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HUNDREDS of students and lecturers demonstrated outside the meeting of the Board of Governors of London Metropolitan University on Tuesday night, demanding: ‘RESIGN NOW!’ Calling the demonstration,...

FEARFUL Britain was going to run out of food and grind to a halt due to a docks strike at the height of the...

‘THE PALESTINIAN leadership is committed to achieving a political solution of the Middle East conflict, based on the creation of an independent Palestinian state...

THE Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as Bank Markazi, says the country has won a legal battle in Europe...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...

BIRMINGHAM binworkers began indefinite strike action yesterday, Tuesday 11 March, determined to defeat the ‘commissioners’, who were handed control of the council by the...

WORKING people across the world were leading a coalition taking action on Black Friday 26th November to build pressure on Amazon to improve its...

THE Gaza Strip-Egypt border will reopen only as part of an international agreement, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said, after Palestinian security forces sealed...

Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on the mental health of black American adults in the general population, according to a...

NEW disclosures have added to the growing body of evidence indicating many Israelis who died on October 7 were killed by the Israeli military. Meanwhile,...

HOSPITAL workers at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire, are set to take further strike action against yet another round of vicious attacks...

FIERCE battles broke out between French workers and police as over 170,000 workers, students and youth took to the streets in 110 cities across...

Undeterred by sackings, harassment, violence and hardship, members of the Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel Workers Union are more determined than ever to fight until...

NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...

RUSSIAN forces have wiped out 16 German-made Leopard tanks, amounting to 100% of the armoury supplied to the Kiev regime by Poland and Portugal,...

VLADIMIR CHIZHOV, The Russian ambassador to the EU, has warned that Moscow will react negatively to countries which recognise Kosovo independence. ‘This, above all, refers...

A MOTION moved on behalf of the London Regional Council by Anna Athow demanding the Tory NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) are ‘abandoned’...

STUDENTS at Wits University in South Africa are embarking on a strike, warning that returning students may be unable to continue with their studies...

US President Donald Trump’s scheme for the Gaza Strip is ‘doomed’ to failure, says the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. ‘We will bring...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it has ‘every intention’ of mounting a court challenge to the lock-out by the...

A STRIKE wave is set to hit schools, colleges and universities across the UK during the summer as teachers and lecturers vote overwhelmingly in...

A SPOKESMAN for Iran’s armed forces has threatened a ‘crushing response’ against any US aggression and allies who host American troops. ‘Any place and any...

Over 20,000 students, youth and workers took part in a militant anti-imperialist demonstration in Athens on Tuesday to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the...

PROPPED up by out-of-state interests, extremists in West Virginia are pushing ‘right to work’ legislation that takes away rights from hardworking people trying 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...

KENYA’S Nurses have vowed to continue with their strike until the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) they signed with the Council of Governors is honoured. The...

Following the May Day march last Wednesday, 1st May, the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists, held a lively meeting in Covent Garden. Chairman Jonty...

By JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist THE sectarian war in Ireland is over, but the war on racism has begun. That was the pledge from Sinn...

TRADE union Unite has signed a historic union recognition agreement with Ryanair, which is infamous for fighting to stop the unionisation of its workforce. This...

TEACHING on the cheap is selling children short: schools use teaching assistants and cover supervisors to teach children says the ATL teaching...

GREEK workers, youth, farmers and professionals are continuing and developing the struggle against the government’s Pensions Bill.  On Tuesday night over 5,000 workers and youth...

MORE THAN 10,000 nurses, other NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters marched from St James’s Park to Parliament Square on Saturday on a demonstration...

‘Basra Police Chief Abd-al-Jalil Khalaf revealed that there is a conspiracy to assassinate religious figures in Basra Governorate during the holy month of Ramadan,’...

THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is ‘deeply shocked and saddened’ – its leaders have announced in a new statement – at...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) declared yesterday that the Brown government’s threat to close 638 schools for not reaching arbitrary targets ‘will be...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has warned that the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria could lead to the revival of the Daesh terrorist group...

THE IRANIAN Army has started large-scale military exercises in an area stretching from the eastern sector of the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the...

There was a lively protest on Thursday afternoon of around 60 people outside Stratford Town Hall in support of the ‘Day of Action for...

Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian combat drone training centre and three radar stations over the course of Tuesday in the special military operation in...

THE government of Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has advanced a ‘record’ number of settlements during its nearly four years in office, a...

CASHIERS, members of the CGT union, at the ‘Grand Frais, fresh food stores in France have won a partial victory. The CGT said: ‘After the...

‘Close Down Campsfield – 12 years Too Long!’, declared campaigners yesterday. They were announcing a national demonstration outside the Immigration Removal Centre’s main gates on...

SUCCESSIVE British administrations have hidden the truth about the massacre of 24 unarmed Malaysian rubber plantation workers by UK troops in 1948, says...

Israeli prisons and detention centres, by their very design and structure, constitute a systematic framework inherently aimed at torturing and mistreating Palestinian prisoners and...

On the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Hamas Movement in Lebanon said that the Palestinian people would continue to stand...