Monthly Archives: December 2024
‘THIS is the grim reality of water privatisation, a company swimming in debt while the rest of us are swimming in sewage,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said yesterday. She was reacting to Thames Water results for the first half of the year which saw the beleaguered company’s debts increase...
THE head of Hamas’ foreign political bureau Khaled Mishaal, said yesterday that the victory of the Syrian people heralds the victory for the Islamic nation in Palestine. He continued: ‘Oh people of Syria, your victory is a good omen for us and our nation for victory, God willing, in Gaza,...
THE TORIES have damned the Starmer government for a foreign policy ‘shambles’ as political parties throughout the western imperialist nations grapple with coming to terms with events in Syria. The initial reaction from the US, UK and fellow allies was one of jubilation at the removal of democratically elected Syrian...
Israel has been violating the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon without break, deliberately targeting civilian areas in the south. Despite drones incessantly buzzing over their homes, people in southern Lebanese villages say they will not abandon them again after returning following the ceasefire reached late last month. Speaking from Aytaroun, Abu Reda told...
ISRAELI TANKS reached the southwestern Syrian city of Quneitra yesterday, three kilometres away from the town of Qatana, near Damascus. Israel started the push to expand its occupation of Syria on Sunday, after foreign-backed militants, led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), announced the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government...
LEADING bourgeois economists are making doom laden predictions about the effect of Donald Trump’s pledges to ‘make America great’ through trade wars and expelling millions of workers from the US. Yesterday, the Daily Telegraph published an article by its Deputy Economics Editor, Tim Wallace, headed ‘America’s economy “risks massive Trump...
SUNDAY December 8th, marked the 37th anniversary of the First Intifada, the great Palestinian uprising that redefined resistance against the Israeli occupation and apartheid. Intifada is an Arabic word for an uprising or rebellion, literally meaning ‘tremor’ or ‘shuddering’ as a noun. It is derived from the Arabic term nafada, meaning ‘shaking off’...
THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead, is doomed to fail through lack of nurses, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday. Responding to the announcement from the UK government and NHS...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad left office in Syria yesterday after giving orders for a peaceful transfer of power, as ISIS terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), led by Abu Mohammed al Jolani, reached the capital Damascus. Footage circulating on social media showed the ransacking of the presidential Palace in Damascus. Syrian...
The international community should create conditions for the resumption of direct talks between Moscow and Kiev, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lin Jian said on Friday. Lin Jian was responding to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks that the solution to the Ukrainian crisis is not the responsibility of Moscow and...
LARGE NUMBERS of workers and youth have occupied the Damascus residence of the just-deposed President Assad, with Damascus placed under a curfew. After the collapse, members of rebel group the HTS have arrived to control the situation. According to a statement from the Al Qaeda-led Syrian rebels, a curfew has been...
JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir Keir Starmer has effectively admitted the utter failure of his government’s policies, declaring that all Labour’s promises, pledges, predictions and missions have been scrapped and...
THE NHS will haemorrhage staff unless pay is restored to match national averages, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) warned on Tuesday. The SoR has submitted written evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body to highlight the issue.
NHS professionals have seen their pay grow by up to 30 per cent less...
ISRAEL'S treatment of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, Amnesty International declared in a new report that shatters any pretence of legal or moral justification for the atrocities committed over the past year. The organisation’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, says Israel has shown a callous, calculated intent...
PRIME Minister Keir Starmer yesterday unveiled a ‘Plan for Change’, setting out a series of ‘milestones’ his government pledged to achieve over the course of this Parliament. He said: ‘So I’m delighted to be here today to launch our Plan for Change.’ He said: ‘Take the NHS mentioned earlier. Because perhaps...
HAMAS has called upon Islamic nations and United Nations agencies to urgently address and halt Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the group accused Israel of committing these acts ‘under the full cover and protection of the American administration and...
FRENCH bourgeois rule was plunged into a massive crisis on Wednesday when MPs voted to kick out prime minister Michel Barnier’s administration after just three months in office, making it the shortest government of France’s Fifth Republic since it was founded in 1958. Yesterday, Barnier handed in his resignation to...
BY IVAN KESIC The findings of aviation enthusiasts and UK-based investigative journalists about British espionage activities in Gaza with aircraft stationed in Cyprus reveal only the tip of the iceberg of Western intelligence assistance to the Israeli regime amid the ongoing genocide. Apart from supplying lethal weapons to the Tel...
SOUTH Korea’s biggest umbrella labour group, the Confederation of Korean Trade Unions (KCTU), yesterday called an indefinite nationwide strike to continue until president Yoon Suk Yeol resigns. In a press conference held at the KCTU headquarters in Jeong-dong, Seoul, the central executive committee of the union declared: ‘Together with the...
66,000 VW employees went on a ‘warning strike’ on Monday, said their union IG Metall on Tuesday. A union statement continued: ‘The employees are making a statement for their demands in the current wage movement.
‘The wage negotiations are overshadowed by plans by the company’s top management to implement massive savings...
economic stability in East Asia. This anti-communist idyll theme, has been shaken to the core after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, citing the need to combat North Korean threats and quell internal dissent. Within hours, the controversial decree was reversed, following a massive public eruption and swift parliamentary intervention....
‘NO to martial law! Strike down the dictatorship! Open the gate!’ demonstrators shouted outside South Korea’s Parliament last night after President Yoon Suk Yeol had declared martial law. With mass demonstrations outside parliament in the middle of the night, MPs quickly assembled and voted 190-0 out of a 300-seat assembly...
THE Israeli occupation army intensified its attacks on homes, civilian targets and shelter centres in different areas of Gaza yesterday, killing and injuring dozens of citizens. Eight civilians were killed and over 20 injured in Israeli airstrikes around schools in Beita Lahia in northern Gaza as the Israeli army’s large-scale...
Mahmoud Almadhoun and his friends gathered utensils, fuel, and some basic ingredients to set up ‘Gaza Soup Kitchen’ to feed the displaced families amid the genocidal war in Gaza. ‘My brother Mahmoud and his friends took a bold step; they started a soup kitchen in Beit Lahiya,’ Hani Almadhoun wrote...
ON WEDNESDAY 27 November, militias with origins in the Islamic State and Al Qaeda terrorist groups launched a surprise attack on Aleppo, the largest city in northern Syria. This ended a four-year ceasefire in the war carried out by imperialist-backed ‘rebel’ forces to overthrow the democratically elected government of Bashar...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in the Syrian capital on Sunday to reaffirm Tehran’s firm support for Damascus amid the surprise offensive by foreign-backed Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria. Speaking to reporters before his departure, Araghchi said: ‘Today I am leaving for Damascus to convey the Islamic Republic's message...
Yesterday, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) issued a warning to Labour’s chancellor Rachel Reeves that growth expectations amongst UK companies have taken ‘a decisive turn for the worse’ and that business confidence in the Labour government’s pledge to grow the economy has plummeted since her autumn budget. The doom-laden...
THE Israeli military has continued its intensive land, air and sea aggression on northern Gaza for 60 days now, during which 2,400 of the 3,700 people killed or missing are still buried under the rubble. During the offensive, the Israeli forces have also detained 1,750 people. Gaza’s Media Office reported: ‘The...
TEACHERS are striking today and have announced further strike dates due to the government’s ‘failure to resolve a clear pay discrepancy’ between staff in sixth form colleges and schools, says the the National Education Union (NEU). More than 2,000 NEU members walk out today, marking the second strike day following...
AROUND 1,000 Kurds and their supporters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street yesterday afternoon in protest against the police attack on the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey last week. The brutal attack took place last Wednesday under counter-terrorism legislation. As yesterday’s march assembled, Kenan Sahid, from Enfield, told News Line:...
THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the march was assembling several trade unionists who were there with their banners spoke to News Line. Ash Khan, PSC Bradford, said: ‘I feel that if all...
At the end of Saturday’s London March the first speaker at the rally in Whitehall was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, who said: ‘Demand an end to genocide, put sanctions on Israel now! Demand the UK government takes its responsibilities seriously.’ He told the rally: ‘Now, the...
THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights stated yesterday that the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of the World Central Kitchen team in southern Gaza is a continuation of the starvation policy pursued by Israel as part of the genocidal war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In a statement on...