Monthly Archives: June 2017
AMINATA Sellu, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Camberwell and Peckham, received a warm reception and enthusiastic applause when she spoke at a hustings meeting at the Methodist Centre in Camberwell last Wednesday evening organised by the Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations. Housing was the burning issue facing the one hundred-strong...
THE news yesterday that, for the first time, London’s Metropolitan police will be directly recruiting plainclothed detectives with no previous experience of policing is a historic break with the normal progression from uniform to plainclothes. Throughout its history, the bedrock of consensual policing in Britain has been the uniformed ‘bobby...
THE COMMANDER of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Qassem Soleimani has been pictured with the pro-government Popular Mobilisation Units (Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi) in Northwestern Iraq on Monday. AMN reported that the prominent Iranian general was advising the high command of the Popular Mobilisation...
THE UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned Israel’s oppressive occupation and its damaging effects on Palestinians’ everyday lives, expressing concerns about the regime’s forces’ use of lethal force against Palestinians. In its 2016 annual report released on Wednesday, OCHA estimated that some 4.8 million Palestinians...
‘I AM joining the fight to elect Jonty Leff because we must defend the NHS, defend Homerton Hospital and defend the Pathology Lab,’ RCN nurse Akosua Odame said outside the hospital yesterday morning during the campaign for the Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch. The campaign team...