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MARIKANA MASSACRE SECOND ANNIVERSARY RALLY – ANC and local government officials...

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CONSPICUOUSLY absent at a rally last Saturday to commemorate slain miners on the second anniversary of the Marikana massacre were the African National Congress...

‘Monopoly capitalism causing job loss bloodbath’ –warns South Africa’s NUMSA union

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‘MONOPOLY capitalism is plunging the country into a catastrophic crisis, which will inflict misery upon millions of workers and the poor,’ the National Union...

GHOST STATIONS AND A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE! – RMT staff survey reveals...

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A MASSIVE staff survey carried out by the RMT railway workers union reveals the dystopian future awaiting passengers if the industry privateers and the...

Sri Lanka Assassinations Continue

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A 28-year-old Tamil man, recently deported from the UK was found killed in Trincomalee on 18 April, news sources in the district told TamilNet...

STOP THE WAR AGAINST THE TAMILS – urges mass demonstration

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TAMILNET reports that the Indian High Commissioner in Mauritius last Friday rebuffed a memorandum from thousands of Mauritian Tamil demonstrators, requesting India stop the...

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...

Germany refuses to follow UK over Hezbollah!

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THE United Arab Emirates has denied Lebanon’s embassy officials the right to meet with eleven Lebanese citizens arrested in the Persian Gulf state over...

Syrian Army makes gains in Hasakah province

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SYRIAN troops have managed to recapture a major district in the northeastern city of Hasakah, purging ISIL Takfiri militants from the area. Syria’s official news...

Universal Child Day – Israel Steps Up Attacks On Palestinian Children!

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THE Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), on the eve of the UN’s Universal Child Day, maintained that Palestinian children remain victims of...

‘WE ARE TREATED LIKE PIECES OF COAL’ – Colombian miners tell...

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On an AFL-CIO Solidarity Center-sponsored exchange visit, Florida AFL-CIO Vice-President Mike Williams learned about Colombian workers’ constant struggle for social and economic justice – and...

Stop the closure of Ealing maternity!

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‘ONCE we know we are ready it will take just six weeks to close the maternity at Ealing,’ Pippa Nightingale, Head of Midwifery, Imperial...

Grenfell smoke system failed

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‘DAMPER’ devices placed in Grenfell Tower’s ventilation system to prevent the spread of smoke were of the ‘lowest possible standard’, the ongoing Grenfell inquiry...

‘Stand up and be counted before it’s too late’ – Dr...

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‘GPs have been forced into commissioning as the Trojan horse of these reforms. They have been hoodwinked – hook, line, and sinker’, Dr Clare...

Kellogg factory will be ‘delivered to workers’ says Venezuelan President Maduro

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AHEAD of this Sunday’s presidential election, the Venezuelan government has called on workers to occupy the Kellogg factory in Maracay after the firm announced...

AID TO PALESTINIANS CUT! – while ‘shadow government’ claim denied

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WHILE keeping mum on the ongoing Israeli destruction of Palestinian infrastructure and killing of Palestinians, the US and EU on Friday joined Israel and...

‘AAMERICA UNDERSTANDS IT MUST KEEP IRAN HAPPY’ –Rafsanjani calls for unconditional...

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TEHRAN’S Friday prayer leader, Chairman of the Expediency Council, and ex-President of Iran Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, told worshippers ‘Wherever America goes, it finally...

SA Clover Strike Now 100 Days

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Tensions are rising after negotiations have failed to progress in the three-month-long Clover strike. The strike began at the branded foods and beverages group on...

Labour being sued over Bagram rendition

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Legal charity Reprieve on Monday warned the Brown government that it is suing it to obtain the necessary information in order to identify two...

Defend The NHS! Occupy To Stop Hospitals Closures! Call A General...

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THE National Health Service is under attack on every side by the government. It is being crippled by funding cuts and privatisation reforms. The...

FRANCE: Biggest rallies in living memory

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FRANCE’S small and mid-size towns have been at the forefront of the battle against President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform – in some places...

‘IT WAS COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF CHILDREN’ – Gaza father told Goldstone...

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Testimony given to South African jurist Richard Goldstone’s UN Fact Finding Mission on the winter 2008/2009 war on Gaza, illustrates vividly one of the...

93 Gazans Vist Relatives Jailed In Israel

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A GROUP of 93 Palestinians from Gaza visited relatives jailed in Israel on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Spokesperson Suhair Zaqqut...

Canadian unions condemn Trump’s trade war

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HOW long will Canadian and American workers be pawns in Trump’s trade war? asks the IAM (Machinists) Canada union. Just three days after threatening to...

‘THE DOG IS DEAD, BUT THE RABIES PERSISTS’ – union says...

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THE International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) posted a statement on its website following the December...

Bahrain’s Welcome To Israeli Foreign Minister ‘Despicable’

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IRAN says Bahrain’s ‘despicable’ welcoming of Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid to Manama is at odds with the will of the Bahraini people, stressing...

McGUINNESS PLEDGES WAR ON RACISM

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By JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist THE sectarian war in Ireland is over, but the war on racism has begun. That was the pledge from Sinn...

Peretz Boasts Of Killings On Eve Of Nakba Day

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On the eve of the 58th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe day), Israeli ‘Defence’ Minister Amir Peretz bragged on Sunday of the success...

Tamil Tigers Push Back The Sri Lankan Army

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TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka Army chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka this week again revised his timetable for defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

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...

SHOCKING CRISIS: 128,000 kids homeless at Xmas

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A SHOCKING 128,000 children in Britain will wake up homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas Day, a new report by Shelter revealed on...

‘Pause’ A Cover For Destruction Of Hospital Care

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BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER ON April 4th, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced ‘a pause’, a two month ‘listening exercise’, in implementing the...

Rajapakse Suspends Dry Food Relief To Vazhalaay Displaced Persons

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The Sri Lanka government has suspended the dry food relief supplied under World Food Programme to the recently resettled people in the outskirts of...

500% Increase In Bankruptcies In Ireland In 2014!

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THERE has been a 500% increase in the number of people in Ireland who declared bankruptcy in 2014. More than one person was declared bankrupt...

‘A VICTORY FOR WORKERS ALL AROUND AMERICA!’ says Bernie Sanders

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AFTER union workers at a locomotive plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, struck a 90-day deal with Wabtec Corporation late last Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders said...

‘Civil resistance’ launched in Mexico – after one million march against...

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THE opposition Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) has launched a campaign of ‘civil resistance’, after more than one million Mexicans rallied on Sunday to denounce...

Australian unions national campaign over wages and jobs!

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OVER the next two weeks, thousands of Australian trade union members will be marching across the country, campaigning for wage increases and job security. Union...

The US ‘threatens to plunge the entire region into chaos, violence...

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The US administration’s recent destructive and irresponsible moves threaten to plunge the entire region into chaos, violence and instability, Hanan Ashrawi, member of the...

Benefit cuts are criminalising the old and the low paid

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‘FAMILIES are being forced to choose between staying on the right side of the law or feeding themselves,’ warned Labour’s Shadow communities secretary Hilary...

Hamas Calls For National Unity Government

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HAMAS political bureau member, Osama Hamdan, reiterated his Movement’s position on the formation of a national unity government capable of running the Palestinian affairs,...

‘WE DON’T WANT OUR DETAILS ON ANY DATABASE’ – public tell...

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s claim that people ‘just can’t wait’ to get ID cards has been rubbished by campaign group NO2ID. NO2ID national coordinator Phil...

Hundreds of South African miners are trapped underground – SAFTU demands...

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions issued a statement on Friday to say they are extremely concerned that the unfolding situation in the...

CGT to march in Paris against far right immigration law

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ON JANUARY 21, ‘let’s march for freedom, equality, fraternity,’ the French trade union federation CGT is urging. It said: ‘201 personalities are calling to march...

‘THE DAY OF ISRAELI MILITARY TOURISM ON THE LEBANESE BORDER AND...

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HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking via a giant screen on Saturday, vowed to respond to attacks on Hezbollah. HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, speaking...

Bolivia Coup Leaders Jailed For 10 Years

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BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE – Bartolina Sisa Resistance ON JUNE 15, 2022, in the Coup d’etat II case, the 1st Court of Anti-corruption read the...

Sparks Step Up Campaign To Defend Their Pay And Conditions!

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CONSTRUCTION site electricians stepped up their campaign on Wednesday to defend pay and conditions against a brutal onslaught by a ‘cartel’ of contractors to...