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PROBE ISRAELI ASSAULT ON LEBANON CIVILIANS –urges Amnesty

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Amnesty International on Tuesday renewed its call for a comprehensive and independent UN-led inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law committed during this year’s...

Striking Sa Parliamentary Staff Demand Removal Of Parliament Secretary

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STRIKING South African parliamentary staff on Friday said they would no longer negotiate with the unpopular secretary of the legislature Gengezi Mgidlana and demanded...

FJ defends threatened Sri Lankan journalist – while Tamil masses starve...

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INTERNATIONAL Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a media release Wednesday said that it is alarmed by threats made against the safety of the family...

Israel collective punishment ‘vicious, vindictive & ugly’

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THE ISRAELI public prosecutor for the Jerusalem district has filed ‘a precedent-setting’ civil lawsuit against the widow and young children of Fadi al-Qunbar –...

Amcu Ready To Serve 48-Hour Strike Notice On Lonmin!

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LONMIN Plc (LMI) is waiting to be served with a strike notice by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) if the...

Erdogan used coup to escalate crackdown on rights – says IndustriALL

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GLOBAL union federation IndustriALL has repeated its call for full democracy in Turkey as a crackdown on fundamental rights escalates. It said: ‘In the wake...

Egyptian forces turn back fleeing refugees – as attacks on Gaza...

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ISRAELI shells hit the Gaza tunnels last Sunday evening, killing two and injuring 22. The blasts also prompted hundreds to race for new...

Hit Squad Takes Over Se London Healthcare

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PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were revealed at a south London press conference on Monday. The government-appointed Trust...

14,000 Uber And Lyft Drivers Join The Atu Trade Union In...

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NEARLY 14,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in New York have signed up to join the local branch of the Amalgamated Transit Union, according to...

‘JIHAD ONLY WAY OF LIBERATING PALESTINE’ – Hamas marks 3rd anniversary...

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The Hamas Movement on Tuesday affirmed that blood of Palestinian martyrs has mapped out the route of liberation for the next Palestinian generations to follow...

No justice for families of Afghans killed by US/NATO!

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THE families of thousands of Afghan civilians killed by US/NATO forces in Afghanistan have been left without justice, Amnesty International said in a new...

Bma & Teachers Unions Lead Condemnation Of The Tory Budget

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TEACHERS’ unions and the BMA led the condemnation of Tory Chancellor Osborne’s Budget on Wednesday, in which he announced the forced academisation of every...

Prawer Protesters Are Beaten And Threatened With Rape By Israeli Police

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BY SAWSAN KHALIFE – FIRST PUBLISHED IN ELECTRONIC INTIFADA THE Israeli government’s announcement last week that it has withdrawn proposed legislation to forcibly displace tens...

WORLD HAS PAID A HEAVY PRICE FOR ‘WAR ON TERROR’ says...

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The world’s poor and disadvantaged pay the price of war on terror, says Amnesty International in its annual report 2006 published on Tuesday. Introducing the...

Israeli Settlers Set Fire To Farmlands

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Israeli settlers set fire to hundreds of dunums of farmland in the northern West Bank village of Beit Furik, locals said on Friday. High temperatures,...

‘Systemic Failings’ Led To 15-Year-Old’s Cell Death

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A jury at an inquest into the death of 15-year-old Liam McManus last Friday returned a damning verdict finding that ‘systemic failings’ in both...

MURSI SNUGGLES UP TO HAGEL – who commits to £1billion of...

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IN talks with US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, President Mursi on Wednesday reaffirmed Cairo’s commitment to its peace treaty with Israel and voiced appreciation...

‘STOP ARMING ISRAEL–LIFT THE SIEGE!’ – 2,000 workers and youth demand...

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‘STOP arming Israel!’ ‘Free, free Palestine!’ ‘Lift the siege!’ ‘Boycott!’ shouted over 2,000 workers and youth at a lobby of Downing Street on Saturday. A...

AMCU secures reinstatement of 579 sacked members!

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THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said on Thursday it had successfully secured the reinstatement of 579 of its members dismissed in...

Lecturers & Students Must Unite And Fight

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‘EVERYONE, all of the country, must get organised to take rent strike action, we have shown that rent strikes work,’ Angus O’Brien, the student...

Huge increase in homelessness in England – Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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NEW independent research published by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Wednesday revealed the huge and increasing scale of homelessness in England. The Homelessness...

Unions Condemn Budget As A ‘Provocation!’

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Unions have condemned the Chancellor’s 2014 austerity Budget with Unison calling it a ‘clear provocation’, the NUT saying it was ‘more of the same’...

THEIR MORALS AND OURS – ‘Civilisation can be saved only by...

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AFTER 2008, the masses of the world showed they were not about to give up all their hard-won gains so that the banks,...

Thousand across US join ‘Strike for Black Lives’

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Tens of thousands of US workers walked out of their jobs on Monday in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement and other minority groups...

‘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...

Palestinian chief negotiator Erekat resigns

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THE chief PLO negotiator has presented his resignation to the Palestinian president and PLO leadership, officials in Ramallah announced Saturday. Saeb Erekat resigned because of...

Medical Students Are Deep In Debt!

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Medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating over £13,000 more in debt than their better off peers, says a new report from the BMA. The...

Numsa To ‘Swamp’ The Streets Of Durban In A Massive May...

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal (KzN) working closely with other like-minded and class orientated COSATU affiliates, will swamp the...

NUMSA STRIKE ENTERS FOURTH WEEK – bosses warn capitalist order under...

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THE powerful strike by 220,000 NUMSA members, workers in South Africa’s steel and engineering sectors, entered its fourth week on Monday. NUMSA members in...

‘THE BRITISH ARMY IS NOT OUR ARMY’ – says Sinn Fein...

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By Irish politcal journalist JOHN COULTER THE war of words between Unionists and Republicans over the British Army’s presence in the North hotted up as...

‘If you bomb Beirut the Islamic Resistance will bomb Tel Aviv’...

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THE Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaking on military operations, and political developments over Al Manar TV on August 3 noted that the fourth...

24 hours in occupied Palestine!

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WEDNESDAY began with a horrendous ordeal for one man of the Dawabsha family in Dura village near Nablus in the Palestinian West Bank. Muhammad Fayiq...

Students launch nationwide week of action against the privatisation of student...

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THE Student Assembly Against Austerity’s National Week of Action to stop the sale of student loans to private companies is well under way. At least...

US workers mobilising for Anti-Trump May Day strike actions

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WORKERS along America’s West Coast are mobilising for ‘strikes with the community’ this May Day in opposition to President Trump’s war on immigrants. Shop steward...

‘DON’T TAKE PART IN PROXIMITY TALKS’ –Hamas urges Abbas

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CHIEF Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the Americans will respond to a Palestinian demand that Washington guarantee Israel’s commitment to the...

Sri Lanka Artillery Barrage Halts Mannaar City

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TAMILNET reports that ‘Normalcy has been disturbed in Mannaar city Tuesday from 8:10 am as the Sri Lanka Army mounted an artillery barrage simultaneously...

Nursing Associates to administer drugs unsupervised!

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NURSING Associates have been given the go-ahead to administer drugs, unsupervised, to the alarm of the nurses’ union RCN. NHS to train 2,000 new Nursing...

EXPAND SCO TO CONFRONT US POLICIES – urges Iran

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‘The SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organisation) countries face common threats in the form of America and NATO’, says the Iranian newspaper Resalat. Full members of...

Eu Workers Demanding No Ttip And Ceta Trade Deals

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THOUSANDS of European citizens took to the streets in dozens of European cities on October 11 to show their rejection of the proposed trade...

Vetoing The Palestinian State ‘Would Be A Deadly Mistake’ – Barghouthi...

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FATAH leader Marwan Barghouthi, jailed in Israel during the Second Intifada, has warned Washington that vetoing a Palestinian state at the United Nations would...

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...

‘Only Syrians can choose their president’ Assad

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PRESIDENTIAL elections should be ‘about what the consensus is among the Syrians’ President Bashar al-Assad said in an extensive interview to Italian TV channel...

WRP’s ANNA ATHOW GETS BIG SUPPORT ON WOOD GREEN HIGH STREET

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WOOD Green and Hornsey Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team won big support on Wood Green High Street on...

‘Disabled rights and entitlements snatched away’

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DISABLED People Against Cuts (DPAC) organised a lively demonstration near Parliament on Monday, to mark the 25th birthday of the Independent Living Fund, which...

US workers take May Day action

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While reflecting on a long year of labour struggles at UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz), students looking to the future continued to call...