Monthly Archives: May 2024
TODAY, May 15th, marks the 76th anniversary of Nakba, ‘the Catastrophe’, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land to be replaced by Jewish occupiers from all over the world and the state of Israel established. Since then, the worldwide population of displaced Palestinians has doubled...
US secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise unannounced visit to Ukraine yesterday morning, as the war to weaken Russia suffers yet another major setback as Russian forces continue to push forward and the fascist-backed Zelensky regime faces defeat. This is the first visit by Blinken to Ukraine since...
Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order to medical staff at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, one of the last remaining hospitals in the area with only about 16 beds available, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) reported yesterday. More than 500 medical workers are among the more than 35,000 Palestinians...
‘ALL THOSE complicit and responsible for the terrorist attacks on Russian territory will inevitably be held accountable,’ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday, commenting on the shelling of Donbass cities and towns by the Kiev regime. May 11 was declared Republic Day in the Donetsk People’s Republic...
THE ISRAELI regime intensified its genocidal attack on the southern city of Rafah, which sits on the border with Egypt, over the weekend. Yesterday, Israeli military forces ordered medical staff at Rafah’s Kuwaiti Hospital to evacuate while the city was subject to continued air attacks. Al Jazeera reported that medics based...
THE death toll from Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza topped 35,000 yesterday, as the regime’s tanks rolled into the massive Jabalia refugee camp. At least 35,034 people have been killed, including 15,000 children, and up to 78,755 people injured since Israel launched its offensive on October 7, the Gaza Health...
ON SATURDAY, over 500 people marched for Sudan from the BBC in Portland Place to Downing Street to demand an end to the war on the country, a civilian government and for British arms companies like BAE Systems to stop selling arms to the UAE (United Arab Emirates). The demonstration...
THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at the decision to welcome her as the Labour MP for Dover. Labour Party Chair, Anneliese Dodds, said the Dover MP was a ‘good, natural fit’ for...
THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city in Gaza. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) also estimated that ‘around 110,000 people have now fled Rafah, looking for safety.’ The agency stressed that, ‘nowhere...
Some of the United States’ biggest banks have underwritten billions of dollars in Israel bonds, including a substantial amount of $8 billion (£6.4 billion) in March this year, despite US colleges and university campuses witnessing massive pro-Palestinian protests. The Tel Aviv regime received $8 billion in bond underwriting from four major banks situated...
‘LIFE has completely vanished, and the displaced wander with uncertainty, not knowing where to go as there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip.’ This is how Marwan El Masri, a displaced Gazan, described the situation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, since the Israeli occupation tanks invaded the eastern...
PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime minister has been warned that patients are being failed by his inability to tackle the waiting list crisis, as new RCN analysis of NHS England...
JOURNALISTS at Italy’s public broadcaster RAI held a 24-hour national strike on Monday to protest against the ‘stifling control’ exercised over their work by far-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s government, the journalists’ union Usigrai said in a statement. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins its Italian affiliate, the Italian...
THERE has been no let-up in the murderous bombardment of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a tiny city on the border with Egypt that approximately 1.4 million Palestinians sought refuge in from the genocidal attacks by Israeli occupation forces. By yesterday, the death toll in Gaza had risen to...
OVERNIGHT and throughout yesterday morning, the Israeli military continued to pound parts of eastern Rafah city. The majority of residential homes and farmland have been cleared, as well as the central part of Rafah.
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said it fired ‘heavy-calibre mortal shells’ at Israeli...
AN EMERGENCY demonstration in support of Palestine against the Israeli military operation in Rafah was held in Whitehall opposite Downing Street on Tuesday night. More than 4,000 people attended, chanting: ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free. 1,2,3,4, Occupation No More, 5,6,7,8 Israel is a Terror State....
NEARLY three dozen Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have already been murdered by Israeli military forces bombing various neighbourhoods in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources at Kuwait Specialised Hospital in Rafah, located 30 kilometres (19 miles) southwest of Gaza City, said 35 people were killed and...
ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International Editor Jeremy Bowen to observe that it completely ‘upended Israel’s expectations of what might happen in the next few weeks’. Bowen said Israel’s assumption was that...
A senior Iranian military commander has disclosed new details about Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israeli-occupied territories last month, and that 240 fighter jets from the US-led NATO military alliance were scrambled to shield the Israeli regime. Major General Gholam-Ali Rashid, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, made the remarks...
AS the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 214 yesterday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas massacring more civilians, in the midst of an incursion into the Rafah area. Despite the Hamas Movement’s declaration on Monday evening of its acceptance of...
JAMAICA, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, three island countries in the Caribbean, have in recent days officially recognised Palestinian statehood, signalling a shift towards a more supportive stance on Palestine and an end to Israeli influence in the region. On April 21, Barbadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade...
THE Israeli regime started its threatened ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah with an intense bombardment of the city on Sunday night killing 22 people including eight children. This was followed on Monday morning with the Israeli military ordering Palestinians to move out of eastern Rafah, warning...
THE HAMAS political bureau, announced yesterday evening that it has approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. ‘The mujahid brother Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas movement’s political bureau, had a phone call with the Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, and with the Egyptian Minister...
IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed by me, unanimously decided: The incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel,’ he posted in Hebrew. The decision escalates Israel’s long-running feud against Al...
AROUND 50 students have occupied the entrance on the forecourt of University College London (UCL) since last Friday in protest at Israeli genocide in Gaza. They set up 25 tents amid a heavy security lockdown at all entrances.
News Line spoke to several protesting students.
Anwar on behalf of the occupation said:...
The UAW (United Autoworkers Union) which represents over 48,000 graduate student workers in the University of California system, will hold a strike authorisation vote this week in response to the university management crack-down on students’ occupations in support of Palestinians in Gaza fighting against the Israeli genocide. A statement from...
THE Netanyahu government has decided to close Al Jazeera’s channel in Israel and to ban it from the occupied Palestinian territories. The Cabinet vote yesterday came after Israel’s parliament passed a law allowing the temporary closure in Israel of foreign broadcasters considered to be a threat to national security, on...
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in South Africa has threatened mass strikes against the mining sector over planned sackings. Several mining companies have issued redundancy notices to employees, with other mine workers already laid off. Speaking after COSATU’s May Day rally in Potchefstroom in the North West, NUM President, Dan...
SPEAKING at a press conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Thursday, Abdallah al-Dardari, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), estimated that the destruction caused by Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip could take 80 years to undo, and cost up to $40 billion...
THE explosive eruption of students in America against the genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza, with the full support of the capitalist ruling classes for the Zionist regime’s drive to eradicate Palestinians through murder and starvation, has rapidly spread across the Atlantic to the UK and Europe. In...
HUNDREDS of New York City police officers entered the Columbia University campus on Tuesday evening, taking many people into custody, in the latest escalation in Gaza protests that have swept campuses across the United States. Live television images showed police entering the university in upper Manhattan, which has been the...
PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester, Warwick University in Coventry and set up tents outside university buildings, on Wednesday, and called for supporters to donate food, drinks and hygiene products. Goldsmiths University...
OVER 5,000 workers, trade unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on May Day yesterday. ‘General strike for Palestine’, chanted the Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists delegation behind their May Day banner. As the march was assembling, News Line interviewed Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, who said:...
HUNDREDS of police officers in riot gear have arrested pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University, after the university authorities requested that they ‘clear all individuals’ from a campus building and encampments. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers stormed the academic premises through a large vehicle with an extendable ramp to gain...
Statement issued on Monday from the London for Sudan community organisation: National Call for Action: UK Complicity and Lack of Media Attention Protest for Sudan
LONDON for Sudan is organising a protest in central London to raise awareness and address the UK’s role in the war on civilians in Sudan, holding...
STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD The News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest May Day greetings to the working class, youth and the masses throughout the world who are rising up in revolutionary confrontation against a bankrupt capitalist system which is in its death agony, and is gripped...