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A FATAH spokesperson denied on Sunday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) intends to ask Washington to postpone the US-sponsored conference on the Palestinian-Israeli...

A STRIKE wave is continuing in Egypt as workers battle the El-Sisi regime, determined to improve their wages and conditions. Protests by workers at government-run...

Labour deputy leader contender Jon Cruddas is leading a private members debate in Westminster Hall at the House of Commons, on, ‘Regularisation of Migrant...

Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Wednesday that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) will close the international Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip...

ECUADOR has granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because it believes he will be politically persecuted if extradited, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño...

PALESTINIAN leaders called on factions responsible for capturing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to resist ‘Israeli pressure tactics’ aimed at forcing them to drop their...

PRESIDENT Ahmadinejad has said that the West has ‘run out of ammo’ against Iran. He added that Iran will never accept commitments from Western countries...

THE Greek leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras in an interview with the Athens left daily Avgi on Sunday...

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...

IN May and early June 2010, a two-week-long strike involving more than a thousand workers at the Honda transmission plant in Foshan triggered a...

THE PCS civil servants union held a 70-strong international rally at its annual conference in Brighton last Wednesday evening where it launched a joint...

THE HOUTHI Ansarullah movement says any political solution to the Yemen conflict should begin with an end to the US-sponsored Saudi military aggression and...

The National Union of Journalists in Ireland and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on Thursday joined together to condemn new powers which threaten...

HALF a million people will take to the streets today, Wednesday 19 March, in demand for youth jobs, the National Union of MetalWorkers of...

The British Medical Association (BMA) on Monday launched a public campaign against the privatisation of the NHS. The BMA press statement said it is stepping...

‘Lebanon cannot be a soft spot for harming Syria and the latter cannot be a conduit for harming Lebanon,’ said Hezbollah’s Sheikh Na’im...

Heavily armed Sri Lankan forces have surrounded Wednesday Cinnamon Lake hotel in Colombo, where opposition presidential candidate and former Sri Lanka Army General (retd)...

Firefighters in Hertfordshire are to vote on strike action against plans to axe job losses and close fire stations, Hertfordshire FBU has announced. The Fire...

Action to end the inhumane Gaza siege has started from Lebanon, says the Hezbollah resistance movement. On Friday, Lebanon, the country of resistance and patriotism,...

‘OCCUPATION is a crime! Free Iraq and Palestine!’ shouted more than 400 people gathered in Whitehall opposite the gates to Downing Street on Wednesday...

HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal held a news conference in Cairo last Friday. He began by saying: ‘We are now in Cairo on the first leg...

THE British Tamil Forum has condemned the statement by the Co-Chairs (US, EU, Japan and Norway) of the international community demanding that...

THOUSANDS joined the United Steelworkers (USW) at a solidarity rally on Saturday in Findlay Ohio to support 1,051 members of Local 207L who have...

THE TRADE UNIONS led by the TUC held a national Day of Action on Wednesday against the blacklisting companies who have prevented trade unionists...

THE Conclusions and recommendations of the Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on ‘Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan’ make grim reading for supporters of the imperialist...

EVEN puppet politicians are complaining about the conduct of British troops in southern Iraq. The Basra newspaper Al-Manarah has interviewed National Assembly Deputy ...

PALESTINIAN activists along with Israeli and international supporters shut down on Wednesday the recently opened Eastern Ring Road near Jerusalem, which features separate lanes...

On the eve of the 58th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe day), Israeli ‘Defence’ Minister Amir Peretz bragged on Sunday of the success...

Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...

Hundreds of South Korean riot police on Tuesday clashed with laid-off workers who have occupied part of Ssangyong Motor Co’s only assembly plant for...

UNISON has called on the Public Accounts Committee and the Assembly Health Committee to investigate the startling growth of private medicine funded out of...

The Philippines Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) on Sunday called for the immediate release of two doctors, a nurse, a midwife and other health...

DEPUTY Prime Minister and Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, has announced that the Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the proposal of the Russian leadership...

THE Howard League for Penal Reform has responded to the Prison and Probation Ombudsman’s learning lessons bulletin on young adult prisoners who died by...

Hamas Political Bureau chief Khaled Mishaal in an extensive interview last Tuesday reflected on the Mecca agreement between the Hamas and Fatah movements. Mishaal said:...

SPEAKING at a press conference in Brighton on the eve of the TUC Congress, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today I launch a...

A new report, The last post, released on Monday, provides new evidence of the vital social and economic role of urban sub post offices.  The report,...

‘WE now have the prospect of Remploy workers taking strike action to defend their jobs to avoid their certain destiny of being chucked on...

EGYPTIAN President Abd-al-Fattah al-Sisi has hailed Arab state leaders for ‘agreeing on the principle of forming a joint Arab military force’ to face...

ARAB states are demanding that the United States clarify the purpose of a planned return trip by US President George W Bush to Israel...

THE Hamas movement issued a statement last Monday slamming the US for its ‘pro-Israeli bias’. It stated: ‘The new Middle East plan is...

THE NHS would become both more cost-effective and equitable if it were operated on its founding principle of co-operation rather than competition, said a...

YET more mass demonstrations were held on Wednesday in Athens and Salonica by state primary and secondary school teachers and their supporters in the...

TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a motion to extend the State of Emergency for another month by a majority of...

GMB UNION members working for Wilko are furious over a threat that the company is to turn on them and impose draconian cuts. It...