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AUSTRALIA’S Industrial Relations Minister has accused the construction union CFMMEU of an ‘extraordinarily high standard of unlawful activity’ as the Morrison government moves to...

AN angry protest by supporters of Julian Assange yesterday morning denounced a Tory government conference titled ‘Defend Media Freedom’. Maxine Walker from the Julian Assange...

THE FACT that a section of the capitalist state leaked the UK ambassador Darroch’s damning estimation of the abilities of President Trump and his...

THE Palestine Expo event at London’s Olympia last weekend attracted thousands determined see the establishment of a Palestinian state. In addition to a host of...

THOUSANDS turned out over the weekend and packed the main auditorium sections at the Olympia Stadium, London for the PALEXPO exhibition to boost the...

THE BOMBING of a detention centre holding 600 refugees in the Libyan capital Tripoli last Wednesday killed at least 44 people and wounded over...

AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme...

Staff in UK universities working on insecure contracts say the lack of security is damaging their mental and physical health. A report released yesterday says...

WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...

CHINA has condemned the counter-revolutionaries who stormed and vandalised the Hong Kong parliament building on Monday and raised the flag of the former occupying...

HUNDREDS of displaced Syrians, who have now left al-Rukban camp, have just arrived at the crossing of Jleighem, in Homs eastern countryside. For the past...

YET ANOTHER attempt to assassinate Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and seize power in the country has been thwarted. According to the Venezuelan government minister, Jorge...

PARENTS taking the government to court over SEND funding were cheered by a crowd of over 40 as they entered the High Court yesterday...

THE US-sponsored three-day conference held this week in the Gulf state of Bahrain to unveil the first stage of Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the...

THOUSANDS of airline food workers have voted to authorise a strike across the US. The strike will be enormous as more than 11,000 workers who...

IN THE TORY leadership campaign, of the six candidates left after the first round of voting five went to Oxford University and every one...

A GENERAL election is to be held in Greece on Sunday 7th July with the right-wing New Democracy party seemingly heading for a comfortable...

‘WHAT WE’RE seeing is really a naked brutal form of capitalism where people’s lives are expendable,’ says University of Western Cape Professor Ruth Hall...

PALESTINIAN factions have called for demonstrations and a general strike in protest at an upcoming US-led conference in Bahrain, which centres on Washington’s ‘Deal...

UP TO A thousand workers from both Yorkshire and across the country marched to the 35th Battle of Orgreave memorial rally on Saturday. They marched...

MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...

UP TO A thousand workers from both Yorkshire and across the country marched to the 35th Battle of Orgreave memorial rally on Saturday. They marched...

THOUSANDS of trade unionists and their families will today mark the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike 35th Anniversary at the Annual Orgreave Rally in Sheffield. June 18...

THE British security and snoop service MI5 has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years,’ alleged rights organisation Liberty. ‘It has also failed,’ Liberty...

ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...

TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine. The former Justice...

A TEACHER has been arrested for allegedly setting the US embassy in Honduras on fire last Friday, following police repression of educators and doctors who are protesting against privatisations. A group...

SUDAN’S military leaders have scrapped all existing agreements with the main opposition coalition, and have cynically declared they will hold elections within nine months. The...

THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown...

The United Nations expert on torture has condemned the psychological torture inflicted on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying: ‘In 20 years of work with...

UNIONS representing delivery riders met at ITF (International Transport Federation) House in London to plan how to take on exploitative ‘gig economy’ employers, the...

GREEK bankworkers at the Piraeus Bank went on a national strike last Friday against mass sackings. On the orders of the EU all Greek...

OVER 500 parents and children held an angry protest outside Downing Street demanding an increase in funding for children with special educational needs and...

WE ARE now reaching the moment of truth in the struggle to carry out the result of the 2016 referendum which instructed Parliament that...

THE IFJ (International Federation of Journalists) has welcomed news that the ‘illegal’ search warrants issued against two journalists are to be quashed. Following two days...

A POLICE raid of the Belfast homes and office of two investigative journalists will be challenged as part of a judicial review that started...

The POA (Prison Officers Association) is backing labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet ‘to come through the setback of the EU elections...

TROUBLE is brewing at Eskom’s Kusile Power Station in South Africa, following the mass dismissal of hundreds of outsourced workers after protests threatened operations...

THE Palestinian Authority’s Detained and Ex-Detainees Commission has said that the Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison of Etzion, near Bethlehem city in...

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against moves by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to secure immunity from prosecution on fraud...

AT 10:36 yesterday morning PM May announced that she will resign as PM on June 7. She said: ‘I have agreed with the Party Chairman...

TWO HUNDRED and nine economists have signed a public statement supporting Medicare for All, said the National Nurses United union on Tuesday. The letter called...

ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...

AMNESTY International is supporting a legal action to take the Israeli Ministry of Defence (MoD) to court to demand that it revokes the export...

ON Saturday, Wakefield was like a sea of miners’ banners, declaring: ‘United we stand, divided we fall,’ ‘An injury to one is an injury...