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Stark Portrait Of Revolutionary Resistance To British Imperialism In Ireland

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Hunger Directed by Steve McQueen Starring Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham and Liam Cunningham Specially reviewed at the London Film Festival and on general release later this month ‘HUNGER’...

Asylum Seekers Unlawfully Incarcerated In Detention Centres

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ASYLUM seekers who had been tortured in the country from which they have fled were wrongly incarcerated in detention centres in the UK while...

Spain To Pursue Israeli War Crimes Probe

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Spain’s National Court plans to proceed with an investigation of Israeli officials for possible war crimes against humanity over the 2002 killing of a...

Israel escalates its demolition of Bethlehem Palestinian structures

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The latest demolitions of Palestinian structures in Beit Jala city in Bethlehem district and the string of Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip...

Canadian School Workers To Strike Against 5-Year Pay Freeze

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CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...

NUMSA to march on President Ramaphosa’s office

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will march on Wednesday, April 19th to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office to protest against security...

NHS CANCER SERVICES ‘Worst winter crisis ever’

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NHS CANCER services plunged into the worst winter on record as patients were left waiting weeks for treatment, warns a new BMA report Doctors’ leaders...

Teachers Demand 10% Pay Rise

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference on Monday voted to demand a pay rise of ten per cent or at least £3,000,...

Academy Protestors Occupy Ark

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A group from ‘Tent City’ occupation in Wembley occupied the London headquarters of ARK (Actual Return for Kids) the proposed sponsors of the Wembley...

Children ‘rediscovering how to smile’ in bomb battered Mosul!

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ON a classroom whiteboard in the battered city of Mosul the words ‘rediscovering how to smile’ outline the heartbreaking task of Iraqi teachers striving...

STOP RAISING EXCESSIVE DEMANDS – Iran warns P5+1 group

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A SENIOR Iranian official says a final deal with the P5+1 group of countries over Tehran’s nuclear programme will be achieved should the six...

Palestinian killed by settler as the Israeli army attacks demonstration!

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AN ISRAELI settler shot and killed a 23-year-old Palestinian and injured another near the village of Huwwara in the northern occupied West Bank district...

‘Unimaginable brutality’ Palestinians slam Israeli army ‘genocide!’

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JERUSALEM – Palestinian leaders have condemned Israel’s ongoing offensive in northern Gaza, labelling the actions as war crimes and genocide aimed at uprooting the...

LANSLEY BILL MUST BE SCRAPPED! –rallies across the country on the...

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OVER 1,000 trade unionists and youth marched to parliament on Tuesday night on the 63rd birthday of the NHS, demanding: ‘Kill the Bill!’ –...

4 MILLION DISPLACED IRAQIS – international help ‘seriously inadequate’

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The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, Amnesty International said in its report ‘Millions in Flight’, published yesterday. Help from the international...

Australia’s working poor – ‘Workers’ share in the national income...

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THE AUSTRALIAN Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has released a new report that shows Australia is at risk of becoming an ‘Americanised society’ of...

THOSE WHO KILLED MUGHNIYEH WILL BE PUNISHED’ – declares Hezbollah leader...

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Thousands of Hezbollah supporters made their way to southern Beirut on Monday in order to take part in a rally in the honour of...

Return to public sector all services outsourced under PFI! says Public...

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VITAL public services such as schools and hospitals face serious disruptions should government fail to prepare for the expiry of its 700 PFI contracts,...

Zimbabwe trade unions marching against corruption arbitrary arrests and abductions

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ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa says the labour body will announce a series of dates for fresh protests after tomorrow’s...

Tv Workers Exploited For 16 Hours A Day

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WORKERS who are employed in the production of documentaries often are expected to work 14, 15 or 16 hours a day for several days...

Cuts In Child Poverty Reversed By Coalition!

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Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...

SAFTU opposes ‘slave wage’ new minimum wage

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SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Labour, Mildred Oliphant, says 2019 is the ‘earliest opportunity’ for government to implement the R20 per hour National Minimum Wage,...

US-led Black Sea drills a ‘provocation’ – Russia’s Embassy in Washington

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RUSSIA is warning Western allies that nothing good will come out of provocations in the Black Sea as any attempts to test Moscow’s willingness...

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...

‘DETAINEES WERE HELD IN FLOODED CELLS WHILE FIRES BURNED’ – Liberty...

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As evidence is revealed of vulnerable detainees being imprisoned in overcrowded and flooded cells while fires burned, Liberty last Monday called on the Home...

‘Police are the murderers! No Justice No Peace!’ – chants 2,000-strong...

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‘POLICE are the murderers! No justice, no peace!’ chanted the crowd of workers and youth at a 2,000-strong mass vigil for Mark Duggan outside...

Argentina’s President Milei reduces the workforce at state-owned airline by 13%

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RIGHT-WING Argentina president President Javier Milei’s spokesman said on Thursday that his government has reduced the workforce at state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas by 13...

Four Years Since Marikana Massacre!

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LONMIN workers on Tuesday gathered at the Marikana koppie near Nkaneng informal settlement to pay tribute to their 34 colleagues who were gunned down...

Sri Lankan students battle against privatisation of the universities – Report...

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UDARA Sandaruwan, Acting Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation has issued an appeal to trade unions and human rights organisations of the world to...

Major Privatisation Drive In North Of Ireland

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UNISON has called on the Public Accounts Committee and the Assembly Health Committee to investigate the startling growth of private medicine funded out of...

‘It’s The People vs The Developers’ – declares powerful Peckham meeting

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A PUBLIC meeting of over 200 Peckham residents on Thursday evening stepped up the fight against plans by developer Berkeley Homes to tear down...

US unions demand action

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THE AFL-CIO labour federation has released the following statement on the 16-day shutdown and threatened default by the US government: ‘Adults took over Washington, DC,...

Cardiff University intends to slash and burn 400 full-time jobs and...

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CARDIFF University has announced that it intends to cut 400 full-time jobs, along with whole course closures and department mergers; with nursing, music and...

SA education unions demand suspension of schooling – as 10,000 schools...

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LESS than two weeks after schools re-opened in South Africa, there have been growing calls to suspend schooling as many schools have recorded positive...

VIRGIN CARE HAS WON £1bn OF NHS CONTRACTS IN ONE YEAR!

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MULTI-BILLIONAIRE Richard Branson’s private health company Virgin Care has won £1bn worth of NHS contracts in a single year. Private providers are winning an increasing...

WHO’s fast-track medical plan ‘is not realistic’ for South Africa

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A new curriculum promising to ‘fast-track medical students into the workforce’, which has been launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for...

Ramaphosa will unleash ‘a jobs bloodbath’ – WARNS AMCU TRADE UNION

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LONMIN billionaire Cyril Ramaphosa could favour mining bosses’ agenda of restructuring to revive profits and unleash a renewed jobs bloodbath, the Association of Mining...

31 human rights organisations demand UN takes action to defend Palestinians!

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Human rights organisations have urgently called on UN member states to take immediate action to ‘protect people deprived of their liberty’ across the occupied...

Firm tied to notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation preparing up to fifteen...

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UG Solutions, a major United States military subcontractor that helped provide security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is intensifying recruitment amid indications that several...

Israel Stepping Up Mass Arrests Campaign

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ISRAEL plans to step up arrests of suspected militants in the occupied West Bank to prevent a rising tide of low-intensity conflict and civil...

NUMSA prepares Easter bus strike in SA

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Employers in bus wage talks in South Africa claim that the trade union’s wage demands are ‘unaffordable’, setting the stage for a strike struggle...

RESISTANCE IS A LEGITIMATE RIGHT – affirms Haniya

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‘I welcome you all on this great day’, said Ismail Haniya last Saturday, just before he was sworn in as Prime Minister of the...

United Nations Slashes Food Aid For Syrian Refugees

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THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that funding shortages have forced it to cut its food assistance for thousands of Syrian...

Thousands turn out for Palestinians massacred in Nablus

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THOUSANDS of people have turned out for the funeral procession of eleven Palestinian men killed by Israeli military forces during a raid in the...

‘WE WILL KEEP ON FIGHTING TILL WE WIN’ say West Kensington...

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WEST Kensington tenants were angry that a ‘drop-in session’ hosted by Hammersmith and Fulham council on Thursday night was closed down early. The premature closure...