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LECTURERS in over 60 universities have in the past fortnight taken nine days of strike action throughout Britain over cuts to their pensions. With...

ISRAELI forces on Tuesday morning stormed the offices of a Palestinian radio station in Hebron, where they destroyed equipment and ordered the station’s closure,...

DRASTIC cuts, staff restructuring and rocketing stress levels are becoming the norm in UK schools, according to a survey of school support staff published...

WITH huge Lebanese popular support the Dignity (Karama) boat sailed into the port of Tyre in South Lebanon on Tuesday accompanied by...

THE AFL-CIO has warned of ‘13 Ways the Trump Budget hurts working people’. It says: ‘There are tons of analyses and numbers that could keep...

‘If the aim of the blockade policy was to weaken the Hamas administration, the public employment numbers suggest this has failed’ a UN Relief...

BERNIE SANDERS, US Senator for Vermont, addressed a packed ‘Save London’s Transport’ rally organised by the RMT railway workers union, at London’s TUC building...

THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...

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

GOLD ONE, the Modder East Operations company’s mine in Gauteng in South Africa, has concluded a trade union recognition agreement with the Association of...

OVER a quarter of Syria’s Palestinian refugees displaced as a result of the long conflict are facing recurrent tragedies outside Syria, according to a...

‘WE WON!!! Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is delighted to announce a major campaign victory with the confirmation that the Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund...

THE Oil and Gas Authority on Thursday awarded a raft of new licences to explore for oil and gas on the mainland of the...

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat slammed Israel’s official rejection of the upcoming French initiative as a ‘reaffirmation of the Israeli government’s decision to continue...

MOHSEN Rezaei, a former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has warned that the Israeli regime’s targeted killings of resistance commanders...

Iran’s full-scale involvement in BRICS’ activities was the focus of a telephone call between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Ebrahim Raisi of...

‘CLOSING Ealing Hospital maternity is a real attack on the NHS and a real attack on the people of Southall, Ealing and surrounding areas,’...

IRAN’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the assassination in January of top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq,...

WITH 160,000 performers – from A-listers to extras – voting to take strike action if a deal is not struck in time, the first...

Workers, patients and visitors at Chase Farm Hospital on Thursday made it clear they are determined to fight any attempt to close their hospital. There...

THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), the biggest union in South Africa’s ‘platinum belt’, says that Marikana has once again become a...

PRESIDENT Trump’s proposed H-2A rules would harm not help, US farm workers and reduce protections for both domestic and foreign field labourers, warns the United...

DALE FARM residents are defiant, maintaining their community and bravely refusing to be battered into submission by the brutal actions of the Tory...

YESTERDAY key Blairite cabinet ministers, Blunkett and Hewitt, launched a massive attack on the Welfare State. Hewitt promised to use the NHS budget to...

THE Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gadaffi gave a televised address, live from his Tripoli’s compound of Bab al-Aziziyah on Tuesday night. The compound has already been...

THE Strategic Organising Centre (SOC) has recently released a report called: The Injury Machine: How Amazon’s Production System Hurts Workers. The SOC is a coalition...

THE world renowned American civil rights leader and peace campaigner Jesse Jackson attended the World Tamils Forum in central London on Thursday, as the...

THE United States’ latest military aggression against Iraq’s popular Hashd al-Sha’abi forces that left dozens of casualties continues to draw widespread condemnation from officials...

THE latest State of Maternity Services report from the Royal College of Midwives shows the baby boom in UK continuing and maternity services at...

THE UNITED States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to the...

A DEMONSTRATION held last Thursday March 12 outside the A&E at the Worcester Royal Hospital, demanded an end to the bullying and...

Workers and youth in Greece were looking to deliver a huge blow to the current right-wing government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in yesterday’s parliamentary elections. The...

JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...

AROUND a dozen illegal gold miners have been rescued after being trapped down an abandoned mine in South Africa. As many as 200 remained underground...

THE 15th of May 1948 was an extraordinary day for the Palestinian people, it was the day when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lost...

JUST nine days after the Ontario election, thousands flooded the streets outside the Ministry of Labour and marched to Queen’s Park on Saturday in...

The Interim Agreement (I.A.), brokered by Brendan Barber of the TUC, between Royal Mail and the CWU, has allowed Royal Mail to press ahead...

THE UAW auto workers union is beginning its 2011 contract talks with GM, Ford and Chrysler. For the employers the ...

‘CALLING for the freedom of one Palestinian political prisoner is what Israel expects from the international community. ‘The latest detainee to go on hunger strike...

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas last Saturday condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the wake of a deadly attack in the...

OVER 100,000 people marched in London and many thousands more marched in Glasgow on Saturday, to demand the immediate withdrawal of all British troops...

AMERICAN jurist Mary Davis, who headed the independent United Nations probe into the events of 2014 aggression on the Gaza Strip, said that Israel...

ISRAEL on Wednesday defied the United States and the Middle East Quartet and decided to delay, reportedly until next week, the start of the...

THE G7 (Group of Seven) countries have ‘firmly’ condemned the heavy-handed crackdown, including the use of live ammunition, committed by Myanmar’s junta against the...

All in a Day’s Work Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945-1995 Published by the Britain at Work Project £12.80 with p&p ALL in a Day’s...