Monthly Archives: July 2024
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nicolas Maduro on being re-elected President of Venezuela, noting the strategic partnership between Moscow and Caracas. ‘Russian-Venezuelan relations have the nature of a strategic partnership. I am confident that your activity as head of state will continue to contribute to their progressive development on...
ON MONDAY, the new Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her shock and horror that no one had told her about a £22 billion ‘black hole’ in government finances. Reeves blamed the policies of the last Tory government for creating this black hole and for keeping quiet about it. But, Reeves insisted,...
GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the ministry said the situation ‘poses a health threat to the residents of Gaza and neighbouring countries,’ calling the epidemic a ‘setback’ to the global polio...
STRIKING Day Surgery nurses at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust are holding a demonstration at 2pm today at Guy’s Hospital entrance, St Thomas’ Road in central London. This is the second day of their latest two-day action in a series of strikes against the trust’s attempts to impose an unagreed...
As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 295 on Saturday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians. The Israeli occupation army continued to bomb homes and attack citizens in different areas of Gaza, especially in Khan Yunis...
BRITAIN, where modern industrial capitalism began and which became the workshop of the world, has now collapsed to being the world’s 12th biggest manufacturer, with an output of £200bn a year. The current rankings put it behind Mexico, France, Russia and Taiwan. Currently, China is top of the rankings with an...
NEW LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped a bombshell on the working class across the UK in a statement in Parliament yesterday, announcing that she is ending the £300 universal winter fuel payment, which is currently paid to all pensioners. She said she is scrapping this vital benefit immediately, from this...
HEZBOLLAH issued a statement yesterday categorically denying Israeli allegations that it was responsible for the killing of 12 children on a football field in the Majdal Shams area in the occupied Golan Heights on Saturday. Hezbollah issued the following statement: ‘The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon categorically denies the allegations reported...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of the United States Congress last Wednesday, as his government carries out a genocide in Gaza, which has resulted in the deaths of over 39,000 Palestinians. Last Wednesday, Netanyahu justified Israel’s war, which commenced on October 7th 2023, the day...
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to tell workers that major unavoidable tax rises are on the way since she has inherited a £20bn funding gap from the Tories. Both the working class and the middle class are in her sights and she is set to declare alongside the Treasury...
IRAN'S President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian has criticised the repeated applause from US lawmakers for the Israeli Prime Minister during his address to Congress, asserting that such recognition will not absolve criminal actions. ‘The crime of killing innocent people and homeless children cannot be overlooked, nor can the criminal be absolved with...
THE capitalist press is currently trumpeting the latest news from Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, that she is set to unveil a £19bn black hole in the UK state’s finances, and that the working class will have to pay it off if British capitalism is to survive. An early assessment from...
THE United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and dozens of organisations and countries are striving to block or delay an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his genocidal war in the besieged Gaza Strip, a report says. The ICC is currently...
TWO weeks ago the Labour government’s work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall called the two-child benefit cap ‘a stain on our society’, and this week the Starmer-led party showed just how hollow and treacherous these words were when they voted against an amendment to abolish this hated cap and...
A TOP World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday that he’s ‘extremely worried’ about polio and other outbreaks of communicable diseases in Gaza after traces of the virus turned up in sewage samples in the territory. Dr Ayadil Saparbekov, team lead for health emergencies at WHO in the Palestinian...
ONLY four police officers in Kenya so far are to face prosecution for shooting and killing protesters over the last four weeks, amid rising calls for justice for victims of the alleged excessive use of force. ‘We have encountered non-cooperation from the police, and to a certain level, some intimidation...
SEVEN Labour MPs have had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the Labour government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Ex-shadow chancellor John McDonnell was among the Labour MPs who voted for an SNP motion calling for an end to the policy, which prevents...
WESTERN countries are actively preparing for a direct conflict with Russia, says Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Vucic told the Pink TV channel: ‘The West would like to conduct warfare from a distance, through someone else, through investing money and so on, but at the moment they are not ready (for...
YESTERDAY officials from 14 Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Fatah, signed a ‘national unity’ agreement in the Chinese capital Beijing that ended any divisions that had previously existed and created the political platform for a unified Palestinian government for an independent state of Palestine. This massive development in the Palestinian...
FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The deal, finalised yesterday in China after three days of intensive talks, lays the groundwork for an ‘interim national reconciliation government’ to rule post-war Gaza, said...
ON SUNDAY, US president Joe Biden caved in to the demands of senior Democrats and the Wall Street supporters of the party to step down as candidate in the forthcoming presidential election in November. Not just the deterioration of Biden’s mental faculties, but the growing realisation amongst the US ruling...
International reaction has poured in since last Friday’s ruling by the top United Nations court that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should swiftly be brought to an end. Palestinian officials have hailed the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling as a ‘watershed moment’ in...
THE GAZA death toll passed the 39,000 mark yesterday with the Health Ministry reporting at least 39,006 Palestinians have been killed and 89,818 wounded by Israeli attacks since October 7th 2023. Mohamed Saqer, official spokesman of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, said Israeli attacks on eastern Khan Younis killed...
JOSEP BORRELL, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, yesterday commended the advisory opinion that Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful, which was issued by the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) last Friday. ‘The opinion aligns with the positions of the European Union and with United...
THE spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces has warned Israel against any further act of aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, saying the coastal city of Tel Aviv in the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories is no longer a safe place as it is within range of Yemeni weapons. ‘The Yemeni Army...
WITH the UK’s Labour government set to face challenges from the left to the King’s Speech today, the Fire Brigades Union has urged MPs to back amendments on repealing the child benefit cap, on ending arms sales to Israel, and for public ownership of water. Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union...
URSULA von der Leyen who has been re-elected as European Commission (EC) President, has vowed to transform the EU into a defence bloc in her political programme published by the EC. The document said: ‘Our work in the next five years will be focused on building a true European Defence...
A NEW Oxfam report on Thursday has revealed how Israel has been systematically weaponising water against Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip in total disregard for human life and international law. The report, Water War Crimes, finds that Israel’s cutting of external water supply, systematic destruction of water facilities and...
THE Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a bill rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, viewing it as a continuation of colonial occupation policies and ongoing violations of Palestinian rights, in blatant defiance of international law and relevant UN resolutions. The organisation...
RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said yesterday it is a sign of militarisation and confrontation. Von der Leyen has made the pledge in line with her endeavour to...
ON Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres slammed Israel for ‘driving a stake through the heart’ of a two-state solution between Palestinians and the Zionist State. A statement from Guterres, read out during a meeting of the UN Security Council stated that by using administrative and legal measures...
THE HEAD of the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission, Moayad Shaaban, said that since the beginning of this year, the Israeli occupation authorities have seized an estimated 40 thousand dunums of privately owned Palestinian lands. During a press conference held on Wednesday at the commission’s headquarters in Ramallah, he said...
THE STARMER Labour government brought forward an anti-working class King’s Speech in Parliament yesterday morning. It announced 40 pieces of legislation, starting with a Budget Responsibility Bill, which will hand over the power to bar the raising of government finance to the unelected Office of Budget Responsibility. The King began: ‘Stability...
THE Hamas Movement said on Tuesday that the heroic shooting operation, that took place east of Tulkarem that morning and led to the injury of three Israeli settlers, was a natural response to Israeli brutal crimes and massacres against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. In...
KING Charles yesterday outlined his new Labour government’s law-making plans in his speech to Parliament. The Labour Party now has an overall majority over all of the other political parties of 172 seats, with Labour having 411 seats in the House of Commons. The combined opposition is now down to...
LAST Saturday, at least 88 Palestinians were killed and over 289 injured by Israeli bomb strikes on the displaced peoples camp in Khan Younis, an area that had been designated by the Israeli military a ‘safe’ zone for Palestinians in Gaza. The day after this latest act of genocidal murder,...
An Israeli raid on the Attar area on the western outskirts of Khan Younis killed at least 13 people and injured 26 yesterday, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported, with four children among the dead. The air strike hit near an area of tents housing displaced families.
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THE TUC yesterday published a poll of over 3,000 voters which showed conclusively overwhelming support for workers rights and pay increases to match the inflationary cost of living spiral. The poll, conducted for the TUC by Opinium after the general election on July 4th, showed the extent of support for...
ISRAELI forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials, medics and rescuers. The latest attack on Sunday struck the United Nations-run Abu Oreiban school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 17 people and...
ISRAELI forces carried out a new massacre yesterday as they bombed the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Video from the Abu Oraiban school, which has been housing hundreds of displaced people, shows injured children lying on...