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Police assault and crime rate continues to climb – time to...

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A SERVING British Transport Police (BTP) officer has been dismissed without notice, after sexually assaulting a colleague at London Bridge station. Police Sergeant Tristan Davis...

24/7 Alliance Is Fighting Pay And Public Service Cuts

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THE 24/7 Alliance launched a DVD yesterday morning in Dublin to argue its case against further cutbacks in pay, operational conditions and...

2019 was a disastrous year for the working class! – says...

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THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has bemoaned a tough 2019, describing the entire 12 months as ‘annus horriblis’ (Latin word meaning very...

Israel’s Systematic Crime Against Education In Gaza

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The Israeli occupation continues to commit a systematic crime against the education sector in the Gaza Strip, as part of a comprehensive war against...

CHARGE GERMANY WITH FACILITATING GENOCIDE BY ARMING ISRAEL – ICJ at...

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THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...

Ex-President Trump launches attack on Netanyahu

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FORMER US president Donald Trump has launched another verbal attack on his one-time close ally Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the ex-Israeli prime minister did not...

Youth Uprising In Bobigny Suburb Of Paris

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''I''M NO HERO,’ insisted 16-year-old Emmanuel Toula after he rescued a child from a burning car set alight during last Saturday night’s...

UCU strike ballot against vicious assault on members pensions

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‘UCU (University and College Union) will be calling sustained strike action aimed at massively disrupting lectures, classes and the administrative life of your institution...

‘Israel should be forced to stop its violations against the Palestinian...

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PALESTINE Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah told visiting members of the European Parliament on Monday that Israel should be forced to stop its violations against...

Private company driven out of NHS

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A HEALTHCARE ‘procurement’ process that named a private provider as the preferred bidder for contracts worth £25m has been abandoned after NHS trusts threatened...

DEFEND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE – FBU responds to the latest...

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Responding to the latest State of Fire report announced by the chief inspector of fire and rescue services Sir Tom Winsor, the Fire Brigades...

Education spending cuts ‘without precedent’ in post-war UK history – Institute...

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‘The cuts to education spending over the last decade are effectively without precedent in post-war UK history, including a 9% real-terms fall in school...

Leon Trotsky On The Easter Rising

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Written: 11 May 1916 First Published: Nashe Slovo, 11 May 1916 Source: Trotsky’s Writings on Britain New Park Publications Ltd, London 1974 THE Irish rising has...

US & EU continuing economic terrorism against Syria

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‘MEMBER countries at the UN Security Council are attempting to destabilise Syria and impose their own hostile agendas,’ Syria’s permanent representative to the UN,...

1,000 Teachers, Parents And Supporters March On Department For Education

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ONE thousand teachers, parents and supporters marched through Westminster in the cold and rain, led by the National Education Union, (NEU) to demand that...

Leadership And Industrial Action Needed To Stop NHS Privatisation

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THE British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM), which opens in Torquay today, gathers at a time of unprecedented challenges for the medical...

BDS has hit back after Pompeo’s ‘anti-Semitic’ slander

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THE PALESTINIAN-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has criticised and firmly rejected US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s labelling of its movement as...

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...

US ready to negotiate with Assad says Kerry

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AS the devastating war in Syria entered its fifth year on Sunday, the US said it would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar...

SAVE LEWISHAM BRIDGE SCHOOL! demand parents, teachers and pupils

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MORE than 300 parents, teachers, students and schoolchildren marched through the centre of Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday to save Lewisham Bridge Primary School. The...

Labour has armed Israel more than the Tories!

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An explosive revelation came from the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) on Tuesday, declaring that arms sales to Israel under Labour in the past...

Haniya Welcomes Rafah Crossing Opening

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THE head of the Hamas government in Gaza on Tuesday urged Palestinians to respect Egypt’s security so that Cairo would keep open the Rafah...

Bedouins rally against Negev expulsions

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PALESTINIAN Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev announced Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal to be put before the...

Government Fails To Meet The NEU’s Five Tests

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OVER 1,200 members of the National Education Union (NEU) – all of whom are teachers who work in special school settings with children, many...

Palestinian Children Being Held In Solitary Confinement

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BY ADRI NIEUWHOF ISRAEL has held six Palestinian boys from Nablus in solitary confinement in al-Jalame detention centre near Haifa, writes Defence for Children...

Leon Trotsky exhibition in Leningrad

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An important event for the working class of Leningrad and the entire world by Mikhail Polupanov This exhibition is dedicated to 130th anniversary of outstanding...

US AGENCIES HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF AFGHANISTAN – says Major-General Flynn

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AMERICAN spy agencies need to make ‘sweeping’ changes to their work in Afghanistan, a report by Major-General Michael T Flynn and two other senior...

Hundreds of thousands of council workers being balloted for action

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HUNDREDS of thousands of council workers are to be balloted and urged to reject a ‘pitiful’ and ‘entirely inadequate’ pay offer during the next...

Zero-Hours Workers Earn £300 A Week Less!

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ZERO-HOURS workers earn nearly £300 a week less, on average, than permanent employees, according to a new report published on Monday to mark the...

Free Palestine! Hands Off Jerusalem!

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‘FREE Palestine! Hands off Jerusalem!’ shouted over 3,000 protesters outside the US Embassy on Friday night. The massive rally called for mass demonstrations ...

As Zuma goes–‘SAFTU has no confidence that multi-billionaire Ramaphosa will be...

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JACOB Zuma resigned as president of South Africa on Wednesday ahead of a vote of no confidence over uncontainable corruption scandals, and has been...

GAZA AIR STRIKES CONTINUE AS HUNGER STRIKERS ENTER 30th DAY!

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ISRAELI warplanes early Saturday carried out several air strikes targeting different locations in the Gaza Strip, injuring Palestinians and causing destruction to Palestinian properties. A...

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...

Sri Lanka Is ‘Waging Genocidal War’ On Weakened Tamils

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Sri Lanka is now waging a new genocidal war on unarmed and demographically weakened Tamils after converting their country imperceptibly into an open concentration...

Israel used ‘assassination tactic’ against 3 Palestinian youth

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A NEW investigation has revealed that Israel used an assassination tactic, not seen in the occupied West Bank for more than 15 years, in...

Defend Trent Park Campus–Defend Chase Farm say Middlesex University students

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STUDENTS from Middlesex University declared yesterday that the only way to defend their threatened Trent Park Campus and their neighbouring local hospital, Chase Farm,...

President elect Raeisi congratulated by world leaders

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WORLD leaders have extended their congratulations to Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on his victory in Iran’s 2021 presidential election. Raeisi garnered almost 62 per cent of...

News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance Conference – Forward To A Workers...

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‘IT is very clear that the collapse of the capitalist system has collapsed New Labour, that is the modern Labour Party’, News...

ISRAEL’S BRUTAL ATTACK ON AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL CONDEMNED – UN must stop...

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani has condemned Israel’s brutal attack on the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and the regime’s crimes against medical...

‘WE NEED ALL THE UNIONS OUT TOGETHER’ – say teachers at...

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PARENTS, teachers, headteachers, governors and members of the public from across the East Midlands and Greater London gathered on Saturday for the latest in...

‘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...

‘We want no more weasel words – we want immediate recognition...

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On the fifteenth National march for Palestine over one hundred thousand workers and youth took to the streets in central London in support of...

The Untold Hostage Story

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On Thursday morning, 29th December 2005, I received a short SMS from Muntasser Abdel Rahim, 26, Medical Relief Society Ambulance driver in Jenin. ...

Russia launches a new 10-year space programme

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The Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) is about to start its Kliper launch vehicle project, the head of the agency told a Moscow press conference...

300 garment factories shut down in Bangladesh!

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BANGLADESH garment bosses have indefinitely shut down all operations in over 300 factories at a key industrial hub after five days of violent protests...