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THE initial stages of the G20 talks in China were yesterday dominated by the world crisis of capitalism, the sharpening antagonisms that this crisis...

THE Turkish government warned on Monday that it would carry out more strikes on the previously US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria if it fails...

THESE are fearful times for the leaders of EU capitalism. The fear factor is not just present in Brussels. Admiral Alan West, who...

CHILD refugees languishing in squalid conditions in camps in Calais without their parents or any family member to look after them urgently need...

GREEK armed riot police squads raided in the early morning of last Wednesday three buildings in the northern city of Thessaloniki where refugees were...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad confirmed yesterday that his government will pardon all ‘militants’ who turn in their weapons, stressing that the policy has been...

THE UNITED Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) earlier this summer won a major battle in the courts that recognises the UE’s...

‘SIGNIFICANT numbers’ of child refugees must be ‘promptly taken in by the UK and cared for’ a Parliamentary committee has demanded. The UK’s European Union...

‘IT is shameful that, as one of the richest economies, the UK has provided shelter for less than one per cent of refugees,’...

TURKEY’S President Erdogan has called the just concluded coup attempt that saw parliament bombed and 250 people killed ‘a gift from God... because this...

UN REFUGEE Agency UNHCR is concerned about Hungary’s new restrictive law, amid increased reports of violence, and a deterioration of the situation at border...

SOME 900 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to require medical attention as a result of permanent disabilities they sustained during Israel’s devastating 51-day...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given an extensive interview with Australian TV channel SBS. In the interview, he covered such topics as Brexit, the hypocrisy...

DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...

THE mass of the working class and the majority of the middle class must vote to ‘Leave’ the EU today to strike a body...

TURKEY and Israel are to announce an agreement on the normalisation of bilateral ties, ending six years of a freeze in relations, after a...

‘WITH our aid, let us through! Refugees are human too!’ hundreds of angry protesters demanded after their 250-vehicle strong Convoy to Calais was blocked...

THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...

A PALESTINIAN-British schoolgirl Leanne Mohamad, who was crowned regional finalist in the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge has been barred from progressing further in the competition...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas announced during a meeting in Cairo on Saturday that the focus of the Paris International Peace Conference would be centred...

GREEK dockworkers at the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki began 48-hour ‘rolling’ strikes on Thursday against the privatisation of the ports. Athens...

YESTERDAY, David Cameron formally announced that the Tory government would be sending a Royal Navy warship to the coast of Libya as part of...

THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...

BMA Junior Doctors’ Committee Chair Dr Johann Malawana admitted on Saturday that despite gigantic efforts to find ‘common ground,’ no agreement could be reached...

ON the occasion of the commemoration of the anniversary of the Nakba, Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said: ‘The Nakba is ongoing as long as the occupation...

ON Monday Tory PM Cameron warned that if the UK leaves the EU it could trigger off another great European war. What a condemnation...

PULITZER Prize-winning novelist, prominent Jewish-American author Michael Chabon says the Israeli oppression of Palestinians is worse than the apartheid system in South Africa. Chabon accompanied...

YOU can tell that the split and divided Tory party and capitalist class in the UK are in very serious trouble when they have...

THE UK could take up to 10 years to negotiate trade deals with the US if it leaves the EU, Barack Obama has said. In...

US President, Barak Obama, has issued his ultimatum to the British ruling class – stay in the EU or else! In a lengthy article in...

GREEK journalists employed in newspapers are on a national 48-hour strike this Thursday and Friday, while journalists on radio and television are staging their...

THE imperialist war drums are beating with a vengeance as advanced preparations for a direct military intervention into Libya by Britain, Italy, France and...

MEDECINS Sans Frontieres (MSF – Doctors Without Borders) has ‘strongly condemned’ the UK plan to use gunboats to force would-be refugees back to Libya. Last...

PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...

CORBYN has been transformed into his opposite as far as the ruling class and Labour’s rabid Blairite right wing is concerned. He has gone...

THE UK is turning a blind eye to suffering on its doorstep by failing to protect vulnerable refugees, who have been displaced by conflict,...

YESTERDAY, millions of Syrians were casting their votes in record numbers in parliamentary elections against the backdrop of a ceasefire that is generally holding,...

AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...

DUTCH voters have delivered a hefty kick in the crotch to the EU Presidency currently held by Holland, also to the European Commission, the...

ON every front – the economic, the political and the ideological – the capitalist ruling classes and their system are reeling and in desperate...

A GOOD picket of junior doctors turned out at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital at 8am. They were in good spirits despite the wind...

OVER 1,000 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees marched last Wednesday through the Athens city centre to the EU Offices in Greece demanding free and...

THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

REFUGEES staged protests shouting ‘freedom’, in English, last Wednesday and Thursday, at the main gate of the Moria village ‘Detention Centre,’ that is, concentration...

THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...