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HEZBOLLAH FIGHTS WITH HONOUR IN SYRIA – while Cameron seeks to...

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HEZBOLLAH’S deputy leader Shaykh Na’im Qasim said last Wednesday that his group had fought ‘with honour’ in Syria and had helped in the...

Yemeni army and Popular Committees fight Saudi-Qatari-US onslaught!

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YEMENI army soldiers backed by members of the Popular Committees have managed to foil an attack launched by Saudi naval forces on Yemen’s strategic...

Iran-Iraq historic talks

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IN A HISTORIC meeting, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has held talks with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the Iraqi holy...

NEU shines damning light on multi-academy trusts

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Analysis by the National Education Union shines a damning light on the performance of large multi-academy trusts (MATs). New data from a Freedom of Information...

Garment workers denounce wage structure in Dhaka and clash with police

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GARMENT workers have flooded the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, this week, clashing with police and denouncing the new wages structure introduced on...

UN Makes ‘Freeze Zones’ Initiative To President Assad

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‘THE US and the West continue to blunder after the Gulf and Ottoman (Turkish) bets failed to bring down the Syrian state thanks to...

Mining Gold For $1.50 Hourly Wages!

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LEADERS of Indonesian FSP-KEP (SPSI), the trade union of Chemical, Energy, and Mine Workers (CEMWU), have officially extended a 30-day strike at the world’s...

Fatah’s Abu Ammar Brigades refuses to disarm

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THE official spokesperson of the Fatah-affiliated Martyr Abu Ammar Brigades, Abu Muhammad, has affirmed the brigades’ loyalty to political leaders and Fatah decisions, but...

Numsa Forming A United Front Party

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THE Central Committee of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) at its meeting on 20-24 April has published the important key...

‘Free Palestine–Free Al-Aqsa’ Demands 1,000-Strong Lobby Of Israeli Embassy

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‘FREE, FREE, Palestine! Free Al-Aqsa!’ shouted participants in an over 1,000-strong lobby of the Israeli embassy in West London on Saturday evening. They also shouted...

Usw Steps Up Global Campaign For Vale Miners’ Strike

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The United Steelworkers’ (USW) global campaign to prevent Brazilian mining giant Vale S.A. from eroding working conditions and denying basic labour rights at its operations worldwide...

‘West Bank is Palestinian territory occupied by Israel’ says Turkish Foreign...

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TURKEY has strongly censured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for promising to annex settlements in the West Bank if re-elected, saying that his ‘irresponsible’...

Israel’s apartheid practices slammed by UN special rapporteur

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A United Nations human rights expert has slammed Israel’s ‘apartheid practices’ in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying the Tel Aviv regime’s actions against Palestinians...

Great Ormond Street security staff rally

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SECURITY workers from Great Ormond St Children’s Hospital (GOSH) held a rally on Thursday at lunchtime to mark the end of their six week...

Politics And Passion At Edinburgh Film Festival

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Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world’s longest running film festival, showcasing the latest and best of world cinema, with something for everyone. This...

ASSAD MEETS RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER SHOYGU –both sides agreed on next...

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Monday received Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu and an accompanying delegation. The two sides discussed the Russian-Turkish agreements reached on...

‘CALL A GENERAL STRIKE’ – lobby urges TUC General Council

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OVER 200 Young Socialists and trade unionists lobbied the General Council of the TUC on Wednesday morning as it assembled to discuss the calling...

BRITISH COMPLICITY IN TORTURE – indicted by Human Rights Watch

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The UK government should immediately order an independent judicial inquiry into the role and complicity of British security services in the torture of terrorism...

20,000 STUDENTS AND WORKERS MARCH IN ATHENS! – on the 36th...

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Over 20,000 students, youth and workers took part in a militant anti-imperialist demonstration in Athens on Tuesday to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the...

FAILED ISRAELI GENERALS FAILED IN GEORGIA AS WELL says Hezbollah leader...

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HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has spoken on the second anniversary of the end of the war of July-August 2006, or what Hezbollah...

Israeli Forces Demolish Homes Across The West Bank

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ISRAELI forces on Saturday night notified the families of three alleged Palestinian attackers of their intention to demolish their houses across the occupied West...

Socialist Revolution Is Now On The Agenda Of Greek Workers

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ON Wednesday workers in Greece staged the biggest ever 24-hour general strike against the IMF–European Commission’s imposed austerity measures with millions participating. Planes remained...

‘VOTE YES AND VOTE FOR NEGOTIATION!’ – CWU urges members

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Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) South Eastern Divisional Committee is calling on all CWU members to ‘Vote yes and vote for negotiation’ in the union’s...

Birdshot and teargas fired on Cairo rallies

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EGYPT National Railway director Hussein Zakariya said he has taken legal action against striking train drivers, referring them to the Administrative Prosecution. He said in...

Crs Riot Police Attack Weather Service Workers

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CRS riot police were used against striking Meteo-France weather service workers who were picketing and blockading the organisation’s Toulouse site at 22.30 on...

Ashrawi condemns Pompeo for visiting Israeli colonial settlement!

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HANAN ASHRAWI, member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)’s Executive Committee, has condemned the US top diplomat’s visit to an Israeli colonial settlement in...

Austerity driving up infant mortality

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THE GAP in infant mortality rates between English local authorities narrowed between 1999-2010, but that trend has been reversed since 2011 as a result of...

Israeli authorities raze land and demolish housing!

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ISRAELI authorities on Thursday razed land and demolished a greenhouse and water well in Beit Ula, a village located northwest of Hebron, according to...

‘Never threaten the Iranians’ Zarif warns Trump

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IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned US President Donald Trump to avoid threatening the Iranians, advising him to ‘try respect’ as the...

CHARRED CORPSES ‘PART OF THE PATTERN’ – of deaths and abuses...

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AMNESTY International said yesterday that recent revelations about deaths in custody and abuses by US troops in Afghanistan are further evidence of a culture...

US workers battle for union representation

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THE demand for union representation is growing amongst workers in the United States. Loyola University catering workers rejoiced on November 2nd, after they received news...

REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE! – 10,000 March against racism in London

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‘REFUGEES are welcome here!’ shouted over 10,000 protesters on a March Against Racism through central London on Saturday. Labour’s shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott,...

170,000 workers & youth march in London for ‘Victory for Palestine’

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OVER 150,000 workers, students and youth joined the National March for Palestine from the BBC in Portland Place, central London to Downing Street on...

Coalition Prepares Summer War Over Pensions

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THE PCS is discussing co-ordinated strike action with other unions to fight the Tory-LibDem onslaught on the pensions of millions of health, local council,...

Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally told that Iraq had no...

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THE US Think-Progress website has published the text of the ‘60 Minutes’ TV interview with former CIA official Tyler Drumheller who revealed that in...

FIGHT FOR $15 AN HOUR – US Senate Democrats urge President...

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IN a letter sent to the White House on Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Senate Democrats in urging President...

US CARRIER MUST NOT RETURN TO GULF! ‘We do not warn...

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IRAN threatened on Tuesday to take action if the US Navy moves an aircraft carrier back into the Gulf. This is Tehran’s most aggressive...

Housing benefit freeze pushing thousands to breaking point – says Shelter

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‘THE current freeze on housing benefit is pushing hundreds of thousands of private renters dangerously close to breaking point at a time when homelessness...

Met police officer charged with murder of Chris Kaba – ...

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Wednesday that the Metropolitan Police Officer who shot Chris Kaba is being charged with murder. Chris Kaba, 24,...

British Columbian longshore workers overwhelming strike vote

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Longshore workers in British Columbia have overwhelmingly voted to authorise industrial action, raising the prospect of a strike at the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s...

14 Hours In Iraq

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Al-Sharqiyah TV reported on its 2 pm news broadcast last Sunday the security and political developments of that day. The report stated: ‘The US Army...

‘NOTHING WILL CHANGE – WHETHER THEY SEND HELICOPTERS OR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS!’...

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THE Libyan prime minister gave an hour and 55 minute-long news conference relayed by Al-Jamahiriyah TV at 11.35 gmt last Thursday. Al-Mahmudi said...

Huge increase in leukaemia and birth defects in Iraq

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THE use of depleted uranium in Iraq by the US and UK military has led to a huge increase in Leukemia and birth defects...

‘Our members remain ‘extremely angry’ says NUMSA leader Irvin Jim

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TWO weeks into their strike, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), has rejected the latest wage offer in the metals and...

Mass Protests All Over Palestine On Nakba Day

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PALESTINIANS commemorated the 71st anniversary of the Nakba Day (May 15th – the Day of Catastrophe) in the occupied West Bank and the blockaded...