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FIRST speaker at the News Line Anniversary Rally on Saturday was Bill Rogers, ASLEF Chingford Branch Chairman, who said: ‘This rally is being held...

RUSSIA and China on Thursday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that threatened sanctions against Syria and President Bashar al-Assad if he...

GREEK workers, youth, farmers and professionals are continuing and developing the struggle against the government’s Pensions Bill.  On Tuesday night over 5,000 workers and youth...

‘FREE, Free Palestine!’ shouted a crowd of over 400 workers and youth demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy on Saturday. The protest was part of the...

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...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad said that France, Britain, and the US, along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are responsible for the war in...

THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...

Since MYANMAR’S military coup in February this year, 4,800 miners have been on strike in Monywa township in a solid five-month action which has...

THE FATHER of the Yellow Vest protester who had his hand blown off by a gas grenade in Paris on Saturday says he plans...

MORE than 100,000 A&E patients waited for hours to be treated in hospitals in January, the highest number since records began, NHS figures show. There...

THE NHS is in ‘all-year-round crisis’, Dr Rob Harwood, BMA consultants committee chair, said on Thursday. He was responding to new figures A&E attendances...

America’s campaign to change supermarket giant Wal-Mart, WakeUpWalMart.com, has released copies of Wal-Mart’s new health care benefits plan for current part-time employees and full-time...

THE COMMUNITY Camp4Palestine opposite the US embassy in Battersea on Tuesday night hosted an event to honour paramedics in Gaza. Opening the proceedings, Elina, a...

GMB UNION members working for Wilko are furious over a threat that the company is to turn on them and impose draconian cuts. It...

THROUGHOUT Europe, strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum, notes France’s CGT trade union federation. Faced with inflation and the energy crisis, demonstrators demand wage increases...

THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) has kicked off its year with study tours overseas to investigate the feasibility of forming a...

PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters have disrupted president Joe Biden’s campaign speech in North Carolina by chanting slogans and protesting against his support for the crimes of...

Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced quality of patient care and increased rates of deaths from treatable causes, according...

‘A LONG-AWAITED trial began on Monday in Paris, accusing telecom giant Orange and seven former or current managers of moral harassment and related charges,’...

AMNESTY International Secretary General Agnes Callamard has called on all international actors, foremost among them the European Union, to take serious steps to stop...

UP TO 5,000 workers and local residents marched in west London against the closures of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals on Saturday. The angry demonstration...

THE TUC delegates in Liverpool at the 2009 Congress on Monday voted unanimously to defend public services. Composite Motion C21 Public Services and the Economy...

OVER 15,000 Greek school and university students and secondary school teachers marched through the Athens city centre on Monday afternoon in commemoration of the...

One hundred and twenty five union building staff at the University of Chicago Medical Centre (UCMC) are to strike next week amid protracted contract...

TEACHERS are suffering from ‘ludicrous levels of workload pressure’ teachers unions have warned. They were responding to a ‘bitterly disapointing’ new Tory government ‘Workload Challenge...

A GENERAL strike took place on Tuesday in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Issawiya in protest at the latest Israeli ‘security fences’ dividing Palestinian neighbourhoods...

THE global telecom company Orange participates in systematic violations of Palestinian rights, according to an investigation published this week by a coalition of French...

Over a thousand demonstrators, gathered outside the Israeli Embassy for the second day running on Monday, determined to show solidarity with the besieged people...

Conference Education Fund says hate crimes in the United States are likely to spike ahead of the 2024 election. The report said: ‘From the mainstreaming...

UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...

‘royal Mail – not for sale! Mandy, Mandy, Mandy – Out Out Out!’ chanted over 200 postal workers as they lobbied the heavily-fortified...

THOUSANDS of Palestinian professional workers have demonstrated their unequivocal support for the legitimate PNA government under Premier Ismail Haniya, and denounced PNA chief Mahmud...

THE Israeli Ambassador to Ireland relayed a warning to the Israeli government on Tuesday that the Irish parliament would soon move to recognise the...

BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER THE destruction of NHS hospital care continues in London with the NORTH WEST LONDON CLUSTER. This includes Primary Care Trusts...

UNITE, Britain’s biggest union, says urgent action is needed to stop the growth of the zero-hours culture as new figures show the use of...

AS MINEWORKERS in Marikana prepared yesterday to commemorate the deaths of 34 of their colleagues at the hands of police a year ago, hopes...

MEMBER of the PLO Executive Committee, Hanan Ashrawi, said on Saturday evening that the Israeli government and its allies are responsible for rise in...

MASSIVE protests are taking place across Sudan with hundreds of thousands on the streets to denounce the military’s tightening grip on power. Chanting ‘Power to...

The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) yesterday highlighted the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) latest report for the benefit of Iraqi asylum...

The Chairman of the doctors union, the BMA, wrote a letter to the medical profession on 30th July regarding the new health White Paper...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is preparing to take action, ‘including lunchtime pickets, placard demonstrations, marches and strikes’, to defend...

UNIVERSITIES must scrap plans to reopen campuses next month in order to prevent a major public health crisis, lecturers union UCU said. The union fears...

FRANCE’S nine main unions united for the first time in a decade in public sector protests earlier this week against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans...

TEACHER strikes and massive demonstrations of teachers, parents and students are spreading across the United States ‘like wildfire’. In Oklahoma City, at the state...