Monthly Archives: January 2025
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...
Israeli prisons and detention centres, by their very design and structure, constitute a systematic framework inherently aimed at torturing and mistreating Palestinian prisoners and detainees, and depriving them of their most basic human rights. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor issued a statement on Saturday declaring that Israel’s establishment of an...
The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public spending cuts. This internal letter from Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, was sent out to Labour cabinet ministers on December 12. It detailed the...
THE threat by the Metropolitan Police to ban Saturday’s National March (PSC) for Palestine from assembling at the BBC in Portland Place as arranged (see advert above), is to be discussed by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign at its Branch Forum this evening. Below is a message from Ben Jamal, PSC...
TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside the BBC headquarters as scheduled (see ad this page). Six pro-Palestinian groups are organising the national Palestine march, which is being supported by at least 150...
THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media was briefed that she intends to slash billions of pounds from disability benefits. Senior figures in Downing Street said the Treasury is planning significant cuts to...
The armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades says most of the Israeli captives held in northern Gaza have gone missing, holding Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his military responsible for their lives. Al-Qassam Brigades made the announcement on Friday, as the Israeli regime continues its intensified...
THE TORY Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride has refused to call for the resignation of Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Asked by Camilla Tomney on GB News if Reeves should go, he said: ‘I think there are serious questions around the judgements that Rachel Reeves is making.’ He added: ‘I am not...
CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves has come under intense scrutiny after a turbulent period in the financial markets sent the pound plummeting to a 14-month low and drove up the cost of government borrowing. The resulting economic crisis, which multiple economists warn will hit working people the hardest, has sparked concern that...
AMIDST a crashing pound and the soaring cost of a Labour government that is borrowing billions, Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves fled to China on Thursday. Her mission was to beg the Stalinist bureaucracy for trade and financial concessions to try to bale out and stave off the complete collapse...
THE AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Thursday that they are reuniting to launch ‘a new, long-term effort to make it easier for workers to win a voice on our jobs with their unions’. Two million SEIU service and care workers will join the nearly 13...
The nights of the winter season are extremely harsh on the displacement camps in Gaza as the nights, which may be the coldest in the last 10 years according to meteorological experts, have become an additional terrifying nightmare for families. Children cannot bear this cold despite attempts to protect them...
ONLY two weeks into 2025 and the capitalist world is reeling from an economic crisis of historic proportions – a crisis that has completely upended any semblance of bourgeois political ‘normalcy’ and is ushering in the period where the working class internationally is faced immediately with the issue of...
THE METROPOLITAN Police have been condemned for their decision to impose a last-minute ban on a planned mass pro-Palestinian march starting from outside the BBC’s headquarters. Organisers of the demonstration for Saturday, 18 January, say the ban reneges on an agreement reached nearly two months ago, of the route which...
THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported that the government’s 2.8% growth in mainstream school funding in 2025-26 falls massively short of an expected 3.6% rise in costs. The Association of School and...
Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum seekers entering the US from Central America. Trump’s plan could affect hundreds of thousands of people from Honduras, a country which hosts a significant US military...