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AUSTRALIA’S Turnbull Government is backing laws that force Indigenous people into work, not for wages, only welfare. The ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions), including...

Undercroft Gallery 112-134 Market Place Norwich NR2 Until October 14 HURRY to catch the ‘Art of Revolution’ exhibition taking place in Norwich, dedicated to the 100th anniversary...

ON TUESDAY, 10 July, miners from Donetsk, Lugansk, Volyn, and Lviv regions held a protest in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. Since 6th July miners...

MOSCOW has condemned the so-called ‘price cap’ on Russian oil, insisting that it will continue to sell its oil in markets outside Europe. ‘Starting from...

THE BRITISH government has decided to ‘balance the books on the backs of the starving people of Yemen,’ in an act that will see...

EAST MIDLANDS UNISON and the Royal College of Nursing are holding a ‘The NHS is on its Knees, Get off your Feet to Save...

Last Saturday, 16 December, 2006 marked the start of a series of protests across the world with renewed calls on the US government to...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...

ON THURSDAY, members of Congress, led by Senator Patty Murray (Democrat-Washington) and Representative Bobby Scott (Democrat-Virginia), proposed the Workplace Action for a Growing Economy...

UKRAINE’S ambassador to Germany has provoked outrage for paying homage to the notorious founding forefather of what is known today as the nationalistic ‘Azov’...

LONMIN billionaire Cyril Ramaphosa could favour mining bosses’ agenda of restructuring to revive profits and unleash a renewed jobs bloodbath, the Association of Mining...

‘AS WE struggle to stay alive, and literally fight for our lives as peoples of the Global South, we believe it is time for...

‘SCHOOL performance tables are not an accurate or reliable indicator of school effectiveness. The Progress 8 measure that is used to compile these tables...

FOUR BILLION pounds of UK property is owned by high-risk individuals. The House of Lords Joint Committee is looking at the market and money laundering. The...

THE United Nation says Israel’s indiscriminate strikes on the Gaza Strip and incessant evacuation orders have left displaced Palestinians with ‘no safe place’ to...

The UAW (United Autoworkers Union) which represents over 48,000 graduate student workers in the University of California system, will hold a strike authorisation vote...

‘THE United Farm Workers (UFW) commends the efforts by Senators Udall, Gillibrand, Booker, Blumenthal, Harris and Markey to protect farm workers and their families...

SCHOOLS were shut once again on Monday morning for 1,500 students in Prospect Heights School District 23, in Chicago, Illinois. The increasingly combative teachers...

Iran’s full-scale involvement in BRICS’ activities was the focus of a telephone call between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Ebrahim Raisi of...

THE US was aided by Pakistan in the killing of Osama bin Laden, Seymour Hersh, an American investigative journalist and author has sensationally alleged. The...

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

ISRAELI forces detained early on Tuesday 10 more Palestinians, including four minors, from a number of West Bank districts, said Palestine Prisoners’ Society. Forces detained...

THE PALESTINE Media Centre reports that ‘The Israeli Knesset on Monday approved a speech by the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that vindicated his “defense”...

LAST Thursday two leaders from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, underlined the need to strengthen national...

UNITED Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has demanded the protection of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails and detention facilities amid the novel coronavirus...

THE Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service (MPTS) investigating the fitness to practice of the doctor who was responsible for the welfare of Baha Mousa at...

DOCTORS, psychologists and behavioural consultants working with the US Department of Defence-CIA have concealed evidence of torture. Hippocratic or hypocritical oath? US Department of Defence doctors...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were accused by TGWU General Secretary Tony Woodley in his speech to delegates on the opening day of their union’s...

THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and 14 other rights organisations are alarmed by the recent escalation in the Turkish government’s crackdown on freedom...

LAST Wednesday night the Trump administration declared war on America’s public sector unions. In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice...

4,000 striking station and revenue control staff shutdown London Underground on Monday in a show of strength to oppose pension attacks and job cuts. Trains...

‘Systemic, chronic understaffing’ endemic in elderly care say Australian nurses unions SYSTEMATIC, chronic understaffing leading to unacceptable instances of neglect, abuse, and too many preventable...

Amid mounting Israeli restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement, President Mahmud Abbas on Saturday sponsored the swearing in of the new Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative...

CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...

MORE than half (52%) of school support staff across the UK have experienced stress, anxiety or depression as they struggle to cope with their...

Mayor Sadiq Khan told the BBC evening news on March 30th that despite the new ‘NHS Nightingale hospital’ potentially providing space for 4,000 beds,...

TURKEY has strongly censured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for promising to annex settlements in the West Bank if re-elected, saying that his ‘irresponsible’...

WHEN young Jay (name changed), an Iranian teenager, set foot on UK shores, a myriad of emotions swirled within him: relief, uncertainty, hope, and...

GREEK armed riot police squads once again viciously attacked the women cleaners outside the Finance Ministry in central Athens last Thursday afternoon. Four women cleaners...

SERVICE Employees International Union (SEIU) International President Mary Kay Henry says the Covid-19 relief package ‘is just a down payment’. She released the following statement...

Communication Workers Union members are angry that Royal Mail Group has taken Executive Action to replace postal workers’ final salary scheme with an inferior...

AMERICAN postal workers in Minneapolis are saying Black Lives Matter as over 400 local trade unionists signed a petition calling on workers to resist...

OVER 3,000 workers and youth were on the TUC May Day March from Clerkenwell Green in Islington to Trafalgar Square in Central London on...

MANY HUNDREDS of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners entered the third day of the ‘Freedom and Dignity’ hunger strike on Wednesday, with imprisoned Palestinian women launching...

MEMBERS of the national education, health and allied workers’ Union (Nehawu) embarked on a strike last Friday in protest against working conditions. The employees...