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US AGENCIES HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF AFGHANISTAN – says Major-General Flynn

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AMERICAN spy agencies need to make ‘sweeping’ changes to their work in Afghanistan, a report by Major-General Michael T Flynn and two other senior...

Lieberman Lashes Abbas And Israeli Diplomats

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Israel’s ultra-Zionist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday questioned on Israeli radio if President Mahmud Abbas represents all Palestinians, given his lack of authority...

US launched cruise missile strikes in Yemen

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RECENT attacks on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile strikes, were led by the United States according to a CBS television report Saturday. The...

Palestinians Demonstrate Against Gaza Siege And Starvation

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Hundreds of Palestinians from lands occupied in 1948 and international activists demonstrated at the Beit Hanoun (Eretz) crossing linking the Gaza Strip with 1948...

US is constructing Egypt’s ‘Wall of Death’

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A SENIOR Egyptian engineer working on the ‘steel wall’ which the Egyptian authorities are building along the borders with the Gaza Strip, has confirmed...

STOP NHS PRIVATISATIONS AND CUTS – urges BMA

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The British Medical Association (BMA) has today unveiled a set of New Year’s resolutions for politicians to help them protect the future of the...

DOWN WITH RAJAPAKSE AND FONSEKA – Platform of Common Left candidate...

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SO, ONCE again, at the cost of some Rs 12 billion of public funds, we have to face a Presidential election. Two equally bloody, corrupt...

‘A CRIME IN COLD BLOOD’ – Governor of Nablus condemns executions

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At least 20,000 Palestinians turned out for the afternoon funeral processions of three Nablus men assassinated by undercover Israeli forces during the early hours...

‘World Powers Betrayed Besieged Gaza People!’

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WORLD powers betrayed the besieged Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip by failing to end the Israeli blockade of the territory in the wake...

TONY BLAIR AND GORDON BROWN SHOULD BE TRIED AS WAR CRIMINALS...

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‘Tony Blair and Gordon Brown should be tried as war criminals,’ Peter Brierley, whose son Shaun was killed in Iraq in 2003, told a...

‘WE MUST HAVE A PUBLIC INSURANCE OPTION’ –insists AFL-CIO President Trumka

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LAST Friday the new AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued a statement on the Senate Healthcare Bill being sponsored by President Obama. He said: ‘The labour...

How the Israeli army murdered 29 members of the Samouni family

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IN one corner of Salah Samouni’s modest living room hangs a ‘martyr poster’ – a customary honor printed for those killed in all Israeli...

The Fight Of The Greek ‘Stage’ Workers

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By DINA ROVITHAKI, President of the ‘stage’ workers’ trade union at the Institute for Agricultural Development and member of the National Co-ordinating Committee of ‘stage’...

RESEARCH FUNDING CHANGES AN ATTACK ON SCIENCE – says UCU

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THE government’s changes to research funding threaten the future of science in Britain, leading experts are warning. According to Professor Donald Braben, Honorary Professor, Department...

London Met Governors Must Resign Now!

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HUNDREDS of students and lecturers demonstrated outside the meeting of the Board of Governors of London Metropolitan University on Tuesday night, demanding: ‘RESIGN NOW!’ Calling the demonstration,...

RAJAPAKSA BROTHERS ‘GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES’ says US expert in international...

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A US-based group has independently verified the authenticity of the Channel-4 video in October showing the murder of Tamil Tiger prisoners by Sri Lankan...

Iran And Syria Sign Defence Pact

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‘The Iranian nation and government will always stand by the resistance and the oppressed Palestinian people,’ Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has reiterated. Ahmadinejad met with...

Abbas Condemns Settler Violence

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Israeli police used force to break up a demonstration in East Jerusalem on Friday against the eviction of a Palestinian family from their home. Twenty-one...

‘A CALLOUS, UNJUST AND UNCARING BUDGET’ says Irish TUC President Jack...

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THE President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and General President of SIPTU, Jack O’Connor, has attacked Budget 2010 as ‘callous, unjust and...

STOP WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL CLOSING! – – we must all defend our...

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WHITTINGTON Hospital is threatened with being reduced to a ‘local hospital’ through having its Accident and Emergency and other vital Departments closed, and...

GREEK POLICE – ‘MURDERERS AND TORTURERS!’ –shout thousands of youth

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OVER 15,000 Greek school and university students and secondary school teachers marched through the Athens city centre on Monday afternoon in commemoration of the...

Civil Service Unions ‘Outrage’ Over Redundancy Pay Cuts

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The announcement of changes to civil service redundancy payments made today by the Cabinet Office is an outrageous breach of faith with the unions,...

PAISLEY RECALL POSSIBLE – to ‘save the Assembly’

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BY JOHN COULTER AT STORMONT DUBLIN – Ian Paisley senior may be hauled out of semi-political retirement to save the rapidly crumbling Northern Assembly, a...

Irish TUC calls for new taxes on the wealthy

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Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) General Secretary David Begg said on Wednesday that the Dublin government must now ‘choose between continued deference to...

‘WE DEMAND A FULL INVESTIGATION!’ – says Ian Tomlinson’s widow

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‘we are holding this special vigil because it has been a long eight months,’ Julia Tomlinson, the widow of Ian Tomlinson told over 200...

THE UK IS A FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY WITH THIRD-WORLD EDUCATION – UCU...

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The UK has dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables, the University and College Union stressed today. In the past twelve years it...

‘organise The British And World Revolution’

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‘BUILD the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists and the Fourth International.’ That was the message from the News Line/Trotsky Anniversary rally attended by...

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...

Leon Trotsky exhibition in Leningrad

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An important event for the working class of Leningrad and the entire world by Mikhail Polupanov This exhibition is dedicated to 130th anniversary of outstanding...

Colombian trade unionists take campaign to US – meanwhile 4 more...

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During two months when trade unionists from Colombia were visiting America to take part in trade union training – four of their colleagues were...

SECOND IRAQ INQUIRY – into claims of murder & torture after...

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YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Defence announced in Parliament the establishment of a public inquiry into the incident of alleged mistreatment...

‘A WORRYING AND DISTURBING PICTURE’ – RCM highlights shortage of midwives

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Alone & lost in LABOUR, a survey by the Royal College Midwives and ‘Netmums’, highlights a shortage of midwives and lack of postnatal and...

WEST ‘HAS RUN OUT OF AMMO’ says Ahmadinejad

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PRESIDENT Ahmadinejad has said that the West has ‘run out of ammo’ against Iran. He added that Iran will never accept commitments from Western countries...

GAZA FREEDOM MARCH DECEMBER 31st – thousands gather to break the...

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The Gaza Freedom March that will take place in Gaza on December 31st is an historic initiative to break the siege that has imprisoned...

Socialist Workers Party voted for postal Interim Agreement – Letter from...

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The Interim Agreement (I.A.), brokered by Brendan Barber of the TUC, between Royal Mail and the CWU, has allowed Royal Mail to press ahead...

Bolton Theatre celebrates Great Miners Strike

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The Octagon Theatre Bolton will mark the 25th anniversary of the Great Miners’ Strike when Artistic Director David Thacker revives his acclaimed production of...

‘STOP COWBOY CLEANING CONTRACTS’ – –RMT and Unite members lobby Metronet...

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MEMBERS of the RMT rail union and the Unite union’s Justice for Cleaners campaign staged a protest in central London on Wednesday, demanding: ‘Stop...

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...

THE IRAQI RESISTANCE IS STILL DIRECTING POWERFUL STRIKES AT THE OCCUPIERS...

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‘The Iraqis today do not have control over their political, security or social situation – control is in the hands of the occupation, those...

Ussr: A New Stage Of Confrontation

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THE DEEPENING world economic imperialist crisis is leading to a much worsening of working class conditions in all parts of the...

‘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...

A Wave Of Occupations Hits The London College Of Communication

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ANGRY students have occupied the London College of Communication (LCC) this week, against a wave of redundancies and course closures. The occupation, which began at...

PERMANENT JOBS FOR ALL – demand thousands of Greek workers

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OVER 2,000 Greek public sector workers on short-contracts staged a militant demonstration through Athens city centre on Wednesday, calling on the social-democratic government of...

Five Years Since Yasser Arafat’s Murder

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PALESTINIANS around the world marked the fifth anniversary of the death of President Yasser Arafat yesterday. In the West Bank, where Arafat’s Fatah movement...

Gm Boss Refuses To Say Which European Plants Will Be Closed

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GENERAL Motor’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Fritz Henderson, took questions at a Detroit press conference on Thursday, November 5th concerning the Magna...