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Last Friday over five hundred Nigerian students and workers picketed their London embassy, furious at the Nigerian government’s removal of a fuel subsidy. The fuel...

THE Irish State may need to contemplate becoming an employer of last resort to tackle unemployment, says the ICTU General Secretary David Begg. Addressing the...

APRIL marks three years since US student debt hit $1 trillion. Now $1.3 trillion and climbing – by thousands of dollars per second (link...

WORKERS and youth signed up to join the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) and Young Socialists on Saturday, saying they will vote for Hornsey and...

SAEB EREKAT, the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), has called on Israeli authorities to immediately and unconditionally release...

TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Vavuniyaa has held back for weeks a vehicle bringing 52 oxygen cylinders from Colombo to...

Hamas warned on Thursday that the summit held in Washington and the resumption of direct peace talks with the ‘Zionist enemy’ only serve the...

Lebanon’s president, prime minister and Parliamentary Speaker slammed Israel’s ‘aggression’ against the country on Tuesday, as Lebanese and Israeli occupation troops exchanged fire...

THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...

A NEW study shows poverty in the UK is on the rise due to welfare cuts introduced by the coalition government during the last...

THE Greek coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is in a crisis following disagreements over more barbaric economic measures demanded by the EC-IMF-ECB...

THE AFL-CIO trade union federation considers that the Fast Track trade policy has has helped depress wages for America’s workers over the past...

CNN’s decision to fire a veteran Mideast editor over a Twitter message mourning the death of the Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is...

US Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders called on US trade unions to rise up and join his political revolution to defeat the Koch brothers...

At a demonstration outside the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government on Wednesday, Fuel Poverty Action handed in a letter to the Secretary...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given an extensive interview with Australian TV channel SBS. In the interview, he covered such topics as Brexit, the hypocrisy...

The statement reads: THE outcome of the Special CEC (Central Executive Committee) of COSATU that was shunned by those affiliates who had formally called...

PILOT representatives from the European Cockpit Association (ECA) and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have voiced concerns about British Airways’ (BA) use of...

ON WORLD Day For Decent Work, trade union federations in South Africa declared a national strike against ‘the winds of austerity blowing out the...

THREE thousand doctors, NHS staff, patients and supporters last Saturday marched from Aldgate to London Fields in east London. The march was organised to protest...

DEMANDS are growing for President Jacob Zuma to release the Marikana report, with 300 wounded and arrested miners now threatening to take him to...

ISRAELI authorities on Sunday morning opened the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing in the southeastern Gaza Strip after it was closed for three days over...

A SENIOR aide to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that Palestinians should follow the example of Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence if Israeli-Palestinian...

‘THE policy of France, that started from day one, to support the terrorists in Syria, is responsible directly for the killings in our country,’...

THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) is facing lengthy delays in companies signing new recognition agreements with the union which has replaced...

ZERO-HOUR contracts have risen sharply in recent years, hundreds of thousands of zero-hour contract workers, the majority being young, are on minimum wage whilst...

THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has published ‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a tome of tragedies,’ in which homeless people and...

TEACHERS are facing low morale, exhaustion, frustration and distress because of the impact of unsustainable workloads, which is driving teachers out of the profession,...

OFQUAL, the exams regulator, has given an ‘unprecedented glimpse’ into this year’s A-level results. In a letter, Ofqual’s chief executive Isabel Nisbet took the unprecedented...

WITH the strike by platinum miners continuing to grip South Africa, senior police officer Lieutenant Colonel Salmon Vermaak outlined internal problems that contributed...

The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and ‘disappearances’ that are a national crisis, New York based rights group Human Rights Watch...

TRADE union leaders behind the formation of an alternative federation say they will formally launch the new structure on 1st May this year after...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed the importance of the victories achieved in combatting terrorism in Syria and Iraq when he received Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim...

THE United Nations has called on Israel to halt a series of serious violations of the Palestinian people’s human rights cited by a 2009...

THOUSANDS of teachers are on strike throughout Mexico against the education ‘reforms’ of the Nieto government, which has met their demonstrattions and barricades with...

‘THE US and the West continue to blunder after the Gulf and Ottoman (Turkish) bets failed to bring down the Syrian state thanks to...

ZIMBABWE’S teaching unions are striking for better salaries from today, Tuesday, with 100,000 expected to join the action. Most Zimbabweans, already struggling to put...

THE National Union of Students (NUS) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday signed an agreement for joint campaigning for the coming year. The...

OUTGOING Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson is right to highlight the impact deep public service cuts are having on the bureaucracy’s ability to do its...

By Save the Mirror Campaign Group TRINITY Mirror’s Chief Executive Sly Bailey is planning to axe a further 200 editorial staff from The Mirror, Sunday...

THE residents of the village of Kardala in the northern Jordan Valley said this week that Israeli forces came to their village and destroyed...

There is an underground bunker in the South Hebron Hills, camouflaged by bracken and heavy sacks, where a tiny Palestinian village is sheltering a...

THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) welcomed pledges made in Labour’s election manifesto. Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: ‘Labour’s pledges to end the...

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...

SPEAKING after talks in Baghdad on Monday, US presidential candidate Barack Obama said the puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had expressed support for...