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Israeli Strikes After Soldier Killed In Ambush

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TWO Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli air strike targeting a Palestinian motorcyclist in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, witnesses and medics said. The...

PUERTO RICO GOVERNOR RESIGNS! – after one million-strong march and general...

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PUERTO RICO’s Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned on Thursday – just three days after a million demonstrators marched down Puerto Rico’s Las Americas highway insisting...

HUNT PROMOTING THE BIG DRUG COMPANIES – under the guise of...

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TORY Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s claims that ‘we can truly be the generation that beats dementia’ is a smokescreen for promoting the big drug...

Appeal Against Fox’s Refusal To Hold Public Inquiry Into Torture Of...

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THE Court of Appeal will on Monday 18th July 2011 commence a three-day hearing to consider the lawfulness of the refusal by Liam Fox,...

Palestinians welcome ICC investigation into Israeli war crimes

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THE Foreign Ministry on Saturday welcomed the announcement by the Prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) on opening an investigation into the...

Three Gaza Strip Civilians Die From Starvation!

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MEDICAL sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday that three civilians had died from starvation and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, according...

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...

ANC government intends to slaughter thousands of workers’ jobs – SAFTU...

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IT HAS become clear that the ANC government is intending to slaughter thousands of workers’ jobs, said the South African Federation of Trade Unions...

We are one united people – in Gaza, the West Bank...

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First speaker at the rally was the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot, who said: ‘Israel has killed 11,000 innocent people and is...

Down with the junta of the IMF!

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• No to the destruction of the state pension system • Down with the junta of the IMF-European Commission-Papandreou! • For an indefinite Political General Strike! Statement...

People of Aleppo march to support Syrian army

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PEOPLE of Aleppo on Tuesday marched through the streets of the city to show their support to the Syrian Arab Army which confronts terrorism...

Expansion of US self-defence laws escalates the number of deaths

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STAND-your-ground laws in the United States have expanded legal protections for individuals who use deadly violence in self-defence. But a new study published today estimates...

‘organise The British And World Revolution’

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‘BUILD the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists and the Fourth International.’ That was the message from the News Line/Trotsky Anniversary rally attended by...

Peru protesters demand resignation of President Boluarte

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PROTESTS are continuing throughout Peru demanding the resignation of President-designate Dina Boluarte, the closing of the Congress, the advancement of elections in 2023, and...

‘Gangster capitalism has no place in 21st century!’

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GMB holds fruit-picking giant Fyffes ultimately responsible for a brutal machete attack which left a young man with life-changing injuries. Misael Sanchez was slashed across...

WE WILL FIGHT WAGE CUTS IN 2008 say NHS unions –...

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THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over one million health workers have...

Corbyn condemns Israeli human rights violations!

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THE LEADER of the UK opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, reiterated on Saturday his party’s support for the Palestinian cause, condemning human rights violations...

Stonethrowers Charged With Attempted Murder By Israeli Police

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SUNDAY marked two years since five boys from the northern West Bank village of Hares were arrested over an alleged stone-throwing incident that saw...

Teachers and heads in Isle of Man reject ‘insulting’ 2% pay...

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TEACHERS on the Isle of Man have voted overwelmingly for strike action in a row over pay, following an insulting 2% pay offer. The National...

GP SURGERY FACING 46% FUNDING CUT – BMA warns of threat...

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A GP surgery facing a 46 per cent cut to its funding over the next three years embodies the threat facing the profession, the...

MET POLICE: ‘culture of institutionalised racism, misogyny and homophobia’

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RIGHTS campaign groups Liberty, Runnymede, Stonewall and INQUEST have responded to Baroness Casey’s review of the Metropolitan Police Service which was produced last week. They...

Russia strikes Ukraine’s military infrastructure

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RUSSIA says it has struck and disabled Ukraine’s Starokostiantyniv military air base with long-range high-precision weapons. ‘The Russia armed forces continue to strike the military...

TUC silent over the massive crisis of the EU

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THE TUC’s head of European Union and International Relations Department, Owen Tudor, has recently given a lengthy interview to the internet EurActiv which specialises...

BP IGNORED SAFETY WARNINGS – US Chemical Safety Board report reveals

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‘OrganiSational and safety deficiencies at all levels of the BP Corporation’ caused the March 23, 2005, explosion at the BP Texas City refinery, the...

Australian Unions Support Sri Lanka Workers

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AUSTRALIAN unions AMWU, CFMEU and TCFUA held a rally outside of Ansell’s Australian headquarters on Thursday, following the denial of entry visas to a...

Workers & youth determined to smash the Greek government

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250,000 workers, youth and professionals demonstrated outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in central Athens last Wednesday evening against the Austerities Measures Bill. They were demanding...

TUC CONCERNED ABOUT MASSIVE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT – but has no...

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SAVAGE ‘austerity’ cuts to prop up bankrupt capitalism and its banks are being met with a revolutionary response from workers and youth throughout Europe. In...

IRAN MUST ATTEND ANY GENEVA CONFERENCE – insists Russia

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SPEAKING in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said said on Thursday that the ‘international community’ has to decide with whom it will...

Israeli Settlers And Troops Are Confiscating Hebron Land

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DOZENS of Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli forces early Friday began farming on lands confiscated from Palestinian farmers in a village south of Hebron,...

Hamas warns that Israel’s house demolitions will trigger ‘explosion’ of Palestinian...

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PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad and Hamas resistance movement have warned that Israel’s house demolitions and its expansion of illegal settlements in al-Quds (Jerusalem) will trigger...

US releases frozen aid to Colombia – Rights groups slam ‘blatantly...

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Three days before Colombian President Uribe was scheduled to meet with President Bush on August 4th at his Crawford, Texas ranch, the State Department...

Sacked Greek Cleaning Ladies Stand Firm For Nearly A Year

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595 women cleaners of the Greek Ministry of Finance in Athens were sacked on 17 September 2013 and their jobs given to private contractors....

GMB demands Amazon conduct health risk assessments

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A GMB member employed by Amazon in one of its depots fell ill after handling packaging on goods imported into the UK. The member is...

Iuf Demands Trade Union Rights For Pearl Continental Workers

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Not fit for print? On May 1st 2008, the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) sought to publish an open letter to the...

Canada Marches Against Tuition Fees!

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The Canadian Federation of Students last Wednesday held a National Day of Action for affordable, high-quality, post-secondary education in Canada. ‘Education shouldn’t be a debt...

Defend occupied Jerusalem against Israeli attacks!

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An international conference on Al-Quds, last Sunday, highlighted criminal operations perpetrated by the Zionists, concerning Israel’s annexation policy in Jerusalem. The conference organised under...

24 Hours Under The Israeli Occupation!

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ISRAELI forces on Wednesday detained at least 14 Palestinians, including a woman and a minor, during predawn raids across the West Bank, said security...

Syrian civilians bar the way to US military convoys

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LOCAL residents of several villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah have in coordination with government forces prevented a number of US military convoys...

US State Department falsifies report to cover up sabotage of ‘humanitarian...

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The US State Department falsified a report earlier this month to exonerate Israel from blame for obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, contradicting its own...

IRAQ ‘DAY OF REGRET’ – Mass demonstration this Friday

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Iraqi puppet prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki warned his cabinet on Sunday to shape up within 100 days or face ‘changes’, as protest organisers called...

‘Stand Together In 2014’ Canadian Workers Are Told By Ufcw!

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‘BY STANDING together to campaign and defeat ultra-Conservative politicians and their corporate-only agenda, Canadians can make things better,’ UFCW National President Paul Meinema said...

Over A Decade Of Tory NHS Cuts Have Put Patients And...

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OVER A decade of Tory NHS cuts have put patients and staff at risk, as hospitals have been left in such a state of...

World leaders spectacularly failing 21 million refugees says Amnesty

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WORLD leaders are spectacularly failing refugees, says Amnesty International UK in its latest report Tackling Global World Refugee Crisis – from Shirking to Shared...

Zimbabwe rulers brand ZCTU unions ‘terrorist organisations’

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THE UNI Global Union has condemned ‘in the strongest terms’ the labelling of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) as a terrorist organisation...

Thousands picket Netanyahu’s office against attack on Bedouin rights

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severaL thousand people demonstrated on Sunday outside Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem, protesting over a plan they say will displace tens...