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Hezbollah Thanks Iran For Its Aid To Lebanon!

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HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has thanked Iran for helping Lebanon weather its economic crisis, saying the Islamic Republic has proven to be...

South African steel & engineering strike into 2nd week

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EMPLOYERS in the steel and engineering industry have upped their salary increase offer to striking workers affiliated to the National Union of Metalworkers of...

University strikers determined to win

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DURING the nationwide university staff and lecturers strike this week, strikers were determined to stop the pension cuts, staff sackings, overbearing workloads and pay...

France’s Force Ouvriere (FO) is ready for a national strike and...

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FRENCH trade union federation Force Ouvriere (FO) announced on Wednesday that it is preparing a national strike and rally of private health sector workers...

State Of Emergency Declared By Bolivian Unions! Statement By Bartolina Sisa...

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‘The Bolivian trade union organisation Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and indigenous peoples organisations have ratified a state of emergency in the face of alleged...

Sunak statement: ‘Ordinary people bear the broadest burden’ – Unite

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TRADE unions have highlighted the acute crisis facing millions of families facing steep rises in the cost-of-living, declaring that measures outlined in Tory Chancellor...

London fire service facing ‘unprecedented’ staff shortages

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Rising Covid cases have left London fire and rescue with ‘unprecedented’ staff shortages, meaning that up to a third of London’s fire engines have...

1,700 GPs quit in six years

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THE NHS’ latest GP workforce data for England has shown a drop of more than 1,700 full-time GPs – in the last six years. And...

US nurses National Day of Action for safe staffing

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NATIONAL Nurses United held a National Day of Action on January 13th to demand their employers, and the Biden administration protect registered nurses (RNs),...

French Teaching Unions Nationwide Day Of Action

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TEACHERS’ unions in France held a nationwide day of protests and strikes on Tuesday to call for stricter sanitary measures in schools as coronavirus...

Colombian electors are hungry for a big change in their crisis-hit...

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BY YONATAN MOSQUERA NEXT Sunday 19th of June the final round of presidential elections will take place in Colombia. After having defeated the establishment candidates...

Over 100 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2022

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A Palestinian human rights group says Israeli military forces have killed more than one hundred Palestinians, and wounded hundreds more during raids and various...

Barristers demonstrate on 2nd day of indefinite strike

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HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester on Tuesday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over...

Striking RMT Members Demand To Know How Much Has Been Paid...

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WITH RMT members ‘rock solid’ in their latest day of strike action at Abellio ScotRail and Serco Caledonian Sleeper on Sunday, the railworkers union...

‘If Pelosi cares so much for human rights she should apologise...

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CHINA has called on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to express remorse and apologise for the atrocities committed by the Americans in Afghanistan, Iraq,...

TUC – call a general strike now to smash the Strikes...

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THERE was a powerful Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Conference in Liverpool on Monday morning, where delegate after delegate...

Biden trip seeks to obliterate Palestinian cause

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THE Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has condemned US President Joe Biden’s forthcoming visit to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, as being...

‘Today we are unionising the United States Congress’ says the Congressional...

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STAFF members of the US House of Representatives in Washington filed a petition for representation on Monday to form a union for the first...

Clover workers strike in SA since November 22

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The General Industries Workers Union of SA (Giwusa) has lambasted Clover, claiming that the massive South African dairy producer is lining its pockets at...

US General Milley visits illegal occupation forces in Syria US General...

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TOP US military officer General Mark Milley has visited American occupation forces in northern Syria just one day after he’d met with the Israeli...

Ukrainian drones used against cities in Russia – and HIMARS attack...

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AIR defences downed a Ukrainian drone approaching the Russian city of Voronezh, the regional government said in a statement on Monday. ‘Last night, air defences...

Four million children growing up in poverty! – ‘Heart-breaking & wrong’...

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‘IT’S HEART-breaking and wrong’ that a million children under 4 are growing up in poverty, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) charity. Almost 3 in...

Israeli forces shot dead Palestinian woman as Israeli state steps up...

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ISRAELI military forces have shot dead a Palestinian woman near the city of Bethlehem in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, amid...

Government trying to make itself untouchable says Liberty

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NEW research by Liberty shows most people believe that no matter your role, everyone should follow the same rules and that no one should...

NEU is to carry out national strike ballots of 300,000 teachers...

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‘TODAY the National Education Union is writing to employers with notification of our intention to carry out national ballots of around 300,000 teacher and...

US Rabbis oppose Israel’s right wing government – Russia and Iran...

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HUNDREDS of US rabbis have signed an open letter protesting against Israel’s new far-right administration and pledging to block the extremist members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s...

Government Failed In Its Duty Of Care!

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The UK government ‘failed in its duty of care’ to doctors and the healthcare workforce in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, says the...

Rail workers striking in Scotland, across the UK & around the...

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Railway workers in Scotland took 24-hour strike action on ScotRail yesterday after the RMT union rejected a real-terms pay cut. ScotRail bosses have offered 5%...

Bernie Sanders addresses packed ‘Save London Transport’ rally at the TUC

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BERNIE SANDERS, US Senator for Vermont, addressed a packed ‘Save London’s Transport’ rally organised by the RMT railway workers union, at London’s TUC building...

Huwara Set Ablaze By Rampaging Zionist Settlers

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HUWARA, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, was almost entirely set ablaze on Sunday night as extensive fires engulfed...

Most Ukrainian troops ‘killed or captured’ says Russia

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TALKS between Russia and Ukraine should be held on conditions advanced publicly by the Russian side and take into account the actual situation, speaker...

An inflation-busting pay rise is needed to keep key NHS staff...

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FOUR out of five NHS staff say pay is the main reason they would quit their jobs. An exclusive poll of NHS staff yesterday revealed...

Hamas says all resistance factions will support Sheikh Jarrah residents battling...

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THE HEAD of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh says all the Palestinian resistance factions firmly support the families of the East al-Quds neighbourhood of...

US screenwriters 98% vote to strike from May Day

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Film and television writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the United States are to strike on and from May Day in...

‘Down with Bolsonaro!’ – thousands of Brazilians take to the streets

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THOUSANDS of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October’s...

‘50% chance of war with Israel’ –declares Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah –...

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The HEZBOLLAH Lebanese resistance movement does not rule out going to war with Israel over the regime’s attempts to move in on Lebanon’s natural...

Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance slams Saudi refusal to renew ceasefire

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Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has slammed the Saudi-led coalition for failing to renew the UN-brokered truce deal and deteriorating the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn...

AICCTU unions condemn Modi government lies!

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THE MODI government’s ‘lies and myth-making’ at the National Labour Conference have been denounced by the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU). The...

US National Nurses United condemn TRAPs schemes as the means for...

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THE AMERICAN National Nurses United (NNU) applauds the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) efforts to investigate the exploitative and coercive employment-related Training Repayment Agreement...

Iranian oil minister Owji says oil & petro-chemical exports are continuing...

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IRANIAN Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji says Iran’s crude oil and petrochemical exports continue without disruption after the Biden administration announced a new round...

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...

‘Virtual wards will jeopardise patient safety even further’ – says BMA

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THE NHS won’t survive without immediate steps to bolster our workforce, doctors union the British Medical Association (BMA) warned on Monday. Responding to the Tory...

Iranian government acts over the steep rise in the price of...

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THE IRANIAN government will offer direct cash handouts to the people in the country to offset a decision to raise the price of flour...

Israeli Settlers & Soldiers Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque

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A GROUP of Israeli military forces and settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds and clashed with...

Putin plans to meet Chinese President and other leaders at Shanghai...

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders at the upcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation...