Monthly Archives: January 2020
The New Hampshire chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president. In doing so, the Granite State chapter of the union broke ranks with the national leadership, which has so far remained neutral in the endorsement process.
The endorsement was officially announced...
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has spilled the beans about the murder of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He has revealed that it was part of a ‘bigger strategy of deterrence’ – dumping President Trump’s claim that the murders by drone were carried out to prevent an ‘imminent’...
‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a mass protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning while inside, the head of WikiLeaks won the right for extra time with his defence lawyer. Assange has been held in solitary confinement in the high security HMP Belmarsh since April 2019, awaiting the outcome of an...
The UK government is deliberately and destructively preventing child refugees from being with their families, Amnesty International UK, the Refugee Council and Save the Children said in a new 38-page joint report released yesterday. Without My Family shows how the UK government’s refugee family reunion rules, which block child refugees...
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in person at Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday in yet another routine administrative hearing to prolong his imprisonment up to a full extradition hearing at Woolwich Crown Court scheduled for February 24. Even before the formalities started, Assange’s lawyer Gareth Peirce complained that his legal team...
NBC News has revealed details of Washington’s assassination of Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying the terrorist operation used Israeli intelligence and was run from the US Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters in Qatar. According to the report, informants at the Damascus airport tipped off the CIA about the time...
ISRAELI forces on Saturday night notified the families of three alleged Palestinian attackers of their intention to demolish their houses across the occupied West Bank. The Palestine Prisoners’ Society (PPS) confirmed that Israeli forces broke into the family house of Mohammad Walid Hanatsheh in Attira neighbourhood of the central West...
ISRAELI forces on Saturday night notified the families of three alleged Palestinian attackers of their intention to demolish their houses across the occupied West Bank. The Palestine Prisoners’ Society (PPS) confirmed that Israeli forces broke into the family house of Mohammad Walid Hanatsheh in Attira neighbourhood of the central West...
ON FRIDAY January 3rd, the USA carried out a terrorist drone attack on Baghdad airport, murdering General Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU). It was a mafia-style murder – with Soleimani a sitting duck – visiting...
SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The party is currently opposed to Scotland leaving the union. Several senior figures are calling for that position to change after Scottish Labour lost all but one...
OVER 250 million workers staged a day-long general strike in India last Wednesday, and demonstrated their opposition to the government of Narendra Modi. Banking and other businesses across India were hit as millions of workers went on strike protesting against the Hindu nationalist government's economic policies, especially the planned sale...
A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down, NHS staff outsourced: a decade of Tory cuts and privatisation has produced a lethal cocktail which has created the worst NHS winter crisis ever. NHS performance...
FRENCH doctors, nurses, lawyers and teachers were among the millions on the march yesterday joining the 36th day of transport workers strike action, bringing the entire country to a grinding halt. The notorious CRS police fired volleys of tear gas at the protesters sparking fierce clashes on the fourth massive...
AT LONG last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that ‘all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for the opening of an investigation (into alleged war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) have been met’. Bensouda’s verdict has been...
THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. This warns of a ‘debt accumulation wave’ that could have an ‘unhappy ending’ – a diplomatic way of saying that the global financial crash is underway as...
IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) say none of its missiles were intercepted during Wednesday’s heavy strike that targeted two US bases inside Iraq to avenge the United States’ assassination of its senior commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani. The US was given one hour’s notice of the attacks by the...
PRESIDENT TRUMP told a White House Press conference yesterday afternoon that while he was president of the USA, Iran would never be able to have a nuclear weapon. ‘The US people are grateful, happy that no one was harmed. There were no casualties and minimum damage. ‘Our US forces are ready...
PROTESTS and the occupation of schools marked the beginning of the week in Chile, where the University Selection Test (PSU, in Spanish) was scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. The National Coordinator of High-School Students (CONES) and the Coordinating Assembly of High-School Students (ACES) of Chile, which reject that form of...
IRAN launched a multiple missile attack against two bases in Iraq that contain US troops and other coalition forces on Wednesday night in retaliation for the murder last week of General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. The Al-Asad airbase in Iraq’s Anbar province was hit 17 times...
JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq last Friday on the orders of President Donald Trump. Iraqi MPs responded to the airstrike by passing...
SIPTU has warned that the overcrowding crisis in hospital emergency departments is causing chaos for ambulance professionals across the Republic of Ireland. The union has already announced that it is planning to hold a ballot of ambulance professionals for industrial action early in this new year.
SIPTU Health Division Organiser Paul...
REBECCA Long-Bailey is the latest candidate to join the squad of failures seeking to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, after the party’s rout in the December general election when millions of Labour voters were disgusted with its position on Brexit and refused to vote Labour! In an article for...
THE US ATTACK on Iran and Iraq will cement the unity of the two countries, Iranian President Rouhani said in a phone call with his Iraqi counterpart President Barham Salih on Sunday. ‘The blood of these great commanders, (Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and top Iraqi military commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis)...
EARLY on Sunday 5th January, about 50 members of the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) were sent to Iraq ‘to help’ with the potential evacuation of Britons following Friday’s US drone strike which killed Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s elite Quds Force. A UK Royal Navy...
CENTRAL banks in America, Europe and Japan are on the verge of printing and handing out to their banks hundreds of billions of pounds of worthless paper money in yet another desperate effort to ‘kick-start’ capitalism through Quantitative Easing. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central bank and the Bank...
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination of Iran’s top military commander, Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani, and the second-in-command of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. On Sunday, the legislators used...
SYRIA on Friday condemned ‘the US criminal aggression’ which Qassemled to the martyrdom of the leader of al-Quds Failaq, Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani and Deputy Chairman of Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Commission Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and a number of the mobilisation’s cadres, expressing complete solidarity with Iraq and Iran. An...
IRAN’S Army chief has defiantly dismissed US President Donald Trump’s threat to hit scores of Iranian sites, if Iran hits back after the US terrorist attack that murdered General Soleimani, Iran’s chief military cadre, saying the Americans lack the ‘courage’ to make good on such a spurious promise. The remarks...
THE US Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has urged all American citizens to run for it and get out of Iraq. This is after the US’ cowardly assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, which was carried out by US forces on Friday morning on the orders of President...
A GENERAL strike is set to take place in India on January 8 against the ‘anti-worker, anti-people, anti-national policies’ of the country’s Narendra Modi government. Key figures reportedly leading the workers are CITU All India general secretary, Tapan Sen and INTUC President, G Sanjeeva Reddy. At the same time, Labour...
IRAN’S most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been murdered by a US air strike in Iraq. The 62 year old spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East against ISIS. Murdered with him was Shia militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who also...
COMMUTERS were up in arms yesterday as above inflation 2.7% increases in rail fares set in, while services across the country have been in total chaos for the last year. Demonstrations took place outside rail stations in both London and Norwich yesterday morning as passengers and train workers joined...
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron used his annual New Year’s address to the nation to rule out any compromise with the working class over his plan to drive up the retirement age and cut pensions. Despite Macron calling for a ‘rapid compromise’ with the unions to end the mass strike that...
‘MY VISIT to Syria comes in the framework of the political meetings which are held periodically with Syrian officials to discuss and follow the latest political developments on Syrian, regional and international affairs,’ Senior Aide of the Iranian Foreign Minister for Special Political Affairs, Ali Asghar Khaji told SANA...
HUNDREDS of Iraqi members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and their supporters stormed the US embassy in Baghdad for the second day in response to US airstrikes earlier in the week which claimed the lives of fighters who were stationed on the Iraq/Syria border. As many as 31 fighters...
THE United States’ latest military aggression against Iraq’s popular Hashd al-Sha’abi forces that left dozens of casualties continues to draw widespread condemnation from officials and groups across the region. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has said that the US airstrikes targeting forces that have helped defeat Daesh in Iraq...
US IMPERIALISM launched an unprovoked wave of airstrikes against targets in both Syria and Iraq on Sunday, targeting bases controlled by Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), killing at least 25 of its fighters. The PMF is an Iranian-backed Shia militia which has formal links to the official Iraqi army and...