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ISRAELI foreign minister Eli Cohen’s threat of killing leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas exposes the regime’s frustration over its defeat against the...

Amidst an atmosphere filled with anticipation and hope, the residents of the Gaza Strip spent their first night after the ceasefire took effect on...

PRESIDENT of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Monday that the ‘Arab and Islamic duty requires us to show the highest levels...

COMPASS Coffee workers have announced a unionisation drive across seven stores in America to end the chain’s no-tipping policy and improve benefits and working...

WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...

EGYPTIAN labour activists are keenly anticipating a new law on labour syndicates, a draft of which has apparently been completed and which could be...

At least 18 people were injured in Yemen’s north-western province of Sa’ada when Saudi border troops fired artillery at residential neighbourhoods near the border...

250 years ago on July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted by the Second Continental Congress marking the revolutionary surge that...

LONMIN workers on Tuesday gathered at the Marikana koppie near Nkaneng informal settlement to pay tribute to their 34 colleagues who were gunned down...

SYRIANS in the occupied Golan Heights have demonstrated and burned Israeli election ballots in a symbolic dismissal of local council elections and ‘a policy...

ON Saturday 2 November, more than 200 trade unionists and activists attended CSC’s Unions for Cuba conference at the NEU headquarters in London. The largest...

ACROSS the US, thousands of workers marched to Labour Board Offices and Worksites, demanding Freedom to have a Trade Union, on Monday July 10. Workers...

ON UN World Water Day last Saturday the Palestinian Mission UK recirculated a previously published brief by the PLO-Negotations Affairs Department entitled ‘Israel’s Exploitation...

The News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance Conference held in east London on Sunday May 13th unanimously voted to carry into action the following Main...

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

ISRAELI authorities last Friday returned the body of Bahaa Imad al-Hirbawi, a Palestinian who was killed by Israeli forces near Qalandiya checkpoint last Tuesday...

‘Gaza is witnessing the worst of the worst levels of malnutrition, especially child malnutrition, and it’s entirely man-made,’ Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh said...

Tenants and leaseholders on the Grahame Park housing estate in Colindale, north-west London, are angry over ‘regeneration’ proposals which leave many facing eviction. ‘Choices for...

AUSTRALIA’S Federal Government has quietly decided to freeze university funding for regional nursing and other students, warns Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union (QNMU). In a...

AT DAWN on Sunday, Israeli warplanes launched over 30 raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the ‘most violent attack’ on Lebanon since...

Leaders of the Common Front of Public Administration Unions (Frente Comum) and the National Federation of Teachers (FENPROF) have welcomed the large turnout for...

ON May 15th, Nakba Day, Palestinians commemorate their forced displacement and dispossession resulting from the establishment of the state of Israel. By marking the Nakba...

YOUNG teachers in Morocco who have been striking and protesting outside the parliament in Rabat for three weeks against being employed on inferior conditions...

The victims of the Marikana massacre should not be used to mend relations between the ANC and the Economic freedom Fighters (EFF), Association...

IN THE centenary year of nurse registration, a new exhibition is charting the history of the journey from the Nurses Registration Act in 1919...

FOOD insecurity across Yemen is set to rise from two million to over three million in just six months, report UN agencies – who...

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...

‘EVERYONE, all of the country, must get organised to take rent strike action, we have shown that rent strikes work,’ Angus O’Brien, the student...

US President Joe Biden’s deputy, Kamala Harris, speaking in Dubai on Saturday during her West Asia tour, said many innocent Palestinians have been killed...

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that the United States and Zionists are especially targeting Iran because it is...

THE whole of the Remploy network of factories for disabled workers is under threat, because the government plans to limit the company’s funding to...

The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) has vowed to continue its strike despite court orders directing the striking health workers to resume duty,...

ON 6th June 2017 at the height of general election fever, senior NHS managers at NHS England (NHSE) and NHS Improvement (NHSI) were secretly...

OVER 300 United Families and Friends campaigners marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street to demand justice for their loved ones, who have died...

The International Metalworkers’ Federation has joined a global campaign calling on G20 heads of state to protect workers in one of the world’s most...

IN THE final hours of her life on January 29, 2024, Hind Rajab’s feeble voice could be heard desperately pleading with her mother and...

THE TALIBAN ‘seeks to build a political system and government in Afghanistan that would be approved by its people and accountable to people once...

‘WE ARE not striking for cash, we are not striking for our personal careers, we are striking for the long-term sustainability of the NHS...

RAIL UNION the RMT has confirmed that planned industrial action by ScotRail conductors will go ahead from this Sunday – in a fight for...

THE Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as Bank Markazi, says the country has won a legal battle in Europe...

On the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Hamas Movement in Lebanon said that the Palestinian people would continue to stand...

‘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 Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Monday directed all primary and secondary school teachers in Abuja to join the ongoing strike initiated by...

SIPTU is demanding that the Irish government immediately lift the recruitment embargo in the health service and phase out excessive payments to private ‘for...

THE Secretary of the Greek government, Panagiotis Baltakos, a close aide for decades of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has been revealed as the go-between...