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EXTREMIST Israeli settlers on Sunday spray-painted racist anti-Arab graffiti on the walls of a Jewish synagogue in Safed, in northern Israel, according to local...

THE 220,000 Numsa (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa) members in the metals and engineering industry have now completed more than one week...

ALMOST every school in the country is to have its funding slashed, some by as much as £1,000 per pupil per year, under the...

AT LAST Friday’s annual meeting of T-Mobile US Inc. in Bellevue, Washington, east of Seattle, shareholders voted on a proposal urging the T-Mobile board...

A bombshell report and survey of nearly 1,200 claimants by the union Unite lays bare the misery caused by the roll-out of Universal Credit. The...

THE first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has said that Palestinian national reconciliation could not be achieved amid the continued security...

LABOUR activists, community allies and family members came out in force to support UFCW Local 1400 members at Saskatoon Co-op on December 20. They...

Israeli forces fired on Palestinian farmers as they were working on their lands east of Khan Younis on Monday morning. Khan Younis is a...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday the victory of the Syrian people and their allies in the war against terrorism would contribute to...

PRISONER and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has emphasised the need to accelerate the reform and development of the PLO; to hold the National Council...

NHS WORKERS are furious that they are to receive a measly 1% pay increase in 2017-18 – in reality another massive pay cut –...

THE CHINESE Communist Revolution, led by the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong, resulted in the proclamation of the People’s Republic of...

WORLD leaders are spectacularly failing refugees, says Amnesty International UK in its latest report Tackling Global World Refugee Crisis – from Shirking to Shared...

PLO Executive Committee member, Hanan Ashrawi, last Thursday condemned Israel’s unwillingness to punish the ‘terrorists’ responsible for the arson attack in Duma village, south...

ISRAELI authorities on Thursday razed land and demolished a greenhouse and water well in Beit Ula, a village located northwest of Hebron, according to...

THE Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) described confrontation with the US and Israel as the achievements of the Islamic...

ADDRESSING reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Lieberman said he deemed Tuesday’s Egyptian-mediated ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza ‘a capitulation to terror’. He added: ‘Despite the...

THE PASSAGE of a ‘Right to Work’ bill, which promotes cheap labour and denies basic representation to workers in the state of Indiana, has...

THERE is a huge crisis in A&E departments in English and Welsh hospitals. Emergency patients brought to A&E departments by ambulance frequently have to...

DEMOCRATIC lawmakers have formally protested against the Navy’s dismissal of the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, who requested urgent aid to...

DOZENS of Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli forces early Friday began farming on lands confiscated from Palestinian farmers in a village south of Hebron,...

ON the occasion of the commemoration of the anniversary of the Nakba, Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said: ‘The Nakba is ongoing as long as the occupation...

THE Health & Other Services Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (Hospersa) has declared a dispute against SANParks following months of protracted wage negotiations. Union...

TRADE unions responded angrily to the Tory Chancellor Osborne’s Autumn Budget Statement in which he announced permanent austerity, raising the state pension age to...

A NEW SURVEY, Refugees without refuge, published by the Refugee Council on Friday, has found high levels of homelessness and destitution among refugees shortly...

AMERICA’s United Farm Workers union (UFW) is fighting an attack by Darigold, the largest dairy processor and cooperative in the Pacific Northwest. UFW says: ‘While...

THE TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday passed motions calling for the public ownership of transport services, action on the housing crisis and...

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

A YOUNG Palestinian man was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Wednesday afternoon. The...

Hundreds of Palestinian farmers and fishermen protested on Monday at al-Saraya Square in Gaza City demanding an end to the siege and the Palestinian...

Life came to a standstill in all West Bank cities and towns on Monday as the curfew and strict lockdown Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has responded to the State of the Nation Address delivered by newly elected South African President,...

ISRAELI police forces violently dispersed a Palestinian protest in the occupied East Jerusalem village of al-Tur on Wednesday, amid complaints that authorities’ closure...

SOUTH African Police have investigated and cleared 87 of their own officers in relation to the August 2012 police killings of 34 Marikana miners. South...

‘SHUT down Guantánamo Bay!’ demanded human rights organisations on the day that Shaker Aamer was finally freed. After 13 years of languishing in Guantánamo Bay...

YEMEN is facing ‘the worst epidemic of cholera since records began’, a report from inside Yemen has warned. The Armed Conflict Location and Event...

THE WEST has plotted against Syria with the aim of changing the country’s stances, policies and national identity to serve a ‘New Middle East’...

The fourth mass anti-president rally in downtown Seoul last Saturday evening saw 600,000 workers, students and senior citizens, chanting slogans demanding scandal-hit President...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is going to court on Thursday to stop Cosatu (Confederation of South African Trade Unions)...

Senior Fatah official and Palestinian Legislative Council member Azzam Al-Ahmad said on Wednesday that the ratification of a unity deal with rival movement Hamas...

‘This programme is a disgrace to all Australians and must be scrapped,’ ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) Indigenous Officer Lara Watson said on...

NUMSA National Executive Committee has issued a full statement on COSATU in response to calls for its expulsion from the federation. The National Union of...

‘JEREMY Hunt hear us say, NHS is here to stay!’ and ‘One fight – we are all united!’ chanted campaigners fighting to save A&Es...

‘JERUSALEM is not for sale. Palestine will never let the US sell occupied al-Quds to Israel,’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said adding that the...

15,000 workers and youth took part in an emotional silent march through west London on Thursday evening to mark the first anniversary of the...