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Delphi postpones ‘motion for rejection of collective bargaining agreements’

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US autoworkers union (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker, who directs the union’s General Motors and Delphi departments, yesterday issued...

‘State terrorism is inscribed on the forehead of the US’

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IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says that outgoing US president, Donald Trump, registered state terrorism on America’s official record by openly accepting responsibility for the assassination...

UN DEMANDS TOTAL ACCESS TO INTERNMENT CAMPS – as Sinhala youths...

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TAMILNET reports that gangs of Sinhala youths brandishing Lion flags in the name of victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have...

STOP DEPORTATIONS! – demands march for migrant workers

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‘Stop deportations! Asylum rights are human rights! Equal rights for migrants!’ shouted over 500 people taking part in a March for Migrant Workers last...

Teachers join mass public sector strike in Abuja – in Kenya...

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The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Monday directed all primary and secondary school teachers in Abuja to join the ongoing strike initiated by...

All out behind Junior Doctors strike! – demands News Line Anniversary...

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ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY workers, students and youth attended the rally to mark the 46th Anniversary of the News Line and the 75th Anniversary of the Assassination...

Palestinians commemorate 75 years since the Nakba – Israel...

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WHILE Israel on Wednesday celebrated 75 years of its creation, Palestinians in Israel commemorated 75 years of their dispersion and what is known as...

Sri Lanka Garment Workers Rise Up Over Pensions

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THE Sri Lankan proposed private sector pension scheme has angered workers in the garment sector, with trade unionists warning of mass street...

Lesbos: epicentre of refugee crisis!

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WARS in Syria and Afghanistan are driving refugees through Turkey as they make their way to Greece. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos,...

REVIEW SECRETIVE ACADEMY SCHOOLS – TUC report

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The TUC on Monday called on the government to ‘step back’ and initiate an ‘independent review’ of privately-sponsored academy schools. Before leaving office, Blair...

RMT And Tssa Rail Unions Are Demanding Renationalisation!

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RAILWAY unions TSSA and RMT have demanded renationalisation of railways – and slammed the privateer rail companies – in the wake of valuable...

‘END THE INJUSTICE–END THE OCCUPATION OF OUR LAND!’ – Abbas message...

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ON Monday 24 November, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine and Chairman of...

Attack on workers rights in West Virginia

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PROPPED up by out-of-state interests, extremists in West Virginia are pushing ‘right to work’ legislation that takes away rights from hardworking people trying to...

‘Two-thirds of firefighters will face the sack in their late 50s!’

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WEDNESDAY’S four-hour strike by firefighters in England and Wales was an enormous success, with pickets and demonstrations outside fire stations and in town and...

Mustafa Barghouti Slams US-Israeli Campaign Against Palestinian State

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Dr Mustafa Barghouti, speaking at the 200-strong Solidarity for Palestine trade union conference on Saturday, warned of the massive campaign by US president Trump...

Mass migrant workers’ hunger strike

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NEARLY three hundred migrant workers, almost all of north African origin, have been on a mass hunger strike in Greece since Tuesday demanding: ‘the...

‘UK MUST HAND OVER TORTURE EVIDENCE’ – says Amnesty

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Amnesty International has called on the British government to hand over to Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohammed’s lawyers, vital information it holds on him. Binyam...

‘The deliberate inaction of countries … aims at legitimising Tel...

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THE IRANIAN Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights says ambiguous positions adopted by international bodies, including the United Nations, over the ongoing massacre of...

War On Iraq Planned Long Before 2003!

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SIXTEEN years on from the start of the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq, further evidence has emerged that the war was planned long before...

Police violently attack Ecuadorian protesters

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THOUSANDS of Indigenous people continue to demonstrate in the Ecuadorian capital, as their calls for social and economic reforms grow louder despite a crackdown...

‘Continue The March To Raise The Palestinian Flag Over Jerusalem’

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last Friday pledged to continue Yasser Arafat’s struggle to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, as thousands...

ITUC leader facing deportation from Zimbabwe

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The General Secretary of the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Kwasi Adu-Amankwah was on Tuesday morning dragged from his...

Equity Phoenix victory after Leeds demonstration

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FOLLOWING performers’ union Equity’s demonstration outside the Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds on Monday morning to demand that the contemporary dance company reverse their decision to lay...

Coalition Driving Disabled To ‘Tipping Point’

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‘DISABLED people and their families are struggling to make ends meet and feel increasingly nervous about the future’, warned Disability UK on Monday. ‘Crucial decisions...

South African universities strike looms

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STRIKE action is looming for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology after talks with workers over salary and service conditions deadlocked last weekend. The declaration...

Iran slams Israel’s continued ‘acts of aggression’ in Syria

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IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman warns about the implications of the Israel’s rampant incursions into Syria and Tel Aviv’s territorial ambitions in the Arab country...

NICARAGUANS VOTING IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ‘US rulers and their terrorist...

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PRESIDENT Daniel Ortega, as he went to vote in the municipal elections on Sunday, emphasised that people were voting for Nicaragua and by doing...

Numsa Battle To Halt Its Expulsion!

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is going to court on Thursday to stop Cosatu (Confederation of South African Trade Unions)...

Settlement with Vale–but no final accord!

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WITH a 75% ratification vote announced late on 7 July, Canadian nickel mining and processing workers represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Locals 6500 and...

Children in Gaza dying from hunger and relentless bombing say says...

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DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of at least 100 civilians, as well as 513 people suffering...

Trump’s immigration detention centres ‘rife with serious abuses’

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Detainees at three United States immigration detention centres have reported degrading conditions, including a delay in medical treatment that may be tied to two...

NO GUARANTEES GIVEN ON CAPABILITY DISMISSALS – FBU leader Wrack reveals

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FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack wrote a letter on Wednesday to all FBU members about pensions. He wrote: ‘There have been a number of developments...

Firefighters Look For A Candidate Who Will Defend Their Collective Bargaining...

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NEARLY 1,000 US Fire Fighters (IAFF) are set to take part in today’s 2008 presidential campaign’s first bipartisan candidate forum on Wednesday in Washington,...

Medicine company workers fury over Iraq police attack

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The Iraqi resistance is dealing daily blows against the US-UK led occupiers as it steps up its attacks. Last Tuesday fighters  attacked with three mortars a...

Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced...

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Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced quality of patient care and increased rates of deaths from treatable causes, according...

US government workers win legal victory against Trump sackings!

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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) scored a victory on Wednesday in its challenge to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from...

UN condemns US’ mass expulsions of Haitian migrants

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THE United Nations has condemned the US’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants who have been camped in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del...

FREE GAZA NOW! FREE GAZA NOW! – shout 5,000 demonstrators on...

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‘FREE Gaza now! Free Gaza now!’ was the cry of 5,000 mainly young people who swelled a mass picket opposite Downing Street on Saturday,...

South African metalworkers take action to defend pensions

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is preparing to take action, ‘including lunchtime pickets, placard demonstrations, marches and strikes’, to defend...

Starbucks workers mass walk- out in 34 cities of the USA

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THE Starbucks workers’ union said on Thursday that hundreds of new union baristas are walking out of their jobs in 34 cities, joining the...

‘Working class must follow example of October 1917’

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A POWERFUL News Line 47th Anniversary and 76th Anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s Assassination Rally, with 200 workers, students and youth in attendance, was held...

Argentine trade unions lead a historic general strike!

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THE GENERAL Strike called by the CGT and the CTA, in rejection of the DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) and the Omnibus Law,...

‘HUNDREDS KILLED BY ISRAELI-BACKED DEATH SQUADS’ – A review of Sabra...

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‘We commemorate the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in honour of the hundreds of men, women and children killed by death squads...

RIGHT TO RETURN IS CENTRAL TO FINAL STATUS – Palestinian factions...

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The following letter was presented to President Mahmud Abbas’s office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organisations on Wednesday September 24, 2008, the Badil Resource...

Ringleaders of foreign-backed riots arrested in Iran!

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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) forces have identified and arrested ringleaders and terrorist elements involved in the recent foreign-linked riots in Iran’s southwestern...