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NATO Abandons Kurds to Ethnic Cleansing by Turkey

Jul 4, 2022 Critical Mass News Team

NATO has abandoned the Kurds to ethnic cleansing to keep Turkey onside against Russia. If the defence of Ukraine depends upon sacrificing the Kurds, we are not defending freedom. We…

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The Briefing Jan 15

Jan 15, 2022 Dave Middleton

Review of the week's news including articles on Covid, Johnson's partying, Syria and the NHS.

It was the torture and death of this 13-year-old boy, Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb, in 2011, which sparked many of the protests in Syria [[File:Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb.]]

International News

Life imprisonment for crimes against humanity

Jan 14, 2022 Susie Granic

A GERMAN court yesterday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in prison for committing crimes against humanity at a jail near Damascus a decade ago. Anwar Raslan, a former…

"Syrian refugee children play with one another in the Ketermaya refugee camp" by World Bank Photo Collection is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

International Issue 009

It’s a crisis for the people seeking safe haven, not for us

Dec 10, 2021 Susie Granic

NEWSPAPER headlines and politicians scream about the refugee crisis with the implication being that the whole crisis is too many people attempting to gain safe access to countries when the…

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School’s Out
by Critical Mass News Team
February 2, 2023
AROUND 100,000 teachers in England and Wales took strike action yesterday, joining others in the biggest day of strike action for over a decade.
Defend Our Unions and Strike Out the Tories
by Critical Mass News Team
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The right to strike is under threat. Labour will do nothing and the TUC have no stomach for a fight. Unite behind the current strikes and build our power.
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by Dave Middleton
January 31, 2023
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Netanyahu promises retribution
by Critical Mass News Team
January 31, 2023
Netanyahu brings in punitive measures against Palestinians in the aftermath of even more violence.
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