Monthly Archives: November 2023
STRIKING UCU lecturers from Further Education Colleges across London packed out a strike rally at the Emanuelle Centre in Marsham Street in central London yesterday. UCU members are striking for three days to achieve an increased pay offer and against excessive workload. On the Tottenham picket line at (College of North...
AT LEAST three workers have been killed after protests over garment workers’ wages escalated in Bangladesh, where thousands of angry workers demanding a near-tripling of the minimum wage to 23,000 taka ($208) clashed with police. Police said Jalal Uddin, 42, a garment worker who was injured in clashes with officers...
YESTERDAY, the Sunak government finally got round to sacking Suella Braverman as home secretary, immediately replacing her with James Cleverly. In a surprise move, kept secret even from the Tory-supporting press, none other than former prime minister David Cameron was drafted in to replace Cleverly as foreign secretary. This required Cameron...
EVERY hospital in Gaza City is out of service, with 36 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital facing death within 48 hours because there is no power for their incubators. Israeli snipers are on rooftops surrounding the hospital, shooting and killing anyone outside in the courtyards, and also through windows. About 650...
ONE MILLION workers, students and youth marched from Hyde Park Corner in central London to the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south west London on Saturday, demanding ‘Free, Free Palestine!’ The march was led by large banners from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Stop the...
First speaker at the rally was the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot, who said: ‘Israel has killed 11,000 innocent people and is starving 2.3 million people in Gaza.
‘They have killed 5,000 children. Is the life of a Palestinian child worth less than any other child?’
‘Great Britain is...
OVER a million workers and youth marched in London on Saturday to a rally outside the US Embassy, in a ‘National March for Palestine’ demanding an end to the genocidal murder of Palestinians by the Israeli Zionist regime. Paul Brennan, reporting the march for Al Jazeera, said: ‘These are huge...
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 prisoners of war. The response of the imperialist powers, led by the USA, has been immediate and desperate...
By Shabbir Rizvi SINCE the onset of the Al Aqsa Storm Operation more than a month ago, the US has seen an unprecedented level of support and solidarity for the Palestinian people and resistance. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in different US cities, not only condemning...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that there are no words to describe the genocidal Israeli war and destruction inflicted upon our Palestinian people in Gaza, with blatant disregard for international law. Speaking on the nineteenth anniversary of the death of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the President said, ‘In...
THERE was a lively and enthusiastic picket of over 50 striking NHS workers at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel east London, yesterday morning. Speaking to the News Line, Unite rep for the Royal London Ebrima Sonko said: ‘The strike is going well. People just want to be treated fairly....
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has raised alarms over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Dominique Hyde, UNHCR’s Director of External Relations, stated that the war that began unexpectedly in April has devastated Sudanese homes, transforming them into involuntary memorials of conflict.
Hyde’s recent visit to Sudan revealed...
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday issued a damning statement that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip ‘amounts to a war crime’. The unending bombings and shelling of residential areas, hospitals, schools has claimed over 10,500 Palestinian lives, with women...
‘THE occupation is starving us,’ a young boy said yesterday, speaking alongside several dozen other young children who are among the 60,000 Palestinians who are sheltering from the Israeli genocidal bombing at Gaza’s main hospital. A group of children spoke to reporters outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the main...
STRIKING Royal London Hospital ancillary workers rallying outside Barts Hospital in their fight for pay and improved conditions yesterday demanded that the TUC Special Congress on Saturday 9th December must call a general strike to smash the Tory anti-union laws. Barts Unite rep Ellen Barzey told News Line: ‘We’re here...
THE DEPUTY speaker of Bahrain’s National Assembly Abdulnabi Salman said on Tuesday that members of the parliament are pressing to reverse the normalisation of relations between the country and Israel following the occupying regime’s devastating war in the besieged Gaza Strip. Salman said that Bahraini lawmakers were demanding an end...
THE JORDANIAN Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh has just warned against vicious attempts by the Israeli regime to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, saying any such move will be a ‘declaration of war.’ Khasawneh said in a statement on Tuesday that any attempt by Israel...
FOLLOWING the Tories announcing on Monday that they had completed their ‘consultation period’ over the minimum service levels rules for railway, ambulance and border security staff, the TUC was forced to respond by calling an emergency one-day special Congress on Saturday 9th December. The Tories have signalled that the gloves...
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s words resonated last Friday, with a sense of urgency and determination, shedding light on various facets of the current conflict and the resistance’s unwavering commitment to their cause. In a televised, long-awaited address, Nasrallah emphasised that all options are on the table in response...
THE TUC said yesterday it will hold a special Congress to discuss the next stage of the campaign against the Tories’ anti-strike laws. The event will take place at Congress House on Saturday 9th December 2023, from 10am-1pm, and more details will follow in the coming weeks, including on media...
IRAN’S defence minister has warned that the United States will suffer a heavy blow if it fails to stop Israel’s savage war against the besieged Gaza Strip. ‘Our advice to the Americans is to immediately end this war and implement a ceasefire, otherwise they will be hit hard,’ Brigadier General...
ON SATURDAY, the Guardian reported that the Tories are working towards a new definition of ‘extremism’ that includes anyone who ‘undermines British institutions or values’. The report cited internal government documents which propose defining ‘extremism’ as follows: ‘Extremism is the promotion or advancement of any ideology which aims to overturn or...
MORE than 10,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered in Israel’s month-long genocide since October 7th, Gaza’s Health Ministry announced yesterday, with 10,022 people, including 4,104 children and 2,641 women, killed and 25,408 wounded. Al-Qassam Brigades fighters exchanged fire with Israeli troops at different locations in Gaza yesterday. The Gaza Health Ministry said...
WORKERS at the Barts group of hospitals in east London, began a 12 day strike yesterday, running until 17 November, fighting for safe staffing, fair pay and demanding ‘pay the lump-sum’. The lively picket outside Royal London Hospital (RLH) comprised domestics, catering staff, patient ambassadors, porters, ward hosts, sewing room,...
‘EVERYONE should stand up and say this is a war crime, genocide, the ambulances were just trying to evacuate the patients,’ Al Shifa Hospital surgeon Ahmad Mokhallalati said yesterday. The surgeon, who is currently operating on patients in Gaza City’s largest hospital ‘sometimes by the light of my mobile phone’,...
THE ‘National Day of Action Ceasefire NOW’ organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) on Saturday saw powerful rallies in towns and cities across the country. In central London, Trafalgar Square was packed with tens of thousands of demonstrators waving Palestinian flags and carrying placards. Amal Samina, a Palestinian woman at...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth marched for Palestine in mass rallies that erupted throughout the UK on Saturday, and were more than matched by pro-Palestinian marches in the USA, France, Germany, Ireland, Greece and throughout Asia. Even the Metropolitan Police estimated that there were 30,000 in central London...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), with a storied history of over a century in defending civil rights and liberties, has voiced concerns over the escalating tensions on campuses due to the ongoing Israeli mass murder of Palestinians. The organisation acknowledged the rise in reported threats against students and faculty...
HAMAS has said that the Israeli regime is engaged in committing a ‘massacre of the century’ in the Gaza Strip, with Tel Aviv carrying out a ‘hugely deadly and destructive imperialist war’ to assist the imperialist powers to smash the Arab peoples and grab their oil. Osama Hamdan, a senior...
AN unconfirmed number of Palestinian civilians were killed and many more were injured last night in an ongoing Israeli genocide campaign involving airstrikes and artillery bombardment across in the Gaza Strip, according to local and medical sources. A WAFA correspondent said several Palestinians were killed and others who were wounded...
OVER 20,000 wounded Palestinian people are still trapped in the Gaza Strip with ‘limited access to healthcare’, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), despite initial evacuations of foreign passport holders and badly injured Palestinians across the border to Egypt. In a statement on Wednesday, MSF said there are still over...
AS WIDELY predicted, the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday voted to hold the UK key base interest rate at 5.25% while at the same time warning that there should be no expectation of this rate being cut in the future. Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew...
OVER seven hundred firefighters and control staff assembled in Westminster on Wednesday to launch a new ‘Firefighters’ Manifesto’. As the country recovers from flooding, and braces for the realities of climate change, the union warned that politicians must ‘listen to the voice of the frontline’ if they want to ‘avert...
ISRAELI warplanes bombed the Al Jabaliya refugee camp again yesterday morning, killing scores of children, burying them in their homes. Extending just one square kilometre, Jabaliya is home to 120,000 Palestinians, making it one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
Entire residential blocks were smashed into the ground,...
A Ukrainian drone has been shot down by Russian air defence systems over the Bryansk Region bordering Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. A statement read: ‘At about 4:00 pm Moscow time (1:00 GMT) on October 31, the Kiev regime’s attempted terrorist attack on facilities in Russia’s territory...
DESPITE the massive support world-wide and in the UK for the Palestinian masses’ drive to establish their own state on their own historic lands, the UK Labour Party leader Starmer, who is already reviled as the politician who has helped to keep the whistleblower Assange in jail, has refused...
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members marched to the offices of Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) in Bloemfontein on Monday, to demand that the regulator stops bosses from defrauding security workers out of their medical insurance benefits. There are some employers who, under the false pretence...
Labour leader Keir Starmer, in a speech yesterday, reaffirmed his commitment to the genocidal war being waged by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Starmer once again rejected the growing demands within the Labour Party for a humanitarian ceasefire on the grounds that a ceasefire would only aid Hamas...
HUNDREDS of people were killed yesterday afternoon when their homes in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp, which is next to the Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza, was hit by six US-made bombs. Most of the victims in this massacre committed by Zionist occupation forces against refugee families, were children.
Gaza’s civil defence...