Monthly Archives: July 2019
TRADE UNION Solidarity on Friday said that it regrets the retrenchment crisis at ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), warning that if key players in the steel industry do not intervene urgently, these retrenchments may be the first of many to follow. Multinational steel manufacturing company AMSA said on Wednesday it was...
TORY leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have found themselves leading the condemnation of Scotland Yard after a senior officer threatened to prosecute The Mail on Sunday for publishing more of the leaked cables of Sir Kim Darroch. On Friday evening, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu suggested he...
CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond has told MPs that he is determined to do everything in his power to stop the ‘catastrophe’ of a no-deal exit by staging a sit-in to stop the expected Tory PM, Boris Johnson, from shutting down parliament to ram through a no-deal Brexit. Hammond has told colleagues that...
IN RESPONSE to the most recent NHS performance statistics and the political situation in which they are occurring, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) director in England Patricia Marquis is warning: ‘With one in ten nursing posts currently vacant in England alone – the situation will not change unless the NHS...
TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has already pledged to boost defence spending by £15bn over the next five years. He said the Royal Navy had been ‘run down’ over recent decades and...
‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking the Labour Party. The Labour spokesperson said: ‘We stand in solidarity with Jewish people, and we’re taking decisive action to root out anti-Semitism from our movement...
ON JULY 9th, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an Advisory Opinion on the wall Israel had started building in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem that deemed the wall as illegal and called on Israel to dismantle it and pay reparations to Palestinians affected by it. Yet,...
WEDNESDAY night’s Panorama programme ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’ marks a new and increasingly desperate stage in the state-orchestrated witch-hunt of Jeremy Corbyn with the aim of splitting the Labour Party and destroying the prospect of a future Corbyn-led Labour government. The fact that the BBC devoted an hour to broadcast a...
SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened to split the UK ruling class away from its US opposite number. The ambassador was branded ‘a very stupid guy’ by the US president, after the...
AN angry protest by supporters of Julian Assange yesterday morning denounced a Tory government conference titled ‘Defend Media Freedom’. Maxine Walker from the Julian Assange Defence Committee told News Line: ‘We are here because this is a fraudulent conference organised by the Foreign Office and hosted by Jeremy Hunt, who...
AUSTRALIA’S Industrial Relations Minister has accused the construction union CFMMEU of an ‘extraordinarily high standard of unlawful activity’ as the Morrison government moves to reintroduce its union-busting bill. This bill would prevent big union mergers, allow the federal court to deregister a union that breaks the law and ban officials...
IN AN interview yesterday morning ex-Tory prime minister John Major stated that he would personally take Boris Johnson to court if he attempts to suspend Parliament before the Brexit deadline of 31 October. In Tuesday night’s ‘debate’ between the two Tory leadership contenders, frontrunner Boris Johnson pointedly refused to rule...
emeni Armed Forces have unveiled new domestically-built military hardware, including ballistic and winged missiles in addition to unmanned aerial vehicles, which they say will act as game-changers in the face of the Saudi-led military aggression against the country. The media bureau of Yemen’s Operations Command Centre announced that the defence...
THE FACT that a section of the capitalist state leaked the UK ambassador Darroch’s damning estimation of the abilities of President Trump and his administration, reveals just how deep and unbridgeable is the Brexit chasm between the two warring factions of the British ruling class. The big issue for the...
THE Palestine Expo event at London’s Olympia last weekend attracted thousands determined see the establishment of a Palestinian state. In addition to a host of stalls and attractions celebrating Palestine’s history and culture, over 40 conference meetings were held on the issues concerning Palestine. One of these, ‘Britain, Zionism and Jewish...
NINETY seven percent of 54,000 primary school teachers polled are opposed to the SATs exams, their union the National Education Union reports today, the day that the hated SATs exam results are released. The results will be analysed and the union’s National Executive will discuss them on Saturday 13 July...
A REPORT by US President Donald Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security says conditions in border patrol accommodation for migrants in southern Texas is worse than the White House had said. This came as as America prepared for last Thursday’s national July 4th celebrations. Trump said in a tweet on Wednesday evening that...
SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the Greek general election on Sunday, receiving only 31.6% of votes while ND won an outright majority in the Vouli (parliament) with 39.7%. This was a massive...
Postponed a week until Saturday, 3rd August 2019 – Doors open from midday Near Hoxton Market at St. John’s Church, Pitfield Street, N1 6NP Great bargains Live music Barbeques Live acts Bands Fruit & veg Gifts Toys New clothes Jumble Bouncy castle Face painting Ice cream Clowns Great refreshments
THOUSANDS turned out over the weekend and packed the main auditorium sections at the Olympia Stadium, London for the PALEXPO exhibition to boost the struggle for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. There were interactive installations, a Kids Village, a Culture and Heritage Art...
A CHARITY rescue vessel, the Alex, on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa. This is the second boat to defy Italy’s right wing Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini’s decision to close all Italian ports to migrants, and to let them drown in the Med as the best...
THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement is a ‘fantastic boost’ to the car industry and testament to the skill and hard work of Unite members and shop stewards. The ‘trailblazing’ move, which...
A HEALTHCARE ‘procurement’ process that named a private provider as the preferred bidder for contracts worth £25m has been abandoned after NHS trusts threatened legal action, it has been reported in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) this week. The report explains: ‘The HSJ understands Halton Clinical Commissioning Group in the...
IRAN has summoned the UK ambassador after UK marines illegally seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar. British Royal Marines swooped in on the vessel on Thursday morning, boarded it and then impounded it. The Spanish Foreign Ministry confirmed that the act of piracy was made at...
‘RENATIONALISE the water industry,’ demanded GMB water workers from around the country, demonstrating outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) yesterday lunchtime. As they protested the news broke that as many as six hundred and fifty workers at Thames Water are to lose their jobs! GMB Officer Stuart...
THE BOMBING of a detention centre holding 600 refugees in the Libyan capital Tripoli last Wednesday killed at least 44 people and wounded over 130; the death toll is predicted to increase as bodies are still being retrieved and the wounded succumb to their injuries. In all, about 3,000 migrants...
SYRIAN officials have discovered mass graves containing the bodies of people executed by members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group near the country’s northwestern city of Raqqah. Head of Raqqah Medical Association, Jamal al-Isa, told Syria’s official news agency SANA on Wednesday that local authorities made the discovery of 200...
AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme that will result in huge financial losses when they retire. The action, by the BMA’s legal team, comes in the wake of the government being refused...
Staff in UK universities working on insecure contracts say the lack of security is damaging their mental and physical health. A report released yesterday says staff are holding down multiple jobs and struggling to pay the bills. Counting the costs of casualisation says people without secure contracts aren’t paid for around a...
DURING Tuesday’s questions and answers on Treasury matters in the Commons, the Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond informed MPs that he would block any attempt by whoever becomes the next Tory prime minister from leaving the EU without a deal and is prepared to bring down the Tory government to...
WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal house fires are still in homes across the UK. In June, the government said it would issue a recall notice of up to 500,000 dryers which...
HEALTHCARE assistants at NHS Tayside have gone into battle to demand the same pay as their colleagues demanding ‘fair pay for all!’ They are determined to see their struggle through to victory and are threatening to work-to-rule, ballot for industrial action or organise a strike to fight for their...
CHINA has condemned the counter-revolutionaries who stormed and vandalised the Hong Kong parliament building on Monday and raised the flag of the former occupying power, the UK’s Union Jack, over the Assembly. This action has shocked and angered millions of Chinese workers who point out that, not so long ago,...
THE REVELATION that senior British civil servants have been briefing the capitalist press that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is too sick and unfit to be Prime Minister has caused a major crisis for the Tory government. Britain’s top civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, is to write to Corbyn after...
THE CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions is ‘perturbed’ by the US’s Middle East Peace Plan. In a statement issued by COSATU national spokesperson Sizwe Pamla the union said: ‘This deal is forcing Palestinians to buy a concealed item that is locked up in a box and then put their trust...
THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its annual ‘health check’ on the world’s financial system has once again warned about the huge international debt pile that will soon collapse, bringing down the world banking and financial system. At the start of 2019, total world debt stood at $244...
UNITE leader Len McCluskey yesterday demanded an investigation into claims made by two journalists in an article in The Times newspaper that senior civil servants had told them that they believe Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is ‘too frail’ to become prime minister. Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, the...
HUNDREDS of displaced Syrians, who have now left al-Rukban camp, have just arrived at the crossing of Jleighem, in Homs eastern countryside. For the past five years, it has been confirmed, US occupation forces in Syria and their mercenaries have besieged hundreds of Syrians in al-Rukban camp. It is known...
WITH THE Tories in what is being called an ‘existential crisis’ over breaking with the European Union, the British ruling class and its allies in the USA are becoming alarmed. They fear that a Corbyn-led government could take the place of the Tories, and touch off a massive revolutionary...