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The only power plant in Gaza city in Palestine has been forced to shut down for the second time in two weeks due to...

‘THESE latest sets of NHS performance statistics are deeply concerning, and paint a very bleak picture for the future delivery of patient care if...

THE CHILD Poverty Action Group and dozens of other charities have called for a 7% hike in benefits in a demand made to coincide...

THE Trump administration in the USA has asked Congress to approve – as part of its fiscal 2020 budget – legislation that will make...

Although 11 days have passed since the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip came into effect, the war has not yet left the lives...

THE powerful strike by 220,000 NUMSA members, workers in South Africa’s steel and engineering sectors, entered its fourth week on Monday. NUMSA members in...

THE National Union of Teachers has condemned the wholesale forced academisation of state-run education measures contained in the Tory government’s Education and Adoption Bill. Kevin...

LAST month the Healthcare Commission (HCC) published a report following an investigation into Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. It found that the care of emergency patients...

PALESTINE''S ambassador to the European Union, Abdel Rahim al-Farra said on Thursday that EU officials had informed him that financial support to the Palestinian...

Analysis by the National Education Union shines a damning light on the performance of large multi-academy trusts (MATs). New data from a Freedom of Information...

AIN Sokhna Port workers and DP World have reached an agreement to resume work in the Egyptian port, which has been shut down for...

‘MY demonstration continues,’ said Brian Haw on Monday, after three Court of Appeal judges ruled in favour of the government and the chief of...

AT 4.30 am on Thursday the Greek Vouli (parliament) approved by 230 to 63 votes, with seven deputies abstaining or absent, a government austerity...

Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement after both Republicans and Democrats last Thursday announced their...

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of the United States Congress last Wednesday, as his government carries out a genocide...

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following defiant statement yesterday in response to Israel’s ongoing aggression in Gaza. ‘Palestine continues to struggle with...

TENS of thousands of civil servants and allied workers expressed their anger at poverty pay, attacks on their pensions and privatisation during Wednesday’s solid...

Israeli settlers vandalised a mosque in Deir Dibwan, a village to the east of Ramallah, on Monday. The Mayor of Deir Dibwan, Mansour Mansour,...

‘In Bangladesh protesters impose their power!’ French trade union federation La CGT declared on Tuesday, as it congratulated and sent greetings to the nation’s...

‘The newly unemployed face a bigger cut in their living standards in this recession than those who lost their jobs under the previous government’,...

BECAUSE the government waited so long before imposing a national lockdown on 31 October, large numbers of people will continue to die of coronavirus...

US-sponsored and Kurdish-led militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have opened fire for the second straight day at people protesting against their...

UNISON is calling on MPs from the South West of England to give their backing to local health workers including nurses, therapists, porters, and...

DISABLED Grenfell campaigners are shocked and outraged at the reappointment of the very same firm that wrote fire safety guidance before the Grenfell Tower...

A TOP military adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has described the Muslim world as a future power that...

Dozens of Jordanian members of parliament have called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in response to the forced stripping of five Palestinian...

Tens of thousands of school and university students and workers participated in profoundly anti-government mobilisations in all Greek cities last Monday. The demonstrations marked...

THE UNITED States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to the...

GOVERNMENT officials knew of the dangers of flammable cladding 15 years before the horrific Grenfell Tower fire which on June 14, 2017 claimed the...

The National Union of Teachers says the involvement of private sector companies in education over recent years ‘is of grave concern’. It stresses that the...

‘I WANT to see you all out on April 10,’ London doctors’ leader Kevin O’Kane said on Thursday night, calling for a massive march...

‘EVERYTHING related to the destiny and future of Syria is a 100% Syrian issue. The unity of Syrian territory is self-evident and not up...

SYRIAN TV has carried a report on the Al-Nusrah Front and Israel’s position on it, conducted by anchors Wa’il al-Tawil and Alisar Mu’alla...

‘Over the past few days the joint unions have held a number of packed meetings as part of our campaign to oppose the BBC’s...

WEST Kensington tenants were angry that a ‘drop-in session’ hosted by Hammersmith and Fulham council on Thursday night was closed down early. The premature closure...

ISMA'IL HANIYA, deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, in Gaza City began his speech in front of a large crowd of supporters citing...

Guantanamo is a really horrible place that destroys people,’ former prisoner Bisher El-Rawi told a 60-strong meeting in west London on Saturday. The meeting, organised...

PALESTINIANS are remembering 25 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre in the Lebanese capital Beirut – in which over 2,000 defenceless Palestinian refugees...

OVER 100,000 students from all parts of Britain joined a massive demonstration against tuition fees in Westminster on Wednesday. The march called by the National...

DEPUTY head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniya has urged Arab and Muslim leaders in the region, in letters sent to them, to support...

WE WANT Tamil Eelam!’, ‘Don’t kill Tamil people!’, ‘Let us live in peace!’, ‘Rajapakse – war criminal!’ and ‘Sri Lanka – terror government!’ shouted...

A NEWLY released report submitted to the United Nations by international organizations working in Hebron (Al Khalil) documents a sharp increase in serious...

HAMAS leader Khaled Mishaal has reiterated that all Palestinian factions agree on a state ‘within the 1967 borders’ and that Hamas agrees to the...

ANGRY workers and youth demonstrated near a traffic checkpoint set up by police and federal agents in Washington DC, on Wednesday night as President...

A MAJOR row has broken out in the US over statements made last week by the United States Trade Representative (USTR), who claimed that...