Monthly Archives: October 2023
ISRAEL has ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate the area within 24 hours, in what is viewed as a precursor of a ground invasion by the Israeli army after suffering a serious setback by the Palestinian resistance groups over the past few days. In a statement released on Friday,...
THE Palestinian rescue and civil defence teams yesterday removed 12 bodies of Palestinians that were buried under the rubble of two homes destroyed by Israeli warplanes in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. A WAFA correspondent said the warplanes hit the Baroud family home in...
THIS week the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world organisation charged with protecting the international capitalist financial system, held its weekly annual meeting in Marrakesh. The outpourings from this get-together to try and sort out the world crisis of capitalism has produced nothing more than dire warnings of imminent collapse,...
LATE ON Tuesday night, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported harrowing numbers: 900 fatalities and 4,600 injuries since Israel initiated its retaliatory strikes last Saturday. The statistics point to the fact that civilians are disproportionately affected; among the casualties were 260 children and 230 women. These figures directly challenge Israel’s repeated claims that...
GAZA’S electricity cut out at 1pm GMT yesterday, when its sole power plant ran out of fuel, leaving the Palestinian territory without electricity after Israel cut off supplies. The Gaza Health Minister also said that medical first responders going to help victims of Israeli airstrikes are themselves being targeted by...
‘WHAT is needed now is to grow the economy. That is the only sober and sustainable path to pay down our worrying debt trajectory. Pickpocketing public servants is not a solution,’ writes Cosatu general secretary Solly Phetoe. In an opinion piece, Phetoe said: ‘The Congress of South African Trade Unions...
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their homes due to the US-UK backed Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has exceeded 263,000. Over 175,486 people among the displaced are seeking shelter in 88...
A MASS demonstration of more than 5,000 workers, students and youth continued throughout the evening from 6.00pm and into the night outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington, west London on Monday. It was announced that there will be a mass Demonstration and March for Palestine on Saturday, assembling at 12noon...
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday produced its latest report on the state of the world capitalist financial system, in which it warned that the global banking system remains at ‘risk’ from the impact of rising interest rates. In this global financial stability report, the IMF warns that although the...
A HUGE barrage of rockets was launched by Palestinian fighters on the Israeli city of Ashkelon yesterday, after warning residents to leave their homes by 5.00pm. Hamas called on the Arab and Muslim peoples and the world’s free men and women to hold massive rallies on Friday in solidarity with...
CHIEF of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, says the ‘glorious’ Palestinian military operation in the occupied territories has made the Israeli regime realise their ‘nightmare of collapse’ is coming true. In a message issued on Sunday, Baqeri congratulated the Gaza-based resistance fighters on their victorious...
Yesterday Israel announced a ‘total’ blockade of Gaza, including a ban on food, electricity, water, and fuel. Announcing this move to strangle Gaza, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said that the Zionist state would cut electricity and block the entry of food and fuel as part of ‘a complete siege’...
ISRAELI warplanes rained terror on Gaza yesterday, targeting ambulances, market places and refugee camps. Warplanes fired missiles at the mosque in the centre of Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, killing and wounding many people and destroying their homes.
Missiles also hit the centre of Jabalya refugee camp smasing into...
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for the police to ‘use the full force of the law’ against displays of support for Hamas yesterday. Braverman made the call on Twitter after reports of demonstrations in support of Palestine in London and elsewhere on Saturday.
The Met responded that it will provide...
MOSCOW will continue supporting efforts to strengthen the global role of Latin America and individual countries in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday. ‘We are all witnessing tectonic transformations pertaining to the ongoing formation of a fairer multipolar world,’ Lavrov noted in a message to participants...
THE head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, said yesterday that the Palestinian revolution is on the ‘verge of a great victory’, following its surprise and successful offensive against Israeli-occupied territories. Ismail Haniyeh made the remarks in a televised speech on Saturday, after Palestinian fighters launched...
UK Treasury officials are locked in talks with the Bank of England after Metro Bank’s shares plunged by more than 31%. The bank is now seeking £600 million to boost its balance sheet and stave off closure and a financial collapse. Metro Bank has hired the Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley...
OVER 75,000 workers from various unions at healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente, have initiated a strike, making it the most significant work stoppage by healthcare workers in US history. The three-day action involves a range of professionals including nurses, pharmacists, and lab technicians. They are based in five states across the...
THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with 17,845 votes – more than double the number polled by the SNP’s Katy Loudon. The result was a swing of 20.4% from the SNP to Labour. The...
METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading yesterday, after some newspapers reported it needed to raise up to £600m. Metro Bank refused to comment on the figure and the urgency of the talks...
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman has come under fire for her speech to the party conference viciously attacking refugees. She told the Tory faithful that politicians have been ‘too squeamish’ to take action on immigration. Braverman alleged: ‘The wind of change that carried my own parents across the globe in the...
THE Tory Party annual conference ended on Wednesday with Sunak announcing he was cancelling the Northern leg of HS2 rail network – something that everyone in the country has known for the past two weeks. ‘The facts have changed,’ Sunak declared when he justified this decision to scrap what had...
BMA AND UNITE strikers picketed and marched round Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday. BMA member Elizabeth Hobbs told News Line: ‘I’m showing my solidarity for striking public sector workers. I’m a junior doctor, I’ve been a doctor for 14 years. ‘I’ve seen working conditions deteriorate over this time. I’m fed...
GIVING the closing speech at the Tory party conference in Manchester yesterday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was introduced by his billionairess wife, Akshata Murthy. Speaking the day after the US Congress voted to cease funding the war in Ukraine, Sunak announced that billions more are to be spent financing the...
Over 1,000 striking junior doctors, consultants and radiographers held an angry rally in St Peter's Square, Manchester outside the Tory party conference on Tuesday afternoon. As the rally was assembling, Dr Salmeet Singh from Derby told News Line: ‘They’ve shifted the goalposts with the new anti-union legislation. It’s undemocratic. There’s...
THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of the Beeching axe. ‘We can’t rebalance the economy or fix the railway capacity crisis without HS2’, said the GMB Union yesterday, correctly condemning Sunak. Laurence Turner, the...
THERE were defiant pickets and rallies of striking Junior Doctors and Consultants on Monday, the first day of the current three-day joint British Medical Association (BMA) strike which concludes today. Striking doctors supported the demand for the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to call a general strike to smash the Strikes...
THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be bothered to listen to empty pledges from a Rishi Sunak government that is dying on its feet. Meanwhile, the real action around this conference was taking...
THOUSANDS of NHS workers and many other trade unionists marched to the Tory Party conference yesterday morning to deliver their notice to the Tories to quit. Responding to the Health Minister’s speech in the morning session of the annual Conservative Party conference, British Medical Association (BMA) council chair, Professor Phil...
BY REZA JAVADI IN mid-September, in an unprecedented move, approximately 13,000 employees from three major American automakers launched an unprecedented strike, pointing to both the rise of trade unions and the grim economic outlook of the country.
The United Auto Workers (UAW), representing around 150,000 auto industry workers, launched the strike...
ON SUNDAY, newly appointed Tory Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, writing in the Telegraph, announced that the UK would be sending troops to Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’ while the Royal Navy will be sent to the Black Sea to ‘defend commercial vessels’. This call by Shapps brought...
STRIKING Junior Doctors and Consultants are laying siege to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today, determined to defend the NHS against vicious Tory attacks which are forcing them to hold another three days of joint strike action this week. Passing cars, lorries and buses hooted massive support for the...
JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory onslaught on their pay. Thousands of striking doctors from all around the country will be rallying outside the Conservative Party conference in Manchester tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd...
TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’ and that the Royal Navy will be sent to the Black Sea to ‘defend commercial vessels’. While the United States Congress voted late on Saturday night...
THE spectacular military parade by the Yemeni Army and the Ansarullah resistance movement on September 21 at Al-Sabeen Square in the capital city of Sana’a yet again bore testimony to their unwavering spirit of popular resistance and military and technological prowess. The annual military parade, which was much bigger in...
The TUC has responded to the Tory government's 'Minimum Service Levels: issuing work notices’ document outlining how a trade union should operate as a ‘Labour Front’ for the bosses. Its response is to try and make suggestions how the union busting plan could work! It begins with the fatuous. This...