Monthly Archives: February 2024
LABOUR has removed its backing for Palestine-supporting Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali. Ali was recorded speaking out in support of Palestine at a Labour Party meeting following the launch of Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza in October. He cannot be replaced on the ballot due to electoral law deadlines, so he...
THE GENOCIDAL onslaught against the 1.4 million Palestinian men, women and children forced into the tiny city of Rafah on the border with Egypt began in earnest at the weekend. In preparation for a ground invasion, Israeli forces on Sunday night launched air and sea attacks on Rafah that killed...
WITH unwavering courage, Dr Amira Al-Assouli, a female Palestinian physician, sprinted through Israeli sniper bullets and drones targeting anything that moved to save an injured person at the entrance of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Al-Assouli did not hesitate for a moment to risk...
The ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) have committed new massacres on what was described as ‘a night of hell’ in Rafah yesterday, killing at least 164 and injuring hundreds more. The Gaza Health Ministry said the death toll from Israeli bombardments since October 7th, has now climbed to 28,340, and the...
THE GOVERNMENT Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has warned of ‘a catastrophe and a massacre that could leave tens of thousands martyred and wounded if Rafah governorate comes under Israeli attack’, holding ‘the US administration, the international community, and the Israeli occupation fully responsible for it.’ The GMO...
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has warned the West against underestimating Russia, saying it is ‘impossible’ to defeat his country in Ukraine, but that Moscow does not intend to expand the war to Poland and Latvia. In an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Putin said Western leaders have now...
THE US and UK ruling classes are organising Israel to knife the Palestinian people in a desperate attempt to destroy the Palestinian revolution – no matter how many corpses are required to carry out this particular bloody and violent operation. At the same time, the British ruling class is exhibiting...
THE US ruling class, Israel’s chief backer, supplying it with the most modern weaponry and a blank cheque to do its worse to the Palestinians, has cautioned against a large-scale Israeli offensive in Rafah, warning it would cause a ‘disaster’ and backfire onto them. US President Joe Biden calls Israel’s...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) says the petrol increase would disproportionately impact families of poor workers who have been forced to rely on road transport due to the collapse of the Passenger Railway of South Africa (Prasa). The federation’s general-secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, said on Wednesday, this was...
GREEK students staged a huge national march in Athens last Thursday against a government Bill to establish private universities while shutting down or merging university departments and introducing fees on higher state education which is free. The two main avenues of the Athens city centre, from Omonia square to the...
THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the Gaza Strip has called on the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli regime to reveal the fate of two of its staff and a six-year-old Palestinian girl who have been missing for a week. PRCS made the appeal in a...
WHEN the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss launched her notorious mini-budget in September 2022 that came close to crashing the UK economy, one of the main charges against her was that she had by-passed the Organisation for Budget Responsibility (OBR) when making her unfunded multi-billion pound tax cuts...
IN a detailed report released by Amnesty International, the organisation has shed light on a dramatic increase in the deployment of unlawful lethal force by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. While global attention has largely been diverted towards Gaza, this period has seen Israeli forces launch...
HAMAS has outlined the group’s counterproposal to a draft truce deal worked on by Qatar, Egypt, Israel, and the US. ‘The proposal was received by Hamas following the Paris conference and Hamas’s response was more specific and provided deadlines. These timelines were specified by Hamas itself,’ Muhhamad Nazzal, a senior...
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM) leaders at Boeing the aircraft manufacturers are demanding a 40 per cent pay rise over four years for workers across the United States. Boeing executives have spent the past month grappling with the aftermath of a near-catastrophe on an airborne 737...
THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued in support of all legitimate and inalienable Palestinian rights, foremost of which is the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital,...
‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would lead to brutal massacres unprecedented in modern history,’ Mustafa Barghouti from the Palestinian National Initiative party warned yesterday. Barghouti’s statement came after Israeli Defence Minister Yoav...
THE Iraqis are demanding the expulsion of United States troops from Iraq after the latest bombing of the country’s western border region with Syria that targeted Hashd al-Sha’abi (aka the Popular Mobilisation Units – PMU) which is fighting against the resurgence of Daesh terrorists, killing 16 of its soldiers. A massive...
US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt yesterday at the start of yet another Middle East tour – his fifth since the start of Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza – with the stated aim of preventing the war spreading throughout the region. The US government’s way of preventing...
British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of a credible pay offer to form the basis of talks to end the dispute, junior doctors from across Wales will take part in two further...
IRAN has sent a third shipment of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said as a massive humanitarian crisis unfolds in the besieged territory because of Israel’s devastating war. Pir-Hossein Kolivand said on Sunday that a ship filled with humanitarian aid...
TOMORRROW'S, (Wednesday 7th February), ‘Stand With Gaza – Workplace Day of Action’ is being supported by a wide range of trade unions representing hundreds of thousands of workers. The Day of Action, which calls for workers and students across the country to walk out of their workplaces and colleges early...
‘APPROXIMATELY 110,000 Palestinians are reported killed, missing or injured, leaving many suffering long-term disabilities four months into Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip,’ Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said yesterday. According to Euro-Med’s report, the figure includes a total of 35,096 fatalities – 32,220 of whom are civilians – including 12,345...
MORE than 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through central London on Saturday. The march assembled outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place and marched on Parliament, chanting: ‘Free, free Palestine! Ceasefire Now!’ and ‘From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!’ Speakers at the rally at...
OPTIMISM is in very short supply in the UK ruling class when it examines the state of British capitalism. The Business Comment in The Sunday Telegraph yesterday is very much to the point. Its banner headline states: ‘Debt annihilation is approaching and no party is minded to stop it.’ It adds...
THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that more than 89 hours have passed, and the fate of its ambulance crew, consisting of paramedics Yusuf Zaino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun, remains unknown. The paramedics had embarked on a rescue mission to save 6-year-old Hind Rajab, who was trapped in her family’s...
MORE than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments’ policies on the Israel-Gaza war could amount to ‘grave violations of international law’, with the implication that the US and UK governments should be summoned before a ‘war crimes tribunal’...
In Gaza, the death toll among Palestinians has risen sharply since the International Court of Justice’s provisional order for Israel to cease violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention. The court’s order highlighted acts of genocide including killings and inflicting serious physical or mental harm on Palestinians in the area, an...
LAST Tuesday on national state television, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis likened students to ‘robbers’ because they have occupied their university departments in protest against the establishment of private universities. Mitsotakis stated that university authorities are not carrying out their duties and threatened the university rectors with the ‘law’. He...
UNITE Rep at Barts and Whipps Cross hospitals, Leonard Hockey spoke to News Line about the delegation that joined the St Thomas and Guy’s security workers’ picket outside St Thomas’ yesterday. He said: ‘We are currently out on strike ourselves until the 9th of February. We are in dispute over...
THE United Nations says the ongoing Israeli war in Palestine has left the Gaza Strip ‘uninhabitable’ and that the destruction in the Palestinian territory will take tens of billions of dollars and ‘decades’ to reverse. In a report published on Wednesday, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) assessed...
FORMER Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to a decade in prison by a special court in what is being termed as the ‘cipher case’. The case revolves around Khan’s alleged disclosure of a sensitive diplomatic cable, which he claims contains evidence of a US and military conspiracy...
NASSER Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital remains under Israeli military siege in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian Red Crescent yesterday. The occupation’s armoured tanks continue to intensively target and surround Al-Amal Hospital for the tenth day, amid constant shooting to prevent any movement on the...
FIFTY steelworkers and their supporters demonstrated outside Portcullis House in Westminster yesterday morning as negotiations between their Unite union leaders, the Tata Steel privateers and the Tory government were taking place inside. There were chants of ‘Tory sellout no way! British steel is here to stay’ and Unite, Unite, we...
THE GENERAL Strike called by the CGT and the CTA, in rejection of the DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) and the Omnibus Law, peacefully-gathered more than 600 thousand people in Buenos Aires and 1.5 million in the streets of all Argentina. Carrying signs with slogans such as ‘you don’t...
LABOUR’S shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday pledged any future Labour government to be the bankers’ best friend, ready and willing to facilitate awarding massive million pound bonuses while the working class sink into poverty and mass unemployment. Reeves, a former economist at the Bank of England, told the BBC that...