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Workers staged a general strike in Catalonia on Tuesday of this week, following a huge vote for independence on Sunday.

The Tory conference in Manchester this week saw their party leadership in turmoil

 The Spanish state has responded to the Catalan independence referendum with violence.

Catalonia was shut down today, Tuesday, by a general strike of workers and a “stoppage of the nation” by civil society.

Leading Tories are fighting an open battle to defend capitalism. Last week Theresa May hailed the free market as the “greatest agent of collective human progress”.

Soldiers shot dead at least eight people and wounded many in Cameroon on Sunday.

Palestinian resistance group Hamas could give up control of the government in the Gaza Strip after ten years under siege by Israel.

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Up to 3,000 pilots, cabin crew, engineers and others woke up out of a job on Monday after Monarch airline entered insolvency

Hundreds of pro-choice protesters gathered outside the Irish embassy in London last Saturday to demand abortion rights for women in Ireland.