Monthly Archives: January 2024
TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak escalated military action against the Houthi movement in Yemen yesterday, while also announcing that 20,000 British armed forces will be deployed across Europe next month in the biggest land mobilisation for 40 years. Speaking in the House of Commons, Sunak made the absurd claim that...
JUNIOR doctors across Wales began a three day strike over pay yesterday and continue until tomorrow, after almost every junior doctor (98%) who took part in the ballot for industrial action voted to strike. The 72-hour full walkout from 7.00am on 15 January to 7.00am on 18 January will see...
ONE MILLION workers, students and youth marched through central London in support of Palestine on Saturday, condemning 100 days of Israeli genocide during which 24,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been slaughtered. One of the organisers told people at the rally at the end of the march that they...
THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message from the Tory Party yesterday. This news was stated by Defence Minister James Cartlidge as he told GB News: ‘Just to be absolutely clear, there is...
SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, stood firm yesterday outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, maintaining that Israel has failed to refute South Africa’s lawsuit accusing the occupying regime of committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. His verdict was: ‘The State of...
GLOBAL unemployment will rise in 2024 and growing inequalities and stagnant productivity are causes for concern, according to the ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2024 report. Recovery from the pandemic remains uneven as new vulnerabilities and multiple crises are eroding prospects for greater social justice, according to a...
TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against the government’s plans to allow the establishment of private universities. Many schools and universities were occupied by students on Wednesday and Thursday. Students say that the...
IN A historical development at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, South Africa presented its detailed case against Israel committing genocide in its conflict with Gaza. This legal action, initiated by South Africa and supported by several countries and international organisations, marks one of the most detailed...
YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) met to consider the lawsuit filed by South Africa condemning Israel for the crime of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. In an opening address to the court, South Africa’s lawyers emphasised the history and context of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Al Jazeera’s...
THE RUSSIAN military will do everything possible to reduce and then eliminate the threat of Ukrainian shelling attacks on Russian cities, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. He pointed out that the Ukrainian armed forces had fired cluster munitions at downtown Belgorod.
‘Our troops will continue to do everything to...
THE US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 96 on Wednesday, with massive aerial and artillery strikes pounding neighbourhoods and homes and massacring more civilians, mostly children and women. The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said that in the past 24 hours 147 Palestinians were killed...
GERMANY'S GDL train drivers’ union started a three day strike yesterday which concludes tomorrow. The strike is an escalation of a wage dispute with rail operator Deutsche Bahn.
The union said cargo train drivers began a separate strike which started on Tuesday.
The union said in December it planned a strike that...
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has received US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah. Abbas warned of the danger of the measures taken by the Israeli occupation authorities, aimed at displacing Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip or...
ON JANUARY 21, ‘let’s march for freedom, equality, fraternity,’ the French trade union federation CGT is urging. It said: ‘201 personalities are calling to march on Sunday January 21 to demand the abandonment of the asylum and immigration law.’
French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism for aligning with the far...
On Monday, the House of Commons was treated to the sight of MPs from all the political parties united in an orchestrated show of outrage that over 700 completely innocent Post Office managers and sub-postmasters had been hounded, in some cases to death, by the Post Office in the...
THE Israeli army and Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah traded fire across the border yesterday, stoking fears that the war in Gaza could spark a regional conflagration. Hezbollah launched a drone attack on an Israeli command base while Israel launched air strikes which reportedly killed three Hezbollah members. Hezbollah said that it...
THE United Nation 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 says there is no space for displaced Palestinians, likening the situation to a ‘human chessboard,’ as...
THE TARGETED killing of journalists in Gaza by the Israeli regime claimed the lives of two Al Jazeera journalists on Sunday when the car they were travelling in was hit by two rockets as they were on their way to cover news in the Gaza Strip. The area they were...
LEBANON’S Hezbollah movement reported that senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, also known as ‘Jawad’, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the south of Lebanon yesterday. Tawil was killed in an Israeli aerial attack on his car in the southern village of Khirbet Selm, which lies around 15 kilometres away...
THE commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned of the ‘nightmare’ facing Israel after the Tel Aviv regime assassinated Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement. The resistance fighters in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin say...
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits to fund tax cuts for the rich! He spent the weekend telling newspaper and TV journalists of his plans. Multi-millionaire Sunak told The Sunday Telegraph: ‘What we have seen over the past couple of years is a...
THE LEADER of the 12th brigade of the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), also known as the Nujaba Movement, Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi, was killed during a drone strike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on the 4th of January. Four missiles targeted Saidi’s vehicle as it was entering the PMU headquarters in...
KING Abdullah II of Jordan warned yesterday against the catastrophic repercussions of the ongoing Israeli destruction of Gaza, emphasising the urgent need to address the humanitarian crisis in the region. In a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday, the King reiterated Jordan’s strong rejection of the...
SOUTH Africa bus service Rea Vaya operator, PioTrans, last Thursday secured an interdict banning 179 employees from embarking on an unprotected strike and continuing to picket at its premises. Workers embarked on the strike on Wednesday, following a dispute about an annual bonus payment being split into two tranches and...
THE ARROGANT Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has outlined his proposals for the future Israeli governance of Gaza ‘once the war between Israel and Hamas is over’. ‘There would’, he said, ‘be extremely limited Palestinian rule in the territory. Hamas would no longer control Gaza and Israel would retain overall...
IN RESPONSE to reports of Israeli plans regarding post-war Gaza, the Presidency of the State of Palestine firmly reiterated yesterday its clear stance, emphasising that halting the Israeli aggression against our people is the top national priority. In a statement released yesterday, the Palestinian Presidency affirmed ‘the unswerving, clear Palestinian...
SOUTH AFRICA in an 84-page suit filed against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on December 29th, asked the top court to urgently declare that the Tel Aviv regime has breached its responsibilities under international law since October 7th, when it launched an ongoing war on the...
JUNIOR DOCTORS at Homerton hospital were yesterday determined to win their struggle and save the NHS from privatisation. Johnny Denphy junior doctor at Homerton hospital said: ‘I am sad that we’re still striking. ‘I would have hoped that we’d had a credible offer by now. I believe that the strikes have...
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already reeling under the pressure from day one of the historic six-day strike by junior doctors. The Tories have always boasted they could face down junior doctors and their union, the BMA, by refusing to make what the BMA has described as any ‘credible’...
WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader of the RSF, disappeared from public view. Rumours circulated about his severe injury or possible death until he was photographed with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on...
‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair, Dr Rob Lawrenson, told News Line yesterday morning. He was speaking at a mass picket of hundreds of striking junior doctors outside St Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster,...
THE NUMBER of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Government figures show the total arrivals in 2023 were down by more than a third on 2022.
The provisional annual total for the year, 29,437, is 36% lower than the...
A COMPREHENSIVE strike is taking place throughout the governorates of the West Bank, denouncing the assassination of Hamas senior official, Saleh Al-Arouri, and the ongoing crimes of the Israeli occupation against Palestinian people on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The strike, called by the National Liberation Movement ‘Fatah’...
Massive demonstrations took place in the capitals of several European countries on Sunday in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to demand an end to the brutal Israeli aggression. The protests also called for the prosecution of those responsible for the ongoing genocide and massacres that have...
JUNIOR doctors start six days of strike action today, the longest strike by doctors in the history of the NHS, over their demand for a 35% pay increase following the Tories’ point blank refusal to negotiate any increase that comes near to restoring their pay levels following 15 years...
TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass picket to be held outside St Thomas’ Hospital opposite the House of Commons. The British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee (JDC) yesterday called on the Health...
Hamas has confirmed that Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of its political bureau, was killed in a blast in the Dahiyeh neighbourhood of the Lebanese capital Beirut yesterday. Three other people were reported killed in the blast, which Lebanese state media said was caused by an Israeli drone strike
Al-Arouri was...
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has said that the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and adhere to their legitimate rights, and will not accept displacement from their land, whatever the cost, under the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. On the 59th anniversary of the Palestinian...
RESISTANCE groups in Palestine and across the region are continuing their operations against Israel and its Western backers amid the regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which has claimed the lives of more than 22,000 Palestinians, mostly children and women. The operations carried out by the Palestinian and regional...
FORMER UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is being touted by sections of the Israeli genocide cabinet as an agent to lead the ‘relocation’ of Palestinians out of Gaza in a Second Nakba. The Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign ministry issued a statement yesterday saying that it hopes that ‘Tony Blair is...