Monthly Archives: May 2024
A joint statement issued at the 10th Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum in Beijing has condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. It highlighted that over 125,000 citizens in Gaza, mostly women and children, have been killed or injured, and denounced Israel’s ‘policy of starving...
HUNDREDS of thousands of council workers are to be balloted and urged to reject a ‘pitiful’ and ‘entirely inadequate’ pay offer during the next few weeks, potentially leading to a local authority ‘summer action’ across the country. Local government representatives of the Unite union have agreed to recommend rejection of...
LONG-standing Labour MP Diane Abbott accused the right wing Labour leadership, led by Keir Starmer, of carrying out a ‘cull of left wingers’ in a crisis that emerged on Wednesday with leaked news that she was to be banned from standing in Hackney North and Stoke Newington in the...
‘ALL ACTS of genocide are being perpetrated against Gaza,’ Amjad Al Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) said yesterday. ‘What is required now is to declare Gaza Strip as a famine-stricken zone’, he told a press conference of Palestinian NGOs and professional unions held in Ramallah on the...
OVER 10,000 workers, students and youth attended a protest rally outside Downing Street on Tuesday night with banners, placards and Palestinian flags. They demanded the immediate banning of arms sales to Israel and chanted: ‘Free, Free Palestine’, ‘Stop Arming Israel’, ‘Hands off Gaza, Hands off Rafah’, ‘No Ceasefire, No Vote’...
THE Palestinian resistance groups have condemned the recent statements made by the White House spokesman regarding the Rafah carnage, saying the remarks are just prompting the Israeli regime to continue its aggression and acts of genocide in Gaza. The resistance groups spoke in a statement on Wednesday, a day after...
The horrifying news of Sunday night’s tent attack sent shock waves throughout the globe, prompting world leaders to call for the immediate implementation of a World Court ruling to halt the Israeli regime’s invasion of the last refuge of Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli military carried out yet another heinous attack on...
THE unity of western governments over previous unconditional support for the state of Israel and its illegal occupation of Palestine was blown apart yesterday as Ireland, Spain and Norway officially ratified recognition of the independent state of Palestine, opening the floodgates for others to follow. Ireland, Spain and Norway announced...
ISRAELI air attacks targeted displaced Palestinians in tent camps in al-Mawasi refugee camp in western Rafah again yesterday, killing 21, including 13 women and a number of children. It followed Sunday night’s massacre of 45 mainly women and children in a Rafah tent camp.
The Israeli attacks occurred in a designated...
IT’S TIME to end the Thatcherite experiment and scrap all the anti-union laws, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) demanded after PM Sunak called the general election last Wednesday. Speaking at the union’s Annual Conference in Blackpool, FBU general secretary Matt Wrack set out the damage caused by 14 years of...
ON SUNDAY night, Israeli planes launched a devastating attack on a tent camp in the Tel Al Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah which is crammed with displaced Palestinians. The number of deaths has grown to over 50 in what was the biggest loss of Palestinian lives in any one incident...
ISRAELI forces bombed a camp housing displaced people in a designated ‘safe zone’ in Rafah on Sunday night, killing at least 45 Palestinians, most of them women and children. A survivor who arrived at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah said the ‘tents were melting and the people’s bodies were also...
HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm sirens and panic throughout the Zionist regime. Hamas said in a statement that its fighters bombarded the Israeli city with a missile barrage ‘in response to...
Hundreds of students have walked out of Harvard University’s commencement ceremony after the school barred over a dozen pro-Palestinian seniors from receiving their degrees last Thursday. The walk-out took place at the American university in Cambridge Massachusetts, with the participants chanting slogans such as ‘Free, free Palestine’ and ‘Let them...
TORY PM Sunak yesterday sought to win back big business by stating that after the forthcoming general election has been won on July 4th, the Tory government will be bringing in conscription for youth and that all 18 year olds will have to either serve 12 months in the...
THE International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must halt its military offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza. This ruling came after South Africa had asked the ICJ to order a halt as an emergency measure, correctly saying Israel’s actions in Rafah amount to a ‘genocidal’ operation threatening the...
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, NUMSA, and mining company, SASM, have vowed to fight it out in court as the company intends to appeal a judgment handed down by the Labour Court, which gave the union the right to organise workers. NUMSA regional secretary Kabelo Ramokhathali said on...
SIXTEEN protesters were arrested when police intervened to take action against an occupation on Thursday in support of Palestine by ‘Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P)’. A spokesperson for OA4P said: ‘Today, Oxford students staged a peaceful sit-in to demand that the university meet with us after two weeks of non-response. ‘Instead...
YESTERDAY, marked the first of 10 days of strike action by security staff at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge in central London. Some of the people picketing spoke to News Line.
Craig Brown, union rep for Unite said: ‘We are out because our pay is still on Band 3.
‘We want...
THE co-ordinated action by the governments of Ireland, Norway and Spain to announce that next week they would formally recognise the state of Palestine represents a massive political blow to the Israeli regime and to US and UK imperialism. For the first time, three countries, already members of the 27...
THE Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) in Canada has welcomed the arbitration decision that includes the most significant wage increase for registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals working in the province’s nursing homes in more than 30 years. During the two-year term of the new collective agreement, nurses will receive an...
IRELAND, Norway and Spain formally recognised the state of Palestine yesterday, infuriating leaders of the genocidal Israeli regime, while Hamas described it as ‘a turning point on the international position on the Palestinian issue’. ‘Today Ireland, Norway and Spain are announcing that we recognise the State of Palestine, each of...
THE DISCOVERY of hundreds of mass graves at the Nasser and al-Shifa hospital complexes, where United Nations (UN) officials reported that bodies were ‘buried deep in the ground and covered with waste’, has led its officials to call for an international probe into the horrors being uncovered. ‘Everywhere you walk...
THE SAME British capitalism that has been egging on the Ukraine to start World War III by attacking Russia is now shivering with fear at the prospect of not just having to try to cope with Russia’s planned economy, but also having to deal with the gigantic Chinese economy. It...
South Africa’s highest court has barred former President Jacob Zuma from running for parliament in next week’s general election. The Constitutional Court ruled on Monday that his 15-month prison sentence for contempt of court disqualified him.
Zuma was convicted in 2021 for refusing to testify at an inquiry investigating corruption during...
US president Joe Biden has defended American imperialism’s Israeli ally and denounced the decision of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, to seek arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes. Speaking at a Jewish American Heritage Month event...
SEVEN Palestinians were killed and 13 others injured yesterday morning when the Israeli occupation forces stormed Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank and randomly opened fire on local residents. Two of the seven killed were children. Four of the dead were Mahmoud Hamadiya, a 14-year-old schoolboy, teacher Allam Jaradat,...
THE DECISION by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh ‘equates the victim with the executioner’, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said yesterday. The chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan, also applied for arrest...
Staff at London South Bank University have no confidence in the vice-chancellor and senior leadership team, the University and College Union (UCU) has announced, after 297 posts were threatened last week, including almost one in five (226 out of 1,082) academic staff. A meeting will be held this week which...
YESTERDAY, Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued a statement proposing that arrest warrants be issued for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant over allegations of war crimes committed in Gaza. These charges include ‘starvation of civilians as a...
THE HIGH Court in London yesterday ruled in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s right to appeal against the UK court ruling approving his extradition to the United States to face trial on espionage charges. Julian Assange’s wife Stella Assange said outside the court, after the ruling, that the US...
More than a quarter of a million workers, students and youth participated in the National March for Palestine through central London on Saturday. Palestine flag-waving marchers assembled at BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place near Regents Park and proceeded to Whitehall where there was a huge demonstration opposite Downing Street. As...
THE HIGH Court is going to announce its decision on whether Julian Assange is going to be allowed to appeal against his extradition to the USA this morning. Joe Brack, from the Julian Assange Defence Committee, told News Line yesterday: ‘They have limited the grounds on which he may appeal...
At the start of the rally in Whitehall 14-year-old Abdul Rahman spoke in front of dozens of children waving Palestinian flags and holding big cardboard keys representing the keys that families kept when they were expelled from their homes by the Zionists 76 years ago in the Nakba. He said:...
THE ISRAELI war cabinet minister Gantz has threatened to resign and completely split the ruling Israeli group unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out a post-war plan for the Gaza Strip. Gantz set an 8th June deadline for a plan to achieve six ‘strategic goals’, including the end of Hamas...
Fighting between Palestinian resistance forces and Israeli troops raged in Gaza on Friday after the Zionist genocidal regime intensified its ground invasion. Fierce battles raged overnight in and around Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, while Israeli helicopters carried out heavy strikes and artillery units shelled homes near Kamal Adwan Hospital...
A Jewish-American political appointee who worked as a United States Interior Department staffer, has publicly resigned from her post, in protest against the Joe Biden administration’s funding and fuelling of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Lily Greenberg Call, the special assistant to the chief of staff at the...
THE Geneva-based rights group, Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) says Israel is ‘intentionally’ demolishing schools and medical facilities, including those run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), during its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. In a statement released on Thursday, it said that Ain Jalut, Atta al-Shawa, and...
ISMAIL HANIYEH, head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau, has expressed certainty regarding the Israeli regime’s eventual removal from the entirety of the Palestinian territories. The Hamas leader made the remarks in a speech on Wednesday. He was marking the anniversary of Palestinians’ historical exodus from their homeland...
The secretary General Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has underscored the significance of unity among resistance groups until achieving final victory in Operation al-Aqsa Storm, the largest anti-Israel operation by Palestinians in decades. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks in a meeting in Beirut on Wednesday as he received a leading...
DEEP splits within the Israeli government erupted in public on Wednesday night with Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant demanding that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declare publicly that Israel had no plans to take over civilian and military rule in Gaza. Gallant told the press: ‘Since October, I have been raising...
The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that it has treated numerous Palestinians, including children, injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, even though it lacks adequate resources and supplies. Israel and Hamas fighters engaged in fierce battles in parts of Jabalia, where Israeli air attacks have also been...
THE MACRON government is mobilising against the Gradual Cessation of Activity Agreement signed at the SNCF because it will allow French railway workers to save a few months on their retirement, says trade union federation the CGT. The CGT said: ‘The government allows itself to intervene in a company negotiation...
THE United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have now been displaced in war-torn Gaza, as Israel intensifies its air and ground attacks across the besieged territory. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) estimates that nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave the densely-populated southern city...
AT LEAST 40 Palestinians only just displaced from Rafah were killed when a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed by Israeli forces yesterday. The worst of Monday night’s Israeli attacks were on the camp where the three-storey residential building where an estimated 100 people were sheltering was...