Monthly Archives: October 2019
SENIOR Labour Party leaders are at war with each other over the best way to betray the 2016 referendum result, when PM Boris Johnson presents a Brexit deal to Parliament this coming Saturday. Corbyn supporters and shadow cabinet members Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett want any Johnson-EU deal voted down,...
ECUADOR’S President Lenin Moreno has been forced to back down and cancel the country’s IMF loan after the revolutionary uprising sweeping the country won a historic victory. Massive marches, fierce clashes with the police and action by the working class have taken place for nearly two weeks, paralysing the economy and...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has warned that the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria could lead to the revival of the Daesh terrorist group in the region. Putin issued the warning in a televised address during a visit to Turkmenistan on Friday, saying that members of the Takfiri outfit held...
SYRIAN army troops yesterday moved swiftly to march into northern Syria to confront Turkish invasion forces just hours after the Syrian government reached an agreement with the Kurds in the region. The Syrian army entered the city of Manbij and the strategic towns of Tabqah, Ain Issa and Tel Tamar...
LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday a similar deal to Theresa May’s three-times rejected EU Withdrawal Agreement. Appearing on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Rees-Mogg said that ‘everyone is compromising to some...
Dr Mustafa Barghouti, speaking at the 200-strong Solidarity for Palestine trade union conference on Saturday, warned of the massive campaign by US president Trump and the Israeli government against the Palestinians and their supporters worldwide. ‘The Israeli government and the Zionist movement do not have to hide their intentions anymore,’...
‘Lenin Moreno Hypocrite and traitor – the blood of the people is not negotiable,’ shouted over a hundred Ecuadorians and their supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Friday night. Young women dressed in traditional clothes of different regions of Ecuador marched to the embassy condemning the Moreno regime...
DESPITE it being well over two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, which claimed the lives of 72 men, women and children, only one out of 158 social housing blocks wrapped in the same flammable cladding was made safe last month. The shocking news comes as the deadline for...
AS THE date for leaving the EU, October 31st comes closer and closer, all of the vultures are desperately gathering over the corpse of British capitalism, either to try and somehow revive it or to pick its bones. PM Johnson has conceded that the north of Ireland will be part...
EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk has said he has received ‘promising signals’ from Irish PM Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible. His comments came as Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier resumed talks in Brussels, following a meeting between Varadkar and Boris Johnson...
WARS in Syria and Afghanistan are driving refugees through Turkey as they make their way to Greece. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos, which is now an epicentre of the country’s migrant crisis. It’s a dangerous journey – but one made slightly easier by Refugee Rescue, the last remaining...
EIGHT police officers have been taken hostage in Ecuador during an escalating revolutionary uprising that has forced the government to flee from the capital, Quito. Indigenous demonstrators paraded the eight police officers, seven men and a woman, forced them onto a stage and made them remove their helmets, bullet-proof...
ON THE SECOND day of the Turkish invasion of Syria, after a massive bombing raid striking northern Syria over 180 times, killing at least seven civilians, the Turkish tanks rolled in, stepping up their ground invasion. Heavy fighting was reported in the central border region between the Turkish invaders...
PALESTINIANS in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continue to face major barriers to the realisation of the right to health, said Gerald Rockenschaub, Head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) office in the occupied Palestinian territory on Thursday. Speaking in Ramallah on the release of the WHO report, ‘Right...
THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of crashing under the weight of a global $19 trillion debt ‘time bomb’. In her first speech as managing director of the IMF, the international lender of...
ECUADORIAN President Lenin Moreno abandoned the capital, Quito, on Monday and fled to the coast ahead of mass demonstrations which were held yesterday. A mass uprising is underway in Ecuador following the abolition of fuel subsidies, as ordered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Ecuador has been rocked by demonstrations after...
THE Supreme Court in Scotland yesterday delayed its decision on whether it would be necessary for the courts to intervene and force PM Johnson to sign a letter requesting the EU for a Brexit delay beyond the date of October 31. The court was hearing an appeal by businessman Dale...
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel poured buckets of cold water over Tory PM Boris Johnson’s attempts to get a Brexit deal with the EU when, in a phone call yesterday morning, she told him that a deal is ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’, according to Downing Street which made the telephone conversation public. The...
ONE year on from the gruesome murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who entered the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey but never came out again, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for justice. On Tuesday 2nd October 2018 at 13:14, dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi...
YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is due to return on Monday October 14th to hear the Queen outline her government’s legislative agenda. On Thursday 17 October, the two-day summit of EU leaders...
NINE trucks loaded with armoured vehicles and one bus carrying military personnel have been sent to the border district of Akcakale, in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Agency confirmed late on Saturday (October 5th). Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says his country will carry out air and ground...
TURKEY has been given the green light to invade northern Syria by the US following the abrupt decision by the Trump administration on Sunday to pull all American forces out of the region. This decision, which reportedly followed a telephone conversation between Trump and Turkish president Recep Erdogan, opens the...
BREXIT Secretary Stephen Barclay made clear to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that the Johnson Tory government has no ‘cunning plan’ to avoid asking for yet another ‘Brexit extension’, as required under the ‘Benn Act’. This was despite Johnson’s claim in two Sunday newspapers yesterday that there would be...
ATTEMPTS to put on trial the most notably capitalist elements of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ suffered a major blow at the Labour Court of South Africa in Johannesburg last week. Restructuring and retrenchments because of digitisation in the banking sector prompted labour movements and workers to call a strike –...
LAST FRIDAY, evidence from Boris Johnson assured a Scottish court, in his own name, that he would send a letter to the EU, as required by the Remain House of Commons, requesting a postponement of the October 31st date for leaving the EU, if the House of Commons rejects...
HOMELESSNESS in rural England has soared by as much as a third between 2012 and 2018, new figures released yesterday have shown. As rich people move in to buy up properties in small towns and villages in the countryside, the cost of renting is spiralling out of control. Locals...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that the date for holding general elections had seen ‘significant delays – despite the multiple attempts to hold them earlier’. Speaking at the onset of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee meeting in Ramallah, he said a set of issues were to...
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our proposals do represent a compromise and I hope that the House can now come together in the national interest, behind this new deal.’ His proposal aims...
A PALESTINIAN human rights group says dozens of Palestinian prisoners have lost their lives since 1967 after being exposed to various forms of brutal torture at the hands of their interrogators in Israeli prisons and detention centres. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) said in a report on Tuesday that Israeli...
YESTERDAY saw a massive escalation in the world trade war when the US was given the green light by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to impose tariffs on £6.1 billion ($7.5bn) of goods it imports from the EU. Immediately, the Trump administration announced that it would increase tariffs on a...
A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving the EU during his speech at the Tory Party conference. He was however scathing about parliament saying, ‘If parliament were a laptop, then the screen would...
WE KNEW there would be a bloodbath of jobs if Sibanye-Stillwater’s acquisition of Lonmin’s Marikana operations was approved by the Competition Commission.’ Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) president Joseph Mathunjwa was responding to last week’s announcement by Sibanye that it would cut 5,270 jobs – 3,904 employees and...
BORIS Johnson revealed his plans for a Brexit deal at the Tory Party conference yesterday before formally putting his proposals to the EU. Johnson’s deal is little different from that proposed by Theresa May, the difference being that it attempts to ‘solve’ the issue of the Irish border backstop by...
CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced weaponry, including an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the backbone of its nuclear deterrence force. Nearly 15,000 military personnel, more than 160 aircraft, and 580 pieces of...
‘Systemic, chronic understaffing’ endemic in elderly care say Australian nurses unions SYSTEMATIC, chronic understaffing leading to unacceptable instances of neglect, abuse, and too many preventable deaths,’ was cited as endemic in ‘aged care’ by the leader of Australia’s nurses on Monday.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) and the Australian Nursing and...
THE SAUDI Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose oilfields were hit recently by a devastating drone and cruise missile attack which he blamed on Iran, has issued a warning to the United States and the UK about a great danger to the capitalist world economy. The US and the UK...
LABOUR moved a step closer to forming a national government yesterday with the Scottish and Welsh nationalists, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all meeting at Jeremy Corbyn’s office in Westminster with the sole purpose of plotting ways and means of stopping Brexit and Remaining in the European Union. The...
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the University and College Union (UCU) in the fight for fair pay and pensions the NUS declared yesterday. Sixty-nine institutions are being balloted in the row over Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) pensions, while over 100,000 university staff at 147...
THE CHINESE Communist Revolution, led by the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong, resulted in the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China, on 1 October 1949, 70 years ago to the day. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) and his comrades were party members in the 1920s. Mao was instrumental...
Opposition parties met yesterday in the offices of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to cobble together an agreement to replace Boris Johnson with some form of national unity government headed by a ‘caretaker’ leader to make sure that Article 50 is extended and a No Deal Brexit...