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PRESIDENT Barack Obama proclaimed Syria’s newly reorganised opposition as the ‘legitimate’ representative of the nation’s people on Tuesday, in the most significant...

‘This is the period of the world revolution,’ All Trades Union Alliance National Secretary Dave Wiltshire told 150 delegates at the News Line-ATUA...

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

FORMER US President Donald Trump has attacked President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as the ‘greatest embarrassment’ in the history of the United States. In...

HAMAS Political Bureau Deputy Chief Musa Abu-Marzuq has said that the resistance’s victory in Gaza has brought unity and reconciliation between Palestinian factions much...

The Canadian Autoworkers union (CAW) announced last Saturday it will be donating $40,000 to the Pakistan relief effort and is urging local unions across...

LAST Friday the new AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued a statement on the Senate Healthcare Bill being sponsored by President Obama. He said: ‘The labour...

AL JAZEERA TV has been closed down in the West Bank by the Palestine Authority (PA). The action took place after PLO leader Farouk Kaddoumi...

ANYONE who has made a careful reading of Department of Health documents (see footnote) and considered the implication of the legislation can only come...

South Africa’s finance minister dropped plans on Thursday to increase value-added tax (VAT), in a major climbdown to prevent the collapse of the coalition...

TAMIL NET reports that the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in its latest report has urged the International Community and the United Nations to...

Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian combat drone training centre and three radar stations over the course of Tuesday in the special military operation in...

BOTH junior doctors and seniors are facing serious burn out because of lack of staff, overwork and stress, and this has created a serious...

US President Donald Trump’s scheme for the Gaza Strip is ‘doomed’ to failure, says the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. ‘We will bring...

SPEAKING after talks in Baghdad on Monday, US presidential candidate Barack Obama said the puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had expressed support for...

AT THE rally in Whitehall the first speaker was the leader of the Together Alliance, Kevin Courtney, the former general secretary of the National...

THE TORY government’s new asylum bill will allow thousands of refugee children who are separated from their parents to be locked up, according to...

On ‘Black Friday’ this week, a group of unions and grassroots organisations, known as the Make Amazon Pay Coalition, will stage coordinated protests and...

WORKERS in 23 tea gardens in Habiganj, Bangladesh will go on indefinite strike and block the highways if their demands are not met by...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he will soon meet President Vladimir Putin amid tensions over the downing of a Russian aircraft during Israel’s...

SYRIA and its allies have angrily condemned the first airstrike ordered by new US President Joe Biden, which the Pentagon claimed had targeted Iran-backed...

SO, ONCE again, at the cost of some Rs 12 billion of public funds, we have to face a Presidential election. Two equally bloody, corrupt...

‘GOVE must go!’ shouted angry striking teachers on a 15,000-strong march through central London to rally in Westminster on Thursday. They were taking part in...

IRAQ: Battle between US-led coalition, Iraqi forces and Islamic State creates civilian catastrophe in west Mosul, says Amnesty International. The main findings of its report...

THE Turkish privately-owned, mass-circulation daily Hurriyet, on 23 November, discussed the issue ‘Are the Patriots Harbingers of a War in Syria?’ It stated: ‘Turkey first...

POSTAL workers received overwhelming support from the public last Friday when they collected petitions and letters opposing the government’s plans to part-privatise Royal Mail....

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...

30,000 NEW Zealand nurses went on strike across the country last Thursday over pay and conditions, the first national nurses strike for 30 years. The...

‘SAVE Chase Farm Occupy Now! Whose hospital? Our Hospital!’ More than 200 marchers chanted this slogan as they marched to Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield...

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...

Russia is ready to continue its dialogue with Western lawmakers both in North America and Europe, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday when speaking...

SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...

– Rally 10 Downing St November 4 ‘WE DEMAND an apology for the Balfour Declaration and we demand repatriation and recognition of the Palestinian state,’...

THE AFL-CIO has warned of ‘13 Ways the Trump Budget hurts working people’. It says: ‘There are tons of analyses and numbers that could keep...

ON the sixth anniversary of the landmark Iran nuclear deal, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has highlighted the failure of the United States’ so-called...

EXACTLY 18 years after the King’s Cross fire, Britain’s rail and firefighting unions on Friday launched a joint campaign to keep in place essential...

Confirmation that manufacturing employment levels are at their lowest since 1841 drew an angry and frustrated response from the Transport and General Workers Union. Tony...

BY CLARE SAMBROOK THE horrible death of a respected Aboriginal elder casts doubt upon often-unchallenged assumptions about the virtues of privatisation. Last week beginning 30...

STOP Brutal Raid against the Ssangyong Motor Workers! Our Union Members’ Lives are at Stake! TODAY company goons ripped apart the shelters of solidarity supporters encamped...

TAMILNET reports that yesterday, at 6.50am the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intensified its offensive aimed at dividing the so-called Safety Zone into two. With fire...

Responding to latest GP workforce data for January 2022, the BMA doctors’ union says the declining number of GPs shows no signs of abating...

‘DAMPER’ devices placed in Grenfell Tower’s ventilation system to prevent the spread of smoke were of the ‘lowest possible standard’, the ongoing Grenfell inquiry...

THE Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah, promised victory in an address to the Lebanese and the Arabs on Friday 14th July after a failed...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah last Monday, speaking in a live address broadcast on Al-Manar TV, discussed the implications of the current Israeli...

IN a detailed report released by Amnesty International, the organisation has shed light on a dramatic increase in the deployment of unlawful lethal force...