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Occupation authorities are waging a relentless war against the Palestinian youth...

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ISRAELI occupation forces on Tuesday and Monday night detained at least 14 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, six of them from East...

‘THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE NHS’ – Junior doctors...

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ANGRY Junior Doctors and their supporters held a vigil on Thursday outside a meeting of the House of Commons health committee which is...

Belfast raid on journalists is being challenged!

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A POLICE raid of the Belfast homes and office of two investigative journalists will be challenged as part of a judicial review that started...

30th Anniversary of Red Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan! Sputnik interview General...

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THE 15th of February marked the 30th anniversary of the pullout of Soviet troops from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The Soviet-Afghan War lasted...

Massive Support For Nurses Picket Lines

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THE RCN picket outside St Thomas’ hospital opposite Parliament in central London on Tuesday was joined by hundreds of nurses, hospital staff, doctors, and...

Occupy Movements At High Court

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Anti-capitalist occupiers camped outside St Paul’s cathedral went down to the High Court on Monday in support of the Parliament Square occupiers who are...

Roger Waters performs for Assange – Defend freedom of speech! No...

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OVER a thousand supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rallied outside the Home Office on Monday evening to hear Roger Waters perform ‘Wish...

Greek schoolchildren and students rally against education cuts

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SCHOOLCHILDREN and students across Greece protested on Monday against cutbacks to the education sector, and the ‘intensification of performance evaluation’ which is part of...

US and EU leaders’ call for Libyan ceasefire is ignored

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US and European leaders on Monday called for a ceasefire in Libya and for the United Nations to take a leading role in helping...

Wembley Park Sports Ground Occupied! – To Stop City Academy

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THE proposed site of a new City Academy, next to the new Wembley Stadium, is being occupied to stop the privatisation project from going...

Israeli Forces Raid On Nablus!

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ISRAELI forces raided Nablus overnight on Wednesday without coordinating with Palestinian Authority security services, say Palestinian officials. According to security coordination protocol which is part...

‘Any Israeli act of aggression will ignite new version of 2006...

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THE HEZBOLLAH resistance movement has warned that any Israeli act of aggression against Lebanon will ignite an advanced version of the 33-day war fought...

‘BEYOND THE MARKET’–‘BACK TO FOUNDING PRINCIPLES’ – say BMA, Unison and...

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THE NHS would become both more cost-effective and equitable if it were operated on its founding principle of co-operation rather than competition, said a...

PCS strikes across the UK against ‘pathetic’ pay increases

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PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union members on Tuesday began a series of strikes across England, Scotland and Wales which the Tory government intends...

33 arrested ‘indiscriminately’ at Elbit factory siege

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PALESTINE Action campaigners have laid siege to a factory in Leicester which is the base of UAV Tactical Systems, owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s...

‘End Occupation: Israel Is A Terror State!’

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‘OCCUPATION no more!’ ‘Israel is a terror state!’ ‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 200 workers and youth at a picket of the Israeli embassy...

American unions form partnership with United Students Against Sweatshops

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IN the first of many concrete moves after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its national convention to create new and lasting community partnerships...

‘HUNDREDS KILLED BY ISRAELI-BACKED DEATH SQUADS’ – A review of Sabra...

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‘We commemorate the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in honour of the hundreds of men, women and children killed by death squads...

‘BREAK THE CRIMINAL SEIGE ON GAZA!’ – urges Ramzi Kysia

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Ramzi Kysia vividly describes the human catastrophe imposed on the people of Gaza by Israel and asks you to join other people of conscience...

‘SIGNS OF TORTURE’ ON MAHDI ARMY COMMANDER – after arrest by...

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THE Basra office of militant Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has said a former Basra commander of the Al-Sadr movement’s Mahdi Army showed ‘signs of...

Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister al-Malki visits The Hague to open discussions...

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MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riad al-Malki, has discussed in The Hague with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda,...

More Than 100,000 A&E Patients Waited For More Than Four Hours...

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MORE than 100,000 A&E patients waited for hours to be treated in hospitals in January, the highest number since records began, NHS figures show. There...

PUTIN DISCUSSES BETTER RELATIONS WITH PRESIDENT ABBAS – while Hamas says...

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, discussed in a telephone conversation last Thursday the latest developments related to the...

DONALDSON SUBSTITUTES ‘BIG BROTHER’ FOR THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL – Part...

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THE General Medical Council (GMC) was set up in 1858 to register genuine medical practitioners and make a distinction between them and pretenders. This...

ISRAELI TROOPS RAID NABLUS – as settlers break into al-Aqsa Mosque...

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A RAID by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Nablus has injured dozens of Palestinians, as occupation forces shot live fire and...

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...

Australian mass marches against low pay!

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MORE THAN 170,000 workers marched through Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, while tens of thousands of others marched through Sydney, Wollongong, Gladstone, Cairns, Mackay, Darwin,...

‘We are going to continue to strike until we get what...

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AT 7pm on the dot on Christmas Eve the doors of Stoke Newington Fire station opened and the fire fighters began their seventh strike...

‘HARDEST HIT’ demands stop benefit cuts for disabled people

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‘Cuts Kill – Kill the Cuts!’ shouted an over 5,000-strong march of disabled people, their carers and friends as they approached parliament on Wednesday. The...

Greek Telecom Pensions Crisis

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Greek Telecom’s OME-OTE trade union leadership succeeded last weekend in pushing through the union’s congress a most reactionary agreement which had been worked out...

Tens Of Thousands Of Aerospace Jobs At Risk

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THROUGHOUT Britain, the Unite union is reporting, the aerospace industry and job futures for many thousands of workers are ‘at five to midnight’ –...

‘Return Bodies Of Slain Palestinians’

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‘RETURN the bodies of slain Palestinians!’ Bethlehem students unions demanded of Israel, adding that ‘withholding bodies is a war crime.’ Three student unions from...

FBU ‘remains humbled’ by the suffering of bereaved Grenfell survivors &...

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THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has said that it ‘remains humbled’ by the suffering of the bereaved, survivors and residents (BSRs) of the Grenfell...

‘Abbas’ Government Constitutes A Crime Against The Palestinian Political Order’

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YAHYA Musa, a deputy from the Hamas movement, has said that the decree issued by President Abbas that stipulates the suspension of articles...

University job massacre! – national strike needed to save 10,000 jobs

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THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has called for immediate transparency from Coventry University after its recently published Annual Report and Financial Statements revealed...

Teamsters begin largest ever strike against Amazon in US history!

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The Teamsters union started the largest strike against Amazon in United States history on Thursday morning. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow...

Tens Of Thousands March For Mousavi

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TENS of thousands of supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi staged a ‘silent’ protest rally in Tehran on Wednesday against the...

Bangladesh government using court to put workers’ safety at risk say...

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The Bangladesh government is using proceedings before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh to prevent the Accord on workers’ safety from operating, thereby putting safety...

August 21 – Felixstowe Port is to come to a standstill...

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THE most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout. This is after after pay talks broke...

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...

Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails are suffering unbearable imprisonment conditions...

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THE Palestinian Authority’s Detained and Ex-Detainees Commission has said that the Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison of Etzion, near Bethlehem city in...

Mishaal Calls For Palestinian Talks Without Conditions

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KHALID MISHAAL, head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, has called for an all-inclusive dialogue among all political Palestinian forces, particularly Fatah and Hamas, which would...

Northern Rail Strike Vote Against Casualisation

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RMT members at Northern Rail have voted for strike action against sackings and casualisation.’ In a statement the RMT said: ‘Northern Rail management have run...

Putin warns – Russia will take action if NATO expands its...

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PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will act if the US-led NATO military alliance crosses its red lines in Ukraine. Speaking at an investment...

ANC dances to tune of ‘white monopoly capital’ – NUMSA on...

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THE trajectory of the 2016 Budget delivered by Pravin Gordhan continued to sing to the tune of international and local finance capital, white monopoly...