Monthly Archives: September 2024
THE UK’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State have both been very busy whipping up a ‘war fever’ against Russia in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The two imperialist diplomats are seeking to organise to give the Ukraine the go-ahead from the UK and the...
THE new school year began in Palestine on Monday amid ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, and the escalating aggression in the West Bank. For the past 11 months, students in Gaza schools and universities have been denied access to education due to the continuous brutal...
THE TUC unanimously passed Composite Motion C17 at its Congress in Brighton yesterday, demanding: ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine... end licences for all arms traded with Israel... and a permanent ceasefire and the release of all hostages and Palestinian political prisoners.’ Mover Louise Regan, of the National Education Union...
A SENIOR Hezbollah official says that the Lebanese resistance movement is impervious to Israeli threats and remains determined in its fight in support of the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip until they achieve their goals. Vice President of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, Sheikh Ali Damoush, made the remarks...
US PRESIDENT Biden is now poised to lift the ban on the UK’s Storm Shadow missiles being fired into Russia by the US-UK’s fascist allies in the Ukraine. This would not only be a major provocation to Russia but would invite retaliation from Russia and its allies that would cost...
THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm, at the same time that the illegal entity is engaged in a genocidal war on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Palestinian media said a...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s speech at the TUC Congress yesterday spelt out precisely to delegates that this Labour government is determined to inflict all the pain and cuts on the backs of workers demanded by a bankrupt British capitalist system. Starmer made no secret of the plans for his regime to make...
THE Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, is facing extensive urban destruction by Israeli firepower and forced displacement of its residents. The Israeli military has been demolishing buildings and flattening structures as far as the eye can see, from Street 10 to Street 8. What exactly is happening there? Al-Zaytoun...
SEVERAL Palestinian associations and institutions have issued a statement calling on the international community to save Palestinian schools from the occupation’s education genocide, as part of the International Academic Campaign against Israeli occupation and apartheid. To mark International Day for the Protection of Education from Attack, which is observed on...
UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham has accused Labour of ‘pickpocketing pensioners’ telling Labour leader Keir Starmer to ‘accept it’s an error’ to push ahead with the plan to scrap the Winter Fuel Allowance for over 10 million pensioners. Graham, who leads the UK’s biggest union and is the largest donor...
‘THE TUC must call strike action, show unity and solidarity with the people of Palestine and end the genocide,’ Maria Cass, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP) delegate told News Line yesterday. Speaking outside the TUC Annual Congress in Brighton, she continued to condemn Israel. ‘There’s nothing more important at the moment. ‘It’s...
THERE were 125,000 workers, students and youth on Saturday’s 18th National March for Palestine through London, from Piccadilly to a quarter of a mile east of the Israeli embassy. There were dozens of trade union banners on the march and other banners and placards along with thousands of Palestinian flags. ‘General...
‘THE report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip requires urgent intervention to relieve our people,’ the Hamas Movement urged in a statement on Saturday. Hamas added that the UN report which confirmed that Israel...
ANY Israeli attempt to displace Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to Jordan will be considered a ‘declaration of war’, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned on Thursday. He said that ‘Israel is waging another war’ in the occupied West Bank while ramping up the genocide in Gaza and that...
RIGHT-WING Argentina president President Javier Milei’s spokesman said on Thursday that his government has reduced the workforce at state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas by 13 per cent over the last six months. A total of 1,500 fewer workers are now on the payroll, said Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni at his daily...
THE International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has staunchly defended his decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials over war crimes in Gaza, revealing he faced cautions from multiple world leaders regarding this move. Karim Khan disclosed that several countries and authorities had warned him that arrest warrants for...
THE Grenfell Tower Inquiry on Wednesday published its final report. Responding to the report, Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said: ‘Today is a sobering reminder of the tragic deaths of 72 people, and the deep scar that the Grenfell Tower fire has left on the community. ‘The FBU shares...
IMMEDIATELY after the damning report on the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was published the House of Commons was packed with MPs listening to Labour prime minster Keir Starmer offering an apology ‘on behalf of the British state’ to ‘all the families affected by this tragedy’. Starmer was...
THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm, at a time that the illegal entity is engaged in a genocidal war on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Palestinian media said a Palestinian...
‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower yesterday morning. She delivered the community statement after the Chairman of the Grenfell Inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, delivered his damning verdict. Those in the 24-storey block were...
AS ISRAEL’S genocide in Gaza nears its 11th month, US workers are continuing to rally and demand that President Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris stop arming Israel. The Biden administration just sent its 500th airlift of weapons to Israel since October 7, combined with over 100 shipments by...
South African education unions, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation (Naptosa) and the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), responded on Monday to the Western Cape Department of Education (WCDE) plans to cut the number of education workers by more than 2,400 by 2025. Both unions say that they will ballot...
THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire service’, a scathing Grenfell Inquiry report concludes. All deaths were avoidable, the Grenfell inquiry chair Martin Moore-Bick said, as he delivered his final statement seven years...
THE UNITED Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has stressed that ‘peace’ is the best solution to save Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, as a polio vaccination campaign gets underway in the war-torn territory amid daily eight-hour pauses in Israeli strikes. ‘Children in Gaza are receiving much-needed polio vaccines today....
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted with fury yesterday following the announcement on Monday that the Labour government was suspending some arms sales to the Zionist state, describing this as ‘shameful’ while insisting that ‘with or without British arms, Israel will win this war’. In the face of the complete...
‘THE Israeli occupation army has committed three massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, killing and injuring at least 100 civilians,’ the Gaza health ministry said yesterday. ‘At least 33 martyrs and 67 wounded citizens were transported to hospitals,’ the Ministry said, adding that...
HEALTHWORKERS 4 Palestine and Amnesty International UK staged a mass solidarity protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Friday night. The protest was to highlight the ongoing ordeal of 179 Palestinian medical workers, the majority of whom are from Gaza, being held without charge or trial by the Israeli...
A NATIONWIDE strike swept across Israel yesterday, intensifying the mass pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree an immediate cease-fire and a prisoner exchange deal. The General Organisation of Workers, Histadrut, initiated the strike to support the Israeli public outcry for the release of hostages held in Gaza and...
YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off from 2.30pm local time. Histradut is Israel’s largest trade union body, representing approximately 800,000 workers.
However, despite the court ruling, Israelis stayed on the streets yesterday afternoon,...
THE head of Israel’s Histadrut labour union has called a general strike today to pressure the government into reaching a deal to return Israeli captives still held in Gaza. Arnon Bar-David called on all civilian workers to join the strike and said Ben Gurion airport, Israel’s main air transport hub,...
ABU Shujaa, the intrepid commander of the Tulkarm Brigade, was assassinated last Thursday during a deadly Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the north western occupied West Bank. He was assassinated along with four other resistance fighters after occupation forces launched a large-scale assault on the...
THE fascist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has renewed his calls for collective punishment against all Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday and for the execution of prisoners held in Israeli jails. Ben-Gvir urged for an increase in military checkpoints across the West Bank and a ban on...