Monthly Archives: January 2022
BEREAVED families, were joined by speakers from academia, sports, journalism and the arts at an event last Friday for a ‘Hillsborough Law Now’ event broadcast live on Facebook. This comes after the powerful ITV drama ‘Anne’, which tells the story of Anne Williams’ fight for justice for her son Kevin. Speakers...
GAS and electricity prices have gone through the roof leaving families unable to pay their bills, with hundreds of thousands sitting in freezing cold homes with the lights off because they simply cannot afford to heat or light their homes. Energy bills are expected to go up by as much...
AMID a steep surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, thousands of nurses on Thursday staged nationwide protests against staff shortage in hospitals and nursing homes across the US. The protests were held under the banner of National Nurses United (NNU), a labour union with more than 175,000...
THE Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly warns the Israeli regime and illegal settlers against keeping up their provocations in the holy occupied city of al-Quds. ‘Any attack on al-Quds will trigger a regional war,’ Al-Quds Al-Arabi, a pan-Arab daily, cited Khaled al-Batsh, one of the resistance group’s leaders, on...
US INFLATION rate hit 7% last month – the highest since Ronald Reagan was president in 1982 – making it the seventh consecutive month in which inflation has gone above 5% and it is causing panic in the Federal Reserve Bank. In the past, the US central bank has dismissed...
THE TORY government is dumping the National Health Service (NHS), the publicly funded healthcare system in the UK. It is seeking help from private health companies to deliver critical treatments such as cancer surgery, as the Omicron variant of Covid-19 keeps surging amid a healthcare staff shortage.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid...
BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not been followed when he attended a party in the gardens of Downing Street in May 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic. He apologised that...
PM JOHNSON yesterday apologised for attending an illegal drinks party in the Downing Street garden while millions of people were under lockdown, and making huge sacrifices in the struggle against the Covid virus, with over 150,000 UK deaths now currently recorded. He told the House of Commons: ‘Mr Speaker, I...
LABOUR refused to demand Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation yesterday, following the revelation that he held a party in his Downing Street garden on 20th May, 2020, to which 100 people were invited and told to ‘Bring Your Own Booze’. In fact, the PM did not even turn up...
HEAD of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has lashed out at Saudi claims that the Lebanese Resistance movement ‘risks Arab national security’. Speaking at an event in Lebanon on Sunday, Safieddine ‘wondered’ if the national security of the Gulf states is the ‘same as that of the United States...
THE capitalist system is now poised to go into its greatest ever crisis and crash because of its mountains of debt. Workers face massive joblessness, huge price increases and poverty as this crisis develops. Today, the capitalist system’s bourgeois ideologists are saying that the UK and US bosses are faced...
RUSSIA’S deputy foreign minister says Moscow is ‘disappointed’ by signals from Washington and Brussels demanding unilateral concessions from the Russian side ahead of talks intended to ease tensions over Ukraine. Sergei Ryabkov, quoted by Russia’s Interfax and RIA news agencies, made the remarks on Sunday, the day before negotiations in...
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned that the massive surge in US inflation driving the Central Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) to push up interest rates and cut off money printing will lead to a worldwide economic crash. The IMF states: ‘Broad based US wage inflation or sustained supply bottlenecks...
POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against the scrapping of the Night Tube driver role. The union is fighting against members being forced into night driving as part of their normal rosters and...
PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the government fails to take proper control of this virus’. Responding to news that the UK has recorded more than 150,000 Covid-related deaths since the start of...
A LABOUR union in the US state of Vermont has declared its decision to join the alliance of ‘Labour for Palestine’, a trade union group that opposes ‘Israeli apartheid,’ bringing to 15 the number of American labour associations joining the alliance. ‘Our affiliate Vermont State Labour Council AFL-CIO joins its...
THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is that the Tory government refused to lock down to beat the virus, and is putting big business and their profits first, over workers lives! Dr Chaand...
IN A FRENZIED speech, US President Biden on Thursday accused ex-US President Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party of holding ‘a dagger at the throat of American democracy’. Speaking exactly one year after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC after Trump lost the election, the...
JULIAN Assange supporters held a lively protest outside the Australian High Commission in London on Wednesday, the 1,000th day of his imprisonment in Belmarsh jail. Alison Mason from the Julian Assange Defence Committee told News Line: ‘Today is significant because it is the 1,000th day Julian Assange has been incarcerated...
YESTERDAY morning 200 armed forces personnel were sent into the London NHS to help plug staff shortages in NHS hospitals across London. The Ministry of Defence will provide 40 defence medics and 160 general duty personnel for the next three weeks. (see page 3) Responding to the latest NHS England Urgent...
THE Commons Health and Social Care Committee of MPs yesterday published a report calling on the Tory government to come up with a ‘long term plan’ to fix the staffing crisis in the NHS to deal with the huge, and growing, backlog of people waiting for operations and treatment. A...
GERMANY’S Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said she plans to reiterate the value of dialogue with Russia to avoid a conflict over Ukraine when she meets her US counterpart in her Washington visit. ‘With regard to Russia, the common message from Europeans and the US government is clear: Russian actions...
BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their union the PCS have paired up with Care4Calais to challenge the lawfulness of the Home Office pushback policy. PCS said: ‘We totally oppose the move as...
‘FROM HEALTH to social care, everything is at breaking point,’ deputy chair of the British Medical Association Council (BMA), Dr David Wrigley warned yesterday. ‘I spoke to a consultant in a large English town and he said that the whole system is failing and this is because of what has...
A TOP military adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has described the Muslim world as a future power that can compete with current dominating Western and Eastern powers, saying Iran and the resistance front are reshaping the geopolitics in the region. Speaking at the International...
ON TUESDAY Britain recorded over 200,000 new Coronavirus cases in one day for the first time during the pandemic. The same day, prime minister Boris Johnson appeared at a news conference to announce that the country would have to ‘ride out the Omicron wave without shutting down our country once...
MASSIVE protests are taking place across Sudan with hundreds of thousands on the streets to denounce the military’s tightening grip on power. Chanting ‘Power to the people!’ the protesters called for a return to full civilian rule. But military forces again responded with force, leaving two people dead. Activists vowed 2022...
BRITISH capitalism enters 2022 with experts and business owners predicting a massive surge in bankruptcies amongst SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises with no more than 500 employees) as they are overwhelmed by the demand to repay the government-backed loans that kept them alive during the pandemic lockdowns. In 2020,...
PALESTINIAN Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday called for international intervention to secure the release of a dying hunger-striking prisoner. He told the weekly cabinet session in Ramallah that he is closely monitoring the health condition of Hisham Abu Hawwash, who has been on a hunger strike for 140 days in protest...
LAST year, Israeli officials approved plans for the construction of thousands of new settler housing units and demolished dozens of Palestinian-owned buildings in occupied East Jerusalem. In a report on Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of al-Quds (Jerusalem) Affairs said Israeli authorities had green-lighted a host of plans to build about...
THE NEWS Line Editorial Board sent its revolutionary New Year greetings on January 1st to the workers and youth in Sudan who are continuing their revolt against the military dictatorship with mass demonstrations demanding ‘No military rule!’ that forced the resignation of Prime Minister Hamdok on Sunday! The greetings stated:...
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip up collective agreements and sack tens of thousands of workers. Lynch made the accusation as railway privateers around the UK announced that they are cutting their...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, discussed in a telephone conversation last Thursday the latest developments related to the Palestinian issue. They also talked about ways to strengthen the relations between their two countries and peoples.
The two presidents also wished each other happy Christmas and...
IN THE Daily Telegraph of January 1st one Robert Tombs writes under a headline: ‘As in 1914 and 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards a global war that nothing can stop.’ He is struck by the powerlessness of British imperialism and ends his piece with: ‘We have to trust that...