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Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Visits North Western Iraq As Syrian Troops...

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THE COMMANDER of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Qassem Soleimani has been pictured with the pro-government...

Numsa Fighting For A Fair Deal For Workers Hit By...

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is demanding a fair deal for the 1,500 strong workforce after General Motors announced its...

Minimum Wage Violations Cost Workers In California Nearly $2 Billion Annually

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EACH year, minimum-wage violations by California employers sap the state’s workforce of nearly $2 billion in earnings, according to a report released this month...

WORKERS & YOUTH SAY THEY’LL VOTE FOR THE WRP AND SELLU...

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WORKERS and youth in southeast London on Saturday took a keen interest in the WRP’s revolutionary policies. Many said they will vote for Workers...

Artists fight the Islamic State – while ‘Mosul Eye’ rebuilds the...

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MUSTAFA al-Tha’i worked in secret at night, using his brushes and pencils to record the violence he saw during the day under the Islamic...

Trump’s Budget The Most Significant Betrayal Yet Of Working People

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US PRESIDENT Trump’s Budget betrays working people, says a statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Trump’s Financial Year 2018 budget proposal. The US union...

Maui Workers Join 40,000-Strong At&t Strike Action As Haitians Hold Rally...

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NINE workers from Maui, the second largest of the Hawaiian islands, were among up to 40,000 AT&T workers who walked off the...

Palestine erupts against Trump visit and occupation

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AT LEAST 13 Palestinians were shot and injured – at least one seriously – during clashes with Israeli forces in Ramallah in the occupied...

NUMSA shock over GM quitting SA!

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THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has said the union is ‘shocked at the news’ that General Motors (GM) intends to...

Workers and youth say vote Athow in Hornsey and Wood Green!

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WORKERS and youth signed up to join the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) and Young Socialists on Saturday, saying they will vote for Hornsey and...

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...

500,000 Workers Take Strike Action & March In Colombia!

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AN ESCALATING strike sweeping through Colombia, led by teachers and other state employees, saw at least half a million workers striking and marching on...

Trade unions welcome pledges in Labour’s election manifesto!

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THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) welcomed pledges made in Labour’s election manifesto. Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: ‘Labour’s pledges to end the...

Israel Planning Attack On Hezbollah

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FEARS are growing that Israel will risk a surprise strike to cripple Hezbollah. For more than a decade, the assessment that another war between Israel...

Nakba commemoration–In the centenary year of the Balfour Declaration: It’s time...

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NAKBA Commemoration in the Balfour Declaration Centenary Year: It’s time to go home! It’s time to make it right for Palestine. The Right of...

‘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...

Arab writers appeal to world

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ARAB writers convening at the First Palestine Forum for the Arab Novel appealed on Wednesday to world governments to intervene to end the suffering...

Inquest Jury Condemns ‘Police And Healthcare Staff’ In Relation To The...

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AN INQUEST jury has condemned the police restraint of a young black man in a mental health hospital whilst medical staff looked on. The inquest...

Manchester Met University To Strike Over Closure Of Crewe Campus!

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Manchester Metropolitan University will be on strike later this month after they overwhelmingly backed industrial...

‘DON’T FORCE-FEED PALESTINIAN PRISONERS’ –Israeli doctors (Physicians for Human Rights) appeal...

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ISRAELI doctors’ organisation Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) is calling on the World Medical Association to instruct doctors around the world not to...

Delay in payments means no new patients at Palestinian hospital

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THE AUGUSTA Victoria Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem announced on Sunday that it would no longer accept new patients, owing to a ‘crisis level’...

WRP GENERAL ELECTION MANIFESTO – vote WRP in the five constituencies...

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THE working class must kick out the Tories on June 8th and return Labour to government to set the scene for the struggle for...

RMT launches fight against mass Greater Anglia ticket office closures

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RAIL union RMT has launched a campaign to fight a planned programme of ticket office closures the length and breadth of the Greater Anglia...

Gaza restaurants serve salt water in solidarity with hunger strikers

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HOTELS and restaurants in the Gaza Strip suspended serving meals and drinks on Tuesday from 9am to 3pm, and instead served their customers a...

Syria Hails Iran’s Support For The Struggle Against The UK...

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CHIEF of the General Staff of the Syrian Army and Armed Forces, Lt. Gen. Ali Abdullah Ayoub on Tuesday held a session of talks...

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...

‘MOURN FOR THE DEAD – FIGHT FOR THE LIVING’ – vow...

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MOURN for the Dead, Fight for the Living! So says Berry Craig, a member of the Kentucky State AFL-CIO Executive Board. On the occasion of...

Five Picturehouse cinemas out today!

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FIVE Picturehouse cinemas are on strike this May Day. In a repeat of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history in April, five...

Iran, Russia & Syria defence chiefs meet

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THE DEFENCE chiefs of Iran, Russia and Syria have called for closer trilateral co-operation in the battle against terrorism, emphasising the need to keep...

MARWAN FILM SHOWN IN LONDON – Zionist ban is defeated

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AS the Federation of Palestinian Communities in Europe and the Fatah movement in London prepare to screen the film ‘Marwan,’ a biopic telling the...

Iran warns imperialists as Iraqi forces advance in Mosul and Yemenis...

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LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that the United States and Zionists are especially targeting Iran because it is...

Fatah leader Barghouthi – hunger strike leader’s condition is deteriorating

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IMPRISONED Palestinian parliamentarian and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, who has been leading a large-scale hunger strike in Israeli prisons, has suffered a serious deterioration...

‘Doctors will not be border guards’

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‘DOCTORS will not be forced to act as border guards,’ medical charity Doctors of the World declared. The charity reacted angrily to the Home...

‘The West supports the terrorists and does not have the will...

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IN an interview given to Russia’s RIA Novosti and Sputnik news agencies, Syria’s President al-Assad said that we always announce that we are ready...

‘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...

Palestinian women prisoners launch action in support of hunger strikers

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MANY HUNDREDS of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners entered the third day of the ‘Freedom and Dignity’ hunger strike on Wednesday, with imprisoned Palestinian women launching...

INTO Irish teachers condemn funding cuts for primary schools!

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AT THE Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) annual congress in Belfast on Tuesday, primary teachers condemned the lack of adequate funding to primary schools...

Over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners launch open-ended hunger strike

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MORE THAN 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike on Monday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned...

Picturehouse Strike For A Living Wage

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‘WHAT do we want – the living wage!’ ‘When do we want it – now!’ shouted over a hundred striking BECTU members and supporters...

Nafha Prisoners Will Be Joining Hunger Strike

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PALESTINIAN prisoners being held inside Israel’s Nafha prison have announced that they will be joining an upcoming mass hunger strike on Monday April 17,...

Syrian Army Establishes Control In Areas South Of Palmyra City!

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SYRIAN army units have established control over large areas to the south of Palmyra City in their continued operations against ISIS terrorists in the...

Striking South African social workers barricade

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STRIKING South African social workers have barricaded the entrances to care centres and are vowing not to leave until their demands – an immediate...

Murderous US airstrike on Shayrat air base crossed red lines –...

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THE MURDEROUS US strike on the Shayrat Syrian air base last Friday crossed ‘red lines’ and any new aggression will be met by a...

Sri Lanka doctors strike against privatisation

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A STRIKE by doctors over private medical universities gripped Sri Lanka on Friday. The country-wide strike action was launched by the Government Medical Officers Association...

Parents criminalised for taking their children on holiday – says NUT

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THE NUT (National Union of Teachers) and the CFHF (Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund) have condemned the fining of parents for taking their children out...