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Argentina – year-on-year inflation reaches 102.5% in February

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ARGENTINA’S National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) said on Tuesday that inflation in February was 6.6 per cent, while the cumulative year-on-year figure...

‘Comrade Trotsky’s Report On The Red Army’

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Report of Comrade Trotsky on the development of the Red Army In this speech, made in 1919, Leon Trotsky reviews the development of the Red...

‘MARKET FORCES’ WILL DETERMINE SERVICE – under NHS Bill plans

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IF the government’s proposed changes go ahead, ‘private companies would be entitled to run much of the NHS’ and ‘market forces would determine the way...

Saudis In Same Camp As Israel, Says General Jafari

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THE commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards accused Saudi Arabia of treachery on Monday, saying the bombing of Yemen had put the kingdom in...

TEMPORARY WORKERS USED AND ABUSED – TUC urges protection against exploitation

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TEMPORARY workers in Britain are being paid illegally low wages, having unlawful deductions taken from their pay packets, and are being denied holiday pay...

Reprieve calls on Lithuania to re-open torture site inquiry

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REPRIEVE has called on Lithuania to re-open its torture site inquiry after discovering another suspicious flight into Vilnius. Legal action charity Reprieve is demanding that...

‘DETAINEES WERE HELD IN FLOODED CELLS WHILE FIRES BURNED’ – Liberty...

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As evidence is revealed of vulnerable detainees being imprisoned in overcrowded and flooded cells while fires burned, Liberty last Monday called on the Home...

‘ANSWER “GLOBALISATION” WITH WORLD REVOLUTION’ – News Line editor tells Trotsky...

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MORE than 300 youth and workers filled the News Line Anniversary rally at the Park Crescent Conference Centre in central London on Sunday, celebrating...

‘We Demand Apology For Balfour Declaration’ And Recognition Of Palestinian State!

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– Rally 10 Downing St November 4 ‘WE DEMAND an apology for the Balfour Declaration and we demand repatriation and recognition of the Palestinian state,’...

May Day meeting ‘Forward to the World October!’

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‘WE WERE marching with our banner “100 years of the Russian Revolution, for the World October”,’ WRP candidate for Hackney South Jonty Leff told...

Palestinian University Workers Into Third Day Of Strike Action

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Employees in public universities and colleges in the West Bank and Gaza Strip entered the third day of a strike on Wednesday. Head of the...

Health & Safety Fit for workers 2019 manifesto

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‘EVIDENCE shows’, says a just-released statement by the Hazards Campaign, ‘that the three factors that make work “safer and healthier” are – strong laws,...

‘The cold-blooded murder’ of Shireen Abu Akleh by an Israeli sniper!

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A PALESTINIAN journalist who was with Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on the day when she was shot dead by Israeli state forces...

Irish Bus Drivers Vote 94% Yes To Take Strike Action!

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1,300 IRISH bus drivers working for Bus Éireann have returned a massive 94% ‘YES’ vote for strike action to defend their pay and conditions,...

New North Of Ireland Police Powers Opposed By Nuj

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The National Union of Journalists in Ireland and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on Thursday joined together to condemn new powers which threaten...

EXPAND SCO TO CONFRONT US POLICIES – urges Iran

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‘The SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organisation) countries face common threats in the form of America and NATO’, says the Iranian newspaper Resalat. Full members of...

Lebanon Imports More Fuel From Iran

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IRAN’S Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Tehran is ready to sell more fuel to the Lebanese government and businessmen if need be, as an...

Canadian Workers Struggling Against Privatisation

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LONDON Ontario’s first strike by inside civic workers in 36 years entered its sixth week on Monday, after mediated contract talks over the...

REPORT ON ISRAEL’S BLOCKADE OF GAZA . . . ‘Slow death...

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THE EGYPTIAN Army, mimicking the brutal methods of the Zionist occupiers, have been bulldozing Palestinian homes on the Rafah border with Gaza, destroying smuggling...

The fight to occupy Chase Farm Hospital is intensifying

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THE fight to occupy Chase Farm hospital intensified on day 38 of the daily picket on the gates of Chase Farm as medical students,...

‘SERIOUS THREAT’ TO EXISTENCE OF STUDENT UNION – warns London Met...

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‘To whom it may concern,’ writes Michelle Harris, president of London Metropolitan University Students’ Union. ‘There is a serious issue occuring at London Met university...

Biden and Blinken ‘green-lighted’ Israeli escalation since truce!

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US President Joe Biden’s deputy, Kamala Harris, speaking in Dubai on Saturday during her West Asia tour, said many innocent Palestinians have been killed...

TUC CONGRESS CALLS FOR AN ‘ALTERNATIVE TO AUSTERITY’ – but refuses...

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THIS year’s TUC Congress next month is meeting at a time when all of the basic rights and gains of the working class are...

2,500 US troops have already left Iraq says Iraqi Premier

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THE Iraqi prime minister says as many as 2,500 US troops have left the country as part of agreements reached with Washington to enable...

‘A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR HUNT’ – caught out acting...

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‘A SLAP in the face for Hunt’ is how Unite the union described the victory of the Lewisham Hospital campaigners in the High Court...

Ex-President Zuma barred from standing for SA Parliament

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South Africa’s highest court has barred former President Jacob Zuma from running for parliament in next week’s general election. The Constitutional Court ruled on Monday...

United Farm Workers Slam Trump For Plans To Slash Farm Workers’...

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PRESIDENT Trump’s proposed H-2A rules would harm not help, US farm workers and reduce protections for both domestic and foreign field labourers, warns the United...

Australian Unions Fight For Workers’ Rights

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The UNI Communicators Forum, attended by union communicators from across the globe, has received a report on Australia’s unions’ battle for the rights of...

US casualties in Iraq ‘unacceptable’ – say 75 per cent of...

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A US Humvee was destroyed when an explosive charge went off on Wednesday near a US forces convoy in the Al-Rustamiyah area, southeast of...

Striking Sa Parliamentary Staff Demand Removal Of Parliament Secretary

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STRIKING South African parliamentary staff on Friday said they would no longer negotiate with the unpopular secretary of the legislature Gengezi Mgidlana and demanded...

Paramilitaries Abduct Tamil Girls

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TAMILNET reports that fatigue uniform clad armed men who came in a white van abducted a 16-year-old girl student last Monday night around 11.30...

500,000 march in Athens!

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HALF a million Greek workers, students and youth marched through Athens on Wednesday. This was as part of a two-day general strike against a government...

Heart patients hit by pandemic

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THE overwhelming of NHS hospitals by Covid patients in successive waves has led to a large reduction in care for heart patients, with consequent...

6,800 UAW members at the SHAP Michigan join Stand Up Strike!

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ON MONDAY morning, October 23, 6,800 UAW members at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP), Michigan, joined the Stand Up Strike, shutting down production at...

‘ALL CLOSURE THREATENED HOSPITALS, FIRE STATIONS AND FACTORIES SHOULD BE OCCUPIED’...

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‘CHASE FARM Hospital is occupied,’ Bill Rogers, Secretary of the North East London Council of Action, told News Line, speaking inside the hospital at...

Mirror Journalists Fight – 200 ‘neanderthal Sackings’

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By Save the Mirror Campaign Group TRINITY Mirror’s Chief Executive Sly Bailey is planning to axe a further 200 editorial staff from The Mirror, Sunday...

South African trade unions battle inflation as food prices rise by...

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SAFTU – the South African Federation of Trade Unions – notes the stubborn inflation which remains high above 7%, and averaged 7,2% in December...

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...

150 YEARS SINCE THE PARIS COMMUNE – the Bolshevik Party learned...

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THE FRENCH trade unions held a mass demonstration on Saturday, 29 May, to mark the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune when, as Karl...

Students Call For Nationwide Rent Strikes!

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NATIONWIDE student rent strikes have been called for by more than 25 universities who gathered in London over the weekend of the 16th-18th September. Activists...

Reinstate Ricky Matthews Demand 2,000 Striking Firefighters In Aylesbury March

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OVER 2,000 striking firefighters marched through Aylesbury on Tuesday chanting ‘Reinstate Ricky Matthews!’ The national demonstration took place during the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) national...

USA public service workers fight anti-union attack

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IN ITS 5-4 decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Supreme Court ended the practice of requiring...

Coalition Driving Disabled To ‘Tipping Point’

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‘DISABLED people and their families are struggling to make ends meet and feel increasingly nervous about the future’, warned Disability UK on Monday. ‘Crucial decisions...

STOP SCHOOL CLOSURES – STOP SACKING TEACHERS – demand Greek...

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THOUSANDS of state secondary school teachers demonstrated throughout Greece on Tuesday night against the coalition government’s Education Bill for secondary education, schools closures and...

‘JIHAD ONLY WAY OF LIBERATING PALESTINE’ – Hamas marks 3rd anniversary...

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The Hamas Movement on Tuesday affirmed that blood of Palestinian martyrs has mapped out the route of liberation for the next Palestinian generations to follow...