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Oregon Legacy nurses strike enters its 3rd week – Starbucks ‘Red...

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A strike at Legacy hospitals and clinics in the US state of Oregon that began on Tuesday 2nd December goes into its third week...

‘Compel Israel to comply with ceasefire agreement’ – Hamas call

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PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has called on international mediators to take effective and concrete steps to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under...

5,000 striking public sector workers, pensioners and students rally in...

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SOME 5,000 local government workers, teachers, hospital workers, university staff, civil servants, along with pensioners and university students participated last Tuesday in a militant...

Gaza’s babies dying of cold!

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TWO-WEEK-OLD Mohamed Abul-Khair died from hypothermia in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as a result of prolonged exposure to low temperatures. Earlier, the director general...

Big protests in Latin America against the US military

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There were large protests in the Dominican Republic on Sunday after the Caribbean Island’s government agreed to the United States setting up ‘temporary military...

Gaza humanitarian catastrophe intensified by storm Byron

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The polar low-pressure system ‘Byron’ has intensified the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip after striking the area last Wednesday evening, bringing torrential...

Italy Holds A Nationwide General Strike

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ITALY held a nationwide general strike on Friday. The powerful action was called by the country’s largest trade union, the CGIL. Members of IUF affiliates Flai-CGIL...

Starbucks workers mass walk- out in 34 cities of the USA

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THE Starbucks workers’ union said on Thursday that hundreds of new union baristas are walking out of their jobs in 34 cities, joining the...

‘A blatant act of international piracy’ – US forces seize Venezuelan...

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THE US has ignited outrage after seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker in what Caracas compared to Israel’s pattern of unlawful military aggression and resource...

Compel Israel to fully implement ceasefire obligations!

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THE Hamas Movement said on Tuesday that Israel must be compelled to fully implement its obligations under phase one of the ceasefire agreement before...

Israel violates ceasefire for 60 consecutive days! – and claims ‘yellow...

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The Israeli occupation army continued, for the 60th consecutive day yesterday, to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, targeting residential buildings and...

Now it’s time to criminalise the genocide! – demands Covenant for...

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Participants in the ‘Covenant for Jerusalem’ conference held in Istanbul on Saturday and Sunday, announced the launch of a popular document titled ‘The Covenant...

Free the hunger strikers! – demands Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey

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OVER 200 people stood in a minute’s silence for those who died in Palestinian and UK jails at the beginning of an Irish solidarity...

California teachers strike as workers take action across USA

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Hundreds of teachers in the East Bay area of San Francisco, California went on strike last Thursday after talks collapsed over better pay and...

WHO’s fast-track medical plan ‘is not realistic’ for South Africa

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A new curriculum promising to ‘fast-track medical students into the workforce’, which has been launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for...

Israel kills 257th Journalist!

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A PALESTINIAN photojournalist was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli strike on central Khan Younis in southern Gaza, in yet another attack targeting media...

Iran slams Israel’s continued ‘acts of aggression’ in Syria

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IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman warns about the implications of the Israel’s rampant incursions into Syria and Tel Aviv’s territorial ambitions in the Arab country...

Overturn the ban on Palestine Action! Release the Filton 24!

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Over 250 people took action on Saturday 29 November against the government’s complicity in genocide and against the ban on Palestine Action in ten...

Israeli genocide continues unabated despite ceasefire – says Amnesty

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ISRAEL’S genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite the ceasefire, says rights group Amnesty International. More than a month after a ceasefire was...

Free the Filton 24! demands 100,000-strong London march

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The first speaker in Whitehall was Faris Amer of the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘This government thinks when they clamp down on...

US and EU prepare for direct armed conflict with Russia

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US REPRESENTATIVES have launched a campaign in the Philippines to recruit local citizens to fight on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces, Russian...

The collapse of living conditions in the Gaza Strip is accelerating

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TWO major humanitarian alerts issued on Tuesday and Wednesday underscored the accelerating collapse of living conditions in the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands...

‘No psychological or economic warfare will stop Venezuela moving forward’ ...

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Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan President, said on Tuesday that ‘No psychological warfare will stop Venezuela’. Maduro added: ‘We defeated them in the psychological war and...

Israel’s killings of resistance commanders accelerating its own demise, says Mohsen...

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MOHSEN Rezaei, a former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has warned that the Israeli regime’s targeted killings of resistance commanders...

Changes to contacting your GP have negatively affected patient care

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General Practitioners (GP) contract changes that dictate how patients are able to contact their practice have negatively impacted patient care and practice staff, an...

Firm tied to notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation preparing up to fifteen...

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UG Solutions, a major United States military subcontractor that helped provide security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is intensifying recruitment amid indications that several...

Irish support for the Filton 24 hunger strikers

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The first part of this article is a solidarity statement to the six Filton 24 hunger strikers from Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, who in April 1969...

82% of Palestinian children under the age of one affected by...

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Dr Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has revealed an unprecedented spread of anaemia among children in the Gaza...

40,000 Greek workers & youth march to commemorate Athens Polytechnic Uprising

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OVER 40,000 students, youth and workers took part in the Athens Polytechnic Uprising commemoration march in Athens last Monday evening from the city centre...

Rain a nightmare haunting thousands! – ‘We Will Rebuild It Again’...

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The rain was not just droplets of water, it became a nightmare haunting thousands of displaced people in the Gaza Strip. Families forced by war...

‘Palestine is the spearhead of the struggle against colonisation!’

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‘PALESTINE is the spearhead of the struggle against colonisation,’ orthopaedic surgeon and founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians Dr Swee Ang told over 100...

Free The Filton 24 Now!

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The ‘Filton 24’ are facing serious charges after engaging in a direct action protest at an Elbit Systems weapons manufacturing facility in Filton, near...

3,000 Starbucks baristas on indefinite strike

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More than 3,000 unionised Starbucks workers started an indefinite strike at over 100 stores in the United States on Thursday to protest at a...

Israel must immediately halt its discriminatory Death Penalty Bill! – urges...

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ISRAEL must immediately halt the legislation of the discriminatory death penalty bill, urges the rights group Amnesty International. Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy,...

Horrific testimonies of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails!

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There have been horrific testimonies of systematic rape of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. ‘I was screaming and wishing for death every moment. They left...

Systematic destruction of Khan Younis continues despite ceasefire!

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The Israeli military launched a ‘fire belt’ attack on the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, killing two Palestinians, including a child, in its latest...

US government tottering after 40 days of shutdown

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A deal aimed at ending the United States government shutdown was passed in the Senate on Sunday, paving the way for the record-breaking impasse...

Russia pledges ‘unconditional support’ to Venezuelan government – as US...

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On Friday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, reiterated Russia’s ‘unconditional support for the Venezuelan government’ amid the US military build-up in the Caribbean...

Pharmacists and air traffic controllers on strike for pay in Italy

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On Thursday, more than 60,000 private pharmacy workers in Italy stage a 24-hour national strike to demand higher wages and the renewal of the...

Hamas rules out presence of foreign forces in the Gaza Strip!

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THE Gaza Strip’s Hamas resistance movement has ruled out the deployment of any foreign force to the Gaza Strip that would effectively serve as...

Nigerian national health strike from 14th November

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NIGERIA’S Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, and the Assembly of Healthcare Professionals (AHP) will take part in a national health strike from midnight on...

Prisoners4Palestine hunger strikes begin!

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At breakfast time on Sunday, in Bronzefield prison, the first two of the Prisoners4Palestine hunger-strikers Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib refused food. This marks the...

Hundreds killed by Tanzanian police as youth lead uprising against the...

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Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators have been killed by the police and the army after days of protests over Tanzania’s disputed election, which incumbent President Samia...

End the brutal blockade of Cuba! – UN votes 65-7 in favour!

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On Friday, China urged the United States to ‘heed the call of the international community’, by lifting its blockade and sanctions against Cuba ‘immediately’,...

UAW to strike at Volkswagen, Chattanooga

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Volkswagen workers in the United Autoworkers union (UAW) in Chattanooga,Tennessee voted on Thursday to authorise a strike against the German car maker after over...