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IN A HISTORIC meeting, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has held talks with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the Iraqi holy...

AT THE Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) annual congress in Belfast on Tuesday, primary teachers condemned the lack of adequate funding to primary schools...

DEMOCRATIC lawmakers have formally protested against the Navy’s dismissal of the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, who requested urgent aid to...

THE world renowned American civil rights leader and peace campaigner Jesse Jackson attended the World Tamils Forum in central London on Thursday, as the...

PEOPLE have once again taken to the streets across Syria to protest against US President Donald Trump’s recent recognition of Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over the...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah said in an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV broadcast on 19 January: ‘We will accept a transitional government that...

ABOUT 5,000 public sector workers took part in two strike marches in Athens last Wednesday against mass sackings and wage cuts. The one-day national...

THIS is the period of world revolution. That was the message delivered to the News Line Anniversary Rally attended by 200 youth and workers in...

NURSES’ unions have declared that World Patient Safety Day 2021 must be a ‘wake-up call’ to ministers to tackle – ‘urgently’ – the nursing...

UP TO 5,000 health workers, trade unionists and local residents determined to save their jobs, hospitals and NHS services from massive cuts marched through...

STRIKING Clover workers marched in Johannesburg last Thursday demanding that the company halt retrenchments and wage cuts. The workers also picketed outside the Israel Trade...

THE UNITED States’ Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is to file charges against Amazon on the grounds that they illegally interfered in...

CORNELL William Brooks, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) on Saturday led off ‘America’s Journey for Justice March’...

TRADE UNION supporters had a rude awakening last Wednesday with news of the Massachusetts state House vote to slash collective bargaining rights for municipal...

PRIME Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has reaffirmed Algeria’s firm intention not to intervene militarily in Libya, citing the Algerian Constitution ‘which prohibits our troops from...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad has affirmed that the situation in Syria has improved dramatically because the terrorist groups, mainly ISIS, al-Nusra and like-minded groups who...

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has strongly condemned the successive waves of colonisation and the frequent calls of extreme Israeli officials...

TamilNet reports the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), in a statement issued from Colombo on Sunday, expressed shock at the shelling...

NHS workers are striking again in a row over pay. Unison members working in the NHS in England will walkout for 12 hours between 9am–9pm...

ON Monday 24 November, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine and Chairman of...

THE United Nations has condemned the US’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants who have been camped in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del...

UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) says children in the besieged Gaza Strip are the main victims of Israeli atrocities in the Palestinian territory, amid...

Research carried out by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) indicates that second-level schools will lose an average of 2.6 temporary and part-time...

Commenting on the government’s NHS ‘reforms’, Professor Ham, a former Director of Strategy at the Department of Health said: ‘The foundations have been laid...

IRAQI paramilitary forces battled the Islamic State group southwest of Mosul on Sunday, the second day of an operation to cut jihadist supply lines...

TAMILNET reports that the entire safety zone area has gone up in smoke since the early hours of Friday with shelling by the Sri...

THE chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said the more destruction the Israeli regime wreaks in Palestine, the more nails...

‘DON’T bomb Iraq! Don’t attack Syria! – How can we fund a war when we can’t feed the poor!’ Shouted marchers in the pouring...

Netanyahu’s planned approval of the construction of new homes for settlers in the West Bank is ‘unacceptable’, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday in...

OVER 4,000 miners, members of the Sintracarbón union, have entered the third month of a bitter strike at the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The...

The National Union of Teachers says the involvement of private sector companies in education over recent years ‘is of grave concern’. It stresses that the...

Cresting through the paper waves and spraying water all over the toddlers and six year olds, teenagers and grannies the Empire Windrush (II), blew...

May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...

THE United Arab Emirates has denied Lebanon’s embassy officials the right to meet with eleven Lebanese citizens arrested in the Persian Gulf state over...

THE upcoming International Nurse’s Day in South Africa, on Sunday May 12, will see the life-saving profession hailed as quiet heroines and heroes who...

OVER two thousand people silently marched through the streets of Notting Hill on Thursday night to mark the six months anniversary of the Grenfell...

PRESIDENTIAL elections should be ‘about what the consensus is among the Syrians’ President Bashar al-Assad said in an extensive interview to Italian TV channel...

OVER a thousand workers in the Massachusetts labour movement rallied for 27 striking Clear Channel Billboard Workers on April 19th. Present at the rally...

FRENCH trade union federation CGT has called for September 29 to be a ‘day of mobilisation and interprofessional strikes’ over unemployment. The CGT stated that...

Israel detained eleven Palestinians in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, amid protests over restrictions preventing Christians from performing religious rites in...

Hamas spokesman Jihad Taha has called for more active global efforts to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip and put an end...

THE PCS is discussing co-ordinated strike action with other unions to fight the Tory-LibDem onslaught on the pensions of millions of health, local council,...

IRISH Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has told the trade unions it would be ‘reckless’ of them to seek a 10 per cent pay...

AT A press conference last Thursday on the just published report by Sir William Gage on the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, lawyers issued a...

‘THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) founding congress in April 2017 warned our members, and the entire country, that both of the...