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‘We’ve had a lively picket today,’ North East London Council of Action secretary Bill Rogers told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield,...

HEALTH workers demonstrated in cities across France on Tuesday to demand higher pay and more staff for services stretched to breaking point, just days...

Hunger Directed by Steve McQueen Starring Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham and Liam Cunningham Specially reviewed at the London Film Festival and on general release later this month ‘HUNGER’...

Putin’s attack on a mining company has given Medvedev a chance to show who’s boss, Russian Gazeta.ru news website said last weekend, looking to...

BY CLARE SAMBROOK THREE years after the unlawful killing of a passenger in its care, why hasn’t British Airways held an inquiry into what went...

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...

IN ITS annual report on the state of trade union rights in the world, the ITUC accuses the French State of ‘police brutality’ and...

MORE THAN 500 Australian trade unionists marked the first anniversary of strike action by 230 workers employed by energy giant Exxon Mobil’s maintenance contractor...

DEPUTY Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr Faysal Miqdad said on Friday that the Syrian people, who are confronting terrorism with epic steadfastness, have the...

McDonald’s cooks and cashiers in 16 cities went on strike last Wednesday, the day before the company’s annual shareholders meeting, to demand the burger...

TAMILNET reports that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York based media rights group, has slammed the Sri Lankan Government for its...

Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas denied on Wednesday accusations by Jordan that the movement had stored weapons on Jordanian territory. Hamas added that it regretted Amman’s...

TamilNet reports that Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has condemned an anonymous death threat and his detension in the airport by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID)...

THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...

The US administration has failed dismally in the case of Sri Lanka, with catastrophic consequences, commented Tamil legal activists in the United States on...

Care homes are increasingly struggling to provide high quality care for residents with complex medical conditions, amid a backdrop of a severe lack of...

Communication Workers Union (CWU) pickets were out in force on Saturday morning, in the first of the latest strikes against attacks on post workers’...

THOUSANDS joined the United Steelworkers (USW) at a solidarity rally on Saturday in Findlay Ohio to support 1,051 members of Local 207L who have...

A MEMORANDUM of Understanding was signed by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Iraqi puppet Prime Minister Nuri...

‘Please help us in our quest for justice,’ Allessandro Pereira, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told a vigil in Parliament Square last Friday...

A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of...

France is considering further sanctions against ‘the members and support structures’ of the Iranian government over Iran’s nuclear programme, the French foreign ministry said...

FAST food workers backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York, St Louis and Kansas City, Missouri have launched strikes demanding...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed on Wednesday his country’s principal stance in support of solving the Palestinian question based on the international legal norms. Speaking...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s (NUMSA) is threatening a national strike against electricity power company Eskom. A NUMSA statement said: ‘The National...

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...

GUANTANAMO detainee and Reprieve client Nabil Hadjarab, who was cleared for release in 2007, was freed last Wednesday and transferred to Algeria, along with...

A FLOTILLA of ships, carrying some 5,000 tons of food, drinking water, and medical aid, is expected to depart from Turkey in the coming...

The secretary-general of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says Israel has suffered ‘unprecedented’ losses at the hands of Palestinian resistance and has failed to achieve...

‘PIG-headed’ EDF Energy bosses have sparked a week-long meter workers’ strike. A week-long strike by EDF Energy workers carrying out Smart meter installations will take...

The death toll in an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip on Thursday rose to nine after Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at a...

HEALTH workers in in the Ver.di trade union in Germany have been out on a 48-hour strike which started on Tuesday which and continued...

AFTER Israel decided to drastically cut electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory, Robert Piper,...

AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...

‘WELFARE not warfare’ chanted protesters from all over the UK on a 60,000-strong Stop Trident march from Marble Arch to a rally in Trafalgar...

TENANTS on the Aylesbury estate are opposed to privatisation and are demanding improvements to council housing instead of demolition – which is what...

Despite the October chill, over 30,000 British Tamils and supporters took to the streets on Saturday, to highlight the desperate situation faced by Tamils...

Commenting on the government’s NHS ‘reforms’, Professor Ham, a former Director of Strategy at the Department of Health said: ‘The foundations have been laid...

RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday lambasted the UN envoy for Syria for failing to restart peace talks aimed at ending the brutal...

THE unholy alliance between Prime Minister Theresa May and the King of Bahrain was cemented last Wednesday when she met King Hamad bin...

ALMOST 95% of RCM members in Northern Ireland who responded to a consultation about industrial action, including strike action, over pay conditions have voted...

Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, on Thursday, called on the leadership of the...

MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...

RMT members at Northern Rail have voted for strike action against sackings and casualisation.’ In a statement the RMT said: ‘Northern Rail management have run...

‘We will work with one hand and save Iraq from darkness’, said militant Iraqi Shi’ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr last weekend. He said in an...