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THE Palestinian Presidency spokesperson, Nabil Abu-Rudaynah said yesterday, the decision of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on continuing settlement activity in East Jerusalem, proves...

Healthcare Workers Against Censorship have issued a request for a meeting with Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting, their letter...

Israeli forces stormed the Old City of Nablus on Sunday amid intensified raids throughout the West Bank, seizing and arresting many citizens. They raided homes,...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said last Wednesday 25 April 2018 will be recorded in the history of the South African...

ACTIVISTS threw fake blood at the gates of Napier Barracks last Thursday – in protest against the conditions in which hundreds of asylum seekers...

ONLY four police officers in Kenya so far are to face prosecution for shooting and killing protesters over the last four weeks, amid rising...

THE METROPOLITAN Police is using a ‘racially discriminatory’ Gangs Matrix database, says Amnesty International in its new report. Amnesty International UK’s Director, Kate Allen,...

THE death toll has risen to 19 after an an attack on the Freedom Flotilla sailing from Cyprus to Gaza, by Israeli commandos. They...

A STRIKE wave is erupting in Australia, with airport firefighters and guards walking out in the lead-up to Christmas. An industrial dispute between a major...

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...

OVER seven hundred firefighters and control staff assembled in Westminster on Wednesday to launch a new ‘Firefighters’ Manifesto’. As the country recovers from flooding, and...

‘WE WILL win this fight!’ That was the message from speaker after speaker at a rally of more than 1,500 delegates from trade unions and...

AROUND 100,000 workers employed by the SNCF (French national railway) are taking strike action this week, following Saturday’s mass demonstration of more than 40,000...

Putin’s attack on a mining company has given Medvedev a chance to show who’s boss, Russian Gazeta.ru news website said last weekend, looking to...

Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International, has said that ‘for over a year, Israel has convinced its allies, and much of the world, that...

Hamas leaders on Monday rejected as ‘blackmail’ Western demands that the Palestinian resistance movement recognises Israel’s right to exist and renounces violence against the...

GLOBAL youth media company ‘Vice’ on Monday launched a week-long special edition of their website Vice.com about Guantanamo Bay, featuring testimony from clients represented...

THE Canadian Federation of Students, its member unions and allies will step up the fight for accessible education in Newfoundland and Labrador against a...

The University and College Union (UCU) on Wednesday called on the government to urgently protect healthcare education funding after MPs warned that delays in...

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama was personally informed of phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002, German...

CLOSURE-THREATENED theatre companies are lobbying today’s meeting of the Arts Council in the Roundhouse in Camden, North West London today at 1.30pm, demanding a...

MORE than 60 Montreal municipal employees will be tried together on charges related to a 2014 protest that saw hundreds of union members storm...

• No to the destruction of the state pension system • Down with the junta of the IMF-European Commission-Papandreou! • For an indefinite Political General Strike! Statement...

AN All Trades Unions Alliance fringe meeting held in the evening of the first day of the British Medical Association’s Annual General Meeting was...

SAFTU – the South African Federation of Trade Unions – notes the stubborn inflation which remains high above 7%, and averaged 7,2% in December...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) says the petrol increase would disproportionately impact families of poor workers who have been forced to...

A FEDERAL Court judge in Australia has granted an injunction preventing 97 workers at ports in Sydney and Brisbane from being sacked. The Maritime Union...

HUMAN rights group Amnesty International has welcomed the call for European governments to cooperate fully with an investigation into ‘extraordinary rendition’ and secret...

A TOTAL of 21,800 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the country since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to...

COLONEL Gadaffi has sent a special appeal to the UN Security Council to halt the huge attacks on Sirte. In a message, attributed to the...

THE maritime law tribunal of the United Nations has ruled that Britain has no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. It criticised London for its failure...

THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has welcomed this week’s release of the United Nations database of companies involved in supporting Israeli settlements. ‘We welcome the...

THE Damascus-based pro-Al-Gadaffi Al-Ra’y TV has broadcast a four-minute audio message to the Libyan people by Colonel Gadaffi’s daughter, Ayshah...

VITAL public services such as schools and hospitals face serious disruptions should government fail to prepare for the expiry of its 700 PFI contracts,...

OVER 300, mainly youth, shouting No Justice! No Peace!, marched through Tottenham on Monday evening to Ferry Lane, the place where Mark Duggan...

EGYPT is gripped by a wave of strikes as the working class continues its revolutonary actions along with the country’s youth that have seen...

THOUSANDS of people are living in abysmal conditions in a new camp, which was built to replace Moria camp on the Greek island of...

FORMER US president Donald Trump has launched another verbal attack on his one-time close ally Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the ex-Israeli prime minister did not...

THE recently aired videotape on satellite TV channels showing some British soldiers assaulting a number of unarmed citizens has stirred strong reactions among...

OVER 200 striking refuse workers, who have already endured three years of pay freezes, defiantly marched with their supporters through Brighton and Hove on...

THE CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is celebrating 35 years of existence – and relentless struggle – since it was formed on...

A NEW report from Cardiff University’s Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology has added to the portrait of a maritime industry where fatigue...

The Teamsters union started the largest strike against Amazon in United States history on Thursday morning. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow...

RUSSIA’S foreign intelligence (SVR) top brass said any French military unit sent to Ukraine to help it fight Russia would be a ‘priority’ target...

At least 4,000 gathered on Friday afternoon to attend the funeral of Omar Salim Al-Qawasmi, 66, executed by Israeli forces early that morning, in...