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Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) began a wage strike at mining recruitment company Teba Limited on Monday. The strike comes after...

TUC delegates at their annual Congress in Brighton on Tuesday voted unanimously to defend public services and pay. Composite Motion 06 Campaigning for public services...

BBC journalists and technicians are set to strike for 12 hours on from midday to midnight this Thursday, 28 March. BBC Easter programmes will be...

THE government of Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has advanced a ‘record’ number of settlements during its nearly four years in office, a...

Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 6. On the eve of Revolution This essay appeared in the New York Daily paper...

‘THIS IS nothing short of a scandal and reinforces the demand for nationalisation of our rail,’ the RMT union said on Monday. The train union...

Today, January 20th, UNITE HERE will launch its UNITE HERE for Change campaign, an ‘effort to work with President Obama and Congress to make...

SYRIA’S Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Mua’llim on Monday delivered a speech before the United Nations General Assembly. He warned: ‘Instead of seeking to contribute...

‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman, said on Wednesday. He...

rail union RMT warned on Tuesday that the new Integrated Kent Franchise that begins on April 1, 2006 could result in the removal of...

ISRAEL over the weekend continued to threaten a wide-scale military operation against the Gaza Strip after a series of air strikes which injured three...

THE John Smith Institute have produced a series of damaging case studies on the impact of outsourcing on employees’ terms and conditions. Outsourcing leads to: •...

FIVE Picturehouse cinemas are on strike this May Day. In a repeat of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history in April, five...

ON WEDNESDAY March 22, 2017 South Africa’s National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) had an extensive negotiating meeting with the Department...

THE RMT tube union has slammed a plan unveiled by Transport for London which would replace nearly a thousand safety-critical tube station staff jobs...

A TOTAL of 17 people were deported on a chartered flight by the Johnson government to Jamaica early on Tuesday morning. The action was condemned...

TAMILNET reports that a fire at Poonthoaddam Refugee Camp in Vavuniyaa town last Wednesday destroyed 80 temporary sheds of internally displaced families. No...

President Barack Obama tried to convince top union leaders to drop labour’s opposition to taxing workers’ health care benefits at a meeting at the...

By Irish politcal journalist JOHN COULTER THE war of words between Unionists and Republicans over the British Army’s presence in the North hotted up as...

THE ISRAELI public prosecutor for the Jerusalem district has filed ‘a precedent-setting’ civil lawsuit against the widow and young children of Fadi al-Qunbar –...

The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) has stepped up the international campaign to get the sanctions and siege of Gaza lifted. In its latest ‘update on...

‘Armed opposition elements have carried out serious human rights abuses,’ Human Rights Watch said last week in a little-publicised public letter to the Syrian...

CATHY WARWICK, the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives has issued a ‘wish list’ of her hopes for maternity services in 2016. She...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has issued a response to the South African Communist Party (SACP) November 2014 Augmented Central...

OVER 2000 workers rallied in San Francisco for the kickoff of the ‘National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign’ on February 15. Chanting ‘Si...

SAMI Abu-Zuhri, a Hamas leader in Gaza on Wednesday made a statement about the fighting that is taking place in Gaza between Hamas...

GAZA prime minister Ismail Haniya is ‘satisfied’ with the outcome of talks with Egypt’s President Mursi, the Hamas-backed Palestinian newspaper Filastin website reported on...

Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up Victoria&Albert Museum, Cromwell Road,London SW7 2RL 16 June – 4 November 2018 Admission £15 (concessions available). SOLD out to the end of...

Tens of thousands of US workers walked out of their jobs on Monday in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement and other minority groups...

IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic welcomes Syria’s nationwide ceasefire, but warned against the strengthening of terrorists during the truce time...

GMB British Airways workers will hold a public meeting and rally from 12.30pm on Monday 29th February at the Thistle Hotel, Heathrow, against proposals to...

JOIN the national protests around the country on Wednesday 4 March 2015, urges Australia’s Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). The CPSU warns: ‘It’s not...

EGYPT is gripped by a wave of strikes as the working class continues its revolutonary actions along with the country’s youth that have seen...

TESTIMONIES by a number of Palestinian children to the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission show they were subjected to systematic beating and torture during and after...

TEN students were killed and others were injured by a mortar shell fired by terrorists which fell inside the cafeteria of the Faculty of...

Palestinian Islamic liberation movement Hamas has declared: ‘No to killing, banditry, and the policy of kidnapping foreigners’. In a statement posted on the Palestinian Information...

THE TUC, railway unions and transport campaigners have launched a campaign to fight job cuts, service reductions, ticket office closures and fare hikes in...

LOUD and angry protests will again be held outside the AGM of British mining company Vedanta Resources’ AGM at the Lincoln Centre, Lincoln’s Inn...

MORE than 50 garment workers at Haesong Corporation Ltd in Bangladesh have been injured after being attacked by hired goons. The workers were taking part...

INFORMATION Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, stressed on Monday that the regional US-Israeli scheme in Syria ‘is in the last throes and it has clinically...

Amnesty International on Tuesday renewed its call for a comprehensive and independent UN-led inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law committed during this year’s...

A COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) report to its Postal Policy Forum on ‘National Talks – The Future of the Royal Mail Group’, has told...

A DEPARTMENT of Health (DoH) report from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Sir Liam Donaldson, 202 pages long was published this July called ‘Good...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Easter Sunday visited the ancient Christian town of Maalula, which his troops recently recaptured from rebels, state television said. ‘On...

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