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IRAN’S foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says his visit to Russia will focus on efforts to facilitate a resolution of the Ukraine conflict. ‘The main purpose...

in a notice to members, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) explains why the government’s pensions offer is bad news for all members. The...

BECAUSE the government waited so long before imposing a national lockdown on 31 October, large numbers of people will continue to die of coronavirus...

TENS of thousands of Amazon workers staged strikes and a walkout on Black Friday last week demanding a pay rise and calling on the...

CNN’s decision to fire a veteran Mideast editor over a Twitter message mourning the death of the Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is...

The Palestinians have turned down a US request to avoid seeking a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, the...

The UK’s rail unions joined colleagues from across Europe in Strasbourg on Tuesday to protest against European Commission (EC) plans to impose the privatisation...

CHIEF of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, says the ‘glorious’ Palestinian military operation in the occupied territories has made...

MORE strife is looming at South Africa’s Marikana platinum mines, as members of Amcu (the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union) warned Lonmin’s new...

THE BMA’s conference of Local Medical Committees on the 22/23rd May 2014 exposed a huge crisis in UK general practice. This came out in...

HAMAS is ready to meet with Fatah central committee member Nabil Sha’th in Gaza to discuss Palestinian reconciliation, Hamas leader Atallah Abu As-Sabeh said...

The Army and Armed Forces General Command announced that tens of villages and towns in Aleppo western and northwestern countryside have been liberated. The liberation...

A lockout or strike is set to occur June 15 at ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, refinery, chemical plant and laboratory if company management continues...

Last week, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government of Jason Kenney introduced Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act, which constitutes ‘an attack...

AT A press conference last Thursday on the just published report by Sir William Gage on the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, lawyers issued a...

Amnesty International UK has condemned an ‘Alarming rise in state-sanctioned violence and discrimination against Muslims’ in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Muslim community has suffered consistent...

A new report, The last post, released on Monday, provides new evidence of the vital social and economic role of urban sub post offices.  The report,...

‘THE O’Loan Report confirms Yarl’s Wood abuse and the failure to investigate it,’ says Public Interest Lawyers. Public Interest Lawyers said: ‘Today’s report by Baroness...

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

Central to the Royal Mail ‘Pay Offer and Modernisation Agreement 2007/09’ are the sections on ‘flexible working’. These put the workforce at the minute-to-minute disposal...

‘WHAT’S happening in Gaza of systematic starvation and deliberate destruction is not a war, but a genocide,’ the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation...

The RCN has launched a report which reveals there are nearly 20,000 nursing vacancies currently unfilled in England; a ‘hidden workforce crisis’ that could...

‘The attack by the terrorist enemy army on the city of Rafah is a compounded crime, a deepening of genocide and forced displacement attempts...

A LIVELY picket of both gates at Chase Farm Hospital took place on Tuesday, March 29. Beverley Stevens, a Unison support worker in Enfield...

‘THERE is no place for famine and starvation in the 21st century,’ teachers representing the National Education Union (NEU) are insisting this week: ‘History...

Around 300 medical students from across the country held a rally on Friday before holding an overnight protest against the removal of hospital accommodation...

THE genocidal Sri Lanka military occupying the country of Eezham Tamils is routinely engaged in repeated sexual abuse of the former female members of...

THE WEST London Council of Action Big Bike Ride to Save Ealing Hospital on Sunday was a great success. More than two dozen riders with...

NEW YORK State baristas and other workers at the Starbucks coffee shop in Syracuse’s Armory Square, are seeking to join a union as part...

USA SENATOR Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 presidential election, is gaining the support of nurses, teachers and...

FORMER secretary of state John Kerry has revealed the Obama administration’s frustrations with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a new book slated for...

Statement issued on Monday from the London for Sudan community organisation: National Call for Action: UK Complicity and Lack of Media Attention Protest for Sudan LONDON...

Dear Sir, I have been trying to expose without success, in the so-called Democratic Western media, the use by the German & British governments...

The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) in a statement has urged the Sri Lanka Department of Elections to implement a proper programme...

THE Government of Japan has signed a contribution agreement worth $22.4 million with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees...

Sri Lankan health workers launched an indefinite pay strike on Monday, 7th February, protesting against the government’s failure to address salary and other issues. The...

THE Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip says Israeli forces have killed more than 2,000 civilians in the northern part of the besieged...

Over 10,000 workers and youth on Saturday marched through central London against the Afghan war, calling for the troops to be brought out now. Organised...

THE BIDEN administration has formally included Israel in the US Visa Waiver Programme. This decision has ignited a heated debate surrounding issues of discrimination, American...

TWO LONDON organisations are flouting government policy over coronavirus by attacking the pay, and terms and conditions of their employees, the Unite, union said...

THE Syrian Arab Army has regained control over Madyra town and a number of farms near Jisreen town as part of the ongoing military...

EGYPT strongly condemned on Tuesday attacks on African farm workers in southern Italy and voiced concerns about the Muslim minority there, just days before...

THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...

RESPONDING to the chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Statement yesterday, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘The chancellor’s Spring Statement offered nothing to put a...

IRAN on Saturday started ceremonies of commemorating the 33rd anniversary of the demise of late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, in the...