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UNIVERSITY leaders have ‘failed staff and students’, the University and College Union (UCU) said today as up to ten days of strike action began...

The Hillingdon Hospital Strike began on October 1st, 1995 when 56 domestic and catering workers were sacked by private contractor Pall Mall for refusing...

‘FROM the river to the sea Palestine will be free,’ 1,000 people shouted outside Downing Street in Whitehall in central London on Wednesday evening. It...

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

LTTE’s Department of International Relations on Sunday announced that the LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabakharan attained martyrdom fighting the military oppression of the Sri Lankan...

Statement by RABINDER SINGH QC to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry RABINDER Singh QC has delivered his opening statement to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry,...

The United States has confirmed that it is supplying new ammunition to the Israeli occupation army. The US decision has angered the Palestinians and Palestinian...

HEZBOLLAH leader, Sayyed Nasrallah, has said that Israel may start a war in the region and that Hezbollah is fully prepared for it. In an...

v‘We are meeting under the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system,’ Chair of Chingford ASLEF Bill Rogers told 150 workers and youth at...

Bruno Rodríguez, Cuba’s Foreign Minister, on Thursday denounced the US administration of President Donald Trump for trying to pressurise countries into refusing the help...

A CALL from the Workers of Gaza to Labour Unions Around the World: A Cry in the Face of Starvation and Genocide. ‘To all free...

PALESTINIANS have denounced Binyamin Netanyahu’s swearing-in as Israel’s prime minister in his return as head of the Tel Aviv regime’s most far-right cabinet in...

THE International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions has expressed outrage at the banning last week of the Iraqi electrical trade...

SENIOR nurses in New South Wales, Australia, took two hours of strike action on Monday, saying that chronic staff shortages have pushed them to...

A HUGE march of over 100,000 workers and students held in Athens last Wednesday afternoon, as part of a 24-hour general strike, was viciously...

AFTER 2008, the masses of the world showed they were not about to give up all their hard-won gains so that the banks,...

Responding to the latest Push survey of students’ cost of living, Wes Streeting, NUS Vice President (Education), said on Thursday: ‘This survey shows how...

LEADERS of France’s main trade union federations have refused to talk to the government until it withdraws the CPE (first job contract) that removes...

THE Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection, Avi Gabay, has officially resigned in protest at the appointment of extremist politician Avigdor Lieberman as the regime’s...

IN AN historic moment for Mexico’s trade union movement, the Mexican Senate has unanimously ratified International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention No. 98, which guarantees...

MOSCOW will continue supporting efforts to strengthen the global role of Latin America and individual countries in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

MANY thousands of NHS staff, from cleaners to doctors, from all over the country, were joined by members of the public fighting hospital closures...

‘Thousands of public school teachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public (state) school teachers strike in the city in...

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...

‘TODAY we honour Nelson Mandela and share the joy of our sisters and brothers in South Africa,’ Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said in...

MINISTERS of Group 77 (coalition of developing countries at the United Nations) and China last Saturday reiterated their demand for the Israeli occupation to...

THE SHOCKING depth and breadth of the scandalous cruelty and murderous treatment of unmarried mothers and their children by the Catholic Church and the...

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

WORKERS manufacturing clothes for Marks & Spencer (M&S) employed in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India continue to be underpaid, a report by Labour Behind...

LONMIN Plc (LMI) is waiting to be served with a strike notice by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) if the...

President Barack Obama tried to convince top union leaders to drop labour’s opposition to taxing workers’ health care benefits at a meeting at the...

‘MY VISIT to Syria comes in the framework of the political meetings which are held periodically with Syrian officials to discuss and follow the...

NEARLY 130 workers are facing the sack at Shannon Airport while almost 200 others are to be laid off for three months without pay...

The Ministry of Public Works in Gaza has reported that more than a quarter of a million housing units have been completely or partially...

OVER 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters rallied at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords, from 11am to 1pm on Sunday. The...

FEARFUL Britain was going to run out of food and grind to a halt due to a docks strike at the height of the...

The imperialist-backed Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) ‘must act immediately to investigate and prosecute abuses against the Tawargha community of black Libyans’, said Amnesty...

A MASSIVE staff survey carried out by the RMT railway workers union reveals the dystopian future awaiting passengers if the industry privateers and the...

THE United Steelworkers (USW) union has called on the Canadian government to intervene after violence flared last Saturday in a labour dispute at a...

Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, shocking new testimony from nursing staff revealed on Thursday. A survey of NHS nursing...

The United Nations and its partners have finalised the Cholera Inter-Sector Response Strategy for Haiti, a plan to support the Government of Haiti’s response...

AT LEAST 27 Palestinians were injured, including 14 with Israeli forces’ live fire, while others sustained rubber-coated steel bullets and suffered tear-gas suffocation as...

GEORGIA’S latest actions are aimed at ousting Russian peacekeepers from South Ossetia and bringing a NATO police force there, Col-Gen Leonid Ivashov, former chief...

Israeli settlers vandalised a mosque in Deir Dibwan, a village to the east of Ramallah, on Monday. The Mayor of Deir Dibwan, Mansour Mansour,...

SIXTEEN years on from the start of the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq, further evidence has emerged that the war was planned long before...