Monthly Archives: November 2024
WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners knowing full well that it would plunge between 50,000 and 100,000 pensioners into poverty. Kendall was forced to admit she had sent a letter to her...
THE Israeli military has once again attacked the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, brutally abducting medical staff and patients before taking them to an unknown location. The raid took place on Wednesday as images emerging from the attack showed the staffers as well as wounded patients and...
RUSSIA’S nuclear doctrine needed to be revised to adapt to new realities, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. He explained that it was necessary to update Russia’s ‘nuclear vision into realities of the modern day’.
‘What is the most striking example of the realities of the modern day? Authority in...
THE likelihood of an escalation in the Ukraine conflict could significantly increase in the next two months, as long as the just-defeated US President Joe Biden, a strong supporter of war, remains hanging onto office, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned after the meeting of the Defence Council, convened...
THE NUMBER of people living in poverty in the UK has shot up to 16 million – the highest level since records began in the year 2000. This represents nearly one-in-four of the entire UK population. The working class are already fully aware that poverty levels in the UK have...
Greek students, youth and workers delivered a significant blow to the Mitsotakis government, the US-NATO imperialists, EU and Israel on Sunday. They staged a most militant march of over 40,000 in Athens on Sunday evening on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the Polytechnic Uprising of November 1973 which...
OVER 50,000 farmers and their supporters held a demonstration on Whitehall and outside Downing Street yesterday, demanding an end to the increase in Inheritance Tax and other extra costs that farmers are facing. Addressing the rally on Whitehall, Olly Harrison, an arable farmer and one of the organisers of the...
NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) conducted between 7-13 November, 94% of A&E Department Clinical Leads think that patients are being put at risk due to the...
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is throwing ‘oil on the fire’ and escalating the war by the imperialist nations on Russia, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, warned yesterday. He was responding to the decision by Biden to lift the restrictions on the use of long-range American ATACMS missiles on...
ISRAEL has killed at least 3,452 people and injured more than 14,664 in Lebanon since hostilities began last October between the genocidal Zionist regime and Hezbollah. The Israeli military is repeatedly targeting healthcare facilities and medical workers in Lebanon, having killed at least 208 health sector workers and injured 311...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has held the US administration fully responsible for the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza, the latest of which was the horrific Israeli massacre yesterday morning in the town of Beit Lahiya. In a press statement, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the official spokesman for President Abbas said: ‘The Israeli...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions issued a statement on Friday to say they are extremely concerned that the unfolding situation in the Stilfontein Margaret shaft where hundreds of miners are trapped underground may end in a tragedy. SAFTU stated: ‘We call on the government to, without any further...
THE HAMAS Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday that 47 Palestinians were martyred and 139 injured in six Israeli massacres in the beleaguered enclave over the past 24 hours. It added that many victims were still buried under the rubble of destroyed houses or lying on roads and...
PANIC has erupted in the UK government after economic data released on Thursday revealed that UK production crashed to just 0.1 per cent of GDP in the quarter to September, down from 0.5 per cent in June, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Despite Prime Minister Sir Keir...
On October 13, the Biden administration issued a forceful letter to Israel with a clear directive: Within 30 days, permit increased humanitarian aid into Gaza, or risk the withdrawal of US military support. At that moment, Israel was initiating its blockade on northern Gaza, where thousands of civilians were seeking...
A UNITED Nations special committee has declared that Israel’s warfare methods in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide, citing the regime’s deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war. The findings, released on Thursday, come amidst ongoing international outrage over the Israeli regime’s actions, which have resulted in catastrophic...
A RETIRED British surgeon recently returned from Gaza, testified to British MPs that he treated children and civilians who appeared to have been deliberately targeted by Israeli drones. Nizam Mamode, who volunteered at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, recounted treating a relentless influx of bombing and shooting victims, often facing ‘mass...
THE Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip says Israeli forces have killed more than 2,000 civilians in the northern part of the besieged territory, after the occupying regime launched a full-scale extermination and ethnic cleansing campaign there 38 days ago. Ismail al-Thawabta, head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, made...
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the genocide being committed every day by the Israeli Zionist regime in Gaza. In the statement, Hamas stressed the urgent need to escalate ‘all forms of demonstrations...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) condemned the Labour Government’s announcement of hospital league tables and its threat to scapegoat and sack NHS workers yesterday. Addressing an audience of ‘NHS Providers’, Health Secretary Wes Streeting launched a new round of his war on the NHS, blaming its problems on ‘bad...
‘THE IMPACT poverty has on children and young people’s education is immense,’ Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union, said yesterday. He was commenting on ‘Tackling the persistent disadvantage gap’, a report from the Education Policy Institute (EPI).
‘Hunger, worry, lack of suitable clothing and housing are not burdens...
THE UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza have dwindled further, with the situation in the north of the territory described as ‘catastrophic’. Asked about whether there were signs the situation had improved, Louise Wateridge, an UNRWA emergencies officer, said...
ISRAEL’S extreme right wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday ordered preparations for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president in January, 2025. Smotrich, who heads the far right Religious Zionism Party, also sits in the regime’s Defence Ministry where he...
PRESIDENT of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Monday that the ‘Arab and Islamic duty requires us to show the highest levels of solidarity and cooperation, in light of the failure of the international community to stop the aggression and genocide against the Palestinian people.’ He added in...
INTERNATIONAL rights groups say Israel has failed to meet a deadline set by the United States to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip or face unspecified restrictions on military assistance. The conditions in the war-ravaged enclave are worse than at any point since October 2023, eight groups said...
THE Hamas Movement has called on the Arab and Muslim summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to form an international Arab-Islamic alliance to pressure the Israeli occupation state and its supporters to stop the war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. In a message to the participating leaders,...
MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years they were paid incorrectly. The staff at Grimsby’s Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital were moved up a grade last year in recognition of the extra clinical...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer has met with French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris in a desperate attempt to find a way out of the political crisis that has erupted amongst the European leaders following the election of Donald Trump as US president last week. The UK and France, two...
AN Israeli journalist-turned-intelligence officer has exposed part of the regime’s physical and psychological torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons since Israel launched the genocidal war on Gaza in October last year. In a report published last Friday, the Grayzone, citing Amichai Attali, said the horrifying testimonies appear to constitute...
OVER 200 mostly young people assembled outside the US embassy in London before marching to Parliament Square on Saturday, in a demonstration organised by London for Sudan, part of UK Sudan Youth Coalition. In Parliament Square, Sudanese student Ahmed Sudan told News Line: ‘I’m here to support the Sudanse people...
AT LEAST 30 Palestinians were killed, including 13 children, when Israel bombed a building housing displaced people in the Jabalia refugee camp at 6am yesterday morning. The massacre occurred as the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned of ‘famine’ in northern Gaza after more than a month of...
A HUGE increase in nursing staff quitting the profession early will make government NHS ‘reforms’ impossible to deliver, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) declares today. Thousands of UK-educated nurses are walking away within 10 years of first registering, due to burnout and exhaustion brought on by low staffing levels,...
‘IT IS clear that the economic struggle working-class people are facing is causing real pain and neither party has sufficiently addressed it,’ says AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. She issued the following statement on the 2024 election: ‘Presidential administrations change, but the labour movement’s values do not. We stand for the...
Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has warned of a massive famine in northern Gaza, which has been under Israeli siege and ethnic cleansing since October 5th. In a statement on Saturday, Lazzarini expressed regret...
SUPPORTERS of Palestine confronted Israelis in Amsterdam who tore down the Palestinian flag. The scene began with chants of ‘Death to Arabs’ and ended with ‘Freedom for Palestine.’ This is how events unfolded in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam on Thursday evening when Israelis started their attacks and chants against...
Israel, which continues to strike both the besieged Gaza Strip and Lebanon, announced on Thursday that it has signed a deal to purchase more than two dozen next generation F-15 fighter jets from US aviation giant Boeing. The deal is worth $5.2 billion and is part of a broader package...
The political shock waves caused by Donald Trump’s election as US President on Wednesday will undermine the already collapsing fragile economies of world capitalism, already drowning in a sea of debt estimated at $315 trillion. A catastrophic economic tsunami is following right behind! Governments alone owe an unprecedented $91 trillion. This...
BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE
Bartolina Sisa Resistance ON November 4th, violent repression in Bolivia continued with more arrests in the town of Mairana, Santa Cruz. Repressive forces arbitrarily and illegally arrested innocent citizens, forcibly removing them from their homes. The indigenous and popular movement began blockades on October 14th, in repudiation at...
IN the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians – half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for the 398th consecutive day, to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern areas. Reporters for the...
DONALD Trump wasted no time after his victory in Tuesday’s presidential election to declare his intention to wage a new trade war on the rest of the world and sent political and economic shock waves across the globe. During his presidential campaign, Trump vowed to ‘bring back’ jobs to the...
‘WHAT’S happening in Gaza of systematic starvation and deliberate destruction is not a war, but a genocide,’ the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, said on Tuesday. Albanese pointed to a UN report stating that last month Israel...
THERE was a lively picket of PCS union members outside the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology office in Whitehall yesterday morning, on their second week of strike action against contractors G4S over pay and conditions. PCS member Rupesh Tailor told News Line: ‘The strike is going okay, but working...
‘WE promise we will rebuild them.’ These words were written by a Palestinian on the walls of a house demolished by Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza, sending a message of resilience and defiance against the occupation, which has been trying to empty the region of its inhabitants for the...
THE Palestinian Civil Defence Society (PCDS) reported on Tuesday that it has received numerous appeals regarding people trapped alive under rubble from homes and residential buildings destroyed by the Israeli army in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. ‘We are receiving urgent pleas about the presence of survivors under the debris of...
THE NAO (National Audit Office) report on dangerous cladding confirms our worst fears, says the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). The NAO published its report, Dangerous cladding: the government’s remediation portfolio on Monday, 4th November.
It shows that the cladding crisis is worse than expected, with more homes and other buildings still...