Monthly Archives: June 2024
ISRAELI authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the military operations and attacks on Gaza since 7th October 2023, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, said in a new report yesterday. The Independent...
UNITED States rights groups have filed an appeal against US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin for their complicity in the Israeli regime’s months-long genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. On Monday, the Centre for Constitutional Rights, a New York civil liberties...
Hamas says it has submitted its response to a US-backed plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, with a senior official telling the BBC that it still requires an Israeli commitment to a permanent ceasefire. In a statement, the group and its Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) allies, expressed ‘readiness to positively’...
Thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday in the Chilean capital Santiago for the protection of children in Palestine and in support of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, which has been under attack by Israel for eight months. The demonstrators gathered in La Alameda, the main road into Santiago, and...
ON Monday, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a US-drafted resolution endorsing a Gaza ceasefire proposal that aims to end Israel’s eight-month genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas swiftly welcomed the resolution and, in a statement, said it was ready to cooperate with...
LAUNCHING the Tory Party manifesto yesterday, Rishi Sunak attacked the sick and disabled, refugees and youth, boosted wealthy landlords, and banged the war drums against Russia. He pledged another 2% cut in National Insurance contributions. This will be paid for by the recently announced cuts in benefits for the sick...
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) (which is affiliated to the IndustriALL Global Union) is considering taking legal action against employers automotive air conditioning and engine cooling systems manufacturer MAHLE Bher, after a striking worker was shot dead by a security guard at the factory in KwaZulu-Natal last...
THE General Election on July 4th will feature a shattered Tory Party that has already been wrecked by the developing capitalist crisis, and is now, more openly than ever before, pushing its reactionary programme to illegalise all trade union actions, send asylum seekers to Rwanda, return conscription to the...
THE spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of being complicit in the ‘terrible and inhumane’ crime perpetrated by the Israeli military in the al-Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip. Speaking at his weekly press briefing yesterday, Nasser Kan’ani again censured...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli regime’s recent carnage in a refugee camp in the central part of the besieged Gaza Strip, where hundreds of Palestinians were wounded and killed. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA...
‘BRITAIN must impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and recognise the state of Palestine. We demand Israel gets out of Rafah, Gaza, Jerusalem, Palestine NOW,’ Husam Zomlot, Palestine Ambassador to the UK told the 175,000-strong mass rally in Whitehall, central London on Saturday. He was speaking at the...
ON Friday, Israeli forces launched a murderous attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza with bombs directed at its market place, which was crammed with civilians desperate to find food, along with two adjacent buildings. Friday’s attack came after days of Israel intensifying attacks on Nuseirat and other...
UNITED Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has informed Israel’s Defence Attaché in the United States, Major General Hidai Zilberman, of his decision to finally include Israel in the blacklist of countries and organisations harming children in conflict zones. This list also features groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram. According to a...
ISRAEL’s genocidal war on Gaza, killing over 36,000 Palestinians including over 15,000 children, has had a huge impact throughout the world and has created a major crisis for imperialism. In the US it has reduced America’s influence in the world and has created a major problem for a Biden re-election...
WHILE US president Joe Biden is desperately peddling a phoney ‘peace plan,’ in an effort to divert the massive tidal wave of anger sweeping America over US complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the Zionist regime is planning an escalation of the war into a war against Hezbollah...
STUDENT nurse numbers are declining to the extent that the official NHS workforce plan for England will be over 10,000 off target by 2025, new analysis by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) shows as it calls for renewed investment and action. The nursing union is also warning that student...
THE humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has turned into a man-made famine, the United Nations human rights chief has said, adding that Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon could amount to a ‘war crime.’ The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, in an interview with the...
TENS of thousands are mobilising to surround the White House on June 8th in protest against Biden’s complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza, principally the brutal invasion of Rafah, which takes more and more Palestinian lives each day. US President Biden had claimed in the past that the invasion...
COMPASS Coffee workers have announced a unionisation drive across seven stores in America to end the chain’s no-tipping policy and improve benefits and working conditions. Organisers said 84% of union-eligible employees at these cafes have signed authorisation cards to join Workers United.
This is a Services Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate...
THE abject failure of the imperialist-backed Israeli regime to smash Hamas and crush the resistance of the Palestinian people to the brutal occupation is causing an acute political crisis both in Tel Aviv and Washington. It is a crisis that is also reverberating across the western governments in the UK...
NEARLY one million people in Britain are just £10 away from falling into poverty according to the new analysis from the leading poverty charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). This new research reveals that the unprecedented increase in the cost of living has left millions of households ‘teetering on the...
IT HAS been predicted the African National Congress (ANC) will have a tough time persuading its alliance partners to get into a pact with the right wing Democratic Alliance (DA) following the party’s disastrous performance in this week’s elections. In provinces such as the Eastern Cape, the ANC’s alliance partners, trade union...
TATA Steelworkers have overwhelmingly voted to strike with three quarters of them backing industrial action, the GMB union announced on Monday. The ballot ended with 83 per cent of workers backing action short of strike, and 72 per cent backing strike action. Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, GMB National Officer said: ‘Tata threatened workers...
ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over 24 hours yesterday, resulting in the tragic killing of 40 Palestinians and leaving 150 others injured. Medical sources confirmed that the death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7th has now risen to 36,479 reported Palestinian...
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) acting general secretary, Professor Nicola Ranger, opened the union’s annual conference yesterday declaring a ‘national emergency’ in the NHS over hospitals being forced to deliver clinical care in ‘inappropriate areas’. This stark warning follows an RCN investigation into the extent of patients being treated...
‘Gaza is witnessing the worst of the worst levels of malnutrition, especially child malnutrition, and it’s entirely man-made,’ Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh said on Sunday. ‘Children in Gaza are being starved, they are being deprived of clean water and they are being deprived of adequate medical assistance.
‘And this is...
SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has welcomed the general ceasefire plan proposed by US president Joe Biden, saying it contained ‘positive ideas’. Hamdan reiterated his Movement’s rejection of any presence of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip or at the Rafah border crossing in any potential deal, stressing that the...
The US State Department falsified a report earlier this month to exonerate Israel from blame for obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, contradicting its own experts, according to a former senior US official who resigned last week. Stacy Gilbert, who left her role as senior civil-military adviser in the State Department’s...
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 60 Palestinians and the injury of 220 others, according to medical sources. Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught...
EGYPT has warned it’s ready to respond militarily after Israeli troops seized a sensitive corridor of land along its border with the Gaza Strip. According to the Wall Street Journal, ties between Tel Aviv and Cairo are now fraying, with Egypt having told Israel it will not hesitate to respond...
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, received Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday. Assad travelled to Tehran to offer condolences over the loss of President Ebrahim Raeisi and his companions in a helicopter crash.
Ayatollah Khamenei hailed Syria’s ‘distinguished identity’ in the region, saying it is owed to the...
DOZENS of innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally murdered and others injured yesterday as the occupying Israeli regime continued its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, now in its 238th consecutive day, according to local and medical reports. In Rafah, located in the farthest south of the Gaza...