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OVER A decade of Tory NHS cuts have put patients and staff at risk, as hospitals have been left in such a state of...

The Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) has issued an urgent appeal ‘Solidarity needed! 119 of KGEU local offices forcefully closed down!’ A KGEU statement...

‘PALESTINE is the spearhead of the struggle against colonisation,’ orthopaedic surgeon and founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians Dr Swee Ang told over 100...

Israel has announced plans to provide illegal settlers with firearms and weapons in response to the recent retaliatory operations by Palestinians, which killed at least...

PALESTINIAN factions have called for demonstrations and a general strike in protest at an upcoming US-led conference in Bahrain, which centres on Washington’s ‘Deal...

Sri Lanka is now waging a new genocidal war on unarmed and demographically weakened Tamils after converting their country imperceptibly into an open concentration...

SOUTH African unions say they will resist power utility Eskom’s intention to cut 7,000 jobs through natural attrition with strike action. ‘Eskom intends to reduce...

WORKERS at Amazon’s biggest warehouse in Spain began a two-day strike in Madrid last week – just ahead of a popular feast day –...

THE LABOUR Court in Johannesburg will be the setting for South Africa’s trade unions and the African National Congress (ANC) government to fight it...

A YOUGOV survey of 2,008 parents commissioned by the NUT shows that the vast majority are opposed to the government and its privatisation of...

‘I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, and from besieged and heroic Gaza, and from...

Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...

GOVERNMENT officials knew of the dangers of flammable cladding 15 years before the horrific Grenfell Tower fire which on June 14, 2017 claimed the...

A GLOBAL strike prevailed in several Arab and Muslim cities around the world on Monday in condemnation of the Israeli genocidal war on the...

TAMILNET reports that the French Tamil diaspora has been demonstrating, demanding ‘Allow us to speak’. ‘Allow us to speak! We are not terrorists. What is...

In a landmark judgment on Friday in the High Court in London, the UK’s detention policy in Afghanistan was declared unlawful. Since November 2009, the...

A DEBATE was held in Westminster Hall on Monday, attended by MPs, teachers, headteachers, support staff and members of the public to discuss the...

Public services support staff – including teaching assistants and hospital porters – are doing more than 40 million hours of unpaid overtime a year,...

The TUC preliminary agenda covers the mounting concerns of workers over jobs, wages and conditions, public services and basic rights. The agenda opens...

THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says nearly 3,000 children are at risk of dying before the eyes of their families as they have...

Undeterred by sackings, harassment, violence and hardship, members of the Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel Workers Union are more determined than ever to fight until...

‘WHAT Are the Real Reasons of the Western Positions Vis-A-Vis President Al-Assad? Or Why Has President Al-Assad Become an Obsession for the United States?’...

OVER 100 refugee doctors are signed up to become vital medical support staff – as unregistered UK doctors in Britain, many of them from...

Human rights organisations have urgently called on UN member states to take immediate action to ‘protect people deprived of their liberty’ across the occupied...

THOUSANDS of Spanish workers took part in a rally in Madrid on 5 July, to protest at the arrest and possible imprisonment of several...

OVER 10,000 people marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday demanding the withdrawal of the British Army from Afghanistan. At the...

GLOBAL youth media company ‘Vice’ on Monday launched a week-long special edition of their website Vice.com about Guantanamo Bay, featuring testimony from clients represented...

‘I’M CALLING for a general strike to smash this bill,’ Bakers Union leader Ian Hodson told News Line on Monday afternoon in Westminster, where...

Alun Pugh, Minister for Culture, the Welsh Language and Sport, last Friday faced tough questions about the future of BBC Wales and stated that...

‘The newly unemployed face a bigger cut in their living standards in this recession than those who lost their jobs under the previous government’,...

Six union leaders employed by the One World Apparel garment factory in Haiti have been fired. The leaders of the Textile and Garment...

AUSTRALIAN unions AMWU, CFMEU and TCFUA held a rally outside of Ansell’s Australian headquarters on Thursday, following the denial of entry visas to a...

HEALTH attacks by Israelis against Palestinians persist in the occupied territories during Covid-19 pandemic, says the World Health Organisation. In 2020 alone, the World Health...

AN Israeli attack on the only Catholic Church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday has left two people dead and several others injured. Two women...

WORKERS in more than 230 cities in the US walked out to join mass protests against poverty level pay last Wednesday in what is...

Iran’s oil minister has called for today’s meeting of the OPEC oil cartel to cut production in order to raise prices above 60 dollars...

THE JOBS of 90,000 gold and platinum mineworkers’ are at risk as Eskom (the state-owned South African electricity public utility, established in 1923 as...

THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is to make Thursday a public sector general strike against the ANC government to press demands...

A group of Palestinian children arrived in Dublin on Friday to receive medical treatment in Ireland. The eight children were evacuated from Gaza, accompanied by...

THE latest ANC government budget entrenches the dominance of ‘white capital’ while intent on creating a ‘black capitalist’ class, says Irvin Jim, NUMSA...

The Federation of Greek Public Sector Trade Unions (ADEDY), the Athens and Piraeus Trades Councils and dozens of trade unions have called a 24-hour...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma have visited one of the ‘tunnels of death’ which were dug by terrorists in Jobar neighbourhood, but...

OVER half of universities and colleges use lecturers on zero-hour contracts and, furthermore, universities and colleges are twice as likely to use zero-hour contracts...

NHS WORKERS are furious that they are to receive a measly 1% pay increase in 2017-18 – in reality another massive pay cut –...