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Cardiff UCU staff vote 83% for strike action against huge job...

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CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...

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...

Labour authorises export of over 8,600 munitions to Israel for use...

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DESPITE public commitments to halt arms shipments that could be used in Gaza, the Labour government has authorised the export of over 8,600 munitions...

‘We teach our children hunger is more bearable than humiliation’ ...

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‘I feed my children sugar and water … but if they opened a corridor for us to leave in exchange for raising a white...

University job massacre! – national strike needed to save 10,000 jobs

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THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has called for immediate transparency from Coventry University after its recently published Annual Report and Financial Statements revealed...

BMA demands ‘an end to PA postcode lottery after review concludes...

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A NEW rapid systematic review published last Friday 7th March by researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford,...

Israel applying Gaza genocide tactics on West Bank – says UNRWA

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Israel is applying many of the tactics used in its war on Gaza to seize and control territory across the occupied West Bank during...

Unions denounce violent arrest of SEIU California President David Huerta –...

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THE INTERNATIONAL federation UNI Global Union has strongly condemned the arrest of David Huerta, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California, who...

Doctors submit PA horror stories to the BMA Reporting Portal

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British Medical Association (BMA) members have hit back in defence of their profession with scores of horror stories submitted to the Reporting Portal Submissions...

Iran considering participation in nuclear talks in spite of US ‘unreasonable...

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Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran is considering whether to participate in the next round of indirect nuclear negotiations with the US. Araghchi said on...

Settlers storm Al-Aqsa and West Bank villages

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SCORES of extremist Israeli settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning – while tight restrictions were imposed on the entry...

Washington DC parents keep children home as ICE raids intensify

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Immigrant families across the United States capital are facing the new school year under the shadow of aggressive federal immigration enforcement, with raids and...

China’s economy grows by 5.4% each year

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CHINA has the confidence and capability to mitigate the adverse impacts of external shocks on its economy and sustain sound economic development, a Chinese...

Judge thwarts Trump’s federal mass sackings

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A US federal judge has extended her freeze on President Donald Trump’s plan for mass job cuts and reorganisations at 22 federal agencies until...

United Association of South Africa demanding action over rising inflation

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Trade union United Association of South Africa (UASA) who represent workers in financial services said on Thursday that the rise in Consumer Price Inflation...

Russia calls truce on 80th anniversary of Victory Day

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Russia is ready to continue its dialogue with Western lawmakers both in North America and Europe, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday when speaking...

Trump’s ceasefire plan will allow Israel to resume its war after...

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A PROPOSED ceasefire framework pushed by US President Donald Trump, touted as the ‘final proposal’ for ending Israel’s war on Gaza, would still allow...

‘Free Mahmoud Khalil’ – Camp4Palestine US embassy protest

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‘FREE Mahmoud Khalil!’ demanded a lively demonstration organised by the Camp4Palestine outside the US Embassy in South London on Wednesday night. Addressing a rally outside...

24-hour Greek General Strike

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A 24-hour General Strike declared by GSEE (Greek TUC) and ADEDY (public sectors trades unions federation) took place on Wednesday in Greece, with the...

Canadian postal workers rally in 13 cities!

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Canada Post workers held rallies in 13 cities across the country on Saturday as the ongoing labour dispute with their employer reaches boiling point. The...

Trump’s executive order removes over 200,000 AFGE members!

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THE AFGE (American Federation of Government Employees), the nation’s largest union for federal workers, president said on Monday the organisation’s ongoing staff downsizing will...

South African unemployed doctors launch 3rd sit-in

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SOUTH African unemployed doctors have been protesting once again, launching their third sit-in of the year outside KwaZulu-Natal’s Office of the Premier on Monday...

Nigerian unions will strike against oil company intimidation!

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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN said that...

Musicians back Bob Vylan and Kneecap!

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ARTISTS have spoken out in support of hip-hop groups Bob Vylan and Kneecap, both of which provoked the fury of Zionism and imperialism for...

‘A general strike for Palestine is what is needed!’ – as...

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More than 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London on Saturday on the 30th National March since...

Israel’s mass arrests ‘a systematic campaign of persecution targeting Palestinians’

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ISRAELI police arrested 561 Palestinian workers throughout the 1948 occupied territories last week under the pretext of entering ‘without permits’. Human rights groups have condemned...

Striking Butler Hospital workers reject pay offer and remain on strike

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Three weeks after Butler Hospital management issued what it called its ‘last, best and final’ contract proposal, the union representing striking workers has ‘overwhelmingly’...

5,000 mass protest against Palestinian starvation

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‘STOP starving Gaza!’ demanded over 7,000 workers and youth at a mass demonstration outside Downing Street last Friday evening. The ‘emergency protest’ was called by...

Dr Marwan al Sultan targeted & killed by Israeli air strike

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Dr Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, was killed on Wednesday when an Israeli airstrike targeted his home near the...

Make corridor care ‘a never event’ – demand Welsh NHS unions

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) and the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales have joined forces to address the alarming state of corridor...

‘If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in...

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LATE on Sunday, an Israeli airstrike killed five Al Jazeera journalists and media workers in Gaza City, striking a tent by the main gate...

The torture of Palestinian prisoners has become commonplace

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the torture of Palestinian prisoners has become commonplace since October 7, 2023, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, warned...

End ‘business as usual’ with Israel – Human Rights Watch and...

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Human Rights Watch (HRW), along with 125 other civil society organisations, has urged the European Union (EU) to review Israel’s compliance with its human...

Strikes and unionisation campaigns sweep the USA

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Members of the Teamsters union in the United States were joined by other members of the Labour Alliance for Public Transit last Thursday at...

Settlers committing war crimes against Palestinians under the protection of the...

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FORMER Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert says settlers have been committing ‘war crimes’ against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank under the protection of...

International Paramedics Day at Camp4Palestine

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INTERNATIONAL Paramedics Day 2025 is being marked at the Camp4Palestine opposite the US Embassy in London tonight at 6.30pm and will be featuring a...

Teachers and lecturers fighting mass sackings across the UK

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STRIKING Shaftesbury School teachers are drawing increasing public support in their dispute over restructuring, as the Sherborne Area Schools Trust (SAST) refuses to come...

‘This is Labour’s Poll Tax – No Labour MP who backs...

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OVER 400 disabled people gathered in Parliament Square on Monday 30th June to oppose the bill being put to Parliament yesterday by the Labour...

Senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustains multiple rib fractures after...

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SENIOR Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustained multiple rib fractures after being violently assaulted by Israeli prison guards, it was revealed on Wednesday. Barghouti was attacked...

800 UK lawyers & 300 prominent French writers demand sanctions against...

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MORE than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, have called on the UK government to impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its...

‘Gaza stands for the majority in the world’

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The Community Camp4Palestine hosted a panel discussion on Wednesday evening on Zionism and US militarism. The event was well attended on the site of the...

‘This Zionist regime acts with an impunity never seen before’ says...

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First speaker at the rally in Whitehall outside Downing Street was Palestinian journalist Ibrahim Khadra, who said: ‘It’s the 622nd day of Israeli genocide...

SA trade unions want trade deal with USA before 30% tariffs...

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SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...

The month of May – a graveyard for journalists in Gaza

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Palestinian officials say Israeli forces have killed at least 219 journalists and media workers since the regime’s genocidal war started in the Gaza Strip...

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...