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BY ADRI NIEUWHOF ISRAEL has held six Palestinian boys from Nablus in solitary confinement in al-Jalame detention centre near Haifa, writes Defence for Children...

Families of the victims of Bloody Sunday on Tuesday addressed a crowd of thousands outside the Guildhall, Derry, and gave their reaction to the...

Some 4,000 primary and secondary school teachers, from both state and private schools, plus state hospital doctors, short-contract workers of the Athens municipality, university...

Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 4. Preface to our round trip AT the Stockholm Convention of the Social-Democratic Party, some...

Over 500 London Region Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members and officials rallied at the TUC on Tuesday evening as they gear up to fight...

NABIH BERRI, the Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies, has condemned the role of the United Nations in the Lebanon after an Israeli...

‘THERE still needs to be a full public inquiry into blacklisting and the activities of major construction employers who still to this day restrict...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2015, Moscow ON International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to RTP TV channel on 16 November 2016. Question 1: Mr. President, let’s start with Aleppo if you don’t...

‘ANY peaceful solution to the fighting in Syria must involve President Bashar al-Assad,’ the United Nations envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said Friday. ‘President...

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...

GMB members held nine protest demonstrations outside fast food outlets and M&S on Tuesday across England in solidarity with members of the SEIU working...

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on Iranian authorities not to back down in the face of the United...

THE early morning traffic began to ease as the funeral procession departed from Bethlehem’s city limits, and cars sped up on their way to...

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...

THE government is cutting more than £1bn from NHS hospitals. All over the country, trusts are cutting staff, beds, operating theatres and services. The result...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Manchester Metropolitan University will be on strike later this month after they overwhelmingly backed industrial...

ISRAELI Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said Israel is ready to discuss the issue of an ‘apology’ for the Mavi Marmara incident, ...

ATHENS – Greek state secondary school teachers threatened with the sack occupied the private office of the Reforms Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last Thursday in...

Last Wednesday marked sixty years since the Deir Yassin massacre. On April 9, 1948 the Zionist paramilitary troops and terrorist gangs committed a massacre at...

LECTURERS at 64 universities across the UK began 14 days of strike action on Thursday against imposed changes to their pensions. They were out...

MOVING the Public Services composite motion at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday, Unison General Secretary, Dave Prentis said: ‘Conference, today we...

WORKERS have twice voted no on Honeywell’s proposals to eliminate cost-of-living increases and retiree health care, freeze pensions, curtail overtime pay, subcontract work, and...

‘I WISH all Sri Lankans around the world a happy celebration and continued peace and prosperity in the coming year,’ said a statement harping...

EUROPEAN Union governments agreed on Monday to put the military wing of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on the EU terror list in a major...

Israeli jets fired missiles at a car in Gaza City on Saturday night, killing three people, said the Israeli army. It claimed at least...

THE head of the Hamas government in Gaza on Tuesday urged Palestinians to respect Egypt’s security so that Cairo would keep open the Rafah...

IRAN’S Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami has warned of extra-regional countries’ plots to sow discord in Syria, vowing the Islamic Republic’s full support...

SYRIAN Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has said that Iran’s missile strikes against militant positions in the country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr in retaliation...

A letter from the Chairman of the Professional Executive Committee, High Peak and Dales Primary Care Trust (PCT) to clinicians reveals the devastating...

EGYPT’S Port Said entered its eighth day of a mass civil disobedience campaign on Sunday in response to the killings of protesters during clashes...

US Congressman Steve Driehaus (Democrat-Ohio), a senior member of the United States National Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, in a letter to US Secretary...

Thousands marched in Gaza to mark the 65th Nakba anniversary demanding faction leaders in Gaza call for unifying the Palestinian political leadership as a...

‘DESPITE the measures taken by the government to try to support the idea that ‘the page on retirement’ is turned, over 1.2 million workers...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has decried the recent bombing in Beirut, whilst warning that outgoing US President Bush’s visit to the Middle East was...

WITH the beginning of the New Year, President Bashar al-Assad visited army and popular defense forces on the firing lines of Jobar, in the...

THROUGHOUT Britain, the Unite union is reporting, the aerospace industry and job futures for many thousands of workers are ‘at five to midnight’ –...

TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka Army chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka this week again revised his timetable for defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack has issued the following statement, commenting on the testimony given to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry by...

TWO LONDON organisations are flouting government policy over coronavirus by attacking the pay, and terms and conditions of their employees, the Unite, union said...

THE College of Emergency Medicine published a startling report yesterday entitled: ‘Stretched to the Limit’. It was based upon a survey of Emergency Medicine Consultants...

Israel strengthened its forces along the border with the Gaza Strip last Sunday, fearful that thousands of Palestinians may march on the border against...

ONCE again, Scud missiles and Hezbollah’s military capabilities seem to be the chief concern for the US administration and Israeli government. Though two US officials...

Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...

Israeli forces raided the Jerusalem office of a university media institute on Monday, shutting down the launch of an online media network and detaining...