Monthly Archives: October 2018
LABOUR’S Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry confirmed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning that Labour could vote along with PM May on the Brexit issue, and that she was not opposed to Universal Credit in principle. She was asked: ‘And if Theresa May is relying on the Labour...
FRANCE’S nine main unions united for the first time in a decade in public sector protests earlier this week against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to freeze pay and shed 120,000 state workers in five years. Thirty per cent of flights were cancelled from French airports as Easyjet cabin crew joned...
THE PRIME Minister will ‘never agree’ to a permanent Customs Union with the EU, said 10 Downing Street yesterday. However despite Downing Street assurances Pro-Brexit cabinet members consider that May will agree to such a move when push comes to shove. Downing Street currently insists any post-Brexit Customs Union...
SAUDI journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who lived for years in the US, walked into the Saudi embassy in Turkey over a week ago, and did not walk back out. His butchered remains were taken out by van! Turkish officials have said that Khashoggi, a vocal critic of the Saudi regime, was...
THE PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of being ‘complicit in the suffering’ of Universal Credit claimants, labelling the system a complete ‘failure.’ The union called on ministers to immediately halt the so-called ‘managed migration’ of three million more people onto this disastrous and broken system,...
LATEST figures show that 14 Palestinians, including four children, were killed and 1,434 injured by the Israeli forces during the demonstrations between September 23 and October 6th at the Gaza border with Israel, according to a special situation report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued yesterday. The report...
THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained in a routine vote on the Agricultural Bill before parliament. The bill itself was not the issue. What their abstention represented was a ‘shot across the...
‘BRINGING down the Tory government is the key thing,’ striking Uber driver Liban Yussuf told News Line at the lunchtime rally outside Uber HQ at Aldgate Tower in east London on Tuesday. Chanting ‘Shame on You Uber’, over 150 Uber drivers and supporters taking 24 hour strike action carried placards...
THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming but, like a hypnotised rabbit awaiting being devoured by a hungry snake, can do nothing to stop. It warns of: ‘Other threats, such as a disorderly...
PALESTINE Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah told visiting members of the European Parliament on Monday that Israel should be forced to stop its violations against the Palestinian people and international law. In a briefing to his guests, Hamdallah said Israel’s actions in the occupied territories, particularly at Khan al-Ahmar village east...
TURKEY’S state-run Anadolu news agency has reported that the Nural-Din al-Zinki Islamist faction has removed rockets, mortars and missiles from the front line in Idlib to create the agreed demilitarised buffer zone separating rebel Islamists from Syrian government forces in Syria’s Idlib province. The agreement is being overseen by Turkey,...
‘SHAME on Uber!’ chanted over 150 striking drivers and supporters outside Uber HQ at Aldgate Tower east London yesterday. ‘Uber Uber you can’t hide! We can see your dirty side!’ they shouted carrying placards which said: ‘Uber fair pay now! Uber end unfair dismissals! Uber driving us into poverty!’...
KENSINGTON and Chelsea Council, rather than spend money doing up the 133 empty council-owned houses in the borough, has spent almost £30m on hotels for Grenfell survivors waiting to be re-housed. Almost 16 months after the deadly blaze, more than 150 households that fled the inferno are still waiting to...
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he will soon meet President Vladimir Putin amid tensions over the downing of a Russian aircraft during Israel’s bombing of Syria last month. Netanyahu made the announcement at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, without citing a specific date or venue for the talks with...
A RECENT analysis by Sky News has shown that the ‘recovery’ of British capitalism since the world banking crash in 2008 is actually smaller than the recovery of the US economy in the ten years after the Great Depression in America in the 1930s. The Great Depression was caused by...
SOUTH Africa should transition from a constitutional democracy to a ‘social democracy’ and implement more socialist policies to retain jobs in the mining sector, suggests Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) president Joseph Mathunjwa. Speaking on the second day of a tripartite government, business and labour jobs summit last...
AFTER her ‘Dancing Queen’ performance at the Tory Party conference, which acted as an introduction to extreme grovelling to Labour’s right wing, praising it from Attlee to Morrison, Barbara Castle, Kinnock John Smith, Blair, Brown and all as great patriots, PM May has got on with...
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell pledged yesterday that Labour will scrap Universal Credit (UC). Interviewed by Sky’s Sophy Ridge, he was asked to comment on reports that Tory pensions secretary Esther McVey briefed cabinet colleagues that UC could lead to some families losing up to £2,400 a year as it is...
HUNDREDS of striking McDonald’s, TGI Fridays, Wetherspoon, and Uber Eats mostly young workers held a joint rally in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday. They chanted: ‘What do we want, fair pay now! I believe that we can win! If we don’t get it – shut it down!’ Speakers at the...
A NEW generation of workers is now organising themselves into unions and is combining their labour power by striking together. There is no doubt that this is a movement which will inspire older workers to take up the struggle to smash the Tories. Young workers, whom the bosses seek to...
SYRIAN Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has said that Iran’s missile strikes against militant positions in the country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr in retaliation for the recent terror attack in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz was part of ‘legitimate’ cooperation between Damascus and Tehran in the fight against...
TEN YEARS on from the banking crash that brought the world’s financial system to the very edge of going over the fiscal cliff, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued its starkest warning yet that the banks are stuck in a sovereign ‘doom loop’ which is impossible to escape. The...
THE ENTIRE leadership of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) union have announced yesterday they are to stand down, following the results of the Emergency General Meeting EGM vote of no confidence last Friday. The RCN said: ‘While the EGM vote of no confidence was advisory, the Council recognises the...
TWO PALESTINIAN university students were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets and dozens of others suffocated during clashes that broke out with Israeli forces near Beit El checkpoint, north of Ramallah on Tuesday. The Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades toward the...
THE sight of PM May ‘dancing’ onto the Tory Party conference podium’ no doubt celebrating that she had survived the Tory Party conference thus far, and then joking that she had been up all night nailing fittings onto the walls to avoid last year’s collapse evoked some laughter and...
THE FIRST survivor to give evidence to the public inquiry into the Grenfell disaster yesterday told how he was trapped in his 10th floor flat for nearly five hours before two firefighters rescued him at 6am. He also told the inquiry that tenants who raised safety fears were ‘bullied’ by...
A new study has reported on the expansion of private interests in the public education sector in Argentina and its undermining effects on quality and equity education. The privatisation of education in Argentina, a report by Education International (EI) and EI member Confederación de Trabajadores de la Educación de la...
THE PLANNED demolition by Israeli forces of a West Bank village and the forcible transfer of its residents to make way for illegal Jewish settlements is a war crime, Amnesty said yesterday. Saleh Higazi, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director, denounced Israel’s planned demolition, stressing: ‘This act is...
UBER Eats and Deliveroo drivers are now joining McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s and Wetherspoons workers in a day of strike action tomorrow to demand a £10 an hour minimum wage. Deliveroo and Uber Eats announced yesterday that they will strike on the same day as staff from McDonald’s, Wetherspoons and...
THE Palestinian Civil Liaison on Sunday informed the family of Mohammed al-Rimawi, who was killed due to the excessive use of force by Israeli soldiers during his arrest on September 18, will be handed over by the Israeli authorities later today. Mohammad Zaghloul Rimawi, 24, died hours after he was...
A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food to feed kids who would otherwise go hungry. The GMB conducted a survey of thousands of school support staff across the country and found that eight...
FLAMMABLE cladding is not going to be banned from existing buildings, Tory Housing Secretary James Brokenshire announced yesterday at the Conservative Party conference. This is despite the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), survivors from the Grenfell Tower fire and the Royal Institute of British Architects all demanding that it is...
OVER 1,000 head teachers from England and Wales gathered in Parliament Square at 11am on Friday before marching to Downing Street to protest at savage funding cuts to their schools. There, a delegation of six heads handed in a joint letter to Chancellor Hammond calling on him to reverse...
ADDRESSING the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem confirmed that the US-UK led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group was doing nothing of the sort. Muallem described the US-UK organised military alliance as ‘illegitimate’ and censured...