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‘West will pay a heavy price for supporting Al-Qaeda’ – says...

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday that the West will pay a heavy price for its support of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Assad, whose regime has...

‘I WANT NO ONE TO SLEEP AT NIGHT’ – Olmert tells...

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USING the release of the Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit as pretext, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed his occupation forces to reoccupy the...

Israel Launches A Wave Of Strikes On Gaza

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The death toll in an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip on Thursday rose to nine after Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at a...

Hospital funding crisis! – Restore NHS! – End privatisation

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THERE is a huge funding crisis in the National Health Service (NHS). All over the country hospitals are being instructed to close wards and theatres...

US Employee Free Choice Act Becomes Law

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US trade union leaders have hailed the adoption of the Employee Free Choice Act by the US House of Representatives yesterday as a...

‘UK government deeply complicit in some of the most devastating...

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London-based charity War on Want has said the British government is ‘complicit in the violence’ perpetrated against Palestinians as it continues to provide arms...

Hamas ‘absolutely rejects’ Trump’s ‘Deal of Century’

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HEAD of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has written to all presidents, kings, and emirs of Arab and Islamic countries; Secretary-General of the Arab...

Western Powers Warn Assad Not To Stand!

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ELEVEN Western and Middle Eastern powers on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against holding elections, saying that the vote would have no credibility...

LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE’ TODAY – 1. European capitalism gripped by...

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A REVOLUTIONARY situation exists in Europe today as a result of the world capitalist crisis. Social Democratic/Labour and Stalinist reformists, and revisionists, may scoff at...

FRANCE HAS RISEN – Part three

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BEFORE News Line arrived in Paris, there had been reports of French riot police charging at thousands of youth occupying the railway station in...

54 student halls of residence wrapped in same cladding as Grenfell...

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AS A FRESH year of students start at their new universities, it has come to light that fifty-four student halls of residence tower blocks...

‘The US is blackmailing Palestinians to compromise on their rights’ says...

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PALESTINE Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has accused the United States administration of pressuring and blackmailing the Palestinians to compromise on their national rights. Speaking at...

ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES ‘JEWISH STATE’ OATH – a racist attack on...

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The Israeli cabinet on Sunday approved a racist bill which would compel all new citizens to swear allegiance to Israel as ‘a Jewish and...

US-led coalition forces killing hundreds of civilians in air attacks...

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US-led Coalition forces carrying out air strikes in Syria must conduct thorough investigations into reports of civilian casualties from its operations and disclose their...

Two Years Since Israel’s Invasion Of Gaza!

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SOME 900 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to require medical attention as a result of permanent disabilities they sustained during Israel’s devastating 51-day...

The truth about sexual abuse in a British detention centre

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By: Clare Sambrook First published in Our Kingdom WHAT is the government really doing to protect immigration detainees from their guards? In Parliament on Tuesday 15...

OPEN THE RAFA CROSSING – Palestinians’ patience is wearing thin, says...

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With Israel’s two-week military offensive in Gaza showing no signs of abating, patience is running thin among those waiting to get into the Strip...

‘THE CHIEF SUSPECT HAS BECOME THE CHIEF INVESTIGATOR’ – MP Tom...

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LABOUR MP TOM WATSON made an intervention of some interest in the emergency debate on the News International phone hacking scandal in the House...

Police killings of unarmed black Americans impact on community!

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Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on the mental health of black American adults in the general population, according to a...

Australian Unions Fight For Workers’ Rights

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The UNI Communicators Forum, attended by union communicators from across the globe, has received a report on Australia’s unions’ battle for the rights of...

CONTROL REGIONALISATION IS ‘BLEEDING THE FIRE SERVICE DRY’ – scrap Whitehall...

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Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack says the deaths of four firefighters in Warwickshire has echoed in fire services around the world. The...

Kenya’s Nurses Strike Over Their Right To Collective Bargaining

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KENYA’S Nurses have vowed to continue with their strike until the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) they signed with the Council of Governors is honoured. The...

Judge denies US attempt to extradite Assange

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Jubilant scenes greeted Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges at London’s Old...

‘SYRIA WILL NEVER BECOME A WESTERN PUPPET STATE’ – says...

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad on Sunday stressed that Syria is a sovereign country that will fight terrorism and will freely build relationships with countries in...

TRADE UNIONS CONDEMN TORY COALITION’S £6.25bn CUTS –but have no plan...

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THE INITIAL £6.25 billion spending cuts announced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government on Monday, that will lead to thousands of sackings and closures...

Tamils Braced For A Major Onslaught On Vanni

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TamilNet said that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) during the weekend has reportedly been engaged in heavy deployment of its troops poised for a...

Germany gives 80% fuel subsidy to businesses – extensive ‘preventive arrests’...

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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...

Low paid Apex care workers ‘gagged & searched’

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UNISON on Monday condemned a range of draconian measures imposed on low-paid homecare workers by Apex Care, which include a gagging order, refusals to...

REBUILD WORKERS’ POWER – UFCW tells ‘Change to Win’ conference

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THE following is a statement by Joe Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, made at the ‘Change To...

‘MASSIVE UNREST LOOMING’ says Unison

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‘TIME to care for those who care’ or face the prospect of massive industrial unrest is the message behind UNISON’s evidence to the NHS...

Hamas Rejects Jordan Provocation

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Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas denied on Wednesday accusations by Jordan that the movement had stored weapons on Jordanian territory. Hamas added that it regretted Amman’s...

Settlement Building Must Stop Immediately! All The Settlers Must Be Evacuated!

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ARAB and Islamic countries in the United Nations are drafting a resolution to ask the UN Human Rights Council to adopt the conclusions of...

Junior doctors are determined to win their battle

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OVER 30 striking junior doctors picketing UCH Hospital in London’s Euston Road yesterday were joined by local residents and patients, to the continual sound...

Leiberman Threatens ‘Wide-Scale & Painful’ Military Operation Against Gaza

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THE Israeli Defence Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, threatened to initiate a ‘wide-scale and painful military operation’ against the besieged Gaza Strip due to the continued...

RANA PLAZA DONORS TRUST FUND HITS $30m TARGET

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‘WE WON!!! Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is delighted to announce a major campaign victory with the confirmation that the Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund...

US blocked LTTE funding – leaked documents reveal ‘contact groups’ set...

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Two international ‘contact groups’, one each to check Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fund-raising and arms purchases, were initiated by the US in...

Russia will expose Western sabotage of Nord Stream 2 – warns...

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RUSSIA will determine the future prospects of interaction with Western countries on its own terms, when and if their leadership sobers up, Foreign Minister...

Al-Aqsa Stormed! Bahrain Delegation Joins Settlers

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A BAHRAINI delegation has joined Israeli settlers in the storming of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem! This comes after Bahrain, along with UAE, Sudan and...

Food Price Hikes Grip West Africa

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Benin is one of several West African states gripped by soaring food prices. In a scene on a popular Benin TV series, a farmer named...

TUC silent over the massive crisis of the EU

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THE TUC’s head of European Union and International Relations Department, Owen Tudor, has recently given a lengthy interview to the internet EurActiv which specialises...

Banking Panic In The Ukraine

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THE Abkhazian and South Ossetian parliaments have been unanimously granted permanent observer status at the 34th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia...

‘From The River To The Sea – Palestine Will Be Free!’

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‘FROM the river to the sea Palestine will be free,’ 1,000 people shouted outside Downing Street in Whitehall in central London on Wednesday evening. It...

Hamas supports call for general elections!

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THE ISLAMIC resistance movement Hamas has praised recent calls by the Palestinian Democratic Union (PDU) – a political party active in the Palestine Liberation...

PA continues security cooperation freeze with Israel

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THE PALESTINIAN Authority has decided to uphold a freeze on security coordination with Israel that was imposed during protests against now-removed Israeli security measures...

THOSE WHO KILLED MUGHNIYEH WILL BE PUNISHED’ – declares Hezbollah leader...

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Thousands of Hezbollah supporters made their way to southern Beirut on Monday in order to take part in a rally in the honour of...