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Britain must stop arming Israel and recognise Palestine!

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‘BRITAIN must impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and recognise the state of Palestine. We demand Israel gets out of Rafah, Gaza,...

Ayatollah Khamenei praises Syria’s Assad for Syrian nation’s ‘resistance to imperialism!’

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Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, received Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday. Assad travelled to Tehran to offer condolences over the loss...

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...

Israel Reoccupies Gaza ‘Buffer Zone’

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IGNORING international outcries for restraint and diplomacy, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) overnight Thursday reoccupied a belt of the northern Gaza Strip, called it...

Women and Tamil youth demand an international investigation into the thousands...

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WOMEN activists and Tamil youth activists of the missing persons’ relatives campaign concluded a three-day fast and a four-day walk from Mu’l’livaaykkaal in Vanni...

‘MOVE AWAY FROM THE SOUL- DESTROYING ASSESSMENT REGIME’ – ATL message...

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EDUCATION secretaries need to ‘up their game’, listen to the professionals or step away to avoid damaging children’s life chances, says Association of Teacher...

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...

‘US is weaponising coronavirus against Iran and Venezuela’ says Oliver Stone

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‘IT IS accurate to say that the US is weaponising the coronavirus against these countries (Iran and Venezuela),’ film director Oliver Stone has said. ‘As...

US billionaire brothers are financing anti-union drive

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BILLIONAIRE brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are dumping hundreds of millions of...

Celebrating 58th Africa Day – Africa must unite to fight Covid...

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COSATU Africa Day Statement May 25, 2021 THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) joins millions of Africans on the continent, and in the...

Bush attacks the sick, the elderly and the workers

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‘PRESIDENT George W Bush wants to make sure his tax cuts for the wealthy become permanent, at a cost of about $3...

Mass Demonstrations Continue In Haiti

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MASS demonstrations continued in Haiti on Xmas eve demanding the resignation of President Michel Martelly and that elections be held. The Haitian parliament’s mandate runs...

US and Colombian unions fight Free Trade deal

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ON Sunday, April 15, the Office of the United States Trade Representative announced that on May 15, 2012, American competitiveness would increase when the...

India’s BJP government targeting pro-Palestine protesters

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A RELIABLE gauge of the panic gripping the capitalist class over the fast developing world crisis of capitalism and its crushing effect on the...

NURSING STUDENTS STRUGGLING WITH DEBT – finds RCN survey

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Today’s nursing students face many challenges – which may be financial, personal or relate to their studies, says a just-published Royal College of Nursing...

GADAFFI REMAINS DEFIANT, STRONG AND WILLING TO NEGOTIATE’ says chess master

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KIRSAN Ilyumzhinov, president of the World Chess Federation, has spoken about his recent meeting with Colonel Gadaffi in Tripoli. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, head of the...

In Iraq ‘so many sacrifices were ultimately made in the service...

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FORMER acting Pentagon chief Christopher C. Miller said the United States must hold senior American military leadership accountable for the failed wars in Iraq...

GAZA FREEDOM MARCH DECEMBER 31st – thousands gather to break the...

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The Gaza Freedom March that will take place in Gaza on December 31st is an historic initiative to break the siege that has imprisoned...

NOMZAMO WINIFRED MADIKIZELA-MANDELA A TIRELESS FIGHTER AGAINST APARTHEID says SAFTU

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‘The South African Federation of Trade Unions lowers its flags in honour of Comrade Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, one of the great revolutionary icons of 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...

Nigerian hospital workers indefinite strike – in Zimbabwe 16,000 striking nurses...

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NIGERIA’S nurses, pharmacists, and other medical professionals on Sunday declared an indefinite strike at federal hospitals under the auspices of the Joint Health...

‘Re-colonisation of Africa will never be allowed’ – says ANC Youth...

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NATO has blatantly overstepped its UN resolution mandate in Libya by engaging in offensive military support to the Libyan rebels beyond the UN mandate,...

Usa Is Handing Millions To The White Helmets!

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THE US is handing millions of dollars of cash over to the White Helmets organisation, the Syrian and Russian coordination committees said on Tuesday. The...

US-UK attack on Syrian army is support for ISIS terrorists

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‘THE cowardly US aggression against positions of the Syrian Arab army in the surroundings of Deir Ezzor Airport is evidence of the support provided...

‘The Martyrdom of Palestinian Women and Children Will End the Zionist...

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IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Israeli regime’s killing of innocent Palestinian women and children will spell its end. Raeisi made the remarks at the...

‘A general strike to defeat this Bill is our policy!’ says...

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‘We support a general strike to defeat this bill, we supported it in the TUC and it’s our policy,’ RMT leader Mick Lynch told...

TURIN STUDENTS DEMAND FREE PALESTINE! – French CGT workers national mobilisation...

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STUDENTS protested against the genocide in Gaza clashed with Italian police last Friday. The students reject ‘the war economy’ imposed by Giorgia Meloni’s ‘reactionary and...

CHEMICAL WEAPONS MASSACRE ‘THE LAST STRAW’ –Tamils blockade Westminster Bridge

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‘Thousands of our people have been murdered with chemical weapons just an hour ago’, Tamil protester Shiva said on Monday evening. He was speaking from...

Stability in the Middle East depends on Egypt, says Putin

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MOSCOW – Russia is carefully following events in Egypt, Russian Defence Minister Army Gen Sergey Shoygu said, opening a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart,...

Tory welfare cuts driving up poverty

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A NEW study shows poverty in the UK is on the rise due to welfare cuts introduced by the coalition government during the last...

‘Deal of the Century’ does not meet the minimum level of...

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‘THE PALESTINIAN leadership is committed to achieving a political solution of the Middle East conflict, based on the creation of an independent Palestinian state...

General Strike call by protesters outside Parliament

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‘Ceasefire Now!’ demanded 5,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Parliament on Wednesday night as MPs were voting on amendments to the King’s Speech over Israel’s genocide...

DEATHS IN POLICE CUSTODY MUST STOP! – says Smiley Culture march

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‘Today is a momentous day. It is time to let the people know we are not going to accept this,’ Merlin Emmanuel told a...

SA trade unions condemn the sacking of 700 workers by Mercedes...

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) joined the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) on Friday to condemn Mercedes-Benz South Africa’s...

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...

CHINESE STALINISTS PROP UP RAJAPAKSE – as India and US compete...

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TAMILNET reports that the Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang last Saturday morning called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse at the Presidential residence House....

European strike wave against austerity

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WORKERS throughout Europe are taking strike actions against austerity measures in defence of their jobs, pay, pensions and public services. Following last month’s rail,...

Netanyahu ends peace talks – Demands an end to Fatah-Hamas unity

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ISRAEL has called on Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to rip up the unity deal struck between the PLO and Hamas. Israel earlier suspended peace talks...

‘We will win!’ says Families and Friends Campaign on march in...

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‘WE believe that we will win! We believe that we will win!’ chanted one thousand marchers on the United Families and Friends March from...

‘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...

Social housing projects cancelled after costs to make buildings fire safe...

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MORE than one in ten ‘affordable’ new homes planned by housing associations can no longer be built due to the costs of making buildings...

Palestinian Intifada erupts!

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A PALESTINIAN was fatally shot on Monday by Israeli forces’ fire, after he carried out a shooting attack against Israelis in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood...

‘GO HOME . . . you will be destroyed!’ – Gadaffi...

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THE Libyan leader on July 1 addressed many tens of thousands of people in Tripoli’s main square and in the sidestreets around it....

ANC leaders influenced by ‘liars and rogues’

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THE ANC leadership is influenced by ‘liars and rogues,’ anti-apartheid activist and retired Constitutional Court judge Zak Yacoob said. Reflecting on his judicial work which...

Turkey prepares attack on Kurds in Syria – Palestinians step up...

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NINE trucks loaded with armoured vehicles and one bus carrying military personnel have been sent to the border district of Akcakale, in the southeastern...