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OVER 20,000 youth, trade unionists and solidarity activists marched through central London on Saturday demanding ‘End the occupation – free Palestine!’ on the...

Israel is applying many of the tactics used in its war on Gaza to seize and control territory across the occupied West Bank during...

ISRAELI forces on Saturday night notified the families of three alleged Palestinian attackers of their intention to demolish their houses across the occupied West...

WORKERS should be allowed to down tools if their employers fail to provide them with masks and other protective gear in line with the...

‘MY uncle was shot in the head, at point blank range,’ the nephew of one of the victims of Israel’s massacre on the Gaza...

Families of the victims of Bloody Sunday on Tuesday addressed a crowd of thousands outside the Guildhall, Derry, and gave their reaction to the...

‘IT IS CAPITALISM as a system which has to go,’ artist Harlow Welldon said on the 35,000 strong protest last Wednesday in Hyde Park,...

THE Howard League for Penal Reform has responded to the Prison and Probation Ombudsman’s learning lessons bulletin on young adult prisoners who died by...

CHILDREN are routinely strip-searched in child prisons and secure children’s homes in England and Wales despite the government’s pledge to stop, says Carolyne...

Thousands of Hezbollah supporters made their way to southern Beirut on Monday in order to take part in a rally in the honour of...

JAMAHIRIYA NEWS has reported on NATO war crimes in Libya including deformities in new born babies due to the use by NATO of...

ISRAELI authorities implemented a large-scale closure on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, adding to a long line of punitive measures...

IN LIGHT of the coronavirus pandemic leaseholders who live in buildings clad in the same flammable material which rapidly spread the Grenfell Tower Fire...

Young Palestinian chldren are still severely traumatised six months after the Israeli war on the impoverished Gaza Strip, charities warn. Fourteen-year-old Ghasan Matar won’t talk...

Passing cars tooted their horns at the 20-strong, 21st monthly mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday. And hospital workers, outpatients and local residents...

‘IRAN and Russia are on the path of strategic defence cooperation’ said the Iranian Daily Javan website on 21 January. It stated: ‘Iranian...

THE Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Vanni has refused permission to the uprooted families of Kumaarasaamipuram and Mayilvaakanapuram in Ki’linochchi district to resettle in...

LIBERTY Steel crisis worsens, unions oppose massive job cuts and de-industrialisation, says IndustriALL. In over just few days, news of massive job cuts, of bankruptcy...

Dr Mustafa Barghouti, speaking at the 200-strong Solidarity for Palestine trade union conference on Saturday, warned of the massive campaign by US president Trump...

THE government has plans to abolish head teachers in schools and replace them with ‘Tesco-style chief executives’! That is the warning being made by...

The TUC Congress next month is meeting at an historic juncture of worldwide economic and political crisis. Millions of workers are having their wages frozen...

THE NHS Bed crisis is a threat to patient safety, doctors have warned as the latest figures were released showing hospitals working at full...

MILLIONS of Iranians took to the streets on Sunday to condemn the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in terrorist...

THE UNION representing 28,000 Canadian actors and radio artists reports that 28,000 commercial workers have been locked out from commercial acting work for over...

Over 300 Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members at the British Library are to strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November. The...

THE AFL-CIO trade union federation in the USA has given its support to the Turkish trade unions and workers and youth who have been...

A GROUP of Israeli military forces and settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds and clashed with...

IN ITALY’S industrial heartland, immigrant textile workers have launched a wave of coordinated strikes that have forced dozens of factories to concede basic labour...

STOP British bombs from fuelling the crisis in Yemen, demands Oxfam. The charity warns in a statement: ‘The war in Yemen has been brutal....

HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal has reiterated that all Palestinian factions agree on a state ‘within the 1967 borders’ and that Hamas agrees to the...

IRAN’S security chief has brushed aside reports about Israel’s budget for a potential attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, warning the Zionist regime that it...

THE publication of the newly proposed Tory strike-ban laws have brought a response from all trade unions. Some union leaders call for action but the...

THOUSANDS of European citizens took to the streets in dozens of European cities on October 11 to show their rejection of the proposed trade...

On the 7th of October 2006 a coalition of migrant groups, trade unions and social justice activists marched in London demanding equal rights for...

VERIZON union workers represented by the CWA and IBEW ‘overwhelmingly’ ratified a new four-year pact set to run through to August 2019. Verizon Communications and...

THE UK’s ‘hostile environment’ means that its compensation scheme is failing Windrush victims, says a Human Rights Watch report published on Monday. HWR said: The...

THE UN General Assembly has again voted by majority to recognise Syria’s rightful sovereignty over the occupied Golan, and on considering all the measures...

‘WELCOME to Hell,’ is the title of a new report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem: ‘The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture...

Iranian armed forces have launched the tenth phase of Operation True Promise III by firing a barrage of missiles and drones toward the occupied...

‘THE ISRAELI entity’s occupation of additional Syrian territories and targeting of military capabilities there constitutes a dangerous and strongly condemned act of aggression,’ Hezbollah...

‘The Bolivian trade union organisation Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and indigenous peoples organisations have ratified a state of emergency in the face of alleged...

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has issued an urgent appeal to save the lives of hundreds of infants and premature babies who...

the Accountability and Justice Law is a ‘worthless’ piece of paper, approved by a ‘worthless and false parliament’, a ‘Ba’ath party spokesman’ in Iraq...

HEALTH workers in the West Bank will escalate their strike action next week, their union said on Sunday. Osama al-Najjar, the head of the healthcare...

STAFF and students at the University of Reading held a special demonstration yesterday against government cuts to higher education. The lobby was organised by...