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TRADE unions worldwide have condemned the latest attack on workers in Sri Lanka. Different Global Union Federations (GUF), including the Building and Wood Workers’ International...

LIBYA’S PM has ‘suspended’ his foreign minister Najla al-Mangoush after she met with her Israeli counterpart, in secret, despite the fact that Libya is...

AN Embraer-135 private jet crashed in the Tver Region north of Moscow on Wednesday. All 10 people on board were killed, according to preliminary...

LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...

THE UNION of Workers’ Trade Unions of Niger (USTN) has condemned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Monetary...

A RAID by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Nablus has injured dozens of Palestinians, as occupation forces shot live fire and...

IN THE wake of recent revelations, it appears that agents from Britain’s intelligence community might finally be held accountable for their previously lesser-known involvement...

FRENCH trade unions are continuing their fight against the Macron government’s increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 which was forced through...

THE Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement stated yesterday that the Israeli far-right cabinet’s insistence on pushing ahead with its controversial judicial overhaul...

THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...

MPs WERE urged to reject the UK government’s ‘cruel and contemptuous’ Northern Ireland legacy bill as it returned to the House of Commons for...

THE Tories suffered a setback yesterday in their drive to legalise strike breaking when the High Court ruled that its agency worker regulations are...

MICK Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union has spoken out after the Tory government suffered a major defeat in the High...

‘IF THE government keeps refusing to enter into meaningful discussions, or any discussions, we will be forced to carry on striking because we do...

HUNDREDS of thousands of National Education Union (NEU) members are taking part in a second national teachers’ strike today, having also struck on Wednesday...

‘BE READY for action in the autumn term, with head teachers with us on the picket line – get ready for a general strike...

THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is to make Thursday a public sector general strike against the ANC government to press demands...

OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...

COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) is ‘appalled to learn that many municipalities across the North West are still failing to pay...

STRIKING catering, cleaning and other support staff working for South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) were joined on their picket line at Maudsley...

From an article by Di Stefania Maurizi FOR the last six years, the Crown Prosecution Service have rejected all of our attempts to shed light...

ON MONDAY, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that she is instructing all 43 police forces in England and Wales to ‘ramp up’ the...

THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers, the National Union of Mineworkers and the Solidarity union have won a ‘a strategic victory for workers’ after South...

AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament...

THE House of Commons privileges committee published its report into former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday and it turned out to be even more...

CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...

Police will have ‘near total discretion’ to ban protests, according to leading human rights lawyer Adam Wagner. ‘Secondary legislation’ introduced by the Tories in parliament...

THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...

FORMER Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives against any attempt to block Boris Johnson if he seeks to stand in another parliamentary...

The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has introduced two bills that would bring Palestinian schools colleges and universities and their staff in the 1948-occupied territories under stricter...

TENS of thousands of teachers and their supporters rallied in Paris and towns across France on Wednesday to show their opposition to the Macron...

‘We support a general strike to defeat this bill, we supported it in the TUC and it’s our policy,’ RMT leader Mick Lynch told...

ON MONDAY, with the Tory anti-strikes Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, back in the House of Commons for its final reading before passing into...

‘THIS IS unfinished business,’ said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen yesterday, urging members to vote YES as the union opened...

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...

OVER 5,000 workers and youth demonstrated against the Israeli occupation of Palestine on Saturday, marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, with a march...

THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...

THE TUC warned yesterday that the right to strike of 1-in-5 workers in Britain is at risk because of the Tory government’s Strikes (Minimum...

THE MELTDOWN in the Tory vote in last Thursday’s local elections has sent a massive wave of despair throughout Tory MPs and the Tory-supporting...

The German economy ministry plans to subsidise 80 per cent of the electricity cost for energy-intensive companies, in a proposal likely to fuel divisions...

WORKERS WILL be astonished to learn that Labour leader Keir Starmer, on Saturday, just after the council elections wrote a commentary for the Daily...

IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...

On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...

THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...

THE Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has issued a warning that the Israeli military raids and Israeli...