Monthly Archives: August 2024
A BABY girl was the sole survivor of an overnight Israeli attack on a family home in Khan Younis which killed 10 people yesterday. The three-month-old baby, named Reem Abu Haya, lost both her parents and eight other family members in the attack.
‘This little girl was pulled out of the...
‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic crisis finally engulfed them. ‘A few should be allowed to go bust, freeing up reserves of land buildings, capital and people that could be redeployed easily...
STOP coup attempts against Maduro in Venezuela! says National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) general secretary Irvin Jim. A statement issued on Sunday: NUMSA defends the Bolivarian revolution: Stop coup attempts in Venezuela!, said:
‘The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) congratulates the people of Venezuela for...
HAMAS has warned Israel against attacking the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday indicated his support for bombing it. Hamas called Katz’s remarks ‘a clear expression’ of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people after he called for the ‘Jenin camp to be...
UNIVERSITY workers are set to strike to defend jobs and courses as soon as the new academic year begins in September. Staff at Sheffield Hallam University will take four days of industrial action in September in defence of jobs and employment conditions.
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at...
YESTERDAY’S Daily Telegraph Editorial has called for ‘Supporting the Ukraine whatever it takes’ backing the Ukrainian attack on Russia to the hilt. It observed: ‘Faced with the slow delivery of promised aid, President Volodymyr Zelensky has taken the biggest gamble of the entire conflict by ordering a direct incursion into...
‘REFUGEES are welcome here!’ chanted thousands of workers, students and youth as they joined hundreds of anti-racism demonstrations in towns and cities across the country on Saturday. There were rallies in Cardiff, Birmingham, Norwich, Penzance, Southampton, Shrewsbury, Carlisle, Hastings, Cambridge and Devon, while in Belfast in the north of Ireland,...
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters scored a key victory in the union’s national fight to organise workers at Amazon after a federal judge ruled the Teamsters are allowed to picket the massive Amazon Air Hub without interference at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (KCVG). The air cargo hub, known as...
PHILIPPE Lazzarini, Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), reported on Saturday that over 75,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the south western region of Gaza in recent days. In a post on X, Lazzarini stated that the mass displacement of the Palestinian people...
ISRAEL’S air force has delivered strikes on some 60 Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the press office of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday. The IDF’s press service reported that among the targets were ‘military strongholds operated by terrorists’...
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has made a fervent call for the global recognition of the right to self-determination for Indigenous communities. This call comes amid ongoing struggles and systemic discrimination faced by Indigenous populations worldwide.
ITUC General Secretary...
AT least 56 Palestinians have been killed and scores more sustained injuries in Israeli assaults across Gaza since Thursday morning, according to medical sources. In Gaza City and Khan Younis, a minimum of 32 Palestinians lost their lives due to Israeli strikes. The central Gaza region saw Israeli airstrikes target...
IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to protect asylum centres from racist attacks. This was in response to police warnings about potential unrest from over 100 far-right rallies which they were allowing. Demonstrators held...
WEDNESDAY night was promoted as the night the right-wing mobs would take over the streets of Britain, burning Mosques and hotels that have housed refugees while targeting lawyers representing asylum seekers amongst others. This message was amplified across the social media with its right-wing web sites and by the mainstream...
‘In Bangladesh protesters impose their power!’ French trade union federation La CGT declared on Tuesday, as it congratulated and sent greetings to the nation’s workers and youth. La CGT said: ‘In July, massive demonstrations began at the initiative of students and then reinforced by workers.
‘Thus, they succeeded in bringing down...
‘UCL Stand for Justice’ has condemned the north London university for going to the courts and smearing its campaign in support of Palestine and against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. University College London (UCL) has won a court order to regain control of part of its campus which has been...
‘WELCOME to Hell,’ is the title of a new report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem: ‘The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps, August 2024.’ This report concerns the treatment of Palestinian prisoners and the inhuman conditions they have been subjected to in Israeli prisons since 7 October...
THE appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, after the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, has drawn applause from various regional resistance groups, who described his selection as ‘the best successor to the best predecessor.’ The Gaza-based Islamic Jihad movement said in...
VENEZUELAN Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has rejected a European Union statement which calls for ‘further independent verification of the electoral records, if possible by an internationally reputed entity.’ Speaking of the previous right-wing attempt to overthrow an election result, Gil said: ‘The EU’s aggression with Guaidó One was defeated, that...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’ of specialist police officers in response to the outbreak of violence from gangs of far-right and neo-fascists in towns and cities that have dominated the...
TWELVE Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in several areas in the occupied West Bank yesterday, including nine youths. Two youths and a child were killed at dawn, while seven others were injured during a raid into the town of Aqaba, north of Tubas, bringing the death toll to four. Occupation military...
STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism is diving headlong into recession. The past months have seen countless assurances throughout the financial press that the dominant global US economy was in ‘robust’ shape,...
THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the ‘policy’ as a continuation of the occupying entity’s ‘Nazi-like genocide’. ‘The occupying regime’s goals behind these massacres, of terrorism, intimidation, and displacement, will be shattered by...
At least 76 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and dozens more injured in a new round of violence in Bangladesh over the weekend, as police fired tear gas and lobbed stun grenades at tens of thousands of protesters who returned to the streets to demand the resignation...
OVER 100,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through central London on the 17th London National March for Palestine on Saturday. Speakers at the rally outside Downing Street at the end of the march demanded that the new Labour government must stop exporting arms to Israel and recognise the...
The march set off at 1pm and was led by the banners of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestine Forum in Britain, the Stop the War Coalition and Friends of Al-Aqsa. The loud and lively delegation behind the Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists banner...
COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on ‘right wing rioters’ who want to see the Labour government out, but do not have a massive Tory opposition to turn to, since it imploded...
ASKED yesterday whether the country faced a ‘Summer of Riots’, the Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer responded: ‘It’s obvious to me, and I think anybody looking in, that as far as the far-right is concerned, this is co-ordinated. This is deliberate. This is not a protest that...
The Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union has initiated a strike in the United States against video game producers over compensation for artificial intelligence (AI) use. The strike centres on concerns that AI, which can learn from and replicate actors’ motion capture and live...
ON THURSDAY, Israeli authorities released 64 detainees from Gaza. Among the released were two women from Gaza, detained while accompanying patients in Israel. Of the freed detainees, 22 went directly to the hospital, while the rest sought their families. When Ibrahim Salem stepped out of the ambulance at Al-Aqsa Hospital...
OVER 8,500 General Practitioners (GPs) across England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking collective action, including strike action, in response to mounting challenges within the NHS. The ballot, which took place from 17th June to 29th July 2024, saw 98.3% of participating GPs supporting one or more forms of...
A FORMER Lebanese lawmaker Naser Kandeel said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the US featured a planned coordination between Tel Aviv and Washington concerning assassination operations against senior Palestinian resistance figures. Naser Kandeel made the remarks in a post on X on Wednesday, referring...
ISRAEL has detained thousands of Palestinians during the war on Gaza and stands accused of numerous cases of torture, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says in a new report. The 23-page report, released on Wednesday, noted allegations of widespread abuse of prisoners being held...
MASS demonstrations were held across Palestine and throughout the Arab world yesterday after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by Israel in the Iranian capital, Tehran, overnight on Tuesday. Flags are being flown at half-mast in all official Palestinian institutions and a general strike is being held across the West...
LIBERTY Steel crisis worsens, unions oppose massive job cuts and de-industrialisation, says IndustriALL. In over just few days, news of massive job cuts, of bankruptcy and of financial difficulties hit hard several thousands of Liberty Steel workers and their families in Ostrava (Czech Republic)), Cz´stochowa (Poland) and Dunaújváros (Hungary).
Trade unions...
IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the Islamic Republic and the Resistance Front will avenge the murder of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, by an Israeli death squad, working on behalf of the US ruling class. Qalibaf continued: ‘May...