Monthly Archives: December 2023
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak opened Saturday’s Special Congress on ‘the next steps’ in the fight against the Tory anti-strike laws proclaiming: ‘Congress, let us be clear: We won’t be quiet – We won’t be bullied: And we won’t be intimidated by this government.’ In fact, Nowak made it clear...
A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the US-backed Israeli genocidal war for 66 days. Businesses, schools and public facilities observed the strike and shut their doors, amid angry protests and clashes with the...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched on Saturday through central London, calling for victory to Palestine and an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. ‘We are not doing enough. We must strike for Palestine!’ a group of schoolchildren from Dagenham told the rally in Parliament Square at...
‘SPEAKING on Saturday, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, accused the United States of being complicit in war crimes, after it vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Out of 15 of the Security Council members, 13 countries voted in favour of the resolution calling...
‘TUC Get Off Your Knees, Call a General Strike!’ and ‘TUC Get Off Your Knees, Kick the Tories Out!’ rang out as the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists held a powerful lobby of the TUC Emergency Delegate Conference at TUC HQ in central London on Saturday. Before they...
NUMSA (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa) has welcomed the High Court judgment, ordering the Energy minister, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, to take all reasonable steps, to ensure that there is sufficient supply of electricity to prevent loadshedding (power cuts) in critical sectors of the economy. NUMSA said on Wednesday: ‘All public...
HUNDREDS of Palestinians are being brutally murdered and others injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardments across the Gaza Strip. The relentless attacks resulted in the loss of dozens of civilian lives, leaving many more wounded and hospitals in ruins. The Israeli aerial assault involves...
‘UNIONS are not going to lie down’, assured TUC Assistant General Secretary Kate Bell yesterday. She was addressing a press conference at Congress House ahead of today’s Special Congress. In her remarks, she stressed: ‘The right to strike is a vital tool to ensure there is a fair balance of power...
THE Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates yesterday welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in calling for a session of the Security Council for it to assume its responsibilities in calling for an immediate ceasefire against the backdrop of the deteriorating humanitarian...
IN A dramatic move the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter to urge the UN Security Council to act on the genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza. Calling for the Security Council to convene an emergency meeting Guterres said he...
A SENIOR Hamas official says the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement has worked out a major defensive plan in the face of the Israeli onslaught, stressing that the unison among resistance factions during Operation Al-Aqsa Storm left Israeli military commanders baffled. ‘We are sure that we will emerge victorious out of...
ISRAELI army tanks moved into the centre of Khan Younis city yesterday, targeting housing blocks and public buildings, after a night of non-stop artillery shelling and clashes around Gaza. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for the Palestinian Authority, called for urgent international intervention to stop the Israeli occupation’s ‘comprehensive aggression’ against...
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Israeli regime’s killing of innocent Palestinian women and children will spell its end. Raeisi made the remarks at the Iranian parliament on Tuesday, as the brutal Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has killed almost 16,000 Palestinians, 70 percent of them women and children, over...
AS ISRAEL ramps up its war efforts to slaughter even more Palestinians in southern Gaza, in the US a group of White House interns are applying internal pressure on President Biden and demanding that he calls a permanent ceasefire. ‘We, the undersigned Fall 2023 White House and Executive Office of...
THE NHS has squandered billions on agencies that could have been used to hire over 31,000 nurses, says the Royal College of Nursing. New analysis of findings from a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to NHS trusts across England, which received 182 responses from 202 trusts, exposes a £3bn spend...
SINCE the start of the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, the Israeli regime has ordered the forced evacuation of Palestinians from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south claiming that the southern part of Gaza is safe. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families displaced by the murderous onslaught...
JUNIOR Doctors are to strike for three days before Christmas and six early in the New Year following five weeks of fruitless talks between their BMA trade union and the Tories. The BMA announced that its junior doctors committee has unanimously voted for further strike action, commencing with nine dates...
US President Joe Biden’s deputy, Kamala Harris, speaking in Dubai on Saturday during her West Asia tour, said many innocent Palestinians have been killed in the besieged Gaza Strip since October 7th, but hastened to add that the Israeli regime has a ‘right to defend’ itself. And US Defence Secretary...
MATT Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and president of the TUC, has warned of industrial confrontation ‘unseen since the 1970s’ ahead of the Special Congress called by the TUC on Saturday December 9th to discuss its plans for fighting the Tory anti-strike laws. The anti-strike laws...
GAZA’S Health Ministry Spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra accused Israel of intentionally striking Palestinian hospitals to shut them down. He announced that at least 15,899 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since 7th October and the number of injured has risen to 42,000 since the start of the war, with...
THERE are no safe zones they are zones of death,’ UNICEF global spokesman James Elder said, as 700 Palestinians were slaughtered in Israel’s genocidal bombing of Gaza yesterday. Hundreds of women and children were massacred and injured in Israeli air-strikes throughout the day, as warplanes attacked houses in the massive...
MOTOR industry workers at more than a dozen non-union automakers have announced simultaneous campaigns across the country to join the UAW. Thousands of non-union autoworkers are signing cards to join the union. The organising drive will cover nearly 150,000 autoworkers across at least thirteen automakers. One of the strongest campaigns is at Toyota’s...
LABOUR leader Starmer has yet again stabbed the working class in the back, with his praise for Margaret Thatcher, the Tory leader who sought to dump the entire crisis of the capitalist system onto the backs of the working class, and make trade unionism permanently illegal. She was seen off...
ALI Damush, the vice chairman of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, said yesterday that Israel had resumed its aggression on Gaza by US decision. He added correctly: ‘This war from the beginning has been America’s war against the Palestinian people, and all American positions and the course of events were...
A NUMBER of Palestinian civilians, predominantly children and women, were killed or injured yesterday morning as the Israeli occupation resumed its genocide in the Gaza Strip, attacking various areas in the Gaza Strip from the land, sea, and air. These attacks broke out shortly after the conclusion of a temporary...
THE number of people killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since yesterday morning has now risen to at least 54, according to officials in the enclave. Ali Damush, the vice chairman of the executive council of Hezbollah, says Israel resumed its aggression on Gaza by US decision.
‘This war...
GAZA residents have been shocked and angered over a steep rise in prices. As the sounds of war quietened with the advent of the first truce between Israel and Hamas since October 7, the markets in the Gaza Strip have been flooded with shoppers, desperate to buy food supplies and...
ON Monday, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee issued a report blaming the Bank of England (BoE) for ‘errors’ that had failed to stop the inflationary spiral running out of control. On the same day the Governor of the BoE, Andrew Bailey, hit back in a press interview saying...
NEW disclosures have added to the growing body of evidence indicating many Israelis who died on October 7 were killed by the Israeli military. Meanwhile, the Israeli government has muzzled captives freed from Gaza to prevent further damage to the official narrative. Firsthand testimony by admittedly inexperienced Israeli tank operators reveals...