Monthly Archives: January 2006

Palestinian Islamic liberation movement Hamas has declared: ‘No to killing, banditry, and the policy of kidnapping foreigners’. In a statement posted on the Palestinian Information Centre website on 31 December, Hamas asks: ‘Have the crimes of kidnapping foreigners become a pursued policy aimed at derailing the resistance from its...

LABOUR was yesterday mounting a new onslaught on the disabled. The target is the 2.7 million people currently on Incapacity Benefit. The aim is to force at least one million of these disabled people off benefit and into the labour market and lop about £5 billion off the Incapacity...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are on the picket line today, determined to win victory this year. The airline catering company at Heathrow sacked over 700 Transport and General Workers’ Union members on August 10 last year. Locked out worker Parmjit Bains told News Line yesterday: ‘We are confident of victory this...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of funds. A BMA spokeswoman told News Line yesterday: ‘It’s very sad when we find out that hospitals are being forced to cut back on patient services...

THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite warnings about the danger of such actions for the atmosphere of Ukrainian-Russian relations and their perception in Ukrainian society.’ Nothing could be further from the truth. This...

Without fanfare, but with determination, Israel is systematically, militarily and economically squeezing Palestinians out of the Jordan Valley, expanding colonial Jewish settlement in the strategic area, reports the Palestine Media Centre (PMC). A new Israeli poll revealed on Friday that Israelis overwhelmingly see the ‘Valley’ as more vital than the...