Monthly Archives: October 2023
A RELIABLE gauge of the panic gripping the capitalist class over the fast developing world crisis of capitalism and its crushing effect on the UK economy is to be found in the pages of the Daily Telegraph. A series of articles in the past few days have spelt out the...
TANKS and armoured vehicles fired on family cars and buses in Gaza yesterday, slaughtering the occupants, while areas around al-Quds Hospital were continuously targeted by air strikes as Israel stepped up its genocidal onslaught. Ambulances report they are now unable to reach areas targeted by air strikes because the roads...
While the so-called Israeli Defence Force intensified its genocidal bombing campaign against Gaza and its ground forces invaded in their tanks, more than half a million workers, students and youth marched through London on Saturday. There were many trade union delegations on the march with scores of banners from the...
ISRAELI Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has launched his ground offensive in Gaza! A well-known Israeli journalist and security analyst, Avi Issacharoff said yesterday: ‘This government led by Netanyahu has only one path, which is a ground operation inside the Gaza Strip.’ He added: ‘I believe Netanyahu’s political career is over...
ISRAEL is threatening Gaza’s Al-Quds Hospital and the 14,000 people who are sheltering there with bombardment. The Israeli occupation authorities issued their threat to completely destroy the Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City yesterday afternoon, demanding immediate evacuation, under the threat of a massive bombardment.
But the...
THE HOUSE of Commons PAC (Public Accounts Committee) report into emergency care should ‘concentrate minds’ in government, says the BMA. Responding to Wednesday’s PAC report on access to urgent and emergency care, professor Phil Banfield, BMA chair of council, said: ‘As winter approaches the inevitable worsening crisis in NHS emergency...
NEARLY a quarter of Labour MPs have called fora ceasefire in Gaza. Forty-nine of the party’s 199 MPs have either said they want a ceasefire or signed a motion calling for one.
Underlining the extent of pressure on Keir Starmer over the issue, 49 Labour MPs have either said they want...
ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza and took hundreds of Israeli troops and settlers prisoner. The current Israeli offensive that has been launched, and has already murdered over 7,000 Gazan men, women,...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on the UN Security Council to immediately stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, provide them with urgent international protection, hold an international peace conference, and move to a political solution instead of military and security solutions by implementing the two-state solution in accordance...
AFTER 21 days of political paralysis, the US House of Representatives finally elected Mike Johnson, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, as its Speaker. Johnson’s first act as Speaker was to propose a resolution declaring full ‘solidarity’ with Israel and easing the way for president Joe Biden to achieve his demand...
AFTER weeks of banning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, French trade unions led the second approved protest in Paris on Sunday 22nd October to denounce the increasing atrocities of Israel. Indiscriminate Israeli bombardment of civilian areas has reached a tragic new peak and the continuation of the illegal siege is a tragic new...
ON MONDAY morning, October 23, 6,800 UAW members at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP), Michigan, joined the Stand Up Strike, shutting down production at Stellantis’ largest plant and biggest moneymaker. The workers who make Stellantis’ best-selling RAM 1500 trucks were joining the unprecedented Stand Up Strike at all three of the Big...
MORE than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry reported yesterday. UN aid agencies meanwhile pleaded for sustained and safe humanitarian access, warning they were ‘on their knees’, after being completely starved of resources. A third...
THE HEALTHCARE system in Gaza is ‘completely out of service and in a state of complete collapse’, Palestinian health ministry spokesman, Dr Ashraf al-Qudra, reported yesterday afternoon. ‘It is out of service, either due to bombing or a lack of personnel and medical supplies. We call for urgent interventions for...
THE MINISTRY of Health in the Gaza Strip warned yesterday that the electricity generators in hospitals will cease to work within 48 hours as fuel supplies dry up due to supplies being cut off by Israel. Power to the seven specialist wards across Gaza treating premature babies will run out...
THE UNITED STATES prohibited Ukraine from conducting peace negotiations with Russia in March 2022, Germany’s former chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder has claimed. Schroeder said in an interview published by Germany’s Berliner Zeitung newspaper last Friday that, while representatives of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky were open to making concessions on key issues...
BUSINESS activity in Britain fell for the third consecutive month last month, with economists warning of recession. The S&P Global/CIPS flash services business activity index dipped to 49.2 from 49.3 in September, falling for the third month in a row. Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said:...
THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed into its corridors and grounds. Over 130 premature babies in incubators and 120 patients in intensive care units, will lose their lives within five minutes of...
THE AMERICAN National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) ruled on Friday that the Starbucks coffee chain had unlawfully threatened to withhold benefits if employees in Wisconsin voted to join a union. The judgement comes after the NLRB found at the beginning of October that Starbucks in Seattle Washington had treated union...
IRAN’S president Ebrahim Raeisi has condemned comments made by US president Joe Biden at a meeting last week with Israeli leaders where he pronounced: ‘I have long said: If Israel didn’t exist, we would have to invent it.’ Raeisi, addressing a meeting of the Iranian cabinet on Sunday, described Biden’s...
THE NUMBER of people killed in Gaza since 7th October rose to 5,087 yesterday – an increase of 436 since Sunday, the Health Ministry in Gaza reported. This includes 2,055 children, 1,119 women, and 217 elderly people. More than 15,273 have been injured.
The Ministry also said that hospitals in Gaza...
Over 400,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday, while thousands more marched in other towns and cities around Britain, including Glasgow, Birmingham, Cardiff, Newcastle, Liverpool, Plymouth and Salford. In Edinburgh when a demonstrator was arrested and bundled into the back of a police van, scores of...
At the start of the rally outside Downing Street a recorded message was broadcast from Palestine from Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative. ‘Put pressure on your government. They are supporting war crimes. Collective punishment is a war crime. The Israeli bombardment of hospitals and churches and...
THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately halt its invasion of Gaza which has already been bombed for a week on a daily basis, with thousands of Gazans killed. Israel is now on the brink of a mass slaughter of Gazans by...
Around 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday, a devastating air strike killed 500 Palestinians receiving treatment in Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza city. Following the attack Israel engaged in a series of flip-flops, deleted posts, video releases and statements from officials attempting to blame various Palestinian groups for the air...
THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large majorities disappeared overnight, with Labour taking both seats. Now they must be finished off! The Labour Party saw off a challenge from the Liberal Democrats to...
IN the wake of the devastating Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, the death toll has surged to at least 3,866, the majority of them civilians, including children, with 13,400 individuals injured, the Ministry of Health said in an update yesterday afternoon. The Ministry...
THE US veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip is unjustifiable, says Zhang Jun, China’s Permanent Representative to the UN, amid rising civilian casualties in the blockaded coastal sliver. ‘The US veto of the resolution cannot be justified,’ Zhang Jun said...
US president Joe Biden on his whistlestop visit to Israel on Wednesday, gave the green light to plans for a full-scale ground invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip. Following his meeting with Biden, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated: ‘In our meeting today, we agreed on a set of actions...
‘WE have to admit with pain and with a bowed head – we failed.’ These are the words of Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich as he reflected on the continuation of ‘Al-Aqsa Storm’ – the Hamas led Palestinian resistance operation that has caught the imagination of the world. ‘Indeed, the...
‘THE Israeli occupation bears direct responsibility for the Baptist Hospital massacre and that its flagrant lies will not fool anyone,’ declared Hamas yesterday. Hamas said: ‘The occupation is putting out a false front and pushing it with overt propaganda in an attempt to avoid holding responsibility for the Baptist Hospital...
Colombia said on Monday evening that Israel’s ambassador must leave the country after President Gustavo Petro criticised the regime for crimes against the Palestinians of the besieged Gaza Strip. Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva said on Monday that Gali Dagan should ‘at a minimum, apologise and leave’ after he opposed President...
UNTIL NOW ISRAEL has been able to kill an average of 100 children every day in its relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza Strip. In a report released on Tuesday, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said it had documented the killing of 1,046 Palestinian children by 16 October and...
AT THE CALL of the trade unions, more than 220 demonstrations were organised across France on Friday, October 13, to say no to austerity policies and yes to increasing wages. Trade union federation Force Ouvriere warned on Monday: ‘ “Controlling spending to invest in the future” is the title of...
Last Saturday, over 170,000 workers, students and youth marched through London in support of the struggle of the Palestinians against the occupation of their land by Israel and the mass slaughter being inflicted on men, women and children in Gaza. Over 3,000 Gazans, including over 1,000 children, have been killed...
US PRESIDENT Biden left Washington yesterday evening for Tel Aviv, where he is to meet Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians before flying to Amman in Jordan for talks with King Abdullah, Egyptian President Al-Sisi, and Palestinian President Abbas. The US Department of Defence said 2,000 military personnel are on a...
JAMIE Dimon, boss of America’s largest bank JP Morgan Chase, has issued a stark warning to his investors that the world may be facing ‘the most dangerous time … in decades’ as a result of increasing ‘geo-political tensions’. Dimon was speaking as JP Morgan Chase revealed that in the three...
THOUSANDS of people in countries across the world have held pro-Palestinian rallies condemning the Israeli regime’s savagery against Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip. According to media estimates, some 5,000 Australians attended a peaceful pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney, the capital of Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales,...
ISRAEL headed towards an air, land and sea attack on Gaza yesterday, having killed more than 3,000 Gazans, including over 1,000 children, during the past week. The Interior Ministry in Gaza said the bodies of more than 1,000 people are decaying under the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israel’s relentless...
AS HUNDREDS of Israeli tanks amassed on the border fence ahead of their invasion of Gaza, medical authorities in the Gaza Strip said yesterday that more than 400 Palestinians had been killed and 1,500 wounded in the past 24 hours. Three-hundred-and-fifty thousand Israeli troops and heavy weapons are reported to...
OVER 150,000 workers, students and youth joined the National March for Palestine from the BBC in Portland Place, central London to Downing Street on Saturday, waving Palestinian flags and chanting ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free!’ There were also mass rallies and marches in towns and...
THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately rescind orders for the imminent invasion of Gaza which has already been bombed for a week on a daily basis, with thousands of Gazans killed. Israel is on the brink of a mass slaughter of...
YESTERDAY, the USA backed Israel unconditionally and along with the UK pushed through its plan for taking over the Gaza Strip, smashing Hamas and greatly weakening the Iranian revolution. This plan immediately sees over a million people shifted from Gaza City around the country for the benefit of the imperialist...
THE ISRAELI enemy carried out an air aggression on Thursday on the two international airports of Damascus and Aleppo, taking them out of service, according to a Syrian military source. The source added that shelling the two airports that occurred simultaneously at 13:50 caused material damage to the airstrips which...