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THE Pentagon is building a missile defence radar station at a covert location in Qatar, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The site will...

400 Houston janitors are continuing their strike against contractors for whom they clean the offices of some the wealthiest corporations in the...

SYRIAN authorities on Monday clashed with an armed terrorist group in al-Zyara area in Idleb, state news agency SANA reported. A source at the Province...

RELATIONS between the workers and trade unions of Swaziland and the rule of the feudal monarchy has almost reached the point of civil...

IN RESPONSE to mine owners Glencore and Xstrata’s arrogant refusal to meet with a delegation of IndustriALL global union affiliates to discuss labour issues...

REPRESENTATIVES of the tube union RMT on the London Transport pension fund have called for disinvestment from Semperian PPP after it emerged that one...

UNISON is calling on MPs from the South West of England to give their backing to local health workers including nurses, therapists, porters, and...

NEW Yorkers continued to face power cuts in boiling temperatures on Tuesday as talks resumed to end a lockout of skilled power workers. Yet again...

DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...

WORKERS attempting to hold a free and democratic unionisation vote at a Mexican silver mine owned by Canadian mining company Excellon Resources were confronted...

UNISON has responded to the Institute for Fiscal Studies review into NHS funding, and warnings that in future, patients may have to pay for...

‘WE now have the prospect of Remploy workers taking strike action to defend their jobs to avoid their certain destiny of being chucked on...

IT seems an official nurses’ strike is looming in Swaziland after the union called a special urgent meeting scheduled for today. The meeting is...

THE GMB trade union is staging a protest demonstration outside Wandsworth Town Hall from from 6.45pm on Wednesday 4th July 2012, where the borough’s...

THE Palestinian leadership agreed on Saturday to call on the UN Security Council for an urgent meeting on Israel’s settlement expansion on Palestinian land. The...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Bournemouth on Thursday passed, almost unanimously, Emergency Motions calling to halt the take-over...

THE BMA ARM has condemned the Tory-led drive to impose local pay deals on the public sector – which would mean the end of...

THERE was a lively fringe meeting on the first evening of the BMA Conference in Bournemouth on Monday, organised by the All Trades Unions...

The British Medical Association Annual representative meeting in Bournmouth on Monday gave its support to medical students who have been hit hard by trippling...

THE Counter Olympics Network (CON) has announced a march and rally in London’s East End on Saturday 28 July, assembling in Mile End Park...

IN Once Again, Whither France? (March 1935) Leon Trotsky discussed the call for a general strike. He wrote: ‘The general strike, as every Marxist knows,...

THE election results from May 6th in Greece and France show that the working class will use every opportunity to fight against paying for...

AFTER governments across Europe either took over debt-laden banks, or the debts of the banks, in 2008 they demanded ‘austerity measures’ to repay the...

A REVOLUTIONARY situation exists in Europe today as a result of the world capitalist crisis. Social Democratic/Labour and Stalinist reformists, and revisionists, may scoff at...

IN CONDITIONS of polarisation, the conservative New Democracy party won Sunday’s crucial and vastly internationally significant Greek general election gaining 29.6 per cent of...

BANGLADESH garment bosses have indefinitely shut down all operations in over 300 factories at a key industrial hub after five days of violent protests...

FOLLOWING Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that the just-elected parliament is illegitimate, workers are vowing that they will not allow the return to a...

THE US’ largest labour federation plans to mount an aggressive campaign against voter identification laws in a half-dozen battleground states that will be key...

Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...

THE Greek leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras in an interview with the Athens left daily Avgi on Sunday...

THE Eurozone has agreed to lend the Spanish banks up to 100bn euros without demanding any austerity measures after Spanish Economy Minister...

LEFTIST SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras addressed a crowd of party supporters in Sparti, in the Peloponnese, on Thursday night. Tsipras said that his party would...

BY CLARE SAMBROOK BACK in January, I reported here on the wretched experience of a boy apprehended by the UK Border Agency at Dover who...

DR DEREK Keilloh is to face a six-weeks General Medical Council fitness to practice panel, commencing 11 June 2012, over his role in the...

Excerpt from the text of the speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, broadcast live by Syrian TV on 3rd June at the Opening...

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) joined thousands of Canadians opposing the Conservative budget in a mass online protest on Monday. NUPGE...

TWO weeks before the Greek general election, due on June 17, Alexis Tsipras the leader of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) last Friday...

HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth have re-occupied Tahrir Square in disgust at the light sentencing of ex-president Mubarak and at...

THE Palestinian Authority civil affairs minister said late Tuesday that Israel will return the bodies of 91 Palestinians buried in an Israeli cemetery on...

The Justice and Security Bill published on Tuesday ‘is designed to place our Security Services above the law and keep torture and rendition out...

CANADA'S federal government was expected to introduce back-to-work legislation on Monday aimed at forcing striking Canadian Pacific (CP) railway employees to return to their...

While Egypt’s presidential election has dominated the headlines, the class struggle continues unabated with workers determined to defend their rights and improve living standards. Egypt’s...

OVER five hundred lecturers, students, local residents and supporters marched through the streets of Hackney last Saturday to defend Hackney Community college from a...

• No to the destruction of collective agreements! • Down with the EC-IMF austerity measures Accords! • Withdraw from the EC and NATO! •...

Ballot papers are going out to Essex fire crews this week in a strike vote over unnecessary frontline cuts and changes imposed without agreement. The...