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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...

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...

‘Today we are unionising the United States Congress’ says the Congressional...

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STAFF members of the US House of Representatives in Washington filed a petition for representation on Monday to form a union for the first...

Australia Fining Nurses For Going On Strike!

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AUSTRALIA is now threatening to fine health workers and their unions for coming out on strike, in a move which is set to be...

While bills & rents soar US to spend $838.8bn on arms

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THE devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout continue to take a toll on the world and provide ample reason to...

Ithaka – the fight to free Julian Assange

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ITHAKA – The film title is from a Greek poem – a long journey and the overcoming of obstacles through the knowledge gained on...

Abbas meets Biden who rules out talks to set up Palestinian...

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, welcomed the official visit of the President of the United States of America, President Joseph...

French aviation union calls four-day strike over low pay and bad...

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FRENCH aviation union Syndicat National du Personnel Navigant Commercial (SNPNC-FO) cabin crew members (hostesses and stewards) are on strike from Wednesday July 13 to...

SAFTU calls on workers to mobilise and unify for a general...

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‘SAFTU calls on the working class to mobilise and unify towards the Working Class Summit and the General Strike in August 2022.’ SAFTU said it...

Myanmar Garment Workers Strike

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AROUND 2,000 workers from a garment factory in Yangon’s Zaykabar Industrial Park in Mingaladon Township went on strike last Thursday morning, declaring that violations of...

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...

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...

UN warns mass evictions of Palestinians a ‘war crime’

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The United Nations (UN) has warned that the Israeli regime’s forcible mass eviction of over 1,200 Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta...

FBU condemns plan for firefighters to be sent into fires with...

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THE Fire Brigades Union has formally reported two fire and rescue services to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and identified several others, in...

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...