Monthly Archives: April 2024
AT LEAST 20 people were killed in Israeli strikes on homes in Rafah overnight yesterday, including nine members of the Abu Taha family. It was an extremely difficult night in Rafah, where the Israeli military targeted multiple areas and killed five children in three separate houses.
The health ministry in Gaza...
PALESTINIANS have warned Britain and other Western countries backing the US, against deploying troops on the ground in the besieged Gaza Strip under the pretext of supporting aid deliveries. In a statement released on Sunday, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said that British troops on the...
Remembering dead and injured workers on Sunday April 28, food and agricultural unions in Bangladesh demonstrated demanding protection of workers’ health and safety as a fundamental right. On April 28, the IUF Food and Beverage Workers Council-Bangladesh, Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Workers Federation, and National Women Farmers & Workers Association held...
HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than 300 Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in terminals 2, 3, 4 and 5 walked out from 5am and are striking until 7am...
A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine in London since Israel’s Zionist genocidal war on Gaza began last October. As the march was assembling outside Parliament, Fareeda Southworth, a London charity worker, told...
TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming the Israeli regime, and for a general strike to bring down the Tories and prepare the way for a state of Palestine. At the same...
The Ukrainian army is violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by soliciting foreign citizens to join the International Legion of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. She said the Ukrainian military is openly campaigning in several countries including the United States and...
FROM Los Angeles to New York, Austin to Boston, Chicago to Atlanta, American students and faculty members at major US universities have risen up in support of the Palestinian revolution, defying a police crackdown and dozens of arrests at many colleges. Occupations in solidarity with the Palestinian people have been...
ISRAELI occupation forces committed five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at least 51 Palestinians and the injury of 75 others, according to medical sources. Local health authorities reported that the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October...
STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military firms amid Israel’s war on Gaza. Gathering at its College Park campus, they also called for the university to denounce the ‘genocide’ in Gaza and end...
STUDENTS across America have risen up against the barbaric genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza and in support of Palestine in a wave of campus occupations and demonstrations that have swept through the US from the east to west coasts. In the past week, this movement of students...
THE Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on the 200th day of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on Tuesday the Israeli military is planning to carry out a ‘new massacre’ in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, after the army issued new evacuation orders to people who have remained in the...
THE EU and the UN called for an official probe into mass graves at hospitals in Gaza, where hundreds of bodies have been discovered, many with their hands tied behind their backs, indicating executions and war crimes. The European Union wants an investigation into mass graves uncovered at Gaza’s Nasser...
PRO-PALESTINE protests and occupations are sweeping universities across America, with students and lecturers demanding an end to US arms to Israel. The demonstrations, which started a week ago at Columbia University with a sizable crowd of protesters setting up a ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ on campus, have expanded to various other...
THE British ruling class has decided that there is only one way out of the historic crisis of British capitalism, and that is to force the UK working class, and the working class of the world, and the oppressed nations, to pay for it with new wars and counter-revolutions,...
On Sunday, the 2024 National Popular Consultation concluded with a massive participation of citizens throughout Venezuela. Carried out through over 15,000 polling centres, this democratic process allowed residents to decide on 4,500 development projects that the Venezuelan government will finance and the communities will execute.
Carolina Arellano, the spokesperson for the National Electoral Commission (CNE),...
IN JANUARY, the Israeli regime unleashed a propaganda campaign against UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, accusing members of its staff of being members of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and taking part in Operation al-Aqsa Storm on October 7th. Israel followed...
ISRAEL’S genocidal war on Gaza entered its 200th day yesterday, with the Health Ministry saying that the IOF (Israeli Occupation Force) had committed three ‘massacres’ over the past 24 hours, killing at least 32 Palestinians and wounding 59 others. This brings the Palestinian death toll to over 34,183, with at...
TORY PM Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that he is putting the UK defence industry ‘on a war footing’. Standing alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in the Polish capital Warsaw, Sunak said in future the UK will have to spend a massive 2.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on the military. Sunak...
MORE tragedy keeps unfolding in the city of Khan Younis, with more mass graves found inside the courtyard of Nasser Hospital. Medical staff and international personnel who visited the hospital yesterday described it as a ‘graveyard’ after Israeli forces raided the facility.
Three more mass graves were discovered in the grounds...
A FLOTILLA of ships, carrying some 5,000 tons of food, drinking water, and medical aid, is expected to depart from Turkey in the coming days in an attempt to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and bring much-needed relief to the residents of the war-torn enclave. During a press conference last...
FACED with an £18 billion debt mountain, the privatised Thames Water company yesterday set out its survival plans that involve increasing bills to £627 a year for its customers – an increase of 44%. Thames Water is the largest of Britain’s monopoly water companies with 16 million customers in London...
GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the victims discovered with their hands tied behind their backs. The horrific discovery was made on Saturday, two weeks after Israeli forces withdrew from the area on...
THE US-based Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued an ‘active genocide alert’ over the situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. ‘Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians across Palestine,’ the Lemkin Institute said earlier this month. Last weekend, violence against Palestinians escalated sharply as large groups of Israeli settler...
THE head of the politburo of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has issued a stern warning against any Israeli military operation on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Ismail Haniyeh raised the alarm yesterday after meeting with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and discussing the latest developments in Gaza,...
An IRGC official has issued a stern warning that Israel will face immediate reciprocal attacks on its nuclear centres if it targets Iran’s nuclear facilities. General Ahmad Haqtalab, head of the Nuclear Protection and Security Corps, stated on Thursday that any aggression from Israel would trigger a proportionate response using...
‘OUR right to self-determination is inalienable. It is not tied to a timeframe’, Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Thursday said before the UN Security Council (UNSC). Speaking before the 15-nation Council, which convened to vote on a draft resolution that recommended that Palestine become a full...
ISRAEL HAS intensified its military presence around Rafah, deploying additional troops and destroying agricultural land in the district’s eastern areas. This escalation comes amid heightened fears of a full-scale incursion into the area, which is already home to more than 1.7 million displaced Palestinians. The situation has been further aggravated by...
TENS OF thousands of workers and students participated in mass and militant rallies and marches throughout Greece on Wednesday, during a 24-hour national strike in the private industrial sector called by the GSEE (Greek TUC), demanding wage increases and national collective agreements. The strike was solid in the Greek ports,...
THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated intention of declaring that the UK economy ‘is on the up’. Along with this doomed attempt to convince the IMF that the UK economy is not...
OVER a hundred Sudanese and their supporters held a vigil in Trafalgar Square on Monday night. Organised by London for Sudan and the Madiniya organisation to mark the first anniversary of the world’s biggest humanitarian displacement, with 8 million citizens forced to flee their homes which has plunged Sudan into...
AN Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others yesterday. Islam al-Jaidi, a resident and a witness of the attack, said Palestinians were trying to access the internet when hit.
‘There was a tent where people gathered to communicate with their families...
Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan President, on Monday night denounced the United States which he stated has not complied with an agreement to lift economic sanctions imposed against the country. Maduro said: ‘They never fulfilled a single comma of the signed agreement, never.
‘The US signed an agreement and should have lifted all...
THE UN Security Council is to vote on Palestine’s UN membership application draft today, prepared by Algeria, recommending the state of Palestine’s admission as a member of the UN. The Arab Group issued on Wednesday a statement in which it expressed its total support for Palestine’s UN full membership application,...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the government against the proposed 300 per cent hike in the electricity tariff. On Monday, the NLC cautioned that plunging Nigerians into more hardship amidst the current hunger and hike in food prices will be disastrous.
Labour said that an additional hike in the...
YESTERDAY the latest unemployment figures were released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealing that UK unemployment had shot up by 85,000 in the December to February quarter to 1.44 million, driving the unemployment rate up to 4.2%. The number of people employed fell by 156,000 in this quarter...
COMMANDER of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari, says Iran’s retaliatory operation against Israel has further dispelled the ‘threadbare myth that the wicked and child-killing Tel Aviv regime is unbeatable’. Yesterday, Haydari stated that the successful launch of hundreds of missiles and drones at the occupied territories in...
IRAN’S retaliatory strike against Israel, launched on Saturday, has provoked an outpouring of hypocrisy from the imperialist nations and their tame media outlets. How dare Iran strike back against imperialism’s Zionist attack dog in the Middle East! they scream as the Western nations reel under the impact of a direct...
NEW sanctions against Russia are a US signal to Ukraine not to negotiate an end to the war, Russia says. By introducing new sanctions against Russia, the United States is sending a signal to Kiev not to agree to negotiations with Moscow, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov told reporters...
A YOUNG girl was shot in the face as her family attempted to return to north Gaza on Sunday, footage posted on social media showed yesterday. The girl’s mother can be seen crying and hugging her dead child. The killing of the girl occurred as her family was among the hundreds...
MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Parliament Square on Saturday, chanting: ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free.’ The London march was one of more than 100 marches in towns and cities throughout the UK in support of...
First speaker at the rally in Parliament Square was Louise Regan, the chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who said: ‘Since October, Palestinians have been experiencing the darkest times with over 33,000 confirmed dead. We hear that 10 children a day are having amputations with no anaesthetic. We are...
YESTERDAY, Zionist mobs were attacking Palestinians all over the occupied territories seeking to seize their homes and land and drive them off it. Israeli occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at least 43 Palestinians...
HACKERS have managed to break into the Israeli regime’s ministry of military affairs, offering to sell stolen data unless the regime releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. The group that refers to itself as ‘NetHunter’ announced the breach in a video message posted on its Telegram channel.
Following the announcement, security sources...