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BOYCOTT ISRAEL – say Nakba marchers

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‘Free, free Palestine!’ shouted up to 15,000 marchers, as they made their way through central London yesterday to a rally in Trafalgar Square to...

Iran warns imperialists as Iraqi forces advance in Mosul and Yemenis...

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LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that the United States and Zionists are especially targeting Iran because it is...

US public schools Day of Action

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MONDAY’s Day of Action – a day when parents, students, educators and community leaders held events in more than 30 cities throughout America to...

‘The Syrian army has full control of the city of Manbij!’...

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RUSSIA says its military police units are patrolling along contact line areas between Turkish and Syrian armies near Syria’s flashpoint northern city of Manbij...

University job massacre! – national strike needed to save 10,000 jobs

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THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has called for immediate transparency from Coventry University after its recently published Annual Report and Financial Statements revealed...

The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been serving as a security...

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GAZA authorities say the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been serving as a security front for the Israeli regime under the guise of...

‘Marikana’ Evictions Took Place On May 1!

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ON Workers Day May 1 the ‘Marikana’ Evictions took place. These residents of Philippi East, a growing township sandwiched between Nyanga, Mitchell’s...

Stop Treating University Staff As Second-Class Citizens

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AUT general secretary Sally Hunt is launching a manifesto for academic-related staff in Manchester on 12 May calling for more pay, reduced hours and...

West Bank settlement expansion ‘undermines Gaza gains’

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PLO Executive Committee member Yasser Abed Rabbo has called on the European Union to take a firm stand against moving the Zionist settlers evacuated...

Unions Condemn Budget As A ‘Provocation!’

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Unions have condemned the Chancellor’s 2014 austerity Budget with Unison calling it a ‘clear provocation’, the NUT saying it was ‘more of the same’...

AUSTRALIAN UNIONS DEMAND A PLAN FOR JOBS! • Plus an end...

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THE federal government must deliver a plan for jobs to avoid Australia developing long-term structural unemployment, warns the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Thursday’s...

‘Let us fight together to transform workers’ lives across the world!’...

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COSATU President Zingiswa Losi addressed Day One of the South African trade union movement Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday: ‘Comrades! Brothers and Sisters!...

Government officials knew cladding would go ‘whoosh’ when exposed to fire,...

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A SENIOR civil servant ‘ignored’ a ‘red alert’ warning about the ‘widespread, historic and ongoing’ use of a highly combustible cladding product on UK...

30,000 Oklahoma teachers march as strikes spread ‘like wildfire’

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TEACHER strikes and massive demonstrations of teachers, parents and students are spreading across the United States ‘like wildfire’. In Oklahoma City, at the state...

Palestinian prisoners at critical stage of hunger strike!

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TWO Palestinian prisoners have entered the critical stages of hunger strikes undertaken in protest at how they have been detained without charge or trial. Hassan...

Israel’s Separation Wall is destroying livelihoods & dividing towns & people

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THE Israeli Separation Wall will destroy the livelihoods and divide the population of two more Palestinian villages south of Jerusalem, locals say, after a...

There will be no peace without a Palestinian state – says...

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ISRAEL is up to its old tricks, which does not make anyone optimistic about seeing an end to the Middle East conflict, says an...

Dhaka workers plunge to their death!

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A Lack of safety measures once again led to a tragic accident in the capital’s Siddheshwari area, where three construction workers died after they...

Morrison government looks to bring back its union-busting legislation!

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AUSTRALIA’S Industrial Relations Minister has accused the construction union CFMMEU of an ‘extraordinarily high standard of unlawful activity’ as the Morrison government moves to...

Islamic terrorists attack Libyan towns & oilfields

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IN their boldest move so far, supporters of the Islamic State in Sirte appear to have extended their hold over the town, seizing its...

Abbas Predicts ‘Hamas Digging Its Own Grave’

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THE Palestinian Information Centre, the website of Hamas, last Friday posted a statement by Hamas denouncing PNA President Mahmud Abbas’s speech...

‘If you bomb Beirut the Islamic Resistance will bomb Tel Aviv’...

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THE Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaking on military operations, and political developments over Al Manar TV on August 3 noted that the fourth...

No harassment! No discrimination! Demand students working for California University

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STUDENT workers from the University of California demanded the UC implement new anti-discrimination and harassment provisions at a union contract negotiation session last Thursday. UAW...

‘West Bank is Palestinian territory occupied by Israel’ says Turkish Foreign...

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TURKEY has strongly censured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for promising to annex settlements in the West Bank if re-elected, saying that his ‘irresponsible’...

‘Labour history was made in Chicago last July’ – UNITE HERE...

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‘Labour history was made in Chicago last July with a merger that has paid real dividends for American workers’, says the UNITE HERE trade...

Israeli police demolish Bedouin village for 157th time

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ISRAELI authorities and their heavily armed police force demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Naqab desert in southern Israel for the 157th...

Asylum Seekers Unlawfully Incarcerated In Detention Centres

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ASYLUM seekers who had been tortured in the country from which they have fled were wrongly incarcerated in detention centres in the UK while...

Russian Troops Pushing Forward In Ukraine

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RUSSIA’S victory is unavoidable. It is based on the unity of the Russian people, the heroism of special operation fighters and the operation of...

FBU criticises ‘serious shortcomings’ of Grenfell Tower Inquiry

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BELOW is the introduction to the Fire Brigades Union’s 64 page ‘Response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 Report,’ containing scathing criticism of...

‘To reverse years of underinvestment sustained levels of investment are needed’...

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RESPONDING to PM Johnson’s comments in the weekend’s Sunday Times newspaper, in which he pledged a £1.8bn cash injection into the NHS BMA council...

TURKISH DICTATORSHIP SEIZES ZAMAN Journalists work with armed police standing over...

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EMPLOYEES working for Turkey’s Feza Media Group were allowed to enter the Zaman newspaper building in Istanbul at 8am Saturday after an ID check...

TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMME OUR GUIDE FOR TODAY – Part one: Socialist Revolution...

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A revolutionary wave is sweeping the planet, driven by the world economic and political crisis of capitalism and the undefeated nature of the working...

‘Consign capitalism to the Natural History Museum!’ –Jonty Leff tells Anniversary...

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More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...

Trump denounced as ‘traitor’ by far-right extremists in US

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FAR-RIGHT extremists are reportedly furious with Donald Trump, calling him a ‘traitor’ and a ‘coward’, after the outgoing president pleaded for calm following his...

GMB calls for an independent inquiry into South East Coast Ambulance...

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‘HEADS of the managers responsible must roll,’ the GMB union insisted yesterday after South East Coast Ambulance (SECAmb) Trust claimed that bullying allegations are...

BMA CHAIR TELLS GPs: INDUSTRIAL ACTION ILLEGAL!

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ANGRY GPs on Saturday voted for action over underfunding and a workload that threatens patient safety and their own health. But at the start of...

Public hearings into 200 unlawful killings in Iraq

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THE families of Iraqi civilians killed and tortured by British troops during the US-UK 2003 war and occupation have won a legal battle to...

‘DON’T GO BREAKING MY ARTS’ – eight unions launch campaign to...

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OVER 200 people attended a ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Arts’ rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday night. The rally was organised...

BASRA ASSASSINATIONS WARNING – police out of control, says chief

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‘Basra Police Chief Abd-al-Jalil Khalaf revealed that there is a conspiracy to assassinate religious figures in Basra Governorate during the holy month of Ramadan,’...

1,000 at Parliament rally for Palestine

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ON Monday night, a crowd of over a thousand gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to rally for Palestine and demand an end to...

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...

Gaza Women’s Committees Sit In For Equal Pay!

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A GROUP OF women’s committees in the besieged Gaza Strip organised a sit-in on Thursday to demand equal pay between men and women in...

NUJ addresses May Day in Ramallah

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THE HEAD of the National Union of Journalists in the UK, Michelle Stanistreet, visited Ramallah in Palestine on May Day, reinforcing the unity between...

18 YEARS SINCE THE KINGS CROSS FIRE RMT, ASLEF and the...

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EXACTLY 18 years after the King’s Cross fire, Britain’s rail and firefighting unions on Friday launched a joint campaign to keep in place essential...

Murderous US airstrike on Shayrat air base crossed red lines –...

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THE MURDEROUS US strike on the Shayrat Syrian air base last Friday crossed ‘red lines’ and any new aggression will be met by a...