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‘THE raising of our flag epitomises the triumph of all our diplomatic efforts and heralds the future de jure recognition of Palestine which is...

‘WE LIVE in a moment which feels like everything is at stake,’ Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) National President Mark Hancock told convention...

‘Parliament & Peterloo’ Exhibition in Westminster Hall between 4th July and 26th September 2019 THE Parliamentary Archives invites people to visit the ‘Parliament & Peterloo’ exhibition...

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah noted on Monday that the Israeli enemy was forced to change its tone and to seek pacification on...

‘FEBRUARY 25, 1848, had granted the republic to France, June 25 thrust the revolution upon her. And revolution, after June, meant: overthrow of bourgeois...

A dozen youth organisations marched through Paris on Saturday afternoon against the government’s pension age hike from 62 to 64, following last Thursday’s mass demonstrations...

A WASHINGTON-based think tank has warned that the NATO military alliance and the United States are ‘creeping closer to the catastrophic scenario’ in Ukraine,...

THE Communication Workers Union will collect petitions and raise public awareness of the threats to privatise Royal Mail when it descends on Corby Town...

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger spoke at the Michigan State University School of Labour and Industrial Relations in East Lansing, Michigan on April 10th...

– Rally 10 Downing St November 4 ‘WE DEMAND an apology for the Balfour Declaration and we demand repatriation and recognition of the Palestinian state,’...

The AFL-CIO unions have issued a warning to the Democrats about proposed Medicare cuts, telling them, ‘Don’t try it ... we will never forget.’ As...

ANOTHER major accident happened in a Chittagong shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh last week, this time killing three workers. This latest accident took place on Tuesday,...

MORE than 200 students marched from Goldsmiths College to Lewisham Town Hall on Tuesday evening in solidarity with council workers facing mass sackings and...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions has called on Labour Registrar Advocate Lehlohonolo Molefe to ‘resign’ – after the labour court suspended as...

THE SHOCKING depth and breadth of the scandalous cruelty and murderous treatment of unmarried mothers and their children by the Catholic Church and the...

THE Blair government’s plans to extend the terrorism laws and allow the police to detain people without charge for 90 days are ‘completely monstrous...

LONDON’S firefighters are ready to strike, unless a threat by the capital’s fire service bosses to sack them all is withdrawn. More than 2,500 firefighters...

DEPUTY head of Russia’s Security Council, and Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev has described Ukraine’s Western backers as a ‘pro-Nazi coalition’, dismissing the idea...

‘The enemies are seeking to sanction Iran because the country refuses to bow and won’t accept humiliation,’ President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday, dismissing...

THE killing of two Bedouin youths in southern Israel by police over the last fortnight has shocked the nation’s Palestinian community and has brought...

National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members marched to the offices of Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) in Bloemfontein on Monday,...

‘AFTER the regional days of strike action across the union, the next action will be 15 and 16 March, by teachers in all state...

OVER 100 workers, trade unionists and youth attended the rally at the Indian YMCA in Fitzroy Square, central London on Sunday to mark...

IRAN’S Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says the attack on the Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea last Friday was a ‘complicated action’ in...

FRENCH riot police have been condemned over violently dispersing protesters in Paris demonstrating against a new security bill (the PPL Securite Globale) which bans...

CHRISTIANS from the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy sites in Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, the so-called...

AMERICAN trade unions are claiming that the giant Walmart company is retaliating against its workers for the leading role they have played in the...

WORKERS in the power industry across India will hold a massive rally in Delhi on November 23 against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022, which...

AT LONG last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that ‘all the statutory criteria...

THE GMB  has   reacted furiously to the local government employer’s announcement that they have unilaterally cancelled pay negotiations for 1.5 million staff working in...

HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth have re-occupied Tahrir Square in disgust at the light sentencing of ex-president Mubarak and at...

THIS IS the text of a speech by SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, at the centenary commemoration of the founding of the Irish Neutrality League...

The biggest gathering was in Gaza City, where officials from the Hamas-run interior ministry said vast crowds had packed into the city’s Square of...

ISRAELI Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday ordered Israeli forces to shut down the Gaza Strip’s borders again, turning away a truck convoy bearing...

AS MANY as 11,000 Bangladesh garment workers were sacked in the wake of the pay strikes they waged in December and January, while many...

THE NHS will haemorrhage staff unless pay is restored to match national averages, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) warned on Tuesday. The SoR has submitted...

TEACHERS’ unions and the BMA led the condemnation of Tory Chancellor Osborne’s Budget on Wednesday, in which he announced the forced academisation of every...

‘MY uncle was shot in the head, at point blank range,’ the nephew of one of the victims of Israel’s massacre on the Gaza...

THE Palestinian Authority intends to file a legal case against Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday for its crimes against the...

Communication Workers Union (CWU) pickets were out in force on Saturday morning, in the first of the latest strikes against attacks on post workers’...

THE following is a statement by Joe Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, made at the ‘Change To...

Greek students, youth and workers delivered a significant blow to the Mitsotakis government, the US-NATO imperialists, EU and Israel on Sunday. They staged a most...

MORE than 2,000 senior NHS doctors have signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to increase spending on health and social care...

NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...

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...