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THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...

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

Around 120,000 trade unionists and their supporters marched through Dublin on Saturday in defence of their jobs, wages, pensions and public services. The massive national...

union leaders in Australia have threatened to withdraw support for the country’s Labour government, if it does not give in to their demands to...

US president-elect Barack Obama discussed the financial crisis and other big problems with world leaders yesterday. He spoke by telephone with the...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed the government for ‘treating health care like a business opportunity’. It was responding to news that the government...

Turmoil in the global economy has increased the urgency for a fair and balanced industrial relations system, said Australian Council of Trade Unions (actu)...

More than 800 postal workers from across the country marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester on Monday. They were joined by disabled Remploy...

QUEUES formed around the Singapore offices of an AIG subsidiary yesterday, as the world’s biggest insurance company collapsed, losing 70% of its share price. At...

Wall Street shares fell 2.4% when trading opened in New York yesterday, in the midst of the financial turmoil caused by the bankruptcy of...

TUC delegates at their Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Motion 23, Asylum Seekers and Employment to launch a campaign to secure the...

DOCTORS’ anger at the drive to privatise the NHS dominated the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh this week. Delegates voted overwhelmingly for...

KING Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose nation is the world’s number one oil exporter, called on consumer countries to get used to high prices...

FÎRST of all we saw the Bush-Blair attack on Iraq, whose strategic purpose was to expropriate Iraq’s oil in order to lower the world...

The oil summit in Jeddah ended in disarray yesterday with OPEC president, Algeria’s Chakib Khelil, blaming speculators for the high oil price. Leading oil producer,...

May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...

OVER 20,000 striking teachers, college lecturers and civil servants from every London borough marched through the centre of the capital yesterday, with marches and...

There is no good evidence that independent sector treatment centres have provided additional capacity, value for money, or high quality care, argue researchers in...

‘This greed has got to be stopped and the government should step in now and levy a windfall tax on the company,’ said UNISON...

Yesterday the government launched major attacks on workers and immigrants. Ministers announced plans to strip unemployed people of their benefits, force long term sick and...

Employers should accept the outcome of the federal election and immediately stop trying to push workers onto individual contracts, known as ‘Australian Work-place Agreements’...

Getting Away With Murder, is a powerful indictment of the private security companies ‘operating with impunity’ in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their British government...

War on Want has condemned the UK private military and security companies (PMSCs), ‘operating with impunity in Iraq’. The charity issued a briefing paper...

British trade unionists on Wednesday demonstrated their support for America’s striking screenwriters as part of an international day of solidarity called by the Writers...

THE Australian trade unions have welcomed the victory of the Labour Party in the general election, but doubts are growing over whether the new...

IN the recent period the government, the Bank of England and the employers have been glorying in the fact that the enlargement of the...

Reports that another large employer has labelled the Howard government’s Industrial Relations laws as ‘farcical’ and ‘pointless’ is further evidence that the government’s IR...

IT is a disgrace that at this week’s TUC Congress there are no resolutions on the Middle East and Afghanistan where over...

‘One day after George W Bush asserted that the ‘fundamentals’ of the US economy are strong, the Dow Jones stock index plummeted by 387,...

THE UK authorities issued National Insurance numbers to 713,000 overseas workers in the year to April 2007. The WRP and the News Line are pleased...

HANDS Off Iraqi Oil – the campaign launched to stop the theft of Iraq’s oil reserves – says that mainstream media coverage ‘has uncritically...

THE International Energy Agency has predicted that oil demand is set to leap beyond the capacity to supply, sending oil prices soaring well...

Last Thursday’s pay rise for minimum award wage workers, the lowest in ten years, is below the rate of inflation and means the living...

The UNI Communicators Forum, attended by union communicators from across the globe, has received a report on Australia’s unions’ battle for the rights of...

The Brussels Tribunal and the International Anti-Occupation Network have issued the following statement on Iraq entitled ‘The Way Out’: ‘If the US military declare...

THE AFL-CIO will join with its Korean trade union allies and strongly oppose the just-completed South Korea-UStrade deal (KORUS) because of the damage it...

Thousands have been displaced in a fresh Sri Lankan offensive, reported the Tamilnet website on Thursday. The head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s...

UNEMPLOYED people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or lose benefits, the government has announced. This is...

A NEW report from Cardiff University’s Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology has added to the portrait of a maritime industry where fatigue...

THE whole of the area from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa is now one great killing zone where US-UK imperialism either kills at...

Saddam’s deputy,      Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, issued a statement on 1 January, mourning his ‘brother’ and calling for unity. ‘The criminal evil hands of the...

THE International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) posted a statement on its website following the December...

Last Saturday, 16 December, 2006 marked the start of a series of protests across the world with renewed calls on the US government to...

Two British soldiers were killed and another two injured, one seriously, in a roadside bomb attack near Basra in southern Iraq, yesterday. Their patrol was...

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) were not distracted by their 34-day war on Lebanon to suspend their killing of Palestinian children, women and men,...