Monthly Archives: February 2024
In the northern Gaza Strip, a humanitarian crisis of alarming proportions is unfolding as infants grapple with the life-threatening consequences of drought and malnutrition. The Palestinian Ministry of Health has sounded the alarm, reporting that ‘a number of infants suffering from serious conditions have been admitted to Kamal Adwan Hospital.’
This...
On Monday, the Confederation of Education Workers of Argentina (CTERA) held a 24-hour national strike against the far-right President Javier Milei’s policies. The education workers including teachers are demanding salary increases to compensate very high inflation and reject budget cuts affecting public goods and services.
The strike also opposes the elimination...
A FINANCIAL TIMES report says a senior European defence official has acknowledged that ‘Western special forces’ are unofficially present in Ukraine, despite US-led NATO’s claims of having no such plans to put combat troops on the ground. ‘Everyone knows there are Western special forces in Ukraine, they’ve just not acknowledged...
THE ISRAELI regime has turned a supposedly safe corridor through which the people of Gaza can travel south into a trap to kill displaced Palestinians, a Geneva-based human rights organisation says. In a report on Sunday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said it has documented the killing of Palestinian civilians by Israeli...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is preparing to deliver a Spring budget on Wednesday 6th March which he has signalled will concentrate on tax cuts to the wealthy and large corporations. This has provoked a series of dire warnings from organisations responsible for trying to ensure some semblance of stability in...
FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee of MPs in Parliament yesterday afternoon. Asked if he had been told to ‘slow down’ compensation payments to sub-postmasters who had been sacked, tried and jailed...
WITH increasing numbers of babies and children now dying of starvation in Gaza, Dennis Francis, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, has called for UN member states to provide ‘sustainable and predictable financial and political support’ to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees operating in Gaza. Francis, responding...
WITH the latest five days of strike action by junior doctors due to end tomorrow, the British Medical Association (BMA) has already set in motion a re-ballot of its members to extend the strike mandate from April through to September 2024. The determination of junior doctors to carry on the...
‘CLAPS don’t pay the bills!’ chanted over 100 junior doctors outside St Thomas’ Hospital in central London opposite the Houses of Parliament yesterday morning, with passing cars and buses enthusiastically tooting their support. Mass pickets were also held outside Manchester Royal Infirmary and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham as thousands...
MASS PICKETS of striking junior doctors take place today from 8am-11am outside St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament in central London, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Manchester Royal Infirmary. Thousands of BMA junior doctors in England are in the midst of a five-day strike which began at 7am last Friday,...
A POWERFUL march of 500 protesters for Palestine marched through east London on Saturday, setting off from Mile End and marching to Aktab Ali Park. It was led by a marching band and three banners – ‘Health Workers 4 Palestine,’ a banner with pictures of dead health workers from the...
IT is only natural that The Daily Telegraph stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Zionist military child-killers who have drowned the Gaza Strip with blood and dead bodies, and destroyed the region’s network of hospitals as they try to disperse the Palestinian nation – all to try to make sure that...
THE House of Commons tied itself up into knots on Wednesday as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, in the face of an uprising by millions of workers and youth worldwide demanding an immediate ceasefire, and giving...
The most pertinent fact about the Biden administration’s stance on the ongoing conflict in Gaza is as follows: No act by Israel, regardless of its severity, has led Joe Biden to even consider halting, let alone completely cutting off, the supply of US weapons and financial support to Israel’s...
IN response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s so-called day-after plan for Gaza, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that: ‘Gaza will only be part of the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.’ He added: ‘Any plans to the contrary are destined to fail. Israel...
THE government has appointed commissioners to help run Nottingham City Council after the authority declared itself effectively bankrupt. The Labour-run authority issued a section 114 notice on 29 November, amid an in-year budget gap of £23m. Changes at the council have been overseen by a government-appointed board following the collapse of...
IRAN’S foreign minister has censured Washington for vetoing, for the third time, a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the ‘diplomatic catastrophe of the century’ had taken place and the United States remains responsible for Israel’s savage campaign in Gaza...
THE House of Commons dived headlong into a political crisis as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in the face of an uprising by millions of workers and youth demanding an immediate ceasefire. MPs stormed out and Lindsay...
ON the second and pivotal day of Julian Assange’s appeal hearing, the unwavering spirit of Assange supporters was palpable outside London’s High Court, despite the rain. The air was alive with the determined voices of hundreds of Assange’s supporters, their chants — ‘There is only one decision, no extradition’. Inside the...
Starbucks baristas from 21 stores around the United States told the company on Tuesday that they plan to organise, potentially adding hundreds of new members to a union campaign that’s battling the coffee chain for first contracts. The union, Starbucks Workers United, said it is the largest group of Starbucks...
CONDEMNATIONS have poured in from countries world-wide after the United States once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s months-long genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip. The Algeria-drafted resolution called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and the ‘unconditional’ release...
THE chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says the Israeli regime has undoubtedly suffered an ‘unprecedented and irreparable’ defeat in its war against the oppressed people of Palestine. ‘The Zionists seek to make up for their defeat by killing defenceless (Palestinian) people,’ Major General Mohammad...
The Horizon IT scandal of the hounding of over 900 completely innocent Post Office managers by the Post Office leading to multiple prosecutions for theft, fraud and false accounting took a sharp turn over the weekend, with the Tory government accused of deliberately stalling compensation payments to the victims. They...
THE ROYAL Courts of Justice in The Strand in central London were besieged by supporters of Julian Assange from early morning to late afternoon yesterday as the two-day appeal against his extradition to the United States started. Hundreds of angry demonstrators remained outside all day with banners and placards and...
PALESTINE Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki called on judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday to order an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. Al-Maliki and Palestine’s United Nations envoy Riyad Mansour, along with several academic and legal experts, represented Palestine at the hearings that began in...
Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s highest court, will hear from 52 countries and three international organisations on the legal consequences of the Zionist occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and...
GOLD ONE, the Modder East Operations company’s mine in Gauteng in South Africa, has concluded a trade union recognition agreement with the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) following talks between the two parties last Thursday. The agreement follows strikes at the mine which the employer claimed were illegal.
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OVER 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine from Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington west London on Saturday afternoon. There were constant chants of: ‘Stop bombing babies, stop bombing hospitals! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! Free, Free, free Palestine! Ceasefire now!’ Placards...
‘DO you think they need any reason to attack this hospital? What kind of reason? They are liars! liars! They just want to destroy everything, everything, without any reason. They are liars!’ Dr Ahmed al-Moghrabi, head of the plastic surgery and burns department at Nasser Hospital in central Gaza, was...
The News Line Rally of 200 people took place at the Hargrave Hall, in north London on Saturday. Chairman, Tony McEvoy, said the struggle for the Palestinian revolution is centre stage of the current world situation. It is critical to defend the Palestinian struggle. Chris Anglin, lecturer at CONEL college in...
FORMER Mossad official, Rami Igra, has said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of withholding food and humanitarian aid. Igra said in an interview broadcast on Israeli television last Tuesday that the ‘goal’ is to force Palestinians to ‘dislike’ the...
ISRAELI occupation forces carried out 10 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, resulting in 112 fatalities and 157 injuries, according to the local health authorities in Gaza. Medical sources reported that the total number of documented Palestinian casualties since the beginning of the Israeli...
IRAN has called for an emergency meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) amid the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, especially Rafah which faces an imminent Israeli invasion. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the plea on Thursday during phone talks...
THE TORIES have crashed with their twin by-elections disasters. They lost Kingswood, where Labour needed an 11-point swing and also lost Wellingborough, where an 18-point swing was required for the seat to change hands. In fact at Kingswood, the swing was 16.4%, while at Wellingborough, the swing was 28.5%, as...
BY MARY KECHAGIA FOR the sixth week in a row, last Thursday many thousands of Greek university and school students staged militant marches in Thessaloniki and several other Greek cities against a government Bill for the establishment of private universities and the privatisation of public education.
Mary Kechagia, a student at...
ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday raided the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza and turned it into a military base. Medical sources reported that Israeli forces further demolished the southern wall of the complex before breaking into it amid indiscriminate shooting of heavy gunfire.
The following were the messages from a nurse in...
BY WESAM BAHRANI IT IS unrealistic to observe the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza without understanding its strategic dimension, in particular the current phase of the Palestinian struggle for freedom from occupation.
The daily war crimes committed by the Israeli regime’s military in Gaza make it easy for the global audience...
YESTERDAY, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produced figures on the state of the UK economy that showed it had fallen into a ‘technical recession’ at the end of last year. According to official figures Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the total wealth created by the economy, fell by 0.3% in...
ASLEF train drivers’ trade union members have voted overwhelmingly for more strike action, having not had a pay rise for five years. Mick Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, said yesterday: ‘These results show – yet again – a clear rejection by train drivers of the ridiculous offer put to us...
THREE Palestinians sheltering inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s biggest health centre, were shot dead by Zionist snipers yesterday, with another 10 wounded, after Israeli forces had dropped pamphlets ordering people inside to flee. Israeli forces closed in on the hospital and ordered displaced people sheltering inside...
Authorities in the northern part of India have resorted to using tear gas to halt the advance of thousands of farmers who are protesting to demand guaranteed minimum prices for their crops as they attempt to march towards Delhi. Delhi is encircled by barriers such as razor wire, concrete blocks,...
WITH the Tory Party in its greatest crisis ever – as the capitalist world crisis intensifies and the Tory party brings in new savage laws to try to break the trade unions, and boasts that it intends to slash benefits – it badly needs help and assistance. So along comes...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures yesterday on the average pay across the UK, which they claimed saw an increase of 6.2% in the 12 months up to December last year. According to the ONS, this is the smallest increase in over a year, but for the Bank...
‘The attack by the terrorist enemy army on the city of Rafah is a compounded crime, a deepening of genocide and forced displacement attempts waged against our Palestinian people,’ Hamas said in a statement on Monday. Over 100 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed and nearly 230 others wounded...
SOUTH AFRICA filed an ‘urgent request’ at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Israel’s planned ground invasion of the city of Rafah yesterday. The South African government urgently appealed to the ICJ to assess Israel’s recent declaration to expand its military presence in Rafah, which is the last refuge...