Monthly Archives: June 2015
THE latest World Bank economic update said that Gaza’s unemployment rate – at 43.9% – is now the highest in the world, stressing that Israel’s blockade on the Strip caused a 50% decrease of Gaza’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). UNRWA, in a press release, reported on the World Bank as...
LABOUR leadership contender Yvette Cooper has accused some in the party’s leadership contenders of ‘swallowing the Tory manifesto’ following its election defeat. Cooper warned against a move to the right, telling the Andrew Marr Show: ‘I will set out ideas for the future that don’t just involve swallowing the Tory...
IN A RADIO interview yesterday morning the Greek Minister for the Interior Nikos Voutsis said there must be an agreement reached this week between the Greek government and the troika of EC-IMF-ECB. He said the agreement would be ‘honest, clear and lucid but also quite painful’. Voutsis stated that the...
‘WE are going to do everything to stop privatisation and defend out National Gallery strikers’ declared Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union president Janice Goodrich as she introduced speakers at the 1,500-strong rally in Trafalgar Square on Saturday. The national rally opposing National Gallery privatisation and calling for the reinstatement...
IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer, and refused to champion the cause of the Palestinian masses by expelling the Israeli FA from FIFA because of Israel’s crimes in the occupied territories....