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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...

Nearly two million US citizens held behind bars – Lashawn Thompson...

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LASHAWN Thompson, a 28-years-old black inmate, was found dead in his cell in an Atlanta jail with more than one thousand insect bites all...

Nurses & midwives determined to strike for pay!

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A BALLOT of Royal College of Nursing members in Scotland has shown the majority are willing to take part in strike action – with the...

World Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns state repression in Sri...

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THE WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions) has ‘strongly denounced’ and condemned state repression against the workers and the people of Sri Lanka. A WTFU...

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...

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is ready to confront Israel – while...

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THE commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warns the Islamic Republic will harshly confront the Israeli regime wherever...

Starbucks workers in New York State are joining the union

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NEW YORK State baristas and other workers at the Starbucks coffee shop in Syracuse’s Armory Square, are seeking to join a union as part...

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...

Desperate Tories Turn To Fracking

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IN ITS first acts of desperation, the new government of Prime Minister Liz Truss has decided to announce that the moratorium on fracking has...

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...

More countries avoiding using the US dollar for their financial transactions

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WHILE there is a decline in Washington’s standing as a superpower, the United States is facing another harsh reality – the decline of the...

‘Israel must eliminate its stockpile of nuclear weapons’ – says...

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A SENIOR Iranian diplomat has condemned the lack of progress in the implementation of the UN 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) resolution and the...

Summer strikes at Isle of Wight ferries and Heathrow – RMT’s...

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ALL of the Isle of Wight’s Southampton-to-Cowes ferries will shut down during summer holidays as 120 workers take strike action against Red Funnel and...

End Cuba blockade now! – demands international Day of Action

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A Day of action against the US blockade on Cuba has been held in several countries, with supporters of the Latin American nation determined...

‘400,000 people could be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts’

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THE CHILD Poverty Action Group and dozens of other charities have called for a 7% hike in benefits in a demand made to coincide...

All India Coal Workers Federation Are Fighting The Break-Up And Privatisation...

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THE RECENTLY held two-day national meeting of the All India Coal Workers’ Federation in Jharkhand’s Ranchi decided on launching a month-long series of actions...

Myanmar junta jails photojournalists

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ONE media worker has been sentenced and jailed and another detained amid rising attacks against the press by the military junta in Myanmar. A freelance...

The Israeli military is murdering Palestinian children – Human Rights Watch...

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HUMAN Rights Watch has called for an end to impunity for Israeli killings of Palestinian children, and the use of unlawful lethal force. The Israeli...

US war games plan to intimidate North Korea

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AN US aircraft carrier and warships from its strike group arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in nearly five years...

Sri Lanka unions condemn violent army attacks

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AT LEAST eight media workers were beaten and violently assaulted by security forces and police during live coverage of Saturdays anti-government protest outside Prime...

75,000 children in London in temporary accommodation

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More than 75,000 children are stuck in temporary accommodation due to insufficient housebuilding and low benefits, new studies have concluded. Reports from University College London...

Bolivia Coup Leaders Jailed For 10 Years

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BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE – Bartolina Sisa Resistance ON JUNE 15, 2022, in the Coup d’etat II case, the 1st Court of Anti-corruption read the...

Marchers call for Tories to be brought down on ‘Britain is...

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Over 10,000 workers and youth joined the ‘Britain is Broken’ march through London on Saturday, called by the People’s Assembly, with big delegations from...

7,000 NY nurses strike against ‘dangerous understaffing’

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A STRIKE by more than 7,000 nurses at two major New York City hospitals began at 6.00am on Monday after talks aimed at averting...

Over 2,000 international journalists demand immediate release of Julian Assange!

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OVER 2,000 journalists have signed the following statement in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. ‘If the US government can extradite Assange for this, it...

Palestinians defy Israeli clampdown!

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AT least four Israeli soldiers have been injured after an improvised explosive device was hurled at a military post in the central part of...

‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!’ –...

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‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!’ chanted thousands of protesters marching in London from the Home Office to a rally...

Hundreds of Palestinians march in funeral processions as PM Shtayyeh condemns...

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HUNDREDS of people marched in the funeral processions of two of the Palestinians, out of three killed by the Israeli forces in the occupied...

Russia prevented ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ says Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin ‘prevented a humanitarian catastrophe when he launched the special operation in Ukraine,’ speaker of the Russian State Duma (lower parliament...

64 Palestinians wounded protesting against the desecration of Joseph’s Tomb!

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HAMAS, the resistance movement, says Palestinians should keep up the ‘armed resistance’ against Israeli occupation in the West Bank, after one of the regime’s...

‘Mobilisations and strikes are the weapon of the workers’ says Force...

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MILLIONS of French workers, youth and their families on Thursday took part in the latest strikes and mass demonstrations across the country against the...

Occupation authorities are waging a relentless war against the Palestinian youth...

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ISRAELI occupation forces on Tuesday and Monday night detained at least 14 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, six of them from East...

The West Has Been Behaving Brazenly In Ukraine

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‘THE WEST has been behaving brazenly in Ukraine for years, Russia was forced to react in order to save people in Donbass,’ Serb member...

Haitian workers will decide their own future!

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A SOLIDARITY gathering with Haitian unions has reinforced the need to respect the right of the Haitian people to decide their own future, and...

‘WE WANT PROSECUTIONS! – We want to see the guilty behind...

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TODAY is the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, when 72 Kensington and Chelsea Council tenants and residents were burnt to death in...

Russia Barred From Investigating Nord Stream Explosions

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THE Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the ‘truth’ behind the September explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines would ‘surprise’ many Europeans if...

‘In short the worst is yet to come!’ – IMF Director...

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CONSISTENCY between fiscal and monetary policy is paramount for economic and financial stability as high debts and deficits push more countries into budget crises...

SA cops use water cannon and teargas against striking diamond miners!...

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HUNDREDS of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members began a strike at the Ekapa diamond mines on August 7th; then on...

Iran, Russia and China hold joint naval exercise in Gulf of...

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NAVAL forces from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and China have practised shooting at aerial targets during a night-time operation over an area...

Israel rocked by anti-Netanyahu protests – as police use water-cannons!

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THOUSANDS of demonstrators have blocked traffic into the departures area at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, where Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin landed for...

‘I Can’t Breathe’: Race, Death and British Policing

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BLACK men are seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism is not being addressed, the charity Inquest has found. Families of...

Tunisian President Saied carries out ‘coup’

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LEADING Tunisian judges on Sunday rejected President Kais Saied’s moves to disband the Supreme Judicial Council that oversees them, a move they see as...

Santiago clashes on 49th anniversary of Pinochet coup

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SPORADIC clashes between demonstrators and police took place in the Chilean capital Santiago on Sunday as the country marked the 49th anniversary of the...

CGT fighting for ‘cost of living index’ to be the benchmark...

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JOB SEEKERS are struggling, says the CGT French trade union federation. It said: ‘More job seekers work part-time or under short contracts, while being registered...