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Inquest Into The Death Of Jean Charles de Menezes Starts Monday

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The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will begin next Monday 22nd September at 10am at the Oval Cricket Ground, The...

MILITARY MIGHT CANNOT END TAMIL INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE – says Tamil National...

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HISTORY has shown that there is not a military solution to the struggle taking place in Sri Lanka, says a Tamil politician, in an...

Terror Laws Used Against Unions

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TUC Delegates passed Motion Seven on EU Attacks on Trade Union Rights yesterday, which the TUC General Council supported with reservations. The Fire...

Tamil Students Demand Release Of Colleague

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in their sentry post along Jaffna lagoon found a male corpse with gun shot wounds washed ashore on...

‘TSKHINVALI WAS STALINGRAD’ – Valery Gergiev condemns invasion by Georgia

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Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has said he hopes a concert in Tskhinvali will help the world to see the ‘truth’ of what happened in...

COVER UP! – no action over the killing of journalist Terry...

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The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) yesterday condemned the British state’s refusal to prosecute US Marines over the ‘unlawful killing’ of ITN journalist Terry...

Smash British-Pakistani torture chain

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AMNESTY International yesterday called for the new government of Pakistan to provide information about the hundreds of people held in the country’s ‘war on...

Gadaffi Rejects ‘Med Union’ As ‘Crusaders Containment’

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LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...

STATES MUST REAFFIRM EVERYONE’S RIGHT TO ASYLUM – urges Amnesty International

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In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International called on states to...

Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...

Bush dresses down ‘quitter’ Brown!

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BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...

GO HOME WARMONGER! – 2000 Tamils demonstrate against Rajapakse visit to...

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Over 2,000 Tamils demonstrated outside the Commonwealth Conference in central London on Tuesday against the attendance of Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse. Their banners carried...

Rajapakse Out! Demand 2000 Tamils

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‘We want freedom! We want Tamil Eelam! Stop the genocide’ shouted 2,000 Tamils demonstrating in central London yesterday. The protest outside the Commonwealth Conference taking...

US Prison Ships Used Diego Garcia

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‘The US government must reveal information about prison ships used for “terror suspects”,’ the legal action charity, Reprieve said yesterday. In June 2005 the UN’s...

PCS/war On Want Rally Supports Palestinians And Chagos Islanders

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THE PCS civil servants union held a 70-strong international rally at its annual conference in Brighton last Wednesday evening where it launched a joint...

INDIA GIVES GO-AHEAD TO ‘ELIMINATE LTTE’ – claims Sri Lankan Premier

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IN his recent addres to the Oxford Union, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa tried to assert, very unconvincingly, that he did not believe...

42-Day Detention Crisis For Brown!

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A number of Labour MPs have tabled an amendment to the government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill in a bid to block plans to extend pre-charge detention...

Labour Is The Rajapaksa Regime’s Sponsor

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ON Tuesday evening President Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, was due to address the prestigious Oxford Union in front of an invited audience. He...

60% Of Sadr City Dead Are Women And Children

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THE Sadr City region of Baghdad is facing a humanitarian catastrophe with tens of thousands of residents cut off from clean water, food and...

OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘No better conditions could...

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Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction by MOISSAYE J OLGIN THE essay, ‘The Proletariat and the Revolution’, was published at the close of...

‘NO REGRETS’ SAYS GOLDSMITH – over halting Fraud Office inquiry

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Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday called on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) not to re-open its corruption probe into the 1986 so-called ‘Al-Yamamah’...

Brown demands police-state detention law

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AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...

NO SECRET INQUESTS! – NO 42 DAYS! – urge human rights...

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MPs were urged yesterday to vote against government proposals for ‘secret inquests’, and to reject plans for 42-day detention without charge by both human...

South Africa Urges Sri Lanka Peace Talks

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TAMILNET has reported the call from South Africa expressing deep concern over the escalating violence in Sri Lanka, and calling for renewed negotiations...

Eu ‘Harbours Serious Concerns’ Over Sri Lanka’s Rights Abuses

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The European Union (EU) has expressed serious concern over Sri Lanka’s rights abuses, TamilNet reported yesterday. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the EU...

Brown Beefs Up Secret State

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced to MPs that ‘the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel’. In a statement to the House...

Carnage And Despair: Iraq Five Years On

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Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is in disarray, the human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity prevails,...

Milltown Massacre ‘Could Have Been Prevented’

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THIS year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations on Monday, March 17 were overshadowed by the 20th anniversaries of two of the most televised bloody massacres...

Pirapaharan Pays Tribute To Tna Mp Sivanesan

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TAMILNET reports that the leader of the Liberation Tigers, Velupillai Pirapaharan, on Saturday, paid tribute to the slain Jaffna District Tamil National Alliance MP...

Turkey Invades Northern Iraq

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THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers, backing a number of tank led armoured columns, crossed into northern Iraq on Thursday evening, after a massive artillery bombardment...

PALESTINIANS SHOULD FOLLOW KOSOVO – says Abbas aide

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A SENIOR aide to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that Palestinians should follow the example of Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence if Israeli-Palestinian...

UK MILITARY CHIEFS SCREAM FOR MORE MONEY – and plan to...

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UK military chiefs are screaming for more money to be spent on defence, as a desperate imperialism is driven to launch more wars for...

‘THEY WERE SENDING ME TO THE USA FOR EXECUTION!’ – Lofti...

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‘They were sending me to the US for an execution, I will never forgive that,’ said Algerian pilot Lofti Raissi yesterday, after winning the...

Labour seeking state control of inquests

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THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...

Labour terrorism against the unemployed

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UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...

‘Stop The Ethnic Cleansing Of Tamils’

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A 3,500-strong demonstration organised by the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) marked the 60th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka...

SECRET INQUESTS PLAN! – No juries! – to cover up deaths...

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Legal charity INQUEST yesterday condemned government proposals in the Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008 which ‘give unprecedented powers to the Secretary of State to intervene in...

Bush Anti-Iran Campaign Hitting Difficulties

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US President George W Bush was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his campaign to isolate arch foe Iran and for...

2008 – The Year For Revolution!

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BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its revolutionary New Year’s greetings for the year 2008 to the workers and...

SIX YEARS OF GUANTANAMO – the detainees speak

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On January 11, 2008 it will be six years since the US authorities first transported ‘war on terror’ detainees to the military prison at the naval camp...

BHUTTO KILLED BY THE MILITARY – Revolution erupts throughout Pakistan

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Yesterday, at 6.16pm local time (13.16 GMT), Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto died in Rawalpindi General Hospital after being shot in the neck...

Bhutto Murdered By US Sponsored Military!

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AT 6.16pm local time yesterday evening the Pakistani military assassinated Benazir Bhutto, putting a bloody end to the notion that there can be some...

‘Movement To Free Political Prisoners Pickets Colombo High Court’

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THE Sri Lankan military intelligence unit took into custody twenty five young men in the country’s western province, (Colombo, Gampaha) on February 5 2005...

AN ISRAELI INVASION OF THE GAZA STRIP ‘IS JUST A STONE’S...

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HAMAS’ Yahya Musa, a deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council declared yesterday that an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip was discussed behind the...

PRABAKHARAN CONDEMNS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY – for supporting war against the...

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TAMILNET has reported the LTTE leader Prabakharan’s address to Tamil Tiger cadres and supporters on ‘Heroes Day’. We reproduce part of it. News Line...