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‘Israel is implementing a strategy of Judaisation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,’ Professor Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing,...

FOLLOWING his re-election this week as general secretary of specialist rail and transport union RMT for a further five-year term, Mick Cash is insisting...

A NUMBER of Arab parliament speakers and senior legislators have arrived in Damascus amid attempts by certain countries, above all Iraq, to restore Syria’s...

THE AFL-CIO US trade union federation stated yesterday that the Obama administration has made the deplorable decision to upgrade Malaysia – a major...

The commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has lauded the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas...

THOUSANDS of state secondary school teachers demonstrated throughout Greece on Tuesday night against the coalition government’s Education Bill for secondary education, schools closures and...

RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of becoming directly involved in the Ukraine war by supplying the country with weapons and...

AHMAD Majdalani, of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, has warned that Israel is attempting to destroy the Palestinian Authority through more financial...

THE BMA is now opposed to the whole of the Health and Social Care Bill and is due to launch a public campaign to...

JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...

FATAH Central Committee Member Muhammad al-Alul has said that the Palestinian leadership is currently working on developing the popular resistance against the Israeli occupation...

The Health and Social Care Bill aims to end the NHS as a public service. It legislates for private companies to do NHS clinical...

IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says that outgoing US president, Donald Trump, registered state terrorism on America’s official record by openly accepting responsibility for the assassination...

CIVIL servants called for more action during their national Budget Day strike on Wednesday. PCS members at a lively picket outside the National Portrait...

IN a detailed report released by Amnesty International, the organisation has shed light on a dramatic increase in the deployment of unlawful lethal force...

RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...

DOZENS of trade unions, youth groups, and resistance movements in Turkey marched on Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square on May Day, in open defiance of...

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy on Monday discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT). Israeli newspaper...

THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...

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...

TAMILNET reports that the Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang last Saturday morning called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse at the Presidential residence House....

THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) said on Friday that it joins millions of South Africans in honouring the 65th anniversary and...

THE South East London Cluster combines the PCTs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation trust is a large...

WORLD leaders have extended their congratulations to Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on his victory in Iran’s 2021 presidential election. Raeisi garnered almost 62 per cent of...

PALESTINIANS around the world on Saturday commemorated the sixth anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s 22-day offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2008-9 that...

IN REFUSING to lift the 1% public sector pay cap, chancellor Philip Hammond is condemning ‘just managing’ civil servants to wage cuts of up...

THE cessation of hostilities agreed last week is ‘a glimmer of hope for all Syrians,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said. n an interview with ARD...

THE Sutton Trust has warned: ‘Over 1 in 5 A-Level students missed more than 20 days of school due to Covid-19, in the run...

Vale Inco could have some explaining to do to shareholders about the quality and quantity of nickel it is producing while its 3,000 production...

THE government is activating a mass hospital closure programme. 30 to 40 ‘failing’ NHS trusts could be handed over to new management, which could...

Two firebombs were thrown at the Tel Aviv home of African residents on Saturday night, Israeli daily Haaretz reported. It is the second such attack...

USING the release of the Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit as pretext, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed his occupation forces to reoccupy the...

A 400 strong packed meeting at Lambeth Town Hall on Tuesday night commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Sean Rigg in Brixton...

PALESTINIAN activists along with Israeli and international supporters shut down on Wednesday the recently opened Eastern Ring Road near Jerusalem, which features separate lanes...

OUTGOING Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the dream of a ‘greater Israel’ was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of...

BUS workers called for the entire bus service to be taken back into public hands and renationalised, during Tuesday’s 24-hour London wide strike over...

BRITISH Airways workers are facing a huge fight to defend their jobs and conditions of employment against a vicious management onslaught. BA management have announced...

TEACHERS and parents at The John Roan secondary school in Greenwich are determined to defeat an academy order issued by the Tory government calling...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has praised the position of the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, who refused to attend the Paris summit to...

‘The entire economy of South Africa will be shut down’, warns the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), if the government fails to...

ISRAELI forces stormed a secondary school in the southern occupied West Bank village of Tuqu on Sunday. Three Palestinian teachers suffered from pepper spray...

UK higher Education faces an unprecedented crisis, the University and College Union (UCU) has declared, with new data compiled by the union showing over...

EVERY JOURNALIST welcomes the judgement of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal published Monday December 17, which ruled that the former PSNI (Police Service of Northern...

IN THE centenary year of nurse registration, a new exhibition is charting the history of the journey from the Nurses Registration Act in 1919...

A TOTAL of 21,800 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the country since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to...