Monthly Archives: September 2024
‘ISRAEL has gone on an assassination spree against resistance commanders in a desperate effort to prevent its demise,’ Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday. Qalibaf made the remarks on Sunday, two days after Israel assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, in...
The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has confirmed the assassination of its secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in massive Israeli airstrikes targeting residential buildings in southern Beirut on Friday. Nasrallah took over Hezbollah in 1992, at the age of 32, after his predecessor Abbas al-Musawi was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in...
THE SHOCK resignation of MP Rosie Duffield from the Labour Party has revealed the bankruptcy of the Keir Starmer regime that is literally rotting from within. She will now sit as an independent MP. Duffield is by no means one of the ‘usual suspects’, not regarded as any kind of left-wing...
ON THURSDAY, the Israeli Defence Ministry in a statement revealed that the US had given $8.7 billion of military aid to the Zionist state to fund the ongoing genocidal war in Gaza and provide the military weapons required by Israel to carry on with its war on Hezbollah and...
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been urged to address Israel’s attacks on press freedom and escalating military actions in Lebanon and Gaza, as world leaders called for immediate de-escalation and respect for international law. On Wednesday, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu implored the 15-member body not to overlook the targeting...
INTENSIVE Israeli air strikes smashed into homes across southern Lebanon yesterday, levelling schools, destroying infrastructure and overwhelming hospitals. Nine members of the same family were killed in the town of Shebba, 23 were killed in a single airstrike in the Bekkaa Valley, the majority of them children, at least five...
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran has declared that Israel has been defeated in its ‘genocidal war’ on the Gaza Strip and cannot restore its ‘myth of invincibility’ through acts of barbarism against Lebanon. Addressing the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Pezeshkian criticised...
FRESH from his defeat at the Labour Party Conference by the successful vote against his policy to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has launched a vicious counter-attack. Labour will force those on long-term sickness benefits back to work! Previously, he had stated that there...
THE USA, France and several Arab and European countries yesterday called for an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Israel-Lebanon border. ‘We call on all parties, including the governments of Israel and Lebanon, to endorse the temporary ceasefire immediately,’ read a joint statement by the countries. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told an...
DELEGATES at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool overwhelmingly voted to overturn the Labour government’s abolition of the Winter Fuel Allowance yesterday. Moving the motion, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: ‘The nation wants food, work and homes… It wants a high and rising standard of living, security for all,...
Israeli strikes killed 558 people in Lebanon on Monday, including 50 children and 94 women, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad told a press conference in Beirut on Tuesday, adding that at least 1,835 people were wounded, and 54 hospitals are treating patients. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer spelt out his intention to build up Britain’s capitalist state to take ‘control’ of people’s lives. Starmer made this declaration in his speech to the Labour Party conference on Tuesday, where he invoked the old ‘take back control’ slogan used by the Vote Leave campaign...
THE speech by Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves to the party’s annual conference on Monday was nothing more than an appeal to the international financial services and private equity firms to invest in British capitalism. Reeves’ pledge was that Labour has changed and is fully prepared to create the conditions for international...
The following is co-founder of the charity Medical Aid for Palestine, Dr Swee Ang’s speech in Beirut’s Ghobeiry Municipal Hall last Friday, on the 42nd Anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre opposite Martyrs Square, where over a thousand bodies were buried in Shatila Camp. ‘Your Excellencies, dear brothers and...
STANDING in front of a huge Union Jack with a banner atop it declaring ‘Change Begins....’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday. Declaring war on the working class, Starmer said he would ‘not offer false hope’, warned there are no ‘easy answers,’ threatened that...
CONSTRUCTION, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) supporters have warned that the massiveprotests bringing city traffic in Melbourne and Sydney to a halt last Wednesday could continue for days to come. The Melbourne protest, 60,000 strong according to organisers, was so long that it took fully 15 minutes to march...
THE Labour Party conference yesterday morning opened to boos and jeers from delegates furious at the Labour leadership’s manoeuvres to shunt the crunch vote on the axing of pensioners’ winter fuel payments to the tail-end of conference tomorrow morning. The motion, proposed by five trade unions led by Unite and...
THE Lebanese Health Ministry reported at 4.00pm yesterday afternoon that 274 citizens had been killed in Israeli airstrikes which began at 6.30am, including 21 children and 39 women, plus 1,024 wounded. Hezbollah fired back in what it described as a ‘war of reckoning,’ with heavy explosions heard in the Israeli...
A MOTION is set to be put to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this afternoon to oppose PM Starmer’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance. The exact wording of the motion was being argued over last night, but it is expected to include explicit opposition to the policy. The Unite...
Hundreds more UNITE HERE hotel workers have walked off the job, as another wave of strikes hits the US hotel industry last Thursday. Nearly 2,000 hotel workers are now on strike at Hilton, Marriott, and Omni hotels in Boston, Massachusetts and San Diego California, including the largest hotel in Boston...
ON THE EVE of this week’s Labour Party conference, left-wing Labour MP Diane Abbott attacked the Labour leadership saying that under Keir Starmer the Labour Party is ‘in the pocket of millionaires’. Abbott was responding to a comment by Ellie Reeves, Labour Chairwoman and sister of Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Ellie Reeves...
OFFICIAL data shows that the UK state debt is equal to the country’s economic output for the first time since the 1960s, amid the new Labour government’s warnings about very tough fiscal decisions in the years ahead to be imposed on the working class! The Office for National Statistics (ONS),...
Airport workers carried out an 11-hour strike at 27 airports in Argentina on Thursday. The action took place in two slots, between 6am and 12 noon, and 5pm and 10pm.
Workers from the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) grouped in the State Workers Union (ATE) went on strike amid a series...
LEBANON has accused Israel of committing war crimes after a series of deadly explosions involving booby-trapped communication devices killed at least 37 people and injured over 3,000 on Tuesday and Wednesday. An initial investigation by Lebanese authorities revealed that pagers and walkie-talkies were ‘professionally booby-trapped’ before entering the country and...
THE UN General Assembly has adopted a Palestinian-drafted, non-binding resolution demanding Israel end ‘its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’ within 12 months. There were 124 votes in favour and 14 against, including Israel, along with 43 abstentions. As a non-member observer state, Palestine could not vote. The resolution is...
THIS year’s British TUC Congress in Brighton from 8-11 September took key decisions to align trade unions with the pro-Palestine, pro-peace and anti-war movements, and demanded an end to Britain’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and escalation towards a wider war in the Middle East. Stop the War’s well-attended...
THE ISRAELI military killed at least 710 Palestinian babies before they made it to their first birthday, the equivalent of two infants under one-year-old killed by Israel every day for nearly a year. That’s according to a 649-page document published by the Ministry of Health in Gaza last Sunday listing...
HEZBOLLAH stressed yesterday that it will go ahead with its pro-Gaza strikes against the Israeli enemy, describing Tuesday’s deadly pager attacks as ‘another reckoning that will come’. Thousands of Hezbollah communication devices, known as pagers, exploded simultaneously in areas across Lebanon including Beirut, its southern suburb (Dahiyeh), south Lebanon and...
SOUTH Africa’s National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) on Tuesday called on the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane to ‘immediately address issues confronting our members and workers in the department of higher education and training’. A statement issued by the NEHAWU Secretariat said: ‘As NEHAWU,...
THE FITCH ratings agency’s downgrading of Israel to ‘A’ reflects the impact of the continuation of the war in Gaza, heightened geopolitical risks and military operations on multiple fronts. Fitch said: ‘Public finances have been hit and we project a budget deficit of 7.8% of GDP in 2024 and debt...
On the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Hamas Movement in Lebanon said that the Palestinian people would continue to stand firm against the Israeli occupation and resist it until it’s removed from their land. ‘The Sabra and Shatila massacre, which was committed by the Israeli occupation...
YAHYA Sinwar, the political leader of the Hamas Movement, has written to Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the head of the Ansar Allah Movement, conveying his profound appreciation for the latter’s steadfast support of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. Sinwar underscored in his letter that Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood operation was designed to deliver...
THE Gaza Health Ministry has published a report detailing the name, age, gender and identification numbers of tens of thousands of people killed by Israel over the past 11 months since the regime launched its genocidal war against the Palestinians. The shocking 649-page document, released on Monday, contains the details...
In June 2024, the charity Buttle UK concluded an extensive project to explore the lived experiences of children, young people, and families grappling with extreme financial hardship. Their new report, ‘Growing Up in Poverty,’ reveals a harrowing picture of life under severe financial strain exacerbated by the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
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MEMBER of Hamas political bureau Osama Hamdan said on Sunday that his movement wants ‘joint Palestinian rule’ if the war comes to a halt in the Gaza Strip. ‘The day after the battle is a Palestinian day. We went to Beijing where we negotiated as Palestinians and agreed on forming...
AT least 21 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in Gaza yesterday, bringing the death toll to 41,226, with a further 76 wounded, bringing the total number of injured up to 95,413. Thousands more are still missing under the rubble of bombarded buildings. Among the victims of the Zionist genocide...
LABOUR’S Foreign Secretary David Lammy has shrugged off as ‘bluster’ warnings by Russia that if Ukraine fires its British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles into Russia it could lead to a nuclear war. Ukraine already has supplies of long-range missiles from the UK but at the moment it is only authorised...
In a display of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, activists around the world have joined forces to block the MV Kathrin, a cargo vessel carrying explosives for the Israeli regime. While the vessel has been traversing the seas for over a month, a campaign dubbed ‘#BlockTheBoat’ aims to expose the Zionist regime’s...
A just-issued Coalition statement from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament states that: ‘In October, we will mark a year since the start of Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. ‘We need the largest possible mobilisation to demonstrate our solidarity, demand an end to the genocide,...
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has issued a stark warning to Western nations, cautioning them against allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike Russian territory. Addressing the issue, Putin stated that Moscow would perceive such actions as ‘direct participation’ of NATO countries in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The Kremlin leader emphasised:...
Human rights organisations have urgently called on UN member states to take immediate action to ‘protect people deprived of their liberty’ across the occupied Palestinian territory. In a collective statement, 31 human rights organisations, including Save the Children, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam, implored UN member states to implement crucial...
THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy Powell, MP and Leader of the House of Commons to justify it. Some may have dismissed this as wild talk to reinforce the Labour Party’s mantra...
SINCE 7 October 2023, Israeli airstrikes have emerged as the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers globally, responsible for over 75 per cent of the 378 aid worker fatalities recorded in the past 11 months. This grim statistic, based on data from the USAID-funded Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD),...
THE NEW Labour government launched its massive attack on the NHS yesterday, with PM Sir Keir Starmer threatening that the NHS must ‘reform or die’. Starmer launched a report by Lord Darzi, threatening ‘the biggest reimagining of the NHS’ since it was formed, with a new 10-year plan for the...