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THE commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards accused Saudi Arabia of treachery on Monday, saying the bombing of Yemen had put the kingdom in...

UP TO 5,000 workers and local residents marched in west London against the closures of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals on Saturday. The angry demonstration...

IRAN says Bahrain’s ‘despicable’ welcoming of Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid to Manama is at odds with the will of the Bahraini people, stressing...

THE RUSSIAN army struck at warehouses in the Zhytomyr region in the west of Ukraine on Saturday. High-precision long-range sea-based ‘Caliber’ missiles reached the...

EVEN puppet politicians are complaining about the conduct of British troops in southern Iraq. The Basra newspaper Al-Manarah has interviewed National Assembly Deputy ...

TWO thousand more jobs will go in Renault plants Europe-wide and 900 of them will be in France; the automobile manufacturer will announce the...

The democratically elected Hamas government has called on Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries on Wednesday to stay away from a US-sponsored Middle East...

LAST Thursday two leaders from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, underlined the need to strengthen national...

THE Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) has addressed an open message to the Iraqi people on the fourth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq,...

The United States has confirmed that it is supplying new ammunition to the Israeli occupation army. The US decision has angered the Palestinians and Palestinian...

IRAN has lashed out at US officials for making ‘meddlesome’ remarks about domestic developments in the country, saying the world public opinion is well...

‘THE WORLD’S first socialist revolution when the working class took power is showing us the way forward today,’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary Frank...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has called for US politicians and commentators who engage in violent rhetoric to be prosecuted, after the attempted assassination of...

‘I WISH all Sri Lankans around the world a happy celebration and continued peace and prosperity in the coming year,’ said a statement harping...

THE Irish trade union movement has been discussing the dangers that a low rate minimum wage, if not corrected, will lead to it being...

THE leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, on 14 February warned Israel that it will respond to the killing the previous...

THE NHS would become both more cost-effective and equitable if it were operated on its founding principle of co-operation rather than competition, said a...

TAMILNET reports that the entire safety zone area has gone up in smoke since the early hours of Friday with shelling by the Sri...

A GROUP of 93 Palestinians from Gaza visited relatives jailed in Israel on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Spokesperson Suhair Zaqqut...

OPENING the public sector pay debate at the 149th Trades Union Congress in Brighton on Monday afternoon, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis moved composite...

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will hold a summit meeting in Damascus on Thursday, 7th July, adviser to the Palestinian...

‘Now that the international community is finally beginning to pay attention to the existence of an estimated two million Iraqi refugees in the Middle...

‘the Islamic Revolution will go on to defeat all US plots in the coming years just as it has done over the past four...

Statement by the Revolutionary Marxist League Greek Section of the International Committee of the Fourth International The only road for all workers is to build...

‘WAGE theft is flourishing in Australian universities, with at least three elite institutions in the midst of underpayment scandals!’ says the National Education Union...

MORE than 15,000 students marched through Athens last Thursday demanding the withdrawal of the proposed revision of Article 16 of the Constitution, which would...

STRIKE action is looming for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology after talks with workers over salary and service conditions deadlocked last weekend. The declaration...

THE TUC National Congress held in Brighton during the first week of September 1984 was dominated by the miners’ strike. Miners from the Cortenwood pit...

SEVEN thousand mainly young people from London and across the country marched to demand the withdrawal of British and American troops from Iraq and...

AROUND 500 workers and labour activists congregated outside the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) on Monday to demand the federation’s dissolution. Protesters gathered at...

BELOW is a declaration issued on Tuesday by the international commission of the central council of Russia’s University Solidarity trade union, on the repression...

Amnesty International has called on the British government to hand over to Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohammed’s lawyers, vital information it holds on him. Binyam...

THE Egyptian security delegation’s efforts succeeded last Friday night in reaching a mutual agreement between Fatah and Hamas to contain the tensions and differences...

SCHOOLCHILDREN and students across Greece protested on Monday against cutbacks to the education sector, and the ‘intensification of performance evaluation’ which is part of...

NUMSA has issued a National Office Bearer’s statement on the SACP augmented Central Committee statement of 1 December. It reads: ‘It has now become absolutely...

WEAPONS supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States to the Saudi-led coalition in war-torn Yemen killed at least 839 civilians and wounded 1,775...

A STRIKE wave is spreading throughout South Africa as concrete workers, Telecom workers and miners are locked into escalating struggles against ruthless employers that...

‘HUNDREDS of people languish in arbitrary, illegal and often incommunicado detention in Sri Lanka, vulnerable to torture and extrajudicial execution, despite the end of...

‘FREE Palestine! Hands off Jerusalem!’ shouted over 3,000 protesters outside the US Embassy on Friday night. The massive rally called for mass demonstrations ...

EGYPTIAN President Abd-al-Fattah al-Sisi has hailed Arab state leaders for ‘agreeing on the principle of forming a joint Arab military force’ to face...

SYRIAN leader Bashar al-Assad warned on Monday that Western military strikes risked igniting a ‘regional war’ in the ‘powder keg’ of the Middle East,...

UNISON has given official notice to the NHS employers Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust that 250 of their staff will take their...

GREEN and Black Cross (GBC) today launched the appeals and witness section of their website in an attempt to challenge police misconduct during student...

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on Thursday announced it is unable to continue its operations...

VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has accused the Argentinian President Javier Milei of ‘eliminating all the rights of the Argentine people’ and ‘ending the economic...