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NUMSA CALLS MASSIVE STRIKE ACTION ON SEPTEMBER 30th AGAINST CORRUPTION...

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has served notice on behalf of a growing number of unions and their...

US indebtedness unnerves the Bourgeoisie!

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THE American viewing public got a stark warning from the billionaire Donald Trump during a recent TV interview when he announced that Americans should...

Fury Over Cancellation Of Philadelphia Teachers’ Contracts

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FURIOUS over the Philadelphia School Reform Commission’s (SRC) move to unilaterally cancel its teachers’ contract, 3,000 people shut down North Broad Street last Thursday,...

Remembering the Hillingdon struggle

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IT’S a shame that the All in a Day’s Work book of interviews, recording lives and the struggles of west London workers from 1945-1995,...

Three Numsa Shop Stewards Killed In Targeted Shooting

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THREE NUMSA shop steward leaders were gunned down late on Wednesday 6 August 2014 in the KwaZulu-Natal province. A National Union of Metalworkers of South...

Irish Nurses strike

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IRISH nurses and midwives are taking strike action from next week, with two-hour rolling stoppages commencing on Thursday, 14th January. Members of the Irish Nurses...

Abbas To Force Through Referendum On Recognising Israel

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PALESTINIAN president Mahmoud Abbas has the authority, and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has completed ‘administrative preparations’ for holding a referendum on a two-state...

GREEK YOUTH ATTACK POLICE STATIONS – While French students occupy lycées

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FOR the fifth consecutive day Greek school and university students and workers continued to demonstrate in the capital Athens and in virtually all cities...

US trade unions condemn racist rally in Charlottesville

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AMERICA’S nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), has condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday which resulted in the death of a...

Vote Wrp! Vote For Socialism!

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The WRP is standing seven candidates in the May 6 parliamentary elections and below is the party’s election manifesto. VOTE WRP ON MAY 6th! VOTE FOR...

HUNDREDS OF TAMIL YOUTH TORTURED –as Rajapakse strengthens his dictatorship

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TAMILNET reports that the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lankan government continues to torture hundreds of Tamil youths arrested and detained under...

Governments from 2002 knew Grenfell cladding was violently combustible

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GOVERNMENT officials knew of the dangers of flammable cladding 15 years before the horrific Grenfell Tower fire which on June 14, 2017 claimed the...

TUC calls for Israeli boycott but sets no date for action

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TUC Congress delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday voted for composite motion C22: ‘Right to boycott’ from the National Education Union. Moving the motion, Louise Regan,...

Bloody Sunday Commemorative March, Derry, forced off the road!

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By Fra Hughes in West Belfast FOR the first time in 49 years, the Bloody Sunday Commemorative March has been forced off the road, as...

CIA organised medical experiments on detainees post 9/11!

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Medical personnel on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) participated in experimentation and research on detainees during interrogations following the US terror...

‘Scandalous and incompetent’ GMB SLAMS LACK OF SICK PAY!

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THE GMB union has slammed as both ‘scandalous and incompetent’ reports that the government sought, at the start of the Covid pandemic, to make...

South African Metal And Municipal Unions Demand Cosatu Leaders Convene...

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THE South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has joined the Natioal Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) in demanding COSATU convene a...

Tuc Congress Demands Equal Treatment For Agency Workers

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DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool on Wednesday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 2: Temporary Agency Workers, to demand that agency workers have...

Abbas Defends Deferring Vote On Goldstone Report

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Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas tried on Sunday to defend his controversial decision to support deferring a vote on the damning Gaza war report...

11,000 Residents & Supporters Join Grenfell Silent Walk

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MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...

Syrians March To Support Their Delegation In Geneva!

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HUNDREDS of Syrians gathered on Friday morning in front of the UN’s Headquarters in Geneva to express their support for their country, Syria, its...

Glasgow Unemployment Crisis

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Targets set by ministers for agencies trying to get Scotland’s long-term unemployed off benefits are making the problem worse, not better. That is the finding...

END SCANDAL OF MALNOURISHED PATIENTS – says Age Concern

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Four out of ten older people admitted to hospital have malnutrition on arrival, says a new report by Age Concern. The Royal College of...

Palestinian ambassador condemns Netanyahu’s UK intervention to attack Labour leader Corbyn!

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‘BINYAMIN Netanyahu’s arrogant intervention into British politics is not surprising from someone who has always condoned Israeli state terror. Jeremy Corbyn, in contrast, has...

21 miners killed in Balochistan in the 1st half of January

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The Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (PCMLF) and the All-Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (APLF) jointly held a manifestation on January 13 at the...

Tar Sands Regions and Gulf Coast communities lobby BP AGM

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REPRESENTATIVES of devastated communities from Gulf Coast and Tar Sands regions confronted the BP Board yesterday morning at their AGM over their failure to...

Thousands march in support of the Venezuelan government

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VENEZUELA’s President Nicolas Maduro has urged the United States to discuss ‘peace and sovereignty’ in a high level commission mediated by the Union of...

‘We will resist until every inch of Palestine is free!’ –...

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OVER 15,000 workers and youth demonstrated in London on Saturday to mark the 74th anniversary of Nakba Day, marching from BBC Broadcasting House near...

EGYPTIAN STUDENTS CLASH WITH THE SECURITY FORCES – in anti-tyranny protests

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STUDENTS across Egypt took to the streets on Sunday in protest at the aggressive handling of student movements by security forces and university staff,...

Champoor Tamil Families Demand To Return To Their Own Homes!

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A SECTION of uprooted Tamil families from Champoor, now staying at one of four so-called welfare centres in Trincomalee, staged a protest on Saturday. They...

Russian support welcomed in Africa – as colonialists overthrown in Niger

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RUSSIA has the capability to assist with the economic development of Africa and could be a superior replacement to Western countries that are currently...

‘A MAN AND HIS BOAT’ The story of a fisherman...

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ASPIRING “word artists” from around the world have joined with youth in Gaza, and now, Lebanon, to create "WE ARE NOT NUMBERS: We are...

Palestinian fishermen attacked by Israeli naval troops off Gaza coast!

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A PALESTINIAN fisherman was injured and detained along with four others by Israeli naval troops who attacked them on Tuesday off the coast of...

UP TO 80% OF US-BASED MEDICAL DOCTORS HAVE FINANCIAL TIES TO...

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A BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL STUDY reveals that almost three quarters of leaders of influential medical groups have financial ties to industry. Payments to them totalled...

Nafha Prisoners Will Be Joining Hunger Strike

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PALESTINIAN prisoners being held inside Israel’s Nafha prison have announced that they will be joining an upcoming mass hunger strike on Monday April 17,...

‘RETURN IS A RIGHT, NO CONSENT, NO CONCESSION’ – 10,000 Palestinians...

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Titled ‘The Milan Declaration’, the final communiqué of the Seventh Palestinians in Europe Conference, convened under the theme ‘Return is a right, no Consent...

‘Reject minimum wage exploitation’ 4 SAFTU unions meet to discuss ANC

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THE FOUR oldest trade unions affiliated to SAFTU gathered at Ngwelezana Community Hall last week to reflect on what South Africa’s workers have gained...

Israeli Settlers Invade Al-Aqsa Mosque

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THE Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly warns the Israeli regime and illegal settlers against keeping up their provocations in the holy occupied city...

Strike Wave Sweeps Australia

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A STRIKE wave is sweeping Australia as Liberal PM Malcolm Turnbull declares war on the unions and threatens to dissolve both houses of parliament...

King’s unions & management disengage

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KING’S College Hospital Foundation Trust (KCHFT) management has been accused by the Unite union of ‘racism, discrimination and bullying’ as staff-side joint partnership meetings...

ABUSED, CRIMINALISED AND ABANDONED! Howard League condemns treatment of youth

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The Howard League for Penal Reform revealed on Thursday that local authorities ‘are systematically failing to provide suitable accommodation and support for vulnerable children...

DON’T RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE say unions

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GMB trade union yesterday said it rejects the Turner report proposal to extend the pension age. Turner recommends extending the retirement age to ‘between 67...

Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally told that Iraq had no...

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THE US Think-Progress website has published the text of the ‘60 Minutes’ TV interview with former CIA official Tyler Drumheller who revealed that in...

Putin warns West against underestimating Russia–but that Russia has no intention...

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PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has warned the West against underestimating Russia, saying it is ‘impossible’ to defeat his country in Ukraine, but that Moscow does...

‘Now listen you, you people of NATO. You’re bombing a wall...

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AS EUROPE’S migrant crisis grows right across the continent, many in the Russian media are recalling the late Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s prophecy made...