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Hamas has said it considers the invitation extended to Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmud Abbas to visit Washington as ‘political bribery in return...

NATIONAL Nurses United held a National Day of Action on January 13th to demand their employers, and the Biden administration protect registered nurses (RNs),...

FAST-food workers in more than 150 US cities walked off their jobs on Thursday, the latest in a series of strike protests demanding a...

A new study has reported on the expansion of private interests in the public education sector in Argentina and its undermining effects on quality...

LEADERS of Indonesian FSP-KEP (SPSI), the trade union of Chemical, Energy, and Mine Workers (CEMWU), have officially extended a 30-day strike at the world’s...

TAMIL National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran has called for an international investigation into the state of Prisoners of War (POW) in Sri Lanka,...

ISRAELI authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths and...

Colombia said on Monday evening that Israel’s ambassador must leave the country after President Gustavo Petro criticised the regime for crimes against the Palestinians...

THE TOLPUDDLE Martyrs annual festival where thousands of people come together to celebrate trade unionism and remember the role of the Tolpuddle Martyrs began...

ABD-AL HADI al-Darraji, a leader of the militant Al-Sadr trend in Iraq has revealed that Representatives of Al-Sadr trend and the Association...

UK intelligence has been forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use, says Amnesty International. Amnesty is one of...

NINETY-THREE per cent of college principals are concerned that the abolition of the education maintenance allowance (EMA) will lead to a devastating drop in...

PRESIDENT Trump’s proposed H-2A rules would harm not help, US farm workers and reduce protections for both domestic and foreign field labourers, warns the United...

THE ISRAELI District Court’s decision not to grant the seriously ill freedom fighter Walid Daqqa – who has already served 37 years behind bars...

AN American surgeon volunteer at a Gaza hospital has condemned the Israeli regime’s heavy toll on Palestinian medical facilities since October 7th, 2023, asserting...

THE ONLY way to stop the nationwide shutdown of almost every university in the country, beginning on Thursday 22nd February, is for university management...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) held a rally and lobby of Parliament on Tuesday as part of its fight against a huge escalation,...

DAVID Huerta, the 58-year-old president of Service Employees International Union California, was released from federal custody on Monday on a $50,000 bond after a...

THe Liberal Democrats Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott has delivered a broadside against prime minister Brown and the secretive activities of Barclays Bank. He used parliamentary...

WASHINGTON – The Teamsters announced yesterday the union’s legislative agenda for their 110th Congress, targeting key issues for working families, including the Employee Free...

Staff at London South Bank University have no confidence in the vice-chancellor and senior leadership team, the University and College Union (UCU) has announced,...

SIXTEEN years on from the start of the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq, further evidence has emerged that the war was planned long before...

A court in the governorate of Qalioubiya, north of Cairo, has ruled in favour of independent trade union candidates taking part in the...

HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...

Russia and China are capable of thwarting the dangerous plans of the West and NATO, which are trying to disrupt the unity of the...

Lebanon has entered a decisive week during which its parliament is due to elect a new president. With tanks and troops deployed on the streets,...

THE revolutionary strikes that have been shaking the South African mine owners were a highly organised affair to promote the cause of nationalisation of...

‘IT IS our international duty to organise the overthrow of the capitalist system here in Britain,’ WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney told the 100-strong...

‘FROM the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!’, chanted over 50 protesters at an emergency demonstration outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...

FRENCH trade union federation the CGT is calling ‘on the entire world of work to make May Day a powerful day of demonstration to...

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...

SYRIA and Iran have signed an agreement for a long-term strategic cooperation between the two countries in Tehran. The agreement was signed on Sunday...

MEXICAN maquiladora workers in 70 factories have won big wage increases and bonuses in a strike wave that began in January. Maquiladoras are tariff and...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) on Thursday slammed the announcement by Michael Gove that Barclays Bank will be supporting Academies, Free Schools, University...

An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians...

TAMILNET reports that Pararajasingam Kanagalingam, president of the Vanni People Welfare Organisation (VPWO), last Wednesday sent it a recorded affidavit on the civil situation...

LATE on Sunday, an Israeli airstrike killed five Al Jazeera journalists and media workers in Gaza City, striking a tent by the main gate...

A FOREIGN Ministry spokesman said in Tehran last Sunday that the allegations being made by US General David Petraeus were baseless. Petraeus said...

UNITED STATES Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has called on Congress to immediately authorise Tel Aviv’s request for extra emergency funding. Graham made the remarks in...

‘Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is like a poster girl promoting migration of Filipinos in the name of dollar remittances, at the expense of the poor’, the...

The far-right government of President Javier Milei on Thursday imposed a significant restriction on the right to strike in Argentina across many sectors. This move...

‘THE very best of America has come from imminent disturbance, and to limit people’s right to assemble and protest is both unacceptable and un-American,’...

SOUTH Africa’s trade union federation COSATU has said the deal signed on Monday by Zimbabwe’s political rivals ‘marks a dangerous spread of the Kenyan...

Leaked Guantanamo Bay files expose the perils of wearing a Casio watch and working for Al Jazeera, said legal charity Reprieve on Monday, after...

AN Israeli attack on the only Catholic Church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday has left two people dead and several others injured. Two women...