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‘From Deir Yassin To Sabra And Shatila And Gaza’ – 32...

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‘YOU should be ashamed. The situation is absolutely appalling. They’re killing children! You have the area completely under your control and are therefore responsible...

Hamas and Hezbollah meet to counter Israeli aggression!

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A LEADING delegation from the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has met with the Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to discuss...

Secondary teacher recruitment crisis Teacher trainee census 2018-19

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‘WE are at a crisis in secondary teacher recruitment,’ said Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, commenting on the...

‘Teachers Are Exhausted By Ofsted And Hours Of Pointless Paperwork!’

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TEACHERS are suffering from ‘ludicrous levels of workload pressure’ teachers unions have warned. They were responding to a ‘bitterly disapointing’ new Tory government ‘Workload Challenge...

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...

‘Iran Will Continue To Support Syria!’

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SYRIAN Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Mu’allim discussed with Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council Ali Larijani bilateral relations between Syria...

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...

SA power workers demand 15% wage increase 0% pay offer rejected...

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THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) have both officially rejected Eskom’s 0% wage offer, saying...

‘This is Jerusalem: Violence and Dispossession’ – report by B’Tselem Israeli...

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ISRAEL’S policy regarding Palestinian neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem is driven by its goal to take over as much land as possible and expand...

‘The West is trying to bring down the Russian financial system’...

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THE WEST tried to hit Russian citizens themselves with sanctions, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Thursday in his annual government report to...

10th Anniversary of the Hillingdon Hospital Strike

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The Hillingdon Hospital Strike began on October 1st, 1995 when 56 domestic and catering workers were sacked by private contractor Pall Mall for refusing...

Obama government keeping Haitians out of US

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THE US government allows foreign citizens into the US in significant numbers ‘for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit’. In the past, the beneficiaries...

5,000 March In London On Nakba Day

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AROUND 5,000 people marched from the University of London Union (ULU) to Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, to mark the 61st anniversary...

Nigerian unions will strike against oil company intimidation!

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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN said that...

‘UK SOFT ON WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS’ – says Sri Lanka Campaign...

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THE UK has been accused of permitting an alleged war-criminal to escape prosecution. Tamil Net has reported that questions have been raised over the failure...

How many children secretly deported under UK Border Agency’s Gentleman’s Agreement?

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BY CLARE SAMBROOK BACK in January, I reported here on the wretched experience of a boy apprehended by the UK Border Agency at Dover who...

Free Palestine! Israel Is A Terror State! – Thousands Picket Israeli...

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‘FREE, free Palestine! Israel is a terror state!’, over 2,000 protesters chanted at a picket of the Israeli embassy in west London on Thursday...

EGYPTIAN STUDENTS CLASH WITH THE SECURITY FORCES – in anti-tyranny protests

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STUDENTS across Egypt took to the streets on Sunday in protest at the aggressive handling of student movements by security forces and university staff,...

‘Iran’s armed forces stood up to bullying with all their might’

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Iran’s top military commander asserts that the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces confronted the Israeli and American aggression with the full range of their capabilities...

LEGAL AID CHANGES ARE UNLAWFUL –finds leading QC Michael Fordham

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A legal opinion by a leading QC has found that the Government’s proposed changes to legal aid – for which the consultation closed this...

OCCUPATION IS A CRIME! FREE IRAQ AND PALESTINE! – demand hundreds...

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‘OCCUPATION is a crime! Free Iraq and Palestine!’ shouted more than 400 people gathered in Whitehall opposite the gates to Downing Street on Wednesday...

KERRY BUILDING UP ANTI-ISIS COALITION –Turkey has refused and the US...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Turkey last Thursday to seek support for more military action against Islamic State (IS) fighters in...

‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP TILL WE WIN’ – sacked Gate...

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The sacked Gate Gourmet workers marked the fourth anniversary of their struggle with a 200-plus strong rally and an evening of thrilling entertainment at...

ACTU fights ‘disgrace of racial discrimination’

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‘This programme is a disgrace to all Australians and must be scrapped,’ ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) Indigenous Officer Lara Watson said on...

‘Unscrupulous exploitation!’ Care workers forced to sleep rough or share beds...

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CARE staff who come to the UK from overseas are having to share beds with other workers, sleep rough, and pay huge fees to...

Russian workers smash counter-revolutionary coup attempt!

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PRESENTLY, world imperialism is attempting to enforce its presence and its influence in the different parts of the globe. The bloody aggression against Libya...

‘A general strike to defeat this Bill is our policy!’ says...

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‘We support a general strike to defeat this bill, we supported it in the TUC and it’s our policy,’ RMT leader Mick Lynch told...

US Unions Taking Action Over Health, Safety And Retiree Pensions

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PROPOSED rules by the Bush regime’s Transportation Security Administration for the US railway system ignore necessary employee training and protections against employer retaliation. The...

Tens Of Thousands March For Mousavi

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TENS of thousands of supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi staged a ‘silent’ protest rally in Tehran on Wednesday against the...

UN Security Council Has Failed The Syrian

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SYRIA’S UN ambassador says the UN Security Council has failed the Palestinian and Syrian people by not enforcing its resolutions on the Israeli occupation...

Anti-union laws being introduced throughout Europe

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TRADE union rights are facing escalating challenges throughout Europe, warns the European Public Service Union (EPSU). In France, a number of trade union activists are...

‘Systemic Failings’ Led To 15-Year-Old’s Cell Death

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A jury at an inquest into the death of 15-year-old Liam McManus last Friday returned a damning verdict finding that ‘systemic failings’ in both...

75% of the Tunisian people boycott constitutional referendum which gives the...

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OVER A DECADE since the death of the Tunisian fruit seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, after he set himself on fire over the viciousness of the...

‘THE PROJECT OF POLITICAL ISLAM HAS FAILED’ SAYS ASSAD! – ‘Religion...

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THE ‘project of political Islam has failed,’ Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday, calling for the separation of religion from politics, state television...

The Israeli Cabinet approves the legalisation of settlements

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THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...

Union-buster Trump violated the law – US court hears

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United States federal judge, James Donato, last Thursday granted an injunction after ruling that the administration of US President Donald Trump is ‘likely to...

‘The Land Belongs To The Palestinian People! The Occupation Will Vanish...

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ISRAELI forces on Friday shot and killed 18 Palestinians as they assaulted rallies that set out to commemorate Land Day on many...

Azelle Rodney’s Family Call For Inquest And Public Inquiry

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‘We don’t want other families to go through this long and drawn out process with no possible outcome,’ Susan Alexander, the mother of Azelle...

Syria Strongly Denies Supplying Scud Missiles To Hezbollah

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SYRIA strongly denied on Thursday Israeli accusations that it has been delivering Scud missiles to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. ‘For some...

Fatah Denies Request To Postpone Conference

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A FATAH spokesperson denied on Sunday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) intends to ask Washington to postpone the US-sponsored conference on the Palestinian-Israeli...

ELECTION MANIFESTO of Young Socialists – Workers Revolutionary Party

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General Election – Thursday 7 May 2015 ALL over Europe the anti-austerity revolution is raging and on May 7 workers in the UK will deliver...

School Support Staff Are ‘Super-Exploited’!

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School support staff work the most unpaid overtime behind council chief officers, reveals a new survey published last Friday. The MORI survey carried out for...

SAFTU demands expropriation of the land without compensation! 72 per cent...

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TUESDAY 6th April, marked the 369th anniversary of the arrival of Dutch settlers in South Africa. The first settlers aimed at establishing trading posts...

Wrp May Day Rally Salutes Palestinian Hunger Strikers And World...

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‘A socialist revolution in this country will open up the whole of the world,’ Frank Sweeney, the General Secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party,...

‘Indefinite general strike to bring down government-junta’ – Revolutionary Marxist League

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THE Greek state secondary teachers’ national strike, which began on Monday, is spreading and deepening attracting other sections of workers. Primary state school teachers declared...