Monthly Archives: January 2025
THE Hamas Movement has called on the US administration to rescind its proposals for Palestinian displacement and alternative homelands that align with Israeli plans and contradict the rights and free will of the Palestinian people. In a statement the Movement called on the administration of US President Donald Trump to...
LABOUR’S health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday unveiled his new ‘trimmed down’ mandate for the NHS. Declaring that he would bring the health service ‘back to basics’, Streeting issued the warning that this meant the ‘NHS must learn to live within its means’, and that: ‘The culture of routine overspending without...
CARDIFF University has announced that it intends to cut 400 full-time jobs, along with whole course closures and department mergers; with nursing, music and modern languages among the subjects being trashed. Cardiff UCU, the recognised representative trade union for academic and academic-related staff at the University, condemned the plans as...
SEVERAL countries told the United Nations Security Council yesterday that they deeply deplore the Israeli parliament’s decision to abolish the operations of the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, set to take effect today, Thursday. In a joint statement, Belgium, Ireland,...
HEAVY battles between M23 fighters and Congolese government forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Goma have left many bodies on the streets, with hospitals struggling to deal with the growing number of casualties. In the capital Kinshasa, protesters criticising international inaction attacked the embassies...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel has done its best to destroy. The citizens carried with them whatever they can carry of their simple belongings on the 7-kilometre road to their homes...
A COLOSSAL anti-government rally took place in Athens last Sunday, called by the Association of Relatives of the Tempi Victims, demanding ‘justice’ for the 57 people, half of them students, who were killed on 28 February 2023 in a horrendous train crash in Thessaly, central Greece. Workers, youth, students, families...
ON MONDAY, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading tech companies in a share crash caused by the tiny Chinese company DeepSeek. DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that originated as a university startup several years ago. AI has been the darling for capitalist investors in recent...
CHINESE artificial intelligence company DeepSeek entered ‘holiday mode’ for Lunar New Year yesterday, having crashed the US stock market the day before. The most notable victim was US chip giant Nvidia, whose shares fell 17%, cutting its stock market value by about $593bn (£433bn) – the biggest single-day loss in...
By Nahid Poureisa, an Iranian analyst and academic researcher focused on West Asia and China ‘A total of 200 Palestinian abductees, including 121 serving life sentences, were released on Saturday in exchange for four Israeli female soldiers.
It came a week after 90 Palestinian abductees were freed in exchange for three Israeli captives as...
THE cringing prostration of Labour prime minster Keir Starmer to US president Donald Trump finally paid off at the weekend when Trump condescended to have a telephone conversation with Starmer. According to reports of the conversation, Starmer was at his nauseating best in congratulating Trump for his victory in the...
HUGE crowds of Gaza residents, old and young, walked northwards with their belongings along the main road next to the Mediterranean Sea coast from dawn yesterday morning, in a stunning reversal of the mass exodus from the north at the start of Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory. Basem Naim,...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Saturday called for one-and-a-half million Palestinians to be deported to Egypt and Jordan.
Describing Gaza as a ‘demolition site’, Trump said he had spoken to Jordan’s King Abdullah II about the issue and expected to talk to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday. Trump said...
Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African President has signed into law a bill allowing land seizures by the state without compensation – a move that has put him at odds with some right wing members of Democratic Alliance Party who are part of the coalition government with the ANC. Black people...
PALESTINIAN factions have condemned US President Donald Trump’s statements, in which he discussed the possibility of displacing the residents of the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Egypt. Hamas stated: ‘Our people will foil displacement plans!’ Bassem Naim, a leader in Hamas, told AFP, ‘Our people, as they have thwarted for decades...
Teamsters members at the supermarket Costco across the United States voted by an overwhelming 85 per cent margin on Thursday to authorise a national strike. Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said: ‘The vote is a direct result of the company’s continued failure to bargain constructively and refusal to present...
THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on Thursday. Driven by the raging US economic crisis, Trump blasted global executives declaring that they could either produce their commodities in the US or face widespread...
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on the United States to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia, assuring that European nations will bear the financial burden. Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Thursday, Rutte stressed that Europe would expand its arms production, boost military...
AN anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans has issued a stark warning about the escalating situation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, describing the ongoing military operation as a process of ‘Gazafication’. Breaking the Silence, the veterans’ advocacy group, highlighted the severe circumstances unfolding in the region. Following multiple...
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is committing the Labour government to follow in the footsteps of US president Donald Trump by enthusiastically embracing policies to cut all restrictions on the banks and industry in a desperate attempt to ‘grow’ British capitalism out of recession. Reeves has backed plans proposed by the...
THE National Union of Journalists on Tuesday joined the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), in welcoming the release of three women journalists among the 90 Palestinian prisoners released on 20th January. The IFJ has published the following details about the journalists:
Bushra Al-Tawil...
MORE than 80 countries and institutions are participating in an international campaign to aid and rebuild the Gaza Strip, following the ceasefire that came into effect on Sunday. The Al-Azhar Foundation in Egypt announced the formation of an operations room to launch the international campaign yesterday, noting that the first...
Amidst an atmosphere filled with anticipation and hope, the residents of the Gaza Strip spent their first night after the ceasefire took effect on Sunday, following 471 days during which Israel committed all kinds of crimes. The skies were devoid of warplanes and the sounds of bombs and missiles, replaced...
THE Hamas Movement has urged the young people of the West Bank and all the Palestinian masses to join forces with each other and escalate the confrontation with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in all areas and foil its latest savage attack on Jenin. The Israeli army launched on Tuesday...
Hamas says it will fully commit to implementing the terms of the ceasefire agreement which will see the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Israeli authorities released 90 Palestinians from the Israeli Ofer military prison at about 1.30am local time on Monday.
The release came a day after Hamas released three...
Donald Trump’s speech at his inauguration as US president on Monday did not include a number of the crucial measures he insisted would be enacted on Day One. Many were expecting the announcement of an immediate tariff war on China, Canada, Mexico and every other country on the planet. None were...
AN ONGOING Israeli army raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded about 35 yesterday. Israeli settlers also carried out attacks in other parts of the West Bank, targeting Palestinian-owned homes and vehicles, while the Israeli army has detained dozens of Palestinians. In Gaza,...
The commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has lauded the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and Israel as the biggest defeat for the occupying regime. Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani said on Sunday that the ceasefire, which came into force that day...
APPROXIMATELY 77 arrests were made by the police in a concerted attack by the British state and the Labour government on the 100,000-strong rally in Whitehall in central London last Saturday in support of Palestine and against Israeli genocide. These 77 protesters were arrested on suspicion of breaching the stringent...
NINETY Palestinian women and children were freed from Israeli prisons before dawn yesterday and greeted by large crowds of jubilant relatives, friends and supporters as they returned home to the occupied West Bank. At about 1.00am local time on Monday, Red Cross buses carrying the 90 Palestinian prisoners arrived in...
A HUNDRED thousand workers, students and youth rallied in Whitehall in central London on Saturday and more than 70 were arrested as they attempted to march to the BBC HQ in Portland Place W1. The demonstration was called by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and five other pro-Palestine Groups and had...
WORKERS, students and youth who came from across the country to rally for Palestine in Whitehall, central London on Saturday, were subject to a brutal police attack in Trafalgar Square when they marched to protest against BBC bias in its reporting of the Gaza genocide. As the rally was assembling...
THE Palestinian factions and forces held a meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Saturday, to discuss the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement and prisoners exchange with Israeli occupation through Qatari-Egyptian mediation. The meeting was attended by a senior delegation from the Hamas Movement led by Mohammed Darwish, the...
FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is heading for a political and economic disaster on all fronts! The economic aid from the Stalinist bureaucracy was desperately sought to try to save the bankrupt...
No more ‘illegal miners’ are believed to be trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams said on Thursday morning. At least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have been pulled out since Monday after a court ordered the government to...
HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, with US President Joe Biden’s administration criticised for its blatant ‘double standards’ in addressing these atrocities. The organisation’s World Report 2025 highlights the scale and severity of Israeli actions, describing them as unparalleled in...
HAMAS has celebrated the ceasefire agreement ending the Israeli regime’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, describing it as a testament to the resilience and resistance of Palestinians in the besieged territory over the past 15 months. The group’s statement, released on Wednesday, followed news of the agreement, which the...
THE march in London this Saturday in support of Palestine and to end the complicity of the Labour government in Zionist genocide must be turned into day-one of a general strike to bring down Labour and establish the State of Palestine. This is the immediate historic task confronting the working...
Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, shocking new testimony from nursing staff revealed on Thursday. A survey of NHS nursing staff shows the scale of the corridor care crisis in hospitals, with almost seven in ten (66.81%) saying they are delivering care in over-crowded or...
A GENERAL strike took place yesterday in the Palestinian city of Jenin in mourning for the six citizens killed in a massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday. The six citizens, including a child and three brothers, were killed and others were wounded in Israeli airstrikes that...
SEVERAL girl students suffered from exposure to tear gas on Tuesday morning when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked their school in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem. Israeli soldiers stormed at-Tal and al-Barakah areas of the town and embarked on firing tear gas canisters and stun grenades at girl students...
THE Palestinian presidency has expressed its strong condemnation and rejection of the crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin camp yesterday evening, which led to the killing of six Palestinians. The statement said: ‘This is a completely unacceptable step, and aims to ignite the internal Palestinian situation, especially...
‘A CEASEFIRE in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is at its closest point yet, with negotiations to bring the 15-month conflict to an end in their final stages,’ Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Majed al-Ansari told a news conference in Doha yesterday. ‘A draft agreement has been handed to...
THE UK’s main bosses’ organisation, the CBI, has turned on the Labour government with a vengeance over the increase in employers’ National Insurance Contribution (NIC) and Labour’s promised Employment Rights Bill. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday, CBI chairman Rupert Soames said Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves had ‘bruised’...
THE Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced that 4,500 cases of amputation in upper and lower limbs have been registered in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel’s genocide which has been going on for 16 months now. On Friday, Director of the health information unit at the...