Monthly Archives: June 2017
SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after midnight very early on Wednesday morning. Families had been told that in the event of a fire they would be alerted by fire alarms and that...
EYEWITNESSES, local people and neighbours of the residents of Grenfell Tower who perished in the fire yesterday morning, reported that ‘within five minutes it covered the whole building’. ‘All night we heard the screaming children. We saw people jumping out of the windows. The spread was very quick. A woman...
ISRAEL’S parliament, the Knesset, renewed the controversial ‘Citizenship and Entry into Israel’ law, which sets severe limitations on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory married to Israeli citizens, for the 14th year on Monday, as Palestinian members of parliament denounced the move as ‘racist’ and a show of...
‘I GOT us into this mess, and I will get us out of it’ PM May told the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers at Monday’s late afternoon 1922 Committee meeting.’ The emotion that dominated the Tory MPs gathering was ‘fear’ – that there would be another general election and...
‘OUR NURSING workforce is in a state of crisis, with more than 40,000 vacancies in England alone across our health service, from A&E to elderly care, this puts patients at serious risk.’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Chief Executive and General Secretary, Janet Davies issued the anxious warning on...
PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was no press conference immediately afterwards as May prepared to fly to France to talks with the French President Macron. Whitehall sources said that although there...
BMW car workers, in a ballot, the results of which were announced yesterday, have rejected the ‘pension offer’ which would see the closure of the final salary pension scheme. So far the dispute has seen four strikes involving workers at all four plants, in Cowley, Goodwood near Chichester, Hams Hall...
SAIF al-Islam, the second son and heir apparent of the late deposed Libyan Leader Muammar Gadaffi, is said to have been freed in Libya after more than five years in captivity. The Abu Bakr al-Sadiq Brigade, a militia that controls the town of Zintan in western Libya, said Saif al-Islam...
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party in order to deal a massive blow to the Tories and against austerity, the parliamentary elections in France...
CHANGE THE RECORD, put on an afternoon celebrating Palestinian culture, on Saturday to launch ‘Just Walk to Jerusalem’. Both were organised by the rights group, the Amos Trust. There was music, food and speeches to send the marchers on their way from London to Jerusalem. Amos Trust director Chris Rose...
IN NORMAL times a Tory party that had been taken into an ‘unnecessary’ snap election with its leader demanding that the electorate return it with a majority of between 100 and 150 MPs, so that she could become the great dictator, but was then completely rejected by the same...
THE TORY Party was in increasing disarray yesterday in the wake of the general election, with former Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, calling PM May ‘a dead woman walking’, while Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell announced: ‘We’re preparing for government.’ A snap survey by Conservativehome of 1,500 Tory Party members reported...
SAIF AL-ISLAM GADAFFI, son of murdered Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has been released from prison, according to the militia that has held him for five years. He has been freed by the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Battalion militia, which controls the area of Zintan, southwest of the capital of Tripoli. He...
A Lack of safety measures once again led to a tragic accident in the capital’s Siddheshwari area, where three construction workers died after they fell from an under-construction building on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Joynul, 18, Sayeem, 17, and Jahangir, 26, who all come from from the Uttar...
THE Tory Party has now suffered its second self-inflicted disaster in just under a year. On June 23 2016, it lost the EU referendum that its Cameron-Osborne leadership had called, when a majority voted to leave the EU! This self-inflicted disaster led to the resignation of Cameron and Osborne, unleashing...
SPEAKING in central London yesterday morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on PM May to resign. He said: ‘The prime minister called this election because she wanted a mandate. Well the mandate she’s got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence. ‘I would have thought that’s...
‘I WILL now form a government,’ Theresa May declared yesterday in a statement outside Downing Street after returning from Buckingham Palace. May said this would be: ‘A government that will provide certainty and lead Britain forward in this critical time. This government will guide the country through the crucial...
THOUSANDS of hospital operations for children are being cancelled every year owing to a lack of beds, staff and equipment in the NHS. NHS figures, released after a Freedom of Information (FoI) request from the Labour Party, revealed that at least 46,211 operations for children were cancelled over the last...
LAST month US president, Donald Trump, turned up in Saudi Arabia to give his unqualified support to the ruling Saudi monarchy and their fellow Sunni rulers in the Gulf States, to the extent of carrying out a sword dance with the local cutthroats. Flying in the face of every known...
SOUTH Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has been served with a notice to strike on 19 June by unions representing employees at the department. The Department of Home Affairs and the unions on Tuesday were set for conciliation at the General Public Service Sector Bargaining Council (GPSSBC), in line with...
THE AFL-CIO has warned of ‘13 Ways the Trump Budget hurts working people’. It says: ‘There are tons of analyses and numbers that could keep economists busy for days, but the bottom line is President Donald Trump’s budget will have negative effects on the lives of every day Americans. ‘Here are...
IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election, the entire campaign by the Tories has been completely turned on its head. May’s intention back in April was for a short, sharp campaign with her...
ARJINDER Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Ealing Southall was greeted with enormous enthusiasm at Ealing Hospital yesterday. Workers, patients and visitors queued up to grab manifestos and pledged to vote for the WRP candidate, who promises to fight to stop the closure of the hospital. RCN nurse...
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday hit back at Tory PM May’s declaration that she will tear up the human rights laws, allegedly to combat terrorism. Corbyn said: ‘You can’t keep our country safe on the cheap. Theresa May is refusing to put in the resources that are needed. She has...
JONATHAN Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, has responded to reports in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) by warning: ‘With 48 hours to go until the General Election the true scale of the secret Tory plan for cuts and closures across the NHS has been revealed by the HSJ.’ He added:...
THE VOTE Arjinder Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital workers and patients yesterday morning, following a powerful intervention at the final election hustings meeting at Featherstone High School in Southall on Monday evening. Candidate Arj said: ‘There were over 120 people...
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on Monday condemned the 50 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine as ‘a shame on the international system’. Israel attacked Jordan, Egypt and Syria on June 5th 1967, occupying the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, the Sinai from Egypt and the Golan Heights...
‘IT IS in the Labour Party Manifesto that first business under a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn is to recognise the state of Palestine,’ Andy Slaughter, Labour candidate for Hammersmith said on Saturday night. He was speaking at a packed out event organised by the Association of Palestinian Community...
LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to resign for presiding over police cuts while Home Secretary. When asked if he would back calls for May’s resignation, Corbyn told ITV News: ‘Indeed I would, because there’s been calls made by a lot of very responsible...
TORY leader Theresa May relaunched the sinking ship of her election campaign with a speech yesterday that re-hashed the now familiar line that the terrorist attacks in London and Manchester demonstrate that there is ‘too much tolerance of extremism’ in Britain, and that the only solution is more police...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad has affirmed that the situation in Syria has improved dramatically because the terrorist groups, mainly ISIS, al-Nusra and like-minded groups who are Wahhabi terrorist extremists, are retreating. In an interview given to India’s Wion TV last Friday, he was asked: ‘Who or what do you blame for...
THE TORY and Labour parties yesterday suspended national campaigning in the general election for the day in the wake of Saturday night’s terror attack in London to allow a meeting of the COBRA emergency committee. PM May said in a statement in Downing Street after the meeting: ‘As a mark...
ON SUNDAY morning, not long after the latest terrorist attack, PM May, in her statement following the Cobra Security Committee meeting, expressed her indignation that her government and all of its security apparatuses had not been able to stop three deadly terrorist attacks on the UK in the last...
WOOD Green and Hornsey Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team won big support on Wood Green High Street on Saturday. Workers and youth expressed their hatred of austerity and the Tories, with many saying they will vote for Athow and a number joining the Workers...
TWO National Union of Teachers (NUT)/YouGov polls of parents and teachers reveal the growing crisis in schools, the NUT said yesterday. The polls found: • Parents put education at the heart of the General Election. More than two in five (43%) parents with children aged 4-18 consider education and...
THE LAST week has seen the Tory drive to have PM May crowned as Empress, via a runaway election victory and a huge majority, disintegrate, as the man who they were seeking to humiliate and turn into a joke, Corbyn, turned the tables on them, and revealed that actually...
THE LEADER of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has slammed Saudi Arabia for doing the bidding of the United States, saying the Riyadh regime has become absolutely subservient to Washington’s policies. Speaking on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan on Wednesday, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi said US President Donald Trump’s...
I’M VOTING Arjinder Thiara, Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall,’ mental health nurse and Unison member Susan Griffiths said at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. ‘What I want to know is why these building companies are being allowed to buy hospital land so cheaply to build on. They are not building...
YESTERDAY as the International Day for the Protection of Children was celebrated in countries across the world, the Palestinian Authority (PA) released chilling figures that show conclusively that Palestinian children are being murdered, imprisoned and tortured by a barbaric Zionist regime. According to figures compiled by the Palestinian Ministry of...
FRENCH state powers designed to combat terrorism have been repeatedly misused to curb peaceful protest, a new report from Amnesty International has found. A right not a threat: Disproportionate restrictions on demonstrations under the State of Emergency in France reveals that hundreds of unjustified measures restricting freedom of movement and...