Monthly Archives: November 2018
THE de facto annexation by Israel of East Jerusalem violates Palestinian rights and endangers the prospect of a two-state solution, the Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue Ambassador Idriss Jazairy has warned. Jazairy was speaking in observation of the 2018 International Day of...
DIVERTING patients, who are ‘not seriously ill’, away from emergency departments is neither safe nor effective, new research published in the Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ) yesterday has confirmed. The A&E divert system had to be ‘temporarily suspended’ earlier in the year after a patient died. The ‘front-door streaming’ programme is...
SPEAKING at the Policy Exchange in London this week Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve Bank, issued his direst warning about the future prospects for an almighty crash in the US economy. For years Greenspan, who retired from the Fed in 2006, has been issuing warnings about...
DOCKERS, seafarers, railway and Athens Metro workers participated 100% in a private-sector-only 24 hour national strike on Wednesday called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against the government’s 2019 Budget. Over 5,000 workers and students demonstrated through Athens in separate marches. Some trade union branches and student banners demanded the overthrow of...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has formally requested Argentine judicial authorities to use a domestic constitutional clause to arrest and prosecute Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MbS, for war crimes in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi when he enters Argentina tomorrow to attend a...
A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and national targets, a major BMA survey has found. In all, 72 per cent of the doctors surveyed (999 in total) believe targets are prioritised over quality...
A REPORT this week from the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the effects of Tory austerity cuts has brought home the fact that far from being ‘all in it together’, as the Tories claim, the working class has suffered the greatest cuts ever. These cuts have fallen disproportionally on...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has not welcomed the Poverty National Minimum Wage Act, which was signed into law last Friday by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The overwhelming majority of workers will not be celebrating said SAFTU, reiterating its view that the minimum level of R20 an hour is...
THE BREXIT war sharpened yesterday when both President Trump and ex-Tory Minister Michael Fallon rounded on May’s capitulation to the EU through her recognition of the EU’s Customs Union and the role of the European Court of Justice as its policeman. Trump, who is already involved in a trade war...
A HUNGER strike was launched by 43 women at Yarl’s Wood Detention centre in Bedford yesterday against indefinite detention, forced removal and appalling conditions. They also demand the centre is immediately shut down. Britain is the only country in Europe which allows indefinite detention, worse than a prison sentence,...
TERRORIST organisations positioned in Aleppo countryside have fired shells containing toxic gases on the neighbourhoods of al-Khalidyia, al-Neel Street and Jam’ayat al-Zahra in Aleppo City. Chief of Aleppo Police Major General Issam al-Shilli said in a statement that terrorist groups on Saturday evening targeted residential neighbourhoods in Aleppo City with...
ON SUNDAY the Ukrainian regime, with the complicity of its EU and US imperialist backers, staged a provocative military action by the illegal incursion of three warships in Russian territorial waters in the Azov Sea off the coast of Crimea. The Ukrainian navy vessels were sailing through the narrow Kerch...
PRIVATE medical companies have been selling deficient pacemakers to the NHS knowing full well that they have failed tests, the Royal College of Surgeons says, and, as a result, at least two patients have died! Implants have been put into people despite failing in trials on baboons, pigs and dead...
‘THERE is no deal which comes without a backstop and without a backstop there is no deal,’ Tory PM May said yesterday afternoon while addressing Parliament. She claimed: ‘There is no alternative deal that honours our commitments to Northern Ireland which does not involve this insurance policy.’ May said: ‘At...
MORE than 287,000 people attended marches and clashed with police across France again on Saturday, wearing yellow vests to oppose tax rises on fuel next year, and calling for President Macron to resign. Over 5,000 police were deployed in Paris and set up metal barriers around the Champs-Élysées to...
SPEAKING in London last week to the British Medical Association’s conference of English Local Medical Committees (LMCs) in London, Dr Richard Vautrey, BMA GP committee chair, stressed the importance of investing in general practice ‘to ensure future sustainability of the wider NHS and the population’s health as a whole’. Dr...
A DESPERATE Prime Minister May has written a letter to the nation asking the people of the UK for their support to pressurise a majority of MPs to support her capitulation to the EU, on the basis that a bad deal is now better than no deal. She writes that:...
LES GILETS JAUNES, France’s nationwide ‘yellow vest’ protest movement, has organised to unite and descend on Paris today Saturday 24 November, in an attempt to bring the French capital to a standstill. Motorists in Paris and perhaps the surrounding region are advised to avoid travelling by road today. That’s because...
PM May has now created a massive political crisis in the UK by revealing her real position on Brexit. For over a year she campaigned that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’, seeking to convince workers that whatever happened ‘we’ were leaving the EU. Now she...
ISRAEL has officially admitted that its military ordered a deadly attack on a Lebanese ship carrying refugees during the regime’s invasion of the country more than three decades ago. An Israeli submarine fired missiles at the refugee ship in northern Lebanon in the summer of 1982, killing 25 refugees and...
A SENIOR Israeli official has warned the leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas against a large-scale operation in the besieged Gaza Strip, asserting that the Tel Aviv regime is prepared for such an onslaught. ‘Let me say it to be clear: The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s time is...
TORY PM May announced yesterday that a political declaration has been ‘agreed in principle’ between the UK and the EU outlining how trade, security and other issues will work. However, it is a non-binding declaration, a matter of opinion, which has no legality. The political agreement admits that the...
YESTERDAY, the Tories announced their latest ploy to try and convince the country that in the face of all the evidence they actually support the NHS. Theresa May pledged that £3.5 billion a year would be given to funding primary and community healthcare by 2023/24 as part of the...
LABOUR Shadow Chancellor McDonnell said yesterday that Labour may form the next government, a minority government, without a general election, if MPs don’t back Theresa May’s Brexit deal. He said Labour should be offered the chance to form a minority administration, which would have to have the support of other...
ONE thousand teachers, parents and supporters marched through Westminster in the cold and rain, led by the National Education Union, (NEU) to demand that Philip Hammond, the Tory Education Minister for Education, reverse school cuts, increase funding for High Needs, Early Years and Post-16 and that he implement...
A UK-BASED charity says more than 84,700 children under the age of five have starved to death in Yemen since the Saudi regime and a coalition of its allies, all armed and supported by the USA and the UK, launched their brutal imperialist war on the Yemeni people over...
On 16 November 2018, seven members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) – including ZCTU Secretary General Japhet Moyo and ZCTU President Peter Mutasa – appeared in court to face charges of disruption of public order under the country’s draconian Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. Twenty-six others...
THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected an attempt by the UK government to prevent the European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges hearing a legal challenge to Brexit. The ECJ is now to examine, on 27 November, whether the UK parliament can unilaterally revoke Article 50 without the consent of...
‘THERE’S no support for it among firefighters and there’s no support for it among police officers, there’s no support among local communities and yet the government seems to be intent on forcing it through,’ Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack said yesterday opposing the takeover of Fire Authorities...
MEMBERS of the national education, health and allied workers’ Union (Nehawu) embarked on a strike last Friday in protest against working conditions. The employees of the Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA) downed tools and doors to offices were locked, apparently by management and no one could work,...
IT EMERGED in the bourgeois press at the weekend that the army has been drawing up plans for troops to be sent onto the streets of Britain to deal with civil unrest resulting from the crisis around Brexit. According to these reports the military have drawn up plans to mobilise...
CHILDREN’S wards and cancer units are closing hand over fist across the entire country with the nurses union RCN warning that ‘skeleton staffing’ means putting patients lives at risk. Donna Kinnair, the RCN’s acting chief executive said: ‘Every day brings fresh and devastating examples of patients paying the highest price...
THE Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has greeted children, who were released from Daesh’s captivity in Suwayda Province, during a meeting in Damascus on November 13, 2018. A group of Syrians, who have been freed by army forces from Daesh’s captivity, have expressed their gratitude to President Bashar al-Assad, whose government...
THE Tory government and party is now split into warring groups, one of which is pursuing a leadership election to knife their leader May for her abysmal Brexit capitulation. Meanwhile, Labour is split, with its right wing more and more inclined to ‘put the capitalist nation first’, and to...
East End Suffragettes: the photographs of Norah Smyth 2 November-9 February 2019 Tues-Sat: 11.00-18.00 daily Admission free EAST End Suffragette photos from 100 years ago, are revealed, for the first time in Britain. The venue is the Four Corners Studio, 121 Roman Road, close to Bethnal Green tube station, East London. Exhibition opening...
DESTITUTION under May’s crippled Tory government is soaring to levels not seen since the Victorian times. The roll-out of Universal Credit has created mass evictions, where entire families are moved from pillar to post, bedsit to bedsit, while the amount of people sleeping rough on the streets...
ONE-TIME leading Brexiteers in the cabinet, now ‘turncoats’, have rallied behind Theresa May amid attempts to unseat her by Tory MPs. Michael Gove said he ‘absolutely’ had confidence in May as he confirmed he would not be following several other ministers out of the door. Liam Fox urged MPs to...
THE US Justice Department is preparing charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose website published thousands of classified US government documents. US federal prosecutors inadvertently disclosed the existence of a sealed indictment in a federal court filing in an unrelated case, WikiLeaks said Thursday. The court document, which prosecutors say was...
ADDRESSING reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Lieberman said he deemed Tuesday’s Egyptian-mediated ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza ‘a capitulation to terror’. He added: ‘Despite the difference in opinion, I tried to stay a faithful member of the government for as long as possible… but it has failed,’ Lieberman said. He also...
EVEN before Theresa May stood up to deliver her statement yesterday on the Brexit deal, she had agreed with the EU her government was collapsing around her ears, with the resignations of Dominic Raab her chief Brexit negotiator, and Works and Pensions minister Esther McVey. Raab resigned from the cabinet...
‘THE BREXIT talks are about acting in the national interest and that means making what I believe to be the right choices not the easy ones,’ PM May told Parliament in outlining her deal, which both Tory and Labour Remainers and Brexiteers have said they cannot support. ‘Once a final...