Monthly Archives: December 2023
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has accused the Argentinian President Javier Milei of ‘eliminating all the rights of the Argentine people’ and ‘ending the economic sovereignty’ of his nation. The Bolivarian leader continued that this South American country is experiencing ‘disaster’ and ‘madness’ after the ‘dictatorial decree’ of Milei, whom he...
News Year’s statement from the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2024 to all our readers and to the working class, youth and poor.
All across the world, the masses are rising up against a bankrupt capitalist system that in its imperialist death agony,...
ISRAELI forces have launched their most intense raids yet on cities in the occupied West Bank as they pressed on with one of the largest incursions in the territory since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October. At least one person was killed after Israeli troops launched a coordinated overnight...
ECONOMISTS at the multi-national financial advice service PwC have issued a stark warning that nearly 30,000 businesses in the UK will collapse under the weight of high interest rates in 2024. Company insolvencies will surge by 15% in the next 12 months according to forecasts by PwC, as corporations and...
IN a significant development, a group of Palestine Action activists, known as the ‘Elbit Eight’, have been acquitted for their role in shutting down UK Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms producer, whose lethal weapons are being used against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The Palestine Action activists faced a total...
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday stressed the need to completely stop the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people, open all crossings, double the entry of humanitarian aid, and reject and prevent the forced displacement of the Palestinian people. In a television interview with Egyptian media...
THE United Nations says Israel’s indiscriminate strikes on the Gaza Strip and incessant evacuation orders have left displaced Palestinians with ‘no safe place’ to go. The world body’s humanitarian team leader stationed in Gaza reported a lack of space for displaced Palestinians, likening the situation to a ‘human chessboard,’ as...
THE Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, stressed on Tuesday night in a meeting held at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, its rejection of Israeli attempts to forcibly displace the Palestinian people. The meeting discussed the situation in the Palestinian territories in light...
ISRAEL intensified its bombardment of Gaza over the weekend hitting 200 targets in a single 24-hour period on Friday and Saturday. Just one of these strikes, targeting Gaza City, killed 90 Palestinians – including 76 members of a single extended family. This intensification of the genocidal indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, including...
Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets across the country to express their solidarity with Palestinians in the face of the relentless Israeli air and ground onslaught on the Gaza Strip last Friday, calling for a permanent ceasefire in the besieged coastal territory. Protests were held in the capital Saan’a, northern provinces of...
Al JAZEERA is to refer the killing of journalist Samer Abudaqa to the ICC (International Criminal Court). The Al Jazeera Arabic cameraman was killed by a drone attack while reporting on the bombing of a school in southern Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Qatar-based network said it has instructed its...
ISRAELI foreign minister Eli Cohen’s threat of killing leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas exposes the regime’s frustration over its defeat against the resistance forces, says a top Hamas official. In remarks cited by Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Cohen threatened Palestinian leaders with assassination, saying, ‘We will kill (top...
IN a telephone conversation yesterday, President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in Palestine, especially in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza. Abbas emphasised the urgent need to halt the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. He called for an immediate...
THERE were three sets of NHS workers on strike at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday, the domestic and catering workers, the pathologists and the junior doctors. The junior doctors were on the third day of their current strike action. Royal London Hospital BMA Rep, Rebecca Lissmann, told News Line:...
THE United Nations human rights office has called for an independent inquiry into allegations that Israeli forces ‘summarily executed’ at least 11 Palestinian men in Gaza in what it called ‘a possible war crime’. ‘The Israeli authorities must immediately institute an independent, thorough and effective investigation into these allegations, and...
Junior doctors manned a lively and determined picket outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday, determined to defend their patients and the NHS. Laith Alexander, junior doctor manning the picket at Maudsley Hospital yesterday, told News Line: ‘I think it is quite sad and damning of the government that...
THE United States of America, the most powerful capitalist country in the world and the leading imperialist nation across the globe, is gripped by a political crisis that is tearing it apart and destroying its claim to be the global ‘democracy’ that every other country must bow down to. The...
THE head of Hamas’ political bureau says the Palestinian resistance stands ‘firm on the battlefield’ despite two and a half months of Israeli war crimes in the besieged Gaza Strip. In a meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in the Qatari capital Doha on Wednesday, Ismail Haniyeh said the...
‘WE’RE striking to defend the NHS,’ doctors said on the over 200-strong rally of junior doctors outside University College Hospital in central London yesterday. There were powerful British Medical Association rallies outside selected hospitals across England yesterday, as Junior Doctors defied Tory attacks and threats and stepped up their fight...
RUSSIA will circumvent the European Union’s sanctions, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Peskov stated: ‘As far as Russian diamonds are concerned, it was projected, Russia prepared for that. He told reporters: ‘Options exist and they will be implemented’. ‘Absolutely,’ he said when asked whether Moscow has options to circumvent sanctions...
THE battle has now been joined to defend the NHS, which the Tory government is determined to destroy, to return the UK to the barbarism of health care being available, only if you can pay for it! Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph labelled the NHS as ‘Labour’s Original Sin’, stating that ‘The...
‘VICTORY’ the FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has proclaimed, after the North Wales fire authority announced on Monday that plans to downgrade two fire stations in North Wales have been scrapped following opposition from firefighters and the public. Rhyl and Deeside fire stations both faced being closed at night under cuts...
ON MONDAY, the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a ‘multinational security initiative’ – including the UK and major imperialist powers – to protect shipping in the Red Sea from attacks by Yemeni forces. This US-led initiative, called ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’, is in response to Yemeni...
A SENIOR official from Hamas, Basem Naim, said in a statement yesterday that Hamas is open to any initiative to end the war. ‘We affirm our position of categorically rejecting to hold any form of negotiations over prisoners exchange under the continuing Israeli genocidal war,’ he said. ‘We are, however, open...
A NEW REPORT by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has indicted Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel and Palestinian director, told Al Jazeera that there were at least five pieces of evidence to show that the Israeli regime is deliberately starving people...
THE chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said the more destruction the Israeli regime wreaks in Palestine, the more nails they will drive into their own coffin. Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks on Sunday at a ceremony in Tehran to commemorate those killed in...
THE Israeli occupation army carried out hundreds of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza yesterday, massacring men, women and children in hospitals and homes. Many were killed or seriously injured when they bombed the surgery centre of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which the World Health...
THE United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that half the population is starving in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, said residents stopping aid trucks and immediately consuming the food indicates desperation and hunger.
He condemned ‘smear campaigns’ against Palestinians and those assisting them, saying that...
SPEAKING ahead of the three-day strike of tens of thousands of NHS Junior Doctors which begins at 7am on Wednesday morning, the leader of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) yesterday trashed Tory PM Sunak’s pledge to avert another winter crisis this year. Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the...
IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called for an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Committee on Palestine at the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) to discuss ways to stop Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Qalibaf made the remarks during a phone conversation with Ibrahim...
THE Israeli murder machine is being allowed to do its worst in the Gaza Strip, with the US and the UK ruling classes standing back and aiding and abbeting it, allowing the enemy to do its worst. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas, has...
AS the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip enters its 70th day in a row, dozens of innocent civilians were brutally murdered Thursday night in a non-stop Israeli bombardment campaign targeted various areas in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli bombardment intensified yesterday morning, focusing particularly on Gaza City, where the...
THERE is no doubt that the recent massive demonstrations where hundreds of thousands of UK youth marched, with many chanting for a State of Palestine ‘from the river to the sea’, represents a huge revolutionary seachange in the UK. Youth support the brave and revolutionary youth of the Hamas movement...
A ST. VINCENT meeting to address the Essequibo dispute took place on Thursday. This regional meeting aimed to curb geopolitical tensions between Venezuela and Guyana.
On Thursday, the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the Guyanese President Irfaan Ali were meeting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to address the dispute over...
THE Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning opened fire and executed at least two displaced families who were taking shelter inside a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, according to a WAFA...
ON Tuesday night, the United Nations General Assembly vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was passed overwhelmingly with 10 countries, led by the US, opposing and 23 (including Britain) abstaining. The response of the Israeli regime was to denounce the call for a ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ and the demand for...
A GLOBAL strike prevailed in several Arab and Muslim cities around the world on Monday in condemnation of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Over the past days, activists on social media platforms launched calls for a general strike around the world in solidarity with the Palestinian people...
THE OVERWHELMING United Nations vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday night was welcomed by the Hamas Movement and the Palestine Liberation Organisation yesterday. In the vote, 153 member states voted in favour of the ceasefire resolution, 10 countries opposed it and 23 abstained. Izzat Al-Rishq, member of the...
The United Nations (UN) says only 13 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are partially functional as Israeli occupation forces are targeting medical centres and staff amid heavily bombardment of the besieged territory. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report on Tuesday that the...
THE Israeli occupation army is continuing its aggression against the city of Jenin in Occupied Palestine for the second day in a row, leaving seven Palestinians killed, and a number of wounded civilians with various injuries, at dawn and early Wednesday morning. The occupation army imposed a complete siege on...
‘SERIOUS people’ in high places in the West are now discussing options for replacing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with someone else, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin, who also chairs the Russian Historical Society, told reporters on Monday. ‘These discussions are taking place in serious institutions and involve...
HOSPITALS in the Gaza Strip are ‘stretched to breaking point’ and infections are ‘exploding’ the UN reported yesterday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that only 13 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are partially functional as a result of the Israeli occupation forces...
THE UNITED Nations General Assembly began an emergency session yesterday to debate a resolution demanding ‘an immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza. No country has a veto power in the 193-member General Assembly, which this Friday will vote on a draft resolution that mirrors the one that was vetoed by the...
IRAQ’S anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah says the United States has turned its embassy compound in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad into a military command centre which is conspiring against the Iraqi nation. Abu Ali al-Askari, a senior security official with Kata’ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades), made the remarks in...