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Israel knew about ‘80,000 missiles’ in the possession of Hezbollah,’ President Shimon Peres said in comments published Saturday. In an interview with the Kuwaiti al-Rai...

ACROSS the US, thousands of workers marched to Labour Board Offices and Worksites, demanding Freedom to have a Trade Union, on Monday July 10. Workers...

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) are marching in Gauteng today, Human Rights Day, to protest against the proposed new...

IRAN has unveiled its first domestically designed and manufactured fighter jet, named ‘Kowsar’, at a defence show in Tehran. The aircraft conducted its first...

THE IRISH Trade Union Congress Executive Council member and INTO Deputy General Secretary Deirdre O’Connor delivered a speech on behalf of the workers of...

Last Wednesday November 9th, 21 protesters left Zuccotti Park, the centre of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and set off down...

THE Egyptian Cabinet has approved new legislation on trade union freedoms, consenting to pass the law within days. The new legislation would eliminate many of...

TEN THOUSAND nurses began strikes this week, in the states of Minnesota, California and Massachusetts. The strikes were called by National Nurses United (NNU) over...

‘Ceasefire Now!’ demanded 5,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Parliament on Wednesday night as MPs were voting on amendments to the King’s Speech over Israel’s genocide...

UP TO half a million (450,000) disabled people and their families – including children and disabled adults living on their own – will be...

THE Chagos islanders were thrown out of their Indian Ocean home in the mid 1960s by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson in...

IN EGYPT, six doctors and two pharmacists have been arrested, and medics transferred to quarantine hospitals for speaking out, said Amnesty International on Thursday. A...

THE BIDEN administration has formally included Israel in the US Visa Waiver Programme. This decision has ignited a heated debate surrounding issues of discrimination, American...

Tariq Othman from the Palestinian Forum in Britain told the rally: ‘Colonial occupation has many ugly faces. We have to focus on the mass...

‘GENERAL PRACTICE – and the NHS as we know it – is in danger of disintegrating unless the Chancellor urgently increases investment in the...

PALESTINIAN civil society groups issued a statement on Wednesday urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject the ‘biased, anti-Palestinian’ International...

VIOLENCE is threatening Al Nao hospital, a vital lifeline for people in Omdurman, to the north west of Khartoum, as the conflict in Sudan...

MORE than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, have called on the UK government to impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its...

‘WE promise we will rebuild them.’ These words were written by a Palestinian on the walls of a house demolished by Israeli airstrikes in...

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...

TURKEY praised the United States on Wednesday for providing intelligence in support of attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, as it confirmed its...

Massive nationwide industrial action paralysed air and rail travel across Germany yesterday and Thursday as striking workers walked off the job to demand better...

ARTS technicians’ union BECTU’S submission to parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, ahead of October’s Comprehensive Spending Review, predicts ‘conflict’ over savage cuts...

Despite the October chill, over 30,000 British Tamils and supporters took to the streets on Saturday, to highlight the desperate situation faced by Tamils...

A SENIOR aide to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that Palestinians should follow the example of Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence if Israeli-Palestinian...

THE DISCOVERY of hundreds of mass graves at the Nasser and al-Shifa hospital complexes, where United Nations (UN) officials reported that bodies were ‘buried...

Israeli police used force to break up a demonstration in East Jerusalem on Friday against the eviction of a Palestinian family from their home. Twenty-one...

A RECORD 137,000 people made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, most of them fleeing war,...

TWO striking garment workers were shot dead by police in Bangladesh on Monday. Almost 140 Bangladeshi garment factories were shut as thousands of workers took...

WORKERS at Siemens AG, the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe, are demanding strike action against a programme of mass sackings. Thousands of Siemens ...

THE first session of the TUC Congress, on Sunday afternoon in Brighton saw a division over the General Council statement on Brexit and Composite...

Liberty is calling for the Coronavirus Act 2020 to be scrapped, highlighting that it contains sweeping powers that continue to threaten basic civil rights...

JOHANNESBURG – The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) condemns the continued attacks on the people of Palestine by the Israeli apartheid forces. Its...

THERE are two million child workers in Turkey, despite the official statistics showing the figure as 800,000, DISK (The Confederation of Revolutionist Worker’s Unions),...

PALESTINE Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah told visiting members of the European Parliament on Monday that Israel should be forced to stop its violations against...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared three days mourning, while in Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya declared a general strike in response...

DUBLIN’S Luas tram drivers are taking their 12th day of strike action tomorrow (Friday), with their union SIPTU accusing management of being ‘out of...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to RTP TV channel on 16 November 2016. Question 1: Mr. President, let’s start with Aleppo if you don’t...

‘At the end of 2009, some 43.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution, the highest number since the mid-1990s,’...

Since 2017, the United States has imposed numerous sanctions on Venezuela, targeting its oil industry, financial sector, and political leaders. These sanctions have severely damaged...

TUC DELEGATES in Brighton gave a standing ovation to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday afternoon despite the fact that he failed...

THE Palestine National Authority will be the sole administrator of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal in August, the Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive...

Dr Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, was killed on Wednesday when an Israeli airstrike targeted his home near the...

Thousands of people in the Iranian capital, Tehran, staged a demonstration on Tuesday to express their support for the Palestinians and denounce the Israeli...

RAILWAY unions TSSA and RMT have demanded renationalisation of railways – and slammed the privateer rail companies – in the wake of valuable...