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WESTERN troops including British SAS troopers were supporting Libyan counter-revolutionaries in the vital port city of Misratah yesterday. The al Jazeera TV station...

‘This is the danger of using the private sector to deliver our health services,’ a Unison spokeswoman told News Line. ‘We’ve always warned that the...

SUPPORT is growing for an international, independent inquiry into the 2009 genocide against the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Over 10,000 people rallied in Trafalgar Square...

TRIPOLI – Colonel Gadaffi on Wednesday made a major address to the Libyan people. He began: ‘Dear great Libyan, resisting, steadfast and brave people. I...

ANGRY Libyans chanted Muammar Gadaffi’s name in Tripoli yesterday, as they gathered for the funeral of his son 29-year-old Saif al-Arab and three grandchildren,...

Libya condemned as ‘cowardly’ a series of NATO air strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli early yesterday. Gadaffi’s whereabouts at...

Officials in Doha have confirmed that Qatar is secretly supplying French-made ‘Milan’ anti-tank missiles to Libyan counter-revolutionaries in Benghazi, as part of the western...

The Swaziland government has banned a peaceful protest planned by the trade union movement for 12-14 April. South African trade unions are supporting Swaziland workers. The...

‘THIS IS our revolution, Mubarak is a tyrant, not a president any more!’ said angry Egyptians demonstrating in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday. The chanting...

Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) began a wage strike at mining recruitment company Teba Limited on Monday. The strike comes after...

COSATU President Sidumo Dlamini addressed the COSATU union federation’s 25th anniversary celebration last Sunday. He told his audience: ‘Comrades and friends, we are here today...

THE general secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi addressed the SACTWU National Congress last Friday. His central warning was ‘If the broad liberation movement does not...

Public sector unions in South Africa, supported by the whole of the working class, are in conflict with the ANC government over a decent...

HUNDREDS of thousands of people are going hungry in Los Angeles County, California, in the richest state in the richest country in the world. Demand...

THE South African 300,000-strong National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called a one-day solidarity strike with the 1.3m public sector trade unionists who have...

‘The entire economy of South Africa will be shut down’, warns the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), if the government fails to...

BY JOHN COULTER, Irish political journalist Irish republicans need to build a mass movement capable of attracting a wide range of people, one of Sinn...

THE massive growth in unemployment sparked by the worldwide financial collapse in the capitalist system in 2008 is hitting youth so hard that the...

PRIME Minister David Cameron and the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government have decamped from London to New Delhi this week to drum up business, such...

One Hundred BT workers and their supporters staged a lunchtime rally outside the BT centre in central London yesterday having begun their ballot for...

‘At the end of 2009, some 43.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution, the highest number since the mid-1990s,’...

‘These despots, this rabble, these renegades from my army, these men of straw who dare to present themselves as righteous men in the cause...

A call has come from the University Teachers’ Association, the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel and 31 other Gaza civil...

COSATU’s 1st Deputy President, Tyotyo James addressed South Africa’s Public Sector Summit on March 12 2010. He said: ‘COSATU is pleased to have been...

THE Palestinians of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are surrounded by barriers, as a desperate Israel tries to turn Occupied Palestine...

The following is the address by COSATU President, Sidumo Dlamini, to the Gaza Report-back Rally in Lenasia last Friday. ‘Almost a year ago, Gaza was...

Aircraft carrier USS Vincent arrived off the coast of earthquake-hit Haiti yesterday as Admiral Mike Mullen announced a huge US task force. Speaking at a...

Testimony given to South African jurist Richard Goldstone’s UN Fact Finding Mission on the winter 2008/2009 war on Gaza, illustrates vividly one of the...

ISRAEL cancelled the visit of a military delegation to Britain last week after British authorities could not guarantee that the Israeli occupation army’s...

BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson’s Department and the Unite union both said yesterday that talks on Wednesday with new GM Europe owner, Magna, were ‘constructive’ but...

Statement by RABINDER SINGH QC to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry RABINDER Singh QC has delivered his opening statement to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry,...

THE General Council of the Trades Union Congress held a crisis meeting yesterday morning, as it was split over Motion 76: Palestine, from the...

‘Vale Inco should get back to the bargaining table if it wants to start delivering nickel to its customers again’, according to Wayne Fraser,...

THE ANC government of South Africa has said that it intends to crack down on the township riots and strikes that are sweeping...

Palestinian civil society has called on democratic South Africa to end complicity with Israeli apartheid. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) has released...

AT the minimum 20,000 Tamil people were massacred on the Mullaitivu beach ‘no fire zone’ by Sri Lanka Army shelling, in the first 19...

TAMILNET reports that gangs of Sinhala youths brandishing Lion flags in the name of victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have...

WHILE rejecting Colombo’s claim of the killing of LTTE leader V Prabakaran and assuring his safety and well-being, LTTE’s International Relations Head S...

DOZENS of delegates walked out of a United Nations conference on racism after Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Iran's president, correctly described the Israeli cabinet as a...

The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...

TAMILNET reports that the Indian High Commissioner in Mauritius last Friday rebuffed a memorandum from thousands of Mauritian Tamil demonstrators, requesting India stop the...

THE British Tamil Forum has condemned the statement by the Co-Chairs (US, EU, Japan and Norway) of the international community demanding that...

LIBERATION Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Political Head, B Nadesan, yesterday blamed the Colombo regime for the stepped up genocidal artillery attacks on civilian...

OVER 200,000 people joined the largest-ever demonstration in Britain in support of the Palestinian people, when they marched in London on Saturday. About 10,000 people...

OVER 100,000 people took part in the largest-ever demonstration Britain has seen in support of the Palestinian people on Saturday, as Israel invaded the...