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CURRENTLY the Ukrainian parliament is under siege by fascist bands led by the Svoboda and Right Sector movements demanding that MPs pass a law recognising...

HEALTH workers throughout the country came out solidly on strike on Monday against the government’s refusal to increase their pay by 1% for those...

‘I DO NOT think that the West has relinquished its colonial mentality,’ Syrian president Assad said in a recent interview, while the US and...

LEADING figures in the British and Israeli Labour parties are working together to defeat the resolution to recognise Palestine, that is to...

MANUEL Hassassian, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, has renewed his call on MPs to pass the resolution that will be before the House...

THURSDAY’S by-election in Clacton, caused by the defection to UKIP of the sitting Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, saw the Tory party completely routed. Carswell won...

TURKEY’S foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said his country cannot be expected to lead a ground operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria...

IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that if it wasn’t for ‘Iran’s support (for Iraq) and presence’ in fighting the group calling...

JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...

THE European Central Bank (ECB) monthly policy meeting took place in Naples last Thursday under riot conditions. While Europe’s financial movers and shakers met in...

A NEW investigation by Unite has found that since 2012 a scandalous £1.5 billion has left the NHS and gone into the pockets of...

‘DON’T bomb Iraq! Don’t attack Syria! – How can we fund a war when we can’t feed the poor!’ Shouted marchers in the pouring...

IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...

‘WASHINGTON has openly declared its right to use military force unilaterally and wherever it sees fit in order to protect its own interests,’ Russian...

ON THE day that MPs were voting on going to war once again in the Middle East, a very senior civil servant made it...

GREEK public sector workers staged a one-day national strike last Tuesday against the government’s workers’ ‘evaluation’ schemes which are designed to lead to mass...

INDIRECT talks between Palestinian and Israeli officials will continue in the last week of October, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday. Izzat al-Rishaq said...

LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...

SENATOR Warren, and the Koch Sisters led the rally to protect Social Security, and Medicare organised by AFSCME members at the ‘Hands Off’ rally...

THE 595 women cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry, sacked en masse on 17 September 2013 on the direct orders of the EC-IMF-ECB overlords,...

THE El-Khabar newspaper in Algeria has reported on the preparations of imperialist countries to launch a military campaign against Islamist militias in Libya. It states:...

CONSULTATION has begun into the closures of children’s heart surgeries in England after a review last year. There was a huge public outcry against the...

LAST week at the annual conference of the TUC the largest union in the country, Unite, issued a grovelling plea to the Tory led...

UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...

THE Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which Unite says places the NHS at ‘unique risk of being irreversibly privatised’, will not exclude healthcare,...

SET on restoring the once-formidable Soviet military presence in the highly contested and resource-rich Arctic, the Russian military has begun building new military bases...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday, voted unanimously for Motion 75 Qatar to strip Qatar of the World Cup. The motion ‘Calls on...

FAST food workers walked out of their restaurants all around America last week for the seventh time in nearly two years – to demand...

THE OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. The document, titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations...

WESTERN leaders yesterday criticised Russia for its ‘destabilising’ influence on the crisis in Ukraine, at the start of a Nato summit in Wales. Nato and...

IRAN’S First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri has said that the new sanctions imposed on his country are against the spirit of the Geneva agreement. ‘The new...

DAY 15 of the 248-mile Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool saw the marchers leaving Stockport Labour Club for Manchester. They had...

CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...

THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...

THE first poll of the Clacton constituency, where a by-election is due, shows that ex-Tory MP Carswell, who is standing for UKIP,...

THE Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday shows that UKIP, with turncoat Tory MP Carswell as their candidate, will win the October Clacton...

LAST weekend the French government collapsed as the splits within the cabinet turned into open warfare between President Holland and his finance minister, Arnaud...

UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...

ISRAEL, after 50 days of slaughter in which over 2,000 Palestinians were killed, many of them children, tens of thousands wounded and hundreds of...

Jewish Holocaust survivors from around the world call for justice in Gaza. Forty Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and 287 descendants of survivors and...

ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...

HOME SECRETARY May is set to bring in special measures to deal with British terrorists returning from Syria and Iraq, where they were allowed...

TURKEY’S spy chief has assured the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during a secret meeting last week that the...

WITH house prices increased by 10.2% (19% in London) in the last 12 months, and with rents at astronomic heights, plus rail fares about...

PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday revealed that he is preparing to send British troops into Iraq again. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, he warned that Islamic...