Monthly Archives: November 2024
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...
ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means that the cost for full-time students at English universities will go up to a maximum limit of £9,535 a year.
At the same time, she announced...
A POWERFUL busworkers march and rally was held in central London yesterday to launch a national campaign for better health and safety as well as improved pay and conditions. The 200-strong demonstration assembled at the Unite office in Moreland Street and marched to Transport for London (TfL) HQ in Blackfriars,...
Marking Saturday’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United States officials have yet again failed to condemn the Israeli regime for killing a record number of journalists in Gaza. More than 180 Palestinian journalists have been killed while performing their duties in the besieged Palestinian territory since...
It is not just British capitalism that is facing a financial crisis; the entire world capitalist system is being strangled by debt, and with no way out governments and the international speculators who finance this debt are in the midst of ‘an epic clash’ according to an article in...
THE humanitarian situation in Gaza ‘could soon escalate into famine’ as Israeli forces continue to severely restrict the entry of food and other supplies into the enclave, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned yesterday. On the same day, UNRWA, the UN agency for supporting Palestinian refugees, said Israel’s ban on...
UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell has confirmed that the Israeli army has killed over 50 children in deadly attacks in Jabalia, northern Gaza, during the past 48 hours. She said on Saturday: ‘In the past 48 hours alone, over 50 children have reportedly been killed in Jabalia, where strikes levelled...
MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched from Parliament Square from Downing Street in Whitehall to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday demanding action to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza. There were thousands of Palestinian flags, placards and banners, declaring boycott Israel, divest now, ceasefire now, and there...
THE first speaker at the rally in Battersea outside the American embassy was University and College Union General Secretary Jo Grady, who said: ‘There have been 43,259 Palestinians confirmed murdered in the Gaza genocide so far, although The Lancet estimates the number at 186,000, which is 8% of Gaza’s...
INTERNATIONAL financiers, hedge-funds and speculators took just one day to savage Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget on Wednesday with interest rates on UK 10-year bonds jumping to 4.5 per cent and the pound sterling falling 1.3 per cent against the dollar. The fear is of another financial disaster, a...
NEARLY four dozen Palestinian civilians, including many women and children, were killed in central Gaza as the Israeli regime launched another wave of assaults on the besieged territory yesterday. Palestinian official news agency WAFA confirmed on Friday that 47 Palestinians lost their lives in intense overnight airstrikes on Deir al-Balah,...
The Russian State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow is mounting an exhibition of artwork by Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, dedicated to her father’s memory. Here is a review of the exhibition presented by kind permission of the State Museum. The exhibition is promoted by the...
The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli occupation army’s ongoing raids and crimes and its persistence in assassinating resistance fighters in the West Bank is criminal. In a statement yesterday, Hamas said that the Israeli occupation’s aggression in Tulkarem and other West Bank areas has failed to dissuade the...
ARGUABLY the most damning indictment of Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget on Wednesday was the glowing endorsement the International Monetary Fund (IMF) greeted it with. The IMF, the capitalist world ‘banker of last resort’, hailed Reeves’s ‘sustainable’ tax rises with its spokesperson saying the IMF welcomes the government’s ‘focus on...
THE UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine issued a report late last Monday accusing Israel of a systematic campaign of forced displacement, destruction and acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. In the report, which was submitted to the UN General Assembly, Francesca Albanese described the ‘long-term,...