Monthly Archives: June 2023
A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged the policy. Rwanda had not provided sufficient safeguards to prove it is a ‘safe third country’, senior Court of Appeal judges ruled in a split decision. Asylum...
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron was forced to convene a government emergency crisis meeting on Wednesday morning following two nights of protests and rioting across the country over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old youth, Nahel, by police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Nahel was shot dead at close...
‘AS MANY as 180 people were detained in France last night (Wednesday) for participation in unrest, sparked by the police shooting a 17-year-old driver in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on June 27th,’ French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said yesterday. ‘A night of unbearable violence against the symbols of the...
OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the threat to thousands of jobs and demanding government support for the industry. They were joined in Trafalgar Square by over 100 striking health workers from the...
A LANDMARK research study by the Trussel Trust has revealed the excruciating extent of food poverty across Britain as the working class, the middle class and the poor grapple with a Tory produced soaring inflation rate, and the highest cost-of-living in a generation. More than eleven million people throughout the...
Russia and China are capable of thwarting the dangerous plans of the West and NATO, which are trying to disrupt the unity of the Eurasian space, Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov said on Tuesday. ‘The Washington-driven North Atlantic Alliance is trying to lend a global scope to its activities....
The political crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, that emerged dramatically on Friday with the march on Moscow by the mercenary Wagner group, cannot be understood outside of an understanding of the world crisis of capitalism. Behind the crisis in the Stalinist bureaucracy – that led to the boss...
COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) is ‘appalled to learn that many municipalities across the North West are still failing to pay workers their salaries on time.’ A COSATU statement on Monday said: ‘We call on these municipalities to pay workers what is due to them, or we...
‘BRING us back into the NHS NOW!’ strikers from SLaM (South London and Maudsley) mental health trust are demanding as they converge on Downing Street today. The striking ancillary workers from the four SLaM hospitals – Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell, South Western Hospital in Lambeth, Ladywell Centre in Lewisham and...
Yesterday, Roger Bootle, a senior advisor to Capital Economics, wrote in the Daily Telegraph an article headlined ‘Basket case Britain is back – and a recession is inevitable.’ Bootle informs his readers that it has been some time since he has heard the expression ‘basket case Britain’ used, but it...
Laura Cooper, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia at the US Defence Department, has said that despite a global ban on the use of cluster munitions, they would help Ukraine push back against Russian forces. Cooper made the remarks on Thursday night while addressing US...
STRIKING catering, cleaning and other support staff working for South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) were joined on their picket line at Maudsley by the Trust’s Chief Executive yesterday morning. GMB members at Maudsley, Ladywell Mental Health, Lewisham and Bethlem Hospital in Bromley, have already taken six days of...
PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector workers are to be hit and hit again under the Tories. ‘Of course I know that it’s a challenging time,’ multi-millionaire Sunak told Kuenssberg, going on:...
THE degeneration of the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy has been revealed for all to see with its hiring of a mercenary army of criminals to fight in Ukraine, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin. His rapid elevation however went to his head with a vengeance when he decided that as a reward for...
Cresting through the paper waves and spraying water all over the toddlers and six year olds, teenagers and grannies the Empire Windrush (II), blew its deep throated hooter out over Railton Road, to squeals of delight and surprise. As the hull of the Windrush began to trundle its way down...
ISRAELI forces on Thursday evening sealed off the main entrance to Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local official. The village mayor Suleiman Dawabsheh said that the occupation soldiers used a bulldozer to erect earth mounds at the western entrance of the...
From an article by Di Stefania Maurizi FOR the last six years, the Crown Prosecution Service have rejected all of our attempts to shed light on the destruction of key documents in the Julian Assange case, even though the emails were deleted when the high-profile, controversial case was still ongoing.
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JUNIOR DOCTORS in England will strike for five consecutive days in July, in what is thought to be the longest single period of industrial action in the history of the health service. The British Medical Association (BMA) said the five-day walkout would be between 7am on Thursday 13 July and...
THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on workers and the middle classes already reeling from sky-high inflation, and now facing an economic recession which holds a future of mass unemployment and poverty...
‘JENNIFER Bates, BAmazon workers leader’s reinstatement by Amazon, is a win for workers,’ says the UNI Global Union. Last week, Jennifer Bates, the lead worker spokeswoman of the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon union drive, received notice she had been reinstated after filing an Unfair Labour Practice charge against the company.
In early...
Sergey Shoigu, the Russian Defence Minister, said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s armed forces command is plotting to deliver strikes on Russian territory, including Crimea, with HIMARS rockets and Storm Shadow missiles. Shoigu said: ‘According to our data, the leadership of the Ukrainian armed forces is planning to deliver strikes on...
INFLATION was at 8.7% in the year to May, the same rate as it was in April, creating hundreds of thousands of hungry families in the UK. The response of the Bank of England to the developing crisis of capitalism has been to raise interest rates since the end of...
ON MONDAY, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that she is instructing all 43 police forces in England and Wales to ‘ramp up’ the use of stop-and-search powers as a further stage in the war against young people being waged by the Tory government. Braverman has told the police to...
SEVEN young men who were juveniles at the time of their alleged offences are facing imminent execution in Saudi Arabia despite the country having committed to ending its use of the death penalty against juvenile offenders, Amnesty International reports. All seven of the men were children – including one who...
MORE than five and a half million low-income households in the UK are cut ting down on or skipping meals, the Joseph Rountree Foundation revealed yesterday, describing it as the ‘horrendous new normal’. The number of low income households on Universal Credit going without items such as food, heating or...
SOUTH London and Maudsley NHS Trust GMB members employed by privateer ISS are striking next week and will march on Downing Street. The GMB union announced yesterday that the cleaners and caterers across the Trust will be taking a week of strike action as their dispute escalates. The union members employed...
IN IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi’s meetings with leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba during his recent three-nation tour of Latin America, the pressing and most prominent issue in discussions was resistance against United States interventionism across the world. Latin America holds massive geopolitical significance in Iran’s foreign policy. The implications...
THE ILO (International Labour Organisation), the official body of the United Nations responsible for upholding workers’ rights, has slammed the Tory anti-strike laws and demanded that the government ensures that current and future legislation respects international law. In a rare intervention, the ILO said that the UK government needs to...
THE NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) has announced that its members in England will take two further days of strike action this term – on Wednesday 5th July and Friday 7th July. Announcing the new strike days on Saturday, NEU Joint General Secretaries Kevin Courtney and Dr Mary Bousted said: ‘Time...
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers, the National Union of Mineworkers and the Solidarity union have won a ‘a strategic victory for workers’ after South Africa’s state power utility Eskom signed a three-year pay deal. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. agreed to pay its workers 7% annual increases under the accord, against...
THE news from the mortgage front is grim. Millions of families are experiencing shocking hikes in mortgage rates of hundreds of pounds per month, as inflation rises and currencies weaken. The past week has seen a tipping point. There was a bourgeois consensus that a soft landing for the economy...
AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament Square. This demonstration was part of an escalating three-day walkout orchestrated by the junior doctors under the British Medical Association (BMA), signifying their increasing discontent over...
THE FRENCH trade union federations were meeting on Thursday to decide their next mobilisations after MPs in the National Assemby on June 8 failed to repeal the Macron government’s attack on pensions that was forced through earlier without a vote. A Force Ouvriere (FO) union federation editorials on Wednesday, June...
THE Arab League has called on the international community to end its silence on the continuing Israeli atrocities across Occupied Palestine, and to compel the Tel Aviv regime to abide by the United Nations resolution barring construction of illegal settlements, and the destruction of tens of thousands of Palestinian...
WEDNESDAY was the 6th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 tenants and residents of Kensington and Chelsea perished in their homes on the 14th of June 2017. There was a silent walk of more than 6,000 people on Wednesday around the tower. There were loads of firefighters from all...
THE House of Commons privileges committee published its report into former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday and it turned out to be even more damning than anticipated. It found that Johnson had repeatedly and deliberately misled Parliament – in other words he lied continually to MPs. Even worse, for the committee,...
THERE were powerful picket lines outside hospitals around the country yesterday as junior doctors began a 72-hour strike against Tory attacks on the NHS and the 30% ‘erosion’ of their pay under the Tories. There is going to be a BMA rally and march of junior doctors to the Department...
PALESTINE has called upon the international community to impose sanctions and other punitive measures against Israel over its settlement construction policies in the occupied territories, saying world countries should not simply suffice to written statements in this regard. The Palestinian foreign ministry stated on Tuesday that the Palestinian nation pays...
THE UK has ‘no alternative’ but to hike interest rates in a bid to make borrowing much more expensive to try to slow down rising prices, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said, adding that the rate at which prices rise was the ‘number one challenge we face’. He said the government...
AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds of them fear the NHS won’t survive the next ten years. A new survey of junior doctors today reveals the impact the government’s refusal to make...
CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the threat of even more Tory MPs resigning their seats and forcing by-elections after challenging Sunak’s weakness over not attempting to organise a trade deal with...
