Monthly Archives: November 2024
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...
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,...