffocated during renewed clashes with Israeli army forces in the Hebron...

THE Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific massacre during its military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City recently over the...

THE TALIBAN say the United States could now step forward and participate in the reconstruction of Afghanistan given how it contributed to the destruction...

‘We do not like corruption, because corruption is a programme of the elite in society to steal from the poor,’ said COSATU General Secretary,...

LAST Thursday and Friday, angry workers and youth once again took to the streets of Istanbul to condemn Erdogan’s government, resulting in violent clashes...

IT seems an official nurses’ strike is looming in Swaziland after the union called a special urgent meeting scheduled for today. The meeting is...

Six union leaders employed by the One World Apparel garment factory in Haiti have been fired. The leaders of the Textile and Garment...

School support staff work the most unpaid overtime behind council chief officers, reveals a new survey published last Friday. The MORI survey carried out for...

THOUSANDS of junior doctors marched through the City of London from Whitechapel to St Paul’s on Thursday evening in a show of force and...

THE TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday made a show of defending the steel industry and steel jobs. Steel workers were guests of honour in...

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...

The RCN has launched a report which reveals there are nearly 20,000 nursing vacancies currently unfilled in England; a ‘hidden workforce crisis’ that could...

A GROUP of hundreds of Israeli economists have issued a fresh warning that a financial meltdown could occur more ‘powerfully and faster’ than they...