Monthly Archives: July 2024
Disney are set to face the largest strike in the US this year after it was announced that thousands of theme park and hotel workers in California will vote on whether to stage a walkout. Three trade unions representing 14,000 ‘cast members’ at Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and...
ISRAELI occupation forces have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at least 141 Palestinians and the injury of 400 others, according to the local health authorities. They confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli...
Drop Site News, a US-based publication, has recently conducted interviews with senior Hamas officials and reviewed statements from the group’s leaders. These efforts included background interviews with various Hamas sources, with two officials—Basem Naim and Ghazi Hamad—agreeing to speak on the record.
Additionally, knowledgeable Palestinians, Israelis, and international sources were consulted...
THE Israeli government has told ‘everyone’ in Gaza City, which has over 250,000 inhabitants, that they must leave the city at once so that they can destroy the Hamas forces that remain undefeated in the city and are now a major thorn in Israel’s side. Residents have been leafletted that...
LABOUR PM Keir Starmer is poised for a clash with the unions after downplaying the likelihood of real-terms pay rises for public sector workers in upcoming negotiations, sparking widespread warnings of recruitment and staffing crises. Starmer has cautioned the unions to brace themselves for disappointment, ahead of imminent findings from...
THE administration of US President Joe Biden plans to resume shipping heavy bombs to Israel, defying international appeals against this action, as part of Washington’s unwavering support for the Israeli regime, amid its ongoing conflict with Palestinians in Gaza. An anonymous US official disclosed on Wednesday that Washington would resume...
THE Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into recent confessions by Israeli soldiers that they had committed systematic war crimes against Palestinians during the genocidal war in Gaza. The confessions appeared in two Israeli news outlets, +972 Magazine and...
‘IT IS NOT implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza,’ declares an article in the British health journal The Lancet. The article, ‘Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential,’ was written by Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee...
THE HAMAS movement has called for organising angry marches all over the world to condemn Israel’s massacres and genocide in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, Hamas said that the Israeli occupation army committed a massacre on Tuesday at Al-Awda School in Abasan al-Kabira town, east of Khan Younis in...
IRAN’S President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian has responded to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, affirming the Islamic Republic’s unwavering support to the resistance. In a letter to Sayyed Nasrallah, Pezeshkian said that ‘support to the resistance is deep-rooted in Iran’s core policy,’ stressing that this support will continue.
‘I’m certain that the...
LABOUR PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer has almost immediately betrayed the massive working class electorate that voted him into office as Prime Minister. His first action has been not to disown his new Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s verdict on the NHS that it was ‘broken’ and had no future. He has kept...
MATT WRACK, the President of the TUC and the general secretary of the FBU, correctly said on election day, July 4th, that Labour’s post-election honeymoon would be short-lived unless Labour takes immediate action to deliver on workers’ rights and brings a swift end to 14 years of public sector...
The health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that the Israeli occupation army as committed three massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip in the 24 hours from Sunday through to Monday, killing at least 40 civilians and injuring over 75 others, while a large number of victims...
AT least nine people were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp yesterday morning, including five children who were playing in the street when the bombs struck. The attack targeted a gathering of civilians near the Abu Rasas roundabout in the camp. The dead and injured children were...
OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules on them. More than 300 London Transit staff are being balloted for industrial action, bringing the total number of RATP bus workers poised to strike to...
THE SECOND and final round of voting for the French Parliament ended on Sunday night with the fascist National Rally (RN) party suffering a shock defeat just weeks after it was confidently predicted they would win a majority and seize power. This prediction of an outright win by the RN,...
LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised the outgoing administration of the late President Ebrahim Raeisi as ‘the government of endeavour, hope and hard work’. He told a meeting with members of the outgoing administration in the Iranian capital Tehran on Sunday: ‘Among the prominent features...
DAY surgery operating theatre nurses at St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament are striking again today against having their shift times forcibly extended again! The 50 workers warn that the increase in shift times from 20:00 to 21:00 is now compromising patient safety because they are exhausted. The theatre staff had already...
‘ON THE EVE of a crucial election for our Republic,’ the CGT French trade union federation warned of the ‘alarming consequences for our freedoms if the extreme right were to come to power’. The CGT warned: ‘If it comes to power, the far right will attack all counter-powers, starting with...
On the fifteenth National march for Palestine over one hundred thousand workers and youth took to the streets in central London in support of a Palestinian state to a rally on the Embankment on Saturday. As the march entered the Embankment a group of Zionists tried to enter with their...
THE NEW Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s first recorded words in office as Labour’s Health Secretary were to condemn the National Health Service, telling the media that the ‘NHS is broken!’ He can’t wait to get rid of the NHS and restore private medical care to make vast profits for big...
Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory. Labour is returning to office with a huge parliamentary majority of 174, following a complete collapse in support for the Conservatives. Starmer will be formally appointed by the...
One hundred and twenty five union building staff at the University of Chicago Medical Centre (UCMC) are to strike next week amid protracted contract negotiations and to protest what workers are calling labour law violations. The hospital’s building trades and supply chain workers, members of the Service Employees International Union...
THE Nordic nations have voiced serious concerns over the withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues, further straining the already difficult fiscal situation of the Palestinian Authority. Mirroring the recent Apulia summit’s G7 Leaders’ Communiqué, the Nordic countries have urged Israel to promptly release the withheld funds and to maintain correspondent banking...
APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of steam will be visible above the Port Talbot steelworks due to the closure of one of its historic furnaces. Blast Furnace 5 (BF5), which has been...
A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him to withdraw from November’s presidential election and even immediately resign his position as leader of the most powerful capitalist nation in the world. These calls have...
NATO member countries have been unable to reach an agreement on a multi-year pledge to provide military aid to Ukraine, the DPA news agency said citing sources in Western countries’ delegations. According to the sources, the alliance’s members only agreed on providing Kiev with about 40 billion euros in aid...
A RESERVE Major General in the Israeli occupation army, Yitzhak Brik, yesterday spoke out about the dire situation in the Gaza Strip. Brik described the current events as ‘a great disgrace to Israel’, stating that the country is ‘losing on a large scale’.
Criticising Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for downplaying the...
Russian air defence systems have struck nine Ukrainian Air Force aircraft, including seven Su-27s, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported on Tuesday. They said: ‘Two more Ukrainian aircraft, a MiG-29 and an Su-27, were shot down by Russian air defence systems,’ and a ‘surgical strike’ on an airfield wiped out...
NEWS LINE urges all of our readers and all workers and youth who are living in the five constituencies that the WRP is standing in this general election to vote WRP today. These constituencies are Oxford East, Liverpool Garston, Hammersmith and Chiswick, Hackney South and Shoreditch, and Peckham. It is vital...
THE director of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, who had been detained by Israeli forces for more than seven months, says he was put through ‘severe torture’ during his detention in Israeli prisons. Mohammed Abu Salmiya was among more than 50 Palestinians released and returned to Gaza.
Salmiya told a press conference on...
THEATRE nurses, members of Unite, were yesterday picketing on the second day of their current strike action at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge. Some of them spoke to News Line. Aara Essajee, a staff nurse at Guys hospital, said: ‘We are here to challenge the change to our working hours....
On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that ex-President Donald Trump enjoys ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president, a ruling that at a stroke destroys the fiction of the US as a ‘democracy’ with no man or woman above the law. In short, this ruling shreds the American Constitution...
THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called for ‘urgent action’ from the next government to prepare the UK for rising temperatures following last week’s heatwave. Warnings for heat and wildfires were in force across much of the country, with the union’s general secretary Matt Wrack warning that the UK fire...
On Sunday, France went to the polls in the first round of parliamentary elections, with the far-right, neo-fascist National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen emerging as a clear winner with 33% of the vote. The New Popular Front (NFP) polled second with 28% while the right-wing ‘centrist’ coalition of...
A GENEVA-based rights group has documented a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over an injured Palestinian mother in front of her son. In a statement released on Sunday, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) said an Israeli tank ran over 65-year-old...
ISRAELI occupation forces have committed three main massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at least 43 Palestinians and injuring 111 others. Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7th has...
THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for supporting cases against the regime in international courts. ‘The Security Cabinet has authorised one outpost for every country that unilaterally recognised Palestine as a state in...
THE New York Times is just the first US newspaper to urge the incumbent Democratic Party president Joe Biden to quit the 2024 presidential election race, following his political collapse during a debate against former president Donald Trump – who himself has had to face a host of legal...