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CONSTRUCTION, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) supporters have warned that the massiveprotests bringing city traffic in Melbourne and Sydney to a halt last...

A MOTION is set to be put to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this afternoon to oppose PM Starmer’s scrapping of the Winter...

ON THE EVE of this week’s Labour Party conference, left-wing Labour MP Diane Abbott attacked the Labour leadership saying that under Keir Starmer the...

Hundreds more UNITE HERE hotel workers have walked off the job, as another wave of strikes hits the US hotel industry last Thursday. Nearly 2,000...

OFFICIAL data shows that the UK state debt is equal to the country’s economic output for the first time since the 1960s, amid the...

SOUTH Africa’s National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) on Tuesday called on the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane...

A just-issued Coalition statement from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament states that: ‘In October, we will mark a year since the start of Israel’s...

LABOUR’S Foreign Secretary David Lammy has shrugged off as ‘bluster’ warnings by Russia that if Ukraine fires its British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles into...

THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...

THE UK’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State have both been very busy whipping up a ‘war fever’...

THE NEW Labour government launched its massive attack on the NHS yesterday, with PM Sir Keir Starmer threatening that the NHS must ‘reform or...

US PRESIDENT Biden is now poised to lift the ban on the UK’s Storm Shadow missiles being fired into Russia by the US-UK’s fascist...

LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s speech at the TUC Congress yesterday spelt out precisely to delegates that this Labour government is determined to inflict all the pain...

LABOUR PM Sir Keir Starmer, after a few warm words about how special Brighton was to him, got down to business to tell the...

UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham has accused Labour of ‘pickpocketing pensioners’ telling Labour leader Keir Starmer to ‘accept it’s an error’ to push ahead...

THE first speaker at the rally in Kensington High Street at the end of the march was Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse,...

ANY Israeli attempt to displace Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to Jordan will be considered a ‘declaration of war’, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman...

RIGHT-WING Argentina president President Javier Milei’s spokesman said on Thursday that his government has reduced the workforce at state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas by 13...

IMMEDIATELY after the damning report on the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was published the House of Commons was packed with MPs...

THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...

South African education unions, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation (Naptosa) and the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), responded on Monday to the Western...

AS ISRAEL’S genocide in Gaza nears its 11th month, US workers are continuing to rally and demand that President Joe Biden and vice president...

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted with fury yesterday following the announcement on Monday that the Labour government was suspending some arms sales to...

YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off...

THE head of Israel’s Histadrut labour union has called a general strike today to pressure the government into reaching a deal to return Israeli...

WHILE welcoming the limited ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Gaza war to allow the polio vaccination of young Gazan children by the World Health Organisation...

IN a statement issued on Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was ‘deeply concerned’ about the Israeli regime’s all-out military...

PM STARMER told an invited audience yesterday morning in the Downing Street Rose Garden: ‘I promised this government would serve people like you.’ He told...

LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden...

MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed...

THE Tories are now in the grip of a hysteria which has being displayed by newspapers like the Telegraph on a daily basis. It prints...

‘THE US is staring at a possible hard landing while Europe is struggling and China is sinking!’ This is the message from the Daily Telegraph’s...

The destruction of Palestinian residences by Israel in the West Bank is intensifying at an alarming rate. In the period following 7 October, Israeli forces...

JUST 50 days after being elected with an unassailable landslide 141-seat majority, the Labour government has replaced the hated Tory austerity cuts with Labour...

LAST Friday, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) commemorated the mass murder of striking miners in Marikana, who were gunned down for...

THE Zimbabwean authorities must immediately release human rights defenders who have been arbitrarily detained for over two weeks and drop charges against them, independent...

ON World Humanitarian Day, the Hamas movement called for ‘criminalising the occupation’s violations against humanitarian work, and stopping its escalating terrorism against the Gaza...

UNI Global Union and IndustriALL are calling on international fashion brands to continue their long-term commitment to Bangladesh to help secure the country’s democratic...

Far-right violence erupted across the UK in early August, prompting an alliance of football fans to rally in defence of threatened communities. In Liverpool, supporters...

TEACHERS in Kenya are to down their tools as unions KNUT, KUPPET announce a joint strike. Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) chairperson Omboko...

‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...

UNIVERSITY workers are set to strike to defend jobs and courses as soon as the new academic year begins in September. Staff at Sheffield Hallam...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters scored a key victory in the union’s national fight to organise workers at Amazon after a federal judge ruled...

On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has made a fervent call for the...

ISRAEL’S air force has delivered strikes on some 60 Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the press office of...