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Special needs children face exclusion from school!

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Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need and are at risk of being permanently excluded from...

Argentinian students and teachers pepper-sprayed during protests!

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ARGENTINIAN universities began a 24-hour strike on Thursday. The National Interuniversity Council (CIN), professors’ and workers’ unions, and student organisations held the 24-hour strike in...

Ukrainian Army violated Easter Truce 4,900 times!

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UKRAINE took advantage of the Easter truce to launch strikes on Russian territory, advisor to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Igor...

‘Two-Faced Ed’ Reinstates Blairism At Cbi Conference

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HE pledged to ditch Blairism when elected as the new Labour Party leader, but Ed Miliband made it clear on Monday that he...

‘All students in the UK should walk out’ – London Met...

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ANGRY London Metropolitan University students are rallying outside the Home Office in Marsham Street in central London at 1.00pm today, determined to defeat the...

Swazi Nurses & Teachers Taking Action!

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IT seems an official nurses’ strike is looming in Swaziland after the union called a special urgent meeting scheduled for today. The meeting is...

‘WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESISTANCE AND THE RIGHT TO RETURN’...

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‘We have been occupied for 40 years, we have the right to resist’, Farouq Khaddoumi, told a public meeting in London on Monday evening. The...

LIBYAN PREMIER ZEIDAN FLEES TO GERMANY as militias fight over ‘ownership’...

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THE ousted Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has fled to Germany despite a travel ban slapped on him by Libya’s top prosecutor for his suspected...

All India Coal Workers Federation Are Fighting The Break-Up And Privatisation...

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THE RECENTLY held two-day national meeting of the All India Coal Workers’ Federation in Jharkhand’s Ranchi decided on launching a month-long series of actions...

WE WILL TAKE INDUSTRIAL ACTION – if EU services directive is...

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AS well as the Gate Gourmet workers’ struggle, this year’s TUC will be a battleground over pensions and privatisation. TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber at...

Three Former Blackwater Employees Get 30 Years For The Nisour Square...

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LAST Monday, three former employees of Blackwater, the notorious US military contractor, were sentenced to thirty years in jail for carrying out a massacre...

US workers demand health care for all

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RALLIES will take place across the United States on Tuesday, August 22, demanding action to tackle the country’s health care crisis. America has a system...

Syrians reject plunder of resources by Turkish and US occupations

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LOCAL inhabitants of Jarmaz village in Syria’s Qamishli area on Wednesday declared a national stand in rejection of both the US and the Turkish...

Palestinian prisoner Zubaidi begins his open-ended hunger strike

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A PALESTINIAN prisoner on Sunday started an open-ended hunger strike in protest against his ongoing detention despite the completion of his sentence in Israeli...

BARBAROSSA How Hitler lost the war – By Jonathan Dimbleby Published...

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OPERATION BARBAROSSA was the codename given by Adolph Hitler to the invasion of the Soviet Union launched on Sunday 22 June 1941. In the preface...

Palestinians Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Farah almost three months on...

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THE Israeli Supreme Court was scheduled to hold a hearing on Sunday to discuss the case of two hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners Anas Shadid, 20,...

PA continues security cooperation freeze with Israel

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THE PALESTINIAN Authority has decided to uphold a freeze on security coordination with Israel that was imposed during protests against now-removed Israeli security measures...

Teamsters demand Sotherby’s end its five-month lock-out

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The Teamsters Union, which represents art handlers at Sotheby’s Auction House, has created an online petition that asks Sotheby’s to end its five-month-long lock-out. Sotheby’s...

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...

SA trade unions want trade deal with USA before 30% tariffs...

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SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...

‘ISRAEL IS TERRORIST – FREE PALESTINE!’ says Israeli Embassy picket

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Over a thousand demonstrators, gathered outside the Israeli Embassy for the second day running on Monday, determined to show solidarity with the besieged people...

Independent trades union candidates to stand in Egyptian general election

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A court in the governorate of Qalioubiya, north of Cairo, has ruled in favour of independent trade union candidates taking part in the...

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...

President Diaz-Canel condemns Trump’s ‘suffocate’ Cuba plan

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Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel has denounced an attempt by United States President Donald Trump to ‘suffocate’ the sanctions-hit country’s economy. Trump signed an executive order...

GP Staffing Crisis

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TURNOVER in General Practice doctors has seen a steady increase over the last decade, according to researchers, who have warned policymakers that support measures...

US Honeywell aerospace workers vote NO to cuts – locked out...

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WORKERS have twice voted no on Honeywell’s proposals to eliminate cost-of-living increases and retiree health care, freeze pensions, curtail overtime pay, subcontract work, and...

No harassment! No discrimination! Demand students working for California University

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STUDENT workers from the University of California demanded the UC implement new anti-discrimination and harassment provisions at a union contract negotiation session last Thursday. UAW...

£9,000 pinched from public sector pay packets since 2010 says Unison

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‘FACING 10 years of pay cuts in real terms, our vital public sector workers – nurses, midwives and refuse collectors – have had an average of...

Russian workers smash counter-revolutionary coup attempt!

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PRESENTLY, world imperialism is attempting to enforce its presence and its influence in the different parts of the globe. The bloody aggression against Libya...

Iranian President Visits Kabul And Sco Meeting

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THE strengthening of regional treaties is a key factor to prevent the promotion of a unipolar system of domination by the US, and would...

Unite’s Response To Health Select Committee Inquiry!

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‘THESE changes can not be separated from the problems A&E is facing. Unite believes that at the heart of this issue is...

Seven US Soldiers Killed Near Haditha

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Seven US marines have been killed in western Iraq, the US military said yesterday. The soldiers were killed on Monday near Haditha, a town...

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people

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PALESTINE President Mahmoud Abbas received a telegram from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday to mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian...

Palestinian Workers Slam Checkpoint ‘Humiliation’

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Around 4,000 Palestinian workers from Hebron face an arduous journey every day as they try to cross into Israel via the Tarqumiya checkpoint. The luckiest...

Prosecute Vale over mine deaths – demands USW

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If anyone needs further proof to Vale’s global social neglect, it comes in a pair of dirty deeds committed by the Brazilian mining company...

BIDEN’S DEAFENING SILENCE – US president ignores Gaza’s 900 fatalities and...

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LATE ON Tuesday night, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported harrowing numbers: 900 fatalities and 4,600 injuries since Israel initiated its retaliatory strikes last Saturday. The statistics...

Global Condemnation Of Israel’s Killing Of Palestinian Civilians

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GLOBAL condemnation has poured in following a recent deadly attack by the Israeli occupation forces on Palestinian civilians seeking food aid in the besieged...

UK CONTINUED TO ERODE HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2005 – says Amnesty...

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In 2005, the UK ‘government continued to erode fundamental human rights, the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, including by persisting...

MESSAGES OF RESILIENCE! – symbols of perseverance, resistance and defiance

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‘WE promise we will rebuild them.’ These words were written by a Palestinian on the walls of a house demolished by Israeli airstrikes in...

‘ANSWER “GLOBALISATION” WITH WORLD REVOLUTION’ – News Line editor tells Trotsky...

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MORE than 300 youth and workers filled the News Line Anniversary rally at the Park Crescent Conference Centre in central London on Sunday, celebrating...

Iran Condemns Israel’s Criminal Actions

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IRAN has censured Israel’s ‘criminal’ actions and the illogical and unlawful US support for the regime, saying the continuation of resistance until full liberation...

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL FEES JUDGED ILLEGAL! – ‘a brilliant and groundbreaking...

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THE SUPREME Court ruling on Wednesday that the Tory-LibDem introduction of employment tribunal fees in 2013 was illegal is a shattering blow to the...

‘Free, Free Palestine’ Demand Hundreds Of Workers And Youth

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‘FREE, Free Palestine!’ shouted a crowd of over 400 workers and youth demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy on Saturday. The protest was part of the...

RELEASE HUBER BALLESTEROS! – and all Colombian political prisoners

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JUST as preparations were being made for the launch of a campaign to call for the release of Huber Ballesteros and the other several...

Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian affirms his unwavering support for Hezbollah

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IRAN’S President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian has responded to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, affirming the Islamic Republic’s unwavering support to the resistance. In a letter...