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Kerry Returns To Middle East, Desperate For A Peace Deal

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US SECRETARY of State John Kerry is to return to the Middle East later this week to resume efforts to draw Israel and the...

GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE IS OCCUPIED – ‘Education is being turned into a...

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GOLDSMITHS College students began an occupation of Deptford Old Town Hall, (now part of the university), on Wednesday afternoon – after the Tory-LibDem coalition...

New Zealand Unions Defend Health And Safety

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TODAY a widow and a mother sit together in the High Court in Wellington fighting for justice for the men that were killed at...

2% Pay Offer ‘A Kick In The Teeth For Teachers!’

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ANYTHING less than a 5% pay increase for teachers ‘is a kick in the teeth,’ Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School...

Huge increase in homelessness in England – Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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NEW independent research published by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Wednesday revealed the huge and increasing scale of homelessness in England. The Homelessness...

NUMSA condemns xenophobic attacks – calls for the unity of the...

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SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma visited a refugee camp in the port city of Durban on Saturday after a fresh outbreak of anti-foreigner violence. Several...

Egypt’s Transport Workers Sit-In At Cabinet Office!

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EGYPT'S Public Transport Authority workers on Saturday announced the beginning of an open-ended sit-in outside cabinet headquarters on Cairo’s Qasr al-Ainy Street, following a...

RCN demanding £1bn investment in student funding!

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‘LARGE-SCALE action’ is required, leading NHS trade unions are warning this week, as official NHS figures have exposed the fact that workers today face...

US nurses union ‘outraged’ at Trump’s invasion of Venezuela

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THE American National Nurses United union (NNU) has strongly condemned US President Trump and his administration’s illegal invasion of and regime change operation in...

Canadian trade unions fighting new anti-union legislation

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Last week, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government of Jason Kenney introduced Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act, which constitutes ‘an attack...

‘NATO directly participating in Ukraine’ says Lavrov

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of becoming directly involved in the Ukraine war by supplying the country with weapons and...

Over 180 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza!

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Marking Saturday’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United States officials have yet again failed to condemn the Israeli regime for...

Army Is Sole Authority For Lebanon’s Security – Hezbollah!

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HUSAYN al-Khalil, the political aide to Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on 12 May held a Beirut press conference where he insisted that the...

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...

Britain aiding King Hamad drive to crush Bahraini democracy!

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THE unholy alliance between Prime Minister Theresa May and the King of Bahrain was cemented last Wednesday when she met King Hamad bin...

Teachers and heads in Isle of Man reject ‘insulting’ 2% pay...

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TEACHERS on the Isle of Man have voted overwelmingly for strike action in a row over pay, following an insulting 2% pay offer. The National...

Amazon dominates on-line market – while workers suffer an epidemic of...

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AS AMAZON dominates online marketplaces and positions itself to become the largest retailer in the US, more and more people are finding out the...

‘It’s a nightmare – patients and dead bodies arriving in overwhelming...

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Two Australian doctors, Dr Nada Abu Alrub and Dr Saya Aziz, recounted the harrowing details of their work under constant Israeli bombardment and severe...

Greek Riot Police Attack Ship Repair Workers

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GREEK armed riot police viciously attacked with clubs, smoke and lightning bombs and toxic tear gas grenades about 800 protesting ship repair workers last...

French Trade Unions March And Denounce Israel’s Atrocities Against The Palestinians...

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AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing...

MEDICARE, MEDICAID, SOCIAL SECURITY MUST BE DEFENDED! – says SEIU...

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Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement after both Republicans and Democrats last Thursday announced their...

US put pressure on Abbas to halt payments to families of...

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INTERNATIONAL pressure on the Palestinian Authority to halt payments to the families of Palestinians held in Israeli jails, including those convicted of attacks, could...

Hamas Hails ‘Our People In Jerusalem’ And Warns Israel That Attacks...

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ON the Israeli violations in al-Aqsa Mosque – statement from the Hamas movement. The leadership of Hamas held an urgent meeting on the ongoing dangerous...

NHS 70 years on battles for funding

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ON JUNE 30th, hundreds of thousands of people will be marching to celebrate and defend our National Health Service. The NHS is facing many problems...

Cwu Members Determined To Defend Final Salary Pensions

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THERE is uproar in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) over the Royal Mail drive to rip up members’ existing terms and conditions, and the...

‘THERE WILL BE ‘BIG CHANGES’ IN EGYPT’S GAZA POLICY– Ambassador Yasser...

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Egypt’s ambassador to the Palestinian territories Yasser Othman on Tuesday said there will be ‘big changes’ in Egypt’s policies towards the Gaza Strip. Othman told...

Liverpool Hope University Lecturers Fight Job Cuts

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LECTURERS who are members of UCU at Liverpool Hope University have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their ongoing row with the...

RCN leader demands a new deal for student nurses: ‘forgive loans,...

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THE number of domestic applicants to nursing courses has fallen to a new low, says the RCN (Royal College of Nursing), which is calling...

WRP & YS Lobby TUC Congress!

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‘TUC Get Off Your Knees, Call a General Strike!’ and ‘TUC Get Off Your Knees, Kick the Tories Out!’ rang out as the Workers...

US, UK AND FRANCE CHARGED WITH COMMITTING WAR CRIMES IN THE...

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THE UNITED States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to the...

NUMSA denounces the ANC and South African Communist Party ‘The 1994...

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NUMSA has issued a National Office Bearer’s statement on the SACP augmented Central Committee statement of 1 December. It reads: ‘It has now become absolutely...

‘CREDIBLE ALLEGATIONS IMPLICATE THE UK IN TORTURE’ – says Amnesty

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Amnesty International is demanding ‘a full inquiry to end secrecy’, over the British state’s involvement in human rights abuses since the ‘war on terror’...

US-Israeli scheme for Syria ‘in its last throes’

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INFORMATION Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, stressed on Monday that the regional US-Israeli scheme in Syria ‘is in the last throes and it has clinically...

Iran makes no distinction between Israeli regime and Takfiri terrorists

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in the Syrian capital on Sunday to reaffirm Tehran’s firm support for Damascus amid the surprise offensive by...

Barbaric massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees – 34 years since...

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MARKING 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon last Friday, Saeb Erekat, secretary...

MASS DEMONSTRATION AT PALESTINIAN FUNERAL – against ‘all policies of occupation,...

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A GENERAL STRIKE has been held across towns and cities in the occupied Palestinian territories following the Israeli regime’s killing of a Palestinian youth...

400 under-18s disappear from the UK’s government-supervised hotels!

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WHEN young Jay (name changed), an Iranian teenager, set foot on UK shores, a myriad of emotions swirled within him: relief, uncertainty, hope, and...

‘Syria will not negotiate with terrorists’ says Syrian President Assad

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to the Spanish EFE news agency in which he stressed that Syria will not negotiate with terrorists. We reproduce...

‘organise The British And World Revolution’

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‘BUILD the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists and the Fourth International.’ That was the message from the News Line/Trotsky Anniversary rally attended by...

Put Iran First Says Iranian Newspaper

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A FOREIGN Ministry spokesman said in Tehran last Sunday that the allegations being made by US General David Petraeus were baseless. Petraeus said...

‘WE WILL NOT MOVE!’ – angry tenants lobby Southwark council

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SOUTHWARK Council faced an angry lobby by more than 80 tenants and local residents from Heygate, Aylesbury and other council estates, against the plans...

Canadian schools – not safe to reopen – say union leaders

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‘The current back-to-school plan does not provide the adequate level of safety required to protect students and their families from Covid-19,’ say union leaders...

Bahrain Parliament pressing to reverse normalisation with Israel

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THE DEPUTY speaker of Bahrain’s National Assembly Abdulnabi Salman said on Tuesday that members of the parliament are pressing to reverse the normalisation of...

Lifting all US sanctions will create ‘a new atmosphere’ – Rouhani...

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IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says the lifting of all US sanctions will create ‘a new atmosphere’ for the Islamic Republic’s economic cooperation with the...

Sheffield lecturers vote for strike action!

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SHEFFIELD College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in defence of jobs and quality of education. 86% of University College Union (UCU)...