Monthly Archives: March 2024
In a landmark ruling at The Hague, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have unanimously ordered Israel to take immediate and effective action to guarantee the delivery of basic food supplies to the beleaguered Palestinian population in Gaza. The ICJ issued its order on Thursday, citing the deteriorating...
IN THE Gaza Strip, under the shadow of a 175-day blockade and relentless hostilities, Palestinian mothers are engulfed in a state of fear and despair, witnessing their children’s health rapidly deteriorate due to acute malnutrition and a dire scarcity of medical supplies. Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza,...
PALESTINIAN trade unions have issued a call on US labour to take concrete action against Israel’s genocidal attempt to smash the Palestinian people. In a statement, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions called on US trade unionists to intensify their actions to put an end to the US-backed genocide...
‘SLEEPING at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin,’ said the UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder. While addressing the UN from Rafah on Tuesday, Elder added that adolescents and teenage girls say they ‘hope to be killed’ to ‘end their nightmare’. The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s deadly offensive against...
THE likelihood of Thames Water being taken into public ownership has significantly increased, following the shareholders’ refusal to provide £500m in urgent financial support. This decision came after the water regulatory authority, Ofwat, proposed conditions that would adversely affect the investors’ multi-billion returns. Chris Weston, the chief executive of Thames Water,...
THE UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday issued the latest dire warning that time is running out for any chance of averting a catastrophic famine in Gaza saying ‘Restrictions must be lifted now’ and that ‘the clock is ticking fast towards famine’. Last week, a report from the UNRWA (United...
PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters have disrupted president Joe Biden’s campaign speech in North Carolina by chanting slogans and protesting against his support for the crimes of the Zionist regime. While speaking in Raleigh on Tuesday about the Affordable Care Act, Biden was met with protesters as they began shouting him down roughly...
OVER ONE hundred British MPs have demanded an immediate cessation of the UK’s arms sales to Israel amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza. This request was formalised in a letter addressed to UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Wednesday, highlighting the urgency and echoing actions taken by nations like Canada. The...
AS IS now well known, the British ruling class is forever beating the war drums against Russia, and is desperately encouraging the Ukrainian regime to carry on with its war against Russia, despite the massive losses that the Ukrainian armed forces are suffering. Indeed, the British ruling class is in...
Senegal’s 44-year-old opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye was named the country’s next president on Tuesday morning, after winning the country’s presidential election on Sunday less than two weeks after being released from prison to run in the election. Millions took part in the vote on Sunday, following three years of...
UNITED Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese called on UN member states to impose an international arms embargo and sanctions on Israel yesterday afternoon. Speaking at the UN HQ in New York, Albanese declared: ‘Following nearly six months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied Gaza, it is my solemn duty to...
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members on Monday finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza. On five previous occasions, resolutions to the UNSC calling for a ceasefire have been vetoed by the US, with the UK abstaining. Last...
The SEIU union that represents over 3,000 Boston University (BU) graduate student workers started an indefinite strike on Monday. The decision came a week after the BU graduate workers voted to authorise the strike.
The union, which is part of SEIU Local 509, is calling for fair pay, better health care...
‘DROP this shameful case. It is a shame on every democracy. Free Julian! I ask everyone to rally behind him,’ Stella Assange urged in a powerful call outside the Royal Courts of Justice in Strand, central London yesterday. The court delayed its decision over whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can...
‘THIS MUST signal the end of atrocities against our people,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour said yesterday. He was speaking after the UN Security Council unanimously voted for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestine in Gaza, with 14 votes in favour, none against and only the...
‘WE LIVE in a moment which feels like everything is at stake,’ Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) National President Mark Hancock told convention delegates in Alberta on Saturday. ‘We are fighting our way through an enormous cost-of-living crisis, workers are feeling desperate and anxious,’ he said.
‘Most people can’t remember...
LAST Friday it was announced that Border Force staff at Heathrow Airport had voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to shift patterns that will result in nearly 250 without a job on passport control. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said that 600 of its...
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced the international community over its ‘shameful silence’ on the Israeli military’s raid against Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital where thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering. The Gaza-based group said in a statement yesterday that the ongoing Israeli aggression against the hospital indicates the international community...
Workers from the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) started strike action at the Annesley Andalusite Mine located in Penge, outside Burgersfort in Limpopo on Wednesday. They are demanding a 12.5 per cent salary increase, improved working conditions, and compensation for overtime, among other demands. However, the employer is...
ELEVEN people have been detained after an attack by Islamists at a Moscow concert hall that killed 137, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service told President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, according to Russian state news agency Tass. Another 145 people were injured in the attack by assailants who burst...
THE United Kingdom has seen the biggest rise in ‘absolute poverty’ in 30 years, according to new data published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In the UK, ‘relative poverty’ refers to the citizens whose income is 40 per cent below the national average, while ‘absolute poverty’ measures...
The Congress party, India’s principal opposition force, has levelled serious accusations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration, alleging that the government has deliberately undermined the party’s capacity to compete in the forthcoming general elections by freezing its bank accounts due to a tax controversy. Set against the backdrop of a...
WASHINGTON – Russia and China exercised their veto power yesterday on a US draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council regarding Gaza. The draft resolution did not directly call for a ceasefire, but expressed its support for ongoing international efforts to achieve a ceasefire.
It also condemned Hamas which has...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States has circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an ‘immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages’ in Gaza. The US is Israel’s principal ally in the council, and has been blocking all efforts to...
AN analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) on the funding crisis that is driving the NHS to the brink of collapse revealed that the health service faces the biggest cut in real terms since the 1970s. The analysis, issued earlier this month, showed that health spending in England...
RUSSIA’S foreign intelligence (SVR) top brass said any French military unit sent to Ukraine to help it fight Russia would be a ‘priority’ target for the Russian army. Sergey Naryshkin warned France on Tuesday after the Kremlin received information that Paris is preparing to dispatch a contingent of 2,000 troops...
THE Biden administration should follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam said yesterday. The organisations on March 19, 2024 submitted a joint memorandum to the US government regarding Israel’s violations of international humanitarian law including the use of US weapons and the...
Northern Gaza is likely to be hit by famine any time between mid-March and May, and more than 70 per cent of Gaza’s 2.3 million population is facing ‘catastrophic hunger’, a United Nations (UN)-backed report published on Monday has warned. Approximately 300,000 people remain trapped in northern Gaza, where people...
A CANADIAN government official said that Canada will stop exporting weapons to Israel due to the continued international criticism of its ongoing war on the Gaza Strip for the 166th day. ‘The situation on the ground prevents us from exporting any military equipment,’ the Canadian official said. Israel is one of...
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was making her pitch yesterday to the bankers and business bosses that any future Labour government would be a safe pair of hands for British capitalism, and promising them a ‘decade of national renewal’ with her plan for growth. This plan for growth will, she...
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani has condemned Israel’s brutal attack on the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and the regime’s crimes against medical staff and patients. In a statement on Monday, Kan’ani said it is not the first time that the Israeli regime has blatantly violated all international rules...
BATTLES raged between Hamas fighters and the Israeli military in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital yesterday, as the Israeli genocidal bombardment continued. Palestinian families which had been seeking refuge from the Zionist genocide fled by foot from the site as the Zionists stormed through al-Shifa room by room. In a media...
The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says the Israeli military has systematically targeted dozens of information technology experts in the Gaza Strip, as part of its genocidal war against the besieged territory. On Sunday, Euro-Med documented a list which included several programmers, computer engineers, and experts in artificial intelligence who have...
ISRAEL has killed over 13,000 children in Gaza since the start of its genocidal war according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell told the CBS News network on Sunday: ‘Thousands more have been injured or we can’t even determine where they are. They may...
‘STOP starving Gaza!’ Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) protesters demanded yesterday as they banged pots and pans outside the Foreign Office in Whitehall, central London. ‘It’s very clear now that starvation is being used as a weapon of war,’ said MAP CEO Marianne Ward, speaking to the media at the...
THE Israeli occupation army committed nine massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 92 civilians and injuring over 130 others, the Gaza health ministry said on Sunday. The health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments and...
Workers at an Amazon air hub in Hebron, Kentucky celebrated a victory on Thursday after the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) found that Amazon violated labour law by trying to prevent workers there from joining the Amazon Labour Union (ALU). The workers have been demanding higher pay, more flexible schedules...
A SPLIT and divided Tory Party is facing electoral wipeout as the number of infighting Tory factions grow and lash out at each other, and at their main enemy the working class and its youth, blaming them for Israel’s death agony in Gaza, and for the collapse of the...
CHUCK SCHUMER, the Democratic Senate majority leader, described as the highest ranking Jewish official in the United States and top ally of president Joe Biden, caused uproar on Thursday when he condemned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for elections to replace him and the right-wing extremist government...
SCOTRAIL employees are set to vote on strike action against the introduction of Driver Only Operation (DOO) trains, the RMT has announced. The management of the Scottish government-operated railway company has declared that services on the Barrhead and East Kilbride lines may proceed without a second crew member, leaving the...
AT least 21 starving Palestinians were killed after Israeli tanks, helicopters and drones opened fire on thousands of people waiting for aid in Gaza City in the same area that was targeted hours earlier. Gaza’s Ministry of Health described the overnight attack on Thursday as a ‘new, premeditated massacre’, and...
ONE HUNDRED leading European academics have condemned Israel’s genocide against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023. They have condemned Israel’s physical and cultural liquidation of them, including the systematic destruction of the educational system in the Gaza Strip.
In a Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor petition titled...
COMMUNITIES secretary Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday made a short statement introducing the Tories new definition of extremism which now encompasses ‘non-violent extremism’. Almost all of Gove’s plans have been leaked to the press over the past week so we know already that extremism is defined as ‘the promotion or...
‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking after Tory Communities Secretary Michael Gove announced to the House of Commons the government’s new definition of ‘extremism’ yesterday morning.
Gove said: ‘Extremism is the promotion...
THE ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday. In the West Bank, they shot dead a 13-year-old boy, identified as Rami al-Halhuli who had been playing with fireworks during Ramadan in the Shu’fat refugee...