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We are one united people – in Gaza, the West Bank...

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First speaker at the rally was the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot, who said: ‘Israel has killed 11,000 innocent people and is...

Scotland’s A&Es ‘on the brink’ warns Royal College of Emergency Medicine...

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THE NHS in Scotland is ‘on the brink’ as A&E hospital waiting times are the worst since records of them began, the Royal College...

National Express ‘Extremely Vicious Towards It’s US Workers’

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‘NATIONAL Express needs to step up to the plate and take responsibility for the activities being perpetrated in its name in America,’ Teamsters’ General...

Egyptian Army Planning To Intervene In Gaza Against Palestinian Revolution

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AFTER overthrowing the Mursi presidency at home to stop a workers revolution, the Egyptian army is planning to undermine the Palestinian militant group Hamas,...

IndustriALL union supports investigation into PPE tenders in SA

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INDUSTRIALL Global union affiliates in South Africa are supporting the current probe by the country’s Special Investigating Unit into fraudulent activities in the awarding...

Putin Visits Palestine And Meets Abbas

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Palestine and meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas dominated the front page headlines in Friday’s issue of...

Hezbollah condemns USA for seeking to trigger Lebanese ‘social explosion’

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A TOP official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has slammed the United States for its seditious schemes in Lebanon, warning that Washington is...

SAFTU’s verdict on 100 days of Ramaphosa

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THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is not joining in the euphoria over President Ramaphosa’s completion of 100 days as President of...

Hands off our training budgets – say UCU

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The University and College Union (UCU) on Wednesday called on the government to urgently protect healthcare education funding after MPs warned that delays in...

Netanyahu insisted on permanent Israeli military presence in occupied West Bank...

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FORMER secretary of state John Kerry has revealed the Obama administration’s frustrations with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a new book slated for...

Wilko Imposes Draconian Cuts!

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GMB UNION members working for Wilko are furious over a threat that the company is to turn on them and impose draconian cuts. It...

Rajapakse government supporters risking ‘complicity in mass arbitary detentions’ – says...

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TAMIL NET reports that the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in its latest report has urged the International Community and the United Nations to...

Flu pandemic will be ‘more deadly’ – due to Health Act

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AN INDEPENDENT think tank has warned that when the next flu pandemic hits Britain, because the NHS has lost 10,000 staff, the results would...

Syrian army destroys terrorist hideouts in Idlib – as Russia accuses...

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SYRIAN military forces are continuing to target terrorist hideouts in northwestern Syria where the government has been restraining its offensives based on a de-escalation...

Fort Worth Teamsters Strike

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TEAMSTERS Local Union 767 Members at Allied Waste Services, Fort Worth, Texas have been on strike since December 18th 2006. They have taken action...

National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign launched

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OVER 2000 workers rallied in San Francisco for the kickoff of the ‘National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign’ on February 15. Chanting ‘Si...

No Room For The Chagos Islanders At ‘Let Them Return’ Launch

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THE UP-to 2,000 Chagossians who live in Crawley have been shocked to hear that their representatives have been barred from attending the launch of...

Mass picket of Ealing Hospital

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‘EALING Hospital is the beating heart of the whole community, leave our hospital alone!’ local resident Prempal Dhaliwal said on the mass picket of...

Israel Accused Of ‘Harvesting’ Palestinians’ Organs

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Israel knew about ‘80,000 missiles’ in the possession of Hezbollah,’ President Shimon Peres said in comments published Saturday. In an interview with the Kuwaiti al-Rai...

NATO offensive turns thousands of families into refugees

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THE number of those displaced by the US/NATO military surge against the Taleban resistance in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, has more...

‘UNACCEPTABLE CONDITIONS!’ – as Chicago mayor closes 47 Black & Latino...

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TWELVE thousand Chicago children are walking new, often longer, routes to school this autumn – after Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed 47 state schools, almost...

EQUITY MUST FIGHT ARTS CUTS! – call a national march urges...

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AXED children’s theatre workers expressed outrage at Culture Secretary Andrew Burnham’s proclamation last Wednesday that ‘every schoolchild will get five hours of culture a...

FJ defends threatened Sri Lankan journalist – while Tamil masses starve...

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INTERNATIONAL Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a media release Wednesday said that it is alarmed by threats made against the safety of the family...

Health Bill must be stopped! – say thousands of demonstrators on...

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THE Tory-led coalition’s hated Health Bill to privatise the NHS is due to go to the House of Lords today, following a mass demonstration...

China accuses NATO of provoking ‘new Cold War’

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CHINA’S embassy in Brussels has warned NATO against dragging the planet towards a new Cold War through its ‘outdated security’ strategies. A spokesperson for the...

US must reconstruct what it has destroyed says Taliban

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THE TALIBAN say the United States could now step forward and participate in the reconstruction of Afghanistan given how it contributed to the destruction...

‘WE ARE IN A STATE OF WAR – repelling a fierce...

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday gave a defiant address to the nation, broadcast on national TV. Delivering a speech on the latest developments in...

Masses of vital council services to close!

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LOCAL services including leisure facilities, children’s centres and pothole repairs will be slashed due to funding cuts over the next two years, a survey...

HAYES AND WARD OUT! REJECT THIS SELL-OUT TO ROYAL MAIL! Letter...

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Postal Workers are to be balloted soon on the new deal negotiated by their Union leaders. This Agreement called Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond, has...

Israel attacks ICC & Palestinian rights organisations – as it censors...

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THE RAMALLAH-based Al-Haq human rights organisation has condemned as ‘misleading and inflammatory’ a recent publication by the Israeli Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs of...

Israeli troops are using Palestinian children as their human shields!

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Film shot by Research Journalism Initiative and placed on YouTube, shows Israeli soldiers using Palestinian children as human shields in Balata refugee camp ...

100,000 march to Parliament to defend NHS

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UP TO 100,000 health workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through London to defend the NHS on Saturday. There were balloons from Unison, Unite,...

Gaza’s children paralysed in Netanyahu’s genocide!

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The Gaza Strip is witnessing a worrying increase in cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), a rare neurological disorder that strikes children suddenly, causing...

Support Building Up For Indian Farmers Struggle

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SUPPORT has been pouring in for protesting farmers, who are camping on the Indian national capital’s borders demanding repeal of three new farm laws. On...

40 years since the UK drove the Chagos Islanders from their...

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BY DAVID VINE AURELIE Lisette Talate died last year at 70 of what members of her community call, in their creole language, sagren — profound...

Solano County workers win a two year contract after two strikes

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ON WEDNESDAY evening, Solano County, California workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021 overwhelmingly ratified a two-year contract with the...

‘PERPETRATORS OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES!’ – Human Rights Watch condemns Sri Lankan...

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The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and ‘disappearances’ that are a national crisis, New York based rights group Human Rights Watch...

‘Israel must eliminate its stockpile of nuclear weapons’ – says...

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A SENIOR Iranian diplomat has condemned the lack of progress in the implementation of the UN 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) resolution and the...

‘SIGNS OF TORTURE’ ON MAHDI ARMY COMMANDER – after arrest by...

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THE Basra office of militant Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has said a former Basra commander of the Al-Sadr movement’s Mahdi Army showed ‘signs of...

Governments from 2002 knew Grenfell cladding was violently combustible

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GOVERNMENT officials knew of the dangers of flammable cladding 15 years before the horrific Grenfell Tower fire which on June 14, 2017 claimed the...

Union leaders denounce Osborne’s spending review – but call no action...

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s vicious £11.5 billion Spending Review attacks on pay, public services and benefits, were immediately condemned by trade union and TUC leaders representing...

Bangladeshi parents are defending the BPA Community Disability Service

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‘We were very angry today, we are not giving up, we are determined to save our service and we are very shortly going to...

37 years since First Palestinian Intifada

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SUNDAY December 8th, marked the 37th anniversary of the First Intifada, the great Palestinian uprising that redefined resistance against the Israeli occupation and apartheid. Intifada is an Arabic...

‘The deliberate inaction of countries … aims at legitimising Tel...

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THE IRANIAN Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights says ambiguous positions adopted by international bodies, including the United Nations, over the ongoing massacre of...

One Day in Gaza award-winning documentary

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One Day in Gaza Shown on BBC 2 Monday 13 May 2019 Now available on BBC iPlayer MADE by award-winning documentary maker Olly Lambert, One Day in...