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THOUSANDS of civil service jobs are under threat in the wake of plans to cut numbers swollen by both Brexit and the Covid crisis...

NHS Logistics was taken over by DHL on 1 October – the Blair/Brown government’s first privatisation of an NHS department so far. The supplier of...

AROUND 2,000 workers from a garment factory in Yangon’s Zaykabar Industrial Park in Mingaladon Township went on strike last Thursday morning, declaring that violations of...

NOT ONE of the social housing blocks granted building safety funding have had their remediation work completed yet, the latest figures from the Ministry...

KENTUCKY trade unions are standing up to halt the deportation of two hundred immigrant workers. Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers,...

Doctors’ leaders on Tuesday warned the government that increasing tuition fees could result in medical students facing a debt bill of potentially £100,000 –...

A JOINT Statement by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al-Haq begins with a statement by Hana Shalabi. ‘To...

FRANCE’S trade unions are calling for a nationwide port strike on June 23 and June 28 as part of ongoing strikes and protests against...

ISRAELI officials plan to rubber-stamp the construction of ten new settlements in the Negev desert region at a cabinet meeting next Sunday. The decision...

THE families of thousands of Afghan civilians killed by US/NATO forces in Afghanistan have been left without justice, Amnesty International said in a new...

HOSPITAL workers at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire, are set to take further strike action against yet another round of vicious attacks...

SAMEH Ashour, the head of Egypt’s Lawyers Syndicate, has called a lawyers strike against the Ministry of Interior after the disappearance of lawyer Ibrahim...

A NATIONAL pay strike is looming at Eskom, after management at South Africa’s massive national power utility issued a ‘declaration of war’ to the...

AN INVESTIGATION released last week into the deaths in July 2019 of two railworkers at Magram, a suburb of Port Talbot in Wales, has...

‘NATIONAL Action is needed to defend the NHS & stop hospital closures!’ was the title of the resolution that was carried unanimously at a...

YOUNG fast food workers in Portland, Oregon, USA, who are fighting for a $5 an hour rise above the US state’s minimum wage and...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Jason Greenblatt and their remarks hit the front page headlines in local Palestinian...

JAMAICA, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, three island countries in the Caribbean, have in recent days officially recognised Palestinian statehood, signalling a shift towards...

‘ROYAL Mail not for sale!’ shouted over 200 postal workers and their supporters as they marched through Corby last Friday. They were applauded as they...

THE NATIONAL Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has demanded that Australia’s government takes ‘urgent and immediate action to stop unconscionable employers ripping off international students...

THE 371 USW United Steelworkers/Syndicat des Métallos workers in Quebec, Canada, have won their nine-month strike against Glencore-managed CEZinc. The workers went on strike at...

TAMILNET reports that voting at Thursday’s Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary Elections ended on schedule at 4.00 pm local time as independent monitors placed the voter...

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

MILLIONS of French workers, youth and their families on Thursday took part in the latest strikes and mass demonstrations across the country against the...

MESSAGES of solidarity are being received by the workers of Wisconsin from trade unions and trade unionists all over the world, supporting their battle...

A STRIKE wave is gripping South Africa with fishermen, media workers and fuel industry and electricity workers taking action. In an eleventh hour decision ...

BY MIKE DRIVER PART ONE: ‘Fraternity found its true unadulterated and prosaic expression in the war of Labour against capital’ AS French and European workers...

The sound of tanks rumbling through the streets outside of Kamal Adwan Hospital woke everyone up. They were already on edge after enduring months...

France is considering further sanctions against ‘the members and support structures’ of the Iranian government over Iran’s nuclear programme, the French foreign ministry said...

JORDAN announced on Tuesday it would raise fuel prices, including a 53 per cent hike on cooking gas, sparking nationwide protests in which two...

At the end of Saturday’s London March the first speaker at the rally in Whitehall was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK,...

MANDATE Trade Union members on Tuesday called on all TDs to sign the ‘Secure Hours – Better Future’ charter which would end zero-hours and...

HUNGER striker Samer Issawi called for ‘rage and solidarity’ from his prison cell on Palestinian Prisoners Day. Issawi wrote in a letter sent through his...

Israeli settlers vandalised a mosque in Deir Dibwan, a village to the east of Ramallah, on Monday. The Mayor of Deir Dibwan, Mansour Mansour,...

A STRIKE wave is spreading throughout South Africa as concrete workers, Telecom workers and miners are locked into escalating struggles against ruthless employers that...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Friday evening condemned the Israeli Army for firing into a crowd and killing two Palestinian women during a...

Over 11,000 BBC journalists and technicians took strike action last Monday over savage job cuts and privatisation announced unilaterally by Director-General Mark Thompson in...

IN a live speech to the Libyan people over Libyan state Al-Jamahiriyah TV last Tuesday the, Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gadaffi said that...

The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) in a statement has urged the Sri Lanka Department of Elections to implement a proper programme...

TENS of thousands of residents of the UNESCO world heritage site of Sur are among an estimated half a million people forced out of...

THOUSANDS of demonstrators have blocked traffic into the departures area at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, where Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin landed for...

‘HEALTHCARE workers are our soldiers on the front line, and they are literally being sent into war without any weapons,’ insisted Numsa general secretary...

‘ISRAELI authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians,’ Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a damning new report. The...

The Irish Political Journalist JOHN COULTER assesses the impact of the Stormont results on political stability in the North of Ireland. Ulster Unionist boss Tom...

On Thursday, more than 60,000 private pharmacy workers in Italy stage a 24-hour national strike to demand higher wages and the renewal of the...