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Patients are dying in corridors – a desperate situation for nursing...

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Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, shocking new testimony from nursing staff revealed on Thursday. A survey of NHS nursing...

Hundreds of thousands across Europe march for Palestine

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and young people took to the streets across Italy on Friday in a general strike organised by the CGIL...

Gaza’s children freezing to death in makeshift tents

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After enduring sniper attacks, fires, bombings, and all forms of violence, the displaced residents of Gaza now face the deadly threat of freezing temperatures...

Trump signs executive order ending collective bargaining for government employees involved...

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US President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late on Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at ending...

Google’s $32bn deal fuels Israeli war machine

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GOOGLE has announced a $32 billion deal to acquire Wiz, an Israeli cloud security company founded by former operatives of Unit 8200, the Israeli...

‘Ultimate victory belongs to the resistance’ declares Tehran rally

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The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has confirmed the assassination of its secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in massive Israeli airstrikes targeting residential buildings in southern...

South African trade unions demand action on unemployment

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SOUTH AFRICA’S leading trade union federations the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) and the Federation...

‘Ceasefire Today, Liberation Tomorrow!’

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WORKERS, students and youth who came from across the country to rally for Palestine in Whitehall, central London on Saturday, were subject to a...

Israel’s Systematic Crime Against Education In Gaza

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The Israeli occupation continues to commit a systematic crime against the education sector in the Gaza Strip, as part of a comprehensive war against...

UK must ban all goods in whole or in part from...

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A group of 62 MPs and peers across parties have written to trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds to demand the government takes measures to ban...

Israeli Occupation Army Intensifies Acts Of Extermination!

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AS the Israeli occupation army intensifies its acts of extermination and ethnic cleansing in the northern Gaza Strip, waves of displacement continue towards Gaza...

US capitalism faces fiscal ‘heart attack’ – socialist revolution is the...

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AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...

‘Russia will successfully complete Special Military Operation in Ukraine without resorting...

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RUSSIA has sufficient capabilities to successfully complete the special military operation in Ukraine without resorting to nuclear arms, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told...

‘Hezbollah strong enough and ready for all scenarios!’

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HEZBOLLAH Deputy Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has stated that the Lebanese resistance group is strong enough and ready for all scenarios, despite losing Secretary...

End all arms sales to Israel NOW! – demands Palestinian Youth...

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There was a demonstration of over 500 people outside the Foreign Office in Westminster on Friday evening organised by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)...

Canadian unions condemn Trump’s trade war

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HOW long will Canadian and American workers be pawns in Trump’s trade war? asks the IAM (Machinists) Canada union. Just three days after threatening to...

Washington lawsuit against Trump attack on unions

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A coalition of American unions has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation...

‘International actors must stop Israel’s Gaza genocide’ – demands Amnesty International...

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AMNESTY International Secretary General Agnes Callamard has called on all international actors, foremost among them the European Union, to take serious steps to stop...

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – ‘a dangerous political sham’

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LEADING aid and human rights organisations have condemned the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ as ‘a dangerous, politicised sham’. Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding) is among 11...

Israel blocks polio vaccine for 600,000 children in Gaza!

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More than 600,000 children in Gaza are at risk of permanent paralysis and chronic disabilities due to Israel’s prevention of polio vaccines in the...

California State University students on hunger strike against Israel’s blockade of...

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More than 30 California State University (CSU) students are on a hunger strike to protest against Israel’s blockade of food and water going into Gaza,...

Defeat Israeli plan to ‘manage starvation’ & drive Palestinians out of...

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Two days after the limited entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian voices are rising to emphasise the ineffectiveness of the aid provided. They...

Israel’s aggressive blockade pushes over two million Palestinians to the brink...

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AS ISRAEL'S second total blockade stretches into its second month, more than two million Palestinians are being pushed to the brink of famine. Hunger is...

Britain’s Toxic Secret

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By KYE GBANGBOLA ACROSS this country there are families suffering from living in proximity to contaminated land and polluted water. The suffering varies, from birth defects,...

‘14,000 Babies In Gaza Could Die Within 48 Hours!’

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UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher warned on Tuesday morning that as many as 14,000 babies could die in Gaza within 48 hours if...

US unions demand no cuts to Medicaid and education

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Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members across the country have been holding demonstrations throughout the last week against the plans of US President Trump...

Gaza starves as Israel turns blockade into a weapon of mass...

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AT DAWN on 26th April, a single Israeli airstrike obliterated an entire Palestinian family in central Gaza’s al-Sabra neighbourhood. The al-Khour family, spanning three generations,...

Israeli genocide escalates as IOF goes into Gaza City

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A TOTAL OF 101 Palestinians were killed between 12am and 6.40pm across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Medical sources reported that 86 people were killed...

Israeli airstrikes set out to destroy Yemen’s Sana’a Airport

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HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an urgent investigation into the Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Sana’a International Airport, which happened on May 28,...

Answer Higher Education Jobs Cull With National Strike!

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THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) held a rally and lobby of Parliament on Tuesday as part of its fight against a huge escalation,...

Netanyahu does not care about the fate of the Israeli captives!

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The armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades says most of the Israeli captives held in northern Gaza have gone missing, holding...

Israel is ‘deliberately’ destroying Gaza’s health-care infrastructure!

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AN American surgeon volunteer at a Gaza hospital has condemned the Israeli regime’s heavy toll on Palestinian medical facilities since October 7th, 2023, asserting...

Israel escalates bombings & starvation campaign in Gaza!

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The Israeli occupation army (IOF) continued carrying out deadly attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of civilians. Israeli forces...

ANC drops VAT increase to save coalition – as SAFTU celebrates...

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South Africa’s finance minister dropped plans on Thursday to increase value-added tax (VAT), in a major climbdown to prevent the collapse of the coalition...

‘It’s The People vs The Developers’ – declares powerful Peckham meeting

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A PUBLIC meeting of over 200 Peckham residents on Thursday evening stepped up the fight against plans by developer Berkeley Homes to tear down...

Greek workers say ‘No’ to 13-hour day

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The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the Greek TUC, responded on Thursday with an angry statement to the government Labour Ministry’s intention to...

Hospital workers in France strike against staff shortages

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THE Federation of Public Service and Health Service Personnel Force Ouvrière (FO-SPS) has expressed its support for striking hospital workers. The FO-SPS said on Wednesday:...

Venezuela condemns El Salvador for grave crimes against migrants

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VENEZUELA has condemned El Salvador for ‘grave crimes against migrants’, citing human trafficking, xenophobia and illegal deportations. It demands the immediate release of 252 Venezuelans. Venezuela’s...

Kentucky unions fight Trump’s deportation of 200 workers

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KENTUCKY trade unions are standing up to halt the deportation of two hundred immigrant workers. Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers,...

Bennett tour of US universities an aggressive defence of genocide!

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‘I’ve killed many Arabs in my life, and there’s no problem with that.’ In the United States, such a statement grants you the privilege of...

471 Days of israeli Crimes Gives Way to Ceasefire

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Amidst an atmosphere filled with anticipation and hope, the residents of the Gaza Strip spent their first night after the ceasefire took effect on...

NEU shines damning light on multi-academy trusts

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Analysis by the National Education Union shines a damning light on the performance of large multi-academy trusts (MATs). New data from a Freedom of Information...

COSATU concerned at Goodyear plant closure

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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Eastern Cape said on Thursday that is deeply concerned by the impending closure of...

New Nigerian loan scheme ‘will perpetually enslave the workers’

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One of Nigeria’s university based unions, National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), has opposed the federal government’s offer to float a loan scheme, known...

‘We want welfare not warfare 20,00-strong march tells Starmer

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AS the ‘Welfare not Warfare’ March was getting ready to leave the BBC and head for Downing Street, Margaret Mills, a Unison member from...