Monthly Archives: January 2025
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...
THE ARROGANT would-be dictator Trump has issued the workers of the world with his ultimatum that they must either stand and deliver to him Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal and the pick of the world’s resources, or face war and invasions, in which large numbers of workers and their...
THOUSANDS rallied outside Parliament on Monday night in a powerful demonstration of solidarity with Palestine that directly reflects the support of the overwhelming mass of workers and youth and opposition to Zionist occupation and genocide. Central to Monday’s rally, organised by the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) in partnership with...
ON Monday night, a crowd of over a thousand gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to rally for Palestine and demand an end to Israel’s genocide. In the shadow of the destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital, renewed attacks on the Indonesian Hospital, and the escalation of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of...
AROUND 2,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) began another three days of strike action at 32 non-academised sixth form colleges yesterday, against an attempt by the Starmer government to impose a two-tier pay structure on the workforce. The three-day action continues to day and tomorrow.
‘We cannot and we...
PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service, with ‘community hubs’ replacing GP surgeries and hospitals. Starmer claimed there is ‘record dissatisfaction with the NHS’, with ‘millions of people waiting on waiting lists’. However, he...
The Israeli government must bear full responsibility for the life of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, amid alarming reports of torture and ill-treatment since his detention in late December. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has received information that Dr Abu Safiya’s health has...
OVER half of UK companies are planning to push up prices in the next three months according to the latest research by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). Out of the 4,800 businesses polled by the BCC, 55% said they expected to increase prices by April. A similar survey conducted in...
AN EIGHTH baby died of hypothermia due to a lack of shelters as temperatures plummeted amid Israeli military attacks on Gaza yesterday. The father of the baby was at the morgue of the hospital, crying. This is not the only child that he has lost. Since the onset of winter,...
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield, chair of BMA council, said yesterday: ‘The government’s plan for improvements in elective care to be driven by arbitrary targets and upgrades to an app,...
Israel has intensified its aerial assaults on Yemen, emboldened by a 14-month regional war and bolstered by the United States. On Thursday, Israeli fighter jets unleashed a string of raids on both the capital and the port city of Hodeidah. The attacks centred on Sana’a International Airport, which suffered multiple strikes...
LABOUR’S HEALTH SECRETARY Wes Streeting has made public his vow to scrap more than a million ‘pointless’ NHS hospital appointments. The Health Secretary whined that ‘waste of time’ hospital check-ups could be scrapped, which would free up consultants to carry out more operations. Streeting hit out at the heart of the...
Ukrainian forces lost 593,410 troops over the course of 2024, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry’s weekly briefings over the year indicate that Kiev lost around 4,000 soldiers weekly in early 2024.
By March, this figure increased to 7,000, before it experienced a slight decrease.
In March, Ukrainian forces...
NEW research has found that 136 firefighters who were exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell are now suffering from occupational diseases. 1 in 4 Grenfell firefighters surveyed have reported life changing health effects since, including 66 cases of digestive diseases, 64 respiratory diseases, 22 neurological diseases and 11 cancers. The...
ISRAELI occupation forces have encircled the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, demanding the immediate evacuation of all those inside. Gunfire has been reported near the hospital, where hundreds of vulnerable civilians, including children, women, patients, and medical staff, are trapped. Eyewitness accounts confirm that Israeli forces are actively firing...
NEWLY released accounts from detainees in Israel’s Naqab Prison reveal harrowing details of torture and dehumanisation inflicted by Israeli forces, underscoring a pattern of extreme violence. These testimonies, shared by the Palestinian Prisoners Society and the Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, detail the dire health conditions and...
THE HORRORS of the Israeli regime’s genocidal war in Gaza have continued unabated for 15 months, and the world has watched in silence, the director general of the UN agency for Palestine has stated. On the last day of 2024, Philippe Lazzarini, the director general of UNRWA, took to his...
PALESTINIAN prisoners’ institutions have declared that 2024 has been the deadliest year in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. In a press conference held on Tuesday, Palestinian Prisoners organisations highlighted the severe sufferings of Palestinian detainees held by the Israeli authorities.
Qaddura Fares, head of the Commission of Detainees and...
A CROWD of over 200 rallied outside the US Embassy in south London on Monday night demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, his colleagues and patients! The rally was called by Community Camp for Palestine in solidarity with the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. Aisha from...
ISRAELI occupation forces killed 1,091 Palestinian infants in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including 238 who were born and killed during the ongoing Israeli genocidal war, the director of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, reported yesterday. In a press statement Al-Thawabta said, that targeting infants in Gaza...
The sound of tanks rumbling through the streets outside of Kamal Adwan Hospital woke everyone up. They were already on edge after enduring months of direct Israeli attacks. Then came the loudspeakers ordering everyone to evacuate – the sick, the wounded, medical staff, and displaced people seeking shelter – early...
‘LET Christmas celebrations be a global occasion to intensify all forms of global solidarity, to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza,’ the Hamas Movement said in a statement on New Year’s Eve. It added, ‘We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) call on the free peoples of the world, marking...