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

THE OPPOSITION Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has joined forces with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to push for salaries in United...

Haringey Right to Food, organised a Hunger March through Tottenham on Saturday, 23 September. A large crowd gathered outside the Spurs Football Stadium from 12...

UNLESS London bus privateers stop the ‘race to the bottom’ and cease their onslaught on working conditions all-out strike action will swiftly ensue, Unite...

FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner dismisses the idea that even one nuclear bomb makes the Iranians immune to attack, he told Ha’aretz in an...

The Italian Football Coaches’ Association (AIAC) is pushing for Israel to be suspended from international competition over the war on Gaza. Ahead of Italy’s World...

ONE hundred and fifty workers die each day in the United States as a result of injuries at work or occupational diseases. The American Federation...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has spoken on the second anniversary of the end of the war of July-August 2006, or what Hezbollah...

THE MEETING of the General Secretaries of the Palestinian Factions held last Friday in Ramallah and Beirut via video conference confirmed that our people,...

A NEW report from Cardiff University’s Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology has added to the portrait of a maritime industry where fatigue...

AS the Federation of Palestinian Communities in Europe and the Fatah movement in London prepare to screen the film ‘Marwan,’ a biopic telling the...

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...

IN THE British Medical Journal this week, two doctors criticise Australia for passing legislation that may be used to silence doctors working with asylum...

SPORADIC clashes between demonstrators and police took place in the Chilean capital Santiago on Sunday as the country marked the 49th anniversary of the...

‘SERVEST OUT!’ shouted striking cleaners and supporters at King’s College London during a lunchtime rally on Friday. The cleaners, members of Unison who work for...

Greta Thunberg has said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is legally obliged to stop the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. ‘Starmer has...

BY RETIRED BMA MEMBER ANNA ATHOW THE main story on BBC news on Saturday, was that Boris Johnson was proposing to reverse the Cameron health...

A SENIOR Iranian diplomat has condemned the lack of progress in the implementation of the UN 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) resolution and the...

BY CLARE SAMBROOK THREE years after the unlawful killing of a passenger in its care, why hasn’t British Airways held an inquiry into what went...

Hundreds of Palestinian farmers and fishermen protested on Monday at al-Saraya Square in Gaza City demanding an end to the siege and the Palestinian...

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...

A SUCCESSFUL picket to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital took place outside the hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, attended by over 50...

FRANCE’S nine main unions united for the first time in a decade in public sector protests earlier this week against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans...

PALESTINIANS commemorated the 71st anniversary of the Nakba Day (May 15th – the Day of Catastrophe) in the occupied West Bank and the blockaded...

The offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in India have been raided and searched by the country’s income tax authorities on Tuesday, according...

‘THIS ISN’T a general election, it’s a general strike building up,’ News Line editor Jonty Leff told Sunday’s powerful over 100-strong News Line Anniversary...

‘The entire economy of South Africa will be shut down’, warns the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), if the government fails to...

SENIOR Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustained multiple rib fractures after being violently assaulted by Israeli prison guards, it was revealed on Wednesday. Barghouti was attacked...

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

PALESTINE has called upon the international community to impose sanctions and other punitive measures against Israel over its settlement construction policies in the occupied...

‘WE made Marks and Spencer their profits!’ said an angry Fenland Food worker fighting the closure of her factory and the loss of hundreds...

‘FROM the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!’ more than 10,000 Al Quds Day marchers chanted as they proceeded from Marble Arch,...

AS contract negotiations between local Houston janitors in Texas, USA and five national cleaning firms continue today, people of faith and conscience from around...

THURSDAY’S announcement that seven prisons are to be closed in March 2013 will endanger the government commitment to a rehabilitation revolution, insisted the Prison...

SYRIA’S Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali AbdulKarim, has affirmed that the Venezuelan people will ‘triumph’ over the US conspiracy. Meeting the Venezuelan Ambassador to Lebanon, Jesus...

THE Gate Gourmet workers on strike at Düsseldorf airport continued their picket throughout the year-end holiday season supported by their union, the NGG, their...

Benteler car workers in Kaluga, Russia, to the south west of Moscow, have won their strike over recognition of their union. On April 2...

Parents of sixteen families incarcerated at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) are on hunger strike over their appalling conditions. Meanwhile, Anne Owers, Chief...

‘GENERAL PRACTICE – and the NHS as we know it – is in danger of disintegrating unless the Chancellor urgently increases investment in the...

TEACHERS’, Lecturers’ and Students’ Union leaders have warned that Education Secretary Gove’s announcement on Monday of a ‘bursary scheme’ to replace the Education Maintenance...

THOUSANDS of people have turned out for the funeral procession of eleven Palestinian men killed by Israeli military forces during a raid in the...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Bournemouth on Thursday passed, almost unanimously, Emergency Motions calling to halt the take-over...

AROUND 2.3 million children in the UK are in child poverty, with that figure rising by a further 400,000 Labour said. The Tory coalition government...

SENATOR Warren, and the Koch Sisters led the rally to protect Social Security, and Medicare organised by AFSCME members at the ‘Hands Off’ rally...

BY CLARE SAMBROOK BACK in January, I reported here on the wretched experience of a boy apprehended by the UK Border Agency at Dover who...