Monthly Archives: October 2024
STARMER pledged the Labour government would slash red tape in his speech to the billionaire investors and bankers who gathered in London yesterday at an International Investment Summit, eager to hear his proposals to open the UK economy up to being looted for their profit. Starmer promised them a ‘golden opportunity’...
HEZBOLLAH carried out its deadliest attack against Israel since the latest escalation in fighting began on Sunday night, sending a ‘swarm’ of drones to a military base in the north of the country, killing at least four soldiers and wounding dozens more. The deadly drone attack on the base of...
ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 52 Palestinians and the injury of 128 others, according to medical reports yesterday. Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught...
The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 300 servicemen in the Kursk area between last Thursday and Friday, and 21,900 since the start of the hostilities in the region, the Russian Defence Ministry stated last Friday. Russian marines have destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance unit in the Kursk border region, they...
THE Israeli army yesterday continued its bloody war on Lebanon for the 20th consecutive day, launching dozens of airstrikes, bombing homes and gatherings, and continuing attempts to advance across the border, into Lebanon amid fierce resistance from Hezbollah freedom fighters. Meanwhile, a number of citizens were martyred, and others were...
ON Thursday, the TUC’s non-existent Day of Action to support Palestine, 63 people were annihilated by Israel in northern Gaza and 22 in Central Beirut with 117 wounded. Mandated by a unanimous vote at the TUC Congress last month, for a national Day of Action for a ceasefire in Gaza,...
American arms dealers have gathered ‘record profits’ from Israel’s wars on the besieged Gaza Strip and Lebanon, according to a new report. In a report released on Wednesday, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an American think tank focused on US foreign policy, revealed that US arms manufacturers have outperformed...
ISRAEL’S ongoing blockade of northern Gaza has brought the healthcare system to near-total collapse, with almost no remaining services, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed that the Israeli occupation has blocked two WHO relief missions to Gaza, leaving hospitals in desperate need of fuel,...
LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to support the call for a UK-wide workplace day of action in support of an immediate ceasefire’. Since passing that motion, the leadership of the TUC have...
North Korea has no intention of attacking South Korea, nor does it have any interest in a forceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula, the country’s leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday. On October 7, the North Korean leader visited the University of National Defence on the occasion of its...
PM KEIR Starmer yesterday met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street as Zelensky continues his diplomatic efforts to secure European backing for the Ukrainian war effort against Russia. The meeting came as the war with Russia enters its third winter, with the looming threat of US support waning...
THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of the Israeli ground invasion of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. ‘Soldiers are firing at anyone who moves in the Be’er al-Na’ja area, west of Jabalia...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the Zionist regime against testing Tehran’s resolve, saying Tel Aviv is fully aware of the wide-range of targets inside Israel that are within the reach of Iranian missiles. Araghchi was speaking at the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood; The Beginning of Nasrallah’ conference in the capital Tehran on...
RECOGNISING the Palestinian state is the prerequisite for peace, not a by-product of peace,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said in an interview with the BBC on Tuesday evening. Zomlot said: ‘The main thing is the establishment of a Palestinian State. The Palestinian people are a people, they...
FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly ground incursion. Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, said: ‘One Israeli soldier was killed in close-quarter combat and immediately upon the arrival of the Israeli rescue force,...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer, in the House of Commons on Monday, defended Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ while lamenting ‘the region cannot endure another year like this’. Of course, all the suffering has been endured by Palestinians, with over 42,000 killed in the genocidal attacks by the Zionist regime...
THE use of fighter jets by the Israeli occupation army for the first time since 2000 to bombard a popular café in Tulkarem city last Thursday marks the peak of Israeli escalation in the occupied West Bank, resembling the ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 7th...
Over 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street last Saturday in a massive demonstration of support for Palestine and demanding an end to the genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza. It’s a genocidal campaign that has killed over 42,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, and which the...
AT DAWN on Sunday, Israeli warplanes launched over 30 raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the ‘most violent attack’ on Lebanon since September 23. The official Lebanese News Agency reported that the raids targeted gas stations and several buildings in various parts of the capital, only one day...
OVER 200 people protested outside Parliament yesterday to demand the reversal of the Starmer Labour government’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for 10 million pensioners. This measure was announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves just after the election. The rally was organised by Unite after the union forced...
THE Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved, especially putting an end to the Israeli aggression, the complete withdrawal of the Israeli occupation army from the Gaza Strip, and Palestine, the opening of...
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least 42,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been slaughtered in the Zionist genocide. The demonstration assembled in Russell Square and a sea of Palestinian flags flowed...
CLEARLY rattled by Iran’s 180-strong missile barrage, fired at Israel in retaliation for Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, US President Biden revealed on Thursday that he is discussing widening the war with possible Israeli strikes on Iran’s oil production infrastructure. His words jolted the...
THE International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) dockers union in the United States has agreed to suspend its strike of over 30 ports on the East Coast and Gulf Coast to go back into negotiatiotions with management. The ILA said that it would reconvene the strikes if dock managers do not put...
US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent Iranian ballistic missile attack on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Thursday, Biden remarked, ‘First of all, we don’t “allow” Israel, we advise...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an immediate end to what he described as Israeli occupation and aggression in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem, emphasising the goal of establishing an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Speaking at the Third Summit of the Asian Cooperation...
THE governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, yesterday told The Guardian newspaper that the Bank is watching developments in the ongoing war being waged by the Israeli regime in the Middle East region ‘extremely closely’. Bailey said that: ‘Geopolitical concerns are very serious. It’s tragic what is going...
THE Gaza Strip Government Media Office (GMO) has published its annual report about Israel’s devastating war on Gaza since October 7th, 2023. According to the report, which was released this week, the Israeli occupation has turned the Gaza Strip into ruins, with the rate of total destruction reaching 86%. During this...
THE SPEAKER for the Iranian parliament has praised Iran’s retaliatory attack dubbed Operation True Promise II against the occupied territories on Tuesday night, stating that the strike shattered the Tel Aviv regime’s security myth. ‘The regime had already failed to evaluate the military prowess of Hezbollah, when it suffered another intelligence...
THE Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday 2 October voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held a political prisoner in the UK. On Tuesday, October 1, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stated that if he is free now, it is because he ‘pled guilty to doing journalism’.
‘I want to...
THE Hamas revolutionary leadership yesterday called for organising mass marches and broad solidarity events in all cities and capitals of the world on the first anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, which falls on October 7. In a press statement on Tuesday, Hamas specified the days of mobilisation to start...
IRAN launched more than 200 ballistic missiles on Israel yesterday in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week as well as that of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh earlier this year. In a statement early yesterday evening, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said: ‘In response to the martyrdom...
HEZBOLLAH Deputy Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has stated that the Lebanese resistance group is strong enough and ready for all scenarios, despite losing Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and other top commanders. In a defiant message on Monday, the first televised address following the killing of Sayyed Nasrallah, Sheikh Qassem...
ISRAELI troops crossed the border into southern Lebanon yesterday in what they described as ‘limited, localised and targeted ground raids’ after approval was given to a ground invasion by US imperialism. Bolstered by the unswerving support of the US, and its pledge of military support to keep Israel from defeat,...
A day of protest was called on Friday, September 27, and a general strike took place across the whole of Spain in solidarity with Palestine. The strike was coordinated and backed by hundreds of organisations throughout the country, including numerous workers syndicates, student unions, and groups focused on a diversity...
MINISTERS of Group 77 (coalition of developing countries at the United Nations) and China last Saturday reiterated their demand for the Israeli occupation to immediately and completely withdraw from Occupied Syrian Golan and occupied Arab territories. During their meeting in New York, and with the participation of Syria’s Foreign Affairs...
THE Hamas movement has condemned the Israeli occupation’s brutal aerial attacks on Hezbollah and the Lebanon as a ‘dangerous escalation’ and ‘part of the US-backed aggression and crimes against Palestine, Lebanon and the Arab region.’ In a statement on Sunday, Hamas expressed its full solidarity with the Yemeni people and...