Monthly Archives: July 2016
ISRAELI forces on Wednesday detained at least 14 Palestinians, including a woman and a minor, during predawn raids across the West Bank, said security sources and a WAFA correspondent. Seven Palestinians were detained from Jerusalem district, five others from Hebron, another from Bethlehem and another from Tulkarem. Forces conducted a...
THE ROYAL Colleges, nurses, and NHS workers have reacted angrily to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey’s outrageous comments that ‘safe staffing levels had gone too far’. Mackey made the extraordinary claim there were now too many nurses and staff to each patient and that Trusts had ‘over-recruited’. NHS workers...
TORY Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-Education Secretary Michael Gove were both sacked from the Tory cabinet yesterday as new Tory PM Theresa May announced her new cabinet. Cameron’s co-leader George Osborne was also sacked as Chancellor and replaced by Philip Hammond. It was reported yesterday morning...
PM MAY, under the guise of adopting a ‘one nation’ policy which treasures the poor and the needy much more than the rich, has sought to separate herself from the sea of anger against the Cameron-Osborne regime of which she was a part, and which was turning the UK...
NURSES and other vital health workers face the sack within weeks, Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS Improvement, the body which is now in charge of the NHS, has warned. Interventions currently being taken by regulators to ‘regain control’ of NHS finances could result in some providers having fewer...
THE decision of the Labour Party NEC in a secret vote, by 18-14, for Labour leader Corbyn to go forward onto the leadership ballot without requiring nominations from the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) and the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP), is a body blow to the Labour right wing,...
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday lambasted the UN envoy for Syria for failing to restart peace talks aimed at ending the brutal five-year conflict. ‘We are concerned over the fact that the representative of the UN Secretary General (Staffan de Mistura) is shunning his duties and not convening...
US officials refused to prosecute UK-based HSBC bank for money laundering in 2012 because of fears that it would cause a ‘global financial disaster’, a report says. A US Congress report reveals UK officials, including Chancellor Osborne, applied pressure on the US, ‘hampered’ the probe and ‘influenced’ its outcome....
A US Congressional report has revealed that US officials refused to prosecute HSBC for money laundering in 2012 because of grave concerns within the UK’s Department of Justice that prosecution would cause a ‘global financial disaster’. The report alleges that the UK ‘hampered’ the probe and ‘influenced’ its outcome, with...
THOUSANDS of teachers are on strike throughout Mexico against the education ‘reforms’ of the Nieto government, which has met their demonstrattions and barricades with state force. They are winning huge support, and last Friday Zapatista Indigenous groups delivered almost three tons of food to the striking teachers from the CNTE...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her opponent, the leading Brexit campaigner Andrea Leadsom, was first subjected to a campaign of vilification over an interview given to the Times newspaper, a campaign...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her opponent, the leading Brexit campaigner Andrea Leadsom, was first subjected to a campaign of vilification over an interview given to the Times newspaper, a campaign...
TORY Education Secretary ‘Nicky Morgan has failed and must resign!’ teachers union NUT demanded yesterday. Teachers, parents and school students are furious at the chaos and stress caused by the hated SATs exams. These prompted a mass parents’ rebellion where they pulled their children out of school for the day,...
SOME 900 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to require medical attention as a result of permanent disabilities they sustained during Israel’s devastating 51-day assault on the small territory that began on July 8, 2014, according to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. On the second anniversary of...
UNITE leader Len McCluskey has issued a statement refuting the claims that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for Tom Watson’s ending the union-led efforts to re-unite Labour. McCluskey said on Saturday: ‘I had made arrangements for a meeting of trade union leaders, Tom Watson and representatives of the PLP and the...
UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey on Saturday issued an important statement refuting claims that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for Tom Watson’s withdrawal from union-led efforts to re-unite Labour. He said: ‘I am dismayed at the statement issued by Tom Watson announcing his withdrawal from talks aimed at resolving the...
UNITE has warned that ‘shameful’ agency practices towards workers at Sports Direct have contributed to its falling profits and reputation. The high street retailer, which has been mired in scandal in recent months after a string of allegations about its ‘Victorian’ practices, released its latest annual results on Thursday, showing...
AMERICA has erupted this week as the working class and youth have responded to the continued and unending violence meted out to them on a daily basis by the capitalist state and its armed agencies. On Thursday, a demonstration in Dallas, Texas, by the Black Lives Matter movement saw five...
THREE of the 13 hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so by NHS England, alleging concerns over ‘safety standards’. NHS England has told three units in Leicester, Manchester and London – to halt complex surgery on patients born with heart problems by...
FOLLOWING publication of the Chilcot Report into the Iraq War, the families of British soldiers who were killed during the war are preparing to launch legal action against Tony Blair, the prime minister who led the country to war illegally. Below is an edited version of the statement delivered by...
TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack of war crimes prosecutions in the Gaza Strip. In a report ahead of Friday’s anniversary of the invasion, a group of leading NGOs urged Israel on...
CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very long-running inquiry to judge whether the war against Iraq, which was opposed by the UN Security Council and by the majority of the British people,...
‘NO education cuts!’ chanted over 11,000 striking teachers, parents and supporters from London and the south east as they marched through central London to a rally in Parliament Square on Tuesday. The march was one of several marches and rallies across England. Teachers were angry about school budget and curriculum cuts,...
‘There is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware of and his name is Tony Blair, the world’s worst terrorist.’ Sarah O’Connor, whose brother, 38-year-old Sergeant Bob O’Connor, was killed in 2005, was one of the family members of the British soldiers killed in Iraq...
‘Blair lied, thousands died! Tony Blair, war criminal,’ chanted hundreds assembled outside the QE2 Centre, Westminster, yesterday. They were taking part in a demonstration organised by the Stop the War Coalition to coincide with the publication of the Chilcot Report into the Iraq War. Chris Lineham of Stop the War told...
AS THE Tory and Labour Party crises deepen, the Bank of England yesterday announced that the outlook for UK financial stability is ‘challenging’. Bank of England governor Carney was at a news conference following the release of the bank’s six-monthly Financial Stability Report which warned: ‘There is evidence that some...
SIPTU is demanding that the Irish government immediately lift the recruitment embargo in the health service and phase out excessive payments to private ‘for profit’ recruitment agencies. SIPTU (Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union) Health Division Organiser, Paul Bell, said on Monday: ‘Payments to private “for profit” recruitment agencies amounted...
‘THIS demo is just the start, this strike is just the start,’ Kevin Courtney NUT acting General Secretary told a mass rally of teachers and parents in Parliament Square at the end of an 11,000-strong march through central London yesterday. He concluded: ‘We can’t think this government is going to...
TWO THOUSAND people marched through the centre of London on Sunday demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine as part of the annual al-Quds Day demonstration. Al-Quds Day is an annual demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinian people and is observed in cities around the world, with tens...
YESTERDAY morning Angela Eagle, one of the main conspirators behind the right-wing plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership, announced publicly for the first time that she would stand against him if he didn’t resign. Since her ‘tearful’ resignation from the shadow cabinet last week, Eagle and her fellow...
‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out on strike this morning over savage cuts to education funding. ‘The dire consequences of such cuts have a negative impact on both children’s learning and teachers...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given an extensive interview with Australian TV channel SBS. In the interview, he covered such topics as Brexit, the hypocrisy of the imperialist powers allied against Syria, and the rebuilding of his country once the war has ended and won for the Syrian people. Highlights of...
HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). It also reveals 57,750 households were accepted as homeless by their local council in the past year, up...
Unite leader Len McCluskey said yesterday that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been the victim of a ‘political lynching’ orchestrated by ‘sinister forces’, but that the ‘attempted coup’ against him has ‘already failed’. Speaking on the BBC Andrew Marr Show, McCluskey called for trade union general secretaries to be...
YESTERDAY, the TUC published the results of a survey of workers, taken in the immediate aftermath of last week’s vote to break with the EU, regarding the threat by the Tories that this vote would result in massive retribution by the bankers and bosses in the form of an...
A DISPUTE between workers in the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the South African Parliament is building. The workers are employees of the Parliament. The latest chapter in the dispute started last week, Tuesday 21st June, when Nehawu workers interrupted a staff meeting. The union members...
‘WHILE there is a need for fundamental reform for the City, neither should we just allow it to sink beneath the waves,’ shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday. He was speaking at a press briefing in London in response to the results of the EU referendum. The shadow chancellor outlined...
CHAGOS Islanders were left disappointed and angry on Wednesday when the Supreme Court rejected their legal challenge to be allowed to return to their homeland. The latest court decision was the most recent chapter in a long struggle which will no doubt not end here. The struggle of the Chagos...
‘SAVE the Charlie Chaplin Ward, stop the closure of Children’s Services!’ demanded yesterday morning’s 7am-9am Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital. The picket was called by the West London Council of Action against the closure of the 10th floor ward which cares for up to 15 sick children and infants at...
THE super-imperialist ambitions of the European Union (EU) have begun to emerge in the wake of its Brexit defeat in the UK. So far, its military experience has been extremely limited and unsuccessful. In the Ukraine, where the grand design was to turn the country into a semi-colony of the...
A LOUD and angry mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning condemned the closure of the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward and the barring of under-16s from the A&E department. Yesterday’s picket, called by the West London Council of Action, followed a 300-strong march from nearby Southall to a rally at...