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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...

MORE than one in ten ‘affordable’ new homes planned by housing associations can no longer be built due to the costs of making buildings...

Continue from lead story First speaker at the rally in Parliament Square was Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, who said: ‘They thought...

THE DEFENCE chiefs of Iran, Russia and Syria have called for closer trilateral co-operation in the battle against terrorism, emphasising the need to keep...

HEZBOLLAH leader Hasan Nasrallah said last Thursday that anti-government protesters would ‘never surrender’ and would continue their street demonstrations until they achieved...

ISRAELI forces on Sunday morning opened fire on Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza Strip, local officials said yesterday. Local residents added that Israeli forces...

THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has said the union is ‘shocked at the news’ that General Motors (GM) intends to...

THE current cash crisis at Worthing and Southlands Hospitals is the result of a ‘manufactured’ funding deficit. This is due to the government’s belief that...

TRADE union Unite has signed a historic union recognition agreement with Ryanair, which is infamous for fighting to stop the unionisation of its workforce. This...

CIVIL cases against Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shavendra Silva, an ex-army commander and currently Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN)...

A 24-hour General Strike declared by GSEE (Greek TUC) and ADEDY (public sectors trades unions federation) took place on Wednesday in Greece, with the...

ORDERS have been issued by Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa and by his sibling Basil Rajapaksa to colonial governor Maj-Gen Chandrasri for immediate and...

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher warned on Tuesday morning that as many as 14,000 babies could die in Gaza within 48 hours if...

SOME 10,000 youth and workers congregated last Wednesday evening at the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens demanding for the seventh consecutive night the overthrow...

EXILED once again in 1929, but this time banished from the entire USSR by the Stalin-led counter-revolution which followed Lenin’s death, Trotsky in his...

THE latest World Bank economic update said that Gaza’s unemployment rate – at 43.9% – is now the highest in the world, stressing that...

MYRIAM Luz Triana is the National Finance Secretary and head of women’s affairs at the Colombian General Workers’ Confederation, the CGT. She tells the...

PRESIDENT Assad had an interview with the Syrian newspaper al-Watan last Wednesday and we are pleased to be be able to publish some extracts...

By Irish politcal journalist JOHN COULTER THE war of words between Unionists and Republicans over the British Army’s presence in the North hotted up as...

RUSSIA’s victory over the US supported Georgian blitzkrieg on South Ossetia, has driven the US ruling class into a frenzy. The Georgian offensive seems to...

CHILDHOOD is being eroded as children spend less time with families and friends, according to a survey of members of the Association of Teachers...

The TUC responded on Thursday to cuts to bus routes by privateers set to be implemented across the country calling for all bus networks...

LIBERATION Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Operations Command in Mannaar told TamilNet on Tuesday that 60 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed...

As evidence is revealed of vulnerable detainees being imprisoned in overcrowded and flooded cells while fires burned, Liberty last Monday called on the Home...

THE Cambodian government should quash the convictions of 25 human rights activists, factory workers, and others for lack of evidence, Human Rights Watch has...

THE Israeli military’s ‘Loot Unit’ has seized massive amounts of cash, gold and weaponry, among other items, since the start of the war on...

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) (which is affiliated to the IndustriALL Global Union) is considering taking legal action against employers...

Police forces across the USA have committed widespread human rights violations against Black Lives Matter protesters, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, as it launched...

On Thursday, over 1,000 workers and young people who are members the Nevada State AFL-CIO, and UNITE HERE’s Culinary Union rallied in Las Vegas...

BOMBARDIER has upped its jobs massacre programme in Belfast, with an even greater number of sackings to take place this year. The aerospace company said...

IN the first of many concrete moves after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its national convention to create new and lasting community partnerships...

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has failed the first test of his promise to let GPs lead NHS reforms, doctors say. Lansley has backed plans to...

MARKING 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon last Friday, Saeb Erekat, secretary...

‘We are preparing for a huge battle,’ said the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) at the weekend. In an extensive statement, SAMWU said: ‘Our...

Three weeks after Butler Hospital management issued what it called its ‘last, best and final’ contract proposal, the union representing striking workers has ‘overwhelmingly’...

FOLLOWING performers’ union Equity’s demonstration outside the Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds on Monday morning to demand that the contemporary dance company reverse their decision to lay...

OVER seventy campaigners demanding the release of Julian Assange attended a party outside Belmarsh prison on Sunday to celebrate his 51st birthday. Assange has been...

RIGHT-WING Argentina president President Javier Milei’s spokesman said on Thursday that his government has reduced the workforce at state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas by 13...

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members across the country have been holding demonstrations throughout the last week against the plans of US President Trump...

‘EMERGENCY care is itself in a state of emergency,’ Dr Taj Hassan, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said on Thursday. He was...

THE American viewing public got a stark warning from the billionaire Donald Trump during a recent TV interview when he announced that Americans should...

MORE than 1,100 California social workers and eligibility workers conducted a three-day strike in Contra Costa County, then voted on Wednesday to extend their...

‘We were very angry today, we are not giving up, we are determined to save our service and we are very shortly going to...

ISRAEL is once again trying to whitewash its crimes against Lebanon by offering the country ‘humanitarian aid’. Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz said Israel was...

THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services Union) is holding a rally in parliament from 6.30pm next Wednesday, 9 May, to highlight how jobs and...