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NORMALISATION DEAL– ‘The UAE regime’s gravest betrayal of the struggle for...

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The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has slammed the recent ‘normalisation agreement’ between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, and has called...

Turkish Workers And Youth Take To The Streets

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LAST Thursday and Friday, angry workers and youth once again took to the streets of Istanbul to condemn Erdogan’s government, resulting in violent clashes...

‘OUR TIME HAS COME’ – Israel to double Golan settlements

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‘OUR TIME has come’ said Israeli Premier Naftali Bennett on Sunday adding that the Tel Aviv regime intends to double the number of illegal...

BREAK THE SIEGE! – –Nasrallah urges Arabs and the World

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AFTER over a month of inhuman Israeli siege against the Gaza strip, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech, on Monday, in...

2.3m workers and youth marched all over France on May Day

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FRENCH union federation Force Ouvriere congratulated workers for their May Day action. It said: ‘2.3 million young people, employees and retirees marched all over France,...

END ISRAELI OCCUPATION – demands 2,000-strong al-Quds Day London march

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TWO THOUSAND people marched through the centre of London on Sunday demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine as part of the...

END CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DISCRIMINATION – says GMB lobby

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Calling for victory over ruthless employers, Construction and Engineering workers from many parts of Britain, rallied 100 strong outside the Houses of Parliament on...

48-Hour Strike By Health Workers In Germany

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HEALTH workers in in the Ver.di trade union in Germany have been out on a 48-hour strike which started on Tuesday which and continued...

‘THROW OUT THIS SELL-OUT DEAL!’ – Appeal from South Central No...

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Reasons to vote NO to the ‘Deal’. What we will lose if this sell-out deal goes through . . . . • LOST: 40,000 more job losses...

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 ...

‘WE DON’T SUCCUMB TO THREATS AND MILITARY INTIMIDATION’ says Hezbollah MP

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HEZBOLLAH MP Hassan Fadlallah on Friday condemned the sending of a US warship, the USS Cole to the eastern Mediterranean. He said Hezbollah would not...

‘Moreno A Hypocrite And Traitor! People’s Blood Non-Negotiable!’

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‘Lenin Moreno Hypocrite and traitor – the blood of the people is not negotiable,’ shouted over a hundred Ecuadorians and their supporters outside the...

‘SAVE OUR UNIVERSITY’ – 500 lobby London Met governors

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OVER five hundred students and staff of the London Metropolitan University gathered outside the building in Holloway road in north London yesterday to protest...

Los Angeles farm workers in epic pay battle

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HUNDREDS of labour activists, farmworkers and their allies marched on Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday demanding that a Fresno fruit grower recognise...

‘WALL STREET BANKERS LOOTED BILLIONS – I DID NOT HEAR ANY...

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THE United Nations Special Rapporteur, Maina Kiai, on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association made a visit to the United...

EQUITY MUST FIGHT ARTS CUTS! – call a national march urges...

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AXED children’s theatre workers expressed outrage at Culture Secretary Andrew Burnham’s proclamation last Wednesday that ‘every schoolchild will get five hours of culture a...

400 angry leaseholders rally at Parliament – they demand property owners...

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OVER 400 angry leaseholders from the End Our Cladding Scandal campaign, the National Leasehold Campaign rallied in Parliament Square last Thursday demanding an end...

Katrina Crisis Workers Were Abused And Exploited After Bush Suspended Labour...

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WORKERS who headed to New Orleans in 2005 to help rebuild the Hurricane Katrina-devastated city were abused and exploited, according to a report by Interfaith Worker...

‘Corruption Is The Programme Of The Elite To Steal From The...

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‘We do not like corruption, because corruption is a programme of the elite in society to steal from the poor,’ said COSATU General Secretary,...

‘WE ARE PREPARING FOR A HUGE BATTLE! says South African SAMWU...

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‘We are preparing for a huge battle,’ said the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) at the weekend. In an extensive statement, SAMWU said: ‘Our...

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...

Hamas Rejects Jordan Provocation

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Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas denied on Wednesday accusations by Jordan that the movement had stored weapons on Jordanian territory. Hamas added that it regretted Amman’s...

DISMANTLE THE WALL – say UN experts

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Eight UN experts on Monday called for the Israeli separation Wall being constructed on Palestinian land to be dismantled. The UN experts were marking the...

‘TELL HAMAS TO DISARM’ – US urges Putin

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Senior Hamas official Ismail Haniyah, who topped the Islamic movement’s national list of ‘Change and Reform’ in the parliamentary elections, said last Friday that...

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...

Australia’s working poor – ‘Workers’ share in the national income...

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THE AUSTRALIAN Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has released a new report that shows Australia is at risk of becoming an ‘Americanised society’ of...

President Assad wins the struggle for Syria

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad headed to the Saudi city of Jeddah on Thursday to participate in the activities of the 32nd session of the meeting...

‘There has been a shift in the balance of power in...

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcast on Thursday. We are very pleased to publish it in two parts PART ONE AL-MANAR: In...

Police killings of unarmed black Americans impact on community!

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Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on the mental health of black American adults in the general population, according to a...

DEATH TOLL PASSES 1,100 – in the Rana Plaza disaster

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THE death toll from the collapse of the Dhaka building housing garment factories that workers were ordered back into, despite warnings, reached over 1,121...

Greek seafarers & dockers in 24-hour national strike

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GREEK seafarers along with dockers and all other ports workers staged a solid 24-hour national strike last Wednesday against two separate government Bills to...

Israel breaks Gaza-West Bank access deal

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ISRAEL on Wednesday defied the United States and the Middle East Quartet and decided to delay, reportedly until next week, the start of the...

‘JUSTICE NOT BOMBS’ demand thousands of Tamils at Downing Street

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Over 15,000 Tamils and their supporters held an angry vigil opposite Downing Street on Saturday evening demanding ‘Stop the war. Don’t kill Tamil people...

Three Former Blackwater Employees Get 30 Years For The Nisour Square...

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LAST Monday, three former employees of Blackwater, the notorious US military contractor, were sentenced to thirty years in jail for carrying out a massacre...

‘We are ready to take action – Don’t come back with...

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‘WE are ready to strike, don’t come back with some half-baked deal,’ junior doctors urged their leaders at a 100-strong BMA London Regional Committee...

Benefit for International Youth Conference is a huge success

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A great night was had by all at the Young Socialists Benefit Concert in North Kensington, west London on Saturday night. It was held at...

‘Workers Should Down Tools If They Feel Unsafe’ – Cosatu

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WORKERS should be allowed to down tools if their employers fail to provide them with masks and other protective gear in line with the...

Israel Planning Attack On Hezbollah

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FEARS are growing that Israel will risk a surprise strike to cripple Hezbollah. For more than a decade, the assessment that another war between Israel...

UN Secretary General Demands Protection for the Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli...

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UNITED Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has demanded the protection of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails and detention facilities amid the novel coronavirus...

‘The Whole Country Should Be Brought Out!’ – Say Sacked Lindsey...

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Talks with contractors on Tuesday afternoon and evening, aimed at ending the bitter dispute over the sacking of 647 workers at Lindsey oil refinery,...

Poorest Families With Children Are Hit The Hardest By Tory Cuts!

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POORER groups have been worst affected by changes to direct taxes, benefits and tax credits despite the Coalition’s promise that the rich would carry...

FORWARD TO A SOCIALIST REPUBLIC! – urge French youth

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OVER half a million high school youth, unemployed youth, university students and workers demonstrated across France on Thursday, March 16. Millions of workers...

Release All Political Prisoners In Turkey

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TWENTY-FOUR rights groups have called on Turkey to release all those arbitrarily detained and imprisoned there simply for demanding basic human rights – and...

Ramaphosa will unleash ‘a jobs bloodbath’ – WARNS AMCU TRADE UNION

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LONMIN billionaire Cyril Ramaphosa could favour mining bosses’ agenda of restructuring to revive profits and unleash a renewed jobs bloodbath, the Association of Mining...

Sun International fired 14 shop stewards to please Gupta family!

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THE SOUTH African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) is taking Sun International South Africa hotel chain to court over the treatment of...