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AT THE CALL of the trade unions, more than 220 demonstrations were organised across France on Friday, October 13, to say no to austerity...

A NEW report on the non-payment of workers’ wages in Zimbabwe was released earlier this month in Harare, entitled ‘Working Without Pay – Wage...

RUSSIA is warning Western allies that nothing good will come out of provocations in the Black Sea as any attempts to test Moscow’s willingness...

MORE than 1,100 California social workers and eligibility workers conducted a three-day strike in Contra Costa County, then voted on Wednesday to extend their...

The United Auto workers union (UAW) says that its 146,000 members at the so called ‘big three’ motor companies – General Motors, Ford and...

AT LEAST nine Yemenis were killed late last week as Saudi-led military aircraft carried out a string of airstrikes against an area in Yemen’s...

THE RUSSIAN Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador and warned London of ‘dangerous consequences’, following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea...

‘The Iraqis today do not have control over their political, security or social situation – control is in the hands of the occupation, those...

UDARA Sandaruwan, Acting Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation has issued an appeal to trade unions and human rights organisations of the world to...

ON August 10 2005 Gate Gourmet locked out and dismissed over 700 workers in a pre-planned operation designed to secure the introduction of their...

ZERO-HOUR contracts have risen sharply in recent years, hundreds of thousands of zero-hour contract workers, the majority being young, are on minimum wage whilst...

The Gaza Strip is witnessing a worrying increase in cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), a rare neurological disorder that strikes children suddenly, causing...

Human rights organisations said yesterday that legislation enabling inquests into those who have died in police custody or been killed at the hands of...

FURIOUS parents and staff belonging to Unison public sector union have forced Crawley Borough Council (CBC) to issue letters to parents to deny it...

THE GMB trade union is staging a protest demonstration outside Wandsworth Town Hall from from 6.45pm on Wednesday 4th July 2012, where the borough’s...

YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary Straw condemned the repressions by the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan. It has already killed 500 Uzbeks and is getting...

NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...

AUSTERITY is being exploited to drive through budget cuts and reforms which are denying children their basic human rights, according to a major new...

A PALESTINIAN prisoner who has been in solitary confinement for eight years in Israeli jails has recently been suffering a psychological and neurological disorder,...

SANA, the Syrian state news agency, is showing an interview with President Assad by Associated Press and the current ceasefire crisis. We are very...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nicolas Maduro on being re-elected President of Venezuela, noting the strategic partnership between Moscow and Caracas. ‘Russian-Venezuelan relations have...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), on this day when the world celebrates the International Day of the Nurse and the 200th...

DEPUTY Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr Faysal Miqdad said on Friday that the Syrian people, who are confronting terrorism with epic steadfastness, have the...

AL-AQSA TV on Sunday morning carried the following ‘urgent’ screen caption: ‘Residents on the Egyptian side of Rafah are angry because the Egyptian army...

BY JOHN COULTER AT STORMONT DUBLIN – Ian Paisley senior may be hauled out of semi-political retirement to save the rapidly crumbling Northern Assembly, a...

THE AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Thursday that they are reuniting to launch ‘a new, long-term effort to make...

The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday (Thursday) that forcing students to pick up the bill for higher education was an astonishingly weak,...

A new report warns that plans to privatise London Fire Brigade training and the fire control centre would compromise safety whilst imposing new high...

AGAINST a background of rolling blackouts, rising poverty and an out-of-control cost of living crisis, the South African government of Cyril Ramaphosa now faces...

ON Monday night, a crowd of over a thousand gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to rally for Palestine and demand an end to...

AN Israeli court on Sunday placed under house arrest a Palestinian-American teenager who was filmed being brutally beaten by police during clashes in Jerusalem. Tarek...

THREE thousand doctors, NHS staff, patients and supporters last Saturday marched from Aldgate to London Fields in east London. The march was organised to protest...

A NEW report released by the UK-based Jubilee Debt Campaign provides a scathing critique of the failure of PPPs across a range of sectors...

CHRISTIANS from the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy sites in Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, the so-called...

THE College of Emergency Medicine published a startling report yesterday entitled: ‘Stretched to the Limit’. It was based upon a survey of Emergency Medicine Consultants...

‘THE IMPACT poverty has on children and young people’s education is immense,’ Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union, said yesterday. He was...

The European Union heavily sanctioned Russia and pledged to boycott its oil, yet continues to buy it, and at an even higher price, albeit...

GERMANY’S Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said she plans to reiterate the value of dialogue with Russia to avoid a conflict over Ukraine when...

A LIVELY lobby of over 50 Young Socialists and supporters, chanting ‘Youth demand a future, youth demand jobs’ demonstrated outside the TUC Congress yesterday...

Using the individual bombing attack in Netanya on Monday as a pretext, Israel is violating the Gaza borders agreement with the Palestinian National Authority...

LONMIN Plc (LMI) is waiting to be served with a strike notice by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) if the...

‘EVERYTHING related to the destiny and future of Syria is a 100% Syrian issue. The unity of Syrian territory is self-evident and not up...

IRAQ: Battle between US-led coalition, Iraqi forces and Islamic State creates civilian catastrophe in west Mosul, says Amnesty International. The main findings of its report...

Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Minister of Civil Affairs, Mohammad Dahlan has revealed a plan regarding the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Dahlan, who also heads the...

Over 15,000 Tamils and their supporters held an angry vigil opposite Downing Street on Saturday evening demanding ‘Stop the war. Don’t kill Tamil people...