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Barristers demonstrate on 2nd day of indefinite strike

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HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester on Tuesday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over...

Two Million Strike To Defend Pensions!

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MORE than 4,000 striking council workers, NHS staff, teachers, lecturers, civil servants and students marched through Norwich on Wednesday, during the national strike in...

Israeli police force worshippers from the Al-Aqsa Mosque

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ISRAELI police yesterday morning and since Tuesday night restricted entry of Muslim worshippers into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, a site Muslims seek...

‘We call for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction’...

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THE Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinezhad has said that Iran wishes to have talks with the West on a whole range of issues. He was speaking...

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...

SRI LANKA–10-DAY STATE OF EMERGENCY – as Colombo Port workers take...

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COLOMBO Port workers engaged in the clearance of containers and cleaners resorted to trade union action on Monday following repeated requests to allow inspections...

Medical Students Are Deep In Debt!

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Medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating over £13,000 more in debt than their better off peers, says a new report from the BMA. The...

‘BREAK THE INTERNATIONAL SILENCE ON TAMIL GENOCIDE’ – urges British Tamils...

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THE Colombo High Court allowed on Wednesday an application by the accused Sarath Fonseka, retired Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), to reconsider...

‘OCCUPY TO KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN!’ – Bill Rogers tells Council...

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OVER 100 workers and youth voted unanimously on Saturday for occupying hospitals against closure and to stop the smashing up and privatisation of the...

‘Designed to place security services above law!’ – Reprieve condemns Justice...

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The Justice and Security Bill published on Tuesday ‘is designed to place our Security Services above the law and keep torture and rendition out...

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...

Palestinian Children Being Held In Solitary Confinement

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BY ADRI NIEUWHOF ISRAEL has held six Palestinian boys from Nablus in solitary confinement in al-Jalame detention centre near Haifa, writes Defence for Children...

Los Angeles farm workers in epic pay battle

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HUNDREDS of labour activists, farmworkers and their allies marched on Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday demanding that a Fresno fruit grower recognise...

150,000 Workers March Through Athens

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Trade unionists estimated that some 150,000 workers and youth participated in the two separate marches in Athens on Thursday. The GSEE (Greek TUC) stated that...

‘The UK’s supply of long-range missiles to Kiev will demand an...

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THE UNITED Kingdom’s supply of long-range missiles to the Kiev regime will demand an appropriate response from the Russian military, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov...

Doctors & pharmacists in Egypt arrested for speaking out over coronavirus!

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IN EGYPT, six doctors and two pharmacists have been arrested, and medics transferred to quarantine hospitals for speaking out, said Amnesty International on Thursday. A...

400 Houston Janitors Continuing Their Strike Action!

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400 Houston janitors are continuing their strike against contractors for whom they clean the offices of some the wealthiest corporations in the...

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...

‘RESURGENCE AFOOT IN THE AMERICAN LABOUR MOVEMENT’ says SEIU leader

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‘There’s a resurgence afoot in the American labour movement,’ said Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in an article titled Celebrating Workers...

EU – ‘a rich man’s club’ – Aslef

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TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF’s general secretary, Mick Whelan, has written an article reasserting the union’s commitment to withdrawing from the European Union. It was written...

NUMSA proved right to predict ‘fierce battles’ between workers and...

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AS SOON as the 2016 bargaining negotiation began, it became clear that the National Union of Metalworkers SA (NUMSA) had been proved right to...

This BMA ARM must decide on action to defend NHS! –...

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THE health services in England and Wales and Northern Ireland are in massive crisis. In February, The Francis report on Mid Staffordshire hospital (MSH)...

Nasrallah celebrates Israel’s defeat in 2006!

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AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...

Clinton Accuses Bashir Of Undermining South Sudan!

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AFTER having pushed to separate oil rich South Sudan from the North, the US is now preparing for military action against the north, accusing...

NUMSA BATTLES FOR PLASTIC WORKERS – while Marikana victims demand compensation

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STRIKING members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) held a mass demonstration on Tuesday to hand...

Gaza’s children slaughtered – sometimes by missiles, sometimes by hunger, always...

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ON WORLD Day Against Child Labour, 12 June: Gaza’s crushed childhood turns into a struggle for survival, Hamas said yesterday. In Gaza, footballs, pencils, and...

The Lfb Is Failing To Meet Response Targets After 10 Fire...

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The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is failing to meet response time targets to more than half of all emergencies in the areas where ten...

Any agreement with Russia will be put to referendum says Zelensky

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UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky says any agreement that would be yielded from the peace talks with Russia that are aimed to end the conflict...

‘Abbas’ Government Constitutes A Crime Against The Palestinian Political Order’

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YAHYA Musa, a deputy from the Hamas movement, has said that the decree issued by President Abbas that stipulates the suspension of articles...

DRIVE THE PRIVATEERS OUT OF THE NHS! – demands demonstration of...

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LOCAL residents, trade unions and doctors have joined together to fight the privatisation of the National Health Service in Tower Hamlets. Two hundred people staged...

Palestinian people have the right to resistance says Fatah at 7th...

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THE concluding statement of Fatah’s seventh congress on Sunday night declared the Palestinian people have the right to popular resistance to end the Israeli...

SA police attempted murder of a 14-year-old!

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A CASE of attempted murder has been opened over the shooting of a 14-year-old boy on a demonstration in Hangberg, Hout Bay, Cape Town...

‘Carillion Has No Right To Bully And Harass US’

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‘We are comrades! We have shown we are not just GMB but all of Swindon together!’ GMB shop steward Paulo Fernandes told a cheering...

Ex-President Trump launches attack on Netanyahu

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FORMER US president Donald Trump has launched another verbal attack on his one-time close ally Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the ex-Israeli prime minister did not...

Peretz Continues With ‘Extrajudicial Killings’

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AHEAD of officially assuming his post on Sunday, Israel’s incoming ‘Defence’ Minister Amir Peretz was anxious to carry on the mission of his predecessor,...

Palestinian leadership in crisis! Arafat’s murder must be investigated!

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AL JAZEERA TV has been closed down in the West Bank by the Palestine Authority (PA). The action took place after PLO leader Farouk Kaddoumi...

Firefighters are angry about Grenfell too! – writes Matt Wrack FBU...

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WRITING in the Independent Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union posed the question: ‘Firefighters are angry about Grenfell Tower too –...

WE WILL FIGHT UNTIL WE RETURN TO OUR ISLANDS – say...

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OVER 150 Chagos Islanders and their supporters – including a delegation of Chagossians who had flown from Mauritius – were at the House of...

Teamsters Union Calls For Push For Union Organised Jobs!

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FOLLOWING her arrest last Wednesday at the McDonald’s shareholders’ meeting outside of Chicago, Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU),...

Support staff are ‘overworked and underpaid and taken for granted!’

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OVER 1,750 support staff working in UK state-funded schools responded to a questionnaire stating that they are ‘overworked, underpaid and taken for granted’, the...

Narrow New Democracy Win – A Minor Breathing Space For Bosses!

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IN CONDITIONS of polarisation, the conservative New Democracy party won Sunday’s crucial and vastly internationally significant Greek general election gaining 29.6 per cent of...

Student Nurses, Unpaid And Uninsured, Are Treating Coronavirus Patients – And...

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STUDENT nurses who are currently doing their placements are facing serious risks. Their lives are at risk as many are treating coronavirus patients and...

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

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‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ shouted Palestinians and their supporters demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy, west London, on Saturday...

French workers battle to save hospitals and pensions

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FRENCH workers are fighting attacks on their pensions and health service. French trade union federation CGT has raised the alarm over hospital closures. On Saturday March...

Russian military will stop Ukrainian shelling of Russian cities

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THE RUSSIAN military will do everything possible to reduce and then eliminate the threat of Ukrainian shelling attacks on Russian cities, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry...