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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...

The University and College Union (UCU) on Wednesday called on the government to urgently protect healthcare education funding after MPs warned that delays in...

THE MOTHER of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence has revealed that she has asked Home Secretary Theresa May for a new inquiry ...

Dozens of activists launched a hunger strike on Sunday at the Egyptian Press Syndicate’s headquarters in Cairo to protest against military rule and the...

Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors conference on Saturday, against the advice of their leaders, voted overwhelmingly to demand health secretary...

SEVERAL prisoners in Israeli jails are still on hunger strike, officials said on Thursday, days after a deal was struck to end a mass...

A survey of almost 3,000 London transport passengers conducted by independent researchers for Unite, has revealed that almost nine out of ten back bus...

THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has carried out a comprehensive investigation into migrant workers’ experiences of forced labour and exploitation in the UK food industry...

Essex fire crews have given formal legal notice of a strike ballot in a dispute over frontline cuts and changes forced through without proper...

Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) General Secretary David Begg has said that the Dublin government could delay ratification of the Fiscal Compact Treaty,...

USW CANADIAN National Director Ken Neumann addressed the 37th Ordinary General Convention of the National Union of Mine, Metal, Steel and Allied Workers of...

THE government’s claims about numbers of civil servants on strike over pensions are wildly inaccurate, the Public and Commercial Services union has insisted. Nearly...

RESPONDING to the plans for ‘secret justice’ and closed courts set out in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday, Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said:...

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

Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi said on Sunday that Palestinian prisoners would remain united in their support for fellow prisoners on hunger-strike. Prisoners affiliated to...

Two firebombs were thrown at the Tel Aviv home of African residents on Saturday night, Israeli daily Haaretz reported. It is the second such attack...

About 300 people are being held after violent clashes outside the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday which left one soldier dead and hundreds...

Tenants on the Aylesbury estate are very angry at Southwark Council’s indifference to their complaints and the Council’s high handed attitude towards tenants’ needs. Tenants...

COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini has publicly endorsed the re-election of ANC president Jacob Zuma, thus exposing the tensions existing within the trade union federation. Dlamini,...

‘A socialist revolution in this country will open up the whole of the world,’ Frank Sweeney, the General Secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party,...

In light of the new International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) ‘World at Work’ report the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is holding the world’s first...

A 28-year-old Tamil man, recently deported from the UK was found killed in Trincomalee on 18 April, news sources in the district told TamilNet...

Over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners have been on hunger strike for more than 12 days in protest against policies such as prevention of family visits...

In his Annual Report published last Tuesday, the Bank of Greece governor Yiorghos Provopoulos spelled out clearly what is demanded by the European Commission...