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MAKING sure women throughout the world can give birth in a health facility, in the presence of a midwife, is the best strategy...

Over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners have been on hunger strike for more than 12 days in protest against policies such as prevention of family visits...

MOSCOW has condemned the so-called ‘price cap’ on Russian oil, insisting that it will continue to sell its oil in markets outside Europe. ‘Starting from...

COLOMBO Port workers engaged in the clearance of containers and cleaners resorted to trade union action on Monday following repeated requests to allow inspections...

THE WEST London Council of Action Big Bike Ride to Save Ealing Hospital on Sunday was a great success. More than two dozen riders with...

OVER 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters rallied at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords, from 11am to 1pm on Sunday. The...

TALKS between Russia and Ukraine should be held on conditions advanced publicly by the Russian side and take into account the actual situation, speaker...

AN Israeli journalist-turned-intelligence officer has exposed part of the regime’s physical and psychological torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons since Israel launched the...

THOUSANDS of Zimbabwe capital Harare City Council (HCC) workers have threatened to go on strike to force their employer to settle salary arrears stretching...

THE Greek authorities must act immediately to curb the growing spate of xenophobic and racist attacks, Amnesty International says. It follows a brutal knife attack...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test will have ‘consequences’, while launching into a tirade against Russia...

NATO imperialist allies were split on Wednesday over deploying a ‘no-fly zone’ over Libya’s skies, with fears raised about angering the ‘Arab street’ in...

The North East London Council of Action held another successful picket of the Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, with passing cars tooting...

ISRAEL is pushing forward with its plans to construct over 100 new settler units in southern West Bank! This is in grave contravention of...

THE United Nations has voiced concern over a recently adopted Israeli law allowing the force-feeding of detainees and prisoners on hunger strikes in Israeli...

In light of the new International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) ‘World at Work’ report the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is holding the world’s first...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called for the protection of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and ensuring Palestinians’ freedom of worship in Jerusalem in line...

TEN thousand people forced the police to retreat from their stated position that a march on parliament would be illegal, and that they would...

FIFTEEN thousand health workers and trade unionists from schools, local councils and other public services – as well as local residents fighting hospital closures...

AROUND 80 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers protested outside the Port Elizabeth City Hall on Tuesday, demanding that the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality...

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has published an updated version of the so-called ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill’ that would allow the...

ISRAEL’S parliament, the Knesset, renewed the controversial ‘Citizenship and Entry into Israel’ law, which sets severe limitations on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian...

THE TRADE union leaders are divided over the Tory Budget. ‘Today’s Budget u-turn on spending is long overdue’ says the TUC, forging a partnership with...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool on Wednesday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 2: Temporary Agency Workers, to demand that agency workers have...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas received the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley, and his accompanying delegation at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah on Wednesday, during...

GREEK public sector workers staged a one-day national strike last Tuesday against the government’s workers’ ‘evaluation’ schemes which are designed to lead to mass...

THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...

‘COLLECTIVE punishment is never permissible under any circumstances,’ human rights charity Amnesty International said, in response to Israeli forces demolishing yet another family home. ties...

THIS book shows that Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) have been introduced to give contracts to private companies to provide care for NHS patients,...

INDIRECT talks between Palestinian and Israeli officials will continue in the last week of October, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday. Izzat al-Rishaq said...

THE official spokesperson of the Fatah-affiliated Martyr Abu Ammar Brigades, Abu Muhammad, has affirmed the brigades’ loyalty to political leaders and Fatah decisions, but...

ISRAELI military forces are preparing for the possibility of a flare-up with fighters from Palestinian resistance groups based in the Gaza Strip following repeated...

‘AS MANY as 180 people were detained in France last night (Wednesday) for participation in unrest, sparked by the police shooting a 17-year-old driver...

At breakfast time on Sunday, in Bronzefield prison, the first two of the Prisoners4Palestine hunger-strikers Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib refused food. This marks the...

SIPTU has stated that it will resist a plan by the management of Irish Water to implement 1,200 redundancies at the state-owned company as...

WASHINGTON’S already tense relationship with the 82,000-strong Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces militia coalition suffered a major blow in January after PMF deputy commander Abu...

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

Hezbollah has warned America and the UN against ‘being party to’ Lebanon’s ‘internal conflicts’. Hezbollah TV Al-Manar last Saturday reported on statements by Hashim...

UP to 600,000 children have now been affected by the Tory government’s two-child limit to ‘Universal Credit’ benefits, the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...

THE UNITED States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to the...

Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is in disarray, the human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity prevails,...

UNIONISATION drives are sweeping Starbucks and Amazon workplaces across the United States from East to West, with strikes gaining powerful huge support from the...

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...

‘The cuts to education spending over the last decade are effectively without precedent in post-war UK history, including a 9% real-terms fall in school...

THE UNIVERSITY of California’s largest employee union, AFSCME Local 3299, has voted to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for President ahead of California’s March...