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TOP British medical journal The Lancet has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...

TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...

The labour collective occupying the Kherson engineering factory has issued a decree appealing to the ‘Workers of Ukraine’. The decree says: ‘We understand that we...

TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million...

THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...

AN OPEN letter to US President Obama reveals how one juvenile and 19 other prisoners remain dangerously brutalised in Guantánamo Bay, despite federal courts...

THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...

Greek civil servants, teachers, local government and hospital workers took part in a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, in defence of their pensions rights...

YESTERDAY the bourgeois media was full of the thoughts of police chiefs who are preparing for a ‘summer of rage’, and pointing to 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...

Syrian doctors who returned from Gaza came back with images of the ‘spilled blood of a people that desired freedom and paid for it...

THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has called a national demonstration on February 21 at 2pm in Dublin to mobilise workers against...

Rising unemployment is a national emergency declared the TUC yesterday after the government revealed that 150,000 workers had lost their jobs in the last...

Firefighters are gearing up for a major fight against life threatening cuts to the service across the country. The FBU (Fire Brigades Union), in...

ED BALLS, the Schools Minister, and the former economics advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, over the weekend dropped his political master right...

SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has slammed Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s ‘woolly speech’ to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce AGM on Thursday night, in which...

‘BRITAIN, Britain – stop the war!’, ‘British media – break the silence!’, ‘Don’t hide – genocide!’, were some of the slogans shouted by more...

Greek armed riot police repeatedly attacked with tear-gas and stun bombs 1,500 protesting farmers from Crete in the port of Piraeus...

TamilNet reports the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), in a statement issued from Colombo on Sunday, expressed shock at the shelling...

CHINESE Stalinist leader President Hu Jintao has sent Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Vice President Xi Jinping on international visits in a vain attempt...

‘Today, Congress took a first and important step to rebuilding the American Dream,’ said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Thursday as Senators from...

A huge mass of Tamil people gathered on the north side of the Thames at Pimlico on Saturday lunchtime calling for an immediate ceasefire...

Angry teachers have condemned the declaration by Schools Secretary Ed Balls that he will resist calls to slow the pace of the Academy programme. This...

THE Academy school project – to replace state owned schools, with ‘independent’, millionaire sponsored, and privately run schools, who hire the staff that...

OVER five hundred students and staff of the London Metropolitan University gathered outside the building in Holloway road in north London yesterday to protest...

TRADE unions yesterday called on the government to bail out the manufacturing bosses in the wake of steelmaker Corus’ confirmation that it is cutting...

Over 8,000 tractors and tens of thousands of small farmers have occupied sections of motorways and national roads in central and northern Greece, setting...

‘Free, Free Palestine!’ ‘Shame on you BBC!’ shouted 7,000 protesters at a rally for Gaza outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House at Portland Place in...

THE BBC has blocked the nationwide broadcast of a fundraising appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) this weekend. The DEC comprises the...

United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon called on Tuesday for those responsible for the bombing of UN-run buildings and schools in Gaza to be...

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on Sunday hailed an ‘historic and strategic victory’ in Gaza. In his televised speech, he said: ‘We achieved...

AMID banks posting further huge losses and their share prices collapsing, after the near extinction of the world’s largest banks last October, Prime Minister...

Over 15,000 Tamils and their supporters held an angry vigil opposite Downing Street on Saturday evening demanding ‘Stop the war. Don’t kill Tamil people...

‘Free, free Palestine!’ shouted crowds at a 10,000-strong rally for the women and children of Gaza on Saturday, called by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign...

Hamas officials headed to Cairo for ceasefire negotiations yesterday after tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of them Hamas supporters, attended a mass funeral...

Mohammed el Gharani (imprisoned aged 14) is to be released from Guantánamo Bay, legal charity Reprieve reported on Thursday. It said: ‘Reprieve is thrilled...

PALESTINIAN Legislative Council member Mustafa al-Barghouti challenged the head of the United Nations to personally go into Gaza, after Israel shelled the UN’s humanitarian...

THE Standard and Poor (S&P) credit rating agency downgraded Greek government bonds on Wednesday sending government stocks and share prices on the Athens Stock...

The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip vowed on Monday that the Palestinian resistance, backed by the population, would emerge victorious over Israel’s...

more than 3,300 jobs were axed or came under threat yesterday as prime minister Brown held his much-heralded ‘jobs summit’ with bosses and union...

WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...

TWENTY-THREE Gazans were killed on Sunday morning and dozens injured by illegal weapons that ensure the incineration of buildings and people hit by...

WITH unemployment set to go up by at least one million this year, to three million, the government is in a panic. Its panic is...

OVER 200,000 people joined the largest-ever demonstration in Britain in support of the Palestinian people, when they marched in London on Saturday. About 10,000 people...

Tens of thousands of Palestinians yesterday attended a funeral procession for 47 defenceless civilians who were killed on Tuesday when Israeli artillery shelled a...