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‘No education cuts’ chant 11,000 striking Teachers! – as NUT takes...

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‘NO education cuts!’ chanted over 11,000 striking teachers, parents and supporters from London and the south east as they marched through central London to...

Bush Seeking To Legalise Unlawful Military Commissions

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THE Bush administration is pushing legislation through Congress to legalise its unlawful military commissions and indefinite detention without charge or trial, says Amnesty...

IRAQ WAR: GOLDSMITH WARNED BLAIR HE EXPECTED ‘the government to be...

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The Iraq Inquiry on Wednesday released details of former Attorney General Goldsmith’s legal advice, given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq,...

Gaza starves as Israel turns blockade into a weapon of mass...

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AT DAWN on 26th April, a single Israeli airstrike obliterated an entire Palestinian family in central Gaza’s al-Sabra neighbourhood. The al-Khour family, spanning three generations,...

HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Three

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TOP British medical journal The Lancet has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...

SCRAP ABCC ‘STAR CHAMBER’ NOW OR WE’LL BREAK WITH YOU –Australian...

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union leaders in Australia have threatened to withdraw support for the country’s Labour government, if it does not give in to their demands to...

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...

Immigrant workers face ‘an epidemic of workplace injury and death’ says...

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‘TODAY immigrant workers in this country face an epidemic of workplace injury and death,’ stated the Afl-Cio trade union federation yesterday. In fact, immigrant...

Birmingham bin workers hold strong mega picket!

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THE 400 STRIKING Birmingham bin workers held a ‘mega-picket’ on Friday 25th July, with trade unionists travelling from all over the country and arriving...

Napoleon Gomez returns!

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INDUSTRIALL global union marked a historic moment as Mexican union leader, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, returned to his country after 12 years in exile to...

AMERICAN FARM WORKERS TO LAUNCH – ‘March for Rights, Respect and...

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AMERICAN farmworkers are to launch a two-week, 200-mile ‘March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food’ calling on Publix supermarket to accept historic human rights...

Miners dig in at Chile’s Collahuasi strike

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THE copper-mining strike by 1,551 members of Sindicato de los Trabajadores de Collahuasi in Chile enters its second week today, with miners emboldened by...

South Africa National Day of Action

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TENS of thousands took part in a National Day of Action organised by South Africa’s National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) against...

Greek government’s aim – to gag TV workers

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ON June 11, the Greek coalition government took the unprecedented decision to close the national TV station in Athens and sack the workforce of...

ONLY ONE WAY OUT – sanctions-busting boat gets doctor out of...

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OVer the past year, Muhanad Omar al-Helo has twice petitioned the Israeli government to leave Gaza in order to study in Europe for a...

Gadaffi Rejects ‘Med Union’ As ‘Crusaders Containment’

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LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...

300,000 March To Get Rid Of Tories!

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WORKERS, trade unionists and youth on the more than 300,000-strong march from the BBC Broadcasting House to Parliament Square on Saturday demanded that...

CUPE campaigns for ‘outside’ municipal workers

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THE City of Moncton management hides a dirty secret. It has been exploiting employment contract language loopholes to penny- pinch workers. Over 20% of all...

Release All Political Prisoners In Turkey

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TWENTY-FOUR rights groups have called on Turkey to release all those arbitrarily detained and imprisoned there simply for demanding basic human rights – and...

GRENFELL – ‘Change the law so that those who are considered...

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As the phase 2 of the public inquiry in the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the life of 72 residents draws to a close...

Revolution – New Art For A New World

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REVOLUTION - NEW ART FOR A NEW WORLD A Margy Kinmonth Film Director: Margy Kinmonth Created with the support of Alisher Usmanov, Founder of the Art, Science...

Harassment, Intimidation And Violence Produces A Record Low Sri Lankan...

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TAMILNET reports that voting at Thursday’s Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary Elections ended on schedule at 4.00 pm local time as independent monitors placed the voter...

Iran exposed myth of Israeli invincibility in April 13 operation!

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A senior Iranian military commander has disclosed new details about Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israeli-occupied territories last month, and that 240 fighter jets from...

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...

Lancaster Students Fight Gag And Victimisation

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Six members of Lancaster University are to be granted a rehearing of their trespass conviction on the 13th March 2006. A Support the George Fox...

‘Tel Aviv is fully aware of the wide range of Israeli...

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the Zionist regime against testing Tehran’s resolve, saying Tel Aviv is fully aware of the wide-range of...

‘The only way forward is a general strike’ – insists Newcastle...

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MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...

A new aid flotilla to sail to Gaza – four years...

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FOUR years after the Israeli military assault on the Mavi Marmara, Turkish relatives of victims express their willingness to join the new aid flotilla...

95% of RCM members in north of Ireland vote for strike...

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ALMOST 95% of RCM members in Northern Ireland who responded to a consultation about industrial action, including strike action, over pay conditions have voted...

Stop Ealing Maternity closure–Occupy!

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‘OCCUPY Ealing Maternity Department to stop its closure on 1st July,’ Ealing Hospital nurse, Claire, a Unison member, told News Line on Monday. A demonstration...

‘The system in place is responsible for the deaths of our...

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OVER 300 United Families and Friends campaigners marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street to demand justice for their loved ones, who have died...

‘Let us fight together to transform workers’ lives across the world!’...

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COSATU President Zingiswa Losi addressed Day One of the South African trade union movement Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday: ‘Comrades! Brothers and Sisters!...

FIFTY-SEVEN TURKISH SOLDIERS KILLED IN IDLIB –‘Erdogan using terrorism to achieve...

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THE TURKISH military has announced the death of at least one of its soldiers and the injury of nine others in an attack in...

Netanyahu to visit Putin – after Russia delivers S-300 missiles...

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he will soon meet President Vladimir Putin amid tensions over the downing of a Russian aircraft during Israel’s...

Indian agricultural workers demonstrate against anti-farmer laws

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Agricultural workers across India will protest today and tomorrow, January 7 and 8, in solidarity with the ongoing struggle of farmers against the contentious...

Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian affirms his unwavering support for Hezbollah

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IRAN’S President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian has responded to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, affirming the Islamic Republic’s unwavering support to the resistance. In a letter...

‘We will defend our country and bring back President Maduro’

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LATIN Americans who could not get on to the speakers’ platform at the Venezuela Solidarity rally outside Downing Street on Saturday, addressed the crowd...

NUMSA preparing to extend its action!

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THE 220,000 Numsa (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa) members in the metals and engineering industry have now completed more than one week...

‘In-house is best’ – striking Suffolk and Essex health workers determined...

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CLEANERS, caterers, porters, housekeepers and other East Suffolk and North Essex support staff began a new 48-hour strike yesterday, demanding to stay in the...

Deaths and injuries continue in Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards

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WORKERS’ lives continue to be in danger due to the unsafe working conditions at Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards. Two accidents occurred on 12 January in two...

Save Elliot playing fields!

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THE GMB trade union is staging a protest demonstration outside Wandsworth Town Hall from from 6.45pm on Wednesday 4th July 2012, where the borough’s...

AUSTRALIAN UNIONS DEMAND A PLAN FOR JOBS! • Plus an end...

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THE federal government must deliver a plan for jobs to avoid Australia developing long-term structural unemployment, warns the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Thursday’s...

TRUMP SLASHES MORE THAN $200 MILLION IN AID FROM THE OCCUPIED...

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THE TRUMP administration has decided to cut more than $200 million in bilateral assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip,...

‘ALL OPTIONS NOW OPEN TO HAMAS’ – following Gaza beach massacre

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HAMAS has issued a statement saying that the Gaza beach massacre, when an Israeli gunboat shelled a Gaza beach murdering 15 mainly women...

Health workers throughout Europe are defending jobs and services!

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HEALTH workers across Europe are fighting to defend their jobs, conditions of employment and the services they provide to millions of workers and their...