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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...

‘Queen Elizabeth – the heiress of the British Empire’s callous and...

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BY ARVIN QAEMIAN Reprinted from Press TV QUEEN Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, was like an immortal icon, like Big Ben. Yet, as Shakespeare put...

SAFTU demonstration for a 1,500 Rand Basic Income Grant

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is opposing plans by the South African ANC government to replace the Social Relief of Distress...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Khalih Awawdeh – 171 days on hunger strike against Israel’s illegal...

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Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike today, Tuesday 30th August, 171 days into the protest against his detention without charge or trial...

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...

French student unions challenge Macron over huge rises in the cost...

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WITH inflation and the increase in the cost of living, the French student unions are challenging the government on the eve of the start...

COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA

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MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...

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...

Washington’s behaviour risks ‘direct conflict’ – warns Russian embassy in US

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THE Russian embassy in the United States has warned that Washington’s behaviour on the world stage risks direct conflict between the nuclear states. This comes...

Israeli raids on Palestinian civil society groups condemned worldwide

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THE UNITED Nations and other international organisations have condemned Israel’s military raids on the offices of Palestinian civil society and rights groups in the...

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...

‘Shoot to kill first and ask questions later’–if the target is...

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IN THE span of less than 25 hours, two shooting incidents took place in two areas in the occupied West Bank. In both incidents,...

Unionisation drives are sweeping Starbucks & Amazon across the USA

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UNIONISATION drives are sweeping Starbucks and Amazon workplaces across the United States from East to West, with strikes gaining powerful huge support from the...

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...

10 YEARS SINCE MARIKANA MASSACRE Ramaphosa … ‘the mastermind of a...

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THE MARIKANA mine massacre of ten years ago has never curbed President Ramaphosa’s political ambitions, but he’s never been able to escape the fallout...

‘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,...

‘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...

French workers battle to save hospitals and pensions

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FRENCH workers are fighting attacks on their pensions and health service. French trade union federation CGT has raised the alarm over hospital closures. On Saturday March...

‘From The River To The Sea – Palestine Will Be Free!’

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‘FROM the river to the sea Palestine will be free,’ 1,000 people shouted outside Downing Street in Whitehall in central London on Wednesday evening. It...

Tens Of Thousands March In Tehran Denouncing The Israeli Military Assault...

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Thousands of people in the Iranian capital, Tehran, staged a demonstration on Tuesday to express their support for the Palestinians and denounce the Israeli...

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...

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,...

Israeli attack on Gaza is an act of clear aggression says...

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THE Leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the latest Israeli attack on the besieged Gaza Strip is an act of clear aggression and...

‘Over 1 in 5 A-level students missed 20 days of school...

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THE Sutton Trust has warned: ‘Over 1 in 5 A-Level students missed more than 20 days of school due to Covid-19, in the run...

‘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...

Saftu Trade Unions Convene A Working Class Summit To Fight Rising...

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SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) has convened a Working Class Summit on Friday August 5 ‘to prepare a fight back’. It said: ‘In...

‘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...

GHOST STATIONS AND A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE! – RMT staff survey reveals...

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A MASSIVE staff survey carried out by the RMT railway workers union reveals the dystopian future awaiting passengers if the industry privateers and the...

The family of Abu Akleh has demanded that President Biden takes...

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THE family of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in May, has...

CGT calls for ‘day of mobilisation’

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FRENCH trade union federation CGT has called for September 29 to be a ‘day of mobilisation and interprofessional strikes’ over unemployment. The CGT stated that...

75% of the Tunisian people boycott constitutional referendum which gives the...

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OVER A DECADE since the death of the Tunisian fruit seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, after he set himself on fire over the viciousness of the...

Assad says Syria supports joint Arab action in the face of...

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President Bashar al-Assad says Syria supports joint Arab action in the face of regional challenges, stressing that the Arab country attaches paramount significance to...

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...

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...

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...

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...