Monthly Archives: March 2022
RUSSIAN and Ukrainian negotiators began a fourth round of talks yesterday. Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said the talks focused on establishing a ceasefire, the withdrawal of Russian troops, and security guarantees for Ukraine, while the Ukraine President Zelensky has called for direct talks between him and Russian President Putin.
Zelensky’s deputy...
IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a stern warning to Israel following a retaliatory missile strike on the ‘strategic centre of Zionist conspiracy and evil’ in the northern Iraqi Kurdistan city of Erbil. In a statement issued on Sunday, the IRGC said its operation was in response to...
ON SUNDAY morning around 30 cruise missiles fired by the Russian military hit the mis-named International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in western Ukraine, which is situated 15 miles from the Polish border. The reaction to this attack was immediate, with the NATO countries and the bourgeois media swift to condemn...
‘There’s a growing cohort of people facing a choice between eating or heating who might not have even considered having to access our inadequate social security system before now,’ Sabine Goodwin, of the Independent Food Aid Network, said yesterday. ‘At food banks across Britain, donors are becoming users,’ she added. Clare...
RUSSIA has rejected any possibility of a nuclear war amid the conflict in Ukraine, warning the United States and the European Union that Moscow will never depend on the West again. In a press conference in Turkey on Thursday, when asked if he thought a nuclear war could be triggered,...
THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing Secretary, Michael Gove told the BBC tens of thousands of people could come to the UK under the scheme and the great man himself may...
THE CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, in his ninth and final annual review, has warned that Tory PM Johnson’s promise to hire 20,000 more police officers risks bringing in even more misogynist and racist officers into the force. The report comes a month after Cressida Dick’s resignation as Met...
Eman Badr’s smile never leaves her face ever since her 25-year-old son Miqdad was released from Israeli prison following a 113-day, life-threatening hunger strike to secure his freedom. Miqdad Qawasmi, who was freed on February 24th, made international headlines over his struggle against imprisonment without trial or charge under an...
THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel the event after the Met said it would be illegal to stage it under lockdown restrictions. However, thousands of people attended a gathering on Clapham Common...
A SENIOR civil servant ‘ignored’ a ‘red alert’ warning about the ‘widespread, historic and ongoing’ use of a highly combustible cladding product on UK high-rises, despite explaining to colleagues only days previously how it would go ‘whoosh’ if exposed to fire, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry heard on Wednesday. The Grenfell...
ON TUESDAY, the TUC abruptly announced that it was cancelling a planned cost of living demonstration and march due to take place in Blackpool on March 19 outside the Tory spring conference under the slogan ‘Britain needs a pay rise’, along with demands for decent sick pay and an...
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke yesterday about his talks with the Ukraine regime’s Foreign Minister, earlier that morning. At a press conference, attended by international media including Western media, he confirmed that there were no major breakthroughs. Lavrov met his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba for the first time since...
SAJID Javid, Tory Health and Social Care Secretary, has spoken to the Royal College of Physicians, on Health Reform. He claimed that there is not enough money to provide proper healthcare for the population, which is getting older. He proposes that ‘the way the NHS responded to the pandemic gives us...
NEW research by Liberty shows most people believe that no matter your role, everyone should follow the same rules and that no one should be above the law. Following months of evidence of consistent rule-breaking at No 10, a poll found that 84% of people agree that no-one, including those...
ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the old Tory vision of a privatised health system with the new technology of phone apps added to make it easier to shunt patients off to...
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden announced yesterday the country is banning Russian oil and gas in response to Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine. Biden said the move targets ‘the main artery of Russia’s economy’. He spoke soon after the European Commission said it would reduce EU demand for Russian gas by...
THE FIFTH Congress of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), is taking place in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Delegates filled the largest theatre for the inaugural session of the Congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the largest political party in Latin America, founded by former...
‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday, which has been called Germany’s biggest military shift since 1945. ‘Staring down the barrel of Putin’s gun’, Scholz announced a massive and immediate cash injection for...
RUSSIA will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview yesterday, underlining that the Ukraine must stick to a ‘neutral status’ and recognise Crimea, the Democratic Republic of Donetsk and the Democratic Republic of Lugansk. ‘We really are finishing the demilitarisation of Ukraine. We will...
RUSSIA says it has struck and disabled Ukraine’s Starokostiantyniv military air base with long-range high-precision weapons. ‘The Russia armed forces continue to strike the military infrastructure of Ukraine,’ Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday, destroying a Ukrainian-controlled S-300 missile system and downing 10 Ukrainian planes and helicopters...
WORLD capitalism was reeling yesterday as the economic sanctions, imposed to strangle the Russian economy and pave the way for regime change in Russia, caused havoc on the world stock markets and drove up the prices of energy and food across the globe. Oil prices soared to over $139 a...
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer sought to outbid the Tories in anti-Russian war rhetoric when he was interviewed on BBC TV yesterday morning. Claiming that it was his duty as leader of the Opposition to show unity with the Tory government, Starmer said: ‘Putin wants to see division, he wants...
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) announced over the weekend that 68 universities across the UK will face a further five days of strike action beginning this month unless vice chancellors revoke pension cuts and meet staff demands over pay and working conditions. Over 50,000 staff are taking five further days of...
THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor condemning Russia’s security operation in the Ukraine. This was launched by President Putin as a ‘special military operation’ whose ‘goal is to protect people who have...
Responding to latest GP workforce data for January 2022, the BMA doctors’ union says the declining number of GPs shows no signs of abating without a workable plan to recruit and retain NHS staff. Dr Farah Jameel, General Practitioners Committee (GPC) England chair at the BMA, said: ‘At a time...
THE CAPITALIST powers of the EU, US and UK are growing fearful that the prosecution of their war against Russia, is actually unleashing a socialist revolution at home. The sanctioning of oligarchs, the ‘breaking of Europe’s reliance on Russian gas’, the refusal to import Russian grain … all of these...
THE war in Ukraine is ‘a catastrophe’ for the world which will cut global economic growth and boost inflation, the president of the World Bank has told the BBC. ‘The war in Ukraine comes at a bad time for the world because inflation was already rising,’ said David Malpass. He stressed...
YESTERDAY morning, one week after the start of their operation, Russian forces captured the main city in southern Ukraine, Kherson. Kherson is not far from the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014 after the local population voted for it. Russian forces then pushed further eastwards and surrounded the...
HUNDREDS of rail cleaners will launch a 48-hour strike action next week in fight for pay justice. Transport union RMT members who keep trains and stations clean across London and the Southeast are campaigning for £15 an hour and to be made direct employees of the railways.
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SPEAKING in the Commons yesterday, Tory culture secretary Nadine Dorries told MPs that Ofcom (the so-called independent regulator of broadcasting in the UK) was reviewing whether to revoke the licence of the Russian news broadcaster RT entirely, saying that president Putin ‘must not be allowed to exploit our open...
TRANSPORT union RMT said that its members are standing firm as pickets were out in force yesterday at all key locations in the fight to defend jobs, pensions and working conditions on London Underground, bringing London to a gridlocked halt. General Secretary Mick Lynch said: ‘Our members across London Underground...
‘Every single Tube line is suspended today. We’ve shut down London and we’ll do it again on Thursday,’ RMT Health and Safety Rep Carlos Barros said on Tuesday on the picket line outside Acton Town station, a main London Underground hub on the Piccadilly and District lines in west...
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden made his first annual State of the Union Address late Tuesday night, opening with an attack on Russia that was clearly designed to unify Republican and Democrats in a war to overthrow president Putin and carry out a regime change. This was revealed in a completely...
PRESIDENT Biden has assured American lawmakers that US military personnel will not be taking part in the war in Ukraine, and not a single service member will be sent to the Eastern European country to fight the Russian Army. Delivering his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday,...
10,000 TUBE workers took strike action yesterday after London Underground (LU) bosses refused to rule out job cuts and detrimental changes to pensions. Under the plans at the heart of the dispute, LU will cut 600 frontline jobs for starters and wants to scrap the final salary pension scheme in...
Tensions are rising after negotiations have failed to progress in the three-month-long Clover strike. The strike began at the branded foods and beverages group on 22 November, at the end of the second year of the Covid pandemic that, along with the health emergency, was underway amidst a frenzy of...
THREE NATO countries will deliver more than 70 warplanes for the use of Ukraine, military representatives in Kiev announced yesterday morning. According to a statement published on Facebook, Poland, Bulgaria, and Slovakia will provide over 70 Soviet-era MiG-29 and SU-25 aircraft that can be based at Polish airfields. Sixteen MiG-29 fighters...
RUSSIA’S ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, spoke at the emergency special session of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, defending Russia’s actions in the Ukraine. This was only the 11th emergency session since the first in 1956, involving all 193 member countries. He said: ‘The root of...
A LEADING delegation from the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has met with the Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to discuss the latest bout of Israeli aggression in the Palestinian territories. The delegation, led by the deputy head of the movement’s political bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, met and...
TORY Foreign Secretary Liz Truss bluntly told British workers and their families that they will be made to pay the price for the imperialist war against Russia – indeed she came close to suggesting we should be grateful for the opportunity to be driven into starvation to further imperialism’s...