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‘QANTAS PLANNED TO USE PANDEMIC TO OUTSOURCE 2,500 WORKERS’ –...

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AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is demanding that PM Scott Morrison explains what he knew about Qantas management’s long-term decision to axe and outsource...

OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY –‘An open conflict between the...

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Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 8. The growing conflict This essay was published In the Novy Mir daily paper in...

Massive Support For Nurses Picket Lines

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THE RCN picket outside St Thomas’ hospital opposite Parliament in central London on Tuesday was joined by hundreds of nurses, hospital staff, doctors, and...

US knew many Guantanamo detainees were innocent –leaked documents reveal

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Leaked Guantanamo Bay files expose the perils of wearing a Casio watch and working for Al Jazeera, said legal charity Reprieve on Monday, after...

Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Supports The Third Intifada

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SAYYED Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, says a new Intifada (uprising) is the right choice for Palestinians to fight the...

Iuf Demands Trade Union Rights For Pearl Continental Workers

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Not fit for print? On May 1st 2008, the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) sought to publish an open letter to the...

GP SURGERY FACING 46% FUNDING CUT – BMA warns of threat...

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A GP surgery facing a 46 per cent cut to its funding over the next three years embodies the threat facing the profession, the...

NUMSA to march on President Ramaphosa’s office

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will march on Wednesday, April 19th to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office to protest against security...

‘JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE!’ –President Abbas addresses 54th anniversary of...

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‘JERUSALEM is not for sale. Palestine will never let the US sell occupied al-Quds to Israel,’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said adding that the...

Congresswoman sleeps out against evictions

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CONGRESSWOMAN Cori Bush has spent a night on the steps of the US Capitol to protest against the end of a Covid-related moratorium on...

Workers strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum throughout Europe!’ – says...

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THROUGHOUT Europe, strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum, notes France’s CGT trade union federation. Faced with inflation and the energy crisis, demonstrators demand wage increases...

Unions Must Take Action To Remove The Coalition To Defend The...

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The Health and Social Care Bill aims to end the NHS as a public service. It legislates for private companies to do NHS clinical...

Greek workers refuse to accept austerity plan!

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LAST Wednesday and Thursday saw the biggest general strike of all workers, public and private sector, shopkeepers, and transport workers, which brought the whole...

THOUSANDS DETAINED AND TORTURED IN IRAQ – Amnesty report condemns US,...

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‘Nearly three years after United States (US) and allied forces invaded Iraq and toppled the government of Saddam Hussein, the human rights situation in...

Four Years Since Marikana Massacre!

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LONMIN workers on Tuesday gathered at the Marikana koppie near Nkaneng informal settlement to pay tribute to their 34 colleagues who were gunned down...

SA union wins victory against labour brokering

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THE Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, has ruled that an employer cannot employ a worker for more than three months without...

Bahamas Nurses Union Is To Take Industrial Action!

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BAHAMAS Nurses Union President (BNU) Amancha Williams said on Monday that the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) and the government have pushed frustrated nurses to...

‘TAKE OUT A WRIT AGAINST FORD’ –demand 500 ex-Visteon workers

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500 sacked Visteon workers demonstrated outside the Unite London headquarters on Wednesday to demand the union immediately takes out a writ against Ford motor...

Palestinians rally to mark Land Day!

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PALESTINIANS rallied across the West Bank and in Gaza on Saturday to commemorate Land Day. March 30 is commemorated every year because of a deadly...

FREE HANA SHALABI NOW! – joint statement by rights groups and...

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A JOINT Statement by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al-Haq begins with a statement by Hana Shalabi. ‘To...

Ontario ‘Rally for Rights and Democracy’

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ONTARIO trade unionists and their families rallied in Toronto on Saturday to demand good jobs, public services, workers’ rights and the recall of the...

‘AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE FROM EVERY CITY AND TOWN!’ –marchers tell News...

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‘NO one can deny this is the biggest economic crash – eclipsing 1914 and the 1929 Wall Street crash. And this crisis is driving...

CIVILIAN CATASTROPHE IN WEST MOSUL says Amnesty

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IRAQ: Battle between US-led coalition, Iraqi forces and Islamic State creates civilian catastrophe in west Mosul, says Amnesty International. The main findings of its report...

THOUSANDS MARCH ON LAND DAY – as Abbas appeals to Arab...

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Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank and Israel to commemorate Land Day at the weekend, in protest against ongoing Israeli confiscation...

1,700 GPs quit in six years

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THE NHS’ latest GP workforce data for England has shown a drop of more than 1,700 full-time GPs – in the last six years. And...

Nationwide trade union protests across Australia March 4 – ‘Time to...

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JOIN the national protests around the country on Wednesday 4 March 2015, urges Australia’s Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). The CPSU warns: ‘It’s not...

HEAT OR EAT! – the choice Blair gives to pensioners

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HUNDREDS of angry pensioners from all over Britain descended on parliament on Wednesday to demand an immediate increase in the basic state pension to...

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER – War on Want indicts private security...

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Getting Away With Murder, is a powerful indictment of the private security companies ‘operating with impunity’ in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their British government...

GAZA DEATH TOLL REACHES 117 – 13,000 injured, 300 still critical

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Naji Maysara Ghneim, 23, died on Wednesday of wounds sustained a few days ago when hit by Israeli army gunfire east of Rafah in...

Irish Teachers Strikes Loom

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Research carried out by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) indicates that second-level schools will lose an average of 2.6 temporary and part-time...

PALESTINIANS SHOULD FOLLOW KOSOVO – says Abbas aide

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A SENIOR aide to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that Palestinians should follow the example of Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence if Israeli-Palestinian...

Tar Sands Regions and Gulf Coast communities lobby BP AGM

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REPRESENTATIVES of devastated communities from Gulf Coast and Tar Sands regions confronted the BP Board yesterday morning at their AGM over their failure to...

Protests in London and Toronto against the repression of students in...

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A SERIES of protests have been organised outside the British Prime Minister’s Office in 10 Downing Street, since last Monday to condemn the repression...

40-day UAW strike at GM ends in victory!

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THE SIX-WEEK national strike by more than 48,000 United Auto Workers members against General Motors Co. has ended in victory. Thousands of UAW-GM employees nationally were returning...

The class struggle in South Africa and the crisis in...

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office issued its outlines on the ‘Progress on the United Front and the Movement...

220 marches across France against government austerity

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AT THE CALL of the trade unions, more than 220 demonstrations were organised across France on Friday, October 13, to say no to austerity...

US Tripoli Embassy Seized By Militias

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The United States embassy compound in the Libyan capital of Tripoli has been raided by militiamen, but no Americans were present as the embassy...

Iran calls for meeting of OIC member states on ending Gaza...

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IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called for an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Committee on Palestine at the Parliamentary Union of the...

Portland Dockers Fight Lockout

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A bitter labour dispute on Northwest docks escalated on Saturday as Columbia Grain Inc. locked out Portland longshore workers, accusing them of obstructing exports...

OVER 1,000 IRAQIS FACE EXECUTION – Amnesty reports

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More than 1,000 people face execution in Iraq, said Amnesty International on Tuesday, as it published a new report on the extensive imposition of...

Greek Phone-Tapping Storm

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A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...

‘All non-Syrian fighters must leave Syria says Assad

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SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad, speaking in Damascus on Monday, said: ‘The Geneva Conference should produce clear results with regard to the fight against terrorism...

ARAB LEAGUE ORGANISING LAND FOR PEACE SELL-OUT! – in return for...

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ISRAEL’S lead ‘peace negotiator,’ Tzipi Livni, has praised as ‘important’ a concession by the Arab League that Israel and the Palestinians could trade land...

ISRAEL SEIZES HAMAS LEADERS – as Palestinians discuss a Unity Government

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ISRAELI forces seized Hamas leaders across the West Bank early on Thursday in an apparent attempt to pressure the group in the negotiations over...

‘The Strike Will Continue At Telkom!’

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‘THE STRIKE will continue at Telkom!’ South African Communication Workers Union (CWU) vowed on Tuesday, despite the company trying to drive its employees...