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NEW YORK State baristas and other workers at the Starbucks coffee shop in Syracuse’s Armory Square, are seeking to join a union as part...

STAFF members of the US House of Representatives in Washington filed a petition for representation on Monday to form a union for the first...

SRI LANKAN MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new president, despite his extreme unpopularity with Sri Lankan workers and youth...

FRENCH aviation union Syndicat National du Personnel Navigant Commercial (SNPNC-FO) cabin crew members (hostesses and stewards) are on strike from Wednesday July 13 to...

BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...

HAMAS, the resistance movement, says Palestinians should keep up the ‘armed resistance’ against Israeli occupation in the West Bank, after one of the regime’s...

‘A NUMBER of our hospitals are literally falling down,’ Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust health think tank said yesterday as he...

BORIS Johnson’s reaction to the Tory Party’s massive by-election defeats at Tiverton and Honiton and at Wakefield has been to reject the advice and...

THOUSANDS of Indigenous people continue to demonstrate in the Ecuadorian capital, as their calls for social and economic reforms grow louder despite a crackdown...

THE Tory party has been hit for six by its two by-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and in Wakefield. Tiverton and Honiton Lib Dem; Richard...

BY YONATAN MOSQUERA ‘We won, we did it, yes we can,’ are perhaps the most repeated phrases these days by the masses of the Colombian...

PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble Alliance has been brought down to earth with a bang after losing its absolute majority in the French National Assembly,...

THE world’s nine nuclear-armed countries – led by the US – spent $82.4 billion upgrading their atomic arsenal in 2021, eight per cent more...

PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron is set to lose his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections....

FIVE years ago, in the early hours of the morning of June 14th 2017, a kitchen fire led to an inferno that set alight...

BY YONATAN MOSQUERA NEXT Sunday 19th of June the final round of presidential elections will take place in Colombia. After having defeated the establishment candidates...

WITH a Civil War raging inside the completely split Tory Party there could be no better time for taking on the Tory regime, defeating...

A Day of action against the US blockade on Cuba has been held in several countries, with supporters of the Latin American nation determined...

CHANCELLOR Sunak received Labour cheers for his statement in parliament on Thursday, as the Tories fought to regain some popularity after the continuing exposure...

Workers across the United States, including in multi-national corporations like Starbucks and Amazon, as well as in the video game industry, are joining trade...

srael’s ruling coalition government has become a minority in parliament after an Arab lawmaker stepped down in protest at ongoing Israeli forces’ aggression against...

ISRAEL’S governing coalition has become a minority in parliament after lawmaker Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi from the Meretz party, quit her post. Zoabi announced her resignation...

AS SOON as the Northern Ireland Assembly election results were announced on Saturday confirming that Sinn Fein was now the biggest party, the US,...

LABOUR has failed to dominate the council elections despite the illegal actions of PM Johnson, and the way that under his government living standards...

SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...

OVER 3,000 workers and youth were on the TUC May Day March from Clerkenwell Green in Islington to Trafalgar Square in Central London on...

‘THIS Easter will be worse than any winter for the NHS,’ warned Alastair McLellan, the editor of Health Service Journal (HSJ), in a leading...

DAVE WILTSHIRE, the Secretary of the All Trades Unions Alliance told the WRP’s May Day rally: ‘From this May Day meeting we send revolutionary...

THE RESULT of the French presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing Emmanuel Macron winning with 58.54% of the vote, beating the leader of...

AS AMAZON dominates online marketplaces and positions itself to become the largest retailer in the US, more and more people are finding out the...

YESTERDAY, MPs debated the motion from Labour that would refer the behaviour of prime minister Boris Johnson to the Commons standards committee to investigate...

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson jetted off to India yesterday in advance of the vote by MPs on a Labour motion to launch an investigation...

PM JOHNSON made it clear on Tuesday night that he has no intention of resigning despite the fact that he has become the first...

THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the...

Starbucks the coffee chain has brought back founder Howard Schultz to lead the effort to defeat a union drive that is still spreading across...

LEFT WING French presidential candidate for the France Insoumise (Rebellious France) party Jean-Luc Mélenchon talked about climate change, feminism and the cost of living...

ISRAELI officials plan to rubber-stamp the construction of ten new settlements in the Negev desert region at a cabinet meeting next Sunday. The decision...

A SENIOR civil servant ‘ignored’ a ‘red alert’ warning about the ‘widespread, historic and ongoing’ use of a highly combustible cladding product on UK...

HUNDREDS of rail cleaners will launch a 48-hour strike action next week in fight for pay justice. Transport union RMT members who keep trains and...

SOS NHS are demanding emergency investment in a publicly provided NHS. The immediate measures needed are highlighted in a statement for the NHS Day of...

‘THE ANC NEC lekgotla was the opportunity to address and correct the existential crises facing the nation, the state and the movement. The question...

PM JOHNSON’S decision to bloc with Chancellor Sunak to see that National Insurance Contributions are raised in April by £12.9 billion has widened the...

THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...

THE SPLIT in the Tory Party over the planned hike in National Insurance (NI) has got wider and deeper! Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s proposed 1.25...

AS AMERICANS honoured the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, UPS Teamsters across the country mobilised to demand the...