OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY –The second Russian revolution will...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 9. War or peace? This essay was published in the New York daily newspaper Novy...
Thousands of civil servants jobs under threat
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NUMSA hails reinstatement as a victory for all workers!
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100,000 NHS staff vacancies!
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Fatah Calls General Strike!
Fatah’s top leadership called for a general strike throughout the nation for yesterday, in protest against the ‘fierce and planned Israeli attacks’ that have...
SA goldmine fires 1,500 strikers
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Housing benefits siphoned off to the super rich
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2,000 Sri Lankan Troops Killed In 2007
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Scrap Work Capability Assessments say disabled! –while Lewisham residents insist their...
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New North Of Ireland Police Powers Opposed By Nuj
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New Orleans sanitation workers strike enters eighth week
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‘WE ARE PREPARING FOR A HUGE BATTLE! says South African SAMWU...
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Junior doctors mass rally in Trafalgar Square – ‘A turbo-charged...
ON THE FIRST day of the four-day strike by 47,600 junior doctors they held a mass rally in central London. From 2pm onwards Trafalgar Square...
Swindon Great Western Hospital workers set to take strike action against...
HOSPITAL workers at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire, are set to take further strike action against yet another round of vicious attacks...
‘The US is working to serve Israel’s interest – destroying all...
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Israeli Forces Have Launched A Campaign Of Exterminating The Palestinians
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Israeli drones fire on kite fliers
ISRAELI drones carried out an airstrike targeting a group of Palestinian kite-flyers in eastern Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon....
French Youth Demand – Withdraw The Hire And Fire Contract
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Ssangyong Workers Battle Korean Police
Hundreds of South Korean riot police on Tuesday clashed with laid-off workers who have occupied part of Ssangyong Motor Co’s only assembly plant for...
‘Drone Attacks Are International Law Crimes’
An Islamabad-based human rights charity called on Wednesday on Pakistan’s Government to demand the adoption of a UN resolution requiring that the USA stops...
Mass Protests All Over Palestine On Nakba Day
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Greek schoolchildren and students rally against education cuts
SCHOOLCHILDREN and students across Greece protested on Monday against cutbacks to the education sector, and the ‘intensification of performance evaluation’ which is part of...
Israeli Bulldozers Demolish Bedouin Homes – As Khalida Jarrar Faces 12...
ISRAELI bulldozers demolished homes in the Bedouin village of al-Araqib village in the Negev for the 83rd time on Monday, in addition to a...
Israeli warplanes target Lebanese health facilities!
AT DAWN on Sunday, Israeli warplanes launched over 30 raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the ‘most violent attack’ on Lebanon since...
SAFTU demands resignation after attempts to derigister municipal workers union
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Numsa Organiser Mdazo Assassinated In Broad Daylight
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Muslim Brotherhood has failed forever – says Syria’s Information Minister Omran...
SPEAKING in Damascus on Monday, Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, reiterated that the political leadership in Syria is still committed to the political solution which...
70th ANNIVERSARY OF SYRIAN EVACUATION DAY The ending of the French...
SYRIANS on Sunday commemorated the 70th anniversary of Evacuation Day on Sunday (Syrian Independence Day, which marks the evacuation of French occupation forces from...
Threat To Sack All London Firefighters!
Ian Leahair, FBU Executive Council Member for London, on Thursday issued the following statement on London fire commissioner Ron Dobson’s threat to sack the...
US dockers tell bosses strikes will resume if their demands are...
THE International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) dockers union in the United States has agreed to suspend its strike of over 30 ports on the East...
Israeli Forces Storm Hebron Radio Station
ISRAELI forces on Tuesday morning stormed the offices of a Palestinian radio station in Hebron, where they destroyed equipment and ordered the station’s closure,...
MARIKANA HAS ONCE AGAIN ‘BECOME A KILLING FIELD’ says Amcu
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Argentina – right to strike targeted
The far-right government of President Javier Milei on Thursday imposed a significant restriction on the right to strike in Argentina across many sectors. This move...
‘WE ARE DEFEATING THE TERRORISTS’ says Assad
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad has affirmed that the situation in Syria has improved dramatically because the terrorist groups, mainly ISIS, al-Nusra and like-minded groups who...
‘WORKERS ARE BEING THROWN TO THE WOLVES’ – ICTU national demonstration...
THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has called a national demonstration on February 21 at 2pm in Dublin to mobilise workers against...
33% rise in Court Orders to evict private tenants – while...
new figures show there has been a massive 33% rise in court orders to evict private tenants over the past two years. Housing charity Crisis...
‘USA must stop funding Netanyahu’s war machine’ says Senator Bernie...
INDEPENDENT Senator Bernie Sanders has said that the United States cannot continue funding Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war machine as it presses ahead...
Israel plans ten new settlements in the Negev region
ISRAELI officials plan to rubber-stamp the construction of ten new settlements in the Negev desert region at a cabinet meeting next Sunday. The decision...
Bangladeshi parents are defending the BPA Community Disability Service
‘We were very angry today, we are not giving up, we are determined to save our service and we are very shortly going to...
100,000 March Against Israeli Barbarism
OVER 100,000 people took part in the largest-ever demonstration Britain has seen in support of the Palestinian people on Saturday, as Israel invaded the...
Massive nationwide industrial action in Germany!
Massive nationwide industrial action paralysed air and rail travel across Germany yesterday and Thursday as striking workers walked off the job to demand better...
‘BREATHTAKING ARROGANCE – PCS slams Tory Coalition’s cuts
The country’s largest civil service union, PCS, has condemned the suggestion that public servants should put forward ideas for spending cuts as ‘breathtakingly arrogant...
‘Toxic, Corrosive and Hazardous!’ – TUC condemns coalition record on...
‘Toxic, Corrosive and Hazardous’: The government’s record on health and safety – a TUC report published on Monday – Workers’ Memorial Day –...
Richest countries not helping refugees
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