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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...

‘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...

Russian roulette – the rouble rises as European economies...

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FROM FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST HAS Biden bitten off more than he and NATO can swallow? Is it really one year already? Did anyone say it...

Palestinian FM Maliki hands the ICC the outcome of the investigation...

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PALESTINIAN Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has handed the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor the official outcome of the Palestinian investigation into Israel’s murder of veteran...

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...

Ukrainian military using school buildings to launch rocket attacks – and...

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UKRAINE’S Right Sector neo-Nazi battalion has deployed multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) in a school in the New York settlement, and is firing at Russian...

Workers in the US are joining unions in their tens of...

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Workers across the United States, including in multi-national corporations like Starbucks and Amazon, as well as in the video game industry, are joining trade...

33 arrested ‘indiscriminately’ at Elbit factory siege

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PALESTINE Action campaigners have laid siege to a factory in Leicester which is the base of UAV Tactical Systems, owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s...

Junior doctors are determined to win their battle

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OVER 30 striking junior doctors picketing UCH Hospital in London’s Euston Road yesterday were joined by local residents and patients, to the continual sound...

Primary care has been run down under successive Tory governments

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THE GPs’ magazine Pulse has published the results of a major survey of GP surgeries, showing the extent to which primary care has been...

Civil servants are dreading energy bill hike of 54%

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CIVIL servants in the PCS union have shared how they are dreading the steep rise in energy prices as energy regulator Ofgem yesterday confirmed...

August 21 – Felixstowe Port is to come to a standstill...

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THE most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout. This is after after pay talks broke...

COSATU cost-of-living protest in Gauteng

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Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members in Gauteng last Friday marched to the department of trade and industry to hand in a...

Massive Support For Nurses Picket Lines

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THE RCN picket outside St Thomas’ hospital opposite Parliament in central London on Tuesday was joined by hundreds of nurses, hospital staff, doctors, and...

‘Horrific damage done to the Windrush Generation compounded!’ – Tory-run compensation...

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THE UK’s ‘hostile environment’ means that its compensation scheme is failing Windrush victims, says a Human Rights Watch report published on Monday. HWR said: The...

RAIL STRIKE THREAT IN THE US – a strike could cost...

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THE United States’ largest rail union has voted against a tentative contract agreement reached with rail management in September, raising the likelihood of a...

5,833 shops shut in 2018!

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STORES, banks and other businesses are disappearing at the fastest rate since 2010 a PwC survey has revealed with 2,461 shop closures in 2018. 3,372...

Nasrallah reveals that the USA attempted to buy off Hezbollah

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N A RARE interview recorded some 20 years ago and aired this week, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the resistance movement rejected...

‘The only way forward is a general strike’ – insists Newcastle...

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MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...

Israeli troops shoot dead two Palestinian Civil Defence workers in Nablus

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THE Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have slammed the fatal Israeli shooting of two Palestinian men at a military checkpoint south of...

Hezbollah sends 22-truck aid convoy to Syria

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THE LEBANESE Hezbollah resistance movement has dispatched a humanitarian aid convoy to earthquake-affected areas in Syria, at the same time, condemning Western governments’ ‘fake advocacy’...

TALKS WILL NOT STOP PLANNED STRIKES ‘ Money needs to be...

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PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak is facing calls from senior Tories, including members of his own government, to tackle the crisis in the NHS and...

Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany describes notorious fascist Stepan Bandera as a...

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UKRAINE’S ambassador to Germany has provoked outrage for paying homage to the notorious founding forefather of what is known today as the nationalistic ‘Azov’...

Hamas warns that Israel’s house demolitions will trigger ‘explosion’ of Palestinian...

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PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad and Hamas resistance movement have warned that Israel’s house demolitions and its expansion of illegal settlements in al-Quds (Jerusalem) will trigger...

Israeli settlers invade al-Aqsa Mosque compound

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ISRAELI settlers have once again invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem in the latest act of provocation against...

SAFTU calls South Africa national strike for August 24th – against...

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A NATIONAL strike across South Africa against the rising costs of living, load shedding, and other economic challenges will take place on 24 August,...

Youth organisations lead 150,000-strong march in Paris

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A dozen youth organisations marched through Paris on Saturday afternoon against the government’s pension age hike from 62 to 64, following last Thursday’s mass demonstrations...

Junior doctors are ready to walk out for 72 hours in...

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JUNIOR doctors in England WILL walk out for 72 hours in March if the ballot for industrial action is successful, says the BMA. The BMA...

Khader Adnan hunger striking for over 70 days – – Islamic...

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ISLAMIC Jihad, the Palestinian resistance movement has held the Israeli regime fully responsible for any harm to its high-profile official Sheikh Khader Adnan, who...

Executive pay soars in the US as the masses unionise, strike...

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As millions of workers across the USA unionise and strike against low wages, a new analysis finds that average pay for top chief executives...

Black people in US ‘subjected to brutality and death in the...

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AN African American journalist and political analyst has said that ever since the inception of the police in the United States African people have...

NUMSA to march on President Ramaphosa’s office

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will march on Wednesday, April 19th to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office to protest against security...

Unions Warn – Increase Pay To Fill The 132,000 NHS Vacancies!

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UNIONS representing more than a million staff working across the NHS met with Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Tuesday to discuss the growing workforce crisis...

Iranian missiles strike Mossad bases in Erbil – after two Iranians...

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IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a stern warning to Israel following a retaliatory missile strike on the ‘strategic centre of Zionist...

‘Israel Is Encircled By The Resistance Front’ Says Iran

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A TOP Iranian official says Israel has been caught off guard and is encircled by the resistance front, adding that normalisation of ties between...

‘THIS CRIME WILL NOT BE COVERED UP’ – Greek General Strike...

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TENS of thousands of workers with their families, students and youth demonstrated throughout Greece on Sunday against the government of K Mitsotakis whom they...

The world’s nine nuclear-armed countries spent $82.4 bn upgrading their atomic...

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THE world’s nine nuclear-armed countries – led by the US – spent $82.4 billion upgrading their atomic arsenal in 2021, eight per cent more...

Palestinian prisoners boycott Israeli military courts

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HUNDREDS of Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli jails have been boycotting the regime’s military courts for 16 consecutive days now, in protest against Israel’s...

ran’s Foreign Minister visiting Russia to facilitate solution to Ukrainian crisis

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IRAN’S foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says his visit to Russia will focus on efforts to facilitate a resolution of the Ukraine conflict. ‘The main purpose...

Biden Urges Railroads And Trade Unions To Avoid Railroad Strike That...

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THE BIDEN administration urged railroads and unions to reach a deal to avoid a railroad work stoppage, saying on Monday it would pose ‘an...

Sri Lankan university teachers demand the resignation of Rajapaksa and the...

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The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) has demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D. Wickremaratne,...

Israel in crisis as government loses majority and Hamas issues warning...

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srael’s ruling coalition government has become a minority in parliament after an Arab lawmaker stepped down in protest at ongoing Israeli forces’ aggression against...

NUMSA prepares Easter bus strike in SA

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Employers in bus wage talks in South Africa claim that the trade union’s wage demands are ‘unaffordable’, setting the stage for a strike struggle...

Telefonistas are set for national strike in Mexico!

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TELEFONISTAS de Mexico are on the verge of a national strike. The Union of Telephone Operators of the Mexican Republic, STRM, issued a double strike...