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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has released a full statement saying it is ‘outraged’ by accusations that Public Protector Thuli...

FAST food workers walked out of their restaurants all around America last week for the seventh time in nearly two years – to demand...

PREPARATION is underway for a ‘decisive’ battle, to storm the city of Benghazi and expel the Islamist militias, by pro-US forces led by Major-General...

THE gap between the richest Americans and the rest of the nation has widened after the recession, highlighting the worsening income inequality in the...

EDUCATION secretaries need to ‘up their game’, listen to the professionals or step away to avoid damaging children’s life chances, says Association of Teacher...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation issued a media brief on Tuesday, entitled: Israel’s Colonisation in Western Bethlehem and its Policy of Destroying the Prospects for...

IRAN’S First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri has said that the new sanctions imposed on his country are against the spirit of the Geneva agreement. ‘The new...

The United States embassy compound in the Libyan capital of Tripoli has been raided by militiamen, but no Americans were present as the embassy...

THE Young Socialists march from London to Liverpool arrived at the Stafford occupation camp to cheers from the campers on Day 11 of the...

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...

WORKERS at South Africa’s construction supplies giant, Form-Scaff, nationally, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) have downed tools and...

AUSTRALIAN unions AMWU, CFMEU and TCFUA held a rally outside of Ansell’s Australian headquarters on Thursday, following the denial of entry visas to a...

IRISH rail unions on Monday warned that the dispute over pay cuts at Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail), which brought the country’s rail network to...

DAMASCUS – Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, said in Damascus that Syria is prepared to cooperate and coordinate on...

Jewish Holocaust survivors from around the world call for justice in Gaza. Forty Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and 287 descendants of survivors and...

NEARLY two years after a preventable fire killed 112 garment workers in Bangladesh, the owner of the Tazreen Fashion factory is out of jail,...

‘STOP arming Israel!’ ‘Free, free Palestine!’ ‘Lift the siege!’ ‘Boycott!’ shouted over 2,000 workers and youth at a lobby of Downing Street on Saturday. A...

TURKEY’S spy chief has assured the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during a secret meeting last week that the...

THE Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) on Wednesday called on Britain to stop arming the Israeli terror state after Israel resumed its attacks...

NATIONAL Libyan TV on Monday carried an on-screen ticker reading: ‘The Al-Qa’qa and Al-Sawa’iq militias have targeted Jami’ al-Arusi in Hay al Andalus with...

CONSPICUOUSLY absent at a rally last Saturday to commemorate slain miners on the second anniversary of the Marikana massacre were the African National Congress...

FOUR years after the Israeli military assault on the Mavi Marmara, Turkish relatives of victims express their willingness to join the new aid flotilla...

A GMB member employed by Amazon in one of its depots fell ill after handling packaging on goods imported into the UK. The member is...

PRIME Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has reaffirmed Algeria’s firm intention not to intervene militarily in Libya, citing the Algerian Constitution ‘which prohibits our troops from...

THE Howard League for Penal Reform has responded to the Prison and Probation Ombudsman’s learning lessons bulletin on young adult prisoners who died by...

THE families of thousands of Afghan civilians killed by US/NATO forces in Afghanistan have been left without justice, Amnesty International said in a new...

GOVERMENT cuts plunge youth work into crisis, warns a Unison report. More than 2000 youth workers have been axed and 350 youth centres closed since...

PALESTINIAN child victims of Israeli aggression are arriving in Venzuela to be house in shelters named Hugo Chavez after the former Venezuelan president, aimed...

A-QUARTER-of-a-million workers and youth, including whole families, marched and rallied in central London on Saturday demanding ‘stop the killing’ of Palestinians in Gaza. Demonsterators shouted...

THREE NUMSA shop steward leaders were gunned down late on Wednesday 6 August 2014 in the KwaZulu-Natal province. A National Union of Metalworkers of South...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it has ‘every intention’ of mounting a court challenge to the lock-out by the...

LYING on his bed in a Gaza hospital, three-year-old Yamin now sees the world from behind burns which have disfigured him for life. The tiny...

OVER 300, mainly youth, shouting No Justice! No Peace!, marched through Tottenham on Monday evening to Ferry Lane, the place where Mark Duggan...

The United States has confirmed that it is supplying new ammunition to the Israeli occupation army. The US decision has angered the Palestinians and Palestinian...

STATE of Palestine President Mahmud Abbas, last Wednesday declared the Gaza Strip a humanitarian disaster area. In a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,...

US and European leaders on Monday called for a ceasefire in Libya and for the United Nations to take a leading role in helping...

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...

SUPPORT Stafford Hospital campaigners fighting the closure of the West Midlands hospital’s A&E, maternity, and paediatrics departments have set up camp in the...

‘THE Palestinian Resistance’s victory in Gaza is a clear sign of the weakness of the Zionist regime and a prelude to final victory of...

LAST Thursday night Imperial Healthcare Trust, which runs Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals, published details of their plans for the three sites. It...

OVER 120,000 marched and rallied in central London on Saturday against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza as the Palestinian death toll reached over 1,000. Workers and...

THE Cork Young Workers’ Network is holding a protest in solidarity with the locked-out Greyhound workers outside The Peace Park, Grand Parade, Cork, at...

PALESTINIAN activist Dr Hanan Ashrawi yesterday called for the EU Foreign Affairs Council to stop ‘adopting Israel’s narrative’ and to stop ‘justifying Israel’s...

Residents living on the Myatts Field North PFI (Private Finance Initiative) ‘regeneration’ scheme, situated between Brixton and the Oval in south west London...

‘FREE, free Palestine! Israel is a terror state!’ chanted over 3,000 protesters at a rally and vigil outside the Israeli embassy on Tuesday evening. The...