Monthly Archives: May 2022
The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) has demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D. Wickremaratne, over their failure to prevent indiscriminate, unprovoked attacks on the public campaigning against the government. FUTA has alleged that former Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa and his office...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson fancies himself as the ‘great dictator’. On Wednesday, he pledged to send British troops to defend Sweden and Finland from Russia, even if they did not join the NATO alliance. Johnson gave this pledge, without consulting the British people as he signed a ‘mutual defence’ pact...
Entrances leading up to the Unisa (University of South Africa) main campus in Muckleneuk, Pretoria are cordoned off with trees and vehicles this week, as protesting workers and students make it clear that they will not accept the sacking of five trade union officers. Students and other stakeholder unions have...
PM BORIS Johnson is visiting Sweden and Finland to expand the war in Ukraine, and specifically to urge both nations to join the NATO alliance and the ongoing struggle headed by the US and the UK to destroy the Russian Federation, and then do the same to China. The visit...
THE TORY programme of 38 pieces of anti-working class legislation which the government plans during the current parliamentary session was outlined in the Queen’s Speech delivered by Prince Charles in the House of Lords yesterday. He announced plans to illegalise ‘disruptive’ demonstrations, ban public bodies from boycotting Israel, pursue and...
‘Fellow Russian citizens, Dear veterans, Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers, Comrade officers, generals and admirals, I congratulate you on the Day of Great Victory! The defence of our Motherland when its destiny was at stake has always been sacred. It was the feeling of true patriotism that Minin and Pozharsky’s militia stood up...
THE TORIES set out their plans to get the collapsing British capitalist economy ‘back on track’ in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech marking the opening of Parliament. The speech unveiled 38 parliamentary bills – none of which offered help in any shape or form to the millions of workers being driven into...
Ambulance staff demonstrated outside Newham Hospital in East London yesterday against the imposition of grossly inferior un-negotiated new contracts, and demanding that they be brought in-house as directly employed NHS workers. The GMB members marched round the hospital to the management offices and demonstrated there before moving back to the...
ON SUNDAY, the Russian Defence Ministry announced the completion of the operation to evacuate civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. On May 5th, 6th and 7th, green corridors operated through which families, women with children and the elderly could go. As the department reported on May 7th, thanks to the...
Ben Wallace, Tory defence secretary, in a speech yesterday accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of ‘hijacking history’. Wallace spoke while Russia celebrated Victory Day marking the defeat of Nazi Germany when Soviet Forces took Berlin in 1945. Wallace denounced Russia saying: ‘Through their invasion of the Ukraine, Putin, his inner...
INSULTED Barts Hospital patient transport staff are demonstrating at 12 noon at Newham Hospital in east London today against management’s poor treatment of staff and disregard for NHS Core Values during the new contracts and rota dispute. Following today’s demonstration the GMB plans to join workers to demonstrate at other...
A GROUP of Israeli military forces and settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds and clashed with Muslim Palestinian worshippers there, in yet another sacrilegious act of aggression against the holy site. Israeli occupation forces on Thursday attacked the al-Qibli prayer hall at...
AS SOON as the Northern Ireland Assembly election results were announced on Saturday confirming that Sinn Fein was now the biggest party, the US, UK and Irish governments swung into action. They urged Sinn Fein and the minority political parties in Northern Ireland to re-establish a devolved administration at once. Sinn...
SHORTAGES, food scandals and rising prices put low-income families on the front line, says the CGT French trade union federation. While food scandals accumulate (Kinder eggs, Buitoni pizzas, Lactalis raw milk cheeses), which can go so far as to cause the death of children and adults, consumer information and the...
LABOUR has failed to dominate the council elections despite the illegal actions of PM Johnson, and the way that under his government living standards are being slashed and shredded by the capitalist crisis. The Bank of England is predicting at least 10% inflation immediately ahead, with the prospect of a...
UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising prices. Rates rose to 1% from 0.75%, the fourth consecutive increase since December.
Inflation, already rising at its fastest pace for 30 years, is expected to breach...
THE IRANIAN government will offer direct cash handouts to the people in the country to offset a decision to raise the price of flour which has led to a steep increase in the price of wheat-based food. Iran’s agriculture minister Javad Sadati Nejad said on Wednesday that direct cash handouts...
ISRAELI military forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday, attacking Palestinian worshippers with sound grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse them and allow dozens of settlers to barge their way in. This was the latest invasion by settlers protected and encouraged by the military, and was organised to...
AFRICAN-American farmers lost roughly $326 billion worth of acreage during the 20th century, adding to the racial wealth gap in the United States, a new study has revealed. Between 1922 and 1997, Black farmers in 17 US states lost their lands due to discriminatory policies of the US Department of...
TODAY’S local elections will see Tory and Labour leaders trying to convince the electorate that everything is basically ok, and that the voters can trust the Tory and Labour Party leaders to do the right thing for them. This is right at the time when the PM has been found...
IN A HIGHLY significant development, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced to abandon his May Day speech and flee for his life in the northwestern city of Rustenburg on Sunday, when striking miners stormed the stage. The workers, employed by the Sibanye-Stillwater mine, are demanding a wage increase of...
TORY prime minister Boris Johnson was interviewed yesterday on ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme and announced that there will be no attempt to increase benefits, as this would just increase inflation. When confronted by interviewer Susanna Reid about the plight of a pensioner, Elsie, who is so poor that she...
TORY PM Boris Johnson acted the buffoon yesterday as he described Ukraine’s war against Russia as the country’s ‘finest hour’, in a video address broadcast from London to the parliament in Kiev. Speaking via video link to Ukrainian MPs, Johnson promised to send another £300m worth of military hardware, including...
‘THE 97.3% strike vote shows the anger of our members and their determination to defeat the pay freeze,’ Mole Meade, Communication Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive member told News Line yesterday, ahead of today’s national Crown Post Offices strike. Every one of the UK’s 114 Crown Post Offices is closed...
OVER 3,000 workers and youth were on the TUC May Day March from Clerkenwell Green in Islington to Trafalgar Square in Central London on Sunday. The striking Churchill Cleaners and sacked P&O workers led the march with their ‘Boycott P&O’ and ‘Pay Justice for Churchill Cleaners – £15 an hour...
THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets throughout France on Sunday sending a clear ‘message’ that workers are preparing a massive battle to stop president Emmanuel Macron carrying out the war on their rights and wages. Macron, the ‘president of the rich’, went into last Sunday’s run-off...
‘THIS Easter will be worse than any winter for the NHS,’ warned Alastair McLellan, the editor of Health Service Journal (HSJ), in a leading article on the 7th April 2022. He pointed out that the transmissibility of the Omicron variant caused a large surge in Covid case numbers in January...
A CROWD of over 100 Colombians held a rally on Thursday night in Trafalgar Square to commemorate the martyrs of the April 28th uprising in Colombia last year. That is when over 75 protesters were killed and over 800 injured by forces of the government of President Ivan Duque. The protests...
DAVE WILTSHIRE, the Secretary of the All Trades Unions Alliance told the WRP’s May Day rally: ‘From this May Day meeting we send revolutionary greetings to the working class and people of the world fighting a bankrupt capitalist system that is in its greatest crisis in history and is...
LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in a national general strike. Thousands of trade union members joined protesters already camping in front of the president’s office for nearly three weeks, demanding the government’s...