Monthly Archives: October 2022
FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her family received death threats last Tuesday night from far-right groups that operate in the department of Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia. ‘We are in danger’ she said at...
WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women and children, the signing of the maritime border demarcation deal organised by the United States to define the sea boundary between Lebanon and the Israeli...
‘THERE was no chase’ before the Metropolitan Police marksman shot and killed Chris Kaba on 5th September, his cousin Jefferson Bosela told thousands of demonstrators at Downing Street on Saturday. Bosela spoke at the end of the 26th, biggest ever, annual United Families and Friends March against the deaths of...
CHANCELLOR Hunt, and Prime Minister Sunak are set to dump the whole historic crisis of out-of-date and senile British capitalism onto the backs of the working class. Treasury officials have told the BBC that the PM and his ‘Iron’ chancellor are facing ‘sobering’ decisions on huge spending cuts and tax...
IN THE much-anticipated medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will, like his counterparts at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), tell us to swallow the hard pill, warned SAFTU on Thursday. It added: ‘He will say, referring to austerity, “this is a necessary pain...
MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action, up to and including strike action, over the Scottish government’s ‘insulting’ pay offer. Smashing through the government imposed ballot threshold, the result comes after the RCM...
TEACHERS in Haverhill, Massachusetts, have won their strike held last week, defying a state law banning teachers and other public sector workers from striking, and incurring significant fines. Two teachers’ unions, one local and one state, have each been fined $50,000 for the strike in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Union leaders said the...
‘A SPEECH to calm the party and the country’ was how the Tory-supporting Daily Mail greeted the speech by newly installed prime minister Rishi Sunak. The speed with which the right-wing Tory press like the Mail and Telegraph have rushed to express their undying enthusiasm for Sunak is truly amazing. They...
THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA representative body chair and workforce lead Dr Latifa Patel said: ‘Today’s figures – which show a modest increase of the equivalent of 82 full-time doctors...
RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about a proposal by the European Union to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday that ‘a large part’...
TORY Chancellor Hunt announced yesterday that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by over two weeks and instead be made on 17 November – no doubt when the international bankers have given its savage cuts their approval. Hunt...
NURSING staff are quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as the cost-of-living crisis bites. The number of staff opting out of the NHS pension scheme has doubled in the space of just one year as the cost of living crisis grips hard, Royal College of Nursing analysis shows. The...
A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli siege of the city. For nearly two weeks, Nablus and the neighbouring villages have been under a tight Israeli military siege, with most of the entrances...
Rishi Sunak delivered his first address to the nation as prime minister yesterday morning. He started by praising Liz Truss and Boris Johnson in a blatant attempt to represent himself as a unifier of all the warring factions that have torn the Tories apart. He paid tribute to Johnson for his...
‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory Prime Minister Sunak yesterday afternoon. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘Rishi Sunak must now decide if he wants to be the prime...
AMERICAN and allied forces may directly intervene in the ongoing Ukraine conflict against Russia even without a threat to any member of the US-led NATO military alliance, former US spy chief and Army general David Petraeus has said. If Russia took any action in Ukraine which was ‘so shocking and...
Rishi Sunak was appointed Tory Prime Minister yesterday after his opponent Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race at the last minute. Sunak was overwhelmingly rejected by Tory members in the leadership ballot last September, losing to Liz Truss who, in a chaotic seven weeks, managed to accelerate the crash of...
Over 70,000 staff at 150 universities are to strike after University and College Union (UCU) members overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ in two historic national ballots. The results saw the union deliver momentous turnouts that beat the anti-union threshold. More than eight in ten of those who voted said ‘yes’ to strike...
AUSTERITY measures set to be imposed on the working class by the collapsing Tory government will be harsher than those endured for the past 14 years, former Bank of England Governor, Lord Mervyn King warned yesterday. Furthermore, living standards are being slashed as a result of the UK’s support for...
THE Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the ‘truth’ behind the September explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines would ‘surprise’ many Europeans if it was to be made public. On September 26th, the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian natural gas directly to...
WITH the Tories set to decide whether they want Boris Johnson or Sunak to continue with the job of completely destroying all of the basic gains of the UK working class, it is actually the UK trade unions who are at the crossroads. The ‘Transport Strikes Minimum Service Levels Bill’...
SOME 160,000 CWU members took action at thousands of UK workplaces on Thursday, other unions visited our lively pickets and the government collapses into chaos. A great day!!! – says the postal workers’ union. In Thursday’s early-morning darkness, local authority refuse vehicles – members of the local GMB branch –...
RUSSIA is developing and will continue to develop, despite all the current difficulties, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. ‘The country is developing, despite the difficult times, and will develop in the future,’ he stressed.
According to Peskov, several countries are interested in occupying the vacant Russian markets.
He...
LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more Ukrainian than the Ukrainians in her determination to arm and supply the Ukrainian fascists, is now politically no more. She was the would-be ‘Iron Lady’ returned,...
PM TRUSS resigned yesterday afternoon after a meeting with the Chairman of the Tory MPs backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. Making her announcement, she said: ‘I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills. ‘Putin’s...
A United Nations human rights expert has slammed Israel’s ‘apartheid practices’ in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying the Tel Aviv regime’s actions against Palestinians amount to ‘persecution’. Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, made the remarks in a report released on Tuesday, which details Israeli...
LIZ Truss appeared outside 10 Downing Street at 1.30pm yesterday to announce that she was resigning following a meeting with the Chairman of the 1922 backbench committee, Graham Brady. Truss announced that they had agreed there will be a leadership election within the next week and she would remain as...
TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will crack down on the militant railway unions.’ She made the threat the day after the RMT rail union announced another round of rails strikes, which are...
‘TODAY the National Education Union is writing to employers with notification of our intention to carry out national ballots of around 300,000 teacher and support staff members in England and Wales,’ the NEU announced on Tuesday. These formal postal ballots will open on Friday 28 October 2022 and close on...
TORY PM Truss told MPs yesterday, during her parliamentary questions crisis statement, of the way that she intends to get out of the crisis that her Tory government is in, and keep her job as Premier. This is a crisis of her own making after the IMF and the bosses...
‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES, CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ rang out outside the Brighton conference centre as the TUC three-day Congress opened yesterday. Hundreds of delegates, representing millions of trade union members, were lobbied by a powerful delegation from the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists as they entered.
Some...
TUC leader Frances O’Grady welcomed delegates to the TUC Congress yesterday saying: ‘Welcome to the TUC, our parliament for working people. ‘Represented, here in the Hall today, are millions of workers who keep the wheels of this country turning. ‘All they ask in return is respect, and fair pay. ‘And if it...
Protesters clashed with police in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Saturday, October 15, for the second night running. Riot police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds in the poor Ettadamen and Intilka districts, with the crowds chanting slogans against the police and throwing stones at them.
The fresh protests...
THE TORY government has made it crystal clear that its current reorganisation is being made in order to carry out a very serious assault on the jobs, wages, basic rights and the futures of workers, young and old. Nobody is going to be too young or too old to...
Tory Chancellor Hunt declared that the entire cost of British capitalism’s crisis is to be dumped onto the backs of the working class yesterday. Hunt scrapped his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng’s and Prime Minister Truss’s mini-budget in its entirety. He announced that the Energy Price Guarantee, which caps energy bills at £2,500,...
PENTAGON chief Lloyd Austin has signalled that the United States and its Western allies are having trouble keeping up with Ukraine’s demand for advanced weaponry. It hints at dwindling supplies for Ukraine and fear in the White House of an escalation that could result in a war between the US...
NEWLY-INSTALLED Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday completely shredded the mini-budget announced just a few weeks ago by Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwarteng was unceremoniously sacked on Friday by Liz Truss in a desperate attempt to save her own skin as Prime Minister, and Hunt was put in to try to rescue a...
‘THERE could be up to a million people on strike very, very soon,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said yesterday morning. On the eve of the TUC Congress, which opens in Brighton tomorrow morning, the leaders of the UK’s two biggest trade unions, Unite and Unison, appeared on breakfast television. Graham...
FRENCH refinery workers have continued their strikes as a petrol crisis drags on across the country, with authorities threatening to resort to force to end the strikes. Long lines of cars could be seen across France on Friday as drivers were waiting sometimes for hours to fill up their cars....
IT WAS ‘sackcloth and ashes day’ at The Sunday Telegraph yesterday as it surveyed the collapse of the Truss regime. It wrote that: ‘Jeremy Hunt, the new Chancellor, our fourth in one year, has said that difficult decisions will have to be made in his Medium-Term Fiscal Plan: taxes won’t...
THE TORY party’s putrefaction continued yesterday with Prime Minister Liz Truss’ sacking of her ‘great friend’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, followed by a four-minute statement from Downing Street at 2.30pm. ‘I want a country where people can get good jobs, new businesses can set up and families can afford an even...
KWASI Kwarteng was sacked yesterday afternoon as Tory Chancellor, just weeks after he announced huge unfunded tax cuts that triggered a financial crisis by handing billions to the already rich. Kwarteng met PM Liz Truss at Downing Street a little earlier, after cutting short a US visit and flying back...
CONSISTENCY between fiscal and monetary policy is paramount for economic and financial stability as high debts and deficits push more countries into budget crises – the director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) Fiscal Affairs Department told a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday. Vitor Gaspar was speaking at the...
ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow, SW Middx Amal CWU Branch Secretary, Sarah Woolaghan told News Line: ‘We are really up for the fight. We are actually, in effect, trying to...