Monthly Archives: November 2024

ALARM is spreading among US imperialism’s imperialist rivals at incoming US president Donald Trump’s pledge to make ‘America Great Again’ by pauperising the whole world through policies of isolationism and global protectionist trade tariffs, principally aimed at China, its ‘allies’ in Europe and the UK and other industrialised economies. Engulfed...

There was a lively protest on Thursday afternoon of around 60 people outside Stratford Town Hall in support of the ‘Day of Action for Palestine’ organised by the TUC leaders. There were chants of ‘Free Free Palestine’ and ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free’ which had...

THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in Harringay Green Lanes on Wednesday night. The statement read: ‘Dear comrades, on November 27, 2024, the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey was raided by counter-terrorism police...

UNITED Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reaffirmed the organisation’s commitment to supporting the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights, including the right to live in peace, security, and dignity, on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. In his message marking the annual observance, Guterres...

STRIKING PCS members were protesting outside the Department of Business & Trade yesterday and showing their support for Palestine. They were joined by a group of young people who were demonstrating for an arms embargo on Palestine. PCS member Francisco Becerra told News Line: ‘This morning is a special picket for...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday hailed the ceasefire agreement forced on the Israeli regime, saying that it has shattered prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘illusion’ of reshaping West Asia by force. On Tuesday, Netanyahu’s ‘Security Cabinet’ finally accepted the ceasefire deal with the Lebanese Hezbollah, pushed on them by...

HOURS after the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire deal was announced and confirmed by the Lebanese government, people in southern Lebanon took to the streets on Wednesday to celebrate yet another emphatic triumph of the resistance. Many others who had been displaced from their homes in southern Lebanon in recent months amid the...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the ceasefire Israel eventually clinched with Hezbollah has shattered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘illusion’ of reshaping West Asia by force. On Tuesday, Netanyahu finally accepted the deal, which is expected to end the regime’s months-long deadly escalation against Lebanon. It came after a meeting of...

HAMAS political bureau member, Osama Hamdan, reiterated his Movement’s position on the formation of a national unity government capable of running the Palestinian affairs, describing this option as a ‘priority to close ranks in the face of the current challenges’. In press remarks on Monday, Hamdan said that Hamas and...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday evening that his government has approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon, following weeks of talks and discussions with US mediation. In a televised speech, the Israeli premier pledged to return residents to northern Israel, but warned that his army would...

An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Human Rights Watch determined that Israeli forces carried out the attack using an air-dropped bomb...

Labour yesterday unveiled its much trailed ‘Get Britain Working’ plan, hailed by Starmer’s government as the  ‘biggest employment reforms in a generation’, to drive over two million unemployed, youth and those on long-term sick back into jobs. The Labour government has committed itself to carrying out the pledge by the...

‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the Labour government’s Get Britain Working White Paper, Kendall declared war on the whole working class, specifically the unemployed, the disabled, the sick, the mentally ill...

THE tuc issued the following statement in support of tomorrow’s Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: ‘The TUC and unions are supporting the workplace day of action calling for an immediate ceasefire on 28 November. ‘Members are encouraged to liaise with your union about solidarity actions in their own workplaces. Tens...

One child is killed every 30 minutes in the Gaza Strip, in the ongoing Israeli genocide that started on October 7th, 2023. This is taking a catastrophic toll on children, with at least 17,400 killed, according to the latest estimate by the Palestinian Ministry of Health; and thousands more injured. There...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves turned up at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) yesterday to defend her autumn budget in the face of a concerted attack from the bosses, industrialists and bankers. Reeves and Labour leader PM Keir Starmer had gone out of their way prior...

A UK/Sierra Leone-led draft resolution calling for a ceasefire in Sudan at the UN Security Council meeting chaired by British Foreign Secretary David Lammy was vetoed by Russia on Monday November 19th. Sudan’s representative at the UN said that clauses that it wanted in the text were not included. The following...

ABOUT 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid workers, and are not receiving food or medical supplies despite warnings of famine, Save the Children warned yesterday. Children living in North Gaza and Gaza governorates...

THE STARMER Labour government is launching its war on the sick, the disabled and the unemployed, with the youth particularly targeted, as it brings forward its Get Britain Working White Paper this week. Young people who refuse to work will face having their benefits cut, the work and pensions secretary,...

MORE than two million people in the Gaza Strip are besieged by hunger, thirst, disease and fear and obtaining meals has become an impossible task, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned yesterday. Even in the central parts of the Gaza Strip there is barely...

A MAJORITY of workers at a Ford Motor (F.N) joint-venture battery plant in Kentucky have signed cards indicating their support for the United Auto Workers (UAW), the union said last Wednesday. The BlueOval SK plant is owned by a partnership of South Korea’s SK On and Ford, and is the...

THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital reflect a humiliating disregard for humanity, and international laws and conventions. Hamas called on the international community to impose deterrent sanctions on...

ARREST warrants for genocide for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant were finally issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week and were welcomed by Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and their allies and supporters worldwide. Hamas, the elected government of Gaza welcomed...

LAST Wednesday’s 24-hour general strike in Greece saw tens of thousands of workers, students and young people, many waving Palestinian flags, taking part in rallies and marches in all main cities. The strike was called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) and by the ADEDY (public sector trade unions federation) with...

THE Israeli military has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, with at least 25 civilians killed and dozens injured since the early hours of Friday. Multiple areas across the besieged enclave have been struck, leaving widespread destruction in their wake. Among the victims were two individuals whose bodies were recovered...

by Miriam Amancay COLQUE ON Wednesday November 13, prominent leaders of the indigenous movement who were in the front line of the biggest ‘National March to Save the Country’ and the recent blockades, were detained by plain clothed police in unmarked vehicles. The first to be detained was comrade Humberto Claros,...

THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. It has also wrongfully charged Hamas leader Mohammed Deif, with war crimes, equating the struggles of the oppressed with the oppressors. The charges against Netanyahu and Gallant involve accusations of...

THE past week has witnessed the massive escalation by US imperialism and its faithful allies in the UK and Europe towards an all-out war with Russia. Last weekend US president Joe Biden, through a series of press releases, announced that he had given permission for the Ukrainian regime to launch...

THIS WEEK, the Israeli military carried out an extensive raid on the West Bank city of Jenin and nearby towns, resulting in the deaths of at least eight Palestinians and the arrest of an unspecified number of locals. For two days, troops, bulldozers, drones, helicopters, and warplanes assaulted the region...

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...