Monthly Archives: March 2024
On a daily basis, the death toll among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly the elderly, is increasing due to hunger, malnutrition, and lack of medical treatment. This is happening in the context of ongoing brutal massacres and genocide carried out by the Israel, along with a suffocating siege that...
When The Guardian newspaper on Monday reported the racist comments made by Frank Hester, the owner and sole shareholder of the Pheonix Partnership (TPP), directed against Diane Abbott MP there was a huge wave of public revulsion – everywhere that is apart from the offices of Tory prime minister...
The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haneyya, made a televised speech on Sunday evening, to mark the beginning of Ramadan. ‘Ramadan is peace upon Gaza, which continues to paint the picture of freedom and honour for Palestine with the blood of its sons and daughters, the barricades of Al-Aqsa...
ON MONDAY, the US intelligence agency, the CIA, published its annual Threat Assessment Report for 2024 which warned that America faces an ‘increasingly fragile world order’. This document, compiled by analysts from all the major US spy agencies, documented the worldwide threats to US supremacy in the world. The report says that...
THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called on all fire service employers to refuse to implement the government’s new minimum service levels, condemning the legislation as a ‘draconian attempt to ban strikes’. In a letter sent to all fire service employers in England, the FBU warns that implementing work notices...
MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed Israeli genocidal war on Gaza reached its 158th day. Seven members of the as-Saqqa family were killed in al-Zeitoun neighbourhood, including five children, with six others...
Over 30,000 university students from all the main Greek cities, along with delegations of school students and some 3,000 secondary school teachers and university lecturers, marched in Athens last Friday. It was a tremendous expression of their rage and determination to defeat the government’s Bill for private universities being debated...
THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) has issued another stark warning that world capitalism is at serious risk of an international financial crisis caused by US banks and lenders engaged in reckless speculation. It was exactly one year ago that the Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, followed rapidly by the Signature Bank...
Two children starved to death at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday, bringing the total number of those who have died from malnutrition and dehydration to 27. While the genocidal Israeli regime’s blockade of Gaza is now causing daily deaths from starvation, it is not easing up on its...
HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy in Battersea chanting: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ The march was led by CND, Friends of al-Aqsa, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign...
Continued from news story Organisers informed the rally that there were at least 450,000 on the march, that it was the 10th National March for Palestine in London since the Israeli genocide began in October and that because it was International Women’s Day it was all women speakers.
The first speaker...
MICHAEL Gove, the Tory Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is due this week to unveil plans to ban individuals and groups who ‘undermine the UK’s system of liberal democracy’ from all aspects of public life. Yesterday, the Observer newspaper revealed details of a leaked document from...
Massive nationwide industrial action paralysed air and rail travel across Germany yesterday and Thursday as striking workers walked off the job to demand better pay and conditions to help them cope with the rising cost of living. Thursday’s walkouts by the train drivers coincided with a strike by ground staff...
IN advance of today’s mass demonstrations in support of Palestine, the Tories have launched a campaign to crack down on all opposition to the genocidal war being waged in Gaza by the Israeli regime backed by the US and UK governments. Last week, Tory Prime minister Rishi Sunak claimed ‘mob...
US President Joe Biden affirmed last night that a two-state solution was the ‘only real solution’ to the war in Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In his State of the Union Address, Biden said, ‘as we look to the future, the only real solution is a two-state solution… I say...
THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally abhorrent and entirely unnecessary. Unite has been in longstanding negotiations with the Labour-led authority, over changes to the working practices for the refuse collection team and...
A SENIOR official of the Hamas resistance group says the US and Israel are pursuing a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in a bid to ‘buy time’ to prolong their genocidal war on the Palestinian territory. Osama Hamdan, a Lebanon-based Hamas official, made the remarks in an interview with...
South Africa’s largest local government trade union the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), is set to table numerous demands for its members – including a 15 per cent or R6,000 wage increase for all municipal workers. Other demands that Samwu is making include: R3,000 housing allowance;
Increasing sectoral minimum wage from...
BY FRA HUGHES For 800 years the Irish have fought a genocidal British occupation. Eight centuries of ethnic cleansing, land clearances, massacres, starvation, colonisation and a brutal military oppression. Successive generations of Irish men and women, boys and girls have fought clandestinely and openly to liberate Ireland from foreign imperialist control. Ireland was...
TORY Chancellor Hunt delivered his class war Budget in the House of Commons yesterday, announcing that the Household Support Fund will be scrapped on 30th September. Earlier this week, the Barnardo’s charity warned that scrapping the fund, which has over the past two and a half years given out £2.5...
Decades before the events of 9/11, Zionist organisations such as the Anti-Defamation League were advocating for counter-terrorism laws that specifically targeted Palestinians, unveils a recent study. In the midst of protests on US campuses last October, opposing Israel’s military actions in Gaza, two leading pro-Israel entities contacted close to 200...
TORY CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the contents of this year’s Budget in the House of Commons. It is the last scheduled Budget before the next general election, which is expected to take place later this year. He announced on National Insurance a payroll tax, cut by 2p in the...
‘ONE IN SIX children under two years of age are acutely malnourished in northern Gaza,’ Richard Peeperkorn, World Health Organisation (WHO) representative said yesterday. ‘This was in January. So the situation is likely to be greater today,’ Peeperkorn added, referring to when the data was recorded. UNICEF spokesman James Elder said...
THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing out that most councils spend only ‘pence’ on things like ‘diversity schemes’. Yesterday Birmingham Council, the largest local authority in Europe, was meeting to vote on...
THE HEZBOLLAH resistance movement has warned that any Israeli act of aggression against Lebanon will ignite an advanced version of the 33-day war fought back in the summer of 2006, when the occupying regime suffered a humiliating defeat. ‘The Zionist enemy continues to threaten us with military aggression, and we...
THE RELEASE last Friday of a video call between senior German military leaders has caused a massive row within the NATO countries with its explosive confirmation that Britain has ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine and that the German air force is actively planning for missile attacks on Russian territory. The...
INDEPENDENT Senator Bernie Sanders has said that the United States cannot continue funding Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war machine as it presses ahead with its horrific genocide of the Palestinians trapped in the besieged Gaza Strip. Sanders, a former presidential candidate, condemned Israel’s killing of 112 people and injuring...
FOLLOWING the ‘shock’ victory of George Galloway in last Thursday’s Rochdale by-election, Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hastily rushed to the podium outside 10 Downing Street on Friday to warn the country of ‘forces here at home trying to tear us apart’, and that the election of Galloway was...
SUNAK and the Tory government are ‘so bereft of public support that they cower in fear’ of calling a general election, while the Starmer Labour leadership also faces ‘the opprobrium of right-thinking people,’ George Galloway said in his defiant press conference outside parliament yesterday afternoon. Galloway had just been sworn...
GAZA’S Health Ministry has detected about one million cases of infectious diseases, but doesn’t have the medical capabilities to treat them, as the situation in the Gaza Strip is ‘extremely catastrophic’. In a statement released on Monday, the ministry stressed that the Israeli occupation has deliberately caused an unspeakable humanitarian...
‘ISRAEL has been intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 8,’ the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri said yesterday, adding that ‘famine may very well be already occurring’. ‘The only way to end/prevent this famine is an immediate ceasefire, and the only way...
GLOBAL condemnation has poured in following a recent deadly attack by the Israeli occupation forces on Palestinian civilians seeking food aid in the besieged Gaza Strip, which has been under the illegal regime’s incessant bombardment for the past five months. At least 112 people were killed and more than 750...
THE British ruling class, for all of its threats against the working class, the youth and the masses of Palestine, is on the run! Its capitalist system is bankrupted and broken, while the masses of Palestine are driving forward with the huge support of the masses of the working class...
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) has condemned the reluctance to meet strikers’ demands, displayed by the management of the Nelson Mandela University (NMU) and the University of Pretoria (UP). The statement said: ‘As NEHAWU, we are extremely disappointed by the failure of the managements of both...
A TOTAL of 193 Palestinians were killed in 16 massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces over the last 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, bringing the documented death toll since the outbreak of the Israeli war of genocide to 30,228, the majority of whom are innocent civilians, according...
THE Bureau of the UN General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People reaffirmed last Wednesday night its unwavering support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and its indispensable mission. It said the announcement...
AT LEAST 104 Palestinians, gathered in anticipation of receiving food aid amidst a severe hunger crisis, were killed and another 760 injured in a series of attacks by Israeli forces yesterday. This incident took place southwest of Gaza City, where hundreds had congregated, hoping to receive sustenance. Israeli air strikes and...
SOME 35,000 public and private sector workers and students took part in mass rallies and marches on Wednesday in central Athens as part of a 24-hour national strike on the first anniversary of the Tempi train crash, of 28th February 2023, where 57 passengers were killed – mostly students,...
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers to crack down on demonstrations against Israel’s genocidal war to drive Palestinians from their homeland. Sunak warned the police bosses that there was a ‘growing consensus...