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Syria Celebrates Anniversary Of Yom Kippur War And Contrasts It With...

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‘I DO NOT think that the West has relinquished its colonial mentality,’ Syrian president Assad said in a recent interview, while the US and...

Palestinians rally in Ramallah against Israeli annexation plan

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THOUSANDS of Palestinians rallied in downtown Ramallah on Monday against Israel’s intention to annex a large part of the occupied West Bank. Participants hoisted the...

Hamas Insist US-Israel Are Behind Gaza Fighting

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SAMI Abu-Zuhri, a Hamas leader in Gaza on Wednesday made a statement about the fighting that is taking place in Gaza between Hamas...

Greek Workers Defy Riot Police And Condemn Merkel

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OVER 60,000 workers and youth, in angry and militant mood, defied the riot police and demonstrated at a rally in front of the Vouli...

Trial Of Egyptian Trade Unionists Set To Begin

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THE trial of 49 trade unionists before an emergency court, for alleged involvement in the violent protests of 6 April 2008 in the Egyptian...

Occupy movement erupts over mass Oakland Arrests

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FOUR hundred Occupy Oakland protesters were arrested following clashes with police in the Northern California city last Sunday. Across the US and Europe occupy protesters...

ABBAS ESTABLISHES GOVERNMENT BY DECREE – has the full support of...

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PRESIDENT ABBAS, now ruling by decree is set to establish a national salvation front government, without any Hamas members, and without any reference to...

May Day Message From The Iraqi Trade Unions

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ON this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and...

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...

Labour’s Social Care ‘Failing Older People’

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‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman, said on Wednesday. He...

NUMSA CONSIDERS BREAKING WITH COSATU – as South African miners strike...

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it’s considering forming a new independent labour federation. But only as a last resort....

Trump stokes up Polish nationalism!

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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test will have ‘consequences’, while launching into a tirade against Russia...

Black Lives Matter: 60,000 Rally And March In London

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SIXTY THOUSAND youth and older workers joined the Black Lives Matter march in London on Saturday, from Parliament Square to the Home Office, then...

‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free’

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‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ shouted Palestinians and their supporters demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy, west London, on Saturday...

Student Leader Is Attacked In Jaffna

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A STUDENT leader was attacked and seriously wounded in Jaffna on Sunday, reports TamilNet. Suspected Sri Lanka Army intelligence personnel armed with sharp iron rods...

‘I WILL NOT END MY LIFE WITH A BETRAYAL’ President Abbas...

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IN A speech last Wednesday to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Palestinian President Abbas declared: ‘I want to achieve something for my country and I...

National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign launched

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OVER 2000 workers rallied in San Francisco for the kickoff of the ‘National Hotel Workers Rising Campaign’ on February 15. Chanting ‘Si...

NHS Bed Crisis–A Threat To Patient Safety

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THE NHS Bed crisis is a threat to patient safety, doctors have warned as the latest figures were released showing hospitals working at full...

Palestinian Medics Strike Declared Illegal

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THE Palestinian High Court ruled on Wednesday that an ongoing strike by Palestinian medics in the West Bank is illegal, as doctors staged a...

Five Years Since The Murder Of Gadaffi!

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FIVE years after Libya’s long time leader Muammar Gadaffi was cold-bloodedly murdered right in front of mobile phone cameras and with the full backing...

TUC and rail unions launch campaign to fight rail and job...

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THE TUC, railway unions and transport campaigners have launched a campaign to fight job cuts, service reductions, ticket office closures and fare hikes in...

‘End The Midwife Shortage’ And Cancel Plans To Remove Bursaries!

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CATHY WARWICK, the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives has issued a ‘wish list’ of her hopes for maternity services in 2016. She...

‘GET OFF YOUR KNEES’ YS lobby urges union leaders

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A LIVELY lobby of over 50 Young Socialists and supporters, chanting ‘Youth demand a future, youth demand jobs’ demonstrated outside the TUC Congress yesterday...

There could be a repeat of the Rana Plaza disaster! –...

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THE President of the Bangladeshi National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) on Saturday warned eight leading UK retailers that there could be a repeat of...

GOVERNMENT PLANS TO ABOLISH HEAD TEACHERS – and replace them with...

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THE government has plans to abolish head teachers in schools and replace them with ‘Tesco-style chief executives’! That is the warning being made by...

May Day meeting ‘Forward to the World October!’

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‘WE WERE marching with our banner “100 years of the Russian Revolution, for the World October”,’ WRP candidate for Hackney South Jonty Leff told...

ELECTIONS MUST GO AHEAD – insist Hamas

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Palestinian Islamic liberation movement Hamas has declared: ‘No to killing, banditry, and the policy of kidnapping foreigners’. In a statement posted on the Palestinian Information...

FIRE DEATHS DOUBLE IN MERSEYSIDE! – as further savage fire service...

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‘FIRE deaths in Merseyside have doubled in the past five years,’ Merseyside firefighters warned yesterday as further savage cuts are planned to their service. Merseyside...

US and Canada cut off aid to new Hamas government

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TRYING to divide the Palestinian leadership, the United States and Canada on Wednesday suspended contacts with and aid to the new Palestinian 24-member Hamas-formed...

EXILED LEADERS RETURN TO TUNISIA – following the overthrow of Ben...

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After more than 20 years in exile, Tunisian Ennahda movement leader Rached Ghannouchi returned from London on Sunday, with thousands of supporters greeting him. Ghannouchi...

Only 400 Attend Rajapakse’s Jaffna Rally

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PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapakse was displeased with the tiny crowd that was assembled to ‘greet the leader’ at his election rally in Jaffna on Wednesday,...

‘I AGAIN PROMISE YOU THAT WE WILL WIN’ – Hasan Nasrallah...

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THE Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah, promised victory in an address to the Lebanese and the Arabs on Friday 14th July after a failed...

HAMAS-ISRAEL AGREE TO SIX-MONTHS CEASEFIRE – ‘We don’t trust them but...

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Hamas and Israel on Tuesday agreed to an Egyptian-brokered deal to cease fire for six months in and around the Gaza Strip. It was effective...

Saudi Arabian anger at government gas price hikes!

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SAUDI Arabians have taken to the social networking services, venting their anger at the government for hiking domestic gas prices and introducing value added...

Get rid of capitalism in 2014! New Year’s Statement by the...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its New Year’s greetings for the year 2014 to all our readers and to the workers and youth...

STRIKE DOWN ANTI-WORKER LAWS – Demand American trade unions

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THE battles against anti-worker laws across the United States have turned to the ballot boxes and courtrooms, says the AFL-CIO union federation. As voters go...

‘WE ARE APPROACHING VICTORY’ – says Hamas leader Haniya

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The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip vowed on Monday that the Palestinian resistance, backed by the population, would emerge victorious over Israel’s...

GAZA: ‘healthcare, water and sanitation teetering on brink of collapse’

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United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on Thursday announced it is unable to continue its operations...

Breast implants: private sector wrecks women’s bodies – NHS to pay...

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FORTY thousand women are affected by the industrial-grade silicone breast implant scandal in Britain alone, and now recriminations are flying between the government, the...

OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘We are witnessing the...

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Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 6. On the eve of Revolution This essay appeared in the New York Daily paper...

‘Serious questions being raised about the rights of Australians!’

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LEADERS from more than 50 countries, representing more than one-quarter of the world’s nations and two billion people, are meeting in Perth, Western Australia...

Renault Workers Battle For Their Jobs

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Forty-six Renault workers from the sackings-hit Sandouville plant were before a court in Le Havre last Thursday, October 30. They were taken to court by...

Palestinian Intifada erupts!

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A PALESTINIAN was fatally shot on Monday by Israeli forces’ fire, after he carried out a shooting attack against Israelis in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood...

‘BREATHTAKING ARROGANCE – PCS slams Tory Coalition’s cuts

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The country’s largest civil service union, PCS, has condemned the suggestion that public servants should put forward ideas for spending cuts as ‘breathtakingly arrogant...

Syrian Masses Take To The Streets Against Israeli State Terrorism

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Syrian governorates on Monday witnessed huge mass demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance in the face of continued savage Israeli aggressions...