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‘The government is not afraid of US threats’ says Iranian President...

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PRESIDENT Hassan Rouhani has assured the Iranian nation of the government’s resolve to stand up to US threats, emphasising that his team will do...

Syria is determined to recover the Golan ‘through all available means’

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SYRIA has strongly condemned the controversial Israeli plan to double the settler population in the Golan Heights, warning against the ‘unprecedented and dangerous’ uptick...

FORWARD WITH THE WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION – –News Line Anniversary Rally...

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MORE than 200 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through Whitechapel to Bethnal Green in central London on Saturday to the News Line...

The Seiu Reflects On Dallas, Baton Rouge la, Falcon Heights And...

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THE SEIU (Service Employees International Union) is reflecting on Dallas, Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Heights, Minn.: Feelings, Thoughts and Action. Working together to...

30 Years Since The Soweto Uprising

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‘Long live the memory of the June 16 martyrs!’ declared the African National Congress last Friday as it marked the 30th Anniversary of the...

Sudan’s civil war escalates – RSF leader bids for power!

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WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...

US CARRIER MUST NOT RETURN TO GULF! ‘We do not warn...

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IRAN threatened on Tuesday to take action if the US Navy moves an aircraft carrier back into the Gulf. This is Tehran’s most aggressive...

‘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...

Libya Proving Too Hot To Handle For Divided Nato Powers

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THE Libyan people and their armed forces are more than giving NATO a run for its money. In fact they are bringing the ‘mighty...

Amazon pay strike on Black Friday across 30 countries

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TENS of thousands of Amazon workers staged strikes and a walkout on Black Friday last week demanding a pay rise and calling on the...

100 years since the Easter Rising

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This Easter is the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin of 1916.. In Britain’s first, and indeed its last, imperialist dominion the flag of...

Strike Wave Gripping South Africa

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A STRIKE wave is gripping South Africa with fishermen, media workers and fuel industry and electricity workers taking action. In an eleventh hour decision ...

‘AN EMBEDDED CULTURE OF BULLYING’. . . IS HARMING BA’S FUTURE...

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WITH the British Airways’ cabin crew strike entering its 17th day (yesterday, Thursday), a report from a leading academic warns that BA’s brand and...

‘THIS WILL BE LABOUR’S POLL TAX’ – says angry demonstration against...

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‘WE will not be numbered, tagged and fingerprinted.’ That was the message from hundreds of demonstrators outside parliament on Monday against the government’s plans to...

SA trade unions condemn the sacking of 700 workers by Mercedes...

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) joined the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) on Friday to condemn Mercedes-Benz South Africa’s...

Russian air defence systems strike nine Ukrainian aircraft

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Russian air defence systems have struck nine Ukrainian Air Force aircraft, including seven Su-27s, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported on Tuesday. They said: ‘Two...

Assad Meets Families On Martyrs Day!

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad received sons and daughters of martyrs on the occasion of Martyrs’ Day on Tuesday. President al-Assad...

Gaza Divides Zionist Leaders

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DIVISIONS among the Israeli political leaders have emerged over the way to handle the offensive on Gaza. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak is...

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...

NUMSA pickets Zimbabwe embassy against labour rights violations

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THE BANNING of protests, abductions and torture of activists and students, arrests of journalists and the intimidation of trade unions are not issues that...

Starbucks illegally monitored, disciplined and sacked workers – US court rules...

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A judge in New York ruled on Friday that Starbucks had violated federal labour law dozens of times in responding to a union campaign...

HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two

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TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...

Britain’s secret work on Bahrain’s death row

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BRITAIN’S secretive work at a death-row jail in Bahrain is being challenged by international human rights group Reprieve. The UK Foreign Office paid almost a...

‘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...

‘STICK TOGETHER AND WE WILL BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA’ –...

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SURVIVORS told a packed central London meeting on Wednesday evening of the violent Israel attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the unconcern of...

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...

Amazon ‘illegally interfered in Alabama’s union vote’ alleges RWDSU

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THE UNITED States’ Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is to file charges against Amazon on the grounds that they illegally interfered in...

58 YEARS SINCE THE NABKA – the holocaust through which the...

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ON May 15th, Nakba Day, Palestinians commemorate their forced displacement and dispossession resulting from the establishment of the state of Israel. By marking the Nakba...

Demonstrators call for trade unions to take action over Palestine!

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A-QUARTER-of-a-million workers and youth, including whole families, marched and rallied in central London on Saturday demanding ‘stop the killing’ of Palestinians in Gaza. Demonsterators shouted...

ABUSED, CRIMINALISED AND ABANDONED! Howard League condemns treatment of youth

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The Howard League for Penal Reform revealed on Thursday that local authorities ‘are systematically failing to provide suitable accommodation and support for vulnerable children...

NORTHERN GAZA FACING FAMINE – 2.3m ARE GOING HUNGRY!

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Northern Gaza is likely to be hit by famine any time between mid-March and May, and more than 70 per cent of Gaza’s 2.3...

500,000 workers and youth march for Palestine

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While the so-called Israeli Defence Force intensified its genocidal bombing campaign against Gaza and its ground forces invaded in their tanks, more than half...

8 US SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ – while Britain is sending...

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EIGHT US soldiers have been killed across Iraq in the past four days, including three in roadside bombings Wednesday morning, the US military said. Two...

‘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...

Palestinians oppose UNWRA’s plan to reduce Gaza healthcare and recruitment!

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PALESTINIAN factions in the Gaza Strip have rejected what they said was a decision issued by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...

Hezbollah Thanks Iran For Its Aid To Lebanon!

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HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has thanked Iran for helping Lebanon weather its economic crisis, saying the Islamic Republic has proven to be...

‘A TERRIBLE LOSS OF FIRE COVER’ – 10,000 firefighters’ jobs threatened

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‘Firefighters wages make up over three-quarters of fire and rescue service budgets, so cuts to fire service funding invariably mean cuts to firefighters jobs’,...

Safety in custody – prisons in chaos – urgent intervention...

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PRISON Officers’ Association (POA) has again this week urged Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland MP, ‘urgently to intervene in order to protect...

South African Unions Claim Big Eskom Pay Victory!

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THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers, the National Union of Mineworkers and the Solidarity union have won a ‘a strategic victory for workers’ after South...

US unions report exposes the Amazon ‘injury machine’ – an injury...

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THE Strategic Organising Centre (SOC) has recently released a report called: The Injury Machine: How Amazon’s Production System Hurts Workers. The SOC is a coalition...

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...

GREECE GENERAL ELECTION JULY 7th –after 4 years of EU-imposed austerity...

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A GENERAL election is to be held in Greece on Sunday 7th July with the right-wing New Democracy party seemingly heading for a comfortable...

de Menezes Inquest Opens Today

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ON 22nd July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent member of the public, was killed by Metropolitan Police officers in a grotesque and...

Presidents back US trade unionists

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Three presidents – Lula da Silva of Brazil, Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain and Nestor Kirchner of Argentina – cancelled an appearance scheduled for...

US State Department falsifies report to cover up sabotage of ‘humanitarian...

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The US State Department falsified a report earlier this month to exonerate Israel from blame for obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, contradicting its own...